Taming the Big Green Elephant, Ariel Macaspac Hern?ndez
Автор: Gordon, Deborah, Название: No standard oil : ISBN: 0190069473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190069476 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4988.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In No Standard Oil, environmental policy expert Deborah Gordon examines the widely varying climate impacts of global oils and gases, and proposes solutions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in this sector while making sustainable progress in transitioning to a carbon-free energy future.
Автор: Egan Название: Research Agendas in EU Studies ISBN: 0230555241 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230555242 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Leading scholars explore the complex questions arising from the ongoing transformation of Europe through the deepening and widening effects of European integration. Based on authoritative analyses, the book takes account of the many national, transnational and international processes and contexts in which European integration has become embedded.
Автор: Wang Название: Big Data for Urban Sustainability ISBN: 3319736086 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319736082 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book presents a practical framework for the application of big data, cloud, and pervasive and complex systems to sustainable solutions for urban environmental challenges.
Автор: Saxena Neha, Mandal Ajay Название: Natural Surfactants: Application in Enhanced Oil Recovery ISBN: 3030785475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030785475 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This book focuses on the use of natural surfactants in enhanced oil recovery, providing an overview of surfactants, their types, and different physical-chemical properties used to analyse the efficiency of surfactants.
Natural surfactants discuss the history of the surfactants, their classification, and the use of surfactants in petroleum industry. Special attention has been paid to natural surfactants and their advantages over synthetic surfactants, including analysing their properties such as emulsification, interfacial tension, and wettability and how these can be used in EOR. This book offers an overview for researchers and graduate students in the fields of petroleum and chemical engineering, as well as oil and gas industry professionals.
Описание: Global cities are facing an almost unprecedented challenge of change. As they re-emerge from the Covid 19 pandemic and get ready to face climate change and other, potentially existential threats, they need to look for new ways to support wealth and wellbeing creation – leveraging Big Data and AI and suing them into their physical reality and to become greener, more inclusive and resilient, hence sustainable. This book describes how new digital technologies could be used to design digital and physical twins of cities that are able to feed into each other to optimize their working and ability to create new wealth and wellbeing. The book also describes how to increase cities’ social and economic resilience during crisis time and addressing their almost fatal weaknesses – as it became all too obvious during the recent COVID 19 crisis. Also, the book presents a framework for a critical discussion of the concept of “smart-city”, suggesting its development into a “cyber” and “meta” one – meaning, not only digital systems can allow physical ones (e.g. cities, citizens, households and companies) to become “smarter”, but also the vice versa is true, as off line data and real life behaviours can support the optimization and development of virtual brains as a sum of big data and artificial intelligence apps all sitting “over the cloud”. An analysis of the fundamental dynamics of this emerging “info-telligence” economy, and of the potential role of big digital players like Amazon, Google and Facebook is then paving the way to discuss a few strategic forays on how traditional sectors such as financial services, real estate, TMT or health could also evolve, leveraging Big Data and AI in a cyber-physical integrated setting. Finally, a number of thought provoking use cases that could be designed around individuals, and to improve the success and the resilience of households and companies living and working in urban areas are discussed, as an example of one of the most exciting future markets to come: the one of global, sustainable cities
Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming's extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four hundred and four interlinked dictionary entries, inviting readers to choose their own path through its radical vision.
Recognizing that Lean Logic's sheer size and unusual structure can be daunting, Fleming's long-time collaborator Shaun Chamberlin has selected and edited one of these potential narratives to create Surviving the Future. The content, rare insights, and uniquely enjoyable writing style remain Fleming's, but are presented here at a more accessible paperback-length and in conventional read-it-front-to-back format.
The subtitle--Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy--hints at Fleming's vision. He believed that the market economy will not survive its inherent flaws beyond the early decades of this century, and that its failure will bring great challenges, but he did not dwell on this: "We know what we need to do. We need to build the sequel, to draw on inspiration which has lain dormant, like the seed beneath the snow."
Surviving the Future lays out a compelling and powerfully different new economics for a post-growth world. One that relies not on taut competitiveness and eternally increasing productivity--"putting the grim into reality"--but on the play, humor, conversation, and reciprocal obligations of a rich culture. Building on a remarkable breadth of intellectual and cultural heritage--from Keynes to Kumar, Homer to Huxley, Mumford to MacIntyre, Scruton to Shiva, Shakespeare to Schumacher--Fleming describes a world in which, as he says, "there will be time for music."
This is the world that many of us want to live in, yet we are told it is idealistic and unrealistic. With an evident mastery of both economic theory and historical precedent, Fleming shows that it is not only desirable, but actually the only system with a realistic claim to longevity. With friendliness, humor, and charm, Surviving the Future plucks this vision out of our daydreams and shows us how to make it real.
Автор: Zhonghua Gou Название: Green Building in Developing Countries ISBN: 3030246493 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030246495 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The book reveals how green buildings are currently being adapted and applied in developing countries. It includes the major developing countries such as China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Pakistan, Cambodia, Ghana, Nigeria and countries from the Middle East and gathers the insights of respected green building researchers from these areas to map out the developing world’s green building revolution. The book highlights these countries’ contribution to tackling climate change, emphasising the green building benefits and the research behind them.The contributing authors explore how the green building revolution has spread to developing countries and how national governments have initiated their own green building policies and agendas. They also explore how the market has echoed the green building policy, and how a business case for green buildings has been established. In turn, they show how an international set of green building standards, in the form of various techniques and tools, has been incorporated into local building and construction practices. In closing, they demonstrate how the developing world is emerging as a key player for addressing the energy and environmental problems currently facing the world.The book helps developers, designers and policy-makers in governments and green building stakeholders to make better decisions on the basis of global and local conditions. It is also of interest to engineers, designers, facility managers and researchers, as it provides a holistic picture of how the industry is responding to the worldwide call for greener and more sustainable buildings.
Автор: Mervyn Smyth; James Russell; Tony Milanowski Название: Solar Energy in the Winemaking Industry ISBN: 1447126955 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447126959 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 23508.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book documents all aspects of the modern solar winery, from environmental, economic and political drivers to equipment, methodologies and processes, to available technologies. Case studies illustrate the diversity of solar winery technology in action.
Название: Natural Polymers: Volume 2: Nanocomposites ISBN: 1849734038 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849734035 Издательство: Royal Society of Chemistry Рейтинг: Цена: 28510.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the search for sustainable materials, natural polymers present an attractive alternative for many applications compared to their synthetic counterparts derived from petrochemicals. The two volume set, Natural Polymers, covers the synthesis, characterisation and applications of key natural polymeric systems including their morphology, structure, dynamics and properties. Volume one focuses on natural polymer composites, including both natural and protein fibres, and volume two on natural polymer nanocomposites. The first volume examines the characterization, life cycle assessment and new sources of natural fibres and their potential as a replacement for synthetic fibres in industrial applications. It then explores the important advancements in the field of wool, silk, spidersilk and mussel byssus fibres. The second volume looks at the properties and characterization of cellulose, chitosan, furanic, starch, wool and silk nanocomposites and the potential industrial applications of natural polymer nanocomposites. With contributions from leading researchers in natural polymers from around the globe, Natural Polymers provides a valuable reference for material scientists, polymer chemists and polymer engineers.
Автор: Glьckler Johannes, Meyer Heinz-Dieter, Suarsana Laura Название: Knowledge and Civil Society ISBN: 3030711463 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030711467 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 5589.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. The book includes reflections on civil and uncivil society, the role of civil society as a change agent, and on civil society perspectives of undone science.
Описание: Thought Styles capture the individual perspective of the language learner`s view of Germany and are categorized in this thesis as German Engineering, Cold Germany, Neo-Nazi Germany, and The Other Germany.
Learn how to design a passive solar house on the cheap. For owner-builders, this book covers how to utilize the frugal buy-and-barter method to find used and free building materials to build your own green building or alternative construction home. Included are straw bale house examples that the author and another solar expert have built with up to 90% energy efficiency, and how to obtain that level of efficiency in your own home through passive solar design. Save big on utility bills the rest of your life in your home by greatly reducing the need for heating and cooling, simply through some simple design changes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS (chapter, some sections listed, page numbers):
INTRODUCTION 17;
PASSIVE SOLAR BASICS 28;
PAYING ATTENTION TO NATURE 35;
THINK ABOUT DESIGN 46;
CALCULATING THE SUN 69;
Magnetic North and True North;
Solar Noon;
How to Find Solar South;
The Stick Method;
Shadow at Solar Noon Method;
Compass Deviation / Declination Method;
Understanding the Sun;
Solar and Earth Cycles;
DIRECT GAIN & INDIRECT GAIN 82;
Isolated Gain;
Improving Efficiency;
Ventilation and Cooling;
Other Passive Solar Designs;
THERMAL MASS & INSULATION 92;
ENERGY EFFICIENCY 111;
WINDOW GLAZING 120;
ROOF OVERHANG 130;
SITE PLAN & FLOOR PLAN DESIGN 140;
Site Design Before Floor Plans;
Lot Quality;
Solar Access;
Site Analysis;
Assess the Site for Solar Gain;
Site Plan - Write it Down;
Stake out the Building Location;
Considerations for Floor Plan Layout;
Passive Solar Floor Plan Design Features;
Keep Plumbing Close Together;
Core House Floor Plans;
LETTING NATURE WORK FOR YOU 156;
FRUGAL BUDGET HOMES 171;
Start with a "Core House";
Plan Big but Start Small;
The Buy and Barter Method;
Used Building Materials;
Recycled Building Materials;
Free Building Materials;
Bartering;
Bartering Service;
Time Banking;
Miscellaneous Bartering & Buying;
Steps for Cost Effective Home Design;
Build a Shed First;
Steps for Good Planning;
How to Build a Roof out of Pallets;
GREEN BUILDING PRIMER 193;
What is Green Building?;
Cost;
Site;
Design;
Construction;
Maintenance;
Operation;
Renovations;
Deconstruction;
Habitat for Humanity Deconstruction Services;
ALTERNATIVE CONSTRUCTION AND GREEN BUILDING MATERIALS 208;
STRAW BALE HOUSE - THE BEGINNING 220;
STRAW BALE HOUSE - FOUNDATION 225;
STRAW BALE HOUSE - WALLS 234;
STRAW BALE HOUSE - ROOF 244;
WALLS, WIRING, & FOUNDATIONS 255;
CHECKLIST: FROM LAND TO BUILDING 266
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