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The cost of power : externalities in South Africa's energy sector
Bibliography: pages [201]-220.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/21698 The cost of power : externalities in South Africa's energy sector van Horen, Clive Economics Energy Research Bibliography: pages [201]-220. The long-awaited birth of political democracy in South Africa in 1994 has led to a fundamental re-assessment of policy in most sectors of society. Although the energy sector has witnessed a clrar shift away from the self-sufficiency concerns of the apartheid era, to more universal goals of economic efficiency, social equity and environmental sustainability, there has, as yet, been very little analysis of problems at the energy-environment interface. In this context, this thesis investigates environmental externalities arising in South Africa's energy sector. Two questions are posed: first and foremost, which environmental problems give rise to the most significant social costs? Secondarily, how helpful is an environmental economic analysis in this context? With respect to the first question, it is hypothesised that the external costs arising from two sectors are significant: the electricity generation sector, and the low-income, unelectrified household sector. Of these two, it is suggested that externalities in the latter are most serious. After reviewing the literature on externalities and environmental valuation, the thesis undertakes an empirical investigation of external costs in both energy sub-sectors. A classification system is developed and used to select those externalities in each sector which are potentially serious and regarding which there is sufficient information for quantification purposes. After reviewing a larger number of impacts, data are collected from both published and unpublished sources for four environmental externalities in the electricity sector, and six in the household sector. 2016-09-06T14:45:15Z 2016-09-06T14:45:15Z 1996 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21698 eng application/pdf School of Economics Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Economics Energy Research van Horen, Clive The cost of power : externalities in South Africa's energy sector |
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| title | The cost of power : externalities in South Africa's energy sector |
| title_full | The cost of power : externalities in South Africa's energy sector |
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| title_short | The cost of power : externalities in South Africa's energy sector |
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| topic | Economics Energy Research |
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