By Benjamin K. Sovacool, Marilyn A. Brown, Scott V. Valentine
Energy sustainability and weather swap are of the best demanding situations dealing with humankind. Unraveling those complicated and interconnected concerns calls for cautious and goal evaluation. Fact and Fiction in international strength coverage aims to alter the existing discourse through interpreting fifteen center strength questions from various views, demonstrating how, for every of them, no simple resolution exists.
Is the manager strength villain? will we sustainably feed and gasoline the planet while? Is nuclear strength well worth the danger? should still geoengineering be outlawed? relating pollutants, weather mitigation and variation, strength potency, govt intervention, and effort safeguard, the authors discover interrelated options of legislations, philosophy, ethics, know-how, economics, psychology, sociology, and public policy.
This ebook deals a much-needed serious appraisal of the imperative power know-how and coverage dilemmas of our time and the effect of those on a number of stakeholders.
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