Social Costs of Energy: Present Status and Future Trends - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3642851223 ISBN 13 : 9783642851223

Editeur : Springer, 2012

Synopsis

Although present day politics seems to be preoccupied with questions of economic growth and full employment, the basic environmental problems stemming from the interactions of the economic sphere with global, regional and local environments persist and will have an even greater impact in the future. If economy and ecology are not reconciled in the years to come, mankind will not have a sustainable future on Earth. The typical negation of environmental problems in times of economic crisis is partially due to the fact that environmental and health damages of economic activities are neither priced nor included in our market price system. This allows politicians to focus their attention on insufficient economic indicators which do not reflect the actual development of the welfare of society. If economic lead indicators like GDP or balance of trade figures were better integrated with information on the environmental and health costs caused by the seemingly beneficial economic development, politicians might have better guidance as to what policy choices would benefit society most.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The social or external costs of energy have received a high degree of international attention since the publication of the first empirical results in 1988. Possible global climate change and the call for a sustainable future of mankind have put the question of social costs onto many national and international political agendas. At the same time, an intense international scientific discussion has been sparked off, searching for the best methodological approaches and reliable empirical data. An overview of this discussion was given by the report on the 1st international workshop published in 1991. This book reports on the 2nd international workshop on the subject and gives a broad overview of the discussion in the 25 papers presented. It is the most comprehensive picture of this subject matter available.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3642851223
• ISBN 13: 9783642851223
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 444
• Éditeur: Hohmeyer Olav, Ottinger Richard L.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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