Justice, poverty, and electricity decarbonization

Power system balancing for deep decarbonization of the electricity sector

We explore the operations, balancing requirements, and costs of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council power system under a stringent greenhouse gas emission reduction target. We include sensitivities for technology costs and availability, fuel prices and emissions, and demand profile. Meeting an emissions target of 85% below 1990 levels is feasible across a range of assumptions, but the ...

Electricity Diversification, Decentralization, and Decarbonization: the Role of U.s. State Energy Policy

Globalizing Justice : The Ethics of Poverty and Power

Health equality, social justice and the poverty of autonomy.

How does the concept of autonomy assist public responses to 'lifestyle' diseases? Autonomy is fundamental to bioethics, but its emphasis on self-determination and individuality hardly supports public health policies to eat and drink less and take more exercise. Autonomy rejects a 'nanny' state. Yet, the cost of non-communicable diseases is increasing to individuals personally and to public heal...

Poverty , Inequality and Social Justice in Nonmetropolitan America