Relationship Between Energy, our Global Environment and Creating a Sustainable Future

DUBLIN, Ireland--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c89003) has announced the
addition of "Energy and Climate Change: Creating a Sustainable Future"
to their offering.

"Energy and Climate Change: Creating a Sustainable Future"
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 provides the perfect companion to
the growing number of students taking an interest in the subject.

Key Topics:

-- Power

-- The planet's energy balance

-- A history of humankind's use of energy

-- Sustainability, climate change and the global environment

-- Economics and the environment

-- Combustion, inescapable inefficiencies and the generation of
electricity

-- Coal

-- Oil

-- Gas

-- Non-conventional hydrocarbons

-- Nuclear power

-- Hydropower

-- Transport and air quality

-- Figures and philosophy: an analysis of a nation's energy
supply

-- Future world energy use and carbon emissions

-- The impact of a warmer world

-- Politics in the greenhouse: contracting and converging

-- Current world sustainable energy provision

-- Solar power

-- Photovoltaics

-- Wind power

-- Wave power

-- Tidal and small-scale hydropower

-- Biomass

-- Geothermal

-- Fast breeders and fusion

-- Alternative transport fuels and engines

-- Carbon sequestration and climate engineering

-- A sustainable, low carbon future?

For more information visit
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c89003

Research and Markets
Laura Wood, Senior Manager
Fax: +353 1 4100 980
press@researchandmarkets.com

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