Energy Systems and Sustainability: Power for a Sustainable Future

Book Overview

How can we provide clean, safe, sustainable energy supplies for the world despite rising population levels and increasing economic development? Today, energy and sustainability are of primary concern and form the focus of this book and its companion volume, Renewable Energy.Interdisciplinary in its approach and global in its perspective, this book provides a contemporary exploration of the economic, social, environmental, and policy issues raised...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199593744
• ISBN13: 9780199593743
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 4.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 10.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Resource

This book, and its companion "Renewable Energy", are excellent introductory books to the topic of energy. The basics are explained in clear language, the references are up-to-date and the graphics are colorful and very helpful. These two books take a HUGE topic and make it understandable and interesting. I hope that new editions continue to be published. If I had to make one complaint, it's that it's focused on the UK, which in terms of energy is a relatively small country. But in today's world, that is a minor issue. The book gives you the tools you need evaluate other sources of information.