Climate change and declining fossil fuel reserves make the current energy economy unsustainable. Rapidly developing nations aspire to the modern energy economy, yet more than half the world's population still lacks access to energy. This volume explores how the law can impede or advance the shift to a significantly different world energy picture.

PART 1: SCOPING AND OVERVIEW; PART 2: INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES; PART 3: SECTORAL PERSPECTIVES AND TECHNOLOGY-BASED APPROACHES; PART 4: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES; PART 5: PULLING THE THREADS TOGETHER: AN OVERVIEW OF THE CHALLENGES FOR LAW OF MOVING BEYOND A CARBON ECONOMY

` This reviewer can recommend this book without reservations to students, academics and policy makers alike.' Javier de Cendra de Larragan, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 2009 `There is much to be admired in this volume. Few edited collections are willing, much less able, to bring together contributors from around the world (inter alia China, Africa, South America, Mexico, USA and Australia)...the book's excellent parts are such that the volume will deserve to be on library shelves and specialists' desks.' Navraj Singh Ghaleigh, Journal of Environmental Law 21:3, 2009 `Arguably there are few issues as pertinent, complex and cross-cutting as the current global energy situation.. there are too few books around which analyse these globally significant issues in any depth. [This] is a balanced, honest appraisal of many of the key challenges and issues...Importantly, it neither provides just a green gloss...nor does it hide the reality that the vast majority of the world need energy and carbon-sources will continue to be one of the easiest means by which that can be provided...If you are prepared to engage with the broader debate and openly accept that "one size doesn't fit all" - as the book argues - this is an edited collection that is well worth keeping in mind. ' Duncan French, University of Sheffield; Environmental Liability `This welcome volume makes a wide-ranging and interesting contribution to scholarly endeavours in the field of Energy Law, with particular reference to the challenges of developing the energy system beyond its current heavy reliance upon (hydro)carbon fuels and the role that the law can play in facilitating (as well as hindering) this transition...further work from the various authors in this field is eagerly awaited' Angus Johnston, University of Cambridge, Web Journal of Current Issues

Explores topical controversies over alternative energy sources including nuclear power, and over sustainability and environmental concern versus energy supply in the developing world Regional, sectoral and technology-based analysis, and a wide variety of national perspectives demonstrate how the law can impede or advance the shift to a significantly different world energy picture Examines the roles of public international law and international legal bodies, regional legal structures and major international nongovernmental actors

Catherine Redgwell is Professor of International Law and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Laws at University College London. Don Zillman is Godfrey Professor of Law at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Professor Yinka Omorogbe is Head of the Department of Public and International Law at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Lila K. Barrera-Hernández is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Explores topical controversies over alternative energy sources including nuclear power, and over sustainability and environmental concern versus energy supply in the developing world Regional, sectoral and technology-based analysis, and a wide variety of national perspectives demonstrate how the law can impede or advance the shift to a significantly different world energy picture Examines the roles of public international law and international legal bodies, regional legal structures and major international nongovernmental actors