Energy industries and utilities

This book provides an accessible and critical appraisal of Australia's regional energy transition initiatives.

Examining the interplay between the oil economy and identity politics using the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a case study, this book tells the untold story of how extractivism in the Kurdish autonomous region is interwoven in a mosaic of territorial disputes, simmering ethnic tensions, dynastic rule, party allegiances, crony patronage, and divergent visions about nature.

Europe's Energy Transition: Insights for Policy Making looks at the availability and cost of accessing energy and how it significantly affects economic growth and competitiveness in global markets.

The downhill slide in the global price of crude oil, which started mid-2014, had major repercussions across the Middle East for net oil exporters, as well as importers closely connected to the oil-producing countries from the Gulf.

In legislation appropriating funds for DOE's fiscal year (FY) 2000 energy R&D budget, the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee directed an evaluation of the benefits that have accrued to the nation from the R&D conducted since 1978 in DOE's energy efficiency and fossil energy programs.

This book presents a history of radioecology, from World War II through to the critical years of the Cold War, finishing with a discussion of recent developments and future implications for the field.

This Handbook examines the subject of energy security: its definition, dimensions, ways to measure and index it, and the complicating factors that are often overlooked.

This book provides a multilayered analysis of food import dependency and its impact on food security in the Caribbean region.

This book presents machine learning approaches to identify the most important predictors of crucial variables for dealing with the challenges of managing production units and designing agriculture policies.

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Water has become increasingly central to addressing multiple development and environmental objectives in the course of climate change.

Mining and geological survey work in Jamaica goes back several hundred years and was initiated by the Europeans when they colonized the Island.

With many worked examples, this book provides step-by-step instruction for all calculations required for wastewater treatment.

Water and Environment addresses imbalances between availability and demand, degradation of surface and ground waters, inter-sectorial, inter-regional and international competition in water management.

Thermo-ecology: Exergy as a Measure of Sustainability integrates thermo-ecology and exergy replacement cost as a new and original tool called thermo-ecology cost, or TEC.

This volume celebrates the life and career of Gordon Rausser, pioneer and leader in natural resource economics, while critically overviewing the emerging literature in the field.

Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes, Fourth Edition, winner of a 2022 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association, provides accessible coverage of clean, safe alternative energy sources such as solar and wind power.

Originally published in 1987.

In 1973, the United States and other western countries were shocked by the Arab oil embargo.

This advanced research-oriented volume on sustainable water management covers the latest advances in water purification, treatment, and resource management.

A unified theory of conservation that addresses the broad problem of conservation, the principles that inform conservation choices, and the application of those principles to the management of the natural world.

Modeling hydrologic changes and predicting their impact on watersheds is a dominant concern for hydrologists and other water resource professionals, civil and environmental engineers, and urban and regional planners.

In most developing countries wastewater treatment systems are hardly functioning or have a very low coverage, resulting in large scale water pollution and the use of very poor quality water for crop irrigation especially in the vicinity of urban centres.

This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain.

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A ground-breaking investigation into the oil and gas industry, international corruption and world politics.

Water is a basic human need, and despite predictions of "e;water wars,"e; shared waters have proven to be the natural resource with the greatest potential for interstate cooperation and local confidence building.

Groundwater and Surface Water Pollution contains almost all the technical know-how required to clean up our water supply.

The book presents contributions from Brazilian experts on the regulation of different energy sources.

A definitive guide, this book focuses on the design and construction of water infrastructure projects within karst formations and provides engineering approaches for preventing and mitigating their environmental problems.

Examining the current literature, research, and relevant case studies, presented by a team of international experts, the Urban Water Reuse Handbook discusses the pros and cons of water reuse and explores new and alternative methods for obtaining a sustainable water supply.

This volume is a guide to the state of the art of activated carbon adsorption technology as applied to wastewater treatment.

Contemporary life is founded on oil - a cheap, accessible, and rich source of energy that has shaped cities and manufacturing economies at the same time that it has increased mobility, global trade, and environmental devastation.

This volume is a true shelf reference, providing a thorough overview of the entire renewable energy sphere, while still functioning as a go-to information source for professionals and students when they need answers about a specific technical issue.

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A Toolbox Talk (TBT) is a pre- job task made to ensure all parties involved in a task have full understanding of what they should do.

Today we recognize the importance of the pending transition in energy resource utilization in the coming century.

This book comprehensively analyzes the challenges and opportunities associated with transitioning to sustainable energy systems in Latin America.

American dependence on foreign oil has long been described as a serious threat to U.

Generating energy from waste is an attractive solution, as governments around the world grapple with the challenges of providing energy security, mitigating carbon emissions and disposing of increasing waste volume.

Multiscale Hydrologic Remote Sensing: Perspectives and Applications integrates advances in hydrologic science and innovative remote sensing technologies.

Stability of the electricity industry is crucial for economic growth of all nations.

Flood risk management policy across the European Union is changing, partly in response to the EU Floods Directive and partly because of new scientific approaches and research findings.

This book focuses on the evaluation, coordination, and effects of China's natural resource utilization.

This volume analyses the energy industry for the following geographical units: America - divided into North America (Canada + USA) and  Central and South America -, the Middle East and South Asia, East Asia and Oceania.

The British Economy After Oil (1988) examines the future paths for the British economy as North Sea oil runs out.

This book includes concepts, methodologies, and techniques used in soil nutrients and irrigation water management with regional and global prospects.

Green Energy: Sustainable Electricity Supply with Low Environmental Impact defines the future of the world's electricity supply system, exploring the key issues associated with global warming, and which energy systems are best suited to reducing it.

This book considers climate change from an economic and international policy perspective.

This is the 2nd edition of one of the most comprehensive accounts of debris flow, describing both theoretical and applied aspects.