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Energy efficiency and human activity : past trends, future prospects
- Title
- Energy efficiency and human activity : past trends, future prospects / Lee Schipper and Stephen Meyers with Richard B. Howarth and Ruth Steiner ; prologue by John Holdren.
- Author
- Schipper, Lee, 1947-2011.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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- Description
- xiii, 385 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This book, sponsored by the Stockholm Environment Institute, presents a detailed analysis of changes in world energy use over the past twenty years. It considers the future prospects of energy demand, and discusses ways of restraining growth in consumption in order to meet environmental and economic development goals. Based on a decade of research by the authors and their colleagues at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in collaboration with the Stockholm Environment.
- Institute, it presents a wealth of information on energy use and the forces shaping it in the industrial, developing, and formerly planned economies. Looking separately at industry, passenger travel, freight transport, and the residential and service sectors, the authors describe the impact on energy use of growth in activity, structural change, and change in energy intensities, and discuss the role of energy prices and energy conservation policies in the industrial.
- Countries and the former Soviet Union. The book presents an overview of the potential for improving energy efficiency, and discusses the policies that could help realize the potential. While calling for strong action by governments and the private sector, the authors stress the importance of considering the full range of factors that will shape realization of the energy efficiency potential around the world.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in energy and the environment
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in energy and the environment.
- Subject
- Energy conservation
- Energy consumption
- Conservation of Energy Resources
- energy conservation
- energy consumption
- Pays en développement
- Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques
- UE/CE Etats membres
- Economie de l'énergie
- Energy conservation
- Energy consumption
- Energieeinsparung
- Energieverbrauch
- Wirtschaftlichkeit
- Energiebesparing
- Energieverbruik
- Note
- "Sponsored by the Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Looking at energy use: an introduction -- pt. I. Past trends. 2. World energy rise since 1970: an overview. 3. Historic trends in manufacturing. 4. Historic trends in transportation. 5. Historic trends in the residential sector. 6. Historic trends in the service sector. 7. Trends between 1973 and 1988: summary and key issues -- pt. II. Future prospects. 8. Outlook for activity and structural change. 9. Energy intensities: prospects and potential. 10. Scenarios of future energy intensities -- pt. III. Shaping the future. 11. Encouraging energy efficiency: policies and programs. 12. Energy and human activity: steps toward a sustainable future -- Appendix A: Data sources for the OECD countries -- Appendix B: Notes on OECD energy intensity scenarios.
- ISBN
- 0521432979
- 9780521432979
- LCCN
- 92014112
- ZBWT00577792
- OCLC
- ocm25710479
- 25710479
- SCSB-1973194
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library