Energy Landscapes and Climate Policy

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.