TY - GEN AB - This book serves as a starting point for energy engineers, sustainability managers, political leaders, and properly informed citizens to explore the net value added by energy systems. Since some resources deplete and some new technologies will require time to emerge, the book takes the reader through the range of costs and benefits, considering the contexts of geography, human needs, and of time. The book takes a particularly close look at the underdeveloped world that currently lacks access to modern energy, and which is crippled by its dependence on dirty, inefficient biomass fuels to meet bare subsistence needs. The authors provide evidence for the reality that energy provides tremendous social value, ranging from the most basic survival to development, to great luxury, inevitably, at a cost. Based on this evidence the reader will be well-equipped to ask the questions: Which energy resources should be abandoned and which should be embraced as we strive for a sustainable future? AU - Martínez, Daniel M., AU - Ebenhack, Ben W., CN - HD9502.A2 DO - doi ID - 841958 KW - Power resources KW - Renewable energy sources. KW - sustainable energy KW - sustainable development KW - energy KW - sustainability KW - development KW - environmental sustainability KW - energy policy KW - energy transitions KW - energy access KW - energy resources KW - energy supply KW - environment KW - environmental KW - Developing World KW - environmental science KW - oil & gas KW - shale plays KW - energy systems KW - petroleum engineering KW - energy analysis KW - pollution KW - energy science LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4389013 N2 - This book serves as a starting point for energy engineers, sustainability managers, political leaders, and properly informed citizens to explore the net value added by energy systems. Since some resources deplete and some new technologies will require time to emerge, the book takes the reader through the range of costs and benefits, considering the contexts of geography, human needs, and of time. The book takes a particularly close look at the underdeveloped world that currently lacks access to modern energy, and which is crippled by its dependence on dirty, inefficient biomass fuels to meet bare subsistence needs. The authors provide evidence for the reality that energy provides tremendous social value, ranging from the most basic survival to development, to great luxury, inevitably, at a cost. Based on this evidence the reader will be well-equipped to ask the questions: Which energy resources should be abandoned and which should be embraced as we strive for a sustainable future? SN - 9781606502655 T1 - Valuing energy for global needs :a systems approach / TI - Valuing energy for global needs :a systems approach / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4389013 ER -