In "Energy and Climate: Vision for the Future," Harvard atmospheric scientist Michael B. McElroy provides a broad and comprehensive introduction to the issue of energy and climate change intended to ...be accessible for the general reader. The book includes chapters on energy basics, a discussion of the contemporary energy systems of the US and China, and two chapters that engage the debate regarding climate change.
The field of social movement studies has expanded dramatically over the past three decades. But as it has done so, its focus has become increasingly narrow and 'movement-centric'. When combined with ...the tendency to select successful struggles for study, the conceptual and methodological conventions of the field conduce to a decidedly Ptolemaic view of social movements: one that exaggerates the frequency and causal significance of movements as a form of politics. This book reports the results of a comparative study, not of movements, but of communities earmarked for environmentally risky energy projects. In stark contrast to the central thrust of the social movement literature, the authors find that the overall level of emergent opposition to the projects has been very low, and they seek to explain that variation and the impact, if any, it had on the ultimate fate of the proposed projects.
2022 International Conference on Advanced and Emerging Materials (AEM 2022), was held virtually online on August 27, 2022.AEM 2022 is aiming to bring together innovative academics and industrial ...experts in the field of applied physics and energy development to exchange ideas, to present sophisticated research works and to discuss hot topics. During the conference, the conference consist of 8 oral presentations, 3 keynote speeches, and 7 poster presentations.Every accepted paper has undergone peer review process arranged by the Editorial Committee. We believe that the Proceedings will serve as an important research source to provide recent development and information.On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to all authors and presenters. We are also grateful to the Technical Program Committee members and reviewers as well as all the colleagues from IOP publisher. It is the joint efforts of everyone that makes the conference a great success.List of Technical Program Committee is available in this pdf.
Why does China act as it does in its pursuit of energy security? Are "resource wars" inevitable? Going beyond traditional analyses that focus on China as a regional and global threat, Jean Garrison ...sheds new light on the roots of the country's energy policy and the constraints that it faces. Garrison eschews the zero-sum approaches that underlie much conceptualization of the subject, arguing that they are in large part based on the erroneous notion that China is a unitary actor with a coherent energy strategy. Her attention to the competing developmental and environmental priorities at play in China's domestic politics is a critical contribution to the global energy-security debate.
The industrial revolution transformed the productive power of societies. It did so by vastly increasing the individual productivity, thus delivering whole populations from poverty. In this new ...account by one of the world's acknowledged authorities the central issue is not simply how the revolution began but still more why it did not quickly end. The answer lay in the use of a new source of energy. Pre-industrial societies had access only to very limited energy supplies. As long as mechanical energy came principally from human or animal muscle and heat energy from wood, the maximum attainable level of productivity was bound to be low. Exploitation of a new source of energy in the form of coal provided an escape route from the constraints of an organic economy but also brought novel dangers. Since this happened first in England, its experience has a special fascination, though other countries rapidly followed suit.
A feed-in tariff (FiT) framework has been implemented in Thailand since 2007 to encourage and stimulate the development of renewable energy. As a result, the capacity of solar photovoltaics (PVs) has ...increased significantly and has reached 1902MW. Nevertheless, the installation of PVs on rooftops in the residential sector accounts for only a minute percentage (0.003%) of the total capacity of installed PVs. In this paper, a feasibility analysis of grid-connected solar PV rooftops for households under the present feed-in tariff framework was performed. The results demonstrate that the current feed-in tariff is not sufficient to promote investment in PV rooftops in the residential sector under the current market situation. Moreover, in order to support the current framework, additional supportive measures including (1) an appropriate feed-in-tariff rate, (2) personal income tax exemptions, (3) carbon trading, and (4) low interest rate loans, were proposed, and their effects were evaluated. The low interest rate loan appears to be the best measure for promoting and stimulating investment in residential-scale PV rooftops without additional subsidy. The leverage effect of debt, with different debt portions, loan terms and interest rates, was investigated to suggest a suitable policy.
•Thailand's feed in tariff framework is not sufficient to promote residential PV rooftops.•The effects of proposed additional financially supportive measures are evaluated.•The low interest rate loan is suggested for promoting residential PV rooftops.•Appropriate loan conditions and fund raising mechanism are proposed.
•The level of new energy development gradually improves.•Regional new energy development will converge to a stable level in China.•The early stage of new energy development is driven by ...technology.•The later stage of new energy development is driven by economic growth.
New energy is an emerging energy source for alleviating the energy crisis and environmental deterioration. In the case of China's 30 provinces, this study explores the trend in the dynamic evolution and driving factors of new energy development. The following conclusions are obtained: (1) the status of new energy development in China is “strong in the north and weak in the south and strong in the east and weak in the west”. (2) Through dynamic convergence analysis, an absolute convergence in China's new energy development occurs, with the absolute convergence rate continuously increasing. Furthermore, China's new energy development is experiencing a conditional convergence process. (3) According to the generalized Divisia index method, technology primarily drives the early stage of new energy development, whereas economic development drives the later stage. (4) The heterogeneity analysis indicates that the share of new energy technology inputs in regions with lagging levels of new energy development is much lower than that in regions with advanced levels of new energy development, indicating that the lagging regions learn new energy technologies from developed regions.
Energy is at the heart of many United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Countries should balance the three core dimensions of the world energy trilemma: energy affordability and access, energy ...security, and environmental sustainability to build a solid basis for prosperity and competitiveness. We investigate the impact of world energy trilemma and transformative energy developments on economic growth and environmental sustainability of the top ten and near bottom ten selected countries of SDGs index 2021, using investment in non-financial assets and energy use as moderator variables, from 1990 to 2016. We have developed a comprehensive empirical analysis and applied advanced econometric methodologies. Westerlund's panel co-integration suggests long-run relationships within the variables. Our long-run dynamic panel-data estimation, random-effects panel generalized least square regressions, and robust corrected standard error linear regressions findings indicate world energy trilemma and transformative energy developments simultaneously improve economic growth and environmental sustainability. However, investment in non-financial assets and energy use improves economic growth at the expense of environmental sustainability. This suggests that countries should improve energy policy coherence and integrate energy policy actions by balancing the crucial world energy trilemma dimensions to help develop a well-calibrated energy system.
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•World energy trilemma and transformative energy developments PCA indexes formed.•World energy trilemma encourages economic growth and environmental sustainability.•Transformative energy developments promotes environmental sustainability.•Energy use increases economic growth at the expense of environmental sustainability.•Investment in non-financial assets increase economic growth and degrade environment.
Green growth has proven to be politically popular, but economically elusive.Can Green Sustain Growth? asks how we can move from theoretical support to implementation, and argues that this leap will ...require radical experimentation. But systemic change is costly, and a sweeping shift cannot be accomplished without political support, not to mention large-scale cooperation between business and government.
Insightful and timely, this book brings together eight original, international case studies to consider what we can learn from the implementation of green growth strategies to date. This analysis reveals that coalitions for green experimentation emerge and survive when they link climate solutions to specific problems with near-term benefits that appeal to both environmental and industrial interests. Based on these findings, the volume delivers concrete policy recommendations for the next steps in the necessary shift toward sustainable prosperity.
