This book provides a worldwide overview of island power systems, describing their main features and issues.

The Saemaul Undong movement was a community-driven development program of the Republic of Korea in the 1970s.

This book covers smart grids from A-Z, providing a complete treatment of the topic, covering both policy and technology, explaining the most recent innovations supporting its development, and clarifying how the smart grid can support the ...

... use of water in agriculture, and the diversification of water resources development. Following structural reforms in 2006, a heavily fragmented city and county approach to water-resources management was abandoned ... JEJU ISLAND, KOREA.

This book looks at SOEs in Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, and Viet Nam, which together present a panoramic view of SOEs in the region.

A new edition of the classic text explaining the fundamentals of competitive electricity marketsnow updated to reflect the evolution of these markets and the large scale deployment of generation from renewable energy sources The ...

The World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002 underscored the need to reform the current institutional framework for environmental governance.

The world's deserts are sufficiently large that, in theory, covering a fraction of their landmass with PV systems could generate many times the current primary global energy supply.

Alles Wissenswerte rund um Smart Grids, umfassend und interdisziplinär beschrieben von internationalen Experten aus Forschung und Praxis.