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Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society

It is widely assumed that our consumer society can move from using fossil fuels to using renewable energy sources while maintaining ...

Renewable Energy Integration with Building Energy Systems : A Modelling Approach / V.S.K.V. Harish, Amit Vilas Sant, Arun Kumar

In this book, the different control techniques and intelligent technologies used to improve the energy performance of buildings ...

Renewables for Energy Access and Sustainable Development in East Africa

This book investigates the role of renewable energy in East Africa to provide policy-relevant inputs for the achievement ...

Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics

This book aims to inspire decision makers and practitioners to change their approach to climate planning in the tropics through ...

Research on Project, Programme and Portfolio Management : Integrating Sustainability into Project Management / Roxana Cuevas

Structured into three parts. The first part covers concepts and approaches related to the integration of sustainability in ...

Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety

This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, ...

Retrofitting Cities for Tomorrow's World / Malcolm Eames, Tim Dixon, Miriam Hunt, Simon Lannon

A groundbreaking exploration of the most promising new ideas for creating the sustainable cities of tomorrow. Reviews the ...

Rugged Free Energy Landscapes : Common Computational Approaches to Spin Glasses, Structural Glasses and Biological Macromolecules

This collection of lectures and tutorial reviews by renowned experts focusses on the common computational approaches in use ...

Russia's Turn to the East

This book explores if and how Russian policies towards the Far East region of the country – and East Asia more broadly ...

Safety Improvements through Lessons Learned from Operational Experience in Nuclear Research Facilities

For operators of nuclear research facilities, it is of particular importance to investigate minor incidents. The nuclear ...

Seaside Building Design: Principles and Practice : Buildings in Maritime Zones / li Sayigh

Presents actual design projects that have been implemented at various seaside locations Covers all aspects of seaside building, ...

Self-Governance and Sami Communities : Transitions in Early Modern Natural Resource Management

The book gives a new portrayal of how proficiently and systematically indigenous inhabitants organized and governed natural ...

Shaping an Inclusive Energy Transition Editors (view affiliations) Margot P. C. WeijnenZofia LukszoSamira Farahani

This book makes a case for a socially inclusive energy transition and illustrates how engineering and public policy professionals ...

Signal Processing Techniques for Knowledge Extraction and Information Fusion

This state-of-the-art resource brings together the latest findings from the cross-fertilization of signal processing, machine ...

Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions

This book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and ...

Solar Desalination for the 21st Century

st The solar desalination workshop for the 21 century was sponsored by NATO program Security Through Science. In a great ...

Solar Electric Power Generation - Photovoltaic Energy Systems

Professor Krauter demonstrates how the importance of accurate yield calculations, optimal system performance, and new prototypes ...

Solar Energy Fundamentals and Modeling Techniques : Atmosphere, Environment, Climate Change and Renewable Energy

The book collects together material from the current literature in atmospheric environmental sciences, climate change research, ...

Solar Energy: Technologies and Project Delivery for Buildings / Andy Walker

Authoritative reference on the design of solar energy systems in building projects, with applications, operating principles, ...

Solar Hydrogen Generation : Toward a Renewable Energy Future

This book examines strategies for generating hydrogen from sunlight and water in a sustainable way. Authoritative discussions ...

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