Overview
Provides an up-to-date discussion on major country initiatives in promoting low carbon energy systems under the framework of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)
Uses scenario settings, meta-policy analysis and stochastic varying coefficients gravity model in assessing the progress of national and regional actions on market and non-market fronts
Offers pragmatic policy programs to accelerate low-carbon green growth through regionally coordinated initiatives
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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An Evolutionary Analysis of Low-Carbon Energy Systems and Green Growth
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Transition Experiments and Innovation in Regional Cooperation
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Regional Economic Integration and Implications for Low-Carbon Green Growth
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kaliappa Kalirajan is a Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, Australia. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Madras School of Economics, India and International University of Japan. His areas of major interest include macroeconomic and trade policies, sources of growth, regional cooperation in low carbon energy systems, and technology issues in emerging Asian countries. He has 150 publications in those areas in refereed academic and policy journals. He has authored and edited 15 books. He is currently serving on the editorial board of the following journals: Journal of Asian Economics; Agricultural Economics; Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics; The Developing Economies; The Journal of Applied Economic Research; Journal of Social and Economic Development; and Asia and the Pacific Policies Studies. He has been a consultant to different national and international organizations from time to time.
Fukunari Kimura has been Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan since 2000 and Chief Economist, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) since 2008. He is also a co-editor of the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies. He was born in Tokyo in 1958 and received his Bachelor of Laws from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo in 1982, Master of Science and Ph.D. from the Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990 and 1991. He worked for the International Development Center of Japan as Researcher during 1982–1986, the Department of Economics, State University of New York at Albany as Assistant Professor during 1991–1994, and the Faculty of Economics, Keio University as Associate Professor during 1994–2000. He was also the President of Japan Society of International Economics during 2010–2012. His major is international trade and development economics. In particular, he has recently been active in writing academic/semi-academic books and articles on international production networks and economic integration in East Asia.
Xianbin Yao is the Director General of the Pacific Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Mr. Yao leads the department that formulates ADB’s operational strategies for the Pacific developing member countries, including economic analyses, policy analyses, and country performance reviews; and develops associated country operational programs for ADB assistance. Prior to this, Mr. Yao was the Director General for ADB’s Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, leading and coordinating the development and implementation of ADB’s financing and technical assistance programs on climate change, low carbon green growth and social development. Mr. Yao holds a doctoral degree from the Michigan State University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Investing in Low-Carbon Energy Systems
Book Subtitle: Implications for Regional Economic Cooperation
Editors: Venkatachalam Anbumozhi, Kaliappa Kalirajan, Fukunari Kimura, Xianbin Yao
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0761-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0760-6Published: 05 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9244-2Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0761-3Published: 22 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 496
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 98 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Economics, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Economic Growth, Renewable and Green Energy, Climate Change Management and Policy, Development Economics