
Low-carbon Energy Security from a European Perspective
Description
Key Features
- Offers a unique perspective on low-carbon energy security by considering the assumptions behind current energy security needs
- Suggests the benefit of envisioning energy security through out-of-the-box scenario development with respect to the energy system
- Includes energy in an international scenario with case studies from Africa, Russia, Ukraine, Morroco, China, South America, and Europe
- Draws on the European Commission‘s funded project MILESECURE-2050
Readership
Professional/ practitioner audience, graduate-level academia, policy making experts, practitioners and officers in European energy planning offices and environmental, economic, international relations, and political science researchers from academia and research institutions.
Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. Challenging the Energy Security Paradigm
- 1.1. Introduction: The Prevailing Energy Security Paradigm
- 1.2. Harmonizing Energy and Climate Policies
- 1.3. Our Approach
- 1.4. Structure of the Book
- Chapter 2. European Union Energy Policy Evolutionary Patterns
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. The Development of the EU Energy Policy
- 2.3. Current Energy Regime and Main Challenges for Energy Security
- 2.4. Past, Present and Future European Union Climate and Energy Strategies
- 2.5. Conclusions
- Chapter 3. A Study of Russia as Key Natural Gas Supplier to Europe in Terms of Security of Supply and Market Power
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Current Look at Natural Gas in the EU
- 3.3. European Union–Russia Gas Relations
- 3.4. EU Policies Targeted to Improve Natural Gas Security
- 3.5. Russian Gas Strategies Under Uncertainty
- 3.6. Conclusion
- Chapter 4. The Macroregional Geopolitics of Energy Security: Towards a New Energy World Order?
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Energy Security in the International Debate
- 4.3. The Macroregional Geopolitics of Energy Security
- 4.4. European Energy Geopolitics: Key Regions
- 4.5. Conclusions and Future Perspectives
- Chapter 5. Reshaping Equilibria: Renewable Energy Mega-Projects and Energy Security
- 5.1. Introduction: Assessing the Contribution of Large-Scale Renewable Energy Projects to Low-Carbon Energy Security
- 5.2. Tapping the Desert for Sustainable Power: Morocco and North Africa
- 5.3. The Winds of the North Sea
- 5.4. Lessons for a Low-Carbon and Secure Energy Transition
- Chapter 6. European Distributed Renewable Energy Case Studies
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Anticipatory Experiences: Reflecting How We Envisage the Long-term Ways Renewable Energy Will Compete With Fossil Fuels in a Liberalised Market Environment
- 6.3. The German Experience of the Energiewende
- 6.4. The Italian Experience With Renewable Energy
- 6.5. Costs, Competitiveness and Climate Change Mitigation in European Union Energy Security Policy
- 6.6. Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Energy Security in Low-Carbon Pathways
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Review of Global Scenarios in the Fifth IPCC Report
- 7.3. Global Evaluation of Energy Security Challenges in Low-Carbon Pathways
- 7.4. Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Towards Governance of Energy Security
- 8.1. Introduction: Transition as an Unstructured Problem
- 8.2. The Conceptual Babylon of Energy Security
- 8.3. The Impossibility of Reducing Factual Uncertainty
- 8.4. Unstructured Problems
- 8.5. Governance for Energy Security
- 8.6. Conclusions
- Chapter 9. Reducing Uncertainty Through a Systemic Risk-Management Approach
- 9.1. Introduction: Structuring Energy Security
- 9.2. Towards a Systemic View on Energy Security
- 9.3. Secure Energy Systems in Practice
- 9.4. Governance of Systemic Risks
- 9.5. Conclusion
- Chapter 10. Towards a Low-Carbon, Citizens-Driven Europe’s Energy Security Agenda
- 10.1. Reframing the Dominant Discourse on Energy Security in Europe
- 10.2. The Rise of the Human Factor
- 10.3. Some Major Recommendations for Improving European Energy Policies
- Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 284
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2016
- Published: June 8, 2016
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128029701
- eBook ISBN: 9780128029879
About the Editors
Patrizia Lombardi
Affiliations and Expertise
Max Grünig
Affiliations and Expertise
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