Energy Books

New and Published Books

1. Renewable Energy Project Development Under the Clean Development Mechanism

   A Guide for Latin America

   By Elizabeth Lokey

   Series: Environmental Market Insights

   This definitive guide to developing renewable energy CDM projects in Latin America - the largest market on the doorstep of the United States - provides business leaders, investors, project developers and host country offices with the one-stop guide to successful CDM renewable energy project...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. Household Waste Recycling

   By Richard Waite

   Series: Environmental Management Set

   Households in the UK each generate around one tonne of waste per year, and the successful management and disposal of this waste is becoming an increasingly important issue. In many cases, recycling is the most sensible option, and the UK government has set a target to recycle a quarter of all...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Urban Energy Systems

   An Integrated Approach

   Edited by James Keirstead, Nilay Shah

   Energy demands of cities need to be met more sustainably. This book analyses the technical and social systems that satisfy these needs and asks how methods can be put into practice to achieve this. Drawing on analytical tools and case studies developed at Imperial College London, the book presents...

   Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
4. Sustainable Retrofit and Facilities Management

   By Paul Appleby

   Governments across the globe are setting targets for reducing their carbon emissions. For example, the UK Government has committed to an eighty per cent reduction by 2050, when twenty-eight million buildings that currently exist will still be standing; this represents a challenge to improve...

   Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
5. Business Models for Renewable Energy in the Built Environment

   By Iea-Retd

   Business Models for Renewable Energy in the Built Environment provides insight to policy makers and market actors as to the ways that new and innovative business models (and/or policy measures) can stimulate the deployment of renewable energy technologies (RET) and energy efficiency (EE) measures...

   Published February 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change

   Edited by Saturnino Borras Jr., Philip McMichael, Ian Scoones

   Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

   This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what?...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Hungry Dragon

   How China’s Resource Quest is Reshaping the World

   By Sigfrido Burgos Cáceres, Sophal Ear

   This book explores China’s quest for energy sources, raw materials and natural resources around the world, with a specific emphasis on oil. China’s ubiquitous presence in Africa, Asia and Latin America is reshaping the world with regards to economics, politics and national security. It offers a...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
8. Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment

   The Case of India

   By Manu Mathai

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

   Nuclear power is often characterized as a "green technology." Technologies are rarely, if ever, socially isolated artefacts. Instead, they materially represent an embodiment of values and priorities. Nuclear power is no different. It is a product of a particular political economy and the question...

   Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
9. Biofuels and Rural Poverty

   By Joy Clancy

   Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an original contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences that large-scale production of transport fuel substitutes can have on rural areas, principally in developing countries but also in some poor rural areas...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
10. Energy from the Desert

    Very Large Scale PV Power-State of the Art and Into The Future

    Edited by Keiichi Komoto, Christian Breyer, Edwin Cunow, Karim Megherbi, David Faiman, Peter van der Vleuten

    The fourth volume in the established Energy from the Desert series examines and evaluates the potential and feasibility of Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Power Generation (VLS-PV) systems, which have capacities ranging from several megawatts to gigawatts, and to develop practical...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge