1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786124403321

Autore

Grossman Peter Z. <1948->

Titolo

U.S. energy policy and the pursuit of failure / / Peter Z. Grossman, Butler University, IN [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-23420-4

1-107-32660-5

1-107-25537-6

1-107-33553-1

1-299-31891-6

1-107-33636-8

1-107-33304-0

1-107-33470-5

0-511-79341-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 397 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

BUS099000

Disciplina

333.790973

Soggetti

Energy policy - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Crisis; 2. Failure; 3. Fuels; 4. EIA; 5. Morality; 6. Apollo; 7. Collapse; 8. Crisis 2.0; 9. Modesty.

Sommario/riassunto

U.S. Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure is an analytic history of American energy policy. For the past forty years, the U.S. government has tried to develop comprehensive policies on energy, yet these efforts have failed repeatedly. These failures have not resulted from a lack of will or funds but rather from an inability to differentiate between what could be undertaken and what could actually be accomplished. This book explains how and why various policy efforts have come about, shows why politicians have been eager to back them, and analyzes why they have inevitably failed. Over the past four decades, U.S. energy policy makers have pursued not just policies that have failed but also a policy process that leads to failure.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910132989503321

Autore

Gusman Alessandro

Titolo

Antropologia dell'olfatto / / Alessandro Gusman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma [etc.], : GLF editori Laterza, 2004

ISBN

9788858118603

885811860X

Descrizione fisica

ix, 183 p. ; ; 21 cm

Collana

Antropologia

Percorsi ; ; 61

Disciplina

301

152

306

612

Soggetti

Sensation

Environment

Anthropology

Psychophysiology

Environment and Public Health

Nervous System Physiological Phenomena

Social Sciences

Ecological and Environmental Phenomena

Biological Phenomena

Delivery of Health Care

Psychological Phenomena and Processes

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena

Psychiatry and Psychology

Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena

Phenomena and Processes

Odorants

Smell

Anthropology, Cultural

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Un viaggio nel tempo e nello spazio, attraverso culture europee ed extra-europee, passate e presenti, alla scoperta dei simboli e dei significati attribuiti all'olfatto. Una sintesi originale e inedita che consente all'antropologo di cogliere sfere di significato inaccessibili al solo sguardo e al lettore di scoprire quanto le nostre percezioni siano culturalmente influenzate.