Dieter Helm is a Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford, and Professor of Energy Policy at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. His work delves into broader economic and environmental concerns, with a particular focus on the energy sector. He examines how businesses and governments can navigate the complex challenges of sustainability and resource efficiency. His analyses offer valuable insights into the future of energy and its societal implications.
The book offers a comprehensive examination of British energy policy from 1979, intertwining economic analysis with political and historical narratives. It highlights the impact of political pressures from advocates of nationalization and privatization, alongside environmental concerns, on the energy sector's evolution. The author emphasizes the government's role and the effects of technological advancements on the industry, which is crucial to the national economy.
Exploring the concept of a sustainable economy, this book delves into how future generations can be empowered to make choices about their lives while effectively tackling critical environmental issues like climate change and biodiversity loss. It presents a vision for an economy that prioritizes sustainability, ensuring that the needs of the present do not compromise the ability of future generations to thrive.
The third volume of this three-part series delves into cactus biology, covering morphology, conservation, and their use as crops. It includes insights into specialty nurseries and private collections, along with practical notes on cultivation. Additionally, readers will find a unique bonus featuring culinary cacti, complete with recipes for cooking.
In a new edition of his hard-hitting book on climate change, economist Dieter Helm looks at how and why we have failed to tackle the issue of global warming and argues for a new, pragmatic rethinking of energy policy
'One of the most important books of the decade' Country Life Finally, a practical, realistic plan to rescue, preserve and enhance nature.
Legacy answers one of the most important questions faces us today. What would an economy look like if it were to be sustainable and hence leave the next generation with the capabilities to choose how to live their lives, having addressed the great environmental challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss?
Hard-hitting recommendations for what must be done to manage global natural capital and reverse environmental destruction Natural capital is what nature provides to us for free. Renewables--like species--keep on coming, provided we do not drive them towards extinction. Non-renewables--like oil and gas--can only be used once. Together, they are the foundation that ensures our survival and well-being, and the basis of all economic activity. In the face of the global, local, and national destruction of biodiversity and ecosystems, economist Dieter Helm here offers a crucial set of strategies for establishing natural capital policy that is balanced, economically sustainable, and politically viable. Helm shows why the commonly held view that environmental protection poses obstacles to economic progress is false, and he explains why the environment must be at the very core of economic planning. He presents the first real attempt to calibrate, measure, and value natural capital from an economic perspective and goes on to outline a stable new framework for sustainable growth. Bristling with ideas of immediate global relevance, Helm's book shifts the parameters of current environmental debate. As inspiring as his trailblazing The Carbon Crunch, this volume will be essential reading for anyone concerned with reversing the headlong destruction of our environment.
An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change
What can we really do about the climate emergency? The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing - or even just slowing - it will affect all of us. But it can be done. In Net Zero the economist Professor Dieter Helm addresses the action we would all need to take, whether personal, local, national or global, if we really wanted to stop causing climate change. Net Zero is Professor Dieter Helm's measured, balanced view of how we stop causing climate change by adopting a net zero strategy of reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon absorption. It is a rational look at why the past 30 years efforts has failed and why and how the next 30 years can succeed. It is a vital book for anyone who hears the clamour of Extinction Rebellion and other ecological activists, but wonders what they can actually do.
Niedrige Ölpreise erschüttern die Weltwirtschaft. Der renommierte Energieexperte Dieter Helm erklärt, warum diese und besonders technologische Veränderungen unzweifelhaft ankündigen, dass das Zeitalter der fossilen Brennstoffe zu Ende geht. In seinem neuen provokativen Buch weist er nach, dass neue Technologien wie die Nanotechnologie die Nachfrage nach Öl, Gas und Kohle unaufhaltsam reduzieren – und dies schneller und effektiver als das in den Entscheidungszentren von Politik und Wirtschaft gedacht wird. Energiekonzerne und Erdöl exportierende Länder werden die Verlierer dieser Entwicklungen sein, während Staaten, die in neue Technologien investieren, als Sieger im geopolitischen Spiel dastehen könnten. Wie sollen Regierungen und Unternehmen reagieren? Dieter Helms Ratschläge sind radikal und überraschend, denn wir stehen am Beginn eines neuen Energiezeitalters. Mit einem Vorwort von Günther Oettinger.