We analyze the long-run consequences at the city-metropolitan level if, given a reliance on conventional fossil fuel energy resources, such resources become vulnerable to supply disruption. For this eventuality, new energy sources not vulnerable to disruption should be developed as quickly as...

Current energy policies have severely eroded the earth's natural atmospheric waste-receptor capacity. Present acid rain concentrations may require a switch to an alternative energy-resource emphasis. This policy recommendation follows directly from a deductive control theory demonstration which...

Today government at all levels is being called upon to devise policies which minimize the negative impacts of the energy crisis, while continuing to meet broad social goals such as full employment. This paper analyzes four energy management tactics in terms of their economic viability and...