Simone Tagliapietra

Global Energy Fundamentals

Economics, Politics, and Technology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a rigorous and accessible portrayal of global energy fundamentals. The author uses a multi-disciplinary approach to present each component of the global energy system (oil, gas, coal, nuclear energy, hydropower, solar and wind energy), as well as issues of climate change and energy access in developing countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781108817707
• ISBN-10: 110881770X
• Artikelnr.: 59583883

Autorenporträt

Simone Tagliapietra is Research Fellow at Bruegel and at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He is also Adjunct Professor at The Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe and Senior Fellow at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. He is the author of Energy Relations in the Euro-Mediterranean (Palgrave, 2017) and The Geoeconomics of Sovereign Wealth Funds and Renewable Energy (Claeys and Casteels, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to global energy
2. Oil
3. Natural gas
4. Coal
5. Nuclear energy
6. Renewable energy: Introduction and established sources
7. Renewable energy: New sources
8. Energy consumption and energy efficiency
9. In-depth focus 1: Energy and climate change
10. In-depth focus 2: Energy access in Africa
Bibliography
Index.