Books
Hermann Scheer, published by earthscan from Routledge, The Energy Imperative: 100 Percent Renewable Now.
The English translation of Der energethische Imperativ was released in December 2011.
ISBN-13: 978-1849714334
Published in December 2006, Earthscan/James & James, 300 pages, ISBN 1-84407-355-6
The Economic, Social and Technological Case for Renewable Energy
For 200 years industrial civilization has relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap carbon fuels. But continued reliance has had perilous consequences. On the one hand there is the insecurity of relying on the world’s most unstable region – the Middle East – compounded by the imminence of peak oil, growing scarcity and mounting prices. On the other, the potentially cataclysmic consequences of continuing to burn fossil fuels, as the evidence of accelerating climate change shows.
Published in May 2004, Earthscan/James & James, 386 pages, ISBN 1-84407-075-1
Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future
"The Solar Economy", by one of the world's most effective analysts and advocates, lays out the blueprints of how political, economic and technological challenges of sustaniable energy can be met using indigenous, renewable and universally available resources, and the enormous opportunities and benefits that will flow from doing so.
Second Edition, published April 2005, Earthscan/James & James, 272 pages. ISBN 1-90291-651-4.
Climate Change, pollution, deforestation, destruction of the ozone layer, poverty and the population explosion are all problems created or exacerbated by the use of conventional energy. Answers are now more urgently required than ever, and Hermann Scheer shows that this crisis may yet be reversed - but that this can only happen through a fundamental change in political and economic strategies, paving the way towards a global solar energy economy sustained by new social principles. This book champions the replacement of fossil and nuclear fuels with solar energy as a real solution to the threat to the environment and associated social consequences.
