Sustainable Energy

An Annotated Bibliography

von Willem H. Vanderburg, Namir Khan

128 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This annotated bibliography introduces readers to preventive approaches for making the energy requirements of modern ways of life more sustainable. Since a society can neither create nor destroy energy, all energy is temporarily borrowed from the biosphere and returned to it in degraded form. The activities of a way of life of a society that involve energy flows may be represented as a network for which the biosphere acts as the ultimate source and sink. This network and therefore the energy basis for a modern life style will be sustainable when the biosphere can perform these roles indefinitely. The present bibliography regards the preventive approaches related to energy as a capital component of preventive approaches for improving the sustainability of contemporary civilization.

This book, as well as the two companion volumes, Sustainable Production and Healthy Cities, is the result of a twelve-year research project carried out at the Center for Technology and Social Development at the University of Toronto. The research findings led to the development of a new conceptual framework and strategy aimed at converting technological and economic growth into development that would gradually become more sustainable.

• Reihe: Scarecrow Press
• ISBN: 9780810840447
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.08.2001
• Größe: 264 x 182 mm
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc