The rapid growth of ASEAN economies, the People's Republic of China and India (called ACI henceforth) - major drivers of Asia and the world economy - during the last five decades has caused significant strains on their scarce resources, particularly energy and contributed to serious problems of...

This book explores Chinas low-carbon consumption in the context of residential behaviour, corporate practices and policy Implication. It first calculates the carbon and ecological footprints of residential consumption, including both direct and indirect emissions, before discussing Chinese...

Like in most Sub-Saharan Africa, biomass is the most consumed fuel in overall Kenyan energy demand. In addition to biomass, other end-use fuels are also consumed in the country, mostly by economic sectors. However, electricity demand has been the only end-use energy considered in most energy...

Der renommierte Energieexperte Hermann Scheer zeigt, warum eine "Renaissance der Atomenergie" der falsche Weg aus der Energiekrise ist, warum das "Kyoto-Protokoll" die Energiewende eher behindert als fördert, mit welchen neuen Technologien die Weltenergieversorgung gesichert werden kann und:...