Swedish nuclear dilemma: Energy and the environment
Abstract
One of the things that makes life both very frustrating and also very interesting is that accomplishing one objective frequently means backpedaling on another. Since economics is the study of tradeoffs, this means that there is generally plenty for economists to do. William Nordhaus is one of the best economists anywhere, and he has written a wonderful book about the tradeoffs faced by one country--Sweden--if and as it acts on a decision its citizens made in 1980 to phase out the use of nuclear power there. The author adds that this decision has been reaffirmed by the Swedish Parliament on several occasions since the 1980 referendum, though with some elusive qualifications. What will be both the environmental and also the economic implications of a Swedish phaseout of the use of nuclear power to generate electricity there. These are the two issues Nordhaus addresses in this book.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Resources for the Future, Inc., Washington, DC (United States); Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore, MD (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6210184
- Report Number(s):
- JHUP-0265/XAB
ISBN: 0-915707-84-5
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENT; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER; NUCLEAR POWER PHASEOUT; SWEDEN; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENERGY; EUROPE; POWER; SCANDINAVIA; WESTERN EUROPE; 290600* - Energy Planning & Policy- Nuclear Energy; 290201 - Energy Planning & Policy- Economics- (1992-)
Citation Formats
Nordhaus, W D. Swedish nuclear dilemma: Energy and the environment. United States: N. p., 1997.
Web.
Nordhaus, W D. Swedish nuclear dilemma: Energy and the environment. United States.
Nordhaus, W D. 1997.
"Swedish nuclear dilemma: Energy and the environment". United States.
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abstractNote = {One of the things that makes life both very frustrating and also very interesting is that accomplishing one objective frequently means backpedaling on another. Since economics is the study of tradeoffs, this means that there is generally plenty for economists to do. William Nordhaus is one of the best economists anywhere, and he has written a wonderful book about the tradeoffs faced by one country--Sweden--if and as it acts on a decision its citizens made in 1980 to phase out the use of nuclear power there. The author adds that this decision has been reaffirmed by the Swedish Parliament on several occasions since the 1980 referendum, though with some elusive qualifications. What will be both the environmental and also the economic implications of a Swedish phaseout of the use of nuclear power to generate electricity there. These are the two issues Nordhaus addresses in this book.},
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