This grad text is about energy and other resources, and the technologies that have been and are being developed to exploit them; to understand how the global energy system is developing, and how it might in the future.

Introduction ; 1. The Global Energy Context ; 2. Energy Systems and Innovation ; 3. Deepening Globalization: Economies, Trade, and Energy Systems ; 4. The Global Climate Change Regime ; 5. The Implications of Indirect Emissions for Climate and Energy Policy ; 6. Energy production and Ecosystem Services ; 7. Technical, Economic, Social, and Cultural Perspectives on Energy Demand ; 8. Energy Access and Development in the 21st Century ; 9. Improving Efficiency in Buildings: Conventional and Alternative Approaches ; 10. Challenges and Options for Sustainable Travel: Mobility, Motorisation, and Vehicle Technologies ; 11. Shipping and Aviation ; 12. Carbon Capture and Storage ; 13. Fossil Fuels: Reserves, Costs Curves, Production, and Consumption ; 14. Unconventional Fossil Fuels and Technological Change ; 15. The Geopolitical Economy of a Globalizing Gas Market ; 16. Nuclear Power after Fukushima: Prospects and Implications ; 17. Bioenergy Resources ; 18. Solar Energy: An Untapped Growing Potential? ; 19. Water: Ocean Energy and Hydro ; 20. Global Wind Power Developments and Prospects ; 21. Network Infrastructure and Energy Storage for Low-Carbon Energy Systems ; 22. Metals for the Low-Carbon Energy System ; 23. Electricity Markets and their Regulatory Systems for a Sustainable Future ; 24. Global Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction ; 25. Energy and Ecosystem Service Impacts ; 26. Policies and Conclusions

A comprehensive and clear account of the full range of energy issues, options, and choices Addresses the crucial question of what energy sources to use and how to ensure their availability Enables the reader to understand important issues in current affairs Examines the critical economic, social, political, and cultural issues that will determine which technologies are deployed Reviews the policies countries can use in order to influence the way their energy systems develop

Paul Ekins has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of London and is Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy and Director of the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London. He is also Deputy Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, in charge of its Energy Resources and Vectors theme. He was a Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution from 2002-2008. Paul Ekins' academic work focuses on the conditions and policies for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy, concerning which he has written numerous books, papers and articles, including Global Warming and Energy Demand (co-Ed., Routledge, 1995), Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: the Prospects for Green Growth (Routledge, London, 2000), Carbon-Energy Taxation: Lessons from Europe (co-Ed, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009), and Energy 2050: the Transition to a Secure, Low-Carbon Energy System for the UK (co-Ed, Earthscan, London, 2011). Mike Bradshaw joined Warwick Business as Professor of Global Energy in January 2014, where he teaches a course on their Global Energy MBA entitled Energy in Global Politics. Prior to that he spent 13 years at the University of Leicester as Professor of Human Geography. He has a PhD in Human Geography from the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research deals with the geopolitical economy of oil and gas, with a particular emphasis on developments in Russia. He has recently completed a project funded by the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) that examined the Geopolitical Economy of Global Gas Security and Governance and its implications for the UK. He is also involved in both UK-based and EU-wide research programmes on the social science aspects of shale gas development. In 2014 Polity Press published his book: Global Energy Dilemmas. He is currently writing a book on the geopolitics of natural gas. Jim Watson is Research Director of the UK Energy Research Centre and Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Sussex. He was Director of the Sussex Energy Group at Sussex from Dec 2008 to Jan 2013. He has 20 years of research experience on climate change, energy and innovation policies. His recent outputs include a co-edited book: New Challenges in Energy Security: The UK in a multipolar world (Palgrave, 2013). He has advised several UK government departments, and has been a specialist adviser to two House of Commons select committees. He also has extensive international experience, particularly in China. He is a Council Member of the British Institute for Energy Economics, and a member of the advisory boards of several research and policy organisations.

A comprehensive and clear account of the full range of energy issues, options, and choices Addresses the crucial question of what energy sources to use and how to ensure their availability Enables the reader to understand important issues in current affairs Examines the critical economic, social, political, and cultural issues that will determine which technologies are deployed Reviews the policies countries can use in order to influence the way their energy systems develop