Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738175287
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738175287
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Light-Green Society
Author: Michael BessPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226044170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The accelerating interpenetration of nature and culture is the hallmark of the new "light-green" social order that has emerged in postwar France, argues Michael Bess in this penetrating new history. On one hand, a preoccupation with natural qualities and equilibrium has increasingly infused France's economic and cultural life. On the other, human activities have laid an ever more potent and pervasive touch on the environment, whether through the intrusion of agriculture, industry, and urban growth, or through the much subtler and more well-intentioned efforts of ecological management. The Light-Green Society limns sharply these trends over the last fifty years. The rise of environmentalism in the 1960s stemmed from a fervent desire to "save" wild nature-nature conceived as a qualitatively distinct domain, wholly separate from human designs and endeavors. And yet, Bess shows, after forty years of environmentalist agitation, much of it remarkably successful in achieving its aims, the old conception of nature as a "separate sphere" has become largely untenable. In the light-green society, where ecology and technological modernity continually flow together, a new hybrid vision of intermingled nature-culture has increasingly taken its place.
Energie
Author: André GardelPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483152685
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Energie
Annuaire Europeen
Author: P. DrillienPublisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9789024733224
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The European Yearbook promotes the scientific study of nineteen European supranational organisations and the OECD. Each volume contains a detailed survey of the history, structure and yearly activities of each organisation and an up-to-date chart providing a clear overview of the member states of each organisation.
The Politics of Nuclear Energy in Western Europe
Author: Wolfgang C. MüllerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191064084
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
This volume investigates nuclear energy policies in Western Europe over the entire post-war period, but with special attention to the two most recent decades. The comparative analytical perspective draws on the interplay between voters' attitudes, challenging movements, party competition, and coalition formation. Spanning more than 60 years and 16 countries, the researchers examine the underlying causal processes leading to the observed varieties of Western European nuclear energy policies. Based on a mixed methods approach using both structured case studies as well as quantitative analyses, the study shows that the nature of party competition under given institutional contexts is a key-driver for, as a rule, tactically motivated governmental policy changes and stability, respectively. Part I introduces the practical and theoretical relevance of the topic. It outlines the reasoning of the major scientific contributions with regard to nuclear energy policies, and offers a theoretical alternative to the previous literatures that has been predominantly movements-oriented. Additionally, it provides core economic and political indicators of the changing role of nuclear energy in the countries. Part II consists of seven in-depth case studies where the outlined theoretical perspective is applied. Part III consists of a general summary, short narratives of the countries not covered in case studies, qualitative comparison and an assessment of the factors for policy change from multivariate analysis.
European Year Book
Author: Council of Europe/Conseil de L'EuropePublisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9789024727940
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
Author: Global Energy
Author: Paul EkinsPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019103021X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Energy, and access to energy, are essential to human life, civilisation and development. A number of energy issues - including energy security, energy prices and the polluting emissions for energy use - now have high prominence on global agendas of policy and diplomacy. In addressing these and other global energy issues, the purpose of this book is to lay out the broad global energy landscape, exploring how these issues might develop in coming decades, and the implications of such developments for energy policy. There are great uncertainties, which will be identified, in respect of some of these issues, but many of the defining characteristics of the landscape are clear, and the energy policies of all countries will need to be broadly consistent with these if they are to be feasible and achieve their objectives. The book therefore provides information about and analysis of energy and related resources, and the technologies that have been and are being developed to exploit them that is essential to understanding how the global energy system is developing, and how it might develop in the future. But its main focus is the critical economic, social, political and cultural issues that will determine how energy systems will develop and which technologies are deployed, why, by whom, and who will benefit from them. The book has three Parts. Part I sets out the current global context for energy system developments, outlining the essential trends of global energy supply and demand, and atmospheric emissions, from the past and going forward, and their driving forces. Part II explores the options and choices, covering both energy demand and energy supply, facing national and international policymakers as they confront the challenges of the global context outlined in Part I. Part III of the book brings together the discussion in Parts I and II with consideration of possible global energy and environmental futures, and of the energy policy choices which will determine which future actually comes to pass.
Crise Mondiale de L' Energie
Author: Publisher: Editions TECHNIP
ISBN: 9782710804130
Category : Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 412
Book Description
How and why Do Policies Change?
Author: Isabelle de LovinfossePublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9789052013985
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
How and why do policies change? The author addresses this question by examining the renewable electricity policies of five European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK) over the last thirty years. Employing a comparative approach that is qualitative yet consistent and rigorous, she describes how these countries' policies changed over time, whether incrementally or comprehensively, and shows how those changes may be explained, citing political, economic, social, and technological factors.