List of contributors ........................................... ix
Introduction .................................................... 1
Ibon Galarraga and Mikel Gonzalez-Eguino
PART I SUSTAINABLE USE OF ENERGY
1 The sustainability of 'sustainable' energy use: historical
evidence on the relationship between economic growth and
renewable energy ............................................. 9
Roger Fouquet
2 Sustainability criteria for energy resources and
technologies ................................................ 21
Geoffrey P. Hammond and Craig I. Jones
3 Economic growth, energy consumption and climate policy ...... 47
M. Carmen Gallastegui, Alberto Ansuategi, Marta Escapa
and Sabah Abdullah
4 The linkages between energy efficiency and security of
energy supply in Europe ..................................... 60
Andrea Bigano, Ramon Arigoni Ortiz, Anil Markandya,
Emanuela Menichetti and Roberta Pierfederici
5 Governing a low carbon energy transition: lessons from UK
and Dutch approaches ........................................ 84
Timothy J. Foxon
PART II ENERGY AND ECONOMICS
6 How energy works: gas and electricity markets in Europe ..... 99
Monica Bonacina, Anna Creti and Susanna Dorigoni
7 Transmission and distribution networks for a sustainable
electricity supply ......................................... 116
Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga, Tomás Gómez, Luis Olmos and Michel
Rivier
8 Energy-economic-environmental models: a survey ............. 132
Renato Rodrigues, Antonio G. Gómez-Plana and Mikel
González-Eguino
9 Energy supply and the sustainability of endogenous growth .. 161
Karen Pittel and Dirk Rübbelke
10 Consumer behavior and the use of sustainable energy ........ 181
Reinhard Madlener and Marjolein J.W. Harmsen-van Hout
PART III RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY
11 Multicriteria diversity analysis: theory, method and an
illustrative application ................................... 213
Go Yoshizawa, Andy Stirling and Tatsujiro Suzuki
12 Review of the world and European renewable energy
resource potentials ........................................ 244
Helena Cabal, Maryse Labriet and Yolanda Lechón
13 The cost of renewable energy: past and future .............. 270
Kirsten Halsnces and Kenneth Karlsson
14 Valuing efficiency gains in EU coal-based power
generation ................................................. 285
Luis Maria Abadie and José Manuel Chamorro
15 Energy use in the transport sector: ways to improve
efficiency ................................................. 314
Kenneth Button
PART IV OTHER ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES
16 Nuclear power in the twenty-first century .................. 331
Geoffrey P. Hammond
17 Carbon capture technology: status and future prospects ..... 357
Edward John Anthony and Paul S. Fennell
18 Environmental, economic and policy aspects of biofuels ..... 375
Peter B.R. Hazell and Martin Evans
PART V ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICY
19 The European carbon market (2005-07): banking, pricing
and risk-hedging strategies ................................ 395
Julien Chevallier
20 The Clean Development Mechanism: a stepping stone towards
world carbon markets? ...................................... 415
Julien Chevallier
21 Second-best instruments for energy and climate policy ...... 441
Xavier Labandeira and Pedro Linares
22 Addressing fields of rationality: a policy for reducing
household energy consumption? .............................. 452
Hege Westskog, Tanja Winther and Einar Strumse
23 The role of R&D+i in the energy sector ..................... 470
Alessandro Lanza and Elena Verdolini
PART VI OTHER DIMENSIONS OF ENERGY
24 Energy and poverty: the perspective of poor countries ...... 505
Rob Bailis
25 The role of regions in the energy sector: past and
future ..................................................... 538
Thomas Reisz
26 California's energy-related greenhouse gas emissions
reduction policies ......................................... 555
David R. Heres and C.-Y. Cynthia Lin
27 Regional experiences: the past, present and future of the
energy policy in the Basque region ......................... 573
Jose Ignacio Hormaeche, Ibon Galarraga and Jose Luis
Saenz de Ormijana
Epilogue ...................................................... 593
Anil Markandya
Index ......................................................... 595
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