European Energy and Climate Security

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Enhancing European Energy and Climate Security: Eastern Strategic Partners, Unconventional Sources and Public Policies

   • Rossella Bardazzi, Maria Grazia Pazienza, Alberto Tonini

   Pages 1-9

3. EU and Eastern Energy Partners: Some Key Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. The EEC Commission and European Energy Policy: A Historical Appraisal

      • Alberto Tonini

      Pages 13-35

   3. A Link of Steel. The Western Europe-Russia Gas Pipeline Network in the Post-Soviet Era

      • Matteo Verda

      Pages 37-63

   4. Turkey as an Energy Hub for Europe

      • Nurşin Ateşoğlu Güney

      Pages 65-80

   5. Russia’s Oil Dilemmas. Production: To Go North-East or to Go Deep? Exports: Is a Compromise Between Westward and Eastward Directions Possible?

      • Valeriy A. Kryukov

      Pages 81-109

4. Unconventional Hydrocarbons: New Patterns and Impacts on Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Game Changer: Industrial Impacts of the Shale Gas Revolution in the U.S.

      • Douglas S. Meade

      Pages 113-131

   3. Shale Fuels: The Solution to the Energy Conundrum?

      • Virginia Di Nino, Ivan Faiella

      Pages 133-153

   4. Does the Trade-off Between Energy Security and Climate Change Protection Matter? The Canadian Tar Sands Case

      • Laura Castellucci

      Pages 155-182

5. Public Policies as a Tool to Strengthen European Energy and Climate Security

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Rationales for a Revisited European Energy Technology Policy

      • Sophia Ruester

      Pages 185-202

   3. German Energiewende - quo vadis?

      • Ulrike Lehr, Christian Lutz

      Pages 203-232

   4. Taxing Energy Use: Patterns and Incoherencies in Energy Taxation in Europe and the OECD

      • Michelle Harding, Chiara Martini, Alastair Thomas

      Pages 233-264

   5. Public Policies and the Energy Mix in Italy: Where Do We Stand?

      • Rossella Bardazzi, Maria Grazia Pazienza

      Pages 265-297

​As energy is becoming one of the crucial concerns in the EU, this volume provides an in-depth analysis and interdisciplinary perspective on European energy security. Given the multidimensional nature of energy security in terms of physical availability, affordability and geopolitical security, it brings together authors from different backgrounds pursuing a distinctly multidisciplinary approach. The authors' different perspectives correspond to the three sections of the book: international relations, which focuses on Eastern EU partners; energy economics, which highlights the current unconventional hydrocarbons revolution and its impact on EU energy and climate strategies; and public policy, which analyzes EU policies in the context.

• Climate Change Policy
• EU Energy Policy
• Energy Economics
• Energy Security
• European Energy Security Agenda
• Unconventional Hydrocarbons

• Management, University of Florence Department of Economics and, Florence, Italy

  Rossella Bardazzi, Maria Grazia Pazienza

• Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

  Alberto Tonini

Rossella Bardazzi is currently associate professor of Macroeconomics at the School of Political Sciences “Cesare Alfieri”, Department of Economics and Management of the University of Florence, Italy. Her research is in multisectoral macroeconomic modelling in the areas of indirect taxation, household consumption, and environmental policies. More recently, her research interests lie in microsimulation modelling for enterprises, energy policies and green taxes. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Siena, Italy.

Maria Grazia Pazienza is currently associate professor of Public Finance at the School of Political Sciences “Cesare Alfieri”, Department of Economics and Management of the University of Florence, Italy. Her research interests include economic effects of taxation (mainly corporate and environmental taxes), environmental economics and behavioural approaches for designing public policies. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Siena, Italy.

Alberto Tonini is associate professor in the Department of Political and Social Science, University of Florence, Italy. His research interests include Energy Diplomacy, European Energy Security, Euro-Mediterranean Politics. Dr. Tonini's articles have been published in The Review of International Affairs, Guerres Mondiales et Conflits Contemporaines, Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali. Dr. Tonini is currently member of the board of SeSaMO, Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies, and of the board of ICCT, International Center for Contemporary Turkish Studies. Since 2011 Dr. Tonini serves as president of the Forum for the Problems of Peace and War.

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