"This volume explores the roles which politics, market forces and leadership play as barriers or facilitators in the development of sustainable energy sources. Beginning with an overview of energy-related programs and legislation the book discusses the various financial programs and policy...

How we live : reality and utopia -- Fables : alternative futures for society -- The challenge of green energy -- Defining green jobs -- Forecasting green jobs -- The green war on trade -- Economic fallacies of the green economy -- Green pork and the green economy -- Green cars, trucks, and the...

Damit erneuerbare Energien ihr Marktpotential ausschöpfen und einen Beitrag zum Erreichen der Klimaziele leisten, muss die Kooperation zwischen öffentlichen und privaten Akteuren verstärkt werden. Die politischen Rahmenbedingungen spielen sowohl für das Vertrauen der Investoren als auch für...

"A groundbreaking book on solving our growing energy problems. In this visionary book, leading energy industry executive Robert Hefner puts forth a convincing case about how the world can move beyond its current dependence on oil and toward a new era of clean, renewable energy. Written with the...

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...

"With this book, Bob Vitalis tackles the geopolitical "truths" about oil: that US presence in the Gulf and our relationship with Saudi Arabia is necessary to stabilize an otherwise volatile market; that US oil independence is necessary to prevent foreign powers from controlling and limiting...

An integrated innovation policy model for energy technology -- Promoting development and adoption of new energy technology -- Toward a roadmap for launching technological innovation in energy -- Energy R & D and implementation : what is the level of funding and where will the money come from? --...

"Details the often incomplete, incoherent, and ineffectual U.S. energy policy, tackling specific policy questions: Why are these components of energy policy so important? How would 'acting in time'---not waiting until politics demands action---make a difference? What should our policy actually...