Energy - The Conservation Revolution (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)

We try in this book to provide a detailed but readable, technical but accessible monograph on energy in the United States. We treat energy as a multidisciplinary challenge and apply the standard tools of economists, physicists, engineers, policy analysts, and, some might claim, fortune tellers. We hope that it will be used in classrooms of various types, and read by the general reader as well. That increased energy efficiency should be the first priority of energy policymakers is a conclusion, not an assumption, of our analysis. Many analysts have arrived at this conclusion while working separately on energy supply problems. The magnitude and scope of supply problems, primarily problems of high prices and environmental costs, lead one inexorably back to reducing demand growth as the first, most important step in any plausible energy future. We examine, in some depth, why much of the past literature on energy still points, fallaciously in our opinion, to high energy c- v Preface vi sumption futures. This is in Part I (called "A Short History of the Future"). We devote one-third of the book (Part II) to energy resources, their internal and external costs, and the quantities of energy to be derived from these resources. This analysis provides a context within which the economic and social value of energy conservation options can be assessed.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Modern Perspectives in Energy
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	December 2012
Authors:	John Gibbons
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	258
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981
ISBN-13:	978-1-4615-9211-2
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Promotions
LSN:	1-4615-9211-9
Barcode:	9781461592112

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