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Renewable Energy A Global Review of Technologies, Policies and Markets

By: Dirk Assmann(Editor), Ulrich Laumanns(Editor), Dieter Uh(Editor)
320 pages, illustrations, maps, tables
Publisher: Earthscan
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About this book

This book presents a comprehensive review of renewable energy from world authorities in the field. It provides detailed, thematic coverage, including policy recommendations and best practice examples. From technology to financing issues, Renewable Energy: A Global Review of Technologies, Policies and Markets offers a comprehensive and authoritative review of the determining factors that drive worldwide dissemination of renewable energy technologies. With a clear emphasis on policy and action, contributions from internationally-renowned experts combine to form a holistic picture on the current status, impacts and future potential of renewable energy. Addressing the situation in both developing and developed countries, each chapter reviews in detail a different issue, thereby presenting extensive information on social, environmental, political, economic and technological aspects.

Contents

- Introduction

Part I - Basics
- The Case for Renewable Energies
- The Potentials of Renewable Energy
- Renewable Energy for Transport

Part II - Policies
- National Policy Instruments: Policy Lessons for the Advancement and Diffusion of Renewable Energy Technologies around the World
- Renewable Energy and Regulation of Energy Markets
- Removing Subsidies: Levelling the Playing Field for Renewable Energy Technologies
- International Institutional Arrangements in Support of Renewable Energy

Part III - Financing
- Mobilizing Finance for Renewable Energies
- Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation: New Instruments for Financing Renewable Energy Technologies

Part IV - Developing Countries
- Putting Development First: The Role of Renewable Energy in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
- Traditional Biomass Energy: Improving Its Use and Moving to Modern Energy Use
- Gender Equity and Renewable Energies

Part V - Capacities
- Research and Development: The Basis for Widespread Employment of Renewable Energies
- Capacity Development for Renewable Energies: Know-how, Information, Awareness, Education and Training

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Biography

Dirk Assmann, Ulrich Laumanns and Dieter Uh are affiliated with Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Germany.

By: Dirk Assmann(Editor), Ulrich Laumanns(Editor), Dieter Uh(Editor)
320 pages, illustrations, maps, tables
Publisher: Earthscan
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"Offers knowledge and inspiration to promote renewable energy in developing and industrialized countries."
– Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of UNEP

"This wide-ranging review is an impressive attempt to provide an insight into the current state of renewable energy, and the potential that such offer for the future."
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"This book has it all [...] The contributions covering environmental, technological, and economic aspects will be indispensible to energy professionals and university researchers alike."
– Andrew Walker, Resource: A New Perspective on Waste, March-April 2007

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