Ferrey, S. (2010). The Failure of international global warming regulation to promote needed renewable energy. Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, 37(1), 67-126. Retrieved from GreenFILE database.
Ferrey's article reviews international standards for global warming reduction and claims that the current regulations and suggestions do not address the need for renewable energies. The work claims that without this aspect of the regulations and suggestions being adopted by the Kyoto protocols the plan will ultimately not answer for this significant need, which could in part be why the U.S. did not sign the Kyoto protocols. Currently the researcher claims the system only offers limitations for fossil fuel consumption but does not offer or mandate significant interests in renewable energy sources and therefore is only a one sided mandate system. This then leaves all the answers to these questions entirely up to the nations involved. These nations are left with the burden then of using less energy with no replacements being offered as acceptable to replace them. The impact of this one sided mandate is according to the researcher then a completely one sided and unusable system that will not likely be effective, especially in nations without significant scientific focus on such technologies and alternatives. Ferrey stresses that technologies for renewable energy exists today and are being perfected by science almost daily and unless the international community demands that they be used to replace fossil fuel energy production on a large scale the international protocols for fossil fuel use reduction will likely fail.
Kaygusuz, K. (2009). The role of hydropower for sustainable energy development. Energy Sources Part B: Economics, Planning & Policy, 4(4), 365-376. doi:10.1080/15567240701756889.
Kayagusuz discusses the role of hydropower, an existing and highly utilized form of renewable power, in the future of renewable energy production. There has been an enduring global debate regarding large damns for the production of renewable energy for a host of reasons. Kaygusuz discusses some of those reasons not the least of which are the social, land and water use issues that are altered significantly when big damns are constructed. The concern for Kaygusuz is that the amount energy used in the world has increased substantially in the last century and will continue to rise, not the least in part to expansion of energy use in developing nations. The author contends that answering many of these questions including how the hydropower industry could mitigate disasters such as the utter loss of water use in certain areas and/or the reduction of livability and lack of energy production. Because hydropower technology can answer many of these issues, with proper planning and implementation it should continue to be a big part of renewable energy production. Kaygusuz stresses that the U.S. And other developed nations with significant current production of hydropower should serve as an example for both the good and bad of hydropower and allow developing nations to reap the benefits and rewards of years of know how regarding hydropower production.
Knudsen, J. (2010). Integration of Environmental Concerns in a Trans-Atlantic Perspective: The Case of Renewable Electricity. Review of Policy Research, 27(2), 127-146. doi:10.1111/j.1541-1338.2009.00434.x.
Knudsen discusses how the U.S. compares to other nations in its assessment of renewable energy production as a fundamental answer to global climate change. The work compares six New England U.S. states in their promotion of renewable energy as a change agent in the reduction of global climate change. The comparison is to European Nordic nations. The findings are that the six U.S. states studied do not causally link renewable energy production with climate change issues and that the European Nordic comparison does. The author sites that the EU top down structure for assessing the causal factors of global climate change and answering it with renewable energy as a direct link to change is more effective in making people and policy reflective of this real connectivity. The article speaks directly to the fact that the U.S. has been relatively fractured in its connection of climate change to renewable energy because of its fundamental states rights structure but also because the U.S. population...
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