Books in the Cambridge Energy and Environment Series series

This 1987 book looks in detail at the production and consumption trends, the pattern of international trade, the coal market in the major regions, and at how public policy influenced the development of coal. It also examines the likely future trends, and draws conclusions for policy towards coal.

This 1993 book follows the rise and decline of OPEC monopoly power in the crude market, and shows how growth in the international oil business has almost ceased since the late seventies, exploring the reasons behind this slowdown.

This book sets out to explore the realities of nuclear power using as its basis the detailed and exhaustive evaluation of the programmes in the USA, Canada, France and the Federal Republic of Germany. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in nuclear power and its organisation.

This book presents a hierarchical modelling scheme intended to support energy planning and policy analysis in developing countries. The authors examine the spreadsheet models, optimization models, and linear planning models which energy planners use, drawing illustrative case material from a number of countries throughout.

With world energy consumption accelerating, and demand growing, particularly in developing countries, it is more important than ever to shape energy use in a sustainable direction. This book, first published in 1992, provides clear data and analysis which will be vital to the energy research community.

This book examines the history of OPEC, and the political and economic events that have shaped the organisation and the world economy since its creation in 1960. It covers the background to its establishment, its struggle to find a role, and the way it revolutionised attitudes within the oil industry.

The signing of a Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro ended two years of intense and dramatic negotiation. This book is a collective, eye-witness reconstruction of the negotiations, reflecting the perspectives of the principal interest-groups involved.