In the context of intensifying climate challenges, adept energy risk management is more pertinent than ever. This research pioneers an in-depth exploration into China's pronounced reliance on high-polluting fossil fuels, utilising a decade's worth of provincial data (2010-2020) to shed light on...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Notes -- 2 An ecological modernisation theory for China and carbon reduction -- EM applied to developing countries -- EM as applied to China -- Some basic...

This book examines the energy resource relations between China and ASEAN countries. It addresses the following issues: as the world energy demand shifts East because of the rise of China, ASEAN community and other emerging Asian economies, and as the Greater Indian Ocean and the South China Sea...

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface - Renewable Energies: The Way of the Future (Pierre Dansereau) -- Foreword (Jean-Yvan Fradet) -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Obstacles to Renewable Energy -- Chapter 2 - Hydropower: Myth and Reality -- Chapter 3 - Wind and...

Residential buildings have continuously improved in energy efficiency, partly as a consequence of the introduction of energy regulations in many countries. Although better thermal properties and systems efficiency have lowered energy consumption for space heating in recent decades, substantial...