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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Supply for the G-7 Countries, with Emphasison Germany

Strand, Jon - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This paper discusses structure, impact, costs, and efficiency of renewable energy supply in the eight largest advanced economies (the G-7 plus Spain), with focus on Germany. Renewables production costs are compared to benefits, defined as reductions in net carbon emissions; technological...

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Energia eoliana – sursa de dezvoltare durabila pentru România

BARBU, Mircea; BARBU, Liliana - Facultatea de Finante şi Banci, Universitatea Spiru Haret - 2009

Sustainable development means maintaining a material possibilities and living conditions for future generations, particularly renewable natural resources at least to the ones existing for the current generation and recovery of environmental factors affected by pollution. The spiritual level,...

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Wind-driven seawater desalination plant for agricultural development on the islands of the County of Split and Dalmatia

Vujčić, R; Krneta, M - In: Renewable Energy 19 (2000) 1, pp. 173-183

The vital economic activities of the islands of the County of Split and Dalmatia are in the area of agriculture and … energy sources at Croatian islands is looked on as a necessity and represents a fundamental condition for their sustainable … development. The paper presents the main features of the existing, built and planned, water supply systems on the islands of the …

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Energy Supply and Climate Change in Nigeria

Akinyemi, Opeyemi; Ogundipe, Adeyemi; Alege, Philip - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The energy industry has been identified as one of the sectors most vulnerable to the impact of climate change. In the past years, government had been making a lot of effort at reforming the energy sector and this study attempted to investigate the extent to which the energy sector will be...

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Water footprint for energy production and supply in Thailand

Okadera, Tomohiro; Chontanawat, Jaruwan; Gheewala, … - In: Energy 77 (2014) C, pp. 49-56

Water and energy are both important resources that are inextricably and reciprocally linked. Indeed, energy production requires a lot of water (e.g., cooling water at power plants), and numerous studies have investigated the water footprint of energy production (WFEP). However, energy is...

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From the research on socially-sustainable agriculture (18)

Floriańczyk, Zbigniew; Buks, Joanna; Kunikowski, Robert - Instytut Ekonomiki Rolnictwa i Gospodarki … - 2012

Agriculture productivity from the perspective of the food and renewable energy production. Technological aspects of biomass production for energy purpose. Results of Norfolk farms against other farms.

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Designing an Index for Assessing Wind Energy Potential

Ritter, Matthias; Shen, Zhiwei; Cabrera, Brenda López; … - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2014

To meet the increasing global demand for renewable energy such as wind energy, more and more new wind parks are installed worldwide. Finding a suitable location, however, requires a detailed and often costly analysis of the local wind conditions. Plain average wind speed maps cannot provide a...

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Implications of recent U.S. energy trends for trade forecasts

Hakkio, Craig S.; Nie, Jun - In: Economic Review (2014) Q IV, pp. 5-27

The development of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling has brought significant structural change to the energy sector, increasing energy production and decreasing net energy imports. Future changes in energy policy or technology could have even larger effects on energy exports and thus...

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Ecological-economic assessment of farms using multi-input multi-output models: life cycle assessment with multiple paired comparisons

Hayashi, Kiyotada - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 17 (2014) 1, pp. 9-21

A multi-input multi-output model is developed by extending the life cycle assessment framework for analysing the relationship between agricultural production and environmental impacts. The inputs include farmland and materials such as fertilisers, pesticides and animals. The outputs are of two...

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Social acceptance of renewable energy: Some examples from Europe and Developing Africa

Pollmann, Olaf; Podruzsik, Szilárd; Fehér, Orsolya - In: Society and Economy 36 (2014) June, pp. 217-231

Current energy systems are in most instances not fully working sustainably. The provision and use of energy only consider limited resources, risk potential or financial constraints on a limited scale. Furthermore, the knowledge and benefits are only available for a minor group of the population...

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