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Informing Energy and Climate Policies Using Energy Systems Models
This book highlights how energy-system models are used to underpin and support energy and climate mitigation policy decisions at national, multi-country and global levels. It brings together, for the first time in one volume, a range of methodological approaches and case studies of good modeling practice on a national and international scale from the IEA-ETSAP energy technology initiative. It provides insights for the reader into the rich and varied applications of energy-system models and the underlying methodologies and policy questions they can address. The book demonstrates how these models are used to answer complex policy questions, including those relating to energy security, climate ...
Concentrating Solar Power in Developing Countries
Concentrating solar thermal technologies have a clear potential for scaling up renewable energy at the utility level, thereby diversifying the generation portfolio mix, powering development, and mitigating climate change. The report analyzes current experience in designing and implementing regulatory frameworks supporting the technology
Environmental External Costs of Transport
Transport is very important for the economy and our welfare. However, transport also causes a lot of problems, including air pollution. Such problems should be taken into account, when making decisions. A prerequisite for doing so is, that the impacts are known, quantitatively measured and allocated to the different activities in transport. Furthermore, they should be transformed into monetary units to be used as a basis for cost-benefit analyses or as an aid for setting taxes and charges, that reflect the external costs. This book describes a methodology for calculating impacts of transport activities and external costs caused by air pollution and presents numerous applications of this meth...
Transforming Energy
This book shows how promoting clean energy technologies - from solar panels to electric cars - can end human-induced climate change.
Concentrating Solar Power Technology
This second edition of Concentrating Solar Power Technology edited by Keith Lovegrove and Wes Stein presents a fully updated comprehensive review of the latest technologies and knowledge, from the fundamental science to systems design, development, and applications. Part one introduces the fundamental principles of CSP systems, including site selection and feasibility analysis, alongside socio-economic and environmental assessments. Part two focuses on technologies including linear Fresnel reflector technology, parabolic-trough, central tower, and parabolic dish CSP systems, and concentrating photovoltaic systems. Thermal energy storage, hybridization with fossil fuel power plants, and the l...
El legado de Trump en un mundo en crisis
En momentos de crisis y de una transición hegemónica a nivel global, este libro presenta, desde América Latina y el Caribe, una mirada crítica sobre el legado de la presidencia de Donald Trump en Estados Unidos. ¿Qué significaron sus cuatro años al frente de la Casa Blanca? ¿Cuál será́ el futuro del trumpismo?¿Se está gestando una nueva hegemonía que reemplace a la estadounidense o vamos hacia un "caos sistémico" o "desorden global"? Esta obra, que reúne estudios de diez investigadoras y dieciséis investigadores de Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Cuba, México y España, se compone de tres secciones que analizan, respectivamente, la administración de Trump en el marco...
Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict
Severe droughts, damaging floods and mass migration: Climate change is becoming a focal point for security and conflict research and a challenge for the world’s governance structures. But how severe are the security risks and conflict potentials of climate change? Could global warming trigger a sequence of events leading to economic decline, social unrest and political instability? What are the causal relationships between resource scarcity and violent conflict? This book brings together international experts to explore these questions using in-depth case studies from around the world. Furthermore, the authors discuss strategies, institutions and cooperative approaches to stabilize the climate-society interaction.
Two Is Better Than One
Segunda Rodriguez feels a mixture of anticipation and dread. Her fianc, Fito, waits for her in New York City, but Segunda is hesitant to leave her family behind in Puerto Rico. Nevertheless, she longs for a better life in America. Upon her arrival at the New York harbor, Fito meets Segunda, and they move in with her brother in the projects. She finds a job and begins to make friends, all the while saving money for her future. Fito and Segunda marry and begin a new life together, but after Segunda gives birth to their first child, Fito cannot handle the responsibility and leaves. Segunda forges a life for herself and her daughter, Sally. She finds companionship with a man named Angel and basks in Sally's academic success, but memories of Puerto Rico continue to linger. It is only after Sally's marriage that Segunda returns to the land of her birth and realizes that two homes are better than one.
Show Me the Money
Graham Michael Barton is an Englishman retired on a tiny island of less than three thousand souls in the Philippines. Emponet Barton Beach Resort and 60 per cent of the homes on Higatangan Island, Biliran, were destroyed by Yolanda. Two weeks after the super typhoon passed through, Graham returned with a modest amount of supplies and food, distributed throughout the island by his partner, Emily Poyos, who had been born there. The devastation was so severe that Graham returned to Cebu to organize helicopter air lifts and do whatever he could to get aid to his adopted island and its people. During this time, the international community responded magnificently, and Graham had the opportunity to...
The Role of Bioenergy in the Emerging Bioeconomy
The Role of Bioenergy in the Bioeconomy: Resources, Technologies, Sustainability and Policy provides the reader with a complete understanding on how bioenergy technologies fit into the new bioeconomy paradigm. Sections focus on the main resources and technologies for bioenergy and its integration in energy systems and biorefining chains, analyze the available methodologies for assessing the sustainability of bioenergy, and address and the propose approaches that are demonstrated through concrete case studies. Additionally, the implications of bioenergy in the water-energy and land nexus is presented, along with new challenges and opportunities. This book's strong focus on sustainability of b...
