Energy Efficiency and Human Activity
Past Trends, Future Prospects

This book, first published in 1992, provides clear data and analysis which will be vital to the energy research community.

Lee Schipper (Author), Stephen Meyers (Author), Richard B. Howarth (With), Ruth Steiner (With)

9780521432979, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 November 1992

400 pages, 44 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.76 kg

'Schipper makes people uncomfortable in order to make the world more comfortable. More power to his probing, insistent elbow.' New Scientist

This book, sponsored by the Stockholm Environment Institute and first published in 1992, presents a detailed analysis of changes in world energy use over the past twenty years. It considers the future prospects of energy demand, and discusses ways of restraining growth in consumption in order to meet environmental and economic development goals. Based on a decade of research by the authors and their colleagues at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute, it presents a wealth of information on energy use and the forces shaping it in the industrial, developing, and formerly planned economies. The book provides an invaluable overview of the potential for improving energy efficiency, and discusses the policies that could help realize the potential. While calling for strong action by governments and the private sector, the authors stress the importance of considering the full range of factors that will shape realization of the energy efficiency potential around the world.

1. Introduction
2. World energy use since 1970: an overview
3. Historic trends in manufacturing
4. Historic trends in transportation
5. Historic trends in the residential sector
6. Historic trends in the service sector
7. Trends between 1973 and 1988: summary and key issues
8. Outlook for activity and structural change
9. Energy intensities: prospects and potential
10. Scenarios of future energy intensities
11. Restraining energy use: policies and programs
12. Energy and human activity: steps towards a sustainable future.

Subject Areas: Energy technology & engineering [TH]