Callum Hill

An Introduction to Sustainable Resource Use (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the challenges our society faces in making the transition to renewable resource use in a way that is truly sustainable - environmentally, economically and socially.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136540059
• Artikelnr.: 38272235

Autorenporträt

Callum Hill is the Edinburgh Research Partnership funded Chair of Materials Science in the Forest Products Research Institute at Edinburgh Napier University. He has been conducting research into renewable and sustainable materials for over fifteen years and has published extensively in this area.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Background (Crisis? What Crisis?) 2. Thermodynamics (The Science of
Energy and Change) 3. Resources (How Much is Left?) 4. Consumption (If We
All Get Richer is this Good for the Planet?) 5. Impacts (The Consequences
of Resource Use) 6. Ecologic (Integrating Industry with Nature) 7.
Feedstocks (How Can Plants Supply our Technical Needs?) 8. Forestry
(Criminal or Saviour?) 9. Conclusions (The End or the Beginning?)