Global Challenges of Climate Change, Vol.2

This second volume on risks assessment and the political and social dimension of the green energy transition is structured into 14 chapters. International renowned scholars discuss the inherent risks that arise in consequence of the transition to the intensive use of low carbon energy sources and global warming, risks related to food and water security, as well as risks of social and political conflicts. They further examine the dependence on individual countries'' industrial structures and on their socio-economic development level as challenges to climate change solutions and to the global energy policy agenda.