This book responds to the opening up of electricity markets to competition, which has completely changed the nature of power generation. The building of new generation and transmission capacity and the setting of the energy mix between nuclear, gas and renewable resources are mainly left to...

Biofuel policies are frequently mentioned in the policy and academic debates because of their potential impact on food prices. In 2005, the United States authorities passed legislation under which corn-based ethanol became in practice the only available gasoline additive. Some studies have then...

Regulatory restrictions have increased in recent years on organisms produced using recombinant DNA and asexual gene transfer, a process commmonly called genetic engineering or genetic modification. Regulatory agencies have raised special concerns and required additional scrutiny for perennial...