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Energy security: challenges and needs
Author(s) -
Sovacool Benjamin K.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
wiley interdisciplinary reviews: energy and environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.158
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 2041-840X
pISSN - 2041-8396
DOI - 10.1002/wene.13
Subject(s) - energy security , energy policy , business , energy (signal processing) , climate change , environmental economics , environmental security , environmental planning , natural resource economics , environmental resource management , economics , political science , engineering , renewable energy , environmental science , ecology , statistics , mathematics , law , electrical engineering , biology
This review article describes four broad categories of emerging global energy security threats. After defining energy security, it discusses threats related to the availability of energy resources and fuels, the affordability of the services they provide, the efficiency of their use, and the effective management of their negative environmental and social impacts, notably climate change. It concludes by noting how the energy security of many industrialized and developing countries has eroded over the past few decades and proposes potential areas of future research. This article is categorized under: Energy Infrastructure > Economics and Policy Energy Policy and Planning > Economics and Policy