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Energy Futures, Human Values, And Lifestyles: A New Look At The Energy Crisis

Autor Richard C Carlson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 apr 2019
The contours of our energy future are most clearly presented as hard and painful choices. We can, for instance, maintain–perhaps even greatly improve–our current living standards, but at tremendous cost to our environment and to our physical and human resources. Alternatively, we can opt for a more humane society and in many ways a richer life with
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367018825
ISBN-10: 0367018829
Pagini: 204
Dimensiuni: 152 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Also of Interest -- Introduction -- Alternative Energy Futures for California -- Scenario Construction -- Scenario Analysis: Global and National Contexts -- Scenario Analysis: Societal Activities -- Scenario Analysis: Energy Use -- Scenario Analysis: Environmental Impacts -- Implications: Directions and Choices -- Using Scenarios in Energy Policy Decisions -- Energy Policy Implications of the California Scenarios -- Postlude -- Recent Energy Demand Estimates -- Technical Tables -- Desirable Characteristics of Energy Decision Making -- Components of the Composite Criteria

Notă biografică

Richard C. Carlson is a senior economist in SRI International's International Development Center and was chief coordinator of the project on which this book is based.
Willis W. Harman is a senior social scientist in the SRI International Development Center, a professor of engineering and economic systems at Stanford University, and a regent of the University of California; he is author of An Incomplete Guide to the Future.
Peter Schwartz was director of the SRI Strategic Environment Center and chief coordinator of futures research at SRI. Working with them on the book were Sidney J. Everett (SRI Center for Resource and Environmental Systems Studies); Klaus W. Krause, Thomas F. Mandel, Lynn Rosener, and Thomas C. Thomas (SRI Strategic Environment Center); Paul C. Meagher (SRI Energy Center); and Stephen Levy (Center for the Continuing Study of the California Economy).

Descriere

Looking beyond the vast technical difficulties of the energy crisis, this book seeks the basic reasons for the severity of our energy and environmental problems–and finds them in our individual choices of lifestyle. The authors depict two detailed energy-use scenarios for the year 2050, using California as a model.