Handbook on Energy and Climate Change, Hardcover by Fouquet, Roger (EDT), Bra...

Handbook on Energy and Climate Change, Hardcover by Fouquet, Roger (EDT), ISBN 085793368X, ISBN-13 9780857933683, Brand New, Free shipping in the USFouquet (climate change and the environment, London School of Economics, UK) supplies students, academics, and policy makers with a 32-chapter handbook on the economics of energy and climate change. Economics, environment, energy, business, and other specialists from Europe, the US, and Canada address fossil fuel markets, including global oil production and prices, natural gas markets and their role in the global primary energy mix, the implications of an OPEC-style natural gas cartel, and the increased world demand for coal, followed by electricity markets, with discussion of the US electricity grid, the drivers of past research and development in energy storage and grid management, and factors promoting electric vehicle use. They consider energy policy, including identifying macro-level improvements in energy efficiency and policies promoting the development of renewable energy technologies and sources, climate agreements, international support and regional agreements, the Kyoto Protocol, and the conditions needed for an international climate regime. They also focus on carbon mitigation policies, such as financing projects in developing countries, taxes, state-contingent pricing mechanisms for carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption and emissions in buildings, the econometric analysis of climate policies, tradable permits markets, and the European Union carbon dioxide emissions trading scheme; low-carbon behavior, including consumption and habits, decision making, the moral dimensions of polluting behavior, the need for a decentralized governance structure, and the continuing policy stalemate related to climate change; and low-carbon economics growth, with discussion of the relationship between economic growth and environmental limits, the possibility of a low-carbon transition in China, and scenarios of a future climate-changed and low-carbon economy. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()