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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
What makes some countries more energy secure than others and what are the strategies that can be pursued to improve security? With video case studies from the EU, Iceland, China, India, Canada and the US, this resource provides students with a wealth of contrasting examples. Find out how the geopolitics of Eastern Europe is affecting energy security in the EU. In China, energy needs are being met through an overwhelming reliance on coal, but at what...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Although renewable energies are seen as clean and green, their development can often be cause of conflict as local residents are opposed to their impact on the visual landscape. Some technologies are also limited by weather and climate. This program uses examples from the U.K., India, and Europe to examine the pros and cons of a variety of renewable energy sources. It includes a discussion of energy de-carbonization and explores the importance of...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This film looks at the goals of energy policy, and the challenges the UK and the world face in meeting energy demand while restricting greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating other environmental impacts. It looks at the advantages and disadvantages of coal, natural gas (fracking), and nuclear power.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of...
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