Energy and Climate Change
Creating a Sustainable Future
(Sprache: Englisch)
Over the past twenty years or so, interest in energy, both in the abstract and in humankind's use of it, has been brought to the fore, especially since concerns over climate change have become more widely reported.
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Over the past twenty years or so, interest in energy, both in the abstract and in humankind's use of it, has been brought to the fore, especially since concerns over climate change have become more widely reported.Energy and climate change discusses our current energy system, more sustainable alternatives, and why energy use is having a detrimental effect on the environment. Energy is placed at the front of a discussion of the global environment, technology and civilisation.
Problem solving is a central tool and is approached through the use of Fermi-like problems, where the reader is encouraged to explore relevant issues through simple numeric problem solving.
* Covers climate change, current energy technologies (e.g oil, gas, etc), renewable/alternative technologies, energy economics and the history of energy use
* Contains numerous student exercises and case-studies from around the world
* An invaluable text for those students taking courses in the physical sciences, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, geography and related subjects.
* Reflects on the international community and its attempts to solve the problem of climate change
* Additional teaching resources and weblinks available on the book's website www.wileyeurope.com/college/coley
Energy and the Global Environment provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject examining the relationship between energy and our global environment. The book covers the fundamentals of the subject, discussing what energy is, why it is important, as well as the detrimental effect on the environment following our use of energy. Energy is placed at the front of a discussion of geo-systems, living systems, technological development and the global environment, enabling the reader to develop a deeper understanding of magnitudes.
Learning is re-enforced, and the relevance of the topic broadened, through the use of several conceptual veins running through the book. One of these is an attempt to demonstrate how systems are related to each other through energy and energy flows. Examples being wind-power, and bio-mass which are really solar power via another route; how the energy used to evaporate sea water must be related to the potential for hydropower; and where a volcano's energy really comes from.
With fermi-like problems and student exercises incorporated throughout every chapter, this text will provide the perfect companion to the growing number of students taking an interest in the subject.
Learning is re-enforced, and the relevance of the topic broadened, through the use of several conceptual veins running through the book. One of these is an attempt to demonstrate how systems are related to each other through energy and energy flows. Examples being wind-power, and bio-mass which are really solar power via another route; how the energy used to evaporate sea water must be related to the potential for hydropower; and where a volcano's energy really comes from.
With fermi-like problems and student exercises incorporated throughout every chapter, this text will provide the perfect companion to the growing number of students taking an interest in the subject.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Energy and Climate Change “
- Preface- Introduction
Part I: Energy: concepts, history and problems
2. Power
3. The planet's energy balance
4. A history of humankind's use of energy
5. Sustainability, climate change and the global environment
6. Economics and the environment
7. Combustion, inescapable inefficiencies and the generation of electricity
Part II - Unsustainable energy technologies
8. Coal
9. Oil
10. Gas
11. Non-conventional hydrocarbons
12. Nuclear power
13. Hydropower
14. Transport and air quality
15. Figures and philosophy: an analysis of a nation's energy supply
Part III - Climate change: predictions and policies
16. Future world energy use and carbon emissions
17. The impact of a warmer world
18. Politics in the greenhouse: contracting and converging
Part IV - Sustainable energy technologies
19. Current world sustainable energy provision
20. Solar power
21. Photovoltaics
22. Wind power
23. Wave power
24. Tidal and small-scale hydropower
25. Biomass
26. Geothermal
27. Fast breeders and fusion
28. Alternative transport fuels and engines
29. Carbon sequestration and climate engineering
30. A sustainable, low carbon future?
- References
- Appendix 1: National energy data
- Appendix 2: Answers to in-text problems
- Appendix 3: Bibliography and suggested reading
- Appendix 4: Useful data
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Coley
- 2008, 1. Auflage, 256 Seiten, Maße: 24,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0470853131
- ISBN-13: 9780470853139
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.05.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"At its modest price it mustrepresent the bargain of the year." (Chromatographia, July2010) "As a text book for GCSE levelstudents, this title is worthy of 4 stars." ( Enagri eMagazine, May2010)
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