Can we price carbon?

A political science analysis of the feasibility and sustainability of carbon pricing, drawing from North American, European, and Asian case studies. Climate change, economists generally agree, is best addressed by putting a price on the carbon content of fossil fuels-by taxing carbon, by cap-and-trade systems ...

Renewables

the politics og a global energy transition

A comprehensive political analysis of the rapid growth in renewable wind and solar power, mapping an energy transition through theory, case studies, and policy. Wind and solar are the most dynamic components of the global power sector. How did this happen? After the 1973 oil ...

Taming the sun

innovations to harness solar energy and power the planet

Solar energy, once a niche application for a limited market, has become the cheapest and fastest-growing power source on earth. What's more, its potential is nearly limitless-every hour the sun beams down more energy than the world uses in a year. But in Taming ...

Trends and challenges in electricity and oil regulation

Universidad Externado de Colombia\'s Institute of Mining and Energy Law and its Research Group would like to present to the academic and professional community the work number 12 of the Collection in Mining and Energy Regulation, based on the electric and oil sector\'s ...

La Cuarta Revolución Industrial desde una mirada ecosocial

Mires donde mires, hay alguien alabando o criticando el impacto que la interconexión tecnológica está teniendo en nuestras vidas. Pero no se trata de casos aislados o de adicción a las pantallas, sino de algo más grande. Sin que haya finalizado la Tercera Revolución Industrial ...

Crítica de la (sin)razón nuclear

Fukushima, un Chernóbil a cámara lenta

A pesar de Chernóbil, a pesar de la hecatombe de Fukushima, hoy se siguen construyendo centrales nucleares. Innecesariamente, con los peligros conocidos, con el de solador legado que representan los residuos radiactivos. Además de los urgentes cambios que son ya imprescindibles en nuestra depredadora forma ...

Burn out

the endgame for fossil fuels

An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how this and other shifts are the harbingers of ...

The publishing business

a guide to starting out and getting on

The Publishing Business, is an invaluable guide to understanding what book publishing is and what it might become. Using popular and current examples, this second edition demonstrates that, to succeed, publishers must prove their commitment to producing accurate, attractive and well edited content, their ability ...

Análisis estratégico del sector de la piedra natural en España

el caso de la provincia de Alicante

España es uno de los principales países del mundo productores de piedra natural, encontrándose uno de los focos más relevantes de actividad en la comarca alicantina del Medio Vinalopó. La crisis económica que ha afectado a España durante los últimos años de la primera década ...

The fracking debate

the risks, benefits, and uncertaintiesof the shale revolution

Daniel Raimi gives a balanced and accessible view of oil and gas development, clearly and thoroughly explaining the key issues surrounding the shale revolution. The Fracking Debate provides the evidence and context that have so frequently been missing from discussion of the future of oil ...

The economic history of nuclear energy in Spain

governance, business and finance

This book analyses the economic history of the nuclear program in Spain, from its inception in the 1950s to the nuclear moratorium in the early 1980s, and investigates the economic, financial and business origins of atomic energy in Spain. The actual dimension of the Spanish ...

Economía industrial para ingenieros

En las escuelas de ingenieros se imparten, tradicionalmente, asignaturas bajo muy diversas denominaciones, tales como: Introducción a la Economía, Economía Industrial, Organización de Empresas, Administración y Dirección de Empresas. En la actualidad, debido a la inclusión de los nuevos grados, se observa una mayor uniformidad ...

Public-private partnership projects in infrastructure

an essential guide for policy makers

Infrastructural investment is critical to economic growth, quality of life, poverty reduction, access to education, health care, and the achievement of many of the goals of a robust economy. But infrastructure is difficult for the public sector to get right. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can help ...

The economics of arms

It is estimated that today some 2.7% of world GDP ($1.5 trillion) is spent on arms. In 2014 Lockheed Martin, the US defense contractor, had revenues of $45 billion - the equivalent of the GDP of Tunisia. This book explores the business behind these ...

The economics of airlines

An unrivalled analysis of how the airline industry makes and loses money, revealing the economic strategies behind those often baffling pricing decisions we encounter each time we book a flight, and providing an up-to-date economic analysis of one of the world's most important business ...

Natural resources as capital

An introduction to the concepts and tools of natural resource economics, including dynamic models, market failures, and institutional remedies. This introduction to natural resource economics treats resources as a type of capital; their management is an investment problem requiring forward-looking behavior within a dynamic setting ...

Industria 4.0

la cuarta revolución industrial

El término Industria 4.0 se acuñó en Alemania en el año 2011 en la Feria tecnológica de Hannover-Messe, si bien fue en la edición de dicha feria en 2013 cuando se presentó la Iniciativa oficial del Gobierno de Alemania. El documento fundacional de Industria ...

Las empresas de alto crecimiento no surgen por azar

recomendaciones para actuar en su ecosistema

La real academia de ingeniería se propuso impulsar el debate, orientado a resultado, sobre la educación, la innovación, el emprendimiento y sus políticas, más allá de los paradigmas generalmente establecidos, a través de la constitución del Foro E2-I2. En esta publicación se presenta un análisis ...

Energy security

Many of the richest energy-producing regions of the world are wrought with conflict and billions of the world?s poorest suffer the daily insecurity of energy poverty. All the while our planet is increasingly under pressure because of our continued dependence on fossil fuels. It ...

Uranium

Uranium, the most atomically unstable natural element on earth, has a unique place in the global geopolitics of resources. It provides energy to millions of people and its isotopes are used to power spacecraft and in nuclear medicine. But it is also at the heart ...