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Sustainable development encompasses economic, social, and ecological perspectives of conservation and change in natural resources. It is generally defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This definition is based on the ethical imperative of equity within and between generations. Moreover, apart from meeting; "the basic needs of all"; sustainable development implies sustaining the natural life support systems on Earth, and extending to all the opportunity to satisfy their aspirations for a better...

Resilience is the ability to avoid, minimise, withstand, and recover from the effects of adversity, whether natural or man-made, under all circumstances of use. This book describes the resilience of energy systems.

Dr. Naim Afgan's book Resilience of Energy Systems in Catastrophic Events contains clear exposition of the resilience concept, with application to nuclear, hydropower, coal-fired power, solar, wind, and high voltage transmission energy systems. He offers solutions to the problems inherent in increasingly complex power systems and analyzes the impact on these systems in the event of catastrophic events, both natural and the result of system malfunction, and provides assessment to prevent such events in future with the aim of creating sustainable, secure energy systems. The author's framework...

This book presents a collection of the materials the authors have published in the past few years and is made up of two parts. The part one is devoted to the new method for energy system evaluation based on the multicriteria assessment. The second part comprises application of the multicriteria method on different energy systems. The focus is on clean air technologies, new and renewable energy systems, hydrogen systems, biomass systems, solar systems and multicriteria evaluation water efficiency, water desalination systems and evaluation of heat sink design for computer systems.

The International Conference on New and Renewable Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development held in Ponta Delgada, Azores (2002), Portugal, has provided technology specialists and hardware developers with the opportunity to discuss, review and demonstrate the research directions, the design methodologies, and the production techniques leading to cost-effective energy technologies for sustainable development. The papers included in this volume are selected from those presented at the conference reflecting to present the state-of-the-art developments in the field. They should merge...

Sustainable development encompasses economic, social, and ecological perspectives of conservation and change in natural resources. It is generally defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This definition is based on the ethical imperative of equity within and between generations. Moreover, apart from meeting; "the basic needs of all"; sustainable development implies sustaining the natural life- support systems on Earth, and extending to all the opportunity to satisfy their aspirations for a...