Energy alternatives
By: Margaret Haerens, book editor
Series: Global viewpoints; Global viewpoints
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780737762648; 9780737764406
Subjects: Renewable energy resources; Énergies renouvelables; Renewable energy sources
Description: Presents global perspectives on alternative energy resources, looking at developments that have been made in the field, nuclear energy issues, and political and economic aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1.; title: Global developments in energy alternatives.; title: China has become a major player in the renewable energy industry  -- Melanie Hart; title: The United States will attain energy security in alternative energy sources  -- Barack Obama; title: The power to save Britain  -- Mark Lynas; title: Ontario needs to change its approach to alternative energy  -- R. Michael Warren; title: South Korea aims to use more renewable energy  -- Young Il Choung -- ch. 2.; title: Nuclear energy.; title: The global prognosis for nuclear power is promising  -- James Holloway; title: European opposition to nuclear power is rising  -- Fiona Harvey, John Vidal, and Damian Carrington; title: Japan's reliance on nuclear power will lessen after the Fukushima disaster  -- Oliver Morton; title: Year after Fukushima, US plodding on nuclear plant fixes, watchdog says  -- Mark Clayton; title: Canada should consider the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis to be a wake-up call  -- David Olive; title: Indonesia: disaster-prone, but still hungry for nuclear energy  -- IRIN -- ch. 3.; title: Politics and energy alternatives.; title: Israel nixes solar energy for Palestinians  -- Dalia Nammari and Karin Laub; title: South Africa should address social ills before developing energy alternatives  -- Yazeed Kamaldien; title: Brazil's dam shame  -- Gabriel Schwartzman; title: Mexico's investment in wind power has caused controversy  -- Chris Hawley; title: Energiewende; Germany's energy transformation  -- Economist -- ch. 4.; title: Economics and energy alternatives.; title: 'Alternative' energy fuels Central Asia  -- Farangis Najibullah; title: Efficiency may ease demand  -- Ahmed Shaaban; title: Canadian companies find profit in energy alternatives  -- Nancy Macdonald; title: Chile looks to invest in solar power to gain energy independence  -- Mauro Nogarin; title: Solar power boom hits a wall  -- Richard Blackwell; title: Germany debates taxpayer subsidies of solar energy -- Siobhan Dowling-- Organizations to contact.