Geopolitical Strategies for Renewable Energy Access, Development, and Growth
Jan 2026 · Elsevier
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Geopolitical Strategies for Renewable Energy Access, Development, and Growth offers a thorough and unified structure for understanding and navigating the interconnections between renewable energy technology, energy planning, energy security, climate change mitigation, economic development, environmental sustainability, and global geopolitical dynamics. The book aims to address potential obstacles and to explore the advantages for those involved in advancing or implementing the shift towards renewable energy sources. This is supported by extensive case studies from across the globe, emphasizing effective approaches and obstacles encountered in the shift towards renewable energy. The book also analyzes present-day patterns, potential obstacles, and promising opportunities to present seven scenarios that could build a coherent geopolitical trajectory towards worldwide availability of renewable energy technology. The scenarios include political economics, resource curse, dependency scenario, modernization scenario, environmental Kuznets curve, innovation diffusion scenario, and institutional framework scenario. This is a valuable resource for all those looking to understand the geopolitical complexities of energy transition and the possible inter-disciplinary ways forward to advance renewable energy, including advanced students, researchers, faculty, engineers, R&D, industry professionals, and policy makers. - Explains the complex interplay between technology, geopolitics, policy, and economics in the renewable energy sector - Provides ideas on how to negotiate intricate geopolitical processes and promotes further collaboration towards energy transition - Draws on a range of case studies to illustrate different approaches, challenges, and solutions - Presents several scenarios as possibilities for coherent geopolitical progress towards renewable energy
About the author
Dr. Paul C. Okonkwo is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at Dhofar University in Salalah, Oman. His research focuses on renewable energy and on exploring innovative solutions that address the pressing challenges of sustainable development. With wide-ranging experience in environmental engineering, corrosion, failure analysis, tribology, and renewable energy, Dr. Okonkwo has taught at universities and conducted research projects across the Middle East, Africa, and Australia. He has published 12 conference papers, 8 book chapters, and over 70 research articles in internationally recognized journals, as well as speaking at major conferences and working on significant grant-funded research projects. Dr. Okonkwo was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Qatar University (Qatar) and Deakin University (Australia), and was previously awarded the UNESCO/CHINA: The Great Wall Fellowship Award as a Senior Research Scholar.
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