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Multiscale Modeling, Simulation and Visualization and Their Potential for Future Aerospace Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 462

Multiscale Modeling, Simulation and Visualization and Their Potential for Future Aerospace Systems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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My Serendipitous Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 407

My Serendipitous Life

Over 400 pages with 380 photos, more than half in color, author describes eighty-five year life growing up in Irish, Croatian, German family in Whiting, Indiana, a Chicago suburb on the shore of Lake Michigan. Memoir details family heritage, quarterback of Whiting High state championship football team, nation’s leading football scorer at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, coach of the Rose-Hulman football team, earning a BS at Rose-Hulman, MS at The University of Kansas, and PhD at Illinois Institute of Technology; engineering professor at Virginia Tech and then the University of Virginia, expert in mechanics of fibrous composites, founding director of the NASA-Virginia Tech Composites Program, instigator of the Virginia Tech personal computer initiative, ACC football official, leader in U. S. national and international mechanics committees (ASME, SES, USNC/TAM, IUTAM), international travels; sixty-two (continuing) years of marriage with four children and eight grandchildren.

Keeping Cool in Southeast Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Keeping Cool in Southeast Asia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-14
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  • Publisher: Springer

Against the backdrop of the environmental impact of household electricity consumption and the history of cooling practices, Marlyne Sahakian considers how people keep cool, from Metro Manila to other mega-cities in Southeast Asia.

The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-07-29
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book presents the results of the first full-scale emissions trading schemes in Australia and internationally, arguing these schemes will not be sufficient to 'civilize markets' and prevent dangerous climate change. Instead, it articulates the ways climate policy needs to confront the collective nature of our predicament.

The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 478

The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-09-23
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  • Publisher: Springer

Bringing together renewable energy and energy security, this book covers both the politics and political economy of renewables and energy security and analyzes renewable technologies in diverse and highly topical countries: Japan, China and Northern Europe.

Climate Change and Order
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Climate Change and Order

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-18
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  • Publisher: Springer

Beth Edmondson and Stuart Levy examine why it is so difficult for the international community to respond to global climate change. In doing so, they analyse and explain some of the strategies that might ultimately provide the foundations for appropriate responses.

Sustainability and Energy Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 390

Sustainability and Energy Politics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-08-18
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  • Publisher: Springer

The author explores the fraught politics of energy transitions in an age of climate change. She does so through an ecological modernisation and corporate social responsibility lens which she contends shapes and underpins sustainability today. Case studies cover climate policy, unconventional gas and renewable energy.

Climate Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Climate Innovation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-03-19
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  • Publisher: Springer

A comprehensive examination of the inability of liberal capitalism to generate the technological innovations necessary to prevent dangerous climate change. The case is made for the need for institutional evolution to drive the climate innovation, and the potential for climate innovation in an increasingly economically interconnected world.

Governance Approaches to Mitigation of and Adaptation to Climate Change in Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Governance Approaches to Mitigation of and Adaptation to Climate Change in Asia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-22
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  • Publisher: Springer

Academics and practitioners from across Asia and beyond revisit the issues and impact of climate change in Asia. They examine the preconditions for good governance regarding climate change, and the role of state and non-state actors in climate change governance, and explore different political-legal frameworks.

Aerospace Thermal Structures and Materials for a New Era
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 430

Aerospace Thermal Structures and Materials for a New Era

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: AIAA

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