Los ciclos políticos y económicos de América Latina y el boom de las materias primas

La noción de ciclo, además de haber sido empleada para dar cuenta de períodos económicos con características similares, también se ha utilizado para comprender las oscilaciones políticas de los países o regiones. En este sentido, a pesar de las sustanciales diferencias entre Estados, puede afirmarse ...

The case for carbon dividends

The supreme challenge of our time is tackling climate change. We urgently need to curtail our use of fossil fuels – but how can we do so in a just and feasible way?In this compelling book, leading economist James Boyce shows that the key to ...

Sistema energético español

coste de la energía eléctrica y posibles escenarios

En los últimos años se han experimentado una serie de acontecimientos que han generado desconcierto en gran parte de la población: el incremento tan significativo del coste de la energía eléctrica, determinadas decisiones estatales como el establecimiento del denominado impuesto al sol frenando el desarrollo ...

Paying for pollution

why a carbon tax is good for America

The threats posed by global climate change are widely recognized and carbon emmissions are the major source of greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere. Burning fossil fuels causes long-lasting, pervasive damages, costly to those of us alive today and even more to our children and ...

The political economy of defence

Defence is the ultimate public good, and it thus falls to government to determine the appropriate amount of public revenue to commit to the defence of the realm. This will depend on history, strategic threat, international security obligations, entreaties from allies and, of course, the ...

Solar power

innovation, sustainability, and environmental justice

In this important new primer, Dustin Mulvaney makes a passionate case for the significance of solar power energy and offers a vision for a more sustainable and just solar industry for the future. The solar energy industry has grown immensely over the past several years ...

Imperfect markets and imperfect regulation

an introduction to the Microeconomics and political economy of power markets

The first textbook to present a comprehensive and detailed economic analysis of electricity markets, analyzing the tensions between microeconomics and political economy. The power industry is essential in our fight against climate change. This book is the first to examine in detail the microeconomics underlying ...

Industria 4.0

la transformación digital en la industria

Este libro explica qué es la transformación digital en la empresa y particularmente en la industria. A través de numerosos ejemplos basados en experiencias reales, trata desde diferentes puntos de vista los efectos de dicha transformación en las personas y las organizaciones. Será de gran ...

Coal

By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age—and it still does. Coal today generates more electricity worldwide than any other energy source, helping drive economic growth in major emerging markets. And yet continued reliance on ...

Industry 4.0 from the MIS perspective

Nowadays, an end-to-end industrial transformation called Industry 4.0 sets new goals for manufacturing and impacts on business outcomes. With some of its characteristic elements such as IoT (Internet of Things), digital twin simulation models, advanced robots, big data analytics, and virtual/augmented reality, Industry ...

Energy kingdoms

oil and political survival in the Persian Gulf

After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain-went from being among the world's poorest and most isolated places to some of its most ostentatiously wealthy. To maintain support, the ruling sheikhs ...

Renewable energy

a primer for the twenty-first century

From wood to coal to oil and gas, the sources of energy on which civilization depends have always changed as technology advances. Now renewables are overtaking fossil fuels, with wind and solar energy becoming cheaper and more competitive every year. Growth in renewable energy will ...

Modern energy market manipulation

As long as commodity and securities markets have been in operation, market manipulation has been a serious concern. Now that many electricity and natural gas markets have been opened to competition, manipulation threatens to destroy the value of these markets as well. Yet market manipulation ...

Análisis económicos del ciclo de la planificación hidrológica en España (2016-201)

Este libro estudia el tratamiento de los análisis económicos que los diferentes Planes Hidrológicos de II Ciclo elaborados en España han recogido en sus Memorias y documentos anexos. El lector podrá encontrar una síntesis de las metodologías, resultados y utilización de las diferentes herramientas, que ...

Gobernanza para un sistema energético sostenible

En la época de los combustibles fósiles dos cuestiones permiten distinguir el sistema energético presente de otros que han quedado en la historia. La primera es la posibilidad de agotamiento de las fuentes de energía, con el consiguiente efecto dislocador sobre las sociedades actuales. La ...

El perfume perfecto

un año dentro de la industria del perfume en París y Nueva York

¿Cómo se hace un perfume? El autor nos lo descubre de la mano de la actriz Sarah Jessica Parker y del perfumista de Hermès, Jean-Claude Ellena, en un trabajo de campo que revela el funcionamiento de la industria del perfume en París y Nueva York ...

Carbon

Carbon is the political challenge of our time. While critical to supporting life on earth, too much carbon threatens to destroy life as we know it, with rising sea levels, crippling droughts, searing heat waves, and catastrophic floods sounding the alarm on a future now ...

Burning up

a global history of fossil fuel consumption

Coal, gas and oil have been capitalism's main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burned in the last 50 years. Most alarming of all, fossil fuel consumption has grown fastest in the ...

The economics of cars

The automotive sector represents more than a simple industry. It embodies the economic and technological power of nations, the lifestyle and consumption patterns of societies, the dynamics of urban and territorial development, and acts as a national barometer of economic success and failure. This book ...

Desafios del Sector Energético

un enfoque sectorial

La presente obra recoge los trabajos presentados, y revisados por sus autores, al V Simposio Empresarial Internacional de la Fundación para la Sostenibilidad Energética y Ambiental (FUNSEAM), a cargo de destacados expertos del ámbito empresarial e institucional. El libro parte de un dibujo de los ...