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Found 4 from your keywords: subject="Energy policy."
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Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties
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SMIL, Vaclav

In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern world's unceasing demand for energy with the absolute necessity to preserve the integrity of the biosphere. With this book he offers a comprehensive, accessible guide to today's complex energy issues -- how to think clearly and logically about what is possible and what is …

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9780262283847
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1 online resource (xiv, 427 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Escaping the energy poverty trap :when and how governments power the lives of…
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Aklin, Micha?el,Urpelainen, Johannes,Bayer, Patrick,Harish, S. P.,

The first comprehensive political science account of energy poverty, arguing that governments can improve energy access for their citizens through appropriate policy design.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262349291
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1 online resource (viii, 317 pages)
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Ending the fossil fuel era
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Princen, Thomas,Manno, Jack,Martin, Pamela,

Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but great prosperity. But the presumption of net benefits from fossil fuels is eroding as widening circles of people rich and poor experience the downside. A positive transition to a post-fossil fuel era cannot wait for global agreement, a swap-in of renewables, a miracle te…

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9780262327077
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1 online resource (xii, 374 pages) :illustrations
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The future is not what it used to be : climate change and energy scarcity
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Friedrichs, J?org,

"The future is not what it used to be because we can no longer rely on the comforting assumption that it will resemble the past. Past abundance of fuel, for example, does not imply unending abundance. Infinite growth on a finite planet is not possible. In this book, J?org Friedrichs argues that industrial society itself is transitory, and he examines the prospects for our civilization's coming …

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9780262316620
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