Preface

In current literature scholars, depending upon their field, do not always take a systemic, regional and comparative look at the energy and the natural environment issue. Doing this from a triple perspective framework can help different disciplines communicate and be helpful for managers, politicians, and stakeholders involved in the energy and the natural environment systems. The aim of this book is to highlight how systems in different areas of the world manage multiple relationships between the energy and the environment and the following political, economic, technologi -cal, social and communication implications. This book adopts a comparative and regional perspective to develop an understanding of how the energy and the environment interact and what kind of impacts and effects they have on different sec -tors and actors. Three areas and their possible connections will be presented: the regulation system, the facilitation policies, and the communication field. Therefore, this book sets out to explore the concept of sustainable systems with the aim to discuss, rather than to answer, the overall question of how it is possible, in a global world, for a system, to be environmental sustainable and energy efficient in a long term and how this impacts on the choices, strate -gies and behaviors of policy makers, decisions makers and citizens.The aim of this book is to suggest readers to investigate the subject of energy issues, environmental protection and community’s knowl -edge basing the analysis on a holistic, systemic, regional, and multi-disciplinary approach. It follows it becomes necessary and fundamental to study the relationships between all the components of each system, that means the political and management sides; the supply, sources and final consumption of energy; the existing relationships between all these components and the protection of the environment; technological implications; the role of and how knowledge is shared among all the actors of the system to create a more efficient and effective sustainable environment