The Energy Economy Practical Insight to Public Policy and Current Affairs [Hardcover]

Prolonged economic downturn is forcing policy makers and professors to examine how to improve economic development. State and regional governments are therefore moving from public sector-led strategies to private sector-led strategies to enact substantial business-friendly policy reforms. This view of growing economic development sparks interest among public policy, public administration, urban planning, and other academic programs to teach about how America goes about implementing economic development strategies at the state and local level.The Energy Economy is a public policy and current affairs focused economics book targeted toward a public policy and current affairs audience. It offers practical and topical discussions about the most important economic issue of current times: energy.1. Energy Led Economic Development
2. Economic Development and Energy Policy
3. Energy Supply and Demand
4. Energy Led Economic Development Case Study
5. Energy Conservation and Efficiency
6. Energy as Critical Infrastructure
7. Land Use and Energy Led Economic Development
8. Building an Urban Energy Center
9. Building a Green Economy
10. Shale Energy Revolution

Robinson's text embraces the notion that competitive, reliable, safe and diverse energy helped make the United States a global manufacturing power; it provides a guide to retaining and strengthening this advantage by building a regional energy sector to drive innovation that is of the utmost importance to every state and city and to our overall economic development competitiveness. - Kenny McDonald, President, Columbus 2020, USA

America is enjoying the 'Age of Energy' as regions and states are growing through energy development in ways not seen in over 100 years. Robinson's The Energy Economy captures how communities big and small are utilizing an energy-led economic development strategy l£‹