Routledge Energy Futures, Human Values, And Lifestyles: A New Look At The Energy Crisis

Product Description The contours of our energy future are most clearly presented as hard and painful choices. We can, for instance, maintain–perhaps even greatly improve–our current living standards, but at tremendous cost to our environment and to our physical and human resources. Alternatively, we can opt for a more humane society and in many ways a richer life with About the Author Richard C. Carlson is a senior economist in SRI International's International Development Center and was chief coordinator of the project on which this book is based. Willis W. Harman is a senior social scientist in the SRI International Development Center, a professor of engineering and economic systems at Stanford University, and a regent of the University of California; he is author of An Incomplete Guide to the Future. Peter Schwartz was director of the SRI Strategic Environment Center and chief coordinator of futures research at SRI. Working with them on the book were Sidney J. Everett (SRI Center for Resource and Environmental Systems Studies); Klaus W. Krause, Thomas F. Mandel, Lynn Rosener, and Thomas C. Thomas (SRI Strategic Environment Center); Paul C. Meagher (SRI Energy Center); and Stephen Levy (Center for the Continuing Study of the California Economy).