Global warming and energy demand / edited by Terry Barker, Paul Ekins and Nick Johnstone ; foreword by Sir John Houghton.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [314]-326) and index.

List of figures vii List of tables x List of contributors xiii Foreword Sir John Houghton xv Preface xvi 1 Introduction Terry Barker Paul Ekins and Nick Johnstone 1 Part I Estimating long-term energy elasticities 2 Alternative approaches to estimating long-run energy demand elasticities An application to Asian developing countries M. Hashem Pesaran and Ron Smith 19 3 A survey of international energy elasticities Jago Atkinson and Neil Manning 47 4 Long-run demand lasticities for gasoline Mikael Franzen and Thomas Sterner 106 5 Responses of energy demand in UK manufacturing to the energy price increases of 1973 and 1979-80 Alan Ingham 121 6 Elasticities for OECD aggregate final energy demand Lakis Vouyoukas 159 7 Modelling UK energy demand Derek Hodgson and Keith Miller 72 Part TI Energy, the economy and greenhouse gas abatement 8 Endogenous technological progress in fossil fuel demand Laurence Boone, Stephen Hall, David Kemball-Cook and Clare Smith 191 9 UK energy price elasticities and their implications for long-term CO2 abatement Terry Barker 10 Price elasticity and market structure Overcoming obstacles to final demand energy efficiency Tim Jackson 254 11 Rethinking the use of energy elasticities Stefan P Schleicher 267 12 Revisiting the costs of CO abatement Paul 283 13 Asymmetrical price elasticities of energy demand Michael Grubb 305 14 Conclusions Terry Barker, Paul Ekins and Nick Johnstone 311 Bibliography