Energy Structures and Environmental Futures

by Haugland, Torleif; Bergesen, Helge Ole; Roland, Kjell

• ISBN13: 9780198233602
• ISBN10: 0198233604
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book examines the history and prospects of the European energy sector for the last twenty-five and the next twenty-five years. The energy sector in Europe is faced with two challenges. On the one hand, economic integration and internationalization of markets, on the other the risks posedby climate change and the likelihood of further demands by consumers and governments to restructure the sector in line with a more environmentalist agenda. The authors' analysis is rooted in a careful examination of the factors that have shaped energy in Europa over the last twenty-five years, its regulatory systems, its corporate structure, and the role of energy and environmental policies. The book then examines how these might or might not betransformed in the light of intensified and accelerated economic and political integration in Europe or if the sector is faced with sustained pressure to restructure from the environmental lobby. The authors conclude that whatever major changes may be in the offing in the early twenty-first century, they will have to work through the structures of the twentieth century which are not going to yield easily either to economic internationalization or political environmentalism.

Author Biography

Torleif Haugland is Director of the Department for Energy and Environmental Studies at the ECON Centre for Economic Analysis in Oslo.
Helge Ole Bergesen is Senior Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, in Oslo.
Kjell Roland is Managing Director of ECON centre for economic analysis, Oslo Norway

Table of Contents

List of Figures	x	(4)
List of Tables	xiv	(1)
Abbreviations	xv
1. Introduction	1	(22)
Part I. Trends and Policies, 1970-1995	23	(168)
2. Energy Demand: Trends and Policies	23	(31)
3. Energy-Sector Developments: Oil	54	(18)
4. Energy-Sector Developments: Coal	72	(25)
5. Energy-Sector Developments: Natural Gas	97	(27)
6. Energy-Sector Developments: Electricity	124	(27)
7. Environment: Achievements and Challenges	151	(21)
8. The Role of International Policy Bodies	172	(19)
Part II. Future Developments, 1995-2020	191	(108)
9. Paths for Future Developments	191	(6)
10. National Rebound Scenario	197	(26)
11. Liberalization and Trade	223	(34)
12. Liberalization versus National Rebound	257	(12)
13. Environmental Futures	269	(30)
Annexes	299	(20)
References	319	(6)
Index	325