"Changing Energy outlines how humanity came to its current energy economy through three previous energy transitions and now stands poised for a necessary fourth one. Despite the immense benefits conferred by a global energy economy based primarily on coal, oil, gas, and uranium, societies must...

Investments in renewable energy play a key role in achieving global climate goals. Favourable policies have attracted a lot of private capital to solar and wind technologies from a wide range of investors in the last decade. In the meantime, the costs of these technologies have declined...

pt. 1. Macroeconomic and distributional dimensions of energy shocks -- pt. 2. Social, local and environmental impacts of changes in the energy market -- pt. 3. The impacts of bio and alternative fuels -- pt. 4. Conclusions.