Energy in Africa Policy, Management and Sustainability
Bringing together conceptual, theoretical and evidence-based contributions from a diverse set of experts, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of energy in Africa, from a management perspective. Taking a closer look at the global energy environment
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Energy in Africa Policy, Management and Sustainability
Energy in Africa
Sola Adesola • Feargal Brennan Editors
Energy in Africa Policy, Management and Sustainability
Editors Sola Adesola Oxford Brookes Business School Oxford Brookes University Oxford, UK
Feargal Brennan University of Strathclyde Glasgow, UK
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Preface
The Origin of This Book This book was originally inspired by the first author’s senior academic colleague, Professor Glauco De Vita, with whom they both successfully supervised two PhD researchers to completion on local content policy and stakeholder analysis, and energy demands in Sub-Saharan Africa at Oxford Brookes University. Just after Professor De Vita left, he sowed a seed of encouragement into Sola Adesola to consider publishing a book; at that time, energy was never on the plan. The idea of a book then was on entrepreneurship in Africa. From mid-2016, however, Dr Adesola had been asked to be an international panel expert for the Nigeria Energy Forum, and a panel member at the Nigerian Society Energy Conference at Cranfield University. She also had the opportunity to peer review energy conference papers. Prior to the conference, she had an unforgettable opportunity to shar
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