TY  - BOOK
AU  - Colombo,Emanuela
AU  - Bologna,Stefano
AU  - Masera,Diego
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Renewable Energy for Unleashing Sustainable Development: Blending Technology, Finance and Policy in Low and Middle Income Economies 
SN  - 9783319002842
AV  - TJ807-830 
U1  - 621.042 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Energy
KW  - Renewable energy resources
KW  - Energy policy
KW  - Energy and state
KW  - Renewable energy sources
KW  - Alternate energy sources
KW  - Green energy industries
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Renewable and Green Energy
KW  - Energy Policy, Economics and Management
KW  - Sustainable Development
N1  - Renewable Energies to Promote Local Development -- Global Dimension of Universal Access to Energy -- Modern Energies Services for Cooking: from Improved Cook-Stoves to Domestic and Community Biogas Based Systems -- Distributed Generation for Access to Electricity: ‘‘Off-Main-Grid’’ Systems from Home-Based to Microgrid -- Grid Connected Systems for Access to Electricity: From Microgrid to Grid Extension -- Technologies for Power Generation in Rural Contexts -- End Use Application: The Case of Solar Thermal Systems -- Energy and Sustainable Economic Development -- Financing Energy Access -- Integrating the Social Dimension into New Business Models for Energy Access -- Enabling Environment for Promoting Energy as an Income Opportunity -- Energy Policy Design for Low and Middle Income Countries: From Best Practices to ‘Next’ Practices -- The Vision of Public Donors -- The Contribution of Civil Society -- The Role of Academia for Sustainable Development -- The Mandate of the Association of Producers -- The Contribution of Multinational Companies: Eni Corporate, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility -- The Enabling Electricity Programme: Enel Vision and the Role of Enel Foundation
N2  - The book analyzes energy technologies, business models and policies to promote sustainable development. It proposes a set of recommendations for further activities and networking on access to energy and renewable energies and promotes an integrated approach to sustainable resource management. The book discusses access to energy, as a precondition for socio-economic progress. It depicts the global dimension of the challenge in terms of access to electricity and other forms of energy in developing countries. The three main interlinked topics related to energy and sustainable growth are separately discussed: appropriate technologies for modern energy services, business models for the development of new energy markets, and policies to support new energy systems. The description of activities and programmes of some public and private Italian stakeholders is also included
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00284-2
ER  -