Description
This textbook introduces the key concepts that underpin sustainable energy transitions. Starting with the basic biophysical principles, current sources and environmental consequences of existing energy resource use, the book takes readers through the key questions and topics needed to understand, prescribe, and advocate just and sustainable energy solutions.
The interdisciplinary nature of the book aims to build bridges across the social and natural sciences and humanities, bringing together perspectives, ideas and concepts from engineering, economics, and life cycle assessment to sociology, political science, anthropology, policy studies, the humanities, arts, and some interdisciplinary thinkers that defy categories. This accessible approach fills the gap for a textbook that integrates sustainability science and engineering studies with strong empirical social science and it will be a useful tool to anyone interested in the socio-ecological dimensions of energy system transitions.
Author: Dustin Mulvaney
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/04/2020
Pages: 243
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9783030489113
ISBN10: 3030489116
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy | Environmental Policy
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Science | Earth Sciences | Geography
The interdisciplinary nature of the book aims to build bridges across the social and natural sciences and humanities, bringing together perspectives, ideas and concepts from engineering, economics, and life cycle assessment to sociology, political science, anthropology, policy studies, the humanities, arts, and some interdisciplinary thinkers that defy categories. This accessible approach fills the gap for a textbook that integrates sustainability science and engineering studies with strong empirical social science and it will be a useful tool to anyone interested in the socio-ecological dimensions of energy system transitions.
Author: Dustin Mulvaney
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/04/2020
Pages: 243
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9783030489113
ISBN10: 3030489116
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy | Environmental Policy
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Science | Earth Sciences | Geography
About the Author
Dustin Mulvaney is Professor in the Environmental Studies Department at San José State University, USA. His contributions to research in political ecology and science & technology studies include work on environmental justice, solar energy commodity chains, and public lands and energy development in the American West. He has published across a wide variety of journals and is the author of Solar Power: Innovation, Sustainability, Environmental Justice (2019).