BOOKS
May 2009
Acting in Time on Energy Policy
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
Energy policy is on everyone's mind these days. The U.S. presidential campaign focused on energy independence and exploration ("Drill, baby, drill!"), climate change, alternative fuels, even nuclear energy. But there is a serious problem endemic to America's energy challenges. Policymakers tend to do just enough to satisfy political demands but not enough to solve the real problems, and they wait too long to act. The resulting policies are overly reactive, enacted once damage is already done, and they are too often incomplete, incoherent, and ineffectual. Given the gravity of current economic, geopolitical, and environmental concerns, this is more unacceptable than ever. This important volume details this problem, making clear the unfortunate results of such short-sighted thinking, and it proposes measures to overcome this counterproductive tendency.
December 2006
Advances in Energy Research (AER - 2006) : Proceedings of the 1st National Conference on Advances in Energy Research
Proceedings of the 1st National Conference on Advances in Energy Research held on December 4–5, 2006 sponsored by the Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
August 2006
The World Energy Book
Section 1 : Contents and World Overview
Section 2 : North America
Section 3 : Latin America and the Caribbean
Section 4 : Energy Statistics; Electricity usage per capita; Coal and Electricity usage per capita; Oil and Gas usage per capita; Coal, Electricity, Oil and Gas output
May 2006
China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
In China Shifts Gears, Kelly Sims Gallagher identifies an unprecedented opportunity for China to "shift gears" and avoid the usual problems associated with the automobile industry while spurring economic development.
October 2005
Global Challenges: Furthering The Multilateral Process for Sustainable Development
Taking a uniquely broad outlook and interdisciplinary approach, this book examines the challenges facing the global policy process for sustainable development as it continues beyond Johannesburg into the future.
2005
Energy & Security: Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy
For more than a century, energy and its procurement have been central to the U.S. position as a world power.
July 2005
Industrial Transformation: Environmental Policy Innovation in the United States and Europe
By Theo de Bruijn and Vicki Norberg-Bohm
Industrial Transformation evaluates the effectiveness of twelve innovative, voluntary, collaborative, and information-based programs, focusing particularly on the effectiveness of these programs in bringing about industrial transformation — changes in production and consumption structures that will help move their societies toward environmental sustainability.
