V.1. A-C -- v.2. C-F -- v.3. G-P -- v.4. R-Z Index.
"This book demonstrates that energy-rich vegetation, biomass, is a key renewable energy resource for the future. However, bioenergy still faces many barriers stemming from economic, institutional and some technical factors. These are explored in this comprehensive and accessible…
Petroleum is now so deeply entrenched in our economy, our politics, and our personal expectations that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail by the most powerful forces in the world: companies and governments that depend on oil revenues; the developing na…
International energy law is an elusive but important concept. There is no body of law called 'international energy law', nor is there any universally accepted definition for it, yet many specialised areas of international law have a direct relationship with energy policy. The Re…
As the world's energy system faces a period of unprecedented change, a global struggle over who controls the sectorùand for what purposesùis intensifying. The question of "green capitalism" is now unavoidable, for capitalist planners and anti-capitalist struggles alike. From all…
There are no technofixes. Neither 'clean' energy nor 'green' capitalism will preserve our lands, rivers, oceans, health, and lives. Neither governments nor corporations nor 'the market' can bring us out of the netherworld they themselves have created. Mother Earth calls to the g…
One of the most eminent commentators on the vexed issue of oil and gas reserves makes his case that the supply position is secure for the medium term, and in doing so rebuts the doomsters who claim that imminent world oil and gas supply shortages presage a major world crisis; in…