By David Elliott
While strength use is prime to human lifestyles, it's also on the center of many environmental difficulties we are facing within the twenty first century. Deteriorating air caliber and the worldwide warming phenomenon can all be attributed to our use of fossil fuels. The re-emergence of nuclear energy in its place additionally activates significant issues. Sustainable choices reminiscent of wind and hydroelectric energy additionally face competition. Energy, Society and Environment explores the ways that power interacts with society and the surroundings. The booklet is dependent to supply: · an knowing of strength comparable environmental difficulties · an appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of technological recommendations · wisdom of the social and institutional hindrances to enforcing those recommendations · an knowing of the strategic matters dealing with sustainable strength use. The revised variation displays contemporary alterations within the zone. Chapters on nuclear and wind power were revised according to fresh debates. assurance of fossil fuels has additionally been bolstered, while there's better emphasis on environmental and effort coverage within the context of the controversy surrounding the Kyoto accord. extra case-studies were further which spotlight substitute strength strategies. Energy, Society and Environment examines the capability and boundaries of technological suggestions to energy-related environmental difficulties and means that social, financial and political options can also be essential to keep away from critical environmental harm sooner or later. international case-studies are used all through to flooring the debates and illustrate the interplay among technological and social points.
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Over the years governments have intervened to control some aspects of both these interactions – for example, to limit the health and safety risks faced by workers and to ensure that certain quality standards are maintained in terms of consumer products and services. In parallel consumers themselves have organised to protect their interests. In some circumstances the interests of consumers and producers may also clash: consumers want good, safe, cheap products and producers want reasonable pay and job security.
This had a dramatic effect on the industrialised economies: they suddenly realised how reliant they had become on imported oil. Over the next decade strenuous technical efforts were made both to find other sources of oil and to diversify away from oil, although equally strenuous political, and in some cases military, efforts were also made to secure access to Middle East oil. The oil crisis coincided with the first serious signs of concern about the environmental impacts of the use of fossil fuel, although the main concern, as highlighted graphically by the oil crisis, was about fuel scarcity.
It looks at the way in which energy use has grown dramatically since the industrial revolution and at some of the key environmental problems that have emerged. It also introduces the idea of sustainable development as an alternative approach and sets out some basic environmental criteria for sustainable energy technologies. 1 Technology and society ● ● ● ● Energy use in society Environmental impacts Sustainable development Negotiating interactions This introductory chapter sets the scene by looking at the interaction between people and the planet, with the focus on energy use.
