Energy, Environment, and Climate 2nd Edition by Richard Wolfson describes the physical concepts in easy-to-understand language and asks students to apply those concepts to contemporary energy issues. Students learn to analyze the important questions that face today’s citizens and deal with the answers both qualitatively and quantitatively.
All human activity has an impact on the environment, and all human activity will be impacted by the response to climate change and other environmental stresses. Societies’ leaders across business, government, NGOs and other communities are seeking fundamental changes in the relationship between resource use, economic activity and society. Sustainable development is no longer an option, it is a necessity.
This text integrates numerous strategies, advertising, public relations, websites, social marketing, special events to reach the right audiences and produce measurable results. This text explains collaborative efforts among policy experts, economists, researchers, scientists, and marketers. Together, we design, develop, and implement campaigns that transform awareness of energy, environment, and climate change issues into action.
Richard Wolfson is an award-winning teacher who has produced multiple video courses for the Teaching Company. Well known for his clear, concise, and lively writing style, Wolfson makes energy easy to understand and interesting to learn. A range of questions and problems at the end of each chapter help students think about the concepts, solve quantitative problems, and create arguments to support what they’ve learned. Instructors can use these same questions and problems as lecture-launchers or class discussion.
The second edition incorporates updates and rewrites based on the latest developments in energy and its environmental and climate implications. These include new material on electrical energy, a rewritten chapter on nuclear energy and solar energy, updates to climate chapters, coverage of major energy-related environmental incidents—including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Fukushima nuclear accident, and the San Bruno, California natural gas explosion—new explanatory boxes, and incorporation of new energy and climate-related policy decisions.
End-of-chapter questions provide an opportunity for students to practice what they’ve learned and provide instructors with questions that can be debated in class. This text emphasizes climate change as an energy-related environmental issue. It is the most contemporary book for the energy course and written for non-science majors.
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