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...

Bedingt durch das Wirtschaftswachstum bevölkerungsreicher Schwellenländer hat weltweit die Nachfrage nach mineralischen Rohstoffen stark zugenommen. Mehr als die Hälfte der Weltbevölkerung konkurriert dabei um dieselben Rohstoffe. Aufgrund einer mangelhaften Rohstoffplanungspolitik,...

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...

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...

This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the state of low-carbon investments in Asia, analyzing the rationales, mandates and public-private financing activities. Based on the experiences of several regional initiatives wherein public financing is catalyzing private investments in...

The authors present a new formal framework for finding the long-run competitive market equilibrium through short-run equilibria by exploiting the operating policies and plant valuations. This “short-run approach” develops ideas of Boiteux and Koopmans. Applied to the peak-load pricing of...

This volume goes beyond a conventional analysis of Asia’s energy relationships and explores the premise that energy relations in Asia in the 21st century should reinforce mutual interdependence. Conventional analyses of international energy relations stress the asymmetric nature of the risks...

This volume focuses on the topic of energy transitions in the coal mining industries of China and Japan by adopting a Sino-Japanese comparative approach in area studies to examine the experiences between the two major East Asian economies. In China, rapid industrialization led to dramatic growth...

“A timely and important volume covering the most pressing topics of China’s electricity sector. It is a useful handbook for researchers, policymakers, businessmen, students and anyone interested in the world’s largest energy market.” -Xinye Zheng, Professor of Energy Economics, Renmin...

This book explores in detail the challenges which the European gas markets currently face, and the opportunities they present. Bringing together some of the most prominent gas experts on Europe from both academia and industry, this edited volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the various...