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Time and the generations
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ISBN: 0231550030 9780231550031 9780231160124 0231160127 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York

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How should we evaluate the ethics of procreation, especially the environmental consequences of reproductive decisions on future generations, in a resource-constrained world? While demographers, moral philosophers, and environmental scientists have separately discussed the implications of population size for sustainability, no one has attempted to synthesize the concerns and values of these approaches. The culmination of a half century of engagement with population ethics, Partha Dasgupta's masterful Time and the Generations blends economics, philosophy, and ecology to offer an original lens on the difficult topic of optimum global population.After offering careful attention to global inequality and the imbalance of power between men and women, Dasgupta provides tentative answers to two fundamental questions: What level of economic activity can our planet support over the long run, and what does the answer say about optimum population numbers? He develops a population ethics that can be used to evaluate our choices and guide our sense of a sustainable global population and living standards. Structured around a central essay from Dasgupta, the book also features a foreword from Robert Solow; correspondence with Kenneth Arrow; incisive commentaries from Joseph Stiglitz, Eric Maskin, and Scott Barrett; an extended response by the author to them; and a joint paper with Aisha Dasgupta on inequalities in reproductive decisions and the idea of reproductive rights. Taken together, Time and the Generations represents a fascinating dialogue between world-renowned economists on a central issue of our time.


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Climate policy and nonrenewable resources
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ISBN: 0262319837 9780262319836 0262319845 0262027887 9780262027885 9780262319843 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Too rapidly rising carbon taxes or the introduction of subsidies for renewable energies induce owners of fossil fuel reserves to increase their extraction rates for fear of their reserves becoming worthless. Fossil fuel use is thus brought forward. The resulting acceleration of global warming and counter-productivity of well-intended climate policy has been coined the Green Paradox. This volume presents a range of studies extending the basic analysis to allow for clean energy alternatives, dirty energy alternatives, and the intricate strategic issues between different countries on the globe.

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ISBN: 0875864198 9786611395575 087586421X 1281395579 0875864201 9780875864204 9780875864198 9780875864211 9781281395573 6611395571 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York Algora

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A shocking scarcity of natural resources is about to hit the whole world, and the crisis is being accelerated by mankind's heedless overexploitation and pollution of what's left. This is an unprecedented and mind-boggling challenge for humanity. It also s


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ISBN: 0875865135 0875865127 128179371X 0875865143 9786611793715 9780875865140 9780875865126 9780875865133 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York Algora Pub.

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The shocking implications of a worldwide scarcity of natural resources have suddenly started to come clear. Higher prices for gas and heating oil may be a mere inconvenience, so far; occasional brown-outs and water shortages can be brushed off as seasonal or regional problems - but only up to a point. These are quickly evolving into major, prolonged and widespread shortages of the most elementary commodities, and food riots have already sprung up. The crisis is being accelerated by mankind's heedless overexploitation and contamination of what's left. Pablo Rafael Gonzalez documents the dire st


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Scarce Natural Resources, Recycling, Innovation and Growth
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ISBN: 3658120541 365812055X Year: 2016 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler,

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This thesis uses neoclassical growth models to evaluate what effect the limited availability of nonrenewable resources has on the economy’s (world’s) growth potential. Markus Merz concludes that recycling may serve as a mid-term solution to continued growth, but technological progress is needed in the long-run. The theoretical analysis starts with the well-known Dasgupta-Heal model and considers the effect of recycling and technological progress on the resource constraints; resource-augmenting and backstop technology are analyzed. After a thorough analysis of the models it is concluded that the ultimate solution to long-term economic growth is a backstop technology. Contents • An Introduction to Economic Growth Theory • The Dasgupta-Heal Model • Recycling as a Source of Regeneration • Technological Progress Target Groups • Teachers and students of economics with a focus on economic growth theory and natural resource economics • Executives and consultants in the field of natural resource, energy politics and in energy companies About The Author Markus Merz is a research fellow at the Department of Banking, University of Tuebingen. His research interests are access to finance, finance and growth and microeconomics of banking.


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Risk Management of Non-Renewable Energy Systems
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ISBN: 9783319160627 3319160613 9783319160610 3319160621 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book describes the basic concepts of risk and reliability with detailed descriptions of the different levels of probabilistic safety assessment of nuclear power plants (both internal and external). The book also maximizes readers insights into time dependent risk analysis through several case studies, whilst risk management with respect to non renewable energy sources is also explained. With several advanced reactors utilizing the concept of passive systems, the reliability estimation of these systems are explained in detail with the book providing a reliability estimation of components through mechanistic model approach. This book is useful for advanced undergraduate and post graduate students in nuclear engineering, aerospace engineering, industrial engineering, reliability and safety engineering, systems engineering and applied probability and statistics. This book is also suitable for one-semester graduate courses on risk management of non renewable energy systems in all conventional engineering branches like civil, mechanical, chemical, electrical and electronics as well as computer science. It will also be a valuable reference for practicing engineers, managers and researchers involved in reliability and safety activities of complex engineering systems.

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Energy. --- Nuclear Energy. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Operating Procedures, Materials Treatment. --- Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences. --- System safety. --- Structural control (Engineering). --- Sécurité des systèmes --- Contrôle des structures (Ingénierie) --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Nuclear Engineering --- Power resources --- Nonrenewable natural resources. --- Fossil fuels --- Management. --- Fossil energy --- Energy --- Energy resources --- Power supply --- Non-renewable natural resources --- Exhaustible resources --- Natural resources, Nonrenewable --- Nonrenewable natural resources --- Economic aspects --- Nuclear energy. --- Statistics. --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- Industrial engineering. --- Natural resources --- Energy harvesting --- Energy industries --- Fuel --- Energy minerals --- Manufactures. --- Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes. --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- Manufactured goods --- Manufactured products --- Products --- Products, Manufactured --- Commercial products --- Manufacturing industries --- Safety, System --- Safety of systems --- Systems safety --- Accidents --- Industrial safety --- Systems engineering --- Prevention --- Statistics . --- Industrial accidents --- Industries --- Job safety --- Occupational hazards, Prevention of --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Prevention of industrial accidents --- Prevention of occupational hazards --- Safety, Industrial --- Safety engineering --- Safety measures --- Safety of workers --- System safety --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- Factory management --- Industrial engineering --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Standardization --- Quality assurance --- Quality of products --- Atomic energy --- Atomic power --- Energy, Atomic --- Energy, Nuclear --- Nuclear power --- Power, Atomic --- Power, Nuclear --- Force and energy --- Nuclear physics --- Nuclear engineering --- Nuclear facilities --- Nuclear power plants

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