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Coal has been the world's fastest-growing energy source in absolute terms for over a decade. Coal also emits more CO2 than any other fossil fuel and contributes to serious air pollution problems in many regions of the world. If we hope to satisfy the demand for affordable energy in emerging economies while protecting the environment, we need to develop a keen understanding of the market that supplies coal. This book offers an in-depth analysis of the key producers and consumers that will most influence coal production, transport, and use in the future. By exploring how countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Australia and South Africa have developed their respective coal industries - and how these industries link together through the international coal trade - experts shed light on how the global coal market may evolve, and the economic and environmental implications. This book is the most comprehensive treatment of these topics to date and will appeal to a wide readership, including scholars and practitioners working on energy economics and policy.

Coal trade --- Energy consumption --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Power resources --- Energy conservation --- Coal industry --- Fuel trade --- E-books

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By exploring how the security dimensions of energy were not intrinsically linked to a particular source of power but rather to political choices about America's role in the world, Shulman ultimately suggests that contemporary global struggles over energy will never disappear, even if oil is someday displaced by alternative sources of power.

Coal trade --- Energy policy --- Industrialization --- Political aspects --- History --- United States --- Foreign relations --- Industrial development --- Energy and state --- Power resources --- State and energy --- Coal industry --- Government policy --- Economic development --- Economic policy --- Deindustrialization --- Industrial policy --- Energy conservation --- Fuel trade

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An increasing share of intermittent renewable generation and reduced profitability of conventional power generation has led to a growing concern for capacity adequacy in the Nordic electricity market (Nord Pool market area). It does not make sense to assess capacity adequacy for each country separately in the Nord Pool market area as it is highly integrated in terms of both interconnector capacity and market integration. Capacity challenges are rarely isolated to one country or bidding zone. This report analyses what market solutions may be used to manage capacity adequacy in the Nord Pool market area, and how an efficient transition to adequate market solutions could be achieved. The main analysis reveals several measures that would strengthen price formation and cost recovery in the Nord Pool market area, although in general, the market is already highly liquid and well-functioning.

Power resources --- Energy development --- Energy consumption --- Electric power --- Electric power supply --- Power supply, Electric --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Energy resources development --- Energy source development --- Power resources development --- Energy --- Energy resources --- Power supply --- Energy conservation --- Natural resources --- Energy harvesting --- Energy industries --- E-books

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This book examines the energy resource relations between China and ASEAN countries. It addresses the following issues: as the world energy demand shifts East because of the rise of China, ASEAN community and other emerging Asian economies, and as the Greater Indian Ocean and the South China Sea become the world's energy interstates, will geopolitical tensions over energy resources spark conflicts in the region, especially in the South China Sea? Against the background of China's rise and its growing influence in Southeast Asia, will China's quest for energy resource cooperation be viewed as a threat or opportunity by its neighbouring countries? Since the United States, Japan and India are important players in Southeast Asia, does the shifting geopolitics of energy give these big powers a new strategic tool in an intensifying rivalry with China? Or does the changing geopolitics of energy resources create more areas of shared interests and opportunities for cooperation between these big powers to balance, rather than increase, tensions in Southeast Asia?

This book will be of interest to anyone who is keen to learn how the world, especially the United States, can accommodate and adapt to the new global energy dynamics and how China and ASEAN operate as new players in global and regional energy markets.

Energy policy --- Energy consumption --- Southeast Asia --- China --- Foreign relations --- Foreign economic relations --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Power resources --- Energy conservation --- Energy and state --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Government policy --- Asia, Southeast --- Asia, Southeastern --- South East Asia --- Southeastern Asia --- Energy policy - China --- Energy policy - Southeast Asia --- Energy consumption - China --- Energy consumption - Southeast Asia --- Southeast Asia - Foreign relations - China --- Southeast Asia - Foreign economic relations - China --- China - Foreign relations - Southeast Asia --- China - Foreign economic relations - Southeast Asia

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Moving towards a more sustainable world requires a complete revolution in the way we manage energy and resources. However, from an academic perspective, this theme is so broad that most educators and researchers tend to focus on just one aspect, and maintaining the broad viewpoint which is necessary for making strategic judgments becomes difficult. Tohoku University addressed this challenge when developing a new education and training program for environmental leaders and brought together the extensive range of expertise available in specific fields into one special course which forms the basis of this book. Now in one volume, both students and educators can be brought up to date on a wide range of critical issues currently being addressed in the field of energy and resources. Issues covered include several critical ones in the energy field (low-energy technologies, renewable energies such as the hydrogen economy, and geothermal energy). Chapters on resources include availability (for instance, rare earth metals), extraction and recycling of metals and plastics, and technological solutions to specific waste-disposal problems. In addition, broader strategic issues such as limits to growth and the interaction between the economic system and environmental issues are addressed. Even though each chapter provides topical data and knowledge from disparate and specialized fields, the book is written at a level that is readily understandable by students from all scientific, engineering, and humanities fields.

Geology, economic. --- Waste disposal. --- Energy. --- Energy Policy, Economics and Management. --- Waste Management/Waste Technology. --- Economic Geology. --- Business & Economics --- Industries --- Renewable energy sources. --- Environmental sciences. --- Sustainable development. --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Environmental science --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Environmental aspects --- Energy policy. --- Energy and state. --- Economic geology. --- Waste management. --- Economic geology --- Physical geology --- Mines and mineral resources --- Energy and state --- Power resources --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Energy conservation --- Government policy --- Economic development --- Science --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy --- Refuse and refuse disposal. --- Discarded materials --- Disposal of refuse --- Garbage --- Household waste --- Household wastes --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Rubbish --- Solid waste management --- Trash --- Waste disposal --- Waste management --- Wastes, Household --- Sanitation --- Factory and trade waste --- Pollution --- Pollution control industry --- Salvage (Waste, etc.) --- Street cleaning --- Waste products