Global Energy Assessment: Towards a Sustainable Future
Books and resources
Article Type: Books and resources From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 24, Issue 3.
Cambridge University PressCambridgeOctober 20121882 pp.ISBN 9781107005198,£150.00
The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) is a culmination of a five-year initiative to assess the global energy challenges of our rapidly changing world. The GEA identifies the urgent need for a sustained and comprehensive strategy to resolve the issues facing sustainable development, including poverty eradication, climate change mitigation, health, energy security and energy access.
The GEA's unique approach involved broad and integrated analyses to identify comprehensive solutions to our global energy challenges. In its publication, the GEA identifies the major energy challenges and evaluates the energy resources and technological options available to build sustainable energy systems and combines components to create systems that enable a variety of sustainable futures. Finally, the options for policies and investments needed to make these future systems a reality are outlined.
The GEA is unprecedented in its ambition, complexity and scope and brings together diverse analytical perspectives from multiple disciplines and region to develop new knowledge and understanding of energy challenges. Involving more than 300 international experts from some 75 countries and an additional 200 independent reviewers, GEA is a extremely valuable resource for energy specialists in all sectors as well as policy makers, development economists,researchers, students, academicians and practitioners in international organizations and national governments.
