Energy and Economic Growth : Why We Need a New Pathway to Prosperity (Paperback)

Part I: Key issues

1. Introduction ? Challenges of climate change and economic growth.

2. What is energy and why is it important for the economy?

3. Assessing the role of energy in long-term industrial change.

Part II: Long waves of energy-industrial change

4. Pre-industrial energy systems.

5. The first industrial revolution ? water and steam power.

6. Electrification and the rise of oil.

7. Rise of the consumer society.

8. Energy and economic growth ? a positive feedback system.

9. Insights for a low carbon energy transformation.

10. Future energy pathways and issues.

11. Economic growth and beyond.

12. Can we rise to the challenge?