Physics of Societal Issues Calculations on National Security, Environment, and Energy /

• Main Author: Hafemeister, David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Physics.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Engineering.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Applied and Technical Physics.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Industrial and Production Engineering.; Physics, general.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Engineering, general.

Why this book on the Physics of Societal Issues? The subdivisions of physics - nuclear physics, particle physics, condensed-matter physics, biophysics - have their textbooks, while the subdivision of physics and society lacks an equation-oriented text on the physics of arms, energy and the environme...