ENE 114: Earth, Environment & Humanity
An investigation of the Earth with emphases on the opportunities available to and the constraints upon humankind arising from properties of the Earth, and on the effects of human activities on the natural environment.
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Just a selection of print and online books that focus on sustainability - agriculture, energy and transportation. Use books as a starting point, to help generate ideas regarding your chosen topic. And be sure to browse the shelves or online to find other related books.
Cycling and Sustainability by ISBN: 9781780522999Publication Date: 2012-05-18This book explores the reasons for difficulties in making cycling mainstream in many cultures, despite its claims for being one of the most sustainable forms of transport.
Energy for Sustainability, Second Edition by ISBN: 9781610918213Publication Date: 2018-08-01Despite a 2016-18 glut in fossil fuel markets and decade-low fuel prices, the global transformation to sustainable energy is happening. Our ongoing energy challenges and solutions are complex and multidimensional, involving science, technology, design, economics, finance, planning, policy, politics, and social movements.
The Fate of Greenland by ISBN: 9780262295468Publication Date: 2011-03-25Experts discuss how Greenland's warming climate--seen in its melting ice sheets and retreating glaciers--could affect the rest of the world.
Future of Sustainable Agriculture in Saline Environments by ISBN: 9781000401141Publication Date: 2021-06-24Food production on present and future saline soils deserves the world's attention particularly because food security is a pressing issue, millions of hectares of degraded soils are available worldwide, freshwater is becoming increasingly scarce, and the global sea-level rise threatens food production in fertile coastal lowlands.
Green Illusions by ISBN: 9780803243361Publication Date: 2012-06-01We don't have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about what's wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem.
The Ice at the End of the World by Call Number: G743 .G453 2019ISBN: 9780812996623Publication Date: 2019-06-11A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change "Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited.
Renewable Energy by ISBN: 9781634856713Publication Date: 2016-01-01This book provides current research on the sources, applications and emerging technologies of renewable energy.
Sustainable Agriculture by ISBN: 9781614806882Publication Date: 2013-01-01Food for thought -- The history of agriculture -- The importance of sustainable agriculture -- Biotechnology and genetic engineering -- Precision agriculture -- Biodiverse farming systems -- Sustainable energy -- The future of sustainable agriculture.
Sustainable Urban Transport by ISBN: 9781784416157Publication Date: 2015-05-14The requirement for sustainable transport in urban areas has become more onerous in the past decade due to a number of negative externalities which have been increasingly associated with growing mobility and the advances made in the technology and available options for sustainable transport.
Synergies for Sustainable Energy by ISBN: 9781608075447Publication Date: 2013-01-01Here's a one-stop volume that takes a unique approach to addressing today's complete range of clean energy challenges, technologies, and associated issues. This book highlights synergistic opportunities, showing how energy efforts in different sectors can be integrated, capitalizing on the strengths of each to create better, more cost-effective solutions.
Ways Out of the Climate Catastrophe by ISBN: 9783030851323Publication Date: 2022Provides an entertaining presentation of the essential issues of energy policy and its impact
Answers pressing questions which everybody is asking her or himself
Detailed facts in in narrative form on what is arguably the most important problem of our time.
Wind and Solar Based Energy Systems for Communities by ISBN: 9781785615450Publication Date: 2018-03-26A sustainable community energy system is an approach to supplying a local community - ranging from a few homes or farms to entire cities - with its energy requirements from renewable energy or high-efficiency co-generation energy sources.
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