"This volume provides an overview of the political economy of coal in diverse country contexts. Coal is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, accounting for about forty percent of energy-related CO2-emissions. Continued construction of coal-fired power plants could make the...

From conceptual framework to regional prospective modelling -- Regulatory frameworks and cross-border cooperation issues -- Economic barriers, opportunities and incentives -- Sociological interplays : key actors and citizen participation.

"Local Energy Governance: Opportunities and Challenges for Renewable and Decentralised Energy in France and Japan examines the extent of the energy transition taking place at a local level in France and Japan, two countries that share ambitious targets regarding the reduction of GHG emissions,...

"This book analyses the potential for active stakeholder engagement in the energy transition in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) in order to foster clean energy deployment. Public acceptability and bottom-up activities can be critical for enduring otucomes to an energy transition. As a result, it is...

"This book identifies the impact of internal and external stakeholders on the implementation of sustainable development policies in the coal mining sector in Europe and Commonwealth Of Independent States. The book assesses what activities and conditions need to be improved so sustainable...

Energy democracy : an introduction / Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker and Danielle Endres -- Salar dimensions of power and governance in energy democracy : introduction / Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker -- International energy governance : opportunities and challenges for democratic politics / Anabela...

"Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures is a collection of essays examining how societies conceive of fossil fuel extraction in the inhospitable but fragile waters of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans. Around a third of the world's oil and gas is produced from beneath the ocean floor,...

Chapter 1: --Studies of the impact of Brexit on UK agriculture --Chapter 2: --Maintaining high animal welfare standards in the UK --Chapter 3: --Setting the path for UK and devolved agriculture --Chapter 4: --Public money for public goods and property rights --Chapter 5: --Agroecology, GM crops...

"This book focuses on the impact of monetary policy and food price volatility and inflation in emerging and developing economies. The tendency for food price volatility to blot inflation forecasting accuracy, engender tail dynamics in the overall inflation trajectory and derail economic welfare...

"This book provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the links between environmental change, land grabbing and migration, drawing on research conducted in Senegal and Cambodia. While the impacts of environmental change on migration, and of environmental discourses on land grabs, have...