Electronic Books

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A Biomass Future for the North American Great Plains

The Great Plains of North America is a major global breadbasket but its agriculture is stressed by drought, heat spells, ...

A City in Blue and Green

Highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, ...

A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering : An Integrated Approach to Energy, Health and Operational Performance / Dejan Mumovic, Mat Santamouris

Equips students with the tools they will need to tackle the challenges of sustainable building design and engineering. The ...

Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals

Presents detailed pathways to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2050, globally and across ten geographical regions. Based ...

Acid in the Environment

This book is the result of a conference held biannually at the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental ...

Advances in Integrated Soil Fertility Research in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

Food insecurity is a central concern and a fundamental challenge for human welfare and economic growth in Africa. Low agricultural ...

Advances in Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment

comprises the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the National Conference on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment ...

Advances in the Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide

As is now generally accepted mankind’s burning of fossil fuels has resulted in the mass transfer of greenhouse gases to ...

Agriculture and Climate Beyond 2015

Interactions between agriculture, climate and patterns of land use are complex. Major changes in agriculture, and land use ...

Assessing Climate Change : Temperatures, Solar Radiation, and Heat Balance

The chapters of the book attempt to answer a number of essential questions in relation to global warming and climate change. ...

Beyond Kyoto - A New Global Climate Certificate System

This book shows how humankind can ‘prevent dangerous interference with the c- mate system’ without dangerous interference ...

Beyond the Limits to Growth : New Ideas for Sustainability from Japan

This book offers an optimistic view of the future and provides a road map for societies to get there. Drawing upon extensive ...

Bio-based Building Skin

This book provides a compendium of material properties, demonstrates several successful examples of bio-based materials’ ...

Biofuels and Sustainability

This open access book presents a comprehensive analysis of biofuel use strategies from an interdisciplinary perspective using ...

Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems : Benefits and Risks

With shortages of fossil energy, especially oil and natural gas, and heavy biomass energy use occurring in both developed ...

Biogeochemical Cycles in Globalization and Sustainable Development

This valuable study of environmental subsystems functioning under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions provides ...

Boundary Integral Equations

This book is devoted to the basic mathematical properties of solutions to boundary integral equations and presents a systematic ...

Building Services Design for Energy Efficient Buildings / Paul Tymkow, Savvas Tassou, Maria Kolokotroni, Hussam Jouhara

The following issues are addressed: background issues on climate change, whole-life performance and design collaboration generic ...

Building Systems in Interior Design / Sam Hurt

takes an entirely new approach to teaching this essential topic for Architects, Designers and Building Engineers. Written ...

Building from Tradition: Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture / Elizabeth Golden

Examines the recent resurgence of interest in the handmade building and the use of local and renewable materials in contemporary ...

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