Responding to Global Warming: The Technology, Economics and Politics of Sustainable Energy

by Peter Read and Peter Read

Book Overview

With the Framework Convention on Climate Change, action to prevent possible global warming is on the agenda. But the obtacles appear daunting. Peter Read argues that the problem can be tackled, however, at a much more affordable cost than commonly realized, and in ways likely both to provide incentives to energy corporations and to improve the development prospects of many countries in the South.

The key lies in a multi-disciplinary policy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856491625
• ISBN13: 9781856491624
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 320 Pages