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Author : Roger Karapin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107074392
This book examines the causes of effective climate policies in the US, through statistical analysis and three longitudinal case studies.
Author : Walter Leal Filho,Diogo Guedes Vidal,Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis,Ricardo Cunha Dias
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030863043
This book aims to give a contribution to a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary understanding of the cross-cutting issues on energy, environment and health research topics in the current world scenario, where nations all over the world are struggling to accomplish the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and to ensure sustainable patterns for all. This interdisciplinary implies a commitment between all fields of science, working together to provide knowledge that could result in the promotion of quality of life. At the present, it is evident that not all people benefit from sustainable policies and practices and the communication between health, energy, environmental and social problems is undeniable. A call for different views could be a pathway attracting universities, stakeholders, organizations and civil society to deeply discuss how one solution does not fit all societies. Few publications are coherently handling this matter. This book is expected to fill this gap and to develop an interest in a larger audience working in general sustainable development and cross-cutting issues. This book is produced by the European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR). It gives special emphasis to state-of-the-art descriptions of approaches, methods, initiatives and projects from universities, stakeholders, organizations and civil society across the world, regarding cross-cutting issues in energy, environment and health research.
Author : Laurance R. Geri,David E. McNabb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351568296
In an effort to provide greater awareness of the necessary policy decisions facing our elected and appointed officials, Energy Policy in the U.S.: Politics, Challenges, and Prospects for Change presents an overview of important energy policies and the policy process in the United States, including their history, goals, methods of action, and consequences. In the first half of the book, the authors frame the energy policy issue by reviewing U.S. energy policy history, identifying the policy-making players, and illuminating the costs, benefits, and economic and political realities of currently competing policy alternatives. The book examines the stakeholders and their attempts to influence energy policy and addresses the role of supply and demand on the national commitment to energy conservation and the development of alternative energy sources. The latter half of the book delves into specific energy policy strategies, including economic and regulatory options, and factors that influence energy policies, such as the importance of international cooperation. Renewed interest in various renewable and nontraditional energy resources—for example, hydrogen, nuclear fusion, biomass, and tide motion—is examined, and policy agendas are explored in view of scientific, economic, regulatory, production, and environmental constraints. This book provides excellent insight into the complex task of creating a comprehensive energy policy and its importance in the continued availability of energy to power our way of life and economy while protecting our environment and national security.
Author : John Byrne,Daniel Rich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1560005734
This latest volume in the Energy Policy Studies series focuses on important interconnections between energy use and global change issues such as upper atmosphere ozone depletion and global warming. Policy options for meeting these challenges are explored in eight contributed chapters that concentrat
Author : Douglas Macdonald
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9781487524906
Why has Canada been unable to achieve any of its climate change targets? Part of the reason is that emissions in two provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, have been steadily increasing as a result of expanding oil and gas production. Declining emissions in other provinces, such as Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, have been cancelled out by those western increases. The ultimate explanation for Canadian failure lies in the differing energy interests of the western and eastern provinces. How can Ottawa possibly get all the provinces moving in the same direction of decreasing emissions? To answer this question, Douglas Macdonald explores the five attempts to date to put in place co-ordinated national policy in the fields of energy and climate change - from Pierre Trudeau's ill-fated National Energy Program to Justin Trudeau's bitterly contested Pan-Canadian program - analyzing and comparing them for the first time.
Author : Ashok Swain,Joakim Öjendal,Anders Jägerskog
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789900668
This comprehensive Handbook tackles the increasingly urgent problem of the impact of climate change on conflict and human security. It analyses the ways in which scarcity of resources leads to food, water and health insecurities, resulting in population migration. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars, chapters cover how these contribute globally to societal insecurity and violent conflict in a growing number of regions.
Author : Allan R. Hoffman
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780409641
'We are experiencing the beginning of an energy revolution in these early years of the 21st century.' Water, Energy, and Environment - A Primer provides an introduction to, and explanation of, this revolution.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,National Materials Advisory Board
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309075626
This book details the forum that was held by the National Materials Advisory Board at the National Academy of Sciences. The purpose of this forum was to bring the importance of materials to the attention of policy makers and to promote interactions between policy makers and the materials community. Four key themes were addressed: the critical role of materials in advancing technology and enhancing the nation's economy, security, and health, industrial and societal needs that will require materials development in the new millennium. Materials research areas with the greatest potential for meeting those needs, and federal and industrial research initiatives that can help the materials community meet those needs. To help focus this discussion, special sessions were convened to address the current and future roles of materials in four selected areas: information technology, health and biotechnology, national security, and energy and the environment.
Author : John M. Fowler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : OCLC:500627064
Author : Mark A. Cohen,Don Fullerton,Robert H. Topel
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781783470273
Governments around the globe have begun to implement various actions to limit carbon emissions and so, combat climate change. This book brings together some of the leading scholars in environmental and climate economics to examine the distributional consequences of policies that are designed to reduce these carbon emissions. Whether through a carbon tax, cap-and-trade system or other mechanisms, most proposals to reduce carbon emissions include some kind of carbon pricing system Ð shifting the costs of emissions onto polluters and providing an incentive to find the least costly methods of abatement. This standard efficiency justification for pricing carbon also has important distributional consequences Ð a problem that is often ignored by economists while being a major focus of attention in the political arena. Leading scholars in environmental and climate economics take up these issues to examine such questions as: Will the costs fall on current or future generations? Will they fall on the rich, poor, middle class, or on everyone proportionally? Which countries will benefit, and which will suffer? Students and scholars interested in climate change, along with policy makers, will find this lively volume an invaluable addition to the quest for information on this globally important issue.
Author : Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0920380301
Author : Hassan Qudrat-Ullah,Muhammad Asif
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030435776
The book addresses the vital and interwoven areas of energy, environment, and the economy within the field of sustainability research. Fundamental technical details, empirical data, and case studies taking into account local and international perspectives are included. Issues such as energy security, depleting fossil fuel reserves, global warming and climate change, as well as novel energy technologies are covered. The dynamic global response will be discussed from the perspective of policy, technology, and economics. Vital details in the form of text boxes, illustrations, graphs, tables and appendices are included. The book will serve as reference book for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, academics, policy makers, NGOs and developmental sector professionals within the field.
Author : Shalanda Baker
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642830675
In September 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, completely upending the energy grid of the small island. The nearly year-long power outage that followed vividly shows how the new climate reality intersects with race and access to energy. The island is home to brown and black US citizens who lack the political power of those living in the continental US. As the world continues to warm and storms like Maria become more commonplace, it is critical that we rethink our current energy system to enable reliable, locally produced, and locally controlled energy without replicating the current structures of power and control. In Revolutionary Power, Shalanda Baker arms those made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to remake the system in the service of their humanity. She argues that people of color, poor people, and indigenous people must engage in the creation of the new energy system in order to upend the unequal power dynamics of the current system. Revolutionary Power is a playbook for the energy transformation complete with a step-by-step analysis of the key energy policy areas that are ripe for intervention. Baker tells the stories of those who have been left behind in our current system and those who are working to be architects of a more just system. She draws from her experience as an energy-justice advocate, a lawyer, and a queer woman of color to inspire activists working to build our new energy system. Climate change will force us to rethink the way we generate and distribute energy and regulate the system. But how much are we willing to change the system? This unique moment in history provides an unprecedented opening for a deeper transformation of the energy system, and thus, an opportunity to transform society. Revolutionary Power shows us how.
Author : University of Oklahoma. Science and Public Policy Program
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : UOM:39015095244912
Author : Mark Jaccard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1139449052
More and more people believe we must quickly wean ourselves from fossil fuels - oil, natural gas and coal - to save the planet from environmental catastrophe, wars and economic collapse. In this 2006 book, Professor Jaccard argues that this view is misguided. We have the technological capability to use fossil fuels without emitting climate-threatening greenhouse gases or other pollutants. The transition from conventional oil and gas to their unconventional sources including coal for producing electricity, hydrogen and cleaner-burning fuels will decrease energy dependence on politically unstable regions. In addition, our vast fossil fuel resources will be the cheapest source of clean energy for the next century and perhaps longer, which is critical for the economic and social development of the world's poorer countries. By buying time for increasing energy efficiency, developing renewable energy technologies and making nuclear power more attractive, fossil fuels will play a key role in humanity's quest for a sustainable energy system.
