Energy, economics, and ethics : the promise and peril of a global energy transition / Kenneth Martens Friesen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friesen, kenneth Martens, author.

Contributor:

Beverly Bennett Rutstein CW'50 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy policy--Moral and ethical aspects.

Energy policy.

Energy industries--Environmental aspects.

Energy industries.

Economic development--Environmental aspects.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

xvi, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd., 2020.

Summary:

We are in the midst of an enormous global energy transition happening before our eyes. Alternative energy forms including solar, wind, water, and bio-fuels are challenging the established energy sources that have fuelled the industrial era for the past century. As we look to this century's energy future an examination of the past is important to understand how these choices will be made. What political, economic, and ethical lessons can be learned from how coal, oil, and natural gas became the power of the 20th century? Are those lessons instrumental in determining future decisions about emerging alternative energy choices? The opportunities and the risks involved in making, or not making these choices are enormous. Through case studies and examples of past and present development of energy sources, the story is told of the global energy industry. In its telling Energy, Economics, and Ethics wrestles with many of the difficult questions at the heart of the emerging global energy transition

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Beverly Bennett Rutstein CW'50 Fund.

ISBN:

9781786606594

1786606585

9781786606587

1786606593

OCLC:

1112201695

Publisher Number:

99983564813