Textbook
Systems Modelling for Energy PolicyISBN: 978-0-471-95794-2
Hardcover
250 pages
July 1997, ©1997
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Energy is a sector where there has always been a serious modelling
tradition, but with the worldwide trend away from planned economies
to new market structures, the risk, uncertainties and competitive
aspects which need to be incorporated pose new challenges to
analyse strategic as well as economic behaviour. Systems Modelling
for Energy Policy addresses the strong and apparently
countervailing themes dominating energy policy in the current
decade:
- concerns about global warming have stimulated an intense and methodologically diverse level of analytical activity aimed ultimately at greater international co-ordination in policy and planning
- simultaneously we are witnessing a worldwide trend away from planned national energy policies to new market structures