International Journal of Global Energy Issues (IJGEI)

Overview

Editor-in-Chief : Dr. M.A. Dorgham
Guest Editor : Professor Bent Sorensen

Since the 1970s attention has been focused on energy resources in the search for sustainable and environmentally non-destructive economic development. The confrontation of ecological limits to growth is not only a technological challenge. Economic, social and natural sciences must be brought together in new perspectives, responding to the concerns expressed worldwide for ecological, social, economic and political dimensions of sustainability. The IJGEI envisages the use of analytical tools and concepts coming from many different disciplines and fields of experience, including Energy Analysis, Ecological Economics, Systems Analysis applied to environmental and economic systems, Technology and Risk Assessment, Integrated Environmental Assessment, law, political studies and the human sciences. It will seek to establish an effective channel for communication between policymakers, government agencies, concerned citizens, consumer bodies, industry, public authorities and members of academic and research institutions.

Objectives

The journal was initiated in 1990 by UNESCO. It is currently published in 8 issues per year, by Inderscience Enterprises Limited and is produced with the cooperation of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (Energy division), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). It seeks to promote an innovative research agenda in support of international cooperation - including regional as well as global perspectives such as Europe, the Mediterranean, India, East Asia, the South Pacific, Latin America. Its interdisciplinary scope will support a wide reflection that can help decision makers and all citizens in the implementation of energy policies for sustainable development.

Readership

Professionals, academics, researchers, and managers

Subject coverage

• Renewable and non renewable energy resources
• The place of energy in economic development and environment policies
• Global limits to energy production
• Global market forces and world trade in the implementation of sustainable energy policies
• Fossil energy use and global environmental issues
• Nuclear energy technologies
• Nuclear safety and nuclear waste disposal issues
• Impact assessments of energy projects and energy policies
• Integrated Assessment of energy supply systems
• Household energy demand
• Transportation and mobility
• Transition countries and energy policies
• Energy conservation and energy efficiency in buildings
• Energy in agriculture
• Ecological economics analyses of energy systems for sustainability
• Entropic irreversibility, Second Law efficiency and exergy analysis
• Thermodynamic concepts in ecological-economics systems analyses
• Energy accounting and ' Greened' national accounts
• Data quality issues for modelling and policy evaluation
• Uncertainty and risk
• Moral, political and scientific foundations for public decisionmaking in the energy field
• Industrial ecology, business strategies and sustainable development
• Energy, environment and employment
• Energy options in climate policy
• Governance
• Geopolitics of energy resources
• Agenda 21 and public sector strategies for promoting sustainable development
• North-South knowledge exchange and capacity building
• Environmental education, public information and technical training.

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International Journal of Global Energy Issues (IJGEI is to be published in eight issues per year. ISSN 0954-7118

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