Global Energy Perspectives
Edited by Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Arnulf Grubler, and Alan McDonald

Published by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 0-521-64569-7/Paperback/$27.95

Global energy needs are expanding with economic development around the world and population growth. There is now strong evidence that growing energy use risks damaging the environment and changing global climate. Consumers want higher levels of more efficient, cleaner, and less obtrusive energy services. How much of those needs will be met by fossil fuels, how much by alternative fuels, and how much by efficiency increases and expanded energy conservation is a crucial question and the focus of this book.

IIASA and the World Energy Council (WEC) present six alternative long-term energy futures. They cover a wide range - from a tremendous expansion of coal production to strict limits, from a phaseout of nuclear energy to a substantial increase, from carbon emissions in 2100 that are only one-third of today's levels to increases by more than a factor of three. All allow significant economic growth without exhausting energy resources, but all require substantial, yet different, early investments. These early investments will determine which fuels, technologies, efficiency gains, conservation patterns, and pollution levels are most likely to characterize the 21st century.

Global Energy Perspectives addresses issues that are of central concern to a very wide audience, since the provision of adequate energy services is a prerequisite for human development. The primary audience includes researchers, educators, policymakers in private and public sectors and other workers in the energy, technology, economics, and environmental areas, but the book will appeal to anyone interested in the future of energy systems and the environment.

The major quantitative results and assumptions of the study can be downloaded in tabular or graphical form with the help of an interactive Global Energy Perspectives Database. A CD-ROM with graphical illustrations of the main study results is available on request from IIASA.

The book can be ordered online from Amazon.com or from the Cambridge University Press Web site,  or by contacting:

Cambridge University Press
The Edinburgh Building
Shaftesbury Road
Cambridge CB2 2RU
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 (0)1223 312393 (switchboard)
Fax: +44 (0)1223 315052 (general)
Email: information@cup.cam.ac.uk

or

Cambridge University Press North American Branch
40 West 20th Street
New York NY 10022-4211
USA
Tel.: +1 212 924 3900
Fax: +1 212 691 3239
Email: information@cup.org