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Title Acting in time on energy policy [electronic resource] / Kelly Sims Gallagher, editor.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009.

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Description xiv, 194 p. : ill., map.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acting in time on energy policy / Kelly Sims Gallagher -- Acting in time on climate change / Kelly Sims Gallagher -- Making carbon capture and storage work / Daniel P. Schrag -- Oil security and the transportation sector / Henry Lee -- Policy for energy technology innovation / Laura Diaz Anadon and John P. Holdren -- Electricity market structure and infrastructure / William W. Hogan -- Barriers to acting in time on energy and strategies for overcoming them / Max H. Bazerman.
Summary "Details the often incomplete, incoherent, and ineffectual U.S. energy policy, tackling specific policy questions: Why are these components of energy policy so important? How would 'acting in time'--not waiting until politics demands action--make a difference? What should our policy actually be? Proposes measures to overcome this counterproductive tendency"--Provided by publisher.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Energy policy -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Gallagher, Kelly Sims.
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ISBN 9780815702931 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0815702930 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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