Sustainable Energy and Environment: An Earth System Approach

ISBN-13: 9781774634271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 392 str.

Sandeep Narayan Kundu; Muhammad Nawaz

Opis

Provides a holistic understanding of earth, energy, and the environment that discusses the interactions between the different parts of Earth—how energy is exchanged between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere, and how impacts it the environment in which we live.

Spis treści

Part 1: Earth  1. Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition  2. Minerals and Rock-Forming Processes  3. Earth’s Energy Balance and Climate  4. Mass Extinctions on Earth  Part 2: Energy 5. Energy and Electricity  6. Unconventional Fossil Fuels  7. Coal Seam Gas: Evaluation, Extraction and Environmental Issues  8. Minerals as Sources of Energy 9. Harvesting Energy from Wind  Part 3: The Environment  10. Environmental Impacts of Fossil Fuels  11. Geospatial Technology Applications in Environmental Disaster Management   12. Environmental Impacts of Renewable Energy  13. Geological Influence on Surface Water Quality

O autorze

Sandeep Narayan Kundu, PhD, is a geoscientist with over 20 years of experience in industry and academia alike. He currently serves as an adjunct faculty at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, and also works fulltime for Fugro Singapore Marine. Dr. Kundu has worked in various capacities in the energy exploration industry in the geoscience domain at multinational organizations. He also researched at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany; the Institute of Geoinformatics, Muenster, Germany; Indian Institute of Technology; and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Dr. Kundu is a recipient of the prestigious British Council Fellowship and the Junior Research Fellowship in Earth Sciences.

Muhammad Nawaz, PhD, is a geomorphologist with expertise in geographic information systems, decision support systems, and environmental science. Dr. Nawaz is a Netherlands Fellowship Programme fellow and currently works in the Faculty at the Department of Geography of the National University of Singapore. Since 1993, Dr. Nawaz has served at several different universities, including Punjab University in Pakistan and on the Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Prior to that, Dr. Nawaz worked as a Lecturer at the Environment Science eLearning at Charles Darwin University, Australia, and as Associate Head/Assistant Professor at the GIS Centre, University of the Punjab, Pakistan.