Energy Security, 9780199271610
Hardcover
This volume examines energy security in a privatised, liberalized, and increasingly global energy market. Chapters offer a variety of international, regional, and national approaches to energy security, followed by analysis of the legal provisions relating to the main energy sectors. It also provide…

Energy Security

managing risk in a dynamic legal and regulatory environment

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  • Hardcover

    508 pages

  • Release Date

    25 March 2004

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Summary

This volume examines energy security in a privatized, liberalized, and increasingly global energy market, in which the concept of sustainability has developed together with a higher awareness of environmental issues, but where the potential for supply disruptions, price fluctuation, and threats to infrastructure safety must also be considered. Part I commences with an essential introductory chapter which defines energy security and sets forththe key issues and themes of the book. There then …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780199271610
ISBN-10:0199271615
Author:Barry Barton, Catherine Redgwell, Donald N. Zillman, Anita Rønne
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:508
Release Date:25 March 2004
Weight:917g
Dimensions:242mm x 164mm x 33mm
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Critics Review

`One of the functions of law is to take a concept, like energy security, and reduce it to its legally significant components. Many of the essays in Energy Security contibute to this process significantly… Energy Security has made a valuable contribution to the development of what could become a key concept for evaluating the health of the energy sector. This collection of essays provides the attorney or economist interested in energy security with much to consider… When someone undertakes such a treatise, Energy Security will provide an important starting point.’ James Chalker, Esquire, Pennsylvania USA

About The Author

Barry Barton

Professor Barry Barton is at the School of Law, University of Waikato. Catherine Redgwell is Professor of International Law at University College London Anita Rønne is Associate Professor in Energy Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. Donald N. Zillman is Godfrey Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law.

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