Systems Modelling for Energy Policy Bunn Hardback John Wiley & Sons

Systems Modelling for Energy PolicyAuthor(s): Derek W. Bunn, Erik R. Larsen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc\nISBN-13: 9780471957942, 978-0471957942\nSynopsis\nEnergy 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: \n\nconcerns 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\nsimultaneously we are witnessing a worldwide trend away from planned national energy policies to new market stru.