£86.99
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Explore India's remarkable electrification journey, from colonial beginnings to the era of renewable energy. This account delves into governance and equity, balancing developmental needs with ambitious climate goals, and charts a path toward India's envisioned energy future.
This book offers an insightful exploration into India’s remarkable journey of electrification—from its modest colonial beginnings through transformative state-led expansions, market-driven reforms, and into today’s dynamic era of digital modernization and renewable energy. This authoritative account delves into critical aspects of governance, equity, financial viability, and sustainability, illuminating the intricate balance between meeting developmental needs and achieving ambitious climate goals. Richly documented with historical context and contemporary analysis, the book provides invaluable lessons and actionable recommendations, charting a clear path toward India’s envisioned energy future. Essential reading for policymakers, scholars, industry professionals, and anyone interested in understanding how electricity has shaped—and will continue to shape—the destiny of India.
This volume provides science and environmental educators with examples of learning that contribute to a more eco-socially just and sustainable world. This education moves beyond facts to develop learners’ values and capabilities to envision and work towards preferable futures.
From the unique perspective of a solar space scientist turned oilfield engineer, this book takes an honest look at the energy transition. How are oil giants pivoting on climate change? Is the urgency as dire as we’re told? A must-read to understand the reality of climate change.
Your electricity bills have doubled for a reason. Failed state policy has put our power supply at risk. An engineer reveals the true costs of renewables and the radical solution politicians have missed.
With fossil fuels depleting, reliable and eco-friendly energy is essential. This book discusses renewable resources like wind and solar power, comparing them to non-renewable sources with data from case studies and exploring their advantages over conventional energy.
Human activities have massively accelerated the nitrogen cycle, causing eutrophication, smog, acid rain, and the emission of potent greenhouse gases. This book reviews the biotransformation of nitrogen, its ecological significance, and the consequences of human interference.
This book describes human civilization from an energy perspective, showing how mastering energy catapulted our species to supremacy. It weaves a fascinating story from Stone Age tools to climate change, discussing the dark side and the future of renewables.
This volume contains a selection of the best papers on renewable energies and power quality. It presents state-of-the-art research from leading authorities drawn from across the globe, with contributions from 300 authors from 60 different countries.
Solar PV power is intermittent. This book provides an understanding of this variability and its impacts on power systems. It explores the sources of intermittency, from solar irradiation to dust, and the consequences for power system design and operation.
This book explores people-forest relationships in Kenya through the Indigenous Knowledge of the Agĩkũyũ people. It confronts the history of land dispossession, cements the forest’s role in the struggle for independence, and shows how this wisdom can forge sustainable futures.
Disasters are not always acts of nature. This book opens a new field in disaster research: those caused by mankind. From industrial accidents to political corruption, it explores our vulnerability, resilience, and introduces the new concept of disaster sustainability.
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