کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7400097 1481272 2015 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
There's nothing much new under the Sun: The challenges of exploiting and using energy and other resources through history
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
تحت خورشید هیچ چیز جدیدی نیست: چالش های بهره برداری و استفاده از انرژی و دیگر منابع از طریق تاریخ
کلمات کلیدی
رشد اقتصادی، نقش سان، نقش انرژی،
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی انرژی مهندسی انرژی و فناوری های برق
چکیده انگلیسی
The links between economic prosperity, or lack thereof, and the exploitation and use of energy and other natural resources go back to the earliest records of the human species - and in important respects even further back to when hunting and foraging characterised the earliest humanoid species. This paper surveys the challenges of resource exploitation and use, reflecting that as we exploit the most readily and cheapest resources, and extraction technology, available at the time, so the marginal returns of each tend to decline as the highest quality is depleted, costs rise, and alternatives are increasingly sought. There are few resources where this is truer than the various forms of energy which have been exploited down the ages. Many complex societies in the past have failed to make a successful transition, and the historic record demonstrates clearly the inadequacies of Solow-type growth theory. Scenarios of global energy prospects for the 21st Century need to consider the past and, in the light of it, ask whether the end of the Anthropocene Age is in sight or whether some kind of Promethean leap will come to the rescue.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Energy Policy - Volume 86, November 2015, Pages 804-811
نویسندگان
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