Large scale energy projects: Assessment of regional consequences

Book · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5116480

Lakshmanan, T R; Johansson, B

This book is the outcome of a collaborative research project between the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria, and the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston University, Boston, USA. The rationale for the research derives from the need to learn, in industrialized countries, to manage the transition from the pre-1973 world of cheap and abundant oil supplies toward newer flexible energy systems that are better adapted to the likely future economic and energy structures. In the last decade energy exporters have attempted to expand their capacities for production and export, while energy-importing countries have tried to combine energy conservation and energy supply augmentation strategies. Such large-scale adjustments in energy systems have pervasive effects on the economy, environment, and the social and institutional fabric. Consequently, the ability to implement such changes and attain energy security depends upon the capacity to manage their consequences to be consistent with other socially valued objectives (e.g. price stability, full employment, environmental quality). The project represents an effort to survey the various models and methods used for assessing the consequences of large-scale energy projects and understand, in a comparative framework, the various approaches to manage these consequences in the different decision frameworks and institutional settings of four countries. The results of the project embodied in this book could serve as a reference guide to policy analysis and decision markers concerned with ex ante assessments of large-scale energy initiatives.

• OSTI ID: 5116480
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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