Engineering Sustainable Life on Earth: Alleviating Adverse Climate Change Through Better Design

ISBN-13: 9781032044965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 188 str.

John F. Coplin

Opis

Climate scientists have clarified the main causes of climate change, and the tight timescale within which humans must change behaviour. This book uncovers many of the powerful actions and use them effectively to achieve sustainable human life, of improved quality, in a way that is affordable out of earned income for all humans.

Spis treści

Foreword   Part I: The Big Reset  1. Engineering Extinction?  2. Why Design Engineering?  3. How Did We Get Here? The Legacy of the Industrial Revolution  4. The Technology Revolution  Part II: Clean Energy  5. Energy Storage Systems  6. Renewables  7. (Decentralised) Nuclear Power  8. Building a Clean Grid  Part III: Transport
  9. Cars  10. Commercial Aviation  Part IV: Food and Agriculture  11. Food  12. Farming and Agriculture  Part V: Homes and Housing  13. Urbanisation vs Dispersed Communities  Part VI: Unheeded Warnings and Critical Actions  14. Unheeded Warnings  15. Critical Actions  Acknowledgements

O autorze

John F. Coplin, aeronautical engineer, chief designer of Rolls-Royce’s RB211 aeroengine. During the 1990s, he was UK science and technology advisor to the Indonesian President. Previously a visiting professor on engineering design to Oxford University and Imperial College and Associate Fellow in Design Engineering at the University of Warwick.