industrial sector? boosting economic labor productivity as well as total energy consumption. India, on the contrary, lags behind …This paper presents a comparison of the changes in the energetic metabolic pattern of China and India, the two most … analysis shows an impressive transformation of China’s energy metabolism determined by the joining of the WTO in 2001. Since …

The European Union and China have available to them on their respective territory, or dependencies, limited energy … primary energy for domestic consumption. Domestic energy capacities are not the most important factors which influence the EU …’s and China’s current situations. The composition of the energy mix is just as important, as are the energy resources …

Due to impending shortage of oil, the corresponding decreased production rates of fossil fuels and increasing energy …

With booming economic growth Asia will play increasingly important role in global economic and energy matters. World … primary energy consumption is projected to expand at an average annual growth rate of 2.1 percent by 2020. About 70 percent of … Middle East). Ensuring energy security would therefore turn out to be a vital task. In Asia (particularly East Asia), the …

, energy and forestry, which typically provide the backbone for regional development in their production locations, have become …

source of energy to be used effectively. Economic growth is viewed as the outcome autocatalytic co-evolution of energy use … and the application of new knowledge associated with energy use. It is argued that models of economic growth should be … evidence suggests that large and sustained movements in energy prices have had a very significant long term role to play …

development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density … countries, compatible with the sustainability of the processes concerning the Earth system. Mainly by focusing on the energy …