Impacto macroeconómico de la inversión en infraestructuras de transporte eléctrico

El estudio, elaborado por los profesores de la Universidad de Zaragoza Luis Pérez y Pérez, Jaime Sanaú Villarroya e Isabel Sanz Villarroya, se estructura en dos apartados. En el primero se revisa el papel de las infraestructuras; la evolución del sector y la política energética ...

Análisis de viabilidad económico-financiero de un proyecto de energías renovables

El objetivo del presente libro es recordar conceptos básicos en el análisis de sistemas eléctricos de potencia, con especial interés en lo referente a los sistemas de generación de energía eléctrica. Trata de dar respuesta a las necesidades de los estudiantes de los diversos másteres ...

Oil panic and the global crisis

predictions and myths

Is the world running out of oil? This book analyzes predictions of global oil depletion in the context of science, history, and economics. There has been continuing alarm about the imminent exhaustion of earth's non-renewable resources. Yet, the world has never run out of ...

Greed to green

living climate change and remaking the economy

This book shows how we can solve the climate change crisis, which is the greatest threat humanity has faced. Charles Derber, a prominent sociologist and political economist, shows that global warming is a symptom of deep pathologies in global capitalism. In conversational and passionate writing ...

Oil, dollars, debt, and crises

the global curse of black gold

Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises studies the causes of the current oil and global financial crisis and shows how America's and the world's growing dependence on oil has created a repeating pattern of banking, currency, and energy-price crises. Unlike other books on the ...

Challenged by carbon

the oil industry and climate change

Is there a low-carbon future for the oil industry? Faced with compelling new geological evidence, the petroleum industry can no longer ignore the consequences of climate change brought on by consumption of its products. Yet the global community will continue to burn fossil fuels as ...

Wind power

Climate change caused by burning fossil fuels and escalating fossil fuel prices make the further rapid development of renewable energy sources a global imperative. Energy provided by wind power, though no panacea, has the potential to make a substantial contribution to meeting electricity needs in ...

Nucleares, ¿por qué no?

cómo afrontar el futuro de la energía

ANTE LA creciente escasez de petróleo y las dudas que suscitan las nuevas fuentes de energía «limpia», vuelven a ponerse sobre la mesa los pros y los contras de la energía nuclear. Los intereses políticos en una u otra dirección, la alargada sombra del accidente ...

Entretenimiento en la televisión española

historia, industria y mercado

En este libro se aborda la producción de programas de entretenimiento en la televisión española desde una triple perspectiva: en primer lugar, Enrique Guerrero realiza un repaso histórico de más de medio siglo a través de los títulos más populares; a continuación, analiza la industria ...

Realidad económica del sector nuclear español

un análisis empírico de la Central Nuclear de Almaraz

Coord. Juan A. Vega Cervera. La Central Nuclear de Almaraz (CNA) tiene en el presente año 2010 un impacto en el Producto Interior Bruto (PIB) regional cifrado en 53,8 millones de euros y genera 1.102 puestos de trabajo, por lo que su desaparición ...

Beyond smoke and mirrors

climate change and energy in the 21st Century

Global climate change is one of the most important issues humanity faces today. This book assesses the sensible, senseless and biased proposals for averting the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions on switching to more sustainable energy ...

The future of energy use

Following the success of its predecessor, this second edition of "The Future of Energy Use" provides essential analysis of the use of different forms of energy and their environmental and social impacts. It examines conventional, nuclear and renewable sources and technologies, using relevant case studies ...

Global energy governance in a multipolar world

Multipolar governance permits a number of important states to have significantly more economic and political clout than others, but among them there is hardly any hierarchy. The new energy challenge, with its intricate socio-economic, ecological and international-political considerations, is a multi-dimensional, multi-level and multi-actor issue ...

Energy security

economics, politics, strategies, and implications

Eds. Carlos Pascual, Jonathan Elkind. Energy security has become a top priority issue for the United States and countries around the globe, but what does the term 'energy security' really mean? For many it is assuring the safe supply and transport of energy as a ...

Técnicas para la elaboración de auditorías energéticas en el sector industrial

La eficiencia energética constituye, junto con las energías renovables, un potencial importante para mitigar los efectos negativos del consumo energético, inducidos tanto por el crecimiento económico como por la transformación de las sociedades hacia modelos más intensivos en energía. En este volumen se realiza una ...

Global energy governance

the new rules of the game

The global market for oil and gas resources is rapidly changing. Three major trends - the rise of new consumers, the increasing influence of state players, and concerns about climate change - are combining to challenge existing regulatory structures, many of which have been in place for ...

Energía nuclear

En la energía nuclear suele darse el fenómeno que se designa en inglés con el acrónimo NIMBY (#Not in my back yard#) y que algunos traducen al español como SPAN (#Sí, pero aquí no#), es decir, que muchos ciudadanos no la verían mal, siempre que ...

Innovation, intellectual property, and economic growth

What drives innovation? How does it contribute to the growth of firms, industries, and economies? And do intellectual property rights help or hurt innovation and growth? Uniquely combining microeconomics, macroeconomics, and theory with empirical analysis drawn from the United States and Europe, this book introduces ...

The hidden energy crisis

how policies are failing the world's poor

Over two billion people worldwide are without access to clean, modern energy, which leads to drudgery, ill health and sometimes death. Although a lack of adequate energy affects people's health and well- being, as well as their productive and educational capacities, addressing this deficit ...

Power hungry

the myths of "green" energy and the real fuels of the future

In this title, the author of "Gusher of Lies" examines the hard facts of supply and demand to underscore the vast quantities of power we need, and how little of that horsepower can come from 'renewable' sources - and then shows that the US has vast ...