Energy Efficiency and Human Activity by Lee Schipper, Stephen... - 9780521432979

Energy Efficiency and Human ActivityPast Trends, Future Prospects\nAuthor(s): Lee Schipper, Stephen Meyers, Richard B. Howarth, Ruth Steiner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521432979, 978-0521432979\nSynopsis\nThis book, sponsored by the Stockholm Environment Institute and first published in 1992, presents a detailed analysis of changes in world energy use over the past twenty years. It considers the future prospects of energy demand, and discusses ways of restraining growth in consumption in order to meet environmental and economic development goals. Based on a decade of research by the authors and their colleagues at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute, it presents a wealth of information on energy use and the forces shaping it in the industrial, developing, and formerly planned economies. The book provides an invaluable overview of the pote.