Energy, the Great Driver (eBook)

Seven Revolutions and the Challenges of Climate Change

R. Gareth Wyn Jones (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
160 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-425-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Energy use lies at the core of all biological and human activity. Unless we understand ours and the rest of natural world’s relationship with energy, we are doomed to disaster.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Prologue
Chapter I: Introduction
Chapter II: The Mysterious Origins of Life
Chapter III: Harvesting the Sun
Chapter IV: A Structural Revolution: Complex Cells
Chapter V: The Hominid Factor
Chapter VI: ‘Food Glorious Food’?
Chapter VII: Fossil Fuels –An Energy Bonanza
Chapter VIII: The Homeostatic Hierarchy.
Chapter IX: Emergent Patterns
Chapter X: The Gathering Storm – Greenhouse Gases: The Effluence of Affluence
Chapter XI: On human behaviour and our social and physical constructs
Chapter XII: Denouement?
Chapter XIII: The Human Factor
Notes
References

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Schlagworte: challenges • Change • Climate • Driver • Energy • Gareth • Great • Jones • of • R • revolutions • SEVEN • Wyn
• ISBN-10: 1-78683-425-1 / 1786834251
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78683-425-6 / 9781786834256