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This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associa

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Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy Multidisciplinary Methods and Tools for a Low Carbon Society

Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy

Haris Doukas • Alexandros Flamos • Jenny Lieu Editors

Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy Multidisciplinary Methods and Tools for a Low Carbon Society

Editors Haris Doukas Electrical & Computer Engineering National Technical University of Athens Athens, Greece

Alexandros Flamos Industrial Management and Technology University of Piraeus Piraeus, Greece

Jenny Lieu Science Policy Research Unit University of Sussex Brighton, UK

ISBN 978-3-030-03151-0 ISBN 978-3-030-03152-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03152-7

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Foreword

A dozen years ago I participated in a workshop organised by the University of Graz, Austria. The workshop took place in a castle near Graz, Schloss Seggau, which since 1218 has been home to the Catholic bishop for that region. While I have forgotten most of what was discussed at the workshop itself, one moment has stuck in my mind ever since. I was walking through the castle and found myself in the bis