Renewable Energy

Energy presents information and investigations on these seven concepts: * Sunlight contains energy. * Sound is produced by vibrations. * Electrical energy flows through electric circuits. * Magnetism is related to electricity. * Heat energy can be transferred. * Energy can change from one form to an... More

At a time of increasingly rapid environmental deterioration, sustainability is the most important issue facing the world today. Can we create a sustainable society? What would that mean? How should we go about doing it? How can we bring about such a profound change in the way things are organized? T... More

Ecological Footprinting is rapidly being adopted as the most effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large and small scale planning and development. Government agencies, NGOs, local authorities, planners and managers are all turning to it, since without a way o... More

The reality of the challenges to our globe, driven by population growth and climate change, is daunting and well understood. But solutions are much less clear. Judith Jacobsen and John Firor help us to chart a future in which these trends reverse and the global outlook is more optimistic.... More

This book is more than just a "palliative care" guide for the planet-it is about innovation, solutions, competitiveness and profitability. At work, at home and as members of society, our generation has an obligation-and an exciting opportunity-to be part of the solution in restoring the balance. The... More

Emphasizing the opportunities for creating a less vulnerable, more secureworld, this book addresses a broad range of needed reforms, including thoserelated to governance, economics, ethics, and education. With easy-to-readcharts and tables, this volume presents a view of our changing world that we,a... More

This book exposes how water flow links nature and society through water's many parallel functions as the 'blood stream' of both the biosphere and the imbedded anthroposphere, and the resulting conflicts that arise. The authors argue that a sustainable future depends fundamentally on our ability to m... More

Sustainable Cities in Developing Countries addresses the difficulties of balancing the imperatives of sustainability on the one hand with the pressing challenges facing some of the worlds most underdeveloped areas. World-renowned experts in the burgeoning field of urban studies and contributors from... More

In the light of the extensive debate surrounding the economics of scale of wind turbines, this timely work examines the engineering implications of developing lightweight compliant designs. Through the development of a unique modelling approach, the authors quantify the weight and cost of a diverse ... More

Sustainability is crucial for all institutions involved in international development. This book offers much-needed practical guidance on how to achieve it.There are 3 main kinds of sustainability and a section of the book is devoted to each: 1. Making the impact of the organization's work sustainabl... More

* Provides technical details on different renewable energy systems plus background information on climate change and related economics* Contains free CD-ROM, including simulation software and figures from the book* Ideal as a student text, including worked examplesBeginning with an overview of renew... More

*"Diversifying the energy mix is an economic and environmental imperative. To this end we need new technologies and the right policy frameworks to trigger and deploy them. This book offers knowledge and inspiration to promote renewable energy in developing and industrialised countries." -- Klaus Toe... More

BBC journalist and environmentalist Rory Spowers wanted to finally live his dream and abandon life in London for a more ecologically sustainable lifestyle. Moving with his wife and two toddler sons to a 60-acre abandoned tea estate in Sri Lanka, Rory sets out to create a model organic farm there and... More

This volume, the first in a new series on population and sustainable development, provides new ways of thinking about population trends in the 21st century. While the 20th century was the century of population growth with the world's population increasing from 1.6 to 6.1 billion, this book shows tha... More

Description: A study of business and sustainable development. It contains contributions on issues rapidly coming to dominate business strategy and organization, including: resource efficiency; clean production; life cycle analysis; social and environmental accountability; corporate reporting; and tr... More

This second edition contains a brand new case study section including case studies on local sustainability networks, regional sustainability networks, the sustainable state and networks for global action, plus a new conclusion as to the organizational requirements for sustainable developments in the... More

Ecology and Equity explores a society that is, in ecological terms, the most complex in the world. India’s people range from technocrats to hunter-gatherers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. This book provides the first analytically sophisticated and empirically grounded stu... More

Bridge the gap between materials science and device design for solar cells. This book is systematically divided into three parts that address different aspects of photovoltaic energy conversion.Bridge the gap between materials science and device design for solar cells. This book is systematically di... More

Thermal Engineering is a core course for engineering. This book covers the complete course, dealing with basic elements of mechanical engineering, gas laws, followed by steam, both at very low and beyond saturation pressures. Combustion has been given extensive coverage right from Furnaces to I.C.... More