Handbook of Energy Politics

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Assessing a rapidly changing landscape, this Handbook explores how the scope and complexity of energy politics increases constantly with the rise of new technologies, cyber security threats and environmental concerns. Starting with the fundamentals, the Handbook of Energy Politics covers the evolution of capital and financial markets in the energy industry, as well as assessing the effects of technology and environmental issues such as global warming and geopolitical tensions. It is shown that a lack of consensus on basic definitions and clear long-term goals on climate and energy are hampering the sector?s ability to invest in low-carbon growth. The importance of achieving and maintaining positive relationships for effective consultation and engagement with those directly affected by energy politics is emphasised, with a focus on factors critical for sustainable development. The authors also assess what we can learn from historical cases and the steps we can take to mitigate potential energy risks in the future. This Handbook will be an invaluable resource for upper level graduates and postgraduates of public policy and environmental politics. Policy makers, at state, regional and local levels will benefit from the suggestions for future developments. Contents List of contributors Foreword • Jennifer I. Considine and Mary Lashley Barcella Acknowledgements Introduction • Jennifer I. Considine PART I: THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE GLOBAL ENERGY INDUSTRY: THE SUPPLY SIDE 1 Environmental and Indigenous issues associated with natural gas development in British Columbia • Anna Vypovska, Laura Johnson, Dinara Millington and Allan Fogwill 2 Oil on the waters of RIC energy relations • Nina Poussenkova 3 Energy transition and natural gas development in China • Liu Xiaoli and Tian Lei 4 Institutions and the supply of oil • Douglas B. Reynolds 5 Low oil prices impact on Latin American non-conventionals • Alberto Cisneros Lavaller PART II: THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE GLOBAL ENERGY INDUSTRY: THE DEMAND SIDE 6 The role of Sino-Russian gas cooperation in China’s natural gas expansion • Keun-Wook Paik 7 Republic of Korea’s energy security conundrum: the problems of energy mix and energy diplomacy deadlock • Se Hyun Ahn 8 China’s evolving energy policy: the case of electricity • Philip Andrews-Speed and Sufang Zhang 9 Natural resource-led development in Sub-Saharan Africa: a role for local content and small, medium enterprises • Rene Roger Tissot PART III: MAIN INFLUENCES IN GEOPOLITICS 10 Will there ever be a post-oil era? • Mamdouh G. Salameh 11 The Oil Age • Colin J. Campb 12 New energy and the geopolitics of the future • Michael Lynch 13 The economic case for staged development and providing appropriate incentives for good behaviour in the context of ‘resource curse’ • Paul Stevens and Jennifer I. Considine PART IV: THE EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY, CAPITAL AND FINANCIAL MARKETS IN THE ENERGY INDUSTRY 14 Deepening green finance • Hazel Henderso 15 Middle East and Asia: the oil trade and pricing nexus • Tilak Doshi 16 The economics of the smart grid technological innovation • Luciano de Castro, Joisa Dutra and Vivian Figer PART V: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY 17 Policy risk, politics and low carbon energy • Geoffrey Wood 18 Governing the geopolitics of climate action after the Paris Agreement • Lara Lázaro-Touza Index