Front Cover -- Urban Energy Transition: Renewable Strategies for Cities and Regions -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributor Biographies -- Introduction: The Great Transformation: Cities and Regions Embracing Renewable Energy -- Synopsis of the Book and Its chapters -- References -- Section 1:...

The major purpose of this book is to lay out the broad landscape of global energy issues and how they might develop in coming decades. While there are considerable uncertainties in respect of some of these issues, many of the defining characteristics of the landscape are clear, and the energy...

The river and the billiard ball : history, innovation, and the future / Peter Schwartz -- The future of population / Joel E. Cohen -- The future of energy from the perspective of the social sciences / Clark C. Abt -- Modeling climate change impacts and their related uncertainties / Stephen H....

The new energy crisis / Jean-Marie Chevalier -- The questioned sustainability of the carbon-dependent Asian dynamics / Patrice Geoffron and St(c)♭phane Rouhier -- Russia and the Caspian region : between East and West / Nadia Campaner and Askar Gubaidullin -- Energy poverty and economic...