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Energy and the Quality of Life : Understanding Energy Policy / Clifford Hooker, Peter Victor, Robert van Hulst, Robert Macdonald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hooker, Clifford, author.
- Macdonald, Robert, author.
- van Hulst, Robert, author.
- Series:
- Heritage
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Energy policy--Canada.
- Energy policy.
- Energy policy--Ontario.
- Quality of life--Canada.
- Quality of life.
- Quality of life--Ontario.
- Ontario.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [1981]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- As the supply/cost crunch tightens, issues related to energy become increasingly compelling. This is a guide for the general public to the fossil fuel crisis facing Canada, and Ontario in particular. It is also about other long-term matters of greater importance: the economic, socio-political, and cultural consequences of the choices which now have to be made, primarily by governments. The authors argue that energy policy is social policy. Therefore our ideas about the kind of society we want must be a governing consideration in working out a policy to take Canada through the energy crisis. The four writers bring to bear on the problem the perspectives of engineering, philosophy, environmental studies, and economics. The result is a balanced guide for the continuing debate on the adaptation of society to the imperatives of energy.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I. ENERGY AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE
- PART II. A CRITIQUE OF CONVENTIONAL ENERGY POLICY
- PART III. AN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY POLICY
- PART IV. FROM ENERGY POLICY TO PUBLIC POLICY
- Notes
- Reader's guide to the bibliography
- Bibliography
- Contacts in the alternative energy field
- Canadian University Paperbooks
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9781487590246
- 1487590245
- 9781487599638
- 1487599633
- OCLC:
- 1006397900
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