Engineering Sustainable Life on Earth

Alleviating Adverse Climate Change Through Better Design
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-04496-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 313 g

Climate scientists have clarified the main causes of climate change, and the tight timescale within which humans must change behaviour, and implement effective solutions, wherever they are needed across the world. This book uncovers many of the powerful actions and uses them effectively to achieve sustainable human life, of improved quality, in a way that is affordable out of earned income for all humans, wherever they live.

The ultimate solution to climate change lies not just in doing and consuming less but does instead entirely revolve around our ability to "out innovate" the problem. John F. Coplin, CBE, FREng, FCGI, has had a long and distinguished career in engineering and has operated and advised at all levels from heads of state, company chairs, engineering directors, government advisory boards, and on the shop floor. He is perfectly placed to take a wide-ranging approach, applying modern design and innovative engineering at a systemic level in order to provide novel approaches that will have far-reaching impact on reversing humankind’s impact on this planet. His projections and solutions are based on facts, reasonable calculations, and science learnt from nature. Unafraid to challenge current thinking, John looks at solutions across multiple sectors, including aviation, cars and domestic local transport, clean and renewable energy, food and agriculture, and housing and communities, and describes the particular potential of hydrogen as fuel.

The book is written in a language for all. It is small enough to be used is a practical guide to where some of the most useful improvements are to be found and as a way to start important conversations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coplin, John F.

Coplin, John

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallentsorgung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Abfallbeseitigung, Abfallentsorgung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Wasserversorgung, Wasseraufbereitung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Part I: The Big Reset 1. Engineering Extinction? 2. Why Design Engineering? 3. How Did We Get Here? The Legacy of the Industrial Revolution 4. The Technology Revolution Part II: Clean Energy 5. Energy Storage Systems 6. Renewables 7. (Decentralised) Nuclear Power 8. Building a Clean Grid Part III: Transport
9. Cars 10. Commercial Aviation Part IV: Food and Agriculture 11. Food 12. Farming and Agriculture Part V: Homes and Housing 13. Urbanisation vs Dispersed Communities Part VI: Unheeded Warnings and Critical Actions 14. Unheeded Warnings 15. Critical Actions Acknowledgements

Über Autor(innen)

John F. Coplin, aeronautical engineer, chief designer of Rolls-Royce’s RB211 aeroengine. During the 1990s, he was UK science and technology advisor to the Indonesian President. Previously a visiting professor on engineering design to Oxford University and Imperial College and Associate Fellow in Design Engineering at the University of Warwick.