Energy, Economic Growth, and the Environment
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Energy, Economic Growth, and the Environment

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Energy, Economic Growth, and the Environment

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Authors with widely different perspectives consider two important social objectives: assuring future energy supplies and protecting the natural environment. Contributors include Kenneth Boulding, Glenn Seaborg, and Barry Commoner. Particularly useful to students and interested non-specialists.

Originally published in 1972

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Publisher
RFF Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781617260209
eBook ISBN
9781135986094
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Ecology
Index
Business
Index
Administrative agencies, and pollution control, 121
Affluence, effect of, 37, 40, 44, 61–63
Africa, energy consumption in, 178–81, 186–89, 208
Agriculture: Environmental impact of, 12, 26, 41–46, 65; productivity of labor in, 148; revolution in, 133
Air: Charging for use of, 18, 20, 27–28; as public (free) good, 9, 22, 116–17
Air conditioning, 25, 90–91, 104, 119, 174–75, 182, 194
Air pollution, 5–6, 10, 17, 90, 97–98; from automotive vehicles, 54–58; from energy conversion, 105–09, 217; from power plants, 52, 72–73; from synthetic textile production, 47–49
Alaska: Oil and gas reserves in, 91, 93–94; problems in exploiting oil reserves in, 16, 96, 118, 121–22, 214
Algal overgrowths, 34, 37, 43, 49
Alkali production, 58–61
Aluminum production, 52
Alvia, Joseph D., 60n
American Oil Shale Corp., 136
Aristotelian mean, 142
Aronson, David, 78n
Artificial life, 149
Asia, energy consumption in, 178–81, 186–88, 208
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 121, 130, 136, 221
Atomic power. See Nuclear power
Auctioning of pollution rights, 24
Australia, 207
Automotive vehicles: Electric, 69; impact on environment, 54–58, 60, 62, 98–99, 106, 117, 210, 221–22
Ayres, R. U., 25n
“Bads,” in social welfare, 5, 12, 20, 129, 143
Bain, Joe S., 121n
Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory, 130, 136
Baumol, William J., ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
  7. I. ON ECONOMIC GROWTH
  8. II. ON ENERGY GROWTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
  9. III. ON PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC POLICY
  10. APPENDIX
  11. INDEX

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