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Environment and Preservation
The Myth of Resource Efficiency
Author: Authors: John M. Polimeni, Kozo Mayumi, Mario Giampietro and Blake Alcott. Mario Giampietro is a research professor at the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has deeply studied the complex relations between energetic resources, society and governments.
Summary: "The Jevons Paradox" states that an increase in efficiency in using a resource leads to increased use of that resource rather than to a reduction. This book explains the myth of efficiency and explores its implication for resource usage (particularly oil), and is the first to provide a historical overview of the Jevons Paradox, provide evidence for its existence and apply it to complex systems.
Publisher: Earthscan Year of issue: 2009
Environment and Preservation
The Biofuel Delusion
Author: Mario Giampietro is a research professor at the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has deeply studied the complex relations between energetic resources, society and governments. Kozo Mayumi is professor at Tokushima University, in Japan.
Summary: This book explains why biofuels produced from agricultural crops cannot provide a sustainable energy solution and why many governments continue not to recognize this. It begins by showing that the characteristics of agro-fuels make them neither a viable nor a desirable alternative to fossil fuels. It then moves on to examine why agro-biofuels continue to be promoted by Western governments despite the fact they are well known, in the field of energy analysis, to be very low quality "energy sources".
Publisher: Earthscan Year of issue: 2009
Environment and Preservation
Assessing biodiversity risks with socio-economic methods: The Alarm experience
Author: Members of the Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA-UAB) are some of the editors of this book: Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos, Rosa Binimelis, Iliana Monterroso and Joan Martínez-Alier.
Summary: The book gathers results of the european project (FP-6) ALARM, 2005-09. This UAB team has made research sbout biological invasions at river Ebro (zebra mussel), France (cameraria), Guatemala (hydrilla) and Argentina (sorgo d'Alepo) using several socio-economical evaluation methods. It has also made research about socio-economical effects of the transgenic cultivations at Catalonia. Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos has been the main editor of this book.
Publisher: Pensoft Year of issue: 2009
Physics
Antes de Hubble, Miss Leavitt (Miss Leavitt's Stars)
Author: George Johnson is a science writer and author working from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Three of his articles for the New York Times won the AAAS Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and one is included in The Best American Science Writing, edited by James Gleick. He has also written for National Geographic, Slate, Scientific American, Time, Wired, and The Atlantic.
Summary: Henrietta Leavitt, while working at Harvard College's observatory in the early 20th century, discovered a way to measure distances between stars, which led astronomers to calculate the size of the universe. At the beginning of the twentieth century, scientists argued over the size of the universe: was it, as the astronomer Harlow Shapley argued, the size of the Milky Way, or was there more truth to Edwin Hubble's claim that our own galaxy is just one among billions?
Publisher: Antoni Bosch Year of issue: 2009
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