Energy efficiency policies and programmes in developing countries : a handful of opportunities / Suzana Tavares da Silva and Gabriela Prata Dias -- Legal framework and public policies on energy efficiency in Spain and Chile / Roberto Galán Vioque and Patricio Masbernat -- Regulating energy...

'Sun, sea, sand' and solar energy -- Energy transitions and the mainstream -- Energy transitions and mainstream energy cultures -- Agriculture, fossils fuels and electricity -- Electricity and mainstream energy cultures -- Electricity, solar hot water and mainstream cultural change -- Solar...

Foreword / by Christian A. Klöckner -- Citizens and renewable energy : determinants of civic engagement -- Wind energy acceptability, what, how and when : all the variables at stake -- Testing the theory : methods and data collection -- The first community-owned co-operative in the UK : lessons...

"This book analyses the political and economic causes, mechanisms and impacts of the industrial tree plantation boom in China. In the past two decades, the industrial tree plantation sector has been expanding rapidly in China, especially in Guangxi Province. Based on extensive primary data, this...

"This volume shines a light on Sustainable Community Movement Organisations (SCMOs), an emergent wave of non-hierarchical, community-based socio-economic movements, with alternative forms of consumption and production very much at their core. Extending beyond traditional ideas of cooperatives...

"In this book, the authors investigate how digitization can influence environmental and social sustainability. The digital revolution is currently changing the daily lives of billions of people worldwide. It is also disrupting the economy, generating new opportunities and creating new...

"This book explores concepts of energy democracy, prosumers and sustainable energy through the lens of past, ongoing and future energy transitions in the Gambian community of Kartong. Reframing Energy Access argues that adaptation of existing models of decentralised renewable energy in isolated...

Energy, poverty and development: the challenges -- Energy use and energy systems in different countries and contexts -- Energy transitions: from traditional biomass to fossil fuels to low carbon energy -- Sectoral energy needs and household energy -- Concepts of energy and development -- The...

Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- The environmental footprint of the human species -- A brief history of water footprint thinking -- Why do we overexploit our limited freshwater resources? -- Drinking ten bathtubs of water a day -- Water for...

"Climate and Energy Politics in Poland: Debating Carbon Dioxide and Shale Gas presents a new, object-oriented perspective on the challenge faced by the largest post-socialist EU Member State from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Poland, to produce knowledge about its energy system in the...