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Economics and Politics of Energy

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Editors:
  1. Behram N. Kursunoglu

    1. Global Foundation, Inc., Coral Gables

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  2. Stephan L. Mintz

    1. Florida International University, Miami

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  3. Arnold Perlmutter

    1. University of Miami, Coral Gables

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Nuclear Power Growth, Non-Proliferation, and Politics of Nuclear Energy

    1. Nuclear Materials Safeguards for the Future

      • J. W. Tape
      Pages 177-194

    2. The U.S.-Russian HEU Agreement: A Modern Day Example of Swords Into Plowshares

      • Philip G. Sewell
      Pages 195-198

  2. International Management of Nuclear Power Fuel Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. Thermal Issues with the U.S. High-Level Waste Repository and the Potential Benefits of Waste Transmutation

      • Gordon E. Michaels
      Pages 201-208

    3. Management of Russian Military Plutonium

      • C. Pierre Zaleski
      Pages 209-216

  3. Relevance of International Consensus Policies on Alternative National Energy Strategies as Related to Free Market Economic, Global Fuel Transportation Systems for Oil and Gas, Environmental Impact and Geopolitical Trends

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Transporting Oil from the Caspian Sea to Western Markets: A Turkish Perspective

      • Rafet Akgunay
      Pages 219-223

    3. Renewables: A Key Component of Our Global Energy Future

      • Dan Hartley
      Pages 225-235

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 237-238
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About this book

The 1995 conference was organized around two closely related themes and focused on the two pivotal aspects of energy, that is, economics and politics, both of which are decisive in providing long-term national and international strategies for the next century. Originally the program was going to include the participants from the new oil powers in Central Asia and Caucasus, newly independent from the former U.S.S.R. However, probably both economics and politics prevented their participation. Global energy projections, technological changes such as nuclear power and the fuel geopolitics of the coming century will be the basis for political and strategic planning. Based on the scenarios of likely global economic and population growth and of new energy technologies, what are foreseeable scenarios for the geopolitics of energy a half century ahead? What fresh worldwide systems should we start now? The political problems with profound economic impact could include, for example, the significance of the continuing worldwide growth of nuclear power, with such issues as the use of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) and Plutonium obtained from the dismantling of U.S. and former U.S.S.R. nuclear weapons; the urgency of nonproliferation; the disposal of civilian and military nuclear waste; and, nuclear power alternatives. In spite of U.S. reluctance, the increasing role of nuclear power is becoming apparent in several countries, and its potential has become an important political factor today.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Global Foundation, Inc., Coral Gables

    Behram N. Kursunoglu

  • Florida International University, Miami

    Stephan L. Mintz

  • University of Miami, Coral Gables

    Arnold Perlmutter

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Economics and Politics of Energy

  • Editors: Behram N. Kursunoglu, Stephan L. Mintz, Arnold Perlmutter

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b102315

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45387-8Due: 30 September 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-8575-3Published: 02 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-585-34288-7Published: 23 November 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 238

  • Topics: Environment, general, Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons

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