Sustainable resource development /

• Main Author: Zatzman, Gary
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Salem, Mass. : Scrivener ; [2012]; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, [2012]
• Subjects: Energy development > Environmental aspects.; Renewable energy sources.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Energy.; SCIENCE > Energy.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Power Resources > General.; Electronic books.

"True sustainability" is the line of engineering research and practice that is giving rise to a series of Scrivener textbooks, such as Khan & Islam's best-selling The Greening of Petroleum Operations. Making explicit reference to his own recently-published book in this series, Sus...

Table of Contents:

• A True Sustainability Criterion and Its Implications
• "Alternative" and Conventional Energy Sources: Trail-Mix, Tom Mix or Global Mixup?
• Electricity and Sustainability
• The Zero-Waste Concept and Its Applications
• Natural Gas
• OPEC : The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• Concluding Remarks
• Appendix: The Economics of Information and the Intentions of Professor Joseph Stiglitz.