The Sustainability Conundrum: Balancing Energy Transition and Global Development - Couverture souple

Michaelides, Efstathios E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1041144806 ISBN 13 : 9781041144809

Editeur : CRC Press, 2026

Synopsis

The Sustainability Conundrum: Balancing Energy Transition and Global Development investigates how a clean environment and mitigation of Global Climate Change will affect the UN’s sustainability goals for development, poverty elimination, and inequality reduction. The book covers the necessity of energy use for humans, the global demand and the supply of energy, and the environmental challenges of energy consumption. Outlining the interconnections between four of the UN goals, the book discusses the Global Climate Change problem by explaining how the scientific community eradicated other global environmental threats, such as acid rain, lead contamination, and the ozone hole. It establishes the uniqueness of Global Climate Change; evaluates proposed methods and “roadmaps” to achieve meaningful carbon dioxide emissions reductions; computes the cost of the necessary infrastructure for their implementation on a regional and a global scale; and draws conclusions about the implementation of the proposed energy transition and the sustainability goals for the elimination of poverty and reduction of inequalities within and among nations. This book is intended for students of sustainability initiatives and any readers interested in the ongoing challenges surrounding sustainability and global economic development.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Efstathios E. Michaelides is the Tex Moncrief Chair of Engineering at Texas Christian University (TCU), USA. Among his previous positions, he was the Founder and Director of the NSF-supported Center on Simulation, Visualization and Real Time Computing (SiViRT) at the University of Texas, San Antonio, and the director of the South Central Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (2002–2007) at Tulane University. Professor Michaelides holds a B.A. degree (honors) from Oxford University, UK, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Brown University, USA. He has published more than 200 journal papers; has contributed more than 350 papers and presentations in national and international conferences; and has authored 9 books on energy, the environment, and multiphase flow. Among other honors, he has received the ASME Fluids Engineering Award (2014) and the ASME James Harry Potter Medal (2024) “for eminent contributions in the science of Thermodynamics.” Professor Michaelides is currently a fellow of ASME and the ASTFE.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CRC Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1041144806
• ISBN 13: 9781041144809
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 146
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible