When Waste Disappears, or More Waste Please!
Energy-from-waste plants in places like Britain were designed help reduce waste and carbon emissions, but they have had unintended side-effects.
Energy-from-waste plants in places like Britain were designed help reduce waste and carbon emissions, but they have had unintended side-effects.
Vaclav Smil shows why energy transitions are inherently complex and prolonged affairs, and how ignoring this raises unrealistic expectations that the United States and other global economies can be weaned quickly from a primary dependency on fossil fuels.
Taylor and Chappells examine changing material cultures of energy in Britain and Canada.
This volume of Perspectives offers a collection of largely untold stories that demonstrate women’s agency in energy transitions.
Gooday challenges established assumptions about the inevitability of modern energy decisions and places the agency of women in the foreground of domestic electrification.
The author explores how the first professional women decorators in Britain helped women gain agency in the home.
Sayer looks at candles as an example of how less prominant energy sources and uses play key roles in energy transitions.
This volume of Perspectives offers case studies of energy transitions within everyday environments over the last two centuries, from Europe to South Asia, to North and Latin America.