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Revisiting the Energy-Development Link

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Economics Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20732-2

ISBN: 978-3-319-20731-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Dec 13, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Bithas, Kostas; Kalimeris, Panos

Pages: 1 –4

[Twitter increased its turnover by 110 % between 2013 and 2014. Facebook revenue for 2014 was $12.47 billion, marking an increase of 58 % in only a year.]
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Chapter 2A Brief History of Energy Use in Human Societies

Bithas, Kostas; Kalimeris, Panos

Pages: 5 –10

[Energy has always been among the most essential resources that endorses the progress, evolution and prosperity of human societies. This chapter aspires to provide a brief overview of historical evolution of energy use by human beings, from the discovery of fire and the agricultural revolution,...
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Chapter 3Defining the Energy Resources

Bithas, Kostas; Kalimeris, Panos

Pages: 11 –15

[What is energy? This chapter endeavors to answer the anterior question by providing definitions of energy from the viewpoint of physics, and discusses the various forms that energy takes so as to serve the human needs. The issue of energy aggregation is of paramount importance for comparing and...
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Chapter 4Exploring the Energy-Economy Link

Bithas, Kostas; Kalimeris, Panos

Pages: 17 –22

[Energy emerges as an indispensable input in the production process and the economy depends on energy resources. The evaluation of the intensity of this dependency is a crucial analytical problem which attracted the interest of scientists early on. Recently developed datasets permitted the...
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Chapter 5Re-evaluating Energy Intensity: A New Methodological Framework

Bithas, Kostas; Kalimeris, Panos

Pages: 23 –37

[This chapter delineates an alternative framework for the empirical evaluation of the link between energy and growth. The fundamental principle is that the outcome of the economic system can only be seen at the human scale. The economy produces goods that provide economic welfare to human beings....
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Chapter 6Empirical Analysis

Bithas, Kostas; Kalimeris, Panos

Pages: 39 –71

[The Energy Intensities of 22 countries as well as the global economy are estimated on the basis of the framework proposed in Chap. 5. The estimates are compared with those based on the prevailing framework as presented in Chap. 4. The differences are essential and imply completely different...
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Chapter 7Discussion and Conclusions

Bithas, Kostas; Kalimeris, Panos

Pages: 73 –82

[The fundamentally different trajectories of the Energy Intensities, as estimated by the proposed and the prevailing framework, are discussed and explanations are provided. Grouping economies according to their Energy Intensities may provide a basis for delineating those characteristics that may...

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