Global problems, rapid and massive regional changes in the 21st century call for genuine long-term, awareness, planning and well focused actions from both national governments and international organizations. This book wishes to contribute to building an innovative path of strategic views in...

Napjainkban egyre többet lehet olvasni a globális energiaválság kihívásairól, melyeknek egy része szorosan összefonódik az energiafelhasználás növekvő ütemével és a kialakult energiahordozó-struktúrával. A környezetre gyakorolt kedvezőtlen hatásokon túlmenően a...

As history shows, the yield gap (the difference between actual and achievable yields) will not necessarily close automatically. Investments in agricultural technologies may be key. Price volatility is fundamental to investment. Price volatility has increased in agriculture in the past decade,...

Hungary is one of the European Union’s most dynamically developing countries in Central-Eastern Europe with a high income and increasing level of environmental degradation. The present study explores the dynamic relationship between economic growth, electricity consumption, carbon emissions...

As Earth’s fossil energy resources are limited, there is a growing need for renewable resources such as biodiesel. That is the reason why the social, economic and environmental impacts of biofuels became an important research topic in the last decade. Depleted stocks of crude oil and the...

Sustainable energy policy and tackling climate-change-related issues require exploring energy consumption patterns. This paper proposes an integrative methodological approach called grounded survey for understanding behavioral factors behind household energy consumption. The study aims to...

In this article renewable energy support allocation through different types of auctions are assessed. The applied methodological framework is auction theory, based on the rules governing the German photovoltaic (PV) Feed-in Premium (FIP) auctions. The work focuses on bidding strategies based on...

Book review: Thane Gustafson (2020). The Bridge – Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, USA. ISBN 9780674987951 Fifty-three years ago a historic meeting took place in the secluded Schloss Hernstein Bergdorf that sits at the feet of the Alps in Lower Austria....

A jelen tanulmány olyan pénzügyi termékek csoportosítását kínálja, amelyek kisebb energiahatékonysági befektetéseket szorgalmaznak a töredezett piacokat illetően, ahol a végfelhasználók nemcsak tőkehiányban szenvednek, hanem ráadásul azzal a nem financiális gátló...

Th is article provides evidence on the economic and social importance of the oil sector in Iraq. Existing literature allows to understand the background, context and institutional framework that regulate the oil sector, the main implications and limitations for its development, and the impacts...