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Renewable energy: a survey: the pros and cons of alternative energy sources. by Mohan Munasinghe
No full textNew and renewable sources of energy have been receiving more and more attention in recent decades, especially in the developing world, as a cost-effective alternative to conventional forms of energy
Sustainability in the twenty-first century applying sustainomics to implement the sustainable development goals
No full textSustainable Energy Development (SED) — New Path for Pakistan (The Allama Iqbal Lecture)
No full textFollowing the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the 2002
World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, and the
2012 Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, sustainable development has
become a widely accepted concept. World decision makers are seeking a
more sustainable development path through the ongoing UN Post-2105
Agenda discussions, which includes key themes like the Green Economy
(GE) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). They are hoping to
find integrated solutions to many critical problems, including
traditional development issues (such as energy scarcity, economic
stagnation, poverty, hunger, and illness), as well as newer challenges
(like climate change and globalisation). Energy is critical for
sustainable development. Sustainable energy development (SED) is an
operational framework involving the harnessing of energy resources for
human use, in a manner that supports lasting development [Munasinghe
(1995)]. We begin with a review of sustainable development itself,
before describing the key role of energy. The World Commission on
Environment and Development originally defined it as “development which
meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs”, and there have been many
subsequent redefinitions
Factorization of isometries of hyperbolic 4-space and a discreteness condition:
No full textGilman's NSDC condition is a sufficient condition for the discreteness of a two generator subgroup of PSL(2,C). We address the question of the extension of this condition to subgroups of isometries of hyperbolic 4-space. While making this new construction, namely the NSDS condition, we are led to ask whether every orientation preserving isometry of hyperbolic 4-space can be factored into the product of two half-turns. We use some techniques developed by Wilker to first, define a half-turn suitably in dimension 4 and then answer the former question. It turns out that defining a half-turn in this way in any dimension n enables us to generalize some of Gilman's theorems to dimension greater than or equal to 4. We also give an exposition on part of Wilker's work and give new proofs for some of his results.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-53)by Karan Mohan Pur
Energy issues in the developing world
No full textIn 1986 and 1987 the lower oil prices called into question many of the fundamental assumptions that were the stock in trade of energy experts during the previous ten years. This document is a collection of papers representing responses to concerns prepared by current and former World Bank staff. Although these papers raise a variety of different concerns, a common theme that runs throughout the paper is the need to continue the pursuit of efficiency goals in the energy sector. The developing world still needs large amounts of capital to meet its ever-expanding energy requirements. These capital requirements will be a significant part of most countries'total investment plan. Given the problems of debt and public revenues, the report concludes that the pursuit of efficiency is just as important under lower fuel prices as it is under rising fuel prices.Power&Energy Conversion,Urban Environment,Environmental Economics&Policies,Energy Demand,Energy and Environment
MAINE'S LOBSTER FISHERY - MANAGING A COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE
No full textResource /Energy Economics and Policy,
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