John Byrne
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 244577 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Byrne |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Byrne |
| ASSINATURA | BYRNE J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5626-0950 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
American policy conflict in the hothouse
In 2021, the U.S. government unveiled a national climate action plan, signaling the Biden Administration's intention to return the country to negotiations organized under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The plan would zero out CO2 emissions from the U.S. energy sector by mid-century. In response, the national opposition party quickly declared its goal to prevent the plan from being implemented, exposing a cycle of American climate …
Operationalising Capability Thinking in the Assessment of Energy Poverty Relief Policies
This study examines a broader application of capability thinking in energy justice research, especially in the assessment of energy poverty relief policies. We review two emerging topics in energy research—energy justice and the capability approach—and connect them at the conceptual level. We then use both Sen’s and Nussbaum’s versions of capability theory to define three categories of ‘energy capabilities’ related to (a) biological and physical …
Explaining the Evolution of China’s Government–Environmental NGO Relations since the 1990s
In recent years, government–environmental NGO (ENGO) relations in China have evolved to a point where collaboration is now evident. For example, the government is now purchasing a variety of services from ENGOs and allowing ENGOs to bring environmental lawsuits on behalf of the public interest. This article explains why government–ENGO relations, which were previously characterised by strong government control, have undergone substantial changes …
Environmental Justice
Should I Stay or Should I go? National Identity and Attitudes Towards Local Integration Among Liberian Refugees in Ghana
In the summer of 2009, focus groups and interviews were conducted with Liberian refugees living in the Buduburam Refugee Camp, Ghana. The purpose of this study was to learn about the national identity of individuals in protracted refugee situations, and how this influences attitudes towards durable solutions. Using a grounded theory approach, I develop a framework of Liberian national identity and evaluate how these conceptions of identity genera…
Crossing the Great Divide
The raw material, method of manufacture and modification of a ground‐edged hatchet‐head found at Vaucluse in Sydney provides evidence for the movement of stone tools from west of the Great Dividing Range to the coast. Such evidence adds new knowledge about social relationships between different groups in southeastern Australia and patterns of exchange that existed in the past
Relocating Energy in the Social Commons
Climate change, rising energy costs, and other dilemmas raise the prospect for major change in energy-ecology-society relations. Two prominent proposals for change include: a nuclear power renaissance; and mega-scale renewable energy development. Both suggest that modern society will receive a rising stream of less CO2-rich kilowatt-hours, so that increased energy consumption and economic growth can continue. The article doubts these CO2 claims a…
Bounding Neighbourhoods
The 'neighbourhood' holds an iconic position in planning, yet there has been long-standing empirical criticism and debates about both the use and intellectual underpinnings of the concept. Despite this, it continues to provide a focus for local area planning, local policy interventions and urban design approaches, including in 'new urbanism'. Neighbourhoods may be given physical dimensions so the boundaries that distinguish what is within and wha…
Hydrogen Highways
The hydrogen economy has received increasing attention recently. Common reasons cited for investigating hydrogen energy options are improved energy security, reduced environmental impacts, and its contribution to a transition to sustainable energy sources. In anticipation of these benefits, national and local initiatives have been launched in the United States, creating pilot “roadmaps” and technology partnerships to explore hydrogen economy plat…
Can Cities Sustain Life in the Greenhouse
Data from the Global Environmental Monitoring System indicate that pollutants such as sulphur dioxide and total suspended particulate routinely appear in the lower atmosphere of major cities at concentrations well above health guidelines set by the World Health Organization. As well, cities are major contributors to the build-up of greenhouse gases which now threaten climate change. These findings underscore the detrimental relation that has evol…
Ellul and the Weather
Global climate change may result in a wide array of social and environmental harms, and this prospect has given rise to an international treaty, the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Scientific uncertainties, nation state politics, and economic resistance had to be addressed before this landmark environmental agreement could be realized. However, questions remain about the foundations and core commitments of this agreement. Ellul's …
Commodification of Ghana's Volta River
Jacques Ellul argued that modernity's nearly exclusive reliance on science and technology to design society would threaten hunan freedom. Of particular concern for Ellul was the prospect of the technical milieu overwhelming culture. The commodification of the Volta River in order to modernize Ghana illustrates the Ellulian dilemma of the autonomy of technique. Displacing a commons way of life, the Volta River Project has imposed an energy commodi…
Electricity Reform at a Crossroads
A Johnsonian Moral
Renewable Energy for Rural Sustainability
Rural electrification is now and will remain an essential element for rural development in China and other developing countries. With more than half of the world’s population living in rural communities, lessons for rural renewable energy applications and assessment from China can be very helpful in defining a global sustainable development strategy. This paper describes energy needs in rural China, examines the resource availability of three pro…
Less Energy, a Better Economy, and a Sustainable South Korea
An energy efficiency scenario (Joint Institute for a Sustainable Energy and Environmental Future) demonstrates that an energy future built on the use of cost-effective, high-efficiency technologies is clearly within the grasp of South Korea and would justify a nuclear power moratorium with significantly lower carbon dioxide emissions. This is a promising result, especially because applications of other sustainable energy options, such as renewabl…
Renewable Energy for Rural Sustainability
The Postmodern Greenhouse
Climate change presents a fundamental challenge to the current global energy regime. Under the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international community is developing the architecture of a policy response. Three serious flaws are examined: (a) the potential sacrifice of small island states, (b) the use of market-based policy measures to commodify the atmospheric commons, and (c) the substitution of carbon sequestration for meaningful re…
Efficient Global Warming
As liberal democracies, what can the United States, Europe, and Japan be expected to embrace as “democratic” solutions to global environmental problems such as climate change? It is our argument that contradictions in liberal democratic politics lead these states to advocate solutions that are nature-as-commodity oriented and that idealize the notion of “managed nature.” In the case of climate change, we specifically argue that liberal democracie…
Life Science
Cybersublime
Sustainability
Nature is reacting to the activities of industrial societies in unanticipated and surprising ways. The prospect of global climate change, the thinning of stratospheric ozone, the increasing acidification of rain, snow, and even large bodies of water, and the steady decline in biodiversity have all been linked to the spread of industrial development. Yet the predominant view until recently has been that human activity had little, if any, determina…
Community Versus Commodity
Distribution costs of global climate change
The problem of global climate change links the issues of energy utilization, economic development, environmental degradation, and equity on a planetary scale. Questions concerning the scale and timing of the impact of continuously increasing emissions of greenhouse gases remain. A set of approaches has emerged which claim to objectively demonstrate that nothing or very little should be done to address this problem. These approaches rely on standa…
Sustainable urban development strategies for China
Sustainable urban development strategies for China considers the transition that needs to be made in China to achieve sustainable urban development. After outlining the links between economic growth and energy use, a conceptual framework is developed to contrast the major economic, technological, energy and environmental assumptions between conventional and sustainable development strategies. Using five of China's cities (Beijing, Guangzhou, Shan…
Explaining the Evolution of China’s Government–Environmental NGO Relations since the 1990s
In recent years, government–environmental NGO (ENGO) relations in China have evolved to a point where collaboration is now evident. For example, the government is now purchasing a variety of services from ENGOs and allowing ENGOs to bring environmental lawsuits on behalf of the public interest. This article explains why government–ENGO relations, which were previously characterised by strong government control, have undergone substantial changes …
Should I Stay or Should I go? National Identity and Attitudes Towards Local Integration Among Liberian Refugees in Ghana
In the summer of 2009, focus groups and interviews were conducted with Liberian refugees living in the Buduburam Refugee Camp, Ghana. The purpose of this study was to learn about the national identity of individuals in protracted refugee situations, and how this influences attitudes towards durable solutions. Using a grounded theory approach, I develop a framework of Liberian national identity and evaluate how these conceptions of identity genera…
Crossing the Great Divide
The raw material, method of manufacture and modification of a ground‐edged hatchet‐head found at Vaucluse in Sydney provides evidence for the movement of stone tools from west of the Great Dividing Range to the coast. Such evidence adds new knowledge about social relationships between different groups in southeastern Australia and patterns of exchange that existed in the past
American policy conflict in the hothouse
In 2021, the U.S. government unveiled a national climate action plan, signaling the Biden Administration's intention to return the country to negotiations organized under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The plan would zero out CO2 emissions from the U.S. energy sector by mid-century. In response, the national opposition party quickly declared its goal to prevent the plan from being implemented, exposing a cycle of American climate …
Sustainable urban development strategies for China
Sustainable urban development strategies for China considers the transition that needs to be made in China to achieve sustainable urban development. After outlining the links between economic growth and energy use, a conceptual framework is developed to contrast the major economic, technological, energy and environmental assumptions between conventional and sustainable development strategies. Using five of China's cities (Beijing, Guangzhou, Shan…
Ghastly science
Household Energy Use
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Deregulation and Energy Conservation
Chapter 5
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Household Energy Use
No abstract available for this article
Some Lessons in the Political Economy of Megapower
The municipal bond market is the institutional mechanism for allocating capital to cities and other tax-exempt borrowers. A key function of this market is to provide investors and borrowers with information that allows them to gauge relative degrees of risk in bond sales, including the possibility of default. The present study examines the risk signals communicated by the municipal bond market to potential investors in five nuclear power plant pr…
Nuclear Power and Technological Authoritarianism
When the lid blew off the Chernobyl No. 4 nuclear reactor on April 26, 1986, it released the largest quantity of radioactive material ever in one technological accident. The estimated 28 megacuries of escaping gases dwarfed the less than one megacurie released in the 1957 Windscale (U.K.) accident and the 17 curies from t.he l 979 Three Mi le Island (U.S.) accident. One hundred thirty-thousand people within a 30 kilometer radius were evacuated, a…
Nuclear Power and Technological Authoritarianism
Families and the Energy Transition
Technological Politics in the Nuclear Age
Ghastly science
Centralization, Technicization and Development On the Semi-Periphery
Energy & Environmental Sustainability in East and Southeast
Nuclear Optimism and the Technological Imperative
Urban Sustainability During Industrialization
Distribution costs of global climate change
The problem of global climate change links the issues of energy utilization, economic development, environmental degradation, and equity on a planetary scale. Questions concerning the scale and timing of the impact of continuously increasing emissions of greenhouse gases remain. A set of approaches has emerged which claim to objectively demonstrate that nothing or very little should be done to address this problem. These approaches rely on standa…
Sustainable urban development strategies for China
Sustainable urban development strategies for China considers the transition that needs to be made in China to achieve sustainable urban development. After outlining the links between economic growth and energy use, a conceptual framework is developed to contrast the major economic, technological, energy and environmental assumptions between conventional and sustainable development strategies. Using five of China's cities (Beijing, Guangzhou, Shan…
Sustainability
Nature is reacting to the activities of industrial societies in unanticipated and surprising ways. The prospect of global climate change, the thinning of stratospheric ozone, the increasing acidification of rain, snow, and even large bodies of water, and the steady decline in biodiversity have all been linked to the spread of industrial development. Yet the predominant view until recently has been that human activity had little, if any, determina…
Community Versus Commodity
Efficient Global Warming
As liberal democracies, what can the United States, Europe, and Japan be expected to embrace as “democratic” solutions to global environmental problems such as climate change? It is our argument that contradictions in liberal democratic politics lead these states to advocate solutions that are nature-as-commodity oriented and that idealize the notion of “managed nature.” In the case of climate change, we specifically argue that liberal democracie…
Life Science
Cybersublime
The Postmodern Greenhouse
Climate change presents a fundamental challenge to the current global energy regime. Under the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international community is developing the architecture of a policy response. Three serious flaws are examined: (a) the potential sacrifice of small island states, (b) the use of market-based policy measures to commodify the atmospheric commons, and (c) the substitution of carbon sequestration for meaningful re…
Renewable Energy for Rural Sustainability
Rural electrification is now and will remain an essential element for rural development in China and other developing countries. With more than half of the world’s population living in rural communities, lessons for rural renewable energy applications and assessment from China can be very helpful in defining a global sustainable development strategy. This paper describes energy needs in rural China, examines the resource availability of three pro…
Less Energy, a Better Economy, and a Sustainable South Korea
An energy efficiency scenario (Joint Institute for a Sustainable Energy and Environmental Future) demonstrates that an energy future built on the use of cost-effective, high-efficiency technologies is clearly within the grasp of South Korea and would justify a nuclear power moratorium with significantly lower carbon dioxide emissions. This is a promising result, especially because applications of other sustainable energy options, such as renewabl…
Renewable Energy for Rural Sustainability
A Johnsonian Moral
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