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Energy Policy for the Global South

  • Book

  • January 2025
  • Region: Global
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 5987038
Energy Policy for the Global South addresses the significant need for resources tackling the considerable challenges in gaining access to sustainable, clean, and affordable energy for countries in the global south. It takes a multidisciplinary, practical approach with perspectives from a diverse range of countries across both research and industry, to provide a practical guide to developing policy solutions in both middle- and low-income countries. This book covers a wide variety of policy for renewable and sustainable energy sources, including solar, hydro-, wind, geothermal, marine, and hydrogen energy, evaluating policies based on both source and relevant geographic, economic, and political contexts.

The book includes demonstrations of economic analysis for strategies including demand-side management, energy storage, and capacity-building. A wide selection of reliable data is provided to evidence recommended policy approaches and support the reader in developing policy frameworks of their own.

Table of Contents

1. Energy Sustainability: Concepts and Application in the Energy Sector
2. Prospects of Green Electricity in South Asian Developing Countries: a Sustainable Solution?
3. Environmental, Social, and Economic Impacts of Green Energy Sources
4. Applications of Solar Energy for Enhanced Sustainable Development
5. Hydro Energy: Fundamentals and its Role in Achieving Energy Sustainability
6. Wind Energy and its Link to Sustainability in the Global South
7. Substituting Solar Energy with Renewable Biomass for Electricity Production: Short-term Sustainable Pathway
8. Waste-to-energy: a Potential Renewable Source for Future Electricity Generation
9. Geothermal Energy in Malaysia: the Renewable-Nonrenewable Dilemma
10. Ocean Renewable Energy and its Prospects for Bangladesh
11. Hydrogen Energy: Potential in the Global South
12. The Role of Demand-side Management in Sustainable Energy Sector Development
13. The Role of Energy Storage Technologies for Sustainability in Brazil
14. Climate Change, Sustainability, and Renewable Energy in Developing Economies

Authors

Gagan Sharma Professor in Management, University School of Management Studies, GGS Indraprastha University, India.

Gagan Sharma currently works as a Professor in Management in the University School of Management Studies at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India. Prof. Sharma has over twenty years of academic experience. His editorial experience covers 'Resources Policy', 'Venture Capital', 'Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy', etc. He has published more than 70 papers with more than 3000 citations. His current areas of research interest include sustainable and holistic development, green finance, neuro-finance, and the economics of happiness.

Umer Shahzad Associate Professor, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, China.

Umer Shahzad currently works as an Associate Professor at the Anhui University of Finance and Economics, China. His research interests include energy finance, energy economics and sustainability. Prof. Shahzad's current research is focused on environmental aspects of energy, complexity and international trade. He has authored research articles in some of the top-notch journals such as Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Business Strategy and Environment, the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, the Journal of Environmental Management, the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Current Issues in Tourism, Energy, Resources Policy, the Journal of Cleaner Production, and Science of the total Environment.