Energy and the Quality of Life : : Understanding Energy Policy / / Clifford Hooker, Robert Macdonald, Robert van Hulst, Peter Victor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Hooker, Clifford,; Macdonald, Robert,; van Hulst, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.) :; figures, tables throughout

As the supply/cost crunch tightens, issues related to energy become increasingly compelling. This is a guide for the general public to the fossil fuel crisis facing Canada, and Ontario in particular. It is also about other long-term matters of greater importance: the economic, socio-political, and cultural consequences of the choices which now have to be made, primarily by governments. The authors argue that energy policy is social policy. Therefore our ideas about the kind of society we want must be a governing consideration in working out a policy to take Canada through the energy crisis. The four writers bring to bear on the problem the perspectives of engineering, philosophy, environmental studies, and economics. The result is a balanced guide for the continuing debate on the adaptation of society to the imperatives of energy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I. ENERGY AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE -- PART II. A CRITIQUE OF CONVENTIONAL ENERGY POLICY -- PART III. AN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY POLICY -- PART IV. FROM ENERGY POLICY TO PUBLIC POLICY -- Notes -- Reader's guide to the bibliography -- Bibliography -- Contacts in the alternative energy field -- Canadian University Paperbooks