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Energy and American society - Thirteen myths

This book discusses current events related to US energy policy including high energy prices, the 2003 Northeast blackout, the Kyoto Protocol’s enactment, the passing of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the influence of recent Gulf Coast hurricanes on energy supplies and prices. It takes on the central quandary in the study of energy and environmental policy as 24 of the US’s leading experts discuss what myths continue to exist in American culture concerning energy, the environment and society.

Book details


Physical description: 1824cm green 371pp

Editors: Sovacool, Benjamin K|Brown, Marilyn A

Publisher: Springer

Place of publication: Dordrecht, The Netherlands

ISBN: 9781402055638|1402055633

Classification: 111 -

Subjects: Environment, Trading, Policy and Governance, Energy policy, Environmental policy

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