The book"Regional Approaches to the Energy Transition", discusses the key challenges the energy transition is facing at the European and International level. It is an edited collection gathering contributions from the experts in the field bringing together internationally renowned scholars, researchers, EU officials to address the current trends in the energy transition and its dilemmas. The book places the energy transition in a wide interdisciplinary context. It looks at energy policies, legal framework, regional strategies and the difficulties in their implementation. It argues for a regional approach to the energy transition, questioning at the same time the strategies and measures put forward for its realisation. The subject matter is topical, considering recent themes that occupy global and European political agendas. In a nutshell, the volume offers insights into regional regulations, public policies and local practices on the use of clean energy. It looks first at the EU commitment and its initiatives providing some examples from the Member States. Furthermore, it offers a comparative perspective and discusses the different approaches to the energy transition from Latin America, China, Africa and Australia. It covers a wide range of topics such as the EU renewable energy policies, Green Deal and regionalisation, energy auctions in the EU, environment in contemporary constitutionalism, Human Rights considerations, the Scandinavian perspective, practical examples from Italy and Spain. Moreover, it also considers the global context, looking at State and Market in China's coal-to-gas transition, tendencies of legal regulation in the sphere of renewable energy in Russia, the energy transition in Latin-American countries, regional approach to the energy transition and electricity access initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa, and transnationalism and the regional approach to the energy transition in Australia. The systematisation that this book offers and the exchange of good practices and experiences are useful tools for the key players to seriously engage with a just and sustainable energy transition. The proposed book is a reference and study material for academics and students, but also for the policy makers, officials and practitioners dealing with the energy transition. It provides some answers, potential solutions and alternatives to the main problems that the energy sector is facing worldwide.

Corporate rescue laws have long been recognized as a necessary alternative to liquidation. However, it is only in recent years that governments and virtually all major international economic interest groups have realised the important role that corporate rescue can play - not only in supporting businesses that are viable but experiencing temporary difficulties, but also in forestalling financial difficulties by requiring effective corporate governance processes, in resolving systemic financial crises, and in bolstering the economy. It is primarily to corporate rescue procedures and reforms adopted at the domestic level that this book is devoted. Individual chapters - each written by an expert or team of experts from the country under scrutiny - consider recent developments and prospects for the future in China, Cyprus, England and Wales, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, Spain, and the United States. These countries were chosen because they reflect different stages of development in corporate rescue laws. Some have mature systems in their second or third stages of revision; some have relatively antiquated systems that have been inherited from, or modelled on, the laws of another jurisdiction; and some are transitional economies where the concept of corporate rescue is comparatively new. A final chapter covers important issues stemming from conflict of laws and supranational models and guidelines. It emerges clearly from these reform processes that, while no single optimal set of corporate rescue laws can be devised, there is a clearly discemible global movement under way toward reform in the service of preserving economic value at the company level. In the meantime, however, it is also clear that insolvency practitioners and the courts will need to take the initiative in applying and testing new laws to ensure their ultimate effectiveness. For this reason - in addition to the book's great practical and legal academic value - "Corporate Rescue" is sure to be widely read and used as a basic text for many years to come.