دانلود کتاب جهانی شدن و انتقال انرژی در آمریکای لاتین و کارائیب

The process of renewable energy transition followed the same trend as the globalisation process, where according to IEA (2018) the installed capac¬ity of renewable energy from biomass, hydropower, solar, photovoltaic, wind, wave, and waste in a million kilowatts was 12,935 (million kilo¬watts) in 1989 and reached a value of 38,648 (million kilowatts) in 2014. Indeed, the increase in renewable energy exerts a positive effect on the environment by reducing carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) from the con¬sumption of fossil fuels that are responsible for environmental degrada¬tion, global warming, and climate change (Fuinhas et al., 2021; Koengkan et al., 2019d).
The evidence that the renewable energy transition followed the same trend of the globalisation process in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region, as mentioned before, motivated the investigation of the central question of this book: Is the process of the renewable energy tran¬sition in the LAC countries influenced positively by globalisation? In the literature, the effect of globalisation on renewable energy transition remains underexplored. Koengkan et al. (2019a) point out that the cur¬rent literature has focused on understanding the influence or effect of globalisation on a specific industry or national level and has left aside the way in which globalisation impacts progress in renewable energy. The glo¬balisation literature includes a diversity of sub-topics: economics, energy, culture, social relations, politics, migration, and technology (Overland, 2016). However, the specific topic of renewable energy is missing in the globalisation literature (Koengkan et al., 2019a).
There is also a lack of studies on this topic in the energy economics literature, although the conclusions about the link between energy and globalisation are not recent (Koengkan et al., 2019a). Indeed, Sovacool (2014), with their seminal work, investigated the state of the art of energy studies and recognised that there is a gap in the literature about the rela¬tionship between globalisation and renewable energy. As mentioned by Overland (2016), the existing literature about energy and globalisation is vast. However, few studies exist in the literature that specifically approach globalisation and renewable energy transition.