Energy constitutes a rich, but underexplored, arena for global governance scholars and policymakers. The world is currently on an unsustainable and conflict-prone track of volatile and unreliable supply of energy fuels, vulnerable infrastructure, massive environmental degradation, and failure to...

This review specifically investigates the concepts of energy poverty and energy ladders. It provides the most current available data on energy poverty, electrification, and dependency on biomass fuels for cooking. It elaborates on the relationship between energy access and millennium development...

1 Energy security and climate change : a tenuous link / Gal Luft, Anne Korin, and Eshita Gupta -- 2. The fuzzy nature of energy security / Scott Victor Valentine -- 3. Evaluating the energy security impacts of energy policies / David F. von Hippel. [et al.] -- 4. The sustainable development...