John Coplin

Engineering Sustainable Life on Earth (eBook, ePUB)

Alleviating Adverse Climate Change Through Better Design

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Climate scientists have clarified the main causes of climate change, and the tight timescale within which humans must change behaviour. This book uncovers many of the powerful actions and use them effectively to achieve sustainable human life, of improved quality, in a way that is affordable out of earned income for all humans.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000437492
• Artikelnr.: 62449571

Autorenporträt

John F. Coplin, aeronautical engineer, chief designer of Rolls-Royce's RB211 aeroengine. During the 1990s, he was UK science and technology advisor to the Indonesian President. Previously a visiting professor on engineering design to Oxford University and Imperial College and Associate Fellow in Design Engineering at the University of Warwick.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Part I: The Big Reset 1. Engineering Extinction? 2. Why Design
Engineering? 3. How Did We Get Here? The Legacy of the Industrial
Revolution 4. The Technology Revolution Part II: Clean Energy 5. Energy
Storage Systems 6. Renewables 7. (Decentralised) Nuclear Power 8. Building
a Clean Grid Part III: Transport
9. Cars 10. Commercial Aviation Part IV: Food and Agriculture 11. Food 12.
Farming and Agriculture Part V: Homes and Housing 13. Urbanisation vs
Dispersed Communities Part VI: Unheeded Warnings and Critical Actions 14.
Unheeded Warnings 15. Critical Actions Acknowledgements