This book investigates the current status and future prospects of energy relationships for European Mediterranean countries. By adopting a political economy perspective, this book provides insight into regional cooperation in the fields of natural gas and renewable energy. The author posits that...

Introduction: 1 Financial Aspects in Energy: The European Perspective -- Markets: 2 The Development of Energy Markets in Europe -- 3 Renewables in the Energy Market -- 4 The CO2 -Trading Market in Europe -- Prices: 5 Market Efficiency in a Changing Energy Environment -- 6 The Price Forming...

1. Energy Poverty Revisited -- 2. Understanding Energy Poverty, Vulnerability and Justice -- 3. Energy Poverty Policies at the EU Level -- 4. The European Energy Divide -- 5. Concluding Thoughts - Embracing and Capturing Complexity

This book covers the multi-faceted incentives, trade-offs, and challenges associated with the economics and politics of resource efficiency investments. By contributing a wide range of empirical evidence, practitioners' insights, and policy perspectives, this book carefully examines the role of...

Improving the Integrated European Impact Assessment? -- Impact Assessment - Experience from the European Commission -- Views of the European Environmental Bureau on the Commission’s Impact Assessment Procedure - With a Focus on Environment -- The Proportionate Impact Assessment of the European...

This book covers the multi-faceted incentives, trade-offs, and challenges associated with the economics and politics of resource efficiency investments. By contributing a wide range of empirical evidence, practitioners' insights, and policy perspectives, this book carefully examines the role of...

This book presents an in-depth empirical analysis of consumer response to alternative policies for energy conservation. Its main focus is on innovative policy instruments that have attracted increasing attention from academics and energy conservation practitioners alike: critical peak pricing,...

Review of the Porter Hypothesis and the related literature -- Measurement of environmental regulation -- Environmental regulation and renewable energy innovation -- Environmental regulation and renewable energy exports. .

Preface -- 1 Local Utilities in the German Electricity Market and their Role in the Diffusion of Innovations in Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation -- 2 Contracting and Mikro-KWK - the Role of Municipal Utilities in Germany -- 3 Governance variety in the energy service contracting...