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The Regulation and Policy of Latin American Energy Transitions examines the ongoing revolution within the energy landscape of Latin America. This book includes real-world examples from across the continent to demonstrate the current landscape of energy policy in Latin America. It focuses on distributed energy resources, including distributed generation, energy efficiency and microgrids, but also addresses the role of less common energy sources, such as geothermal and biogas, as well as discusses the changing role of energy actors, where consumers become prosumers or prosumagers, and utilities become service providers. The legal frameworks that are still hampering the transformation of the en...
This publication is dedicated to the issues related to Social Justice in the Caribbean, and seeks to increase dialogue among practitioners, unions, labour activists, academics, policy-makers and other individuals from across the social sciences and humanities. It is purposely multi-disciplinary in orientation, intending to cover issues related to work, workers, labour, and related topics, as well as social, organizational and institutional aspects of work and industrial relations. It aims to set the tone for discourse on a wide range of issues related to the future of work and sustainable Caribbean development, Social Justice, industrial relations, governance systems, social protection, social dialogue, cooperatives and community empowerment, the future of education, migration and security, among others, nationally, and regionally. The publication will represent contemporary scholarly contributions from researchers presenting either original or innovative research that contribute to the theory, practice and public policy dimensions of work, migration, labour, industrial relations, and related issues.
This book investigates the role of law in enabling and addressing the barriers to the development of off-grid renewable electricity (OGRE). The limited development of OGRE is ascribed to a host of social, economic, and legal barriers, including the problem of initial capital costs, existing subsidies for conventional electricity, and lack of technological and institutional capacity. Through the analyses of selected case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America, this book discusses the typical barriers to the development of OGRE from a global perspective and examines the role of the law in addressing them. Drawing together the lessons learnt from the case studies, this book offers robust recommendations on how the development of OGRE will support the goal of achieving universal access to low carbon, reliable, and sustainable electricity globally. This volume will be of great interest to students, scholars, policy makers, investors, and practitioners in the fields of energy law and policy, climate change, and renewable energy development.
The Routledge Handbook of Consumer Protection and Behaviour in Energy Markets provides a comprehensive study of consumer protection and consumer behaviour in selected jurisdictions worldwide. Each chapter is written by experts and provides a contemporary overview of national consumer protection and policy developments in the energy sector. Today energy has become an essential factor in ensuring the socio-economic development of any country and improving the quality of life of society and is now an essential element of life for everyone. The energy market has become a competitive market, based on the assumption that generation and sale of energy is not a natural monopoly and that market mecha...
Consumers, Prosumers, Prosumagers: How Service Innovations will Disrupt the Utility Business Model examines customer stratification in the electric power sector, arguing that it is poised to become one of the fundamental drivers of the 21st century power network as distributed energy generation, storage, sharing and trading options become available at scale. The book addresses the interface and the relationship between key players and their impacts on incumbent and disruptive service providers. Topics covered include innovations that lead to consumer stratification, regulatory policy, the potential of service, the speed and spread of stratification, and a review of potential business models ...
The book presents contributions from Brazilian experts on the regulation of different energy sources. Focusing on describing and discussing the fundamental issues related to the legal regulation of each of the sources that compose Brazil's energy matrix, it also analyzes economic and strategic aspects and identifies the main current problems related to the exploration for and production of each energy source. The book offers a clear and detailed overview of energy law and regulation for policymakers, foreign investors and legal professionals dealing with energy projects in Brazil.
"Constituye un auténtico honor presentar la primera publicación promovida por la Red Iberoamericana de Derecho de la Energía (RIDE), titulada “Retos del sector energético para el desarrollo sostenible en Iberoamérica”, en la cual participan autores de diferentes países: Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, España, México, Perú, Portugal, Uruguay y Venezuela. Con este amplio número de aportes se abordan algunos de los temas de mayor actualidad para la región en materia energética. Las reflexiones vertidas en esta obra colectiva materializan uno de los objetivos de la Red Iberoamericana de Derecho de la Energía (RIDE), que está concebida como un espacio para la f...
The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify. Therefore, there is an increasing need to search for integrated solutions to make development more sustainable. The United Nations has acknowledged the problem and approved the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. On 1st January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Agenda officially came into force. These goals cover the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection. The Encyclopedia of the U...
O presente livro é resultado de toda a pesquisa acadêmica realizada durante o curso de mestrado que concluí. De modo geral, o livro analisa as mudanças nos padrões de consumo da sociedade brasileira, estudando a relação entre tal fato e a necessidade de mudanças legislativas tributárias em vistas à inclusão social. De fato os benefícios fiscais são eficazes em todo o curso de sua vigência? Para isso, a pesquisa busca compreender em que medida se devem considerar, na aplicação da seletividade tributária em razão da essencialidade dos produtos e serviços, as mudanças dos padrões de consumo da sociedade. Faz-se ainda um cotejamento entre os dados levantados e o sistema tributário posto, observando-se a efetividade, ou não, da aplicação da técnica da seletividade tributária em razão da essencialidade, sem a ocorrência de atualização temporal da legislação em relação aos produtos considerados essenciais atualmente. Toda a pesquisa desenvolve-se à luz da teoria de justiça como equidade de John Rawls, e convida o leitor a pensar o direito com um olhar além da legislação.