with BONUS companion Energy for Sustainable Development (ESD) Anniversary compendium CD - 44 issues, 4000+ pictures and diagrams. Long-term global strategy to lead to a stable, sustainable world economy while supporting solutions to related world problems. ``end-use'' approach focuses on present uses in order to structure more effective future uses, presents feasible economic goals and demonstrates how energy supply constraints can be avoided. Explores prospects of improving energy efficiency in developing and industrial countries, and outlines plans for coordinated use of policy instruments to reduce market friction, eliminate market biases favoring supply expansion, and compensate for inherent market failings. Examines problems associated with over-dependence on oil, including high prices and global insecurity, climatic changes resulting from fossil fuel use, nuclear power, and nuclear arms proliferation. Balancing the pros and cons, this book surveys the energy issue from a broad scientific perspective while considering environmental, economic, and social factors. It explains the basic concepts, provides a historical overview of energy resources, assesses our unsustainable energy system based on fossil fuels, and shows that the energy crisis is not only a tough challenge, but also an unprecedented opportunity to become more concerned about the world in which we live and the society we have built up. Extensive overview on biofuels, nuclear energy, solar thermal and photovoltaics, solar fuels, wind power, ocean energies and other renewables, highlighting the increasing importance of sustainablility for economic development. Written by experts and professors, an excellent source of updated and carefully documented information on the entangled aspects of the energy issue, this book is a guide for scientists, students and teachers looking for ways out of the energy and climate crisis, and the problems and disparities generated during the fossil fuel era.
