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    Paris : OECD/IEA
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This publication examines global energy trends and sets out projections for supply and demand of oil, gas, coal and power sectors. It then goes on to present an alternative policy scenario which considers the energy challenges we need to address to secure a sustainable energy future, identifies priority areas for action and key instruments, and measures both the costs and cost-effectiveness of alternative policies. Other issues discussed include: the impact of higher energy prices, current trends in oil and gas investment, the prospects for nuclear power, the outlook for biofuels, energy for cooking in developing countries, and an in-depth study of the energy sector in Brazil.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (596 Seiten)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    ISBN: 9264109897
    Language: English
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    Paris : OECD/IEA
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Are world oil and gas supplies under threat? How could a new international accord on stabilising greenhouse-gas emissions affect global energy markets? World Energy Outlook 2008 answers these and other burning questions. WEO-2008 draws on the experience of another turbulent year in energy markets to provide new energy projections to 2030, region by region and fuel by fuel. It incorporates the latest data and policies. WEO-2008 focuses on two pressing issues facing the energy sector today: - Prospects for oil and gas production: How much oil and gas exists and how much can be produced? Will investment be adequate? Through field-by-field analysis of production trends at 800 of the world’s largest oilfields, an assessment of the potential for finding and developing new reserves and a bottom-up analysis of upstream costs and investment, WEO-2008 takes a hard look at future global oil and gas supply. - Post-2012 climate scenarios: What emissions limits might emerge from current international negotiations on climate change? What role could cap-and-trade and sectoral approaches play in moving to a low-carbon energy future? Two different scenarios are assessed, one in which the atmospheric concentration of emissions is stabilised at 550 parts per million (ppm) in CO2 equivalent terms and the second at the still more ambitious level of 450 ppm. The implications for energy demand, prices, investment, air pollution and energy security are fully spelt out. This groundbreaking analysis will enable policy makers to distill the key choices as they strive to agree in Copenhagen in 2009 on a post-Kyoto climate framework. With extensive data, detailed projections and in-depth analysis, WEO-2008 provides invaluable insights into the prospects for the global energy market and what they mean for climate change.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (569 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789264045606
    Language: English
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    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Pages: Online-Ressource (2111-3155 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780444887665
    Language: English
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1-1060, I1-I46 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780444520418
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1061-1822, I1-I46 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780444520432
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    ISBN: 9780444511461
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (517-1103, I1-I28 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780444511454
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    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Pages: Online-Ressource (829-1660)
    ISBN: 9780444512536
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    ISBN: 9780444513953
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    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Pages: Online-Ressource (3845-4776, I1-I52 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780444506313
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    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Pages: Online-Ressource (4777-5752, I1-I52 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780444532008
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    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1557-2440, I-1-I-34 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780444824356
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  • 13
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This paper compares model estimates of national and sectoral GHG mitigation potential across six key OECD GHG-emitting economies: Australia, Canada, the EU, Japan, Mexico and the US. It examines the implications of model structure, baseline and policy assumptions, and assesses GHG mitigation potential estimates across a variety of models, including models that are used to inform climate policy-makers in each of these economies.
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  • 14
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This study assesses the long-term economic and environmental effects of introducing price caps and price floors in hypothetical climate change mitigation architecture, which aims to reduce global energy-related CO2 emissions by 50% by 2050. Based on abatement costs in IPCC and IEA reports, this quantitative analysis confirms what qualitative analyses have already suggested: introducing price caps could significantly reduce economic uncertainty. This uncertainty stems primarily from unpredictable economic growth and energy prices, and ultimately unabated emission trends. In addition, the development of abatement technologies is uncertain. With price caps, the expected costs could be reduced by about 50% and the uncertainty on economic costs could be one order of magnitude lower. Reducing economic uncertainties may spur the adoption of more ambitious policies by helping to alleviate policy makers’ concerns of economic risks. Meanwhile, price floors would reduce the level of emissions beyond the objective if the abatement costs ended up lower than forecasted. If caps and floors are commensurate with the ambition of the policy pursued and combined with slightly tightened emission objectives, climatic results could be on average similar to those achieved with “straight” objectives (i.e. with no cost-containment mechanism). This papers reviews current proposals in the UNFCCC negotiations for future mechanisms to report and record Parties’ GHG mitigation actions and commitments, as well as support provided for such actions. It explores the possible purposes, coverage and form of a reporting/recording mechanism post-2012 and highlights the decision points that are needed in order to establish such a mechanism. It examines what information such a mechanism could include in terms of actions, commitments and support, as well as the institutional implications of different design options.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This report explores the effects of the EU emissions trading scheme on the aluminium sector (i.e. competitiveness loss and carbon leakage). With its very high electricity intensity, primary aluminium stands out in the heavy industry picture: a sector whose emissions are not capped in the present EU ETS, European aluminium smelters still stand to lose profit margins and, possibly, market shares, as electricity prices increase following CO2 caps on generators’ emissions - the famous pass-through of CO2 prices into electricity prices. The analysis includes a method of quantification of this issue, based on two indicators: profit margins and trade flows. As the EU is at the forefront of such policy, the paper provides policy messages to all countries on how trade exposed energy-intensive industries can be ‘moved’ by carbon constraint. This also is a contentious topic in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and the US, where ambitious climate policies – including cap-and-trade systems – are currently debated.
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  • 16
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This study assesses the long-term economic and environmental effects of introducing price caps and price floors in hypothetical climate change mitigation architecture, which aims to reduce global energy-related CO2 emissions by 50% by 2050. Based on abatement costs in IPCC and IEA reports, this quantitative analysis confirms what qualitative analyses have already suggested: introducing price caps could significantly reduce economic uncertainty. This uncertainty stems primarily from unpredictable economic growth and energy prices, and ultimately unabated emission trends. In addition, the development of abatement technologies is uncertain. See also Assessing the value of price caps and floors, November 2009 This study assesses the long-term economic and environmental effects of introducing price caps and price floors in hypothetical climate change mitigation architecture, which aims to reduce global energy-related CO2 emissions by 50% by 2050. Based on abatement costs in IPCC and IEA reports, this quantitative analysis confirms what qualitative analyses have already suggested: introducing price caps could significantly reduce economic uncertainty. This uncertainty stems primarily from unpredictable economic growth and energy prices, and ultimately unabated emission trends. In addition, the development of abatement technologies is uncertain. With price caps, the expected costs could be reduced by about 50% and the uncertainty on economic costs could be one order of magnitude lower. Reducing economic uncertainties may spur the adoption of more ambitious policies by helping to alleviate policy makers’ concerns of economic risks. Meanwhile, price floors would reduce the level of emissions beyond the objective if the abatement costs ended up lower than forecasted. If caps and floors are commensurate with the ambition of the policy pursued and combined with slightly tightened emission objectives, climatic results could be on average similar to those achieved with “straight” objectives (i.e. with no cost-containment mechanism).
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  • 17
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Investment in the energy system of tomorrow requires substantial resources and informed policy making to achieve energy-security,economic and environmental objectives. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates 26 trillion USD in investments will be needed in the energy sector by 2030 to sustain current energy trends. Energy business-as-usual, however, and the resulting environmental impacts, are not sustainable as they result in energy insecurity and climate damages. Investment in the energy system of tomorrow requires substantial resources and informed policy making to achieve energy-security, economic and environmental objectives. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates 26 trillion USD in investments will be needed in the energy sector by 2030 to sustain current energy trends. Energy business-as-usual, however, and the resulting environmental impacts, are not sustainable as they result in energy insecurity and climate damages.
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  • 18
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Coal Mine Methane in China
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  • 19
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The report, released at the COGEN Europe meeting in Brussels on 21 April 2009, provides “best practice” policy approaches used by different countries to expand CHP and district energy use. The report follows the 2008 IEA CHP study as part of the IEA International CHP Collaborative effort.
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  • 20
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This paper is a background document on the global chemical and petrochemical sector for the IEA publication Energy Technology Transitions in Industry (IEA, 2009). It provides further, more detailed information on the methodology and data issues for energy efficiency indicators for the sector. The indicators discussed offer insight regarding the energy efficiency improvement potential in the short- to medium-term (by proven technologies). This paper is a background document on the global chemical and petrochemical sector for the IEA publication Energy Technology Transitions in Industry (IEA, 2009). It provides further, more detailed information on the methodology and data issues for energy efficiency indicators for the sector. The indicators discussed offer insight regarding the energy efficiency improvement potential in the short- to medium-term (by proven technologies).
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  • 21
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Addressing climate change requires nothing short of an energy revolution. Electricity, mostly generated from fossil fuels, is at the core of this challenge, accounting for more than 40 % of global energy-related CO2 emissions. This issue is most pressing for developing countries where growth in power demand is particularly high, fueling the risk of irreversible investment in CO2-intensive capacity, the so-called “carbon lock-in”. Addressing climate change requires nothing short of an energy revolution. Electricity, mostly generated from fossil fuels, is at the core of this challenge, accounting for more than 40 % of global energy-related CO2 emissions. This issue is most pressing for developing countries where growth in power demand is particularly high, fueling the risk of irreversible investment in CO2-intensive capacity, the so-called “carbon lock-in”. Sectoral Approaches in Electricity – Building Bridges to a Safe Climate shows how the international climate policy framework could effectively support a transition towards low-CO2 electricity systems in developing countries. Sectoral approaches are intended to address sectors that require urgent actions, without waiting for countries to take nation-wide commitments. Once built, power generation capacity lasts for decades. Investing massively in CO2-intensive technologies to meet surging electricity demand will either make it impossible or overly costly to stabilise CO2 concentrations at sustainable levels. The technology mix needed to avoid such a development is clear: higher generation efficiency, CO2 capture and storage, nuclear and renewables. Earlier IEA publications have extensively reviewed developed countries’ efforts to steer generation away from carbon-intensive production modes, from dedicated support to low-carbon technologies to, increasingly, the reliance on CO2 pricing via emissions trading. Following the same logic, there are proposals seeking to use the international carbon market to drive changes at sectoral level in developing countries. This publication illustrates the pros and cons of such an approach in a few key emerging economies. It also asks how international climate policy could support and enhance ongoing efforts on end-use energy efficiency - an essential piece of the climate change/electricity puzzle.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The IEA is undertaking a strategic inititive to improve global energy data and analysis by better incorporating energy sector methane emissions and recovery opportunities. The ultimate goal of this effort is to expand opportunities for cost-effective methane reductions from oil and natural gas facilities, landfills, and coal mines. Methane (CH4) is a hydrocarbon that is the primary component of natural gas. It is also a potent greenhouse gas(GHG), meaning that its presence in the atmosphere affects the earth’s temperature and climate system. As a result, efforts to reduce methane emissions by using methane for energy production can yield environmental, economic, and energy benefits.
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  • 23
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Due to the growth of international attention on the problem of climate change combined with the attractiveness of methane mitigation technologies, the capture and use of methane in agriculture, coal mines, landfills, and the oil and gas sector has increasingly become popular over the past few years. Highlighting this, several countries hosted the international “Methane to Market” Partnership Conference and Exposition in October 2007 in Beijing, China.
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  • 24
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This paper explores sectoral approaches as a new set of options to enhance the effectiveness of greenhouse gas reduction policies and to engage emerging economies on a lower emission path. It surveys existing literature and recent policy trends in international climate change discussions, and provides an overview of sectoral approaches and related issues for trade-exposed, greenhouse-gas intensive industries (cement, iron and steel and aluminium). It is also based on interviews conducted by the IEA Secretariat in Australia, China, Europe, Japan, and the United States. Sectoral approaches were also discussed during workshops on technology and energy efficiency policies in industry, following the IEA’s mandate under the Gleneagles Plan of Action.
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  • 25
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This paper provides the latest developments of announced, proposed and existing greenhouse gas emissions trading schemes (ETS) around the world since 2006. It also examines different potential design options for ETS (e.g. coverage, allocation mode, provision for offsets), and how these options are treated in the existing, announced or proposed schemes.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This paper examines what “sustainable development policies and measures” (SD-PAMs) could be, and how they could be implemented and could fit into a post-2012 climate regime. This paper assumes that the option to implement SD-PAMs instead of quantified GHG emission commitments post-2012 is an option that would be likely to be only open to non-Annex I countries. There are several key, but unanswered, questions related to SD-PAMs. These include policy-related issues such as which countries could take on commitments to implement SD-PAMs (rather than quantified emission commitments)? Why would particular countries decide to take on such commitments? They also include questions related to how SD-PAMs could be implemented. For many other options for possible post-2012 GHG mitigation actions, including by non-Annex I countries, have also been proposed. However, this paper focuses solely on SD-PAMs.
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  • 27
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Today’s investment decisions in key sectors such as energy, forestry or transport have significant impacts on the levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the coming decades. Given the economic and environmental long-term implications of capital investment and retirement, a climate mitigation regime should aim to encourage capital investment in climate-friendly technologies. Many factors affect technology choice and the timing of investment, including investor expectations about future prices and policies. Recent international discussions have focused on the importance of providing more certainty about future climate policy stringency. The design of commitment periods can play a role in creating this environment. This paper assesses how the length of commitment periods influences policy uncertainty and investment decisions. In particular, the paper analyses the relationship between commitment period length and near term investment decisions in climate friendly technology.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This paper assesses the policy questions as highlighted in the relevant COP/MOP 2 decision, particularly leaks (or seepage) and permanence for geological storage, project boundaries and liability issues, and leakage, as well as a few others raised by some Parties. Since any emissions or leaks during the separation, capture and transport phases would occur during the crediting period of the project (and would therefore be accounted for as project emissions), the paper focuses its analyses for leaks and liability on storage, as it is in this part of the CCS process that long-term leaks could occur.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The ideas expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily represent views of the OECD, the IEA, or their member countries, or the endorsement of any approach described herein.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable Mitigation Actions and Support
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This paper offers a preliminary analysis of several scenarios for integration of sectoral approaches in international and national climate policy. We consider four broad types of sectoral approaches: • A global action, i.e. a unilateral move by industry to foster GHG improvements • A global agreement between industry and Parties to the UNFCCC • A series of national policies targeting a sector, with some intergovernmental co-ordination • A sectoral crediting mechanism whereby reductions recorded at a sector level may be eligible for emission credits
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: A key issue for policy makers is how to choose a climate change policy that recognises the uncertainties in the costs and benefits of abatement actions. This paper reviews the economic literature relative to the choice of the economic instruments that could be used to mitigate climate change. Because climate change is driven by the slow build-up of atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, flexible instruments would be more economically efficient than fixed quotas. They may help engage a broader set of countries into a common framework for mitigating climate change, and may facilitate the adoption of relatively more ambitious policies. The certainty of achieving at least some precise levels of emissions would decrease, but the probability of bettering these levels would increase.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: CDM
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The aim of this IEA Information Paper is to help policy makers and other stakeholders understand the challenges facing the incorporation of high efficiency combined heat and power (CHP) into greenhouse gas (GHG) Emissions Trading Schemes (ETSs) – and to propose options for overcoming them.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Sectoral Crediting Mechanisms for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Institutional and Operational Issues
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: At the Gleneagles Summit in July 2005, the G8 heads of state asked the International Energy Agency (IEA) to identify measures to map out the path to a “clean, clever and competitive energy future.” This request came in recognition of the Agency’s strengths and offered the opportunity to draw on its existing expertise and programmes. We responded with a broad array of initiatives to develop strategies to mitigate climate change, secure clean energy and achieve sustainable development.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This book describes why temporary shortages of electricity supplies occur even in the wealthiest countries with the most sophisticated electricity networks. Most shortages are local and minor and easily addressed. But, in other cases, the shortages persist for days, weeks, or even years and involve millions of people, and this is the target of this book. The reasons for these shortages are incredibly diverse: from forest fires to safety problems at power stations, from problems in electricity market liberalisation to heat or cold waves. These events can happen anywhere – and they do! The results are blackouts, brownouts and other curtailments on electricity consumption.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Modern biomass, and the resulting useful forms of bioenergy produced from it, are anticipated by many advocates to provide a significant contribution to the global primary energy supply of many IEA member countries during the coming decades. For non-member countries, particularly those wishing to achieve economic growth as well as meet the goals for sustainable development, the deployment of modern bioenergy projects and the growing international trade in biomass-based energy carriers offer potential opportunities.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This information paper provides policy makers and managers, facing tough energy policy challenges, with a wider perspective of how the same issues are being addressed by different IEA member countries. The topics included are: Government structures for co-ordinating energy and climate policies The use of long-term energy forecasts and scenarios Progress in the delivery of key energy security policies
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Since its founding in 1974, oil supply security has been a core mission of the International Energy Agency. In order to test IEA member countries’ readiness to deal with oil and gas emergencies, IEA member country representatives and the IEA Secretariat participate in peer reviews of member countries every few years. Procedures and institutional arrangements are thoroughly analysed. The publication Oil Supply Security: The Emergency Response of IEA Countries (2007) represents the last full cycle of reviews of IEA member countries (and some non-member countries). Below are updated reviews of member countries’ (and Chile) emergency preparedness in oil and gas carried out in the most recent review cycle (2009-2012).
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Energy security, environmental protection and economic prosperity all pose major challenges for today’s energy decision makers. To meet these challenges, innovation, the adoption of new cost effective technologies, and better use of existing energy-efficient technologies are key elements. The world is not on course for a sustainable energy future – with security concerns and CO2 emissions projected to more than double by 2050. But this alarming outlook can be changed. A recent major IEA analysis “Energy Technology Perspectives – Scenarios and Strategies to 2050” (IEA, 2006) demonstrate that by developing and employing technologies that already exist or are under development, the world could be brought onto a much more sustainable energy path. The costs of achieving a more sustainable energy future are not disproportionate, but they will require substantial effort and investment by both the public and private sectors. There will be significant additional transitional costs related to RD&D and deployment programmes to commercialise many of the technologies over the next couple of decades. Governments will continue to play a major role in energy technology R&D – in defining policies and funding them. How can IEA member country governments be sure they are making the right choices? One answer is by learning from the experience of others – through the use of peer reviews. The IEA version of the peer review – the in-depth review - is a well established tool used since the IEA was created more than 30 years ago. It provides for its members a framework to examine and compare experiences and discuss “best practices” in a host of energy policy areas, including research, development and technology policy. Making the most of the in-depth review process, as well as recommendations emanating from it, offers the promise of better and more well-informed R&D policies – ultimately assisting the development of the new energy technologies that we so urgently need.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The environmental benefits of renewable energy are well known. But the contribution that they can make to energy security is less widely recognised. This report aims to redress the balance, showing how in electricity generation, heat supply, and transport, renewables can enhance energy security and suggesting policies that can optimise this contribution.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: During 2004, oil prices reached levels unprecedented in recent years. Though world oil markets remain adequately supplied, high oil prices do reflect increasingly uncertain conditions. Many IEA member countries and nonmember countries alike are concerned about oil costs and oil security and are looking for ways to improve their capability to handle market volatility and possible supply disruptions in the future. This book aims to provide assistance.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: At their 2007 Summit in Heiligendamm, G8 leaders called on countries to “adopt instruments and measures to significantly increase the share of combined heat and power (CHP) in the generation of electricity.” As a result, energy, economic, environmental and utility regulators are looking for tools and information to understand the potential of CHP and to identify appropriate policies for their national circumstances. This report forms the first part of the response. It includes answers to policy makers’ questions about the potential economic, energy and environmental benefits of an increased policy commitment to CHP. It also includes for the first time integrated IEA data on global CHP installations, and analyses the benefits of increased CHP investment in the G8+5 countries. A companion report will be produced later in 2008 to document best practice policy approaches that have been used to expand the use of CHP in a variety of countries.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This report presents the findings of a new assessment of the techno-economic and policy-related efficiency improvement potential in the North American building stock conducted as part of a wider appraisal of existing buildings in member states of the International Energy Agency. It summarizes results and provides insights into the lessons learned through a broader global review of best practice to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings. At this time, the report is limited to the USA because of the large size of its buildings market. At a later date, a more complete review may include some details about policies and programs in Canada. If resources are available an additional comprehensive review of Canada and Mexico may be performed in the future.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The IEA has identified energy efficiency as essential to achieving a sustainable energy future. In order to improve energy efficiency in industry one of the priority areas for further action is the promotion of more and higher quality energy management (EM) activity. However, there are significant gaps in the current implementation of EM. One method of bridging these gaps would be the creation of an EM Action NetworK (EMAK) to bring practical support to energy managers, connect energy managers to energy policy makers, and interconnect these networks globally.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse current approaches to encourage energy efficiency in building codes for new buildings. Based on this analysis the paper enumerates policy recommendations for enhancing how energy efficiency is addressed in building codes and other policies for new buildings. This paper forms part of the IEA work for the G8 Gleneagles Plan of Action. These recommendations reflect the study of different policy options for increasing energy efficiency in new buildings and examination of other energy efficiency requirements in standards or building codes, such as energy efficiency requirements by major renovation or refurbishment. In many countries, energy efficiency of buildings falls under the jurisdiction of the federal states. Different standards cover different regions or climatic conditions and different types of buildings, such as residential or simple buildings, commercial buildings and more complicated high-rise buildings. There are many different building codes in the world and the intention of this paper is not to cover all codes on each level in all countries. Instead, the paper details different regions of the world and different ways of standards. In this paper we also evaluate good practices based on local traditions. This project does not seek to identify one best practice amongst the building codes and standards. Instead, different types of codes and different parts of the regulation have been illustrated together with examples on how they have been successfully addressed. To complement this discussion of efficiency standards, this study illustrates how energy efficiency can be improved through such initiatives as efficiency labelling or certification, very best practice buildings with extremely low- or no-energy consumption and other policies to raise buildings’ energy efficiency beyond minimum requirements. When referring to the energy saving potentials for buildings, this study uses the analysis of recent IEA publications, including the World Energy Outlook 2006 (WEO) and Energy Technology Perspective (ETP). Here, we based the estimates of potentials on the scenarios presented, in particular on the predictions of consumption in the residential and commercial sectors in the WEO 2006. Finally, this paper recommends policies which could be used to realise these large and feasible energy saving potentials in new buildings, and the use of building codes by renovation or refurbishment. The paper addresses as well experts as policy makers and interest groups with particular interest in energy efficiency in new buildings. Some parts might hence seem simplified and known for some experts, such as the discussions on barriers or the climatic impact on efficiency. Other parts might on the other hand seem a little technical for the policy oriented reader or for some interest groups. But there are large and compelling opportunities, this is recognised by many experts as well as there is a will to act by many policymakers and governments. But still too little happen because there are barriers and low understanding also in the institutional parts or little communications between different layers of the implementation process. The paper hence aims to bridge these gabs by addressing several different groups at the same time. So hopefully the reader will accept these inconveniences.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The conflicts over the break-up of the former Yugoslavia damaged much of the energy infrastructure and compounded the challenge of providing reliable energy supply. The Western Balkans – composed of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo – is a complex region facing significant energy challenges. The conflicts over the break-up of the former Yugoslavia damaged much of the energy infrastructure and compounded the challenge of providing reliable energy supply. Electricity systems in many parts of the region remain fragile and in need of investment. A priority across the region is to put into place the institutions, infrastructure and policies that can support the provision of reliable, affordable and sustainable energy. For the Western Balkans as a whole, a key element of the reform effort is the Energy Community Treaty – a regulatory and market framework to which the entire region has now subscribed. This Treaty aims to create an integrated regional market for electricity and gas compatible with the European Union’s internal energy market. This Energy Policy Survey is the first comprehensive review of energy policies and strategies in the Western Balkan region, and also covers important cross-cutting topics such as co-operation and energy trade, oil and gas transportation, and the links between energy and poverty. It identifies and assesses the reforms that are still needed to deliver efficient, modernised energy systems that can assist economic development, address energy poverty and reduce the environmental impacts of energy use.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: As climate negotiators work towards a deal that would limit the increase in global temperatures, interest is growing in the essential role technology innovation can and must play in enabling the transition to a low-carbon energy system. Indeed, recent success stories clearly indicate that there is significant and untapped potential for accelerating innovation in clean technologies if proper policy frameworks are in place. In an especially timely analysis, the 2015 edition of Energy Technology Perspectives (ETP 2015) examines innovation in the energy technology sector and seeks to increase confidence in the feasibility of achieving short- and long-term climate change mitigation targets through effective research, development, demonstration and deployment (RDD&D). ETP 2015 identifies regulatory strategies and co-operative frameworks to advance innovation in areas like variable renewables, carbon capture and storage, and energy-intensive industrial sectors. The report also shows how emerging economies, and China in particular, can foster a low-carbon transition through innovation in energy technologies and policy. Finally, ETP 2015 features the IEA annual Tracking Clean Energy Progress report, which this year shows that efforts to decarbonise the global energy sector are lagging further behind. By setting out pathways to a sustainable energy future and by incorporating detailed and transparent quantitative modelling analysis and well-rounded commentary, ETP 2015 and its series of related publications are required reading for experts in the energy field, policy makers and heads of governments, as well as business leaders and investors.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (412 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789264233423
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This report explores the vulnerability of heavy industry to carbon leakage and competitiveness loss. It reviews the existing literature on competitiveness and carbon leakage under uneven climate policies. It also suggests a statistical method to track carbon leakage, and applies this methodology to Phase I of the EU emissions trading scheme, for various industrial activities: iron and steel, cement, aluminium and refineries. Finally, it reviews measures to mitigate carbon leakage, as discussed in Australia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the US.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Keywords: Natural disaster ; Extreme event ; Pandemic ; Disaster risk finance ; Time inconsistency ; Commitment device ; Planning ; Behavioural psychology ; Politics of disaster relief ; Risk management
    Description / Table of Contents: In recent years, typhoons have struck the Philippines and Vanuatu; earthquakes have rocked Haiti, Pakistan, and Nepal; floods have swept through Pakistan and Mozambique; droughts have hit Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia; and more. All led to loss of life and loss of livelihoods, and recovery will take years. One of the likely effects of climate change is to increase the likelihood of the type of extreme weather events that seems to cause these disasters. But do extreme events have to turn into disasters with huge loss of life and suffering? Dull Disasters? harnesses lessons from finance, political science, economics, psychology, and the natural sciences to show how countries and their partners can be far better prepared to deal with disasters. The insights can lead to practical ways in which governments, civil society, private firms, and international organizations can work together to reduce the risks to people and economies when a disaster looms. Responses to disasters then become less emotional, less political, less headline-grabbing, and more business as usual and effective. The book takes the reader through a range of solutions that have been implemented around the world to respond to disasters. It gives an overview of the evidence on what works and what doesn't and it examines the crucial issue of disaster risk financing. Building on the latest evidence, it presents a set of lessons and principles to guide future thinking, research, and practice in this area.
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    ISBN: 9780198785576
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    Keywords: project management ; innovation
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Innovation by Angela Albu --- Chapter 2: Key Issues to Improve Innovation Project Excellence by Biiljana Stošić and Radul Milutinović --- Chapter 3: Planning and Management Tasks of Innovation Projects in Production and Economic Systems by Leonid A. Mylnikov --- Chapter 4: Innovations in Research and Development of Scientific Procedures to Reach the Success and the Excellence by Means of Psychology Applied to the High Performance by Amador Cernuda Lago --- Chapter 5: Risk Mitigation Strategies in Innovative Projects by Riaz Ahmed --- Chapter 6: Risk Management in the Decisional Process by Florin Boghean and Carmen Boghean --- Chapter 7: Financing Innovation by Carolina Rodríguez Rodríguez --- Chapter 8: Leadership and Teamwork in Innovation Ecosystems by José Miguel Muñoz Pérez and Manuel Irún Molina --- Chapter 9: Evaluation of the Project Management Team Members by Using the MCDM by Blanka Bazsova --- Chapter 10: Handling Innovative People by M. Dolores Storch de Gracia, Luis Mazadiego and Bernardo Llamas
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    ISBN: 9789535134688
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    Keywords: project management ; innovation
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: The New Panama Canal by Ana Belén Berrocal Menarguez and Juan Pous de la Flor --- Chapter 2: Innovation Management in Iberdrola by Agustín Delgado Martín --- Chapter 3: Composite Solutions for Construction Sector by Pilar Górriz, Anurag Bansal, Carlo Paulotto, Stefano Primi and Ignacio Calvo --- Chapter 4: Importance and Ranking Evaluation of Cost Overrun Factors for Oil Transmission Pipeline Projects by Pooneh Saidi --- Chapter 5: Alliances: An Innovative Management Model for Public and Private Investments by Fco. Javier Carrillo de Albornoz Portes --- Chapter 6: Innovative Solutions for Seawater Use in Mining Operations by Edelmira D. Gálvez and Luis A. Cisternas --- Chapter 7: Microalgae: The Basis of Mankind Sustainability by Francisco Gabriel Acien Fernandez, Jose Maria Fernandez Sevilla and Emilio Molina Grima --- Chapter 8: Innovative Management and Implementation of Applied Research Project “Green Cost-Efficient Package Selection” by Eduard Shevtshenko, Tatjana Karaulova, Meelis Pohlak, Kashif Mahmood, Martin Tamm and Kaupo Leht --- Chapter 9: Innovation in Limited Markets: Managing PCP Projects in the UK Defence Industry by Shaun Gee, Miles W. Weaver and Grant MacKerron --- Chapter 10: An Education Towards the Future by Luis Rey --- Chapter 11: Management of Entrepreneurship Projects from Project-Based Learning: Coworking StartUPS Project at Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (Salesian Polytechnic University), Ecuador by Juan Pablo Salgado Guerrero, Ignacio de los Ríos Carmenado and Miriam López González --- Chapter 12: Novel Health Mobile Technology as an Emerging Strategy in Diabetes Management by Satish Kumar David and Mohamed Rafiullah --- Chapter 13: The Arts in Clinical Health Programs for the Recovery of Diseases and to Improve Quality of Life by Amador Cernuda Lago
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    ISBN: 9789535134480
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    Keywords: knowledge management ; KM ; organization ; knowledge creation ; knowledge sharing ; dissemination
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Tacit Knowledge Sharing: A Literature Review Applied to the Context of the Brazilian Judiciary by José Roberto Ferretti and Maria da Conceição L. Afonso --- Chapter 2: Knowledge Sharing and Human Resource Development in Innovative Organizations by Michael Beyerlein, Rachele Collins, Shinhee Jeong, Christi Phillips, Suravee Sunalai and Lei Xie --- Chapter 3: Network Market Orientation, Knowledge Management and Born Globals’ Competitiveness by Diego Monferrer Tirado and Marta Estrada Guillén --- Chapter 4: Knowledge Management Hybrid Strategy with People, Technology and Process Pillars by Ivy Chan --- Chapter 5: Knowledge Management for Informally Structured Domains: Challenges and Proposals by Karla Olmos-Sánchez and Jorge Rodas-Osollo --- Chapter 6: Performance Management by Causal Mapping: An Application Field of Knowledge Management by Sarah Kölbel, Wolfgang Ossadnik and Stefan Gergeleit --- Chapter 7: Intelligent Knowledge Retrieval from Industrial Repositories by Antonio Martin, Mauricio Burbano and Carlos León --- Chapter 8: Affective Technology Acceptance Model: Extending Technology Acceptance Model with Positive and Negative Affect by Angela Lee Siew Hoong, Lip Sam Thi and Mei-Hua Lin --- Chapter 9: The Impact of the Internet of Things to Value Added in Knowledge-Intensive Organizations by Maja Meško, Jana Suklan and Vasja Roblek --- Chapter 10: Knowledge Management Trends in Biotechnology in Brazil by Maria de Fátima Ebole Santana --- Chapter 11: Exploring the Impact of Online Clinical Guidelines on Individual Knowledge Management Behaviors and Individual Net Benefits by Shofang Chang, Tain-Junn Cheng and Chung-Hsien Chan --- Chapter 12: Knowledge-Based Assignment Model for Allocation of Employees in Engineering-to-Order Production by Matjaz Roblek, Maja Zajec and Benjamin Urh --- Chapter 13: An Examination of the Knowledge Management Process in the Emerging Chinese Hotel Industry by Tommy Wong, Linda French and Mark Wickham --- Chapter 14: Widening the Understanding of Risk Approaches by Comparing Definitions from Different Disciplines by Gabriele Berg-Beckhoff, Peter Wiedemann, Balázs Ádám, Joachim Schüz, Kristian Breum Ølgaard, Pernille Tanggaard Andersen, Steven Ndugwa Kabwama and Jesper Bo Nielsen
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    ISBN: 9789535136187
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    Paris : OECD/IEA (Please request login data at the PIK library)
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The global energy scene is in a state of flux. Understanding the dynamic interplay of energy markets, technology and policy has never been more critical. The World Energy Outlook (WEO), widely regarded as the gold standard of energy analysis, provides strategic insight on what today’s policy and investment decisions mean for long-term trends. The 2017 edition of the WEO, which will be released on 14 November, will contain a full update of energy demand and supply projections through 2040 under different scenarios, and their consequences for energy security, investment, energy industries and the environment. It will also include in-depth analysis of: China’s energy outlook. China’s influence has long been felt in coal, oil and gas, as well as in nuclear power, but the country is also now firmly established as a global leader in renewable energy, efficiency and innovation. The WEO will examine China’s economic and energy transitions in detail, and consider how the country’s policy choices can shape not just national prospects, but also global outcomes. Natural gas. The outlook for gas markets is evolving rapidly under pressure from two revolutions: the shale revolution, led by the United States, and the LNG revolution that is testing traditional gas business and pricing models. It will also investigate the wider opportunities and uncertainties for gas in the transition to a cleaner energy system, including its role in tackling local pollution as well as the risk of methane emissions. In addition, the WEO-2017 series will feature two special analyses, to be released in October. The close links between energy and development, assessing today’s global picture for access to modern energy, the strategies and technologies that can enable countries to achieve energy for all by 2030, and the ways in which reliable energy can move communities from poverty towards prosperity. Prospects for energy in Southeast Asia, where infrastructure and investment have to keep up with rapid, sustained growth in energy demand. The report will cover the particular challenge of providing secure, clean and affordable energy to small island systems and remote settlements.
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    ISBN: 9789264282308
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    Keywords: Economic policy ; Agricultural economics ; Economics ; Agricultural Economics ; R & D/Technology Policy ; Political Economy/Economic Policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction --- Chapter 2: A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debates --- Chapter 3:Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture --- Chapter 4:  Innovation in Response to Climate Change --- Chapter 5:  Use of Satellite Information on Wetness and Temperature for Decision of Crop Yield Prediction, River Discharge and Planning --- Chapter 6:  Early Warning Techniques for Local Climate Resilience: Smallholder Rice in Lao PDE --- Chapter 7 :  Farmers' Perceptions of and Adaptations to Climate Change in Southeast Asia:  The Case Study from Thailand and Vietnam --- Chapter 8:  U.S. Maize Yield Growth and Countervailing Climate Change Impacts --- Chapter 9:  Understanding Tradeoffs in the Context of Farm-Scale Impacts:  An Application of Decision-Support Tools for Assessing Climate Smart Argiculture --- Chapter 10:  Can Insurance Help Manage Climate Risk and Food Insecurity?: Evidence from the Pastoral Regions of East Africa --- Chapter 11:  Can Cash Transfer Programs Promote Household Resilience?: Cross-Country Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa --- Chapter 12:  Input Subsidy Programs and Climate Smart Agriculture --- Chapter 13:  Robust Decision Making for a Climate-Resilient Development of the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria --- Chapter 14:  Using AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Methods to Evaluate Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity for Climate Smart Agricultural Systems --- Chapter 15:  Climate Smart Food Supply Chains in Developing Countries in an Era of Rapid Dual Change in Agrifood Systems and the Climate --- Chapter 16:  The Adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture: The Role of Information and Insurance under Climate Change --- Chapter 17:  A Qualitative Evaluation of CSA Options in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Developing Countries --- Chapter 18: Identifying Strategies to Enhance the Resilience of Smallholder Farming Systems: Evidence of Zambia --- Chapter 19:  Climate Risk Management Through Sustainable Land and Water Management in Sub-Saharan Africa --- Chapter 20:  Improving the Resilience of Central Asian Agriculture to Weather Viability and Climate Change --- Chapter 21:  Managing Environmental Risk in the Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaption in the Mile Basin of Ethiopia --- Chapter 22: Diversification as Part of a CSA Strategy: The Cases of Zambia and Malawi --- Chapter 23:  Economic Analysis of Improved Smallholder Paddy and Maize Production in Northern Vietnam and Implications for Climate-Smart Agriculture --- Chapter 24:  Synthesis:  Devising Effective Strategies and Policies for CSA --- Chapter 25:  Conclusions and Policy Implications
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    ISBN: 9783319611945
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    Rijeka : InTech
    Keywords: risk assessment ; risk avoiding ; risk reduction ; risk control ; natural hazards ; natural disasters
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Landslides: Methodology to Select Stabilizing Construction Works by Oscar Andrés Cuanalo Campos --- Chapter 2: Natural Risk Management to Protect Critical Infrastructures: A Model for Active Learning by Catalin Cioaca, Vasile Prisacariu and Mircea Boscoianu --- Chapter 3: Earthquake Culture: A Significant Element in Earthquake Disaster Risk Assessment and Earthquake Disaster Risk Management by Michaela Ibrion --- Chapter 4: Mexico City after September 2017: Are We Building the Right City? by Milton Montejano-Castillo and Mildred Moreno-Villanueva --- Chapter 5: On Risk and Reliability Studies of Climate-Related Building Performance by Krystyna Pietrzyk and Ireneusz Czmoch --- Chapter 6: Machinery Safety Requirements as an Effective Tools for Operational Safety Management by Hana Pacaiova --- Chapter 7: Integrated Risk Assessment of Safety, Security, and Safeguards by Mitsutoshi Suzuki --- Chapter 8: Practical Propagation of Trust in Risk Management Systems by Kristian Helmholt, Matthijs Vonder, Bram Van Der Waaij, Elena Lazovik and Niels Neumann --- Chapter 9: Risk Assessment for Collaborative Operation: A Case Study on Hand-Guided Industrial Robots by Varun Gopinath, Kerstin Johansen and Johan Ölvander --- Chapter 10: Managing Technogenic Risks with Stakeholder Cooperation by Riitta Molarius --- Chapter 11: Risks, Safety and Security in the Ecosystem of Smart Cities by Stig O. Johnsen --- Chapter 12: Implementation of Basel and Solvency Risk Assessment Standards in Banks and Insurance Companies of Southeastern Europe Countries by Safet Kozarevic, Emira Kozarevic, Pasqualina Porretta and Fabrizio Santoboni --- Chapter 13: Environmental Health Surveillance for Health Risk Assessment Following Radionuclide Release by Robert Wålinder --- Chapter 14: Challenges and Perspectives of the Risk Assessment of the Genetic Susceptibility to Cancer in the Next-Generation Sequencing Era by Israel Gomy --- Chapter 15: Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals Pollution in Urban Environment by Gevorg Tepanosyan, Lilit Sahakyan, David Pipoyan and Armen Saghatelyan --- Chapter 16: Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products: Risks, Challenges, and Solutions by Zakiya Hoyett --- Chapter 17: Estimation of PM2.5 Trajectory Using Atmospheric Dispersion Models and GIS in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area by Kayoko Yamamoto and Zhaoxin Yang --- Chapter 18: Risk Assessment and Prediction of Aflatoxin in Agro-Products by Peiwu Li, Xiaoxia Ding, Yizhen Bai, Linxia Wu, Xiaofeng Yue and Liangxiao Zhang --- Chapter 19: Risk Management in Complex Organisations by Andrea Antonucci
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    ISBN: 9789535137993
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    Keywords: Bitcoin ; Blockchain ; cryptocurrency ; governance
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: What are blockchains and how are they relevant to governance in the contemporary global political economy? / Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn --- Chapter 2: Moneys at the Margins – From Political Experiment to Cashless Societies / Moritz Hütten and Matthias Thiemann --- Chapter 3: The Internal and External Governance of Blockchain-Based Organisations: Evidence from Cryptocurrencies / Ying-Ying Hsieh, JP Vergne, and Sha Wang --- Chapter 4: The Mutual Constitution of Technology and Global Governance: Bitcoin, Blockchains, and the International Anti-Money Laundering Regime / Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Marcel Goguen --- Chapter 5: Between Liberalization and Prohibition: Prudent Enthusiasm and the Governance of Bitcoin/Blockchain Technology / Kai Jia and Falin Zhang --- Chapter 6: Cryptocurrencies and Digital Payment Rails in Networked Global Governance: Perspectives on Inclusion and Innovation / Daivi Rodima-Taylor and William W. Grimes --- Chapter 7: Governing What Wasn’t Meant To Be Governed: A Controversy-Based Approach to the Study of Bitcoin Governance / Francesca Musiani, Alexandre Mallard and Cécile Méadel --- Chapter 8: Experiments in Algorithmic Governance: A History and Ethnography of "The DAO," a Failed Decentralized Autonomous Organization / Quinn DuPont --- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Towards A Block Age or Blockages of Global Governance? / Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 207 Seiten) , Diagramme
    ISBN: 9781315211909
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    Keywords: Business ; Management information systems ; Industrial management ; E-commerce ; Business and Management ; Business Process Management ; e-Commerce/e-business
    Description / Table of Contents: Studienrahmen: Begriffsbestimmung, Rahmenwerk und Studiendesign --- Status quo „Prozessmanagement/Digitalisierung/Kundennutzen“: Ergebnisse der quantitativen Studie --- Die Fallstudien: Erfolgsmuster aus der Praxis --- Fazit und Ausblick
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 153 Seiten) , 84 Abbildungen, 70 Abbildungen in Farbe
    ISBN: 9783662557075
    Language: German
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    Keywords: Banks and banking ; Labor economics ; Economics ; Political Economy/Economic Policy ; Labor Economics ; Banking
    Description / Table of Contents: Diese Open Access Buch geht den Fragen nach, wie inklusives Wachstum und wirtschaftliche Sicherheit entstehen, welche Rahmenbedingungen der Staat setzen und welche Reformen er auf den Weg bringen muss und wie sich wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen auswirken. Die besten Studierenden der Universität St. Gallen fassen prägnant und verständlich wichtige Ergebnisse der ökonomischen Spitzenforschung in führenden Fachzeitschriften zusammen. Die wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchstalente bereiten die empirischen Grundlagen der Wirtschaftspolitik für die Entscheidungsträger und die Öffentlichkeit auf und tragen zum Wissenstransfer in die wirtschaftspolitische Praxis bei. Der Inhalt Empirische Grundlagen der Wirtschaftspolitik Forschungsergebnisse aus den Bereichen Forschung, Entwicklung & Innovation, Beschäftigung & Arbeitsmarkt, Finanzmärkte & Stabilität, Steuern & Staatsausgaben Die Zielgruppen Dozierende und Studierende der Volks- und Betriebswirtschaftslehre sowie der Politikwissenschaften mit dem Schwerpunkt Internationale Beziehungen Praktikerinnen und Praktiker in Wirtschaft, Medien, Bildung, Gesellschaft und Politik Der Herausgeber Christian Keuschnigg ist Professor für Nationalökonomie, insbesondere öffentliche Finanzen an der Universität St. Gallen sowie Initiator und Leiter des Wirtschaftspolitischen Zentrums in Wien
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 209 Seiten) , 19 Abbildungen, 3 Abbildungen in Farbe
    ISBN: 9783658213442
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    Wiesbaden : Springer Gabler
    Keywords: Business ; Management ; Industrial management ; Information technology ; Business ; Data processing ; Business and Management ; IT in Business ; Innovation/Technology Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Charakteristika digitaler Transformation --- Technologietrends in der digitalen Transformation --- Auswirkungen der digitalen Transformation auf den Wettbewerb --- Erfolgswirkung und Herausforderung digitaler Geschäftsmodellentwicklung --- Digitale Transformation aus der Sicht von IT-Entscheidern --- Digitale Transformation in ausgewählten Ländern im Vergleich
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 196 Seiten) , 38 Abbildungen, 6 Abbildungen in Farbe
    ISBN: 9783658226244
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    Keywords: Business ; Leadership ; Knowledge management ; Organization ; Planning ; Personnel management ; Business and Management ; Knowledge Management ; Organization ; Business Strategy/Leadership ; Human Resource Management ; Industrial and Organizational Psychology
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Strategy Development --- Part 2: Management Techniques --- Part 3: Collaboration Mechanisms --- Part 4: Knowledge Sharing and Learning --- Part 5: Knowledge Capture and Storage
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 1140 pages) , 358 illustrations
    ISBN: 9789811009839
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    Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
    Keywords: Business ; Entrepreneurship ; Organization ; Planning ; Business and Management ; Entrepreneurship ; Organization
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Importance Of Trailblazing Scholarship For Understanding Entrepreneurship --- 2. Researching The Generation, Refinement, And Exploitation Of Potential Opportunities --- 3. Researching Entrepreneurial Failures --- 4. Researching At The Intersection Of Innovation, Operations Management, And Entrepreneurship --- 5. Researching Entrepreneurships’ Role In Sustainable Development --- 6. Researching At The Intersection Of Family Business And Entrepreneurship --- 7. Researching The Inter-relationship Of Health And Entrepreneurship --- 8. Researching Entrepreneurial Decision Making --- 9. Conclusion
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 294 pages)
    ISBN: 9783319487014
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    Berkeley, CA : Apress
    Keywords: Business ; Management science ; Children's literature ; Education ; Data processing ; Computers ; Business and Management ; Business and Management, general ; The Computing Profession ; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary ; Children's Literature ; Computers and Education
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 104 Driscoll Ave.- Chapter 2 Codes and Crises.- Chapter 3 Figures and Icons.- Chapter 4 Divided We Stand --- Chapter 5 Patterns and Problems --- Chapter 6 --- Garbage In ≠ Garbage Out --- Chapter 7 Teasing Out the Answers --- Chapter 8 Solutions by Design --- Chapter 9 To the Nines --- Chapter 10 All the Right Angles --- Chapter 11 Pi for All
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 109 pages) , 57 illustrations, 12 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9781484222744
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    Keywords: Business ; Knowledge management ; Organization ; Planning ; Management ; Industrial management ; Production management ; Management information systems ; Business and Management ; Innovation/Technology Management ; Knowledge Management ; Business Information Systems ; Organization ; Production
    Description / Table of Contents: PART I: Introduction and Setting the scene --- Dynamics of Long-Life Assets: The Editors’ Intro --- The Challenge --- The Use-it-Wisely (UIW) Approach --- PART II: Tools and Methods --- Innovation Management with an Emphasis on Co-Creation --- Complexity Management and System Dynamics Thinking --- Managing the Life Cycle to Reduce Environmental Impacts --- Virtual Reality and 3D Imaging to Support Collaborative Decision Making for Adaptation of Long-llife Assets --- Operator-oriented Product and Production Process Design for Manufacturing, Maintenance and Upgrading --- Fostering a Community of Practice for Industrial Processes --- Extending the System Model --- PART III: From Theory to Practice --- Collaborative Management of inspection Results in Power Plant Turbines --- Rock crusher Upgrade Business from a PLM Perspective --- Space Systems Development --- Adaptation of High-Variant Automotive Production System Using a Collaborative Approach --- Supporting the Small-to-Medium Vessel Industry --- Sustainable Furniture that Grows with End-users --- Comparing Industrial Cluster Cases to Define Upgrade Business Models for a Circular Economy.   
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVI, 356 pages) , 117 illustrations, 81 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319454382
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    Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
    Keywords: Business ; Knowledge management ; Organization ; Planning ; Business ethics ; Business and Management ; Knowledge Management ; Business Ethics ; Organization
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Risky Play --- 2. Falling Fast --- 3. Moral Risk in a Nursing Home --- 4. Coping with Fallibility in Aviation --- 5. Fallibility and Trust in Healthcare --- 6. Approaches to Help in Organizations --- 7. Ethics of Fallibility
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 159 pages)
    ISBN: 9783319633183
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    Keywords: Business ; Management ; Industrial management ; Technical education ; Sustainable development ; Business and Management ; Innovation/Technology Management ; Sustainable Development ; Engineering/Technology Education
    Description / Table of Contents: Overview --- Introduction --- Summary of Main Research Findings and Storylines: India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Viet Nam --- Case Study of a Private Sector Firm in Indonesia --- A Holistic Approach to Greening TVET: A Case Study and Analysis of Bac Thang Long Economic Technical College Practices --- Summary, Conclusions, and the Way Ahead: Cross-Country Concerns, Issues, and Prospects
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXII, 198 pages) , 19 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9789811065590
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    Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
    Keywords: Business ; Entrepreneurship ; Cognitive psychology ; Business and Management ; Entrepreneurship ; Cognitive Psychology ; Employee Health and Wellbeing
    Description / Table of Contents: 1: Introduction --- 2: Prior Knowledge and Entrepreneurial Cognition --- 3: Motivation and Entrepreneurial Cognition --- 4: Attention and Entrepreneurial Cognition --- 5: Entrepreneurial Identity --- 6: Emotion and Entrepreneurial Cognition --- 7: Conclusion
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 281 pages) , 5 illustrations, 1 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319717821
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    Keywords: Big data ; Business logistics ; Industries ; Information Systems ; Computer network architectures ; Big Data/Analytics ; Logistics ; Industries ; Management of Computing and Information Systems ; Computer System Implementation
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Addressing the Complexity of HPC in the Cloud: Emergence, Self-Organisation, Self-Management and the Separation of Concerns --- 2 Cloud Architectures and Management Approaches --- 3 Self-organising, Self-Managing Frameworks and Strategies --- 4 Application Blueprints and Service Description --- Simulating Heterogeneous Clouds at Scale --- Concluding Remarks
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 165 pages) , 46 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319760384
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    Singapore : Springer
    Keywords: Market research ; Statistics ; Market Research/Competitive Intelligence ; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction --- Chapter 1. Market segmentation --- Chapter 2. Market segmentation analysis --- Part II. Ten steps of market segmentation analysis --- Chapter 3. STEP 1: Deciding (not) to segment --- Chapter 4. STEP 2: Specifying the ideal target segment --- Chapter 5. STEP 3: Collecting data --- Chapter 6. STEP 4: Exploring data --- Chapter 7. STEP 5: Extracting segments --- Chapter 8. STEP 6: Profiling segments --- Chapter 9. STEP 7: Describing segments --- Chapter 10. STEP 8: Selecting (the) target segment(s) --- Chapter 11. STEP 9: Customising the marketing mix --- Chapter 12. STEP 10: Evaluation and monitoring.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 324 pages) , 123 illustrations, 51 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9789811088186
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    Cham : Springer
    Keywords: Internet marketing ; Digital media ; Philosophy ; Behavioral economics ; Online Marketing/Social Media ; Digital/New Media ; Philosophy of Technology ; Behavioral/Experimental Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Attention Economics --- Chapter 2. The News Market --- Chapter 3. Attention Speculation and Political Bubbles --- Chapter 4. Alternative Facts, Misinformation, and Fake News --- Chapter 5. Fact Resistance, Populism, and Conspiracy Theory --- Chapter 6. The Post-Factual Democracy
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 144 pages) , 49 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783030008130
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    Keywords: Business ; Small business ; Management ; Industrial management ; Culture - Economic aspects ; Business and Management ; Innovation/Technology Management ; Digital/New Media ; Small Business ; Film/TV Industry ; Cultural Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to Drones & Technology Applied to the Creative Industry. AiRT Project: An Overview of the Main Results and Actions --- The Economic Impact of the Creative Industry in the European Union --- Creative Industries’ Needs: A Latent Demand --- Financing Tech-Transfer and Innovation: An Application to the Creative Industries --- Successful Cases of the Use of Innovative Tools & Technology in the Creative Industries Field --- Storyboarding as a Means of Requirements Elicitation and User Interface Design: An Application to the Drones’ Industry --- Usability and Experience of the Creative Industries through Heuristic Evaluation of Flight Software for Mapping and Photogrammetry with Drones --- How a Cutting-Edge Technology Can Benefit the Creative Industries: The Positioning System at Work --- Indoor Drones for the Creative Industries: Distinctive Features/Opportunities in Safety Navigation --- The Relationship of the Industry with the Public Administration: Best Practices on Co-regulation for Training --- Innovative Strategies for the European SMEs. AiRT Project Main Remarks
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 161 pages) , 58 illustrations, 53 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319952611
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    Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
    Keywords: Industrial management-Environmen ; Social responsibility of busines ; Leadership ; Sustainability Management ; Corporate Social Responsibility ; Business Strategy/Leadership
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Why sustainable business model innovation? --- Chapter 2: The seven steps of the RESTART framework --- Chapter 3: RESTART: what, why, how and so what? --- Chapter 4: Roadmap to a RESTART --- Chapter 5: Redesign rather than standstill --- Chapter 6: Experimentation rather than turnaround --- Chapter 7: Service-logic rather than product-logic --- Chapter 8: The circular rather than the linear economy --- Chapter 9: Alliances rather than solo-runs --- Chapter 10: Results rather than indulgences --- Chapter 11: Three-dimensionality rather than one-dimensionality --- Chapter 12: RESTART before it is too late --- Chapter 13: A recap of the RESTART framework --- Chapter 14: A process model for sustainable business model innovation --- Chapter 15: Avenues for future research --- Chapter 16: Case study: A RESTART for Scanship --- Chapter 17: Case study: A circular business model for Orkla and BIR?
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIII, 253 pages) , 26 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319919713
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    Keywords: Microeconomics ; International economics ; Development economics ; Regional economics ; Spatial economics ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Microeconomics ; International Economics ; Regional/Spatial Science
    Description / Table of Contents: This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, pushing past the limits of traditional macroeconomic analyses. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age, access to credit, and international linkages - highlighting the differences in firm characteristics, behaviors, and strategies. By showcasing this remarkable heterogeneity, this collection challenges regional policymakers to look beyond one-size-fits-all solutions and create balanced policy mixes tailored to distinct firm needs.       This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license.      
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXV, 346 pages)
    ISBN: 9781349581511
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    Keywords: Economic policy ; Development economics ; Regional economics ; Spatial economics ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Economic Policy ; Regional/Spatial Science
    Description / Table of Contents: Why should people - and economies - save? This book on the savings problem in Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that, while saving to survive the bad times is important, saving to thrive in the good times is what really counts. People must save to invest in health and education, live productive and fulfilling lives, and make the most of their retirement years. Firms must save to grow their enterprises, employ more workers in better jobs, and produce quality goods. Governments must save to build the infrastructure required by a productive economy, provide quality services to their citizens, and assure their senior citizens a dignified, worry-free retirement. In short, countries must save not for the proverbial rainy day, but for a sunny day - a time when everyone can bask in the benefits of growth, prosperity, and well-being. This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVI, 329 pages) , 94 illustrations, 91 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9781349949298
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    Keywords: Food ; Biotechnology ; International law ; Trade ; Industrial organization ; International economics ; Development economics ; Agricultural economics ; Economics ; Agricultural Economics ; Development Economics ; Food Science ; Industrial Organization ; International Economic Law, Trade Law ; International Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword --- Introduction --- Part I: Food Price Volatility at International Food Commodity markets --- Part II: Commodity and Financial Market Linkages --- Part 3: National and Regional Response to Food Price volatility --- Part IV: the Micro-Economics of Price risk, volatility and Price shocks: Household, Firms and Communities
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 626 pages) , 134 illustrations, 56 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319282015
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    Keywords: Entrepreneurship ; Management ; Industrial management ; Evolutionary economics ; Industrial organization ; European Economic Community literature ; Economic policy ; Economics ; Industrial Organization ; Entrepreneurship ; Institutional/Evolutionary Economics ; R & D/Technology Policy ; Innovation/Technology Management ; European Integration
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Europe's Innovation Emergency --- Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the European Union - a Reform Agenda --- Summary and Conclusions
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 102 pages) , 18 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319550923
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    Keywords: Political economy ; Economic history ; Economic growth ; Social structure ; Social inequality ; Economics ; Economic History ; Latin American and Caribbean Economics ; Social Structure, Social Inequality ; Political Economy ; Economic Growth
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION --- Chapter1. Long-run inequality trends and cycles and the recent inequality downturn in Latin America --- PART I. LONG-RUN TRENDS --- Chapter 2. Functional Inequality in Latin America: News from the Twentieth Century --- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Income Inequality in Chile since 1850 --- Chapter 4. What Human Heights Can Explain about the Evolution of Living Standards and Inequality in Latin America: the Case of Mexican Females and Males, 1850-1992 --- Chapter 5. Long-run Human Development in Mexico: 1895-2010 --- Chapter 6. Inequality, Institutions, and Long-Term Development: A Perspective from Brazilian Regions --- Chapter 7. Historical perspectives on regional income inequality in Brazil, 1872-2000 --- Chapter 9. Racial Inequality in Brazil from Independence to Present --- Chapter 10. The lingering face of gender inequality in Latin America --- Chapter 11. Fiscal Redistribution in Latin America since the Nineteenth Century --- PART II. THE RECENT INEQUALITY DOWNTURN --- Chapter 12. Inequality in Latin America --- Chapter 13. The Inequality Story in Latin America and the Caribbean: Searching for an Explanation --- Chapter 14. The Political Economy of Inequality at the Top in Contemporary Chile --- Chapter 15. Structural change and the fall of income inequality in Latin America - Agricultural development, inter-sectoral duality and the Kuznets curve --- Chapter 16. Fiscal policy and inequality in Latin America 1960-2012 --- Chapter 17. Challenges for Social Policy in a Less Favorable Macroeconomic Context
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 419 pages) , 90 illustrations, 59 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319446219
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    Paris : OECD/IEA
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Pages: Online-Ressource (306 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9264140743
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    Paris : OECD/IEA
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Since WEO-2008, the economic downturn has led to a drop in energy use, CO2 emissions and energy investment. Is this an opportunity to arrest climate change or a threat that any economic upturn might be stifled at birth? What package of commitments and measures should the climate negotiators at Copenhagen put together if they really want to stop global temperatures rising? How much would it cost? And how much might the developed world have to pay to finance action elsewhere? How big is the gas resource base and what is the typical pattern of production from a gas field? What does the unconventional gas boom in the United States mean for the rest of the world? Are we headed for a global gas glut? What role will gas play in the future energy mix? And how might the way gas is priced change? All these questions and many others are answered in WEO-2009. The data are extensive, the projections more detailed than ever and the analyses compelling.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (696 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789264061309
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This year's edition of this key source for global energy statistics, projections and analysis focuses on trends and developments in the major oil and gas producing countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, in order to assess whether energy production from this region will increase sufficiently to satisfy global demand. In addition to providing updated projections of world energy demand and supply to 2030, the publication analyses regional trends for oil, natural gas, electricity and water desalination with dedicated chapters on Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. It also includes a 'deferred investment scenario' setting out an analysis of how global energy markets might evolve in a changed investment situation; an in-depth analysis of the global refining industry; and a review of the MENA power and water desalination sectors.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (629 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9264109498
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: World leaders have pledged to act to change the energy future. Some new policies are in place. But the trends in energy demand, imports, coal use and greenhouse gas emissions to 2030 in this year’s World Energy Outlook are even worse than projected in WEO 2006. China and India are the emerging giants of the world economy. Their unprecedented pace of economic development will require ever more energy, but it will transform living standards for billions. There can be no question of asking them selectively to curb growth so as to solve problems which are global. So how is the transition to be achieved to a more secure, lower-carbon energy system? WEO 2007 provides the answers. With extensive statistics, projections in three scenarios, analysis and advice, it shows China, India and the rest of the world why we need to co-operate to change the energy future and how to do it.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (663 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789264027305
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1-733 Seiten)
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    ISBN: 9780444519108
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1-1098, I1-I32 Seiten)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (735-1520 Seiten)
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    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    ISBN: 9780444531001
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    Keywords: Biotechnology ; Food ; Biotechnology ; Ethics ; Economic policy ; Nanotechnology ; Economics ; R & D/Technology Policy ; Ethics ; Food Science ; Nanotechnology ; Biotechnology
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction: Embedding Ethics in Science and Technology Policy – A Global Perspective --- Chapter 2 Institutionalizing Ethical Debates in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: A Comparison of Europe, India and China.-Chapter 3 Public Perceptions of Science and Technology in Europe, China and India --- Chapter 4 Public Engagement in the Governance of Science and Technology --- Chapter 5 Science and Technology Governance and European Values --- Chapter 6 The Values Demonstrated in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China --- Chapter 7 Science and Technology for Socio-Economic Development and Quest for Inclusive Growth: Emerging Evidence from India --- Chapter 8 A Comparative Framework for Studying Global Ethics in Science and Technology --- Chapter 9 New Food Technologies in Europe, India and China --- Chapter 10 Discourses on Nanotechnology in Europe, China and India --- Chapter 11 Discourses on Synthetic Biology in Europe, India and China --- Chapter 12 Conclusions: Incorporating Ethics into Science and Technology Policy
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 173 pages) , 15 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319146935
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This chapter considers electrical appliances for home and office, which are produced and consumed in large and increasing numbers in industrialised and, increasingly, in developing economies.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: When the incandescent lamp was first commercialised the main mode of transport was the horse, trains were powered by steam, balloons were the only means of flight and the telegraph was the state of the art for long-distance communication. Much has changed in the intervening 127 years, but much has also remained the same. In 1879 the incandescent lamp set a new standard in energy-efficient lighting technology, but today good-quality compact fluorescent lamps need only onequarter of the power to provide the same amount of light. Yet most of us continue to rely on the “horse” of the incandescent lamp instead of the “internal combustion engine” of the compact fluorescent lamp. Nor is this the only way in which lighting energy is being wasted. We illuminate rooms when we’re not there, we over-light spaces, we squander available daylight and we underutilise the most efficient street lighting and non-residential building lighting technologies. This might not matter were it not for the severe challenges we face in securing a clean, sustainable and affordable energy system. Electricity generation is the main source of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions and lighting uses one-fifth of its output. Despite having many higher-efficiency and lower-cost alternatives, we continue to use less efficient and more expensive lighting technologies. Is this because we are inherently attached to these older technologies, or is it simply because we stick to what we know when unaware or unsure of the merits of the alternatives? In each of the main lighting end-use sectors (commercial buildings, households, industrial lighting, outdoor lighting and vehicle lighting), this book shows that not only do more cost-effective and higherefficiency alternative choices exist, but that they could be deployed very quickly were the current market barriers to be addressed. Doing this would allow our economies to be stronger and cleaner without sacrificing anything in our quality of life. Moreover, the policies that can bring about this change have been tested and found to work. What is needed is more comprehensive and vigorous implementation in each economy and lighting sector. This book shows us why and how we should do so.
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    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: When William Shakepeare wrote Love’s Labour’s Lost he would have used light from tallow candles at a cost (today) of £12,000 per million-lumen hours. The same amount of light from electric lamps now costs only £2! But today’s low-cost illumination still has a dark side. Globally, lighting consumes more electricity than is produced by either hydro or nuclear power and results in CO2 emissions equivalent to two thirds of the world’s cars. A standard incandescent lamp may be much more efficient than a tallow candle, but it is far less efficient than a high-pressure sodium lamp. Were inefficient light sources to be replaced by the equivalent efficient ones, global lighting energy demand would be up to 40% less at a lower overall cost. Larger savings still could be realised through the intelligent use of controls, lighting levels and daylight. But achieving efficient lighting is not just a question of technology; it requires policies to transform current practice. This book documents the broad range of policy measures to stimulate efficient lighting that have already been implemented around the world and suggests new ways these could be strengthened to prevent light’s labour’s from being lost.
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    London : Bloomsbury Academic
    Keywords: Nachhaltigkeit ; sustainable development
    Description / Table of Contents: Continuation along current development pathways is not sustainable. Available technology and production practices and the consumption patterns of modern societies are leading to global warming and ecological destruction. Business as usual is not an option. There is an urgent need to find a new development paradigm that ensures environmental sustainability while managing to provide, now and in the future, a decent livelihood for all of humankind. In Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development, experts in the area provide a variety of insights about the technical transformation needed for sustainable development. It spells out the behavioural and policy changes that would need to accompany the next technological transformation, taking into account the complexity of inducing technological change in the energy and agricultural sectors. The assessment suggests that this will require major, but doable improvements in national innovation systems and major, but affordable shifts in investment patterns and related macroeconomic adjustments.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 215 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781472580795
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Keywords: change agents ; campaigners ; lobbyists ; officials ; public services ; activists ; social change ; political change ; NGOs
    Description / Table of Contents: Human society is full of would-be ‘change agents’, a restless mix of campaigners, lobbyists, and officials, both individuals and organizations, set on transforming the world. They want to improve public services, reform laws and regulations, guarantee human rights, get a fairer deal for those on the sharp end, achieve greater recognition for any number of issues, or simply be treated with respect. Striking then, that not many universities have a Department of Change Studies, to which social activists can turn for advice and inspiration. Instead, scholarly discussions of change are fragmented with few conversations crossing disciplinary boundaries, rarely making it onto the radars of those actively seeking change. This book aims to bridge the gap between academia and practice, bringing together the best research from a range of academic disciplines and the evolving practical understanding of activists to explore the topic of social and political change. Drawing on many first-hand examples from the global experience of Oxfam, one of the world’s largest social justice NGOs, as well as insights gleaned from studying and working on international development, it tests ideas and offers the latest thinking on what works to achieve progressive change. Table of Contents Foreword, Ha-Joon Chang Introduction Part 1. A Power and Systems Approach 1: Systems Thinking Changes Everything 2: Power Lies at the Heart of Change 3: Shifts in Social Norms often Underpin Change Case Study: The Chiquitanos of Bolivia Part 2. Institutions and the Importance of History Introduction to Section 2 4: How States Evolve 5: The Machinery of Law 6: Accountability, Political Parties,and the Media 7: How the International System Shapes Change 8: Transnational Corporations as Drivers and Targets of Change Case Study: The December 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change Part 3. Activists Introduction to Section 3 9: Citizen Activism and Civil Society 10: Leaders and leadership 11: The Power of Advocacy 12: A Power and Systems Approach to Making Change Happen In Conclusion
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 268 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780198785392
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    Keywords: environment ; economics ; credit unions ; British Columbia ; Alberta ; sustainable development ; cooperatives
    Description / Table of Contents: When citizens take collaborative action to meet the needs of their community, they are participating in the social economy. Co-operatives, community-based social services, local non-profit organizations, and charitable foundations are all examples of social economies that emphasize mutual benefit rather than the accumulation of profit. While such groups often participate in market-based activities to achieve their goals, they also pose an alternative to the capitalist market economy. Contributors to Scaling Up investigated innovative social economies in British Columbia and Alberta and discovered that achieving a social good through collective, grassroots enterprise resulted in a sustainable way of satisfying human needs that was also, by extension, environmentally responsible. As these case studies illustrate, organizations that are capable of harnessing the power of a social economy generally demonstrate a commitment to three outcomes: greater social justice, financial self-sufficiency, and environmental sustainability. Within the matrix of these three allied principles lie new strategic directions for the politics of sustainability.Whether they were examining attainable and affordable housing initiatives, co-operative approaches to the provision of social services, local credit unions, farmers’ markets, or community-owned power companies, the contributors found social economies providing solutions based on reciprocity and an understanding of how parts function within the whole—an understanding that is essential to sustainability. In these locally defined and controlled, democratically operated organizations we see possibilities for a more human economy that is capable of transforming the very social and technical systems that make our current way of life unsustainable.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 301 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781771990226
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    Rijeka : InTech
    Keywords: international development ; rural development ; food security
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Development for Food Security in Africa: A Case Study of South Africa by Hester Carina Schönfeldt, Nicolette Hall and Beulah Pretorius --- Chapter 2: A Study of Household Food security and Adoption of Biofortified Crop Varieties in Tanzania: The Case of Orange- Fleshed Sweetpotato by Julius J. Okello, Kirimi Sindi, Kelvin Shikuku, Margaret McEwan and Jan Low --- Chapter 3: Current Review of Medical Research in Developing Countries: A Case Study from Egypt by Sherif M. Shehata, Nehal M. ElMashad and Azza M. Hassan --- Chapter 4: Comparing GDP Health and Military Expenditure, Poverty and Child Mortality of 71 Countries from Different Regions by Colin Pritchard and Steven Keen --- Chapter 5: Spot Improvement of Rural Roads Using a Local Resource- Based Approach: Case Studies from Asia and Africa by Yoshinori Fukubayashi and Makoto Kimura --- Chapter 6: Natural Disaster and International Development by Luke Strongman --- Chapter 7: A Study of the Relationship between Foreign Aid and Human Development in Africa by Gabriel Staicu and Razvan Barbulescu --- Chapter 8: Developing Competencies for Rural Development Project Management through Local Action Groups: The Punta Indio (Argentina) Experience by Ricardo Stratta Fernández, Ignacio de los Ríos Carmenado and Miriam López González
    Pages: Online-Ressource (180 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535131045
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    Paris : OECD/IEA (Please request login data at the PIK library)
    Keywords: energy ; energy economics
    Description / Table of Contents: The global energy system is moving closer to a historic transformation. This year's edition of the International Energy Agency (IEA)'s comprehensive publication on energy technology focuses on the opportunities and challenges of scaling and accelerating the deployment of clean energy technologies. This includes looking at more ambitious scenarios than the IEA has produced before. Improvements in technology continue to modify the outlook for the energy sector, driving changes in business models, energy demand and supply patterns as well as regulatory approaches. Energy security, air quality, climate change and economic competitiveness are increasingly being factored in by decision makers. Energy Technology Perspectives 2017 (ETP 2017) details these trends as well as the technological advances that will shape energy security and environmental sustainability for decades to come. For the first time, ETP 2017 looks at how far clean energy technologies could move the energy sector towards higher climate change ambitions if technological innovations were pushed to their maximum practical limits. The analysis shows that, while policy support would be needed beyond anything seen to date, such a push could result in greenhouse gas emission levels that are consistent with the mid-point of the target temperature range of the global Paris Agreement on climate change. The analysis also indicates that regardless of the pathway chosen for the energy sector transformation, policy action is needed to ensure that multiple economic, security and other benefits to the accelerated deployment of clean energy technologies are realised through a systematic and co-ordinated approach. ETP 2017 also features the annual IEA Tracking Clean Energy Progress 2017 report, which shows that the current progress in clean energy technology development and deployment remains sub-optimal. It highlights that progress has been substantial where policies have provided clear signals on the value of technology innovation. But many technology areas still suffer from a lack of financial and policy support.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (438 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789264275973
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    Keywords: history ; economics ; international relations ; capitalism ; geopolitics ; Turkey ; Asia ; the West
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- 1. The Transition Debate: Theories and Critique --- 2. Rethinking the Origins of Capitalism: The Theory of Uneven and Combined Development --- 3. The Long Thirteenth Century: Structural Crisis, Conjunctural Catastrophe --- 4. The Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry over the Long Sixteenth Century --- 5. The Atlantic Sources of European Capitalism, Territorial Sovereignty and the Modern Self --- 6. The ‘Classical’ Bourgeois Revolutions in the History of Uneven and Combined Development --- 7. Combined Encounters: Dutch Colonisation in South-East Asia and the Contradictions of ‘Free Labour’ --- 8. Origins of the Great Divergence over the Longue Durée: Rethinking the ‘Rise of the West’ --- Conclusion --- Notes --- Index
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 386 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    ISBN: 9781783713233
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    Keywords: Finance ; Economic policy ; Development economics ; Finance ; Finance, general ; Economic Policy ; Development Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents --- Foreword --- Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview --- Chapter 2: The Three Phases of Global Liquidity --- 2.1: Conceptual and Measurement Issues --- 2.2: First Phase of Global Liquidity --- 2.2.1: Round-trip Bank Flows to the US --- 2.2.2: Banking Sector Flows to the Rest of the World --- 2.2.3: Exchange Rates and Leverage --- 2.3: Second Phase of Global Liquidity --- 2.4: The Case of Emerging Asia --- 2.5: Third Phase and Onward --- 2.6: References --- Chapter 3: Early Warning Indicators for Financial Vulnerabilities --- 3.1: Principles for Selection of Early Warning Indicators --- 3.2: Core and Noncore Liabilities --- 3.3: References --- Chapter 4: Emerging Asia’s Noncore Liabilities and Policy Effectiveness --- 4.1: Bank-led Flows, Noncore Liabilities, and Credit Growth --- 4.2: Reassessing Monetary Policy --- 4.3: Appendix --- 4.4: References --- Chapter 5: Capital Flows and Income Distribution --- 5.1: National Policy Remains Key --- 5.2: How Capital Flows Affect Income Inequality --- 5.3: Prioritization for a Multi-Objective Goal --- 5.4: Appendix --- 5.5: References --- Chapter 6: Policy Implications --- 6.1 Tailoring Policies to Vulnerabilities --- 6.2 Macroprudential Tools --- 6.2.1 Bank Capital-Oriented Tools --- 6.2.1.1 Capital Requirements that Adjust Over the Cycle --- 6.2.1.2 Forward-Looking Provisioning --- 6.2.1.3: Leverage caps --- 6.2.1.4: Loan-To-Value and Debt-Service-To-Income Caps --- 6.2.1.5: Loan-to-Deposit caps --- 6.2.1.6: Levy on Noncore Liabilities --- 6.2.1.7: Unremunerated Reserve Requirements --- 6.2.2: Relative Merits of URR versus Levies/Taxes --- 6.2.3: Relationship with other Stabilization Policies --- 6.3: Financial Integration and Institutional Design --- 6.4: Policy Choices --- 6.5: References
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 124 pages) , 69 illustrations
    ISBN: 9789812872845
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    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Gabler
    Keywords: Business ; Management ; Industrial management ; Management information systems ; E-business ; Electronic commerce ; E-commerce ; Business and Management ; Innovation/Technology Management ; e-Commerce/e-business ; Business Process Management ; e-Business/e-Commerce
    Description / Table of Contents: Vorwort --- 1. Datenqualität - eine Managementaufgabe --- 2. Fallstudien zur Datenqualität --- 3. Methoden und Werkzeuge des Datenqualitätsmanagements --- 4. Erfolgsfaktoren und Sofortmaßnahmen --- Glossar
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 205 Seiten) , 10 Abbildungen in Farbe
    ISBN: 9783662468067
    Language: German
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    Keywords: Business ; Management information systems ; Industrial management ; E-commerce ; Business and Management ; Business Process Management ; e-Commerce/e-business
    Description / Table of Contents: Studienrahmen: Gegenstand und Ziele der Studie --- Die Fallstudien: Erfolgsmuster aus der Praxis --- Die quantitative Studie: Status quo --- Fazit und Ausblick
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 126 Seiten) , 64 Abbildungen, 57 Abbildungen in Farbe
    ISBN: 9783662557051
    Language: German
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