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880684
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Bradshaw, Mike
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Global energy dilemmas /\ by Mike Bradshaw.
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Cambridge :: Polity,, 2013.
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1 online resource
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0745672140
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: 9780745672144
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0745650643
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0745650651
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9780745650647
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9780745650654
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| Contents
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Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Figures, Tables, and Boxes; Acronyms; Preface; Chapter One: Introduction; The Fossil-Fuel Energy System; Energy and Economic Development; Energy and Climate Change; Putting it all Together: The Kaya Identity; Conclusions: The Triple Challenge; Chapter Two: The Global Energy Dilemmas Nexus; Challenges to Global Energy Security; "Peak Oil" and "The End of Easy Oil"; The Globalization of Energy Demand; Dimensions of Energy Scarcity; Scarcity Rather than Security; Climate Change and the New Energy Paradigm; A Low-Carbon Energy Revolution.
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Chapter Four: Legacies and Liberalization: Energy Dilemmas in thePost-Socialist StatesIntroduction; The Characteristics and Legacies of the Soviet Planned Economy; Post-Socialist Transition, Recession, and Recovery; Energy, Environment, and Transitional Recession; The Kaya Consequences of Economic Recovery; Reforming the Energy Sector; The "Great Game" in the Caspian; Continued Dependence upon Russia; Legacies and Differentiation; Russian Energy at the Crossroads; Economic Restructuring and Energy Intensity; The End of Easy Russian Oil; Gazprom Seeks Security of Demand.
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Domestic Demand and Energy EfficiencyRussia Remains a Kyoto Skeptic; Russia at the Crossroad of the Energy Dilemmas Nexus; Conclusion: Does Post-Socialism Still Matter?; Chapter Five: Fueling Growth: Energy Dilemmas in the Emerging Economies; Introduction; Fueling the "Southern Engines of Growth"; China: Securing Energy for the Workshop of the World; China's "Going out Strategy"; MENA, Saudi Arabia and the Challenges to "Autocratic Oil'; Conclusions: Decarbonizing Demand Growth; Chapter Six: Energizing Development: Energy Dilemmas in theDeveloping World; Introduction.
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The Geography of Past and Future Carbon EmissionsGlobalization as the Missing Link; The Resurgence of Asia and the Rise of the Emerging Markets; Global Trends in Population Growth and Urbanization; Conclusion: the Global Energy Dilemmas Nexus; Chapter Three: Sustaining Affluence: Energy Dilemmas in High-Energy Societies; Introduction; A Changing Relationship between Energy and Economy; Fossil Fuels Remain Dominant; Increasing Import Dependence; The United States: Energy Independence and Climate Change Intransigence; Essential Characteristics of the US Energy System.
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The Pursuit of Energy IndependenceUnconventional Solutions and Extreme Energy; The Shale Gas Revolution; Extreme Energy: The Case of the Albertan Oil Sands; Pipeline Protests; Climate Change Policy by Stealth; A Bottom-Up Approach to Climate-Change Policy; The European Union: 20/20/20 Vision; Developing a European Energy Strategy; The Geopolitics of Russian Gas-Import Dependence; Pipedreams and Security of Demand; On Target for Kyoto and Beyond?; A Market for Carbon Emissions; Conclusions: A Transatlantic Divide.
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Today's global energy system faces two major challenges: how to secure the supply of reliable and affordable energy; and how to rapidly transform to a low-carbon, efficient and environmentally harmless energy supply. In this rigorous and illuminating book, Michael Bradshaw explores the key aspects of the current global energy dilemma and examines how it is playing out across the major regions and countries of the world. The book begins by charting the development of the current global energy system - exploring its key characteristics with a focus upon energy security and the relati.
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Energy policy.
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Power resources-- Economic aspects.
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Power resources-- Environmental aspects.
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Power resources.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Real Estate-- General.
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Energy policy.
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Power resources-- Economic aspects.
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Power resources-- Environmental aspects.
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Power resources.
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| Dewey Classification
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333.79
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HD9502.A2
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