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Stockholm Initiative on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (SEED)
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
natural resources forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.646
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1477-8947
pISSN - 0165-0203
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-8947.1992.tb00564.x
Subject(s) - sustainable development , electricity , environmental economics , business , efficient energy use , environmental degradation , power (physics) , environmental planning , natural resource economics , environmental resource management , environmental protection , environmental science , economics , engineering , ecology , biology , physics , electrical engineering , quantum mechanics , political science , law
The power sector is a major contributor to environmental degradation. Electric power is also central to development. Energy efficiency, obtainable through power systems rehabilitation and sustainable improvements in institutional performance, is the most cost‐effective route to reducing environmental damage while increasing electricity services delivered to end‐users. Strategies to harmonize environment and development must therefore have energy efficiency as their centrepiece within the overall framework of social and economic development.