Sustainability, Green Energy and Climate Change: Revisited

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-50586-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 221 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

This book discusses the problems accompanying climate change and the methods being adopted and explored to slow the phenomenon. Achieving green energy and sustainability is a complex task, one that has increasingly drawn the attention of scientists and administrators alike. However, newcomers to the field need to first understand the basic underlying points. This book demystifies the complicated picture by adopting a first principles approach, thereby broadening readers’ understanding of climate change. It also emphasizes the need to identify and pursue alternate sources of energy, in particular bioenergy. The biological resources that are used to produce biodiesel, bioethanol and biomethanol on a large scale, as well as their potential use in vehicular transportation, are discussed in detail. With the Sun as the ultimate source of energy, the basics of photovoltaic conversion are elaborated on from the first principle, i.e. also from the origin of nuclear energy. With reference to total carbon emissions, carbon fixation by way of photosynthesis is also discussed. In closing, the book discusses the health implications of climate change, particularly increases in temperature and subsequent impacts on our environment.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Behari, Jitendra

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Key parameters in climate change2. Green Energy3. Bioenergy4. Photovoltaic energy5. Nuclear energy6. The Carbon Cycle7. Climate Change and Health DynamicsIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Jitendra Behari holds a PhD in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi  (1971). He joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1973. Dr Behari is currently a Professor at the School of Environmental Sciences of Jawaharlal Nehru University. He also holds an Honorary D.Sc. Degree in Bioelectromagnetics (Ansted University, UK at Penang, Malaysia, awarded August 2001). Dr Behari has been a Fulbright Fellow and Adjunct Faculty at Michigan State University, a DAAD fellow, recipient of a fellowship from the Japanese Association of Cultivation Sciences and British Council and has been a career awardee (University Grants Commission). He is a fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers and the Ultrasonic Society of India, and is a senior member of the IEEE. He has been a member of Commission K of the URSI, of IEEE Engineering in Medicine, of the Biology Society, the Electromagnetics Academy (USA), and the Indian Science Congress Association, and has served on executive bodies of the Biomedical Engineering Society of India and the Indian Society of Biomechanics. Dr Behari is also a former Chairman of the IEEE ED MTT Chapter and Executive Member of the Indian Physics Association. His main research interests are in the areas of soil moisture measurement, wastewater treatment, and bioelectromagnetics, with special focus on the applications of microwaves and solid state physics techniques in the environmental sciences. He has produced more than one hundred research publications, has written several books, and holds four patents.