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Sustainable Energy and Environment

An Earth System Approach
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Sustainable Energy and Environment offers a comprehensive introduction to Earth as a complex, livable planet. It explores surface and subsurface processes, alongside the various energy cycles that transform and store energy across the planet's spheres. The book explains how energy exchanges occur between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere, highlighting their effects on our environment.
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Ideal for readers interested in environmental science and sustainable energy, including students and general audiences seeking a foundational understanding of Earth's energy systems and environmental interactions.

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Provides a holistic understanding of earth, energy, and the environment that discusses the interactions between the different parts of Earthβ€”how energy is exchanged between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere, and how impacts it the environment in which we live.

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Here is a comprehensive introductory discussion of Earth, energy, and the environment in an integrated manner that will lead to an appreciation of our complex planet.

Sustainable Energy and Environment looks at Earth from the perspective of a livable planet and elaborates on the surface and subsurface processes and the various energy cycles where energy is transformed and stored in the planet’s various spheres.

The chapters discuss the interactions between the different parts of Earthβ€”how energy is exchanged between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere, and how they impact the environment in which we live.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781774634271

Publisher: Apple Academic Press Inc.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 March 2021

Country: Canada

Imprint: Apple Academic Press Inc.

Illustration: 13 Tables, black and white; 24 Illustrations, color; 87 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

  • Edited by Sandeep Narayan Kundu
  • Edited by Muhammad Nawaz

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 730g

Pages: 392

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Sandeep Narayan Kundu, PhD, is a geoscientist with over 20 years of experience in industry and academia alike. He currently serves as an adjunct faculty at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, and also works fulltime for Fugro Singapore Marine. Dr. Kundu has worked in various capacities in the energy exploration industry in the geoscience domain at multinational organizations. He also researched at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany; the Institute of Geoinformatics, Muenster, Germany; Indian Institute of Technology; and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Dr. Kundu is a recipient of the prestigious British Council Fellowship and the Junior Research Fellowship in Earth Sciences.

Muhammad Nawaz, PhD, is a geomorphologist with expertise in geographic information systems, decision support systems, and environmental science. Dr. Nawaz is a Netherlands Fellowship Programme fellow and currently works in the Faculty at the Department of Geography of the National University of Singapore. Since 1993, Dr. Nawaz has served at several different universities, including Punjab University in Pakistan and on the Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Prior to that, Dr. Nawaz worked as a Lecturer at the Environment Science eLearning at Charles Darwin University, Australia, and as Associate Head/Assistant Professor at the GIS Centre, University of the Punjab, Pakistan.

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