UID:
almahu_9948601221602882
Format:
XII, 710 p.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2002.
ISBN:
9781461502968
Content:
Sustainable development encompasses economic, social, and ecological perspectives of conservation and change in natural resources. It is generally defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This definition is based on the ethical imperative of equity within and between generations. Moreover, apart from meeting; "the basic needs of all"; sustainable development implies sustaining the natural life support systems on Earth, and extending to all the opportunity to satisfy their aspirations for a better life. Hence, sustainable development is more precisely defined as a process of change in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development, and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspiration. To date, various definitions and stationary-state criteria of sustainability have been proposed. Many authors have been concerned with only part of the problem, such as the technological assumptions, the ability to substitute natural resources in economic transformation processes, and the resilience and importance of ecological processes. But, the social dimension did not receive the same attention, and has not been adequately integrated into formal analysis. The engineering community has to play an important role in sustainable development with appropriate evaluation of the engineering systems. In this respect energy, water and environment systems require multi-criteria evaluation methods for the assessment of the economic, environmental and social aspect of the systems.
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1 - Sustainability Development in Energy Strategy -- Advantage of the Renewable Energies at Madeira Island: Electrical Power Production -- Sustainability Assessment of Renewable Energy Systems -- Design and Optimization of Forced Convection Heat Sinks for Sustainable Development -- Bioenergetics-Conversion of Biochemical to Mechanical Energyin the Cardiac Muscle -- Comparison between SIMEA and SENECA Methods for Social Impact Analysis of Energy Systems -- Sustainable Energy Scenarios Using Green Energy for India -- Assessing Urban Environmental Sustainability by Means of Indicators: The Case of the Heritage Buildings -- Kyoto Protocol Objectives by Promoting the Technology Transfer to Small Island Developing Countries: Santo Antao, Cape Verde -- 2 - Economic Evaluation of New and Renewable Energy Source -- Constructal Optimization of Tree-Shaped Paths for the Collection and Distribution of Fluid, Electricity, Goods and People -- An Overview of Gas Turbine Technologies for Power Generation in Europe -- Pricing the Energy Supplied by Renewable Sources: An Assessment of the Portuguese Situation -- Sustainable Utilization of Paper Sludge for Energy Conversion: Economic Potential and Environmental Feasibility -- Cost Optimization of a Cogeneration Plant -- An Integrated Methodology for Regional Energy Planning in Isolated Areas: Application in the Cape Verde Islands -- Modern Financial Mechanisms for Renewable Energy Technologies -- Advanced Sustainable Integrated Systems for Total Building Energy Supply -- Assessment of Renewable Energy Sources Using a Geographical Information System -- Kyoto Protocol Objectives in Croatia Energy Planning -- Renewable Energies in the Canary Islands: Actual Situation and Perspectives -- Results of an Experimental Investigate of Natural Ventilated Building -- Safety Assessment of Hydrogen as a Fuel for Vehicles by Numerical Simulation -- Possibilities of Reducing Energy Costs by Using CHP Systems in Urban Area of Sarajevo Region -- 3 - Solar Energy Utilisation -- Expert System for New and Renewable Energies -- Photovoltaics R &D: A Tour through the 21st Century -- The Use of Solar Energy in a District Heating System in Finland: Case Case Study of Six District Heating Plants -- Solar Air Conditioning for Buildings -- Experimental Study of a Passive System: A Ventilated Wall -- Overall Performance of Advanced Glazing Windows in Nonresidential Buildings: Heat Extraction and Energy Requirements -- Photovoltaic Solar Cells with Thin Film Materials -- Photovoltaic Devices: a 2000 Overview -- 4 - Fuel Cells Development -- Suitability of Metallic Materials for Interconnects in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells -- Fuel Cell Buses: a Sustainable Technology for the Urban Passenger Transportation Sector -- Fuel Cells and the Future of Motorization -- Fuel Cell-Based Renewable Energy Supply: Sustainable Energy for Isolated and Island Communities -- Sustainable Heat and Electricity from Sugarcane Residues Gasification in Brazil -- 5 - Biomass and Waste Energy Utilisation -- Some Aspects Contributing to Improved Process and Equipment Design in the Field of Waste-to-Energy and Environmental Protection -- Generation of a Gaseous Fuel by Pyrolysis or Gasification of Biomass for Use as Reburn Gas in Coal-Fired Boilers -- Phase Space Description of Unstable Dynamics of a Lean Premixed Gas Turbine Combust or -- Integrated Biomass Gasification-Gas Turbine-Fuel Cell Systems for Small-scale, Distributed Generation of Electricity and Heat -- Thermodynamic Performances and Cost Analysis of Advanced Biomass Combustion Power Plants -- Stabilizing Effect and Diffusion Control on Diffusion Flames by Magnetic Field517 -- Experimental Study on Combustion in a Porous Media -- Low Emission Combustion of Vegetable Oils with the Porous Burner Technology -- Emissions during the Co-combustion of Lignite and Waste Wood in a Fluidised Bed Reactor -- Combustion of Sawdust -- Design and Calculation of a New Unit for Thermal Treatment and Energy Utilization of Gas Wastes -- Development of Computerized Tool for Design and Assessment of Biomass Power Generation Systems599 -- Thermochemical Gasification of Biomass: Fuel Conversion, Hot Gas Cleanup and Gas Turbine Combustion -- The Use of Waste Wood for Energy Production: Technical Aspects and Management Issues -- Disposal of Low Calorific Value Waste Gas -- 6 - Geothermal and Ocean Energy Utilisation -- Modified Thermal Calculations of a Geothermal Double-Pipe HeatExchanger (with Insulation and no Insulation) Immersed intoGeothermal Deposit645 -- Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) and Deep Ocean Water Applications (DOWA): Market Opportunities for European Industry -- On the Two-Phase Dispersed Flow Hydrodynamics and Heat Transfer Investigations -- Spreading of Droplets on Horizontal Surfaces -- Air Particulate Matter Characterization of an Industrial Area atNorth from Lisbon.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781402073410
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781461350095
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781461502975
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4615-0296-8
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0296-8
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