Energy and Development

This book explores the complex relationship between energy and development and discusses the core issues and concepts surrounding this growing area of research and policy. In the field of energy and development, the world faces two major challenges: 1. Providing energy access to the one billion people world-wide who do not have access to electricity and 2. Achieving socio-economic development while limiting global atmospheric temperature increases to two degrees Celsius. Taking stock of progress, Frauke Urban explores the key issues surrounding these goals and addresses the policy responses aimed at ending energy poverty and achieving sustainable development. She outlines various options for delivering energy access, analyses past and prospective energy transitions and examines the social, environmental, economic and technological implications of these possibilities. Taking a holistic and multi-disciplinary approach, and containing useful teaching resources, Energy and Development provides a comprehensive overview of this complex field of study. This book will be a great resource for postgraduate and undergraduate students, scholars, practitioners and policy-makers working in the fields of energy studies, international development, environmental studies, industrial engineering, as well as social sciences that relate to energy and development.