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9781559639118

Energy

Science, Policy, and the Pursuit of Sustainability
  • ISBN-13: 9781559639118
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
  • Edited by Lloyd Orr, Edited by Robert Bent, Edited by Randall Baker
  • Price: AUD $90.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/07/2002
  • Format: Paperback 280 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]
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In the early 2000s, energy prices have fluctuated wildly, from historic highs in the winter and spring of 2001 to the lowest wholesale prices in decades a few short months later. As the largest user of fossil-fuel energy, the United States is the key player in the world's energy markets, and our nation's energy policy (or lack thereof) has become a subject of increasing concern.Energy: Science, Policy, and the Pursuit of Sustainability is an essential primer on energy, society, and the environment. It offers an accessible introduction to the ""energy problem"" -- its definition, analysis, and policy implications. Current patterns of energy use are without question unsustainable over the long term, and our dependence on fossil fuels raises crucial questions of security and self-sufficiency. This volume addresses those questions by examining the three broad dimensions of the issue: physical, human, and political-economic. Chapters consider: the laws of nature and the impacts of energy use on our physical and ecological life-support systems the psychological, social, and cultural factors that determine how we use energy the role of government actions in adjusting costs, influencing resource consumption, and protecting the environment how markets work, and the reasons and cures for market failures in responding to long-term environmental and energy problems Energy links energy use with key environmental issues of population, consumption, and pollution and offers readers a range of material needed for an informed policy perspective.
Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgements
 
Introduction: The Energy-Environment Problem
Chapter 1. Rules of the Game \ Robert Bent, Andrew Bacher, and Ian Thomas
Chapter 2. Future World Energy Needs and Resources \ John Sheffield
Chapter 3. Environmental Impacts of Energy Use \ Russell Lee
Chapter 4. Culture and Energy Consumption \ Richard R. Wilk
Chapter 5. Energy Policy: The Problem of Public Perception \ Randall Baker
Chapter 6. Energy and Sustainable Economic Growth \ Lloyd Orr
Chapter 7. Protecting Future People: The Motivation Problem \ Norman S. Care
Conclusion
 
Appendices
About the Contributors
Index
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