Energy security : economics, politics, strategies, and implications

Energy security : economics, politics, strategies, and implications /

"This volume presents a realistic, cross-disciplinary look by recognized authorities at the global quest for energy security. While each nation faces different geopolitical, economic, and environmental challenges, the prescriptions offered here could well lead us in the right direction."--...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Pascual, Carlos, 1959- (Editor), Elkind, Jonathan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2010
Subjects:
Energy policy.
Power resources.
Climatic changes.
International cooperation.
energy resources.
climate change.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Geopolitics
  • The geopolitics of energy : from security to survival / Carlos Pascual, Evie Zambetakis
  • Energy security in the Persian Gulf : opportunities and challenges / Suzanne Maloney
  • How much does the United States spend protecting Persian Gulf oil? / Michael O'Hanlon
  • Who's afraid of China's oil companies? / Erica S. Downs
  • Understanding energy interdependence
  • Making sense of "energy independence" / Pietro Nivola ; with Erin E.R. Carter
  • Energy security : call for a broader agenda / Jonathan Elkind
  • Global governance and energy / Ann Florini
  • Climate change
  • Features of climate-smart metropolitan economies / Marilyn A. Brown, Frank Southworth, Andrea Sarzynski
  • Understanding the interaction between energy security and climate change policy / Jason Bordoff, Manasi Desphande, Pascal Noel
  • Five "G's" : lessons from world trade for governing global climate / William Antholis.

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