Health Risks of Energy Technologies

ISBN-13: 9780367019655 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 292 str.

Curtis C. Travis; Elizabeth L. Etnier

Opis

This text examines occupational, public health, and environmental risks of the coal fuel cycle, the nuclear fuel cycle, and unconventional energy technologies. Includes detailed coverage of the relationship between energy economics and risk analysis, assessing the problems of applying traditional cost-benefit analysis to long-term environmental problems (such as global carbon dioxide levels), questions about the public's perception and acceptance of risk, global risks associated with current and proposed levels of energy production and consumption from all major sources.

Spis treści

Introduction 1 Judging the Health Risks of Energy 2 Health Risks from the Nuclear Fuel Cycle-- 3 Health Risks of Coal Energy Technology-4 Health and Safety Impacts of Renewable, Geothermal, and Fusion Energy-5 Global Risks from Energy Consumption-6 Economic Valuation of the Risks and Impacts of Energy Development

O autorze

Curtis Travis (Author) , Elizabeth Etnier (Author)