Low Carbon Politics focuses on how policies and institutions have influenced the deployment of renewable energy and nuclear power in the electricity sector. Cultural theory is used to analyse this. Egalitarian pressures have had a profound influence on technological outcomes, not merely in securing the deployment of renewable energy but also in increasing the costs of nuclear power. Whereas in the 1970s it might have been expected that individualist, market based pressures allied to dominant hierarchies would deliver nuclear power as the main response to problems associated with fossil fuels, a surprising combination has emerged. Egalitarian and individualist pressures are, together, leading to increasing levels of deployment of renewable energy. This work finds that electricity monopolies tend to favour nuclear power whereas competitive arrangements are more likely to lead to more renewable energy being deployed. It covers developments in a number of countries including USA, UK, China, South Africa and also Germany and Denmark. This book will be of great relevance to students, academics and policymakers with an interest in energy policy, low carbon politics and climate change.
It was the mid-1940's. A time of war, a time of Peace. In a gold mining town in Northern Ontario, a group of semi delinquents struggled with both. Yet in their own hilarious way, they found a method of coping with lofty expectations, a dysfunctional school system, and unrequited loves. Their exploits blurred the lines of the law, sometimes above, sometimes below, and sometimes in between. The motley group of adolescents led by Mucker DelGuidice, Soupbone Southam, Ole Hansen, and Dink Knowles cluttered the front of Ross' Groceries and Everything Else store on Toke Street where they hatched the plots that changed lives, including their own. Their domain included Gillies Lake whose ownership they claimed by virtue of squatter's rights. Here their canoes plied the waters in summer and their skates sliced the frozen ice in winter. The new Hollinger houses on Cherry Street, and Patricia Boulevard, and the homes on Toke Street and Lakeshore Road were their shelters. Nothing could break their bonds or come between them except, Jeannie. Only the sharpest of men, a Toke street resident-lawyer kept them out of jail. Their travels led them to a legendary lady, whose own life was marred with tragedy. She was Princess Maggie Leclair, a Chippewa who lived on Kamiscotia mountain. A soothsayer. Little did they know that for many, a warm night in September would be their last night on the shores of Gillies Lake.
This book studies the extent to which nuclear safety issues have contributed towards the stagnation of nuclear power development around the world, and accounts for differences in safety regulations in different countries. In order to understand why nuclear development has not met widespread expectations, this book focusses on six key countries with active nuclear power programmes: the USA, China, France, South Korea, the UK, and Russia. The authors integrate cultural theory and theory of regulation, and examine the links between pressures of cultural bias on regulatory outcomes and political pressures which have led to increased safety requirements and subsequent economic costs. They discover that although nuclear safety is an important upward driver of costs in the nuclear power industry, this is influenced by the inherent need to control potentially dangerous reactions rather than stricter nuclear safety standards. The findings reveal that differences in the strictness of nuclear safety regulations between different countries can be understood by understanding differences in cultural contexts and the changes in this over time. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and policymakers working on energy policy and regulation, environmental politics and policy, and environment and sustainability more generally.
China, a still developing economy comprising a fifth of the world’s population, will play a key role in the global movement towards reducing carbon emissions. The aims of the Paris Agreement may stand or fall with China, both for its own contribution and the example it will set the developing world. China’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions discusses the prospects for China achieving radical reductions in carbon emissions, within the context of the current economic and political landscape. With a particular focus on technologies such as such as wind power, solar power and electric vehicles, Toke examines how China is transitioning to a state of stable energy consumption via a service-based economy and heavy investment in non-fossil energy sources. The book concludes that China may be set to reduce its carbon emissions by approximately two-thirds by 2050. This book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of climate change, sustainable development, political science and energy, as well as energy professionals seeking to understand the implications of recent developments in China.
I have read many books over my 26 years of ministry, too nu-merous to mention. In reading I not only take pleasure and de-light in what some would call "A GOOD READ," but consider what I am to apprehend that would speak to my internal resonation and the kingdom linguistics that resounds in my being.Many books have come across my desk for review, and I do appreciate them all. Though some continue to promote and promulgate dispensational mathematics, I believe that we are in a new season and dimensional shifting in the church, the king-dom, and the regions of the earth where the Lord is causing "RAPTURE MANIA" to become dismantled, dismembered, dis-embodied, disenfranchised, disabled and disengaged from the carnal dictates of God's people into a Victorious and Fulfilled Es-chatology, one which acknowledges Christ's Finished Word and the saints today to migrate into new spheres and frequencies of Kingdom Glory to become that INCARNATE Word of the King-dom to all nations of the earth... In Apostle Ogaga David's book, John 14, he is graced with the pen of a ready writer and with profound impact draws the ready into a bold new discovery that John 14 is not about Heaven as of-ten taught in defeatist eschatology, but a relationship, a dimension of glory that we are NOW partakers of! The book, "JOHN 14" takes you further into a journey and un-discovered country for many and releases a NOW Sound not only to the hearers of the word, but the DOERS thereof! JOHN 14 Examines the critical importance of what it means to be the Mansions of God, the Father's House, His Habitation, not in the far distant future, but in the NOW!Apostle Ogaga David clarifies the delusions and false concepts that have held God's people in a theft of their destiny, a robbed hope and a compromised future.Expertly written and profoundly sound, Apostle Ogaga David explores new territory for many as this is the season for the church to break away from oppressive positions and limited mentalities...As an author of over 150 books myself, and thousands of pages of kingdom resources, I highly recommend that you explore that depths of this book, JOHN 14, and in it, you will explore the DEPTHs of what God has been speaking to you all the time.Greatly anticipated, and well appreciated, JOHN 14 is a Book of LIFE to countless many.Dr. Tim Early, ApostleThe Foundation of the Apostlesand Prophets InternationalUSA.
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