Energy, environment, natural resources and business competitiveness: the fragility of interdependence

INDICE: Contents: Preface; Part 1 The Pillars of a realistic Energy Policy:Energy means power; The European energy policy dilemma; managed oil markets; Nuclear energy; Alternative energy supplies. Part 2 Biofuels, the Green and Blue Revolutions, and Agricultural Policy: Biofuels and the European Union; The green and blue revolutions that have never been; The EU's common agricultural policy and its travails. Part 3 Business Consequences of a Deteriorating WorldEnvironment: Strategic infection points, business risks and opportunities; Producing and trading carbon dioxide; Forests and oceans: the lungs of the Earth; Scarcity of clean water and its impact. Part 4 The World's Salient Problem Has Not Been Solved: The No.1 environmental enemy is human fertility; United Nations and its conferences on Environmental collapse; Can science and technology solve mankind's practical environmental problems?; Appendices; Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-566-09234-3
• Editorial: Ashgate
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 250
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés