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  • The Environmental Management of Low-Grade Fuels

    by Mary MacDonald, Michael Chadwick, Gareg Aslanian ...
    Series series Energy and Infrastructure Set
    The negative environmental impacts of energy use, particularly soil and water pollution, continue to present serious policy dilemmas. The release of emissions and effluents and the build-up of solid waste throughout the fuel cycle have disruptive effects on natural habitats and human health. Further, fuel combustion can result in the emission of carbon dioxide, ozone, methane and nitrogen dioxide ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Making the Most of the Water We Have

    The Soft Path Approach to Water Management

    Edited by David B. Brooks, Stephen Gurman, Oliver M. Brandes ...
    Based on the ‘soft path approach to the energy sector, a transition is now under way to a soft path for water. This approach starts by ensuring that ecosystem needs for water are satisfied and then undertakes a radical approach to reducing human uses of water by economic and social incentives, including open decision-making, water markets and equitable pricing, and the application of super ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Biocapital

    The Constitution of Postgenomic Life

    by Kaushik Sunder Rajan ...
    Biocapital is a major theoretical contribution to science studies and political economy. Grounding his analysis in a multi-sited ethnography of genomic research and drug development marketplaces in the United States and India, Kaushik Sunder Rajan argues that contemporary biotechnologies such as genomics can only be understood in relation to the economic markets within which they emerge. Sunder ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Energy Investments

    An Adaptive Approach to Profiting from Uncertainties

    by Ricardo G. Barcelona ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book examines what lies behind the uncertainties surrounding the fuel and power markets. Exploring the role of renewables and how they potentially disrupt or create opportunities, it challenges widely accepted wisdoms in investment. The author asks questions such as: Are “business as usual” strategies that favour fossil fuels the best route to future prosperity? What prospects do firms face ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Energy Transition

    An Overview of the True Challenge of the 21st Century

    by Vincent Petit ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Against the backdrop of rapid advances in the energy sector, this book provides a concise overview of the complex challenges in the energy paradigm today, which revolve around the seemingly unsolvable energy equation.The author, an experienced energy professional, combines the various aspects of the energy transition into a single perspective. While highlighting a number of salient problems, he ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Biomass Assessment

    by Andrew Millington, John Townsend ...
    Series series Energy and Infrastructure Set
    Energy is an issue for everyone and nowhere more so than in the SADCC countries. But for sensible policy and planning, clear information about the extent of resources is needed.This innovative study combines the results of field assessment of biomass with advanced techniques in remote sensing by satellite to give the first comprehensive and detailed picture of biomass distribution throughout the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Nuclear Juggernaut

    The transport of radioactive materials

    by Martin Bond ...
    Series series Energy and Infrastructure Set
    Every day throughout Britain, by road, by rail and by sea, there are large numbers of routine movements of radioactive cargo. Materials at all stages of the nuclear cycle, from uranium ore to nuclear waste, from nuclear warheads to radioactive isotopes used in medicine, are constantly on the move. In normal circumstances handling low-level material exposes workers to small doses of radiation, but ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Transport Policy and the Environment

    Six case studies

    by Kenneth Button ...
    Series series Energy and Infrastructure Set
    Transport, in particular the motor vehicle, is a major source of environmental disruption and, in the developed world, accounts for thirty percent of energy consumption. In most countries, transport policy is a major government concern, yet it is rare for decisions to be made outside a narrow set of sectoral considerations.This book, commissioned by the OECD, looks at seven countries; the UK, the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Personal Transport and the Greenhouse Effect

    by Peter Hughes ...
    Series series Energy and Infrastructure Set
    The issue of 'sustainability' in the developed world is nowhere more critical than in the field of personal travel, which in many countries has become the fastest-growing contributor to global warming. Unless the use of cars can be brought under control, there is little chance of meeting government targets for reducing greenhouse emissions.Personal Transport and the Greenhouse Effect sets out the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Fuelwood Trap

    A study of the SADCC region

    by Barry Munslow, Yemi Katerere, Adriaan Ferf, Phil O'Keefe ...
    Series series Energy and Infrastructure Set
    Over 60 million people live in the SADCC countries; by 2000 AD the number will be over 100 million. The vast majority, city-dwellers as well as farmers, rely on wood fuel for domestic use. Supplies are diminishing as consumption grows. The quality of life is deteriorating yet further and the environment is more and more degraded.But these phenomena are not simply the consequence of a wood shortage ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Energy Policy in the Greenhouse

    From warming fate to warming limit

    by Florentin Krause, Wilfrid Bach, Jon Koomey ...
    Series series Energy and Infrastructure Set
    The globe is warming and while no one knows what will happen as a result, it is clear that slowing the process is a necessary goal. Other studies have considered 'warming fates', this one brings sophisticated computer modeling to bear on ways of minimizing the risks.Fossil carbon emissions, other trace gases and releases from other sources are all taken into account, and the authors demonstrate ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The British Electricity Experiment

    Privatization: the record, the issues, the lessons

    by John Surrey ...
    Series series Energy and Infrastructure Set
    In 1990, energy in the UK underwent a unique and fundamental transformation, with the privatization of the electricity supply industry. This is the first book to fully assess the experiment. It first explains how – and why – the British electricity supply industry was privatized. It then identifies the subsequent changes in electricity prices, profits, employment, investment, nuclear power and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD