This review specifically investigates the concepts of energy poverty and energy ladders. It provides the most current available data on energy poverty, electrification, and dependency on biomass fuels for cooking. It elaborates on the relationship between energy access and millennium development...

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF ENERGY SECURITY Edited by Benjamin K. Sovacool i j Routledge j j j ^ ^ Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK C ONTENTS List of illustrations ...

Though it is far from obvious, concepts from justice, philosophy, and ethics can significantly inform energy consumers and producers. This study details how energy justice can serve as a novel conceptual tool for philosophers and ethicists that better integrates usually distinct distributive and...

1 Energy security and climate change : a tenuous link / Gal Luft, Anne Korin, and Eshita Gupta -- 2. The fuzzy nature of energy security / Scott Victor Valentine -- 3. Evaluating the energy security impacts of energy policies / David F. von Hippel. [et al.] -- 4. The sustainable development...

1. The green economy -- 2. Basic FIT design options -- 3. Advanced FIT design options -- 4. Bad FIT design -- 5. FIT design options for emerging economies -- 6. Developments in selected countries -- 7. Dispelling the myths about technical issues -- 8. Barriers to renewable energy development --...

Energy constitutes a rich, but underexplored, arena for global governance scholars and policymakers. The world is currently on an unsustainable and conflict-prone track of volatile and unreliable supply of energy fuels, vulnerable infrastructure, massive environmental degradation, and failure to...