Energy Transformation towards Sustainability

Professor Manuela Tvaronaviciene is Director of the Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Department of Enterprise Economics and Management, Lithuania. Her subject focus is energy economics, particularly the areas of overconfidence, risk aversion, and asset markets. She conducts research in energy security and long-term energy efficiency. Dr Beata Slusarczyk is Associate Professor of Management at Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland. She conducts research across energy economics.

1. Introduction 2. Economic growth and sustainable development: complementary or conflicting goals? 3. Energy consumption 4. Statistical relationship between energy consumption and sustainability 5. Energy consumption and income distribution. International policies for mitigating social exclusion 6. What does energy security mean? 7. Energy stewardship and waste management 8. International good practices and solutions in the area of energy stewardship 9. Social responsibility, role of social marketing and attitudes of society 10. Small business and energy efficiency 11. International companies and energy 12. Leadership towards energy efficiency 13. Compatibility of internationalization of companies with energy stewardship goals 14. Policy for green energy 15. Lessons Learned