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Energy, Resources and Welfare
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Energy, Resources and Welfare

by Bent Sorensen
February 2016
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
7h 44m
English
Academic Press
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Chapter 4

Specific Issues and Case Narratives

Abstract

The chapter opens with a discussion of energy efficiency in each sector of current economies. A discussion of lifestyles, revolving around life in a community, development of skills and continued learning and education follows. The role of normative impositions is identified and questions of tolerance and treatment of minorities and minority views are raised. This leads to a discussion of conflict, violence and war, with a historical overview and followed by appraisal of the options for a more peaceful coexistence, focusing on possibly giving the United Nations a greater authority to intervene in conflicts, even within a nation, and notably to restrain the arms industry by banning arm’s trade, ...

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ISBN: 9780128032190