LEADER 04001nam 22006495 450 001 9910765488703321 005 20251009095732.0 010 $a9783031464485 010 $a3031464486 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-46448-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30960571 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30960571 035 $a(CKB)29019295800041 035 $a(OCoLC)1410593060 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-46448-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929019295800041 100 $a20231120d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFuture Energy Options from a Systems Perspective /$fby Nick King, Aled Jones 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (118 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: King, Nick Future Energy Options from a Systems Perspective Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2023 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. The Trifurcation of Energy Futures -- 3. Conclusions. 330 $aThis book is an exploration of energy and its unique role to date as one of the fundamental enabling and controlling factors in human development and progress at the scale of global civilisation, and how it will be fundamental to the type of future that collective humanity is likely to experience. The first section provides a contextual overview of energy and human civilization through a chronological description of how human energy use has evolved over time and led to the current ?energy bind?. The second section explores what this energy bind might mean for our future energy choices when trying to meet the various challenges of dwindling resources, costs, and climate change, through exploration of three broad systems-based scenarios for the human ?energy future?. The final section draws conclusions as to which scenario is most achievable and desirable, and what this might mean for longer-term human prospects. Nick King is a chartered earth and environmental scientist working primarily in professional consulting and the energy industry. He has worked with the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University since 2018 on subject areas including energy and global risk and is also affiliated with the Schumacher Institute think tank. He has also presented and written opinion pieces about a number of environmental and systems thinking topics. Aled Jones is the inaugural Director of the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) at Anglia Ruskin University. Professor Jones? work in climate finance has been recognized by the State of California and he has received a key to the city of North Little Rock, USA. He is a Co-Investigator on the ESRC Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), and the UK Government funded Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition. 606 $aEnergy policy 606 $aEnergy policy 606 $aEnvironmental sciences$xSocial aspects 606 $aEnvironmental policy 606 $aScience$xSocial aspects 606 $aEnergy Policy, Economics and Management 606 $aEnvironmental Social Sciences 606 $aEnvironmental Policy 606 $aScience and Technology Studies 615 0$aEnergy policy. 615 0$aEnergy policy. 615 0$aEnvironmental sciences$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aEnvironmental policy. 615 0$aScience$xSocial aspects. 615 14$aEnergy Policy, Economics and Management. 615 24$aEnvironmental Social Sciences. 615 24$aEnvironmental Policy. 615 24$aScience and Technology Studies. 676 $a333.79 700 $aKing$b Nick$01448966 701 $aJones$b Aled$0605428 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910765488703321 996 $aFuture Energy Options from a Systems Perspective$93644949 997 $aUNINA