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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080874754
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Mankind and Energy: Needs, Resources, Hopes written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mankind and Energy: Needs, Resources, Hopes
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Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262536161
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Energy and Civilization written by Vaclav Smil and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and economic progress over the past 10,000 years. —Bill Gates, Gates Notes, Best Books of the Year Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows—ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity—for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts—from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything: agriculture, industry, transportation, weapons, communication, economics, urbanization, quality of life, politics, and the environment. Smil describes humanity's energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil's Energy in World History (1994). Smil has incorporated an enormous amount of new material, reflecting the dramatic developments in energy studies over the last two decades and his own research over that time.
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Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Solar Energy Update written by and published by . This book was released on 1983-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joerg Rieger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153819404X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Liberating People, Planet, and Religion written by Joerg Rieger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing consensus that life on the planet is in peril if climate change continues at its current pace. At stake is not only the future of many species but of humanity itself. As an increasing number of ecological economists have emphasized, these problems will only be adequately addressed by re-examining economic systems from an ecological perspective, fundamentally calling into question assumptions of unlimited growth and the maximization of shareholder profit foundational to neoliberal capitalism. Religion and ecology scholars have also increasingly emphasized the ways climate change challenges assumed divides between nature and culture, religion and labor, economy and ecology, and calls for critical and constructive engagement with the religion, economy, and ecology nexus. Often, though, religious engagements with economy and ecology have placed emphasis on individual morality, action, and agency at the level of consumption patterns or have suggested mere modifications within existing economic paradigms. Contributors to this volume call into question the adequacy of this approach in light of the urgency of climate change which is always ever entwined with ongoing patterns of exploitation, oppression, and colonialism in current economic systems. Rather than tweaking a system of exploitation, for instance by emphasizing individual consumption or care for human and non-human victims, these authors articulate important opportunities for religious engagement, activism, resistance, and solidarity around issues of production and labor. Recalling that Marx linked agencies and labor of people as well as the other-than-human world, these authors aim to articulate a sense in which liberation of people and the planet are intertwined and can be accomplished only through collaboration for their common good. The basic intuition driving this volume is that while Christianity has by and large become the handmaiden of exploitative capitalism and empire, it might also reclaim latent theologies and religious practices that call into question the fundamental valuation of labor without recognition or rest, of extractive exploitation, and a “winner take all” praxis. In the process, Christianity might reclaim and reinvest in tenuous historical materializations of transformed ecological and economic relationships while economics might be re-informed by a valuation of the shared oikos as well as a just accounting of and renumeration for labor. Together they might serve the aim of the flourishing of all people and the planet.
Author : Terra Schwerin Rowe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567708381
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)
Download or read book Of Modern Extraction written by Terra Schwerin Rowe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predominant climate change narratives emphasize a global emissions problem, while diagnoses of environmental crises have long focused a modern loss of meaning, value, and enchantment in nature. Yet neither of these common portrayals of environmental emergency adequately account for the ways climate change is rooted in extractivisms that have been profoundly enchanted. The proposed critical petro-theology analyzes the current energy driven climate crisis through critical gender, race, decolonial, and postsecular lenses. Both predominant narratives obscure the entanglements of bodies and energy: how energy concepts and practices have consistently delineated genres of humanity and how energy systems and technologies have shaped bodies. Consequently, these analytical and ethical aims inform an exploration of alternative embodied energies that can be attended to in the disrupted time/space of energy intensive, extractive capitalism.
Author : Peter Edward Hodgson
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1848164173
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Energy, the Environment and Climate Change written by Peter Edward Hodgson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive account of all significant energy sources, evaluated according to their capacity, reliability, cost, safety and effects on the environment. Non-renewable sources (for example, coal, oil, gas and nuclear fuel) together with renewable sources like wood, hydro, biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, ocean thermal, and tidal; are considered. Also, nuclear radiations and the disposal of nuclear waste and the future of nuclear power are assessed, as well as pollution and acid rain, the greenhouse effects and climate change. Its social, political and moral problems are discussed, with a special mention of the opposition to nuclear power.
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Publisher : Allied Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788177648744
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (487 download)
Download or read book Energy in Minerals and Metallurgical Industries written by and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : 国立国会図書館 (Japan)
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Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book 国立国会図書館所蔵科学技術関係欧文会議錄目錄 written by 国立国会図書館 (Japan) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Whitney A. Bauman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000953173
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Grounding Religion written by Whitney A. Bauman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-13 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its third edition, Grounding Religion explores relationships between the environment and religious beliefs and practices. Established scholars introduce students to the ways religion shapes and is shaped by human–earth relations, surveying a series of key issues and questions, with particular attention to issues of environmental degradation, social justice, ritual practices, and religious worldviews. Case studies, discussion questions, and further readings enrich students’ experience. This third edition features updated content, including revisions of every chapter and new material on religion and the environmental humanities, sexuality and queer studies, class, ability, privilege and power, environmental justice, extinction, biodiversity, and politics. An excellent text for undergraduates and graduates alike, it offers an expansive overview of the academic field of religion and ecology as it has emerged in the past fifty years and continues to develop today.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Fiscal Year 1982 Department of Energy Authorization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold E. Croxall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100011368X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Fight for Food written by Harold E. Croxall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984. Without technical Jargon or a mass of confusing statistics, this book describes a wide range of factors influencing agricultural productivity including weather, soil biology and ecology, and human, social, economic and political factors. The ways in which these factors operate and interact with each other to produce the changing circumstances in which farmers take their decisions are discussed. These decisions are the crucial factors in every productivity problem and the authors suggest policy changes which could improve the chances of farmers making the best choices, not only for themselves but for the consumer and the community at large.
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000398145
Total Pages : 3895 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Food Supply and Policy written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-29 with total page 3895 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissuing works originally published between 1952 and 1999, this set provides a wide spread of scholarship on issues surrounding food provision throughout the world. The earlier books look at import and export changes during times when previous trade routes and options changed while later ones mostly consider food assistance policies, poverty and famine, and welfare. These books cover third world studies, economics, anthropology, politics, environment, agriculture and population studies as well as food and nutrition.
Author : Commission internationale d'histoire ecclésiastique comparée. Congrès
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600036801
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Les Eglises face aux sciences written by Commission internationale d'histoire ecclésiastique comparée. Congrès and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1991 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Bird
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030950212
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Generative Power of Hope written by Frederick Bird and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses how and why we are living at a critical moment in the history of human life on earth and explores how we find grounds for the hopes that will enable us to address the challenges and crises of our time. The author analyses hope both practically and philosophically as a generative virtue to realistically discern the situations in which we find ourselves, and imaginatively to anticipate possibilities when the future is unknown and uncertain. The author argues that hope is a mean between anomy, disillusionment, and despair, on the one hand, and wishful thinking, dreaming, and fanaticizing, on the other hand. The book not only examines – and analyzes from a historical perspective - the contemporary crises such as climate change, environmental degradation and its effects such as the social costs of these developments, but also further analyzes the character and micro-dynamics of hope and how it makes a difference in how we manage the crises which inevitably emerge. Though contemporary crises are those we tend to focus on, the author also engages with what is involved in a due regard for history and the relevance of a sense of history for addressing the crises of our time. He shows us what we can learn from revisiting some thoughtful reflections by thinkers like Niebuhr, Jaspers, Camus, and Arendt. Finally, the author shows us what is involved practically in anticipating possibilities, by looking at hope as a social practice and noting how hopeful people make a difference.
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Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Month written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
