Global Energy

Issues, Potentials, and Policy Implications

Edited by Paul Ekins, Mike Bradshaw, and Jim Watson

A comprehensive and clear account of the full range of energy issues, options, and choices
Addresses the crucial question of what energy sources to use and how to ensure their availability
Enables the reader to understand important issues in current affairs
Examines the critical economic, social, political, and cultural issues that will determine which technologies are deployed
Reviews the policies countries can use in order to influence the way their energy systems develop

Global Energy

Issues, Potentials, and Policy Implications

Edited by Paul Ekins, Mike Bradshaw, and Jim Watson

Description

Energy, and access to energy, are essential to human life, civilisation and development. A number of energy issues - including energy security, energy prices and the polluting emissions for energy use - now have high prominence on global agendas of policy and diplomacy. In addressing these and other global energy issues, the purpose of this book is to lay out the broad global energy landscape, exploring how these issues might develop in coming decades, and the implications of such developments for energy policy. There are great uncertainties, which will be identified, in respect of some of these issues, but many of the defining characteristics of the landscape are clear, and the energy policies of all countries will need to be broadly consistent with these if they are to be feasible and achieve their objectives. The book therefore provides information about and analysis of energy and related resources, and the technologies that have been and are being developed to exploit them that is essential to understanding how the global energy system is developing, and how it might develop in the future. But its main focus is the critical economic, social, political and cultural issues that will determine how energy systems will develop and which technologies are deployed, why, by whom, and who will benefit from them. The book has three Parts. Part I sets out the current global context for energy system developments, outlining the essential trends of global energy supply and demand, and atmospheric emissions, from the past and going forward, and their driving forces. Part II explores the options and choices, covering both energy demand and energy supply, facing national and international policymakers as they confront the challenges of the global context outlined in Part I. Part III of the book brings together the discussion in Parts I and II with consideration of possible global energy and environmental futures, and of the energy policy choices which will determine which future actually comes to pass.

Global Energy

Issues, Potentials, and Policy Implications

Edited by Paul Ekins, Mike Bradshaw, and Jim Watson

Introduction, Paul Ekins, Mike Bradshaw, and Jim Watson
1. The Global Energy Context, Jim Skea
2. Energy Systems and Innovation, Jim Watson, Xinxin Wang, Florian Kern
3. Deepening Globalization: Economies, Trade, and Energy Systems, Gavin Bridge and Michael Bradshaw
4. The Global Climate Change Regime, Joanna Depledge
5. The Implications of Indirect Emissions for Climate and Energy Policy, Katy Roelich, John Barrett, and Anne Owen
6. Energy production and Ecosystem Services, Robert Holland, Kate Scott, Tina Wegg, Nicola Beaumont, Eleni Papathanasopoulou, and Pete Smith
7. Technical, Economic, Social, and Cultural Perspectives on Energy Demand, Charlie Wilson, Kathryn Janda, Francoise Bartiaux, and Mithra Moezzi
8. Energy Access and Development in the 21st Century, Xavier Lemaire
9. Improving Efficiency in Buildings: Conventional and Alternative Approaches, Kathryn B. Janda, Charlie Wilson, Mithra Moezzi, and Francoise Bartiaux
10. Challenges and Options for Sustainable Travel: Mobility, Motorisation, and Vehicle Technologies, Hannah Daly, Paul Dodds, and Will McDowall
11. Shipping and Aviation, Antony Evans and Tristan Smith
12. Carbon Capture and Storage, Jim Watson and Cameron Jones
13. Fossil Fuels: Reserves, Costs Curves, Production, and Consumption, Michael Bradshaw, Antony Froggatt, Christophe McGlade, and Jamie Speirs
14. Unconventional Fossil Fuels and Technological Change, Michael Bradshaw, Murtala Chindo, Joseph Dutton, and Karg Kama
15. The Geopolitical Economy of a Globalizing Gas Market, Michael Bradshaw, Joseph Dutton, and Gavin Bridge
16. Nuclear Power after Fukushima: Prospects and Implications, Markku Lehtonen and Mari Martiskainen
17. Bioenergy Resources, Raphael Slade and Ausilio Bauen
18. Solar Energy: An Untapped Growing Potential?
19. Water: Ocean Energy and Hydro, Laura Finlay, Henry Jeffrey, Andy MacGillivray, and George Aggidis
20. Global Wind Power Developments and Prospects, Will McDowall and Andrew ZP Smith
21. Network Infrastructure and Energy Storage for Low-Carbon Energy Systems, Paul E. Dodds and Birgit Fais
22. Metals for the Low-Carbon Energy System, Jamie Speirs and Katy Roelich
23. Electricity Markets and their Regulatory Systems for a Sustainable Future, Catherine Mitchell
24. Global Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction, Christophe McGlade, Olivier Dessens, Gabrial Anandarajah, and Paul Ekins
25. Energy and Ecosystem Service Impacts, Eleni Papathanasopoulou, Robert Holland, Trudie Dockerty, Kate Scott, Tina Wegg, Nicola Beaumont, Gail Taylor, Gilla Sunnenberg, Andrew Lovett, Pete Smith, and Melanie Austen
26. Policies and Conclusions, Paul Ekins

Global Energy

Issues, Potentials, and Policy Implications

Edited by Paul Ekins, Mike Bradshaw, and Jim Watson

Author Information

Paul Ekins, Deputy Director, UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and Director and Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London,Mike Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School,Jim Watson, Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre

Paul Ekins has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of London and is Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy and Director of the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London. He is also Deputy Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, in charge of its Energy Resources and Vectors theme. He was a Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution from 2002-2008. Paul Ekins' academic work focuses on the conditions and policies for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy, concerning which he has written numerous books, papers and articles, including Global Warming and Energy Demand (co-Ed., Routledge, 1995), Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: the Prospects for Green Growth (Routledge, London, 2000), Carbon-Energy Taxation: Lessons from Europe (co-Ed, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009), and Energy 2050: the Transition to a Secure, Low-Carbon Energy System for the UK (co-Ed, Earthscan, London, 2011).

Mike Bradshaw joined Warwick Business as Professor of Global Energy in January 2014, where he teaches a course on their Global Energy MBA entitled Energy in Global Politics. Prior to that he spent 13 years at the University of Leicester as Professor of Human Geography. He has a PhD in Human Geography from the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research deals with the geopolitical economy of oil and gas, with a particular emphasis on developments in Russia. He has recently completed a project funded by the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) that examined the Geopolitical Economy of Global Gas Security and Governance and its implications for the UK. He is also involved in both UK-based and EU-wide research programmes on the social science aspects of shale gas development. In 2014 Polity Press published his book: Global Energy Dilemmas. He is currently writing a book on the geopolitics of natural gas.

Jim Watson is Research Director of the UK Energy Research Centre and Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Sussex. He was Director of the Sussex Energy Group at Sussex from Dec 2008 to Jan 2013. He has 20 years of research experience on climate change, energy and innovation policies. His recent outputs include a co-edited book: New Challenges in Energy Security: The UK in a multipolar world (Palgrave, 2013). He has advised several UK government departments, and has been a specialist adviser to two House of Commons select committees. He also has extensive international experience, particularly in China. He is a Council Member of the British Institute for Energy Economics, and a member of the advisory boards of several research and policy organisations.

Contributors:

George A. Aggidis, Lancaster University
Gabrial Anandarajah, UCL Energy Institute
Melanie Austen, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
John Barrett, University of Leeds
Françoise Bartiaux, Université catholique de Louvain
Ausilio Bauen, Imperial College London
Nicola Beaumont, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Michael Bradshaw, Warwick Business School
Gavin Bridge, Durham University
Chiara Candelise, Imperial College London and Bocconi University
Murtala Chindo
Hannah Daly, UCL Energy Institute
Joanna Depledge, Cambridge University
Olivier Dessens, UCL Energy Institute
Trudie Dockerty, University of East Anglia
Paul E. Dodds, UCL Energy Institute
Joseph Dutton, Argus Media
Paul Ekin, UCL Energy Institute
Antony Evans, UCL Energy Institute
Birgit Fais, UCL Energy Institute
Laura Finlay
Antony Froggatt, Chatham House and Exeter University
Robert Holland, University of Southampton
Kathryn Janda, Oxford University
Henry Jeffrey
Cameron Jones, University of Sussex
Kärg Kama, Oxford University
Florian Kern, University of Sussex
Markku Lehtonen, University of Sussex
Xavier Lemaire, UCL Energy Institute
Andrew Lovett, University of East Anglia
Will McDowall, UCL Energy Institute
Andy MacGillivray, University of Edinburgh
Christophe McGlade, UCL Energy Institute
Mari Martiskainen, University of Sussex
Catherine Mitchell, University of Exeter
Mithra Moezzi, Portland State University
Anne Owen, University of Leeds
Eleni Papathanasopoulou, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Katy Roelich, University of Leeds
Kate Scott, University of Leeds
Jim Skea, Imperial College London
Jamie Speirs, Imperial College
Raphael Slade, Imperial College London
Andrew ZP Smith, UCL Energy Institute
Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen
Tristan Smith, UCL Energy Institute
Gilla Sünnenberg, University of East Anglia
Gail Taylor
Xinxin Wang, Haymarket Business Media
Jim Watson, UKERC and University of Sussex
Tina Wegg
Charlie Wilson, University of East Anglia