New York University
School of Continuing and Professional Studies
M.S. Program in Global Affairs
Energy Policy , Y45.2400
Summer 2010
May 19, 2010
INSTRUCTOR: Chris Gadomski
http://www.smidirect.net/nyu
OFFICE HOURS: Wednesdays by appointment
OFFICE PHONE:914.993.9060
E-mail:gadomski@nyu.edu
REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS
This course surveys the historical, political, economic, legal and environmental factors of energy policy on the international scale. The course will focus on identifying the most pressing energy policy issues like energy security, climate change and global warming, as well as analyze the various technology options such as renewable energy, nuclear power, hydrogen, liquified natural gas, and coal gasification for countries to adopt environmentally sensitive sustainable development policies.
Please
note that the following is a preliminary list subject to additions and deletions
until the first day of class. All books are available online at Amazon. Click
on link below to go directly to Amazon.
Required
• Robert Baer, Sleeping With The Devil, (New York: Crown Publishers, 2003)
• Paul Roberts, The End of Oil, (New York: First Mariner Books, 2004)
• Robert Bryce, Power Hungary, (New York: Public Affairs, 2010) ISBN 9781586487898
Choose one of the following:
• Sherry Boschert, Plug-in Hybrids, (New Society Publishers, 2006)
• Tom Zoellner, Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World, ISBN-13: 9780670020645
• Christopher Horner, Power Grab, (Washington, DC:Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2010) ISBN 9781596985995
Suggested/Supplementary
• Thomas Casten, Turning Off The Heat, (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 1998) ISBN 1-57392-269-2
• Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat, (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005) ISBN 0-374-29288-4
• Malcom Grimston and Peter Beck, Double or Quits? The Future of Civil Nuclear Energy, (London: Earthscan/James & James Press, 2002) ISBN 1853839132
• Howard Geller, Energy Revolution, (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003) ISBN 1-55963-965-2
• Steven Ferry with Anil Cabraal, Renewable Power in Developing Countries: Winning the War on Global Warming, (Tulsa: Pennwell, 2001) ISBN 1-59370-050-4
• Paul Komor, Renewable Energy Policy, (Lincoln, NE: IUniverse, 2004)
• Vito Stagliano, A Policy of Discontent, (Tulsa: Pennwell, 2001) ISBN, 0-87814-817 5q
• Jeremy Rifkin, The Hydrogen Economy, (New York: The Penquin Group, 2002) ISBN 1-58542-254-1
• Sonia Labatt and Rodney White, Carbon Finance, (Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007) ISBN 978-0471-79467-7
• Daniel Yergin, The Prize, (New York: Free Press, 1993) ISBN 0671799320
• Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, The Commanding Heights, (New York: Simon & Shuster, 1998) ISBN 068482975
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