Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Ecologically Sustainable Development Working Groups: Energy production
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Ecologically Sustainable Development Working Groups
Author: Australia. Ecologically Sustainable Development Working GroupsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780642169327
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Our Common Future
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195531916
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Australian National Bibliography: 1992
Author: National Library of AustraliaPublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1976
Book Description
Ecologically Sustainable Development Working Groups: Intersectoral issues report
Author: Australia. Ecologically Sustainable Development Working GroupsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Ecologically Sustainable Development Working Groups: Tourism
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Contested Energy Futures
Author: Stuart RosewarnePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811902240
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This book unpacks the politics of climate change in Australia in the context of successive conservative Coalition governments resisting any moves to mitigate emissions and as local communities and transnational corporations struggle with each other to control the transition to a sustainable energy future. As Australia has abundant clean energy resources in terms of solar and wind, the book offers a test case for study of the energy policy transition in the 21st century. It does so by using tools from political economy and sociology, teasing out public attitudes to renewable energy technologies and innovative infrastructure investments, unpacking the complex parameters of this historical debate, tracing the rise of household 'prosumers' and arguing the case for grassroots ownership of renewable infrastructure or 'energy sovereignty' - already pioneered by some isolated communities in Australia. The cultural and emancipatory benefits of cooperative ventures are well known. However, capitalism is not readily defeated by democracy. The promotion of individual households as 'virtual power stations', of 'smart technologies' and even of cryptocurrency into the energy transition innovative mix opens up ever new horizons for corporate control.
Sustainable Energy Systems
Author: Stephen DoversPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521430999
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This 1995 book explains the fundamentals of the energy issue and suggests ways to achieve a sustainable energy future.
Sustainable Development and Good Governance
Author: Erik DentersPublisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004637788
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
The chapters in this volume are based on the papers that were presented at a seminar in March 1994 organized under the auspices of the newly established ILA Committee on Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development. The seminar focused on the legal principles and international practice of sustainable development and good governance as one of its constitutive elements. The book is divided into four parts: Evolution of Concepts, Participatory Development, Development Cooperation and Human Rights, and Sensible Economic and Social Policies. They reflect the holistic concept of sustainable development advanced by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature sustainable development. This concept implies that maintaining a quality of life for many generations is socially desirable, economically viable and ecologically sustainable. The volume highlights the principle of sustainable development as a major topic in international law embodied in the international instruments agreed upon at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro (1992). The introductory chapter discusses the interlinking of development and good governance, including human rights, democracy, and sensible economic and social policies as presented in the 1994 UN Agenda for development. The management of the economy, society and environment towards sustainability will be one of the most momentous discussions of our times. According to one author sustainable development is incompatible with continuous growth of the economy, while good governance appears to be incompatible with the achievement, within a reasonable time scale, of a non-growth society. Other provocative opinions make this volume a highly challenging source for any scholar interested in the subject.
Energy Law and the Environment
Author: Rosemary LysterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139454872
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Unsustainable practices worldwide in energy production and consumption have led to a plethora of environmental problems. Until recently environmental law largely overlooked the relevance of energy production and consumption; energy was seen to be of little significance to the advancement of sustainable development. This has changed since 2000 with the global concern attached to climate change, the publication by the United Nations of the World Energy Assessment and the detailed consideration given to this issue at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. Australia has been seen to be lagging behind the other major industrialised nations of the world in addressing sustainable energy issues. This book was first published in 2006.