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Energy Design For Tomorrow
Roger Hargreaves
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Description for Energy Design For Tomorrow
Hardcover. Describes potential strategies that play an essential role in curbing carbon emissions, reducing - or replacing - fossil fuel usage. This book shows the energy consumption data across the globe in comparable units, and explains how fossil fuels could be replaced by renewable energy resources. Num Pages: 366 pages, 530 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: KNBT; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 300 x 244 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1968.
Text in English & German. The challenges facing the 21st century are staggering: rapidly increasing population, mounting social instability due to global imbalances of wealth and welfare, resource scarcity and resulting conflicts related to their exploitation and distribution, and certainly the ongoing distress of the environment as a whole. Such severe conditions, including climate change, continue to become greater in number, complexity, and clarity, even though most of them had already been introduced as areas of concern in the 1970s and 1980s. Part I of the book describes potential strategies that will play an essential role in curbing carbon ... Read more
Text in English & German. The challenges facing the 21st century are staggering: rapidly increasing population, mounting social instability due to global imbalances of wealth and welfare, resource scarcity and resulting conflicts related to their exploitation and distribution, and certainly the ongoing distress of the environment as a whole. Such severe conditions, including climate change, continue to become greater in number, complexity, and clarity, even though most of them had already been introduced as areas of concern in the 1970s and 1980s. Part I of the book describes potential strategies that will play an essential role in curbing carbon ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783936681253
SKU
V9783936681253
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Ref
99-2
About Roger Hargreaves
Klaus Daniels has devoted four decades to advanced engineering solutions as a consulting engineer. From 1991 to 2006 he taught at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). In 2006, the Technical University of Munich, Germany celebrated his work with an honorary doctorate in engineering. Ralph Hammann is a professor of design and sustainable building systems in the Department ... Read more
Reviews for Energy Design For Tomorrow
"...a fantastic reference book with a global perspective of the facts, figures, and statistics required by designers to reduce energy consumption in the built environment and produce climate sensitive buildings." Ecotech November 2009