Energy Books

New and Published Books

1. Architecture and Energy

   Performance and Style

   Edited by William Braham, Daniel Willis

   Does energy consumption influence architectural style? Should more energy-efficient buildings look different? Can that "look" be used to explain or enhance their performance? Architecture and Energy provides architects and architectural theorists with more durable arguments for environmental...

   Published May 16th 2013 by Routledge
2. Environmental Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

   International and Domestic Legal Perspectives

   By Laura Westra

   More than 300 million people in over 70 countries make up the world?s indigenous populations. Yet despite ever-growing pressures on their lands, environment and way of life through outside factors such as climate change and globalization, their rights in these and other respects are still not fully...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Energy and Electricity in Industrial Nations

   The Sociology and Technology of Energy

   By Allan Mazur

   Energy is at the top of the list of environmental problems facing industrial society, and is arguably the one that has been handled least successfully, in part because politicians and the public do not understand the physical technologies, while the engineers and industrialists do not understand...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Russia and the World

   The Internal-External Nexus

   Edited by Natasha Kuhrt

   Series: Routledge Europe-Asia Studies

   This volume brings together analyses of key domestic, foreign and security policy issues during the Putin and Medvedev administrations. Indeed, the chapters demonstrate the extent to which domestic and foreign policy issues are inextricably linked, in particular in the domain of security, whether '...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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