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Gary Zatzman - Sustainable Energy Pricing - 9780470901632 - V9780470901632
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Sustainable Energy Pricing

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Description for Sustainable Energy Pricing Hardcover. The petroleum sector is possibly the largest and most dominant economic sector in the globalized economy. However, for reasons explored in this book, although none of the existing economic development models fit this sector in the past and apply even less today, no satisfactory alternative has presented itself. Editor(s): Zatzman, Gary M. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KCC; KNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 37. Weight in Grams: 996.

This is the first book to address the issues of affordable power, sustainable energy, and reduced environmental impact through the science of energy pricing. Looking at the availability of natural resources from an engineering perspective, and determining how they can be priced to achieve sustainability in the energy sector, is the aim of this groundbreaking new work.

Most current models used in energy pricing are based on linear analyses. While these models work well for targeted scenarios within a short time frame, they do not provide one with a scientific tool that can include many facets of the information age. ... Read more

A serious limitation of that discourse is its insistence on polarizing opinions "for" or "against" environmental sustainability, peak oil, and affordable energy prices. This book proceeds instead to isolate the absence of any agreed criteria for what would constitute inherently sustainable development and examines the main outlines of the history and political economy of energy resource exploration and development since the 1850s from this standpoint. It proposes specific directions in which to take some of the leading alternatives and amendments to current energy pricing practices (as well as some of the most promising energy development alternatives) in order to fulfill the time criteria required for an inherently sustainable trend.

The author shows how, and why, identifying unsustainable practices and consequences can make a case for closing down particular oil and gas production operations, while averting the time-wasting approach of trying to fix what really has gone beyond fixing. However, it is possible, necessary, and actually far better to replace these methods with newer, scientifically based methods for achieving overall energy sustainability.

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Product Details

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
608
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780470901632
SKU
V9780470901632
Shipping Time
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99-15

About Gary Zatzman
Gary M. Zatzman is a researcher with the EEC Research Organisation, in Halifax NS, Canada, a multinational community of researchers from various fields in engineering, social science, and the natural sciences researching ways for industry to become sustainable, both from an economic and environmental standpoint. With this latest work, the author synthesizes decades of industry and teaching experience and dozens ... Read more

Reviews for Sustainable Energy Pricing
“The book will be invaluable to engineers, managers, economists, and scientists working in the energy industry and economists and engineers working on sustainability, whether in industry or research.”  (Chemistry & Industry, 1 January 2013)  

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