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  • Energy Resources in Africa

    Distribution, Opportunities and Challenges

    by Herick Othieno, Joseph Awange ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book provides information on the distribution of the available energy resources throughout the continent and how it is linked to the development of individual states. Africa is considered one of the poorest continents in the world, mainly because its development has historically depended on imported resources including technical expertise. This view and its associated resource management ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Energy Democracy

    Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables

    by Craig Morris, Arne Jungjohann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book outlines how Germans convinced their politicians to pass laws allowing citizens to make their own energy, even when it hurt utility companies to do so. It traces the origins of the Energiewende movement in Germany from the Power Rebels of Schönau to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s shutdown of eight nuclear power plants following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The authors explore ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Challenging Legitimacy at the Precipice of Energy Calamity

    by Debra J. Davidson, Mike Gismondi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Human history has often been described as a progressive relinquishment from environmental constraints. Now, it seems, we have come full circle. The ecological irrationalities associated with industrial societies have a lengthy history, and our purpose in the proposed book is not to catalogue this litany of wrongs. Rather, this book is about political responses to global environmental crisis at a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Utility Communication Networks and Services

    Specification, Deployment and Operation

    Edited by Carlos Samitier ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This CIGRE green book begins by addressing the specification and provision of communication services in the context of operational applications for electrical power utilities, before subsequently providing guidelines on the deployment or transformation of networks to deliver these specific communication services. Lastly, it demonstrates how these networks and their services can be monitored, ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The European Emission Trading System and Its Followers

    Comparative Analysis and Linking Perspectives

    by Simone Borghesi, Massimiliano Montini, Alessandra Barreca ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Given the rapid spread of ETSs in an increasing number of countries and the important role that they are likely to play for the success or failure of the environmental policy in the years to come, this book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the EU ETS from both the legal and economic perspectives comparing it with the other main ETSs existing worldwide, in order to assess whether the EU ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Countering 21st Century Social-Environmental Threats to Growing Global Populations

    by Frederic R. Siegel ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book brings together in a single volume a grand overview of solutions - political, economic, and scientific - to social and environmental problems that are related to the growth of human populations in areas that can least cope with them now. Through progressive adaptation to social and environmental changes projected for the future, including population growth, global warming/climate change, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Metals, Energy and Sustainability

    The Story of Doctor Copper and King Coal

    by Barry Golding, Suzanne D. Golding ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explains how and where copper and fossil fuels were formed and the likely future for the extraction of copper and coal. The colourful chronology of our efforts to extract metals from minerals and energy from fossil fuels is presented from earliest times until the present day. The difficult concept of human sustainability is examined in the context of continually decreasing real prices of ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion

    by Colin J Campbell ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion, Second Edition, is the product of a half-century of critical analysis and updating of data on the status of oil and gas depletion by country, region and the world as a whole. Separate analyses of conventional and non-conventional oil and gas, which are depleting at different rates and costs, show when these critical energy sources peak and decline. The ... Read more

    $332.09 USD

  • International Mineral Economics

    Mineral Exploration, Mine Valuation, Mineral Markets, International Mineral Policies

    by Werner R. Gocht, Half Zantop, Roderick G. Eggert ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    International Mineral Economics provides an integrated overview of the concepts important for mineral exploration, mine valuation, mineral market analysis, and international mineral policies. The treatment is interdisciplinary, drawing on the fields of economics, geology, business, and mining engineering. Part I, Economic Geology and Mineral Development, examines the technical concepts important ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Drilling Down

    The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma

    by Joseph A. Tainter, Tadeusz W. Patzek ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the processes and institutions that generate and manage that growth. As societies grow more complex ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources

    Edited by Marc Bungenberg, Stephan Hobe ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Fifty years after the adoption of the Declaration on Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 1962, this volume assesses the evolution of the principle of permanent sovereignty over natural resources into a principle of customary international law as well as related developments. International environmental and human rights law leave ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Advances in Human Factors in Energy: Oil, Gas, Nuclear and Electric Power Industries

    Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors in Energy: Oil, Gas, Nuclear and Electric Power Industries, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA

    Edited by Paul Fechtelkotter, Michael Legatt, Sacit M. Cetiner ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book addresses human factors research in energy, an emphasis on human factors applications in design, construction, and operation of nuclear, electrical power generation, and oil and gas assets. It discusses advanced strategies in the optimization of human and environmental performance, as well as personal and process safety. The book covers a wealth of topics in design and operation ... Read more

    $143.09 USD