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Powerless : India's energy shortage and its impact / Sam Tranum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tranum, Sam, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Energy policy--India.
- Energy policy.
- Power resources--India.
- Power resources.
- Energy industries--Government policy--India.
- Energy industries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a book about India's energy shortage, its causes, and consequences. Powerless details how much coal, oil, gas, uranium, and power the country uses, and for what purposes. It examines the quantity of these things the country produces and where. The book looks at the sizes of the gaps between supply and demand, and how the country fills them with imports. It then discusses how the shortages and resulting imports affect the country's economy, businesses, and residents. After examining the current scenario, the author moves on to look at predictions for how fast demand and supply will grow, how big the shortages of natural resources might become in the next few years, and whether India is likely to be able--politically, logistically, and financially--to fill these gaps with imports. The book also looks at the environmental and health effects of India's growing energy use, and how efforts to mitigate these are likely to affect demand for coal, oil, gas, and uranium.
- Contents:
- . Introduction: India's energy shortage
- Demand : India's thirst for energy
- Domestic production : India's energy resources
- The shortage : where are the gaps?
- Imports : depending on others
- The future : domestic production
- The future : increasing imports
- Emissions, pollution, and climate change
- The impacts of the shortages
- The path ahead : hard choices
- Glossary
- Reference list.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 81-321-1882-0
- OCLC:
- 881161974
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