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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 September 1993
- ISBN 9780198584193
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages184 pages
- Size 196x129 mm
- Weight 213 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures 0
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Short description:
In this highly topical book, leading public figures set out the pros and cons of energy sources and discuss their environmental consequences. Heat, light, industrial production, transport - every government, in its energy policy, has to balance the competing claims of economic benefit, public opinion, and environmental impact. Special problems faced by the developing world, by the democracies in Central and Eastern Europe, and by the republics of the former Soviet
Union are considered. Readers will be able to form a balanced judgement in the direction which energy policies could or should take in order to maximize economic efficiency while minimizing the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and atmospheric pollution.
Long description:
Heat, light, industrial production, transport - every government, in its energy policy, has to balance the competing claims of economic benefit, public opinion, and environmental impact. In this book, leading representatives of the various types of energy generation - coal and oil, gas, nuclear power, and alternative technologies - set out the pros and cons of these energy sources and discuss their environmental consequences. Chapters deal with special problems
faced by the countries of the developing world, by the new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe, and by the republics of the former Soviet Union. Readers will be able to form a balanced judgement on the direction which energy policies could or should take in order to maximize economic efficiency
while minimizing the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and atmospheric pollution.
This volume derives from public lectures organized by Linacre College within the University of Oxford.
'demonstrates the urgent need for a more responsible approach to energy generation'
Green Drum, No. 85 - Winter 1993-94
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Energy and the environment: the differing problems of the developed and developing regions
Sustainable development: panacea, platitude, or downright deception?
Clean power from fossil fuels
The gas industry: survivor and innovator
Alternative energy sources: the European story
Energy generation in Central and Eastern Europe: the environmental problem
The legacy of Chernobyl: the prospects for energy in the former Soviet Union
Nuclear power and the environment
