Energy Landscapes and Climate Policy

Introduction to policy and geographic dimensions of energy resources, landscapes and systems, including fossil, nuclear and renewable energy; energy security, and related risks for different energy technologies; environmental impacts, including CO2-emissions from energy production; climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, comparison of energy and climate policy regimes and institutions, energy transformation and negotiation processes.

• Fundamentals of Energy Systems and Landscapes
• Coal and the Industrial Revolution: History, Geography, Technology and Risk
• Oil, Natural Gas and Energy Security Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change
• Technology, Risks and Control of Nuclear Energy
• Renewable Energy: Hydropower and Bioenergy
• Renewable Energy: Wind, Solar and Other Sources
• Climate Policy: Mitigation and Cooperation 
• Climate Policy: Adaptation and Geoengineering 
• Emission Scenarios and Sustainable Energy Transformation

Provide an understanding of the key factors, mechanisms and institutions in geographic and policy aspects of energy and climate change on local, national and international levels.

BSc in any field relevant to the topic of this class.

Grover, V.I. (ed.) (2008): Global Warming and Climate Change: Ten Years After Kyoto and Still Counting, Science Publishers (2 Vol).

IPCC (2011): Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN), IPCC, Geneva.

Khanna, M., Scheffran, J. & Zilberman, D. (eds.) (2010): Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy, Berlin, Springer Verlag.

Singer E.C. (2008): Energy and International War. From Babylon to Baghdad and Beyond, World Scientific Series on Energy and Resource Economics – Vol.6; World Scientific Publishing. Related lecture notes can be found here.

Additional literature will be announced in class.