This brief analysis, which is based on unclassified sources, seeks to identify what some of the implications would be if the Soviets started to move actively to try to provide reprocessing and MOX fabrication services to the US and other countries. While information on Soviet intentions is...

Der WBGU zeigt, dass eine globale Energiewende unerlässlich ist, um die natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen der Menschheit zu schützen und die Energiearmut in den Entwicklungsländern zu beseitigen. Nur durch einen grundlegenden Umbau der Energiesysteme lässt sich eine nicht nachhaltige Entwicklung...

Die Workshop-Dokumentation entstand im Rahmen des hochschulübergreifenden Projektes „Partizipative Entwicklung von Indikatoren der Nachhaltigkeit. Ein Beitrag zu einer prozessorientierten Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie“. Es wurde Anfang März 200 bis April 2001 von Wissenschaftlerinnen und...

Historically, the electric utility industry has been regarded as one of the most open industries in the United States in sharing information but their reputation is being challenged by competitive energy providers, the general public, regulators, and other stakeholders. As the prospect of...

An analysis of the impact of the political disruption in Iran on the world oil market is presented. During the first quarter of 1979, this disruption caused a loss of approximately 5 million barrels per day (MMBD) of oil production available for export from Iran to the rest of the world. This...

In keeping with a mandate from the US Congress to provide opportunities for consumer education and information and to seek consumer input on national issues, the Department of Energy's Office of Consumer Affairs held a three-hour educational forum on the proposed nuclear waste disposal...

Prosperity Games TM are an outgrowth and adaptation move/countermove and seminar War Games. Prosperity Games TM are simulations that explore complex issues in a variety of areas including economics, politics, sociology, environment, education, and research. These issues can be examined from a...

This report reviews recent global efforts to privatize energy resources and outlines the opportunities and challenges privatization has presented to U.S. and foreign multinational energy companies. The group of energy companies studied in this report includes the major U.S. petroleum companies...

In this paper the author looks at the question of placing values on the costs of pollution generated in power plants, in their effects of human health and welfare, and environmental harm, and how these values are assigned and applied in practice. The concept of placing such values on pollution...

Direct and indirect techniques are being used to estimate economic consequences of proximity to existing or proposed public facilities. The hedonic price theory, an indirect technique, is the most logically suited, especially for capturing the shadow or implicit price of a characteristic such as...