Energy for the Future: A New Agenda (Energy, Climate and the Environment) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230221521 ISBN 13: 9780230221529

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Synopsis

Cutting carbon emissions is urgent but very challenging in wealthy democracies. Energy for the Future analyzes the changing contexts, imperatives and fault lines, and proposes ways forwards. Greater public engagement and a new approach to markets are vit

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About the Author

IVAN SCRASE works on policy framings, appraisals and change in the areas of carbon abatement, energy efficiency, bioenergy and flood risk management. He trained at Oxford, UK (BA) and Imperial College London (MSc, PhD), and has worked in academia, the NGO sector and environmental consultancy.

GORDON MACKERRON is an economist who works on energy policy and economics, especially the trade-offs between policy objectives, as well as on electricity issues, especially nuclear power policy. He has worked in government and consultancy as well as academia and chaired the UK Government Committee on Radioactive Waste Management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230221521
• ISBN 13: 9780230221529
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Scrase I., MacKerron G.