"This book analyzes how the governance of innovation can foster sustainability. The quest for innovation is consistently at the top of the agenda for policy makers around the globe, on the supra-national level, as well as for the nation states and all the way down to debates in local governance...

1. The red pill -- 2. The process of demographic change : the importance of multi-scale and multi-level analysis -- 3. Going beyond economic energy intensity and environmental Kuznets Curves : combining extensive and intensive variables -- 4. The quality of quantitative analyses for governance :...

pt. 1. Energy, geopolitics and energy security : qualitative and quantitative analysis -- pt. 2. Socioeconomic energy risk : concept and estimation -- pt. 3. Energy security and energy policy convergence in the EU -- pt. 4. New strategies for the EU's energy security policy.