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Energy Transition in the Baltic Sea Region: Understanding Stakeholder Engagement and Community Acceptance (Routledge Studies in Energy Transitions)
by Farid Karimi and Michael RodiThis book analyses the potential for active stakeholder engagement in the energy transition in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) in order to foster clean energy deployment. Public acceptability and bottom-up activities can be critical for enduring outcomes to an energy transition. As a result, it is vital to understand how to unlock the potential for public, community and prosumer participation to facilitate renewable energy deployment and a clean energy transition – and, consequently, to examine the factors influencing social acceptability. Focussing on the diverse BSR, this book draws on expert contributions to consider a range of different topics, including the challenges of social acceptance and its policy implications; strategies to address challenges of acceptability among stakeholders; and community engagement in clean energy production. Overall, the authors examine the practical implications of current policy measures and provide recommendations on how lessons learnt from this ‘energy lab region’ may be applied to other regions. Reflecting an interdisciplinary approach in the social sciences, this book is an essential resource for scholars, students and policymakers researching and working in the areas of renewable energy, energy policy and citizen engagement, and interested in understanding the potential for bottom-up, grassroots activities and social acceptability to expedite the energy transition and reanimate democracies.
Energy Transition in the Oil and Gas Industry
by Cenk Temizel Ali Başer Onder Saracoglu Tolga Tural Luigi Saputelli Ole TorsæterThe oil and gas industry is in the midst of a paradigm shift, moving from developing solely petroleum-based energy to producing alternative energy forms, including renewables. Energy Transition in the Oil and Gas Industry offers a comprehensive overview of renewables and their applications in the oil and gas industry during the current energy transition period. It includes the latest methods and workflows in renewables and oil and gas processes as well as integrated and hybrid approaches currently used as the industry begins its transition to the production of alternative forms of energy. Provides a synopsis of fossil fuel resources, along with the latest technologies, applications, and economics, and offers a general outline for the energy transition Details various alternative and renewable energy forms and discusses their advantages, disadvantages, maturity levels, and applications, including solar, geothermal, wind, hydropower, fuel cells, hydrogen, biofuels, ocean energy, and nuclear Discusses carbon capture and storage, electric vehicles, and energy storage technologies Covers the latest advances and technologies related to digital transformation in the oil and gas industry Summarizes future trends and directions of technologies related to renewable energy and energy transition in the oil and gas industry Addressing energy holistically from a technology and engineering perspective, this book offers engineering professionals in the energy sector a wide-ranging view of current and near future changes taking place in this critical industry.
Energy Transitions
by Olivier Labussière Alain NadaïThis book elucidates what it means to transition to alternative sources of energy and discusses the potential for this energy transition to be a more democratic process. The book dynamically describes a recent sociotechnical study of a number of energy transitions occurring in several countries - France, Germany and Tunisia, and involving different energy technologies - including solar, on/off-shore wind, smart grids, biomass, low-energy buildings, and carbon capture and storage. Drawing on a pragmatist tradition of social inquiry, the authors examine the consequences of energy transition processes for the actors and entities that are affected by them, as well as the spaces for political participation they offer. This critical inquiry is organised according to foundational categories that have defined the energy transition - ‘renewable’ energy resources, markets, economic instruments, technological demonstration, spatiality (‘scale’) and temporality (‘horizon(s)’). Using a set of select case studies, this book systematically investigates the role these categories play in the current developments in energy transitions.
Energy Transitions and Climate Change Issues in Asia
by Soocheol Lee Ken-Ichi Akao Budy Prasetyo Resosudarmo Shiqiu Zhang Jong Ho Hong Orapan Nabangchang-SrisawalakThe rapid pace of economic development and urbanization in Asia have led to several major problems such as greenhouse gas emissions, mass consumption, and depletion of natural resources. These problems pose a major threat to a sustainable future for Asia and are hindering many Asian countries' goal of becoming carbon-neutral by the middle of this century. Solving these problems requires a comprehensive understanding of the nature of energy consumption, exploitation of natural resources, and deterioration of the environment.To accelerate the green energy transition and promote efficient resource use in Asia, a range of policy options and joint efforts among Asian countries will be required, including carbon pricing, resource tax reform, the expansion of transition finance, support for the development of low-carbon, and resource-efficient social infrastructure. However, Asia is home to many countries, each in a different stage of economic development and with its own culture and customs. Practical implementation of these policies will require bringing together researchers, policymakers, and citizens to share their knowledge and engage in discussions to generate policy ideas that are appropriate for each country. The purpose of this book is to share theoretical and empirical knowledge and convey policy implications that can be expected to accelerate energy transition and resource use effectiveness toward a sustainable future in Asia.
Energy Transitions and Social Psychology: A Sociotechnical Perspective (Routledge Studies in Energy Transitions)
by Paul Upham Paula Bögel Katinka JohansenThis book explains how social psychological concepts can be closely integrated with sociotechnical perspectives of energy transitions. It shows the value of actor-centred analysis that acknowledges the role of individual-level processes within their wider contexts of energy supply and use. In this way, the book connects social psychological and sociological frames of analysis, preserving the value of both, to provide multi-level, analytically extended accounts of energy transitions processes. Sociotechnical thinking is about the interactions of people and technology, including the rules, regulations and institutions involved. Such perspectives help to identify the many forms of path dependency that can make change difficult. Human behaviour plays a strong role in maintaining these path dependencies, but it can also introduce change. This book advocates a deliberately interdisciplinary research agenda that recognises the value of social psychological perspectives when seeking to create new pathways for energy supply and use. At the same time, it also demonstrates the value of sociotechnical perspectives for energy-related social psychology. Energy Transitions and Social Psychology will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions, environmental and energy psychology, sustainable development and innovation studies, as well as students and scholars of environment and energy more generally.
Energy Transmission and Synchronization in Complex Networks
by Nicolás RubidoThis work tackles the problems of understanding how energy is transmitted and distributed in power-grids as well as in determining how robust this transmission and distribution is when modifications to the grid or power occur. The most important outcome is the derivation of explicit relationships between the structure of the grid, the optimal transmission and distribution of energy, and the grid's collective behavior (namely, the synchronous generation of power). These relationships are extremely relevant for the design of resilient power-grid models. To allow the reader to apply these results to other complex systems, the thesis includes a review of relevant aspects of network theory, spectral theory, and novel analytical calculations to predict the existence and stability of periodic collective behavior in complex networks of phase oscillators, which constitute a paradigmatic model for many complex systems.
Energy, Transport, & the Environment
by Oliver Inderwildi Sir David KingSustainable mobility is a highly complex problem as it is affected by the interactions between socio-economic, environmental, technological and political issues. Energy, Transport, & the Environment: Addressing the Sustainable Mobility Paradigm brings together leading figures from business, academia and governments to address the challenges and opportunities involved in working towards sustainable mobility. Key thinkers and decision makers approach topics and debates including: energy security and resource scarcity greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions urban planning, transport systems and their management governance and finance of transformation ·the threats of terrorism and climate change to our transport systems. Introduced by a preface from U.S. Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu and an outline by the editors, Dr Oliver Inderwildi and Sir David King, Energy, Transport, & the Environment is divided into six sections. These sections address and explore the challenges and opportunities for energy supply, road transport, urban mobility, aviation, sea and rail, as well as finance and economics in transport. Possible solutions, ranging from alternative fuels to advanced urban planning and policy levers, will be examined in order to deepen the understanding of currently proposed solutions within the political realities of the dominating economic areas. The result of this detailed investigation is an integrated view of sustainable transport for both people and freight, making Energy, Transport, & the Environment key reading for researchers, decision makers and policy experts across the public and private sectors.
Energy, Transport, & the Environment: Addressing the Sustainable Mobility Paradigm
by Oliver Inderwildi Sir David KingSustainable mobility is a highly complex problem as it is affected by the interactions between socio-economic, environmental, technological and political issues. Energy, Transport, & the Environment: Addressing the Sustainable Mobility Paradigm brings together leading figures from business, academia and governments to address the challenges and opportunities involved in working towards sustainable mobility. Key thinkers and decision makers approach topics and debates including: energy security and resource scarcity greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions urban planning, transport systems and their management governance and finance of transformation·the threats of terrorism and climate change to our transport systems. Introduced by a preface from U.S. Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu and an outline by the editors, Dr Oliver Inderwildi and Sir David King, Energy, Transport, & the Environment is divided into six sections. These sections address and explore the challenges and opportunities for energy supply, road transport, urban mobility, aviation, sea and rail, as well as finance and economics in transport. Possible solutions, ranging from alternative fuels to advanced urban planning and policy levers, will be examined in order to deepen the understanding of currently proposed solutions within the political realities of the dominating economic areas. The result of this detailed investigation is an integrated view of sustainable transport for both people and freight, making Energy, Transport, & the Environment key reading for researchers, decision makers and policy experts across the public and private sectors.
The Energy Trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region: Security, Equity and the Environment (Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies)
by Michael KalisThe Energy Trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region provides insight into the energy trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region.Energy Trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region has undergone significant transformation in the last number of years. Energy actors in the region are struggling to reconcile new questions of energy security following the COVID-19 pandemic and the invasion of Ukraine with net-zero objectives and a cost-of-living crisis. Balancing these concerns is essential to resolving the “energy trilemma”: the dilemma that emerges for policy-makers and regulators seeking to balance energy security, equity, and environmental concerns in pursuit of a wholly sustainable energy system. This volume draws together a range of perspectives from scholars of the Baltic Sea Region seeking to understand the manifestations and impact of these systemic regional changes. In considering previously underexamined studies on the energy trilemma and in providing new perspectives by framing the trilemma in times of crisis, this book provides new conceptual and empirical insight into a rapidly changing energy region at the heart of both European energy policy and the current energy crisis.This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy politics, energy law and policy, energy transitions, and Baltic studies more broadly.
The Energy We See: A Look at Light (Lightning Bolt Books #Exploring Physical Science)
by Jennifer BoothroydLight shines through your kitchen window. A campfire brightens the dark woods. You see light all around you. But where does most light come from? And how does it travel? Read this book to find out! Learn all about matter.
Energy Works
by Janette SchusterNIMAC-sourced textbook <p><p> Energy Works allows students to explore different kinds of energy and see how energy is converted to different forms.
Energy Works: Below-Grade Reader (Building Blocks of Science Literacy Series)
by Janette SchusterLexile range: 520L–670L. Energy Works Below-Grade Reader encourages students to consider energy in all its different forms. Topics include: Energy and Its Forms; Energy Sources; the Science and Engineering Practices of analyzing data; and a look into the daily life of an electrical engineer.
Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon
by Daniela Russ and Thomas TurnbullEnergy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry. This interdisciplinary field documents and analyzes how humans have thought about, harnessed, stored, and exploited stocks and flows of energy. In recent decades, in response to evidence of the effect of fossil fuel use in our climatic system and coinciding with an energy turn across the humanities, a new urgency and purpose has been ascribed to such work. Energy's History challenges abstract and universalizing conceptions of energy's history-making capacities. Each of the twelve essays in this collection presents, analyzes, and contextualizes a primary source. The contributors focus on ideas, events, and statements that recorded and critiqued the distinct historical paths of energy, thereby broadening the scope of where and what constitutes energy history. As energy's world-making has enmeshed ever more of the planet into a dangerous compact with fossil fuels, energy histories must be revised within this new energy-historical reality. This volume both presents persuasive visions of energy-driven development beyond the Western capitalist model and provides an expansive and critical account of the ways in which energy histories have shaped the past and impact the present.
Energy System Modeling and Optimization: A Practical Guide Using Pyomo (SpringerBriefs in Energy)
by Alireza Ghadertootoonchi Armaghan Solaimanian Mehdi Davoudi Moein Moeini AghtaieThis brief serves as a comprehensive and practical guide to energy system optimization utilizing the Pyomo optimization package in Python. It thoroughly explains the mathematical foundations of energy system technologies and how to employ Pyomo for addressing optimization challenges. The book highlights the significance of energy system optimization in terms of economic and environmental impacts, followed by a detailed exploration of Pyomo, an advanced mathematical programming language. It covers a wide spectrum of problem types, introducing various open-source solvers and outlining the steps involved in developing Python-based Pyomo code to solve optimization problems. Furthermore, the book provides mathematical formulations and Python code for diverse energy technologies, including thermal power plants, renewable energy sources like wind and solar, power transmission lines, and electricity storage systems. It also discusses topics like reliability, load loss, demand-side flexibility, and linearization techniques. To demonstrate practical application, the book offers a case study that progressively builds in complexity, guiding readers in optimizing intricate energy systems based on the models and constraints explained earlier. Targeted at professionals, researchers, and students, it is suitable for those with a foundational understanding of Python and mathematical optimization, and it underscores the crucial role of energy system optimization in addressing contemporary energy sector concerns such as environmental impact reduction and sustainable development.
La enfermedad y sus metáforas | El sida y sus metáforas
by Susan SontagEste volumen reúne los ensayos, La enfermedad y sus metáforas y El sida y sus metáforas, que siguen ejerciendo una influencia enorme en la reflexión médica y en las vidas de miles de pacientes y cuidadores. Susan Sontag escribió La enfermedad y sus metáforas en 1978, mientras se trataba de un cáncer. En el libro quiso demostrar cómo los mitos acerca de algunas enfermedades, en especial del cáncer, añaden más dolor al sufrimiento de los pacientes y a menudo los cohíben en la búsqueda de tratamiento adecuado. Casi una década después, con la irrupción de una nueva enfermedad estigmatizada y transida de incertidumbres y «fantasías punitivas», Sontag escribió El sida y sus metáforas, extendiendo los argumentos del libro anterior a la pandemia de sida. Reseña:«Un ensayo luminoso.»Cristina Peri Rossi
Enfoque del compromiso religioso y la orientación religiosa: entre los cristianos que se identifican como cristianos
by DRA PENSACOLA H JEFFERSONEL COMPROMISO CON LA RELACIÓN DE ALIANZA CON CRISTO PUEDE AFECTARLE Este estudio consistió en explorar la relación entre el foco de compromiso religioso y la orientación religiosa desde el compromiso relacional con Cristo entre los cristianos que se identifican como cristianos. El objetivo era descubrir una relación entre el compromiso religioso dedicado (foco de) y la orientación religiosa intrínseca, entre los cristianos que se identifican como cristianos, con el fin de responder a la pregunta de investigación. Para ello, se examinaron las medidas de compromiso relacional y orientación religiosa mediante un análisis de correlación y una regresión lineal. Los resultados revelaron que existe una relación directa muy fuerte (r = 0,777) entre un enfoque de compromiso religioso dedicado con Cristo y la orientación religiosa intrínseca.
Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body
by Lennard J. DavisThis book tries to think through some of the complex issues raised by concepts such as the body, the normal, the abnormal, disability, the disabled, and people with disabilities. I wrote this book because I believe deeply that people with disabilities, Deaf people, and others who might not even consider themselves as having a disability have been relegated to the margins by the very people who have celebrated and championed the emergence of multiculturalism, class consciousness, feminism, and queer studies from the margins.
Engagement with Sustainable Development in Higher Education: Universities as Transformative Spaces for Sustainable Futures (Sustainable Development Goals Series)
by Mustafa ÖztürkThis edited volume analyzes cases of higher education programs engaging with sustainable development. Offering cases from across the globe that focus on the role of universities in promoting societal transformations and building sustainable futures, the volume specifically discusses how higher education institutions can educate for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As critical spaces for research, development, and innovation, higher education institutions are fundamental change agents for societal transformations. Their role in disseminating sustainability through different paths is undeniable, and it is worth discussing the dimensions that surround the concept of sustainability within universities. Considering the role of policy, curriculum, practice, teaching, research, and development paths in universities, this book looks at the contributions of higher education sector to our vision of sustainable development. This publication offers readers a chance to look at different higher education institutions’ engagement with sustainable development through political, managerial, curricular and practical steps.
Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma
by John M. MeyerAn argument that environmental challenges will only resonate with citizens of affluent postindustrial countries if sustainability concerns emerge from everyday practices. Far-reaching efforts to address environmental issues rarely seem to resonate with citizens of the United States or other wealthy postindustrial societies. In Engaging the Everyday, John Meyer considers this impediment to action on environmental problems—which he terms “the resonance dilemma”—and argues that an environmental agenda that emerges from everyday concerns would resonate more deeply with ordinary citizens. Meyer explores the contours of this alternative, theorizing both obstacles and opportunities and then considering it in terms of three everyday areas of material practice: land use, transportation by automobile, and home dwelling. Adopting the stance of an “inside critic” (neither detached theorist nor narrow policy advocate), and taking an approach that he calls “contested materiality,” Meyer draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives to construct a framework for understanding material practices. He reimagines each of the three material practices in terms of a political idea: for land, property; for automobiles, freedom; and for homes, citizenship. His innovative analysis offers a grounded basis for reshaping our talk about political concepts and values.
Engaging the Public with Climate Change: Behaviour Change and Communication
by Lorraine Whitmarsh Irene Lorenzoni Saffron O'NeillDespite increasing public awareness of climate change, our behaviours relating to consumption and energy use remain largely unchanged. This book answers the urgent call for effective engagement methods to foster sustainable lifestyles, community action, and social change. Written by practitioners and academics, the chapters combine theoretical perspectives with case studies and practical guidance, examining what works and what doesn't, and providing transferable lessons for future engagement approaches. Showcasing innovative thought and approaches from around the world, this book is essential reading for anyone working to foster real and lasting behavioural and social change.
Engaging with Contemporary Challenges through Science Education Research: Selected papers from the ESERA 2019 Conference (Contributions from Science Education Research #9)
by Tamer G. Amin Olivia Levrini Mariana Levin Giulia Tasquier Laura BranchettiThis book starts with the premise that beauty can be an engine of transformation and authentic engagement in an increasingly complex world. It presents an organized picture of highlights from the 13th European Science Education Research Association Conference, ESERA 2019, held in Bologna, Italy. The collection includes contributions that discuss contemporary issues such as climate change, multiculturalism, and the flourishing of new interdisciplinary areas of investigation, including the application of cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and digital humanities to science education research. It also highlights learners’ difficulties engaging with socio-scientific issues in a digital and post-truth era. The volume demonstrates that deepening our understanding is the preferred way to address these challenges and that science education has a key role to play in this effort. In particular, the book advances the argument that the deep and novel character of these challenges requires a collective search for new narratives and languages, an expanding knowledge base and new theoretical perspectives and methods of research. The book provides a contemporary picture of science education research and looks to the theoretical and practical societal challenges of the future.
Engendering Climate Change: Learnings from South Asia
by Asha Hans Nitya Rao Anjal Prakash Amrita PatelThis book focuses on the gendered experiences of environmental change across different geographies and social contexts in South Asia and on diverse strategies of adapting to climate variability. The book analyzes how changes in rainfall patterns, floods, droughts, heatwaves and landslides affect those who are directly dependent on the agrarian economy. It examines the socio-economic pressures, including the increase in women’s work burdens both in production and reproduction on gender relations. It also examines coping mechanisms such as male migration and the formation of women’s collectives which create space for agency and change in rigid social relations. The volume looks at perspectives from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal to present the nuances of gender relations across borders along with similarities and differences across geographical,socio-cultural and policy contexts. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of sociology, development, gender, economics, environmental studies and South Asian studies. It will also be useful for policymakers, NGOs and think tanks working in the areas of gender, climate change and development.
Engendering the Energy System: Looking Back to Go Forward
by Joy ClancyThis book brings together a comprehensive overview of gender and energy to provide an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. It addresses how energy access at the individual/household/community level is gendered in terms of decision making and where and how benefits accrue. At the institutional level it examines the role women play in the sector and the barriers they have to overcome to participate. At the policy level experiences with mainstreaming gender into energy policy are discussed. The book provides examples from both the Global South and the Global North and is set in the context of the energy transition. The book is a timely publication that highlights the global energy initiatives of SEforAll, the SDGs and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
Engine Exhaust Particulates (Energy, Environment, and Sustainability)
by Avinash Kumar Agarwal Atul Dhar Nikhil Sharma Pravesh Chandra ShuklaThis book provides a comparative analysis of both diesel and gasoline engine particulates, and also of the emissions resulting from the use of alternative fuels. Written by respected experts, it offers comprehensive insights into motor vehicle particulates, their formation, composition, location, measurement, characterisation and toxicology. It also addresses exhaust-gas treatment and legal, measurement-related and technological advancements concerning emissions. The book will serve as a valuable resource for academic researchers and professional automotive engineers alike.