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This chapter focuses on the economic issues related to energy security concerns. Issues related to energy security have resurfaced in recent times due to concerns about fossil fuel depletion, threats to infrastructure and possibilities of disruption due to inadequate investments in infrastructure or market manipulation by market players. This has been strengthened by the recent high oil prices as well as periodic supply interruptions in certain parts of the world. This chapter explains the concept, the economic dimension of the problem and discusses the policies that can be taken to improve the situation.

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    This section relies on Leiby et al. (1997), Toman (1993), Markandya and Hunt (2004) and Huntington (2009).

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    This part is based on Percebois (1989).

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  1. Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral, Law and Policy, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

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Bhattacharyya, S.C. (2011). Energy Security Issues. In: Energy Economics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-268-1_20

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