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- Offers one of the first perspectives on the explicit role of oceans in providing sustainable energy security
- Brings together multidisciplinary aspects of energy security and sustainable energy and its linkages with the maritime domain
- Shares a mariners’ viewpoint on global energy sustainability and energy transition coupled with theoretical underpinnings
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Energy (LNEN, volume 68)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Concept of SES and Global Energy System
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Front Matter
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Energy Trade and Maritime Dynamics
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Oceans as Harbingers of SES
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Kapil Narula
About the author
Commander Kapil Narula, (Retd.), Ph.D.
Kapil Narula is an electrical engineer, development economist, and an energy and sustainability professional. His career goal is to “to provide a leadership role to the world, onto a path of sustainable development”. Kapil has a PhD in Development Studies (with a focus on energy economics and energy policy). His PhD studies were interdisciplinary in nature and integrated the subjects of engineering, economics, social sciences, earth sciences and statistics in a system of systems approach. He also has an advanced university degree in Electrical Engineering and a first level degree in Engineering and Science. Kapil is a certified energy auditor and has hands on experience in power generation and distribution.
He served the Indian Navy as an officer for 21 years where he worked onboard ships, as a faculty at academic institutes, and as a researcher. He has a rich experience in the energy and the maritime domain andwas a core member of the team which formulated the energy and environment roadmap for the Indian Navy. In the past Kapil has worked as a Research Fellow at a maritime think tank at New Delhi, India; at Project Drawdown Coalition, Sausalito, CA, United States; and at Earth System Governance Project, Lund University, Sweden. He is an affiliate of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and a MIT Climate Co-Lab Catalyst. Kapil has participated in various international programs organized by reputed institutes such as IIASA, Vienna (2011); UKERC, Coventry (2013); Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico (2015), IEA, Paris (2016), IASS, Potsdam (2016) and was a Commonwealth Professional Fellow at UCL, London (2016). Kapil currently works as a Senior Researcher at the Chair for Energy Efficiency, Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE) at University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Kapil is the co-editor/co-author of six books on maritime issues and his papers have appeared inEnergy, Energy Policy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Applied Energy (Elsevier), Strategic Analysis (Routledge), Oxford Energy Forum, and in other international and online forums. He was the executive editor of the journal ‘Maritime Affairs’ published biannually by Taylor & Francis for three years and is a reviewer of many energy journals.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Maritime Dimension of Sustainable Energy Security
Authors: Kapil Narula
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Energy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1589-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-1588-6Published: 22 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4652-1Published: 23 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-1589-3Published: 21 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2195-1284
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 212
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations
Topics: Offshore Engineering, Energy Security, Maritime Economics, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Transportation, Energy Policy, Economics and Management