Energy Security: Managing Risk in a Dynamic Legal and Regulatory Environment

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Barry Barton
Oxford University Press, 2004 - Business & Economics - 490 pages
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.
 

Contents

Barry Barton Catherine Redgwell
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International Energy Security
17
Energy Security and the Development of International Energy Markets
47
Shared Competences and MultiFaceted ConceptsEuropean Legal
85
Regional and National Frameworks for Energy Security in Africa
121
Energy Security in
145
Canadas Voluntary MarketBased Approach to Energy Security
171
Sectoral analysis of energy security issues
361
Merger of energy companies regularity and continuity of supply
366
Energy planning
367
Security of supply and international interconnections
370
Intervention in energy company activities
372
Energy Security in New Zealand
373
Energy policy
375
coal oil gas hydro geothermal new renewables
377

Energy Security and Energy Sovereignty in Mexico
203
So Much Energy Such Little Security
217
Energy Security as Denmarks HeavyHanded Regulation Loosens
253
A Balancing
279
Security of Supply in Liberalized Energy Sectors A
307
The Case of Germany
337
Energy security as an element of most urgent public concern from a constitutional law perspective the Oil Stock Obligation case 1971
338
Security of supply in German energy lawthe twotier approach
339
The strategic energy situation in Germany with regard to the medium and longterm availability of energy
340
Energy securityoriented emergency legislation
343
Instruments of functional energy security in German energy law
345
Energy security as a public policy balancing factor primarily in antitrust law
348
Conclusions
353
The Case of Spain
355
Methodological premises
358
Coal
379
Electricity
381
Conclusion
389
National Energy Security and Regional Cooperation
391
Overview of Singapores energy sources and consumption
393
Historical overview of Singapores oil trade electricity generation and gas market
396
Energy security policies
398
Energy security cooperation in ASEAN
409
Conclusion
412
Appendix
425
Why We Should Not Allow Energy Security
431
Energy Security in the TwentyFirst Century
457
Index
473
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About the author (2004)

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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