Paradoxes Of Western Energy Development: How Can We Maintain The Land And The People If We Develop?

ISBN-13: 9780367297695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 327 str.

Cyrus M. McKell; Donald G. Browne; Elinor C. Cruze

Opis

This book evaluates western energy resources and discusses the consequences of development on the region's physical and social environments. It considers who will reap the economic benefits of development and who will bear the environmental costs?

Spis treści

About the Series -- Introduction -- Paradoxes in the Implementation of Environmental Regulations and Energy Resource Development Policies -- An Overview of the Issues -- Energy Development: A Western Perspective -- Environmental Regulations: The Western Energy Case -- What Has Happened to Enforcement of Environmental Regulations? -- Western Energy Resources -- An Overview of the Nation’s Treasurehouse -- Wyoming, an Example of Western Coal Development -- Significance of Recent Oil and Gas Discoveries in the Western Thrust Belt of the United States -- Oil Shale: A Resource Whose Time Has Come? -- Use of Environmental Resources -- The Role of Water in Energy Development -- Clean Air and Energy: From Conflict to Reconciliation -- Energy Development: A Challenge for Environmental Planning -- The Social and Economic Impacts of Western Energy Development -- An Overview of the Social Science Research -- Paradoxes of Western Energy Development: Socio-Cultural Factors -- An Assessment of the Accuracy and Utility of Socioeconomic Impact Assessments -- Energy Developments in the Arid West: Consequences for Native Americans -- Closing Comments: Resources and the Environment