Transition Engineering: Building a Sustainable Future

ISBN-13: 9780367341268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 230 str.

Susan Krumdieck

Opis

Transition Engineering: Building a Sustainable Future examines new strategies emerging in response to global climate change, decline in oil supplies, scarcity of key industrial minerals and local environmental constraints. A methodology is presented for shifting from unsustainable activities, presented so that engineers can use it effectively.

Spis treści

1. The Mega-Problems of Unsustainability. 2. Problems of Unsustainability. 3. Complexity and Communication. 4. Transition Engineering. 5. InTIME Models and Methods. 6. Economic Decision Support. 7. Transition Economics: Balancing Costs and Benefits. 8. Conclusion and Discussion.

O autorze

Susan Krumdieck is professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand where she has taught energy transition engineering for 17 years. She is the co-founder and a Trustee of the Global Association for Transition Engineering (GATE). Professor Krumdieck serves on the editorial board for six journals, including Energies, Energy Conservation & Management and Biophysical Economics, and she has edited special issues of Energy Policy, Energies, and Sustainability.