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  • Sustainable Engineering for Life Tomorrow

    by Yomna K. Abdallah, Kheir Al-Kodmany, Julia Ann Baker, Figen Balo, Rupp Carriveau, Roberto Francisco Coelho, Peter Enevoldsen, Alberto T. Estévez, Fazil Gökgöz, Neveen M. Khalil, Rui Kou, Denizar C. Martins, Lindsay Miller, Negin Minaei, Sarah Nichol, Lenon Schmitz, Zhaoru Shang, Mostafa M. Sobhy, Lutfu S. Sua, Diaa El Deen M. Tantawy, Marco Tinggaard, George Xydis, Engin Yalçin, Haozhe Yi, Unal Yilmaz, Mingyuan Zhang, Ying Zhong ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    Sustainable Engineering for Life Tomorrow examines the future of sustainable engineering and architecture. The contributors' analyses of sustainable solutions, such as wind and solar power, offer valuable insights for future policy-making, scholarship, and the management of energy-intensive facilities. ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Sustaining Tomorrow Via Innovative Engineering

    by David S-k Ting, Rupp Carriveau ...
    We cannot continue on a business-as-usual, carbon fuel dependent mode of operation, because the consequences of doing so are catching up with us. So, what must we do to ensure there is a tomorrow?In this book, experts from around the world come together to shed light on what we can do to preserve and expand resources key to the survival of human civilization — from the state-of-the-art of ... Read more

    $84.59 USD

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  • Making the Modern World

    Materials and Dematerialization

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand for materials? These and many other questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization.Over the course of time, the modern world has become dependent on unprecedented flows of materials. Now even the most ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Energy at the Crossroads

    Global Perspectives and Uncertainties

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    An objective, comprehensive, and accessible examination of today's most crucial problem: preserving the environment in the face of society's insatiable demand for energy.In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern world's unceasing demand for energy with the absolute necessity to preserve the integrity of the biosphere ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Materials and the Environment

    Eco-informed Material Choice

    by Michael F. Ashby ...
    Materials and the Environment is the first book devoted solely to the environmental aspects of materials and their selection, production, use and disposal. Written by Mike Ashby, one of the world's foremost materials authorities, the book introduces methods and tools for thinking about and designing with materials within the context of their role in products and the environmental consequences. The ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Understanding the Bigger Energy Picture

    DESERTEC and Beyond

    by Michael Düren ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Energy
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book focuses on the global cycles of energy, water and carbon, which are not only the essentials of our main energy carriers, the fossil fuels, but are also the building blocks of life. The book offers an overview of the basic scientific facts and relationships that are needed to understand today’s energy generation and use, how they relate ... Read more

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  • Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-First Century

    The Hierarchy of Energy

    by Howard Odum ...
    Howard T. Odum possessed one of the most innovative minds of the twentieth century. He pioneered the fields of ecological engineering, ecological economics, and environmental accounting, working throughout his life to better understand the interrelationships of energy, environment, and society and their importance to the well-being of humanity and the planet.This volume is a major modernization of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Materials and the Environment

    Eco-informed Material Choice

    by Michael F. Ashby ...
    Materials and the Environment: Eco-Informed Material Choice, Second Edition, is the first book devoted solely to the environmental aspects of materials and their selection, production, use and disposal, by one of the world's foremost materials authorities. It explores human dependence on materials and its environmental consequences and provides perspective, background, methods, and data for ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Still the Iron Age

    Iron and Steel in the Modern World

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Although the last two generations have seen an enormous amount of attention paid to advances in electronics, the fact remains that high-income, high-energy societies could thrive without microchips, etc., but, by contrast, could not exist without steel. Because of the importance of this material to comtemporary civilization, a comprehensive resource is needed for metallurgists, non-metallurgists, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Africa-EU Renewable Energy Research and Innovation Symposium 2018 (RERIS 2018)

    23–26 January 2018, National University of Lesotho On occasion of NULISTICE 2018

    Edited by Moeketsi Mpholo, Dirk Steuerwald, Tonny Kukeera ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book presents the proceedings of the 2nd Africa-EU Renewable Energy Research and Innovation Symposium (RERIS 18), held in Maseru, Lesotho in January 2018. The symposium aimed to foster research cooperation on renewable energy between Africa and Europe – in academia, as well as the private and public sectors.Addressing thematic areas such as• Grid-connected renewable energy;• ... Read more

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  • Future Energy

    Improved, Sustainable and Clean Options for our Planet

    Edited by Trevor Letcher ...
    As the demand for global energy increases, fact-based evaluations of alternative energy sources are needed in order to address the growing interest in how energy is produced, provided, and transported in sustainable ways. Future Energy, Second Edition provides scientists and decision makers with the knowledge they need to understand the relative importance and magnitude of various energy ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Understanding the Global Energy Crisis

    Edited by Richard A. Simmons, Eugene D. Coyle ...
    Series series Purdue Studies in Public Policy
    We are facing a global energy crisis caused by world population growth, an escalating increase in demand, and continued dependence on fossil-based fuels for generation. It is widely accepted that increases in greenhouse gas concentration levels, if not reversed, will result in major changes to world climate with consequential effects on our society and economy. This is just the kind of intractable ... Read more

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