Transition Engineering - Building a Sustainable Future

Transition Engineering: Building a Sustainable Future examines new strategies emerging in response to global climate change, decline in oil supplies, scarcity of key industrial minerals and local environmental constraints. A methodology is presented for shifting from unsustainable activities, presented so that engineers can use it effectively.

About the author

Susan Krumdieck is professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand where she has taught energy transition engineering for 17 years. She is the co-founder and a Trustee of the Global Association for Transition Engineering (GATE). Professor Krumdieck serves on the editorial board for six journals, including Energies, Energy Conservation & Management and Biophysical Economics, and she has edited special issues of Energy Policy, Energies, and Sustainability.

Summary

Transition Engineering: Building a Sustainable Future examines new strategies emerging in response to global climate change, decline in oil supplies, scarcity of key industrial minerals and local environmental constraints. A methodology is presented for shifting from unsustainable activities, presented so that engineers can use it effectively.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Krumdieck, Krumdieck Susan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780367362430
• ISBN: 978-0-367-36243-0
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mechanical, SCIENCE / Energy, Politics & government, environmental science, engineering & technology, Politics and government, Energy technology & engineering, Other manufacturing technologies, Systems analysis & design, Engineering: general, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Energy technology and engineering, Systems analysis and design