Renewable Energy

'offers knowledge and inspiration to promote renewable energy in developing and industrialized countries' Klaus Toepfer Executive Director of UNEP From technology to financing issues Renewable Energy offers a comprehensive and authoritative review of the determining factors that drive worldwide dissemination of renewable energy technologies. With a clear emphasis on policy and action contributions from internationally renowned experts combine to form a holistic picture of the current status impacts and future potential of renewable energy. Addressing the situation in both developing and developed countries each chapter reviews in detail a different issue to present extensive information on social environmental political economic and technological aspects. This will be essential reading for professionals in renewable energy in particular policy-makers researchers NGOs and energy consultants and a valuable resource for teachers and students of renewable energy environmental studies development studies political science and international relations.