An Introduction to Sustainable Resource Use

ISBN-13: 9781844079261 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 256 str.

Callum A. S. Hill

Opis

This text explores the challenges our society faces in making the transition to renewable source use in a way that is truly sustainable - environmentally, economically and socially.

Spis treści

1. Background (Crisis? What Crisis?) 2. Thermodynamics (The Science of Energy and Change) 3. Resources (How Much is Left?) 4. Consumption (If We All Get Richer is this Good for the Planet?) 5. Impacts (The Consequences of Resource Use) 6. Ecologic (Integrating Industry with Nature) 7. Feedstocks (How Can Plants Supply our Technical Needs?) 8. Forestry (Criminal or Saviour?) 9. Conclusions (The End or the Beginning?)

O autorze

Callum Hill is the Edinburgh Research Partnership funded Chair of Materials Science in the Forest Products Research Institute at Edinburgh Napier University. He has been conducting research into renewable and sustainable materials for over fifteen years and has published extensively in this area.