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Tolley's Industrial and Commercial Gas Installation Practice

Tolley's Industrial and Commercial Gas Installation Practice

This is the third of three essential reference volumes for those concerned with the installation and servicing of domestic and industrial gas equipment. This volume explains the basic principles underlying the practical and theoretical aspects of installing and servicing gas appliances and associated equipment from the basics of combustion to burners pressure and flow transfer of heat controls as well as materials and processes electrical aspects and metering and measuring devices. Covering both Natural Gas and Liquefied Petroleum Gas the many illustrations and worked examples included throughout the text will help the reader to understand the principles under discussion. Volume 3 of the Gas Service Technology Series will enable the reader to put into practice the safe installation and servicing procedures described in the companion volumes: Basic Science and Practice of Gas Service (Volume 1) and Domestic Gas Installation Practice (Volume 2). Combining a comprehensive reference with practical application in real-world engineering contexts Volume 3 provides an essential handbook for all aspects of fundamental gas servicing technology ideal for both students new to the field as well as professionals and non-operational professionals (e. g. specifiers managers supervisors) as an ongoing source of reference. | Tolley's Industrial and Commercial Gas Installation Practice

GBP 44.99
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Tolley's Basic Science and Practice of Gas Service

Tolley's Basic Science and Practice of Gas Service

This is the first of three essential reference volumes for those concerned with theinstallation and servicing of domestic and industrial gas equipment. This volumeexplains the basic principles underlying the practical and theoretical aspects ofinstalling and servicing gas appliances and associated equipment from the basics ofcombustion to burners pressure and flow transfer of heat controls as well asmaterials and processes electrical aspects and metering and measuring devices. The revised fifth edition is brought fully up to date with current Standards andlegislation to reflect recent developments in industry in line with requirements of theACS Certificates of Competence and NVQs. Covering both natural gas andliquefied petroleum gas the many illustrations and worked examples includedthroughout the text will help the reader to understand the principles under discussion. Volume 1 of the Gas Service Technology Series will enable the reader to put intopractice the safe installation and servicing procedures described in the companionvolumes: Domestic Gas Installation Practice (Volume 2) and Industrial andCommercial Gas Installation Practice (Volume 3). Combining a comprehensivereference with practical application in real-world engineering contexts Volume 1provides an essential handbook for all aspects of fundamental gas servicingtechnology ideal for both students new to the field as well as professionals and noneoperational professionals (e. g. specifiers managers supervisors) as an ongoing source of reference. | Tolley's Basic Science and Practice of Gas Service

GBP 44.99
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Economics of Energy Security Perspectives of Natural Gas Exporters

Economics of Energy Security Perspectives of Natural Gas Exporters

There has been a burgeoning interest in energy security in recent years due to the transformation of the energy landscape through deepening market deregulation rising environmental challenges growing energy hunger and significant political changes. Depicting energy security as an evolving concept that absorbs economic and political conditions this book adopts an economic approach to energy security in the international gas market. Uniquely the book explores the theoretical assumptions and practical consequences attached to both demand and supply-side security in global energy markets. It investigates why energy exporters are so protective of independence in energy exports. The book also looks at the critically important issue of environmental aspects of energy security particularly around climate change. It also analyses the potential for a cartel in the international gas market similarly to the oil industry. This book will be of much interest to readers in energy economics energy security energy policy IR/security studies and relevant policy-makers. | Economics of Energy Security Perspectives of Natural Gas Exporters

GBP 130.00
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Demons of Domesticity Women and the English Gas Industry 1889–1939

Demons of Domesticity Women and the English Gas Industry 1889–1939

Demons of Domesticity offers a social history of the English gas industry from the 1880s to the late 1930s with an emphasis on the corporations that served London and the Home Counties. It documents the hitherto unexamined role that women played in the development of the industry by considering two major interlocking themes: the expansion of sales occupations for women in the English gas industry and the parallel growth and diversification of the industry's marketing strategies. During the late-nineteenth century the home became the focal point for a number of debates concerning female employment and gender roles. As an increasing number of labour saving domestic devices came onto the market women found themselves targeted by manufacturing companies and utility suppliers both as consumers and advocates. Foremost among these companies were representatives of the gas industry who actively addressed domestic issues. As the promoters purveyors and consumers of domestic technology Demons of Domesticity suggests that English female employees and consumers were not the hapless dupes of corporate marketing but instead had clear ideas about how domestic technology could and should be used to reconfigure the public and private spaces of work and home. | Demons of Domesticity Women and the English Gas Industry 1889–1939

GBP 48.99
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Climate and Energy Politics in Poland Debating Carbon Dioxide and Shale Gas

Climate and Energy Politics in Poland Debating Carbon Dioxide and Shale Gas

Climate and Energy Politics in Poland: Debating Carbon Dioxide and Shale Gas presents a new object-oriented perspective on the challenge faced by Poland the largest post-socialist EU member state from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to produce knowledge about its energy system in the context of climate change. Drawing on data from five different research projects and two hundred interviews Lis reflects on how EU accession forced Poland to mobilize their resources and produce expertise on carbon dioxide and shale gas in order to actively participate in the debates around EU climate change ambitions and goals. A significant lack of capacity and expert institutions made it difficult for Poland to quickly assess the impacts of EU legislation or to propose new solutions for itself and it is precisely this struggle for knowledge production that will be examined during the course of the book. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy and resource politics climate change EU environmental policy and CEE studies more broadly. | Climate and Energy Politics in Poland Debating Carbon Dioxide and Shale Gas

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Aviation and Climate Change Economic Perspectives on Greenhouse Gas Reduction Policies

Aviation and Climate Change Economic Perspectives on Greenhouse Gas Reduction Policies

This book analyses the political economic and managerial challenges for policy makers and the air transport industry as they face climate change. Based on an overview of the scientific background and technological options for emissions reduction Aviation and Climate Change provides an in-depth assessment of environmental regulation and management. It provides an up-to-the-minute analysis of the effects of aviation on climate change and an economic analysis of policies to reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. The main emphasis of the book is on the economic mechanisms used to lessen emissions – carbon taxes emissions trading schemes and offset schemes. It pays particular attention to the ways these policies work and to the interaction between them – for instance the interaction between taxes and emissions trading schemes. One feature of the book is that it analyses the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) which has been developed by ICAO for international aviation and which is due to commence operation shortly. The advantages and disadvantages of this controversial scheme are discussed. This book will be of interest to researchers in diverse areas (economics political science engineering natural sciences) to air transport policy makers and to managers in the aviation industry. | Aviation and Climate Change Economic Perspectives on Greenhouse Gas Reduction Policies

GBP 38.99
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Behind the Mask Regulating Health and Safety in Britain's Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

Behind the Mask Regulating Health and Safety in Britain's Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

This title was first published n 2000: The most recent developments in occupational health and safety regulation in the UK’s offshore oil industry represent a departure from traditional legal forms. But how should they best be understood and what advantages do they offer over the previous regulatory approaches? Informed by autopoiesis theory this study takes seriously the notion of an empirical field constituted by diverse communicative systems and thus traces the development of the industry along a series of dimensions including those of management and engineering as well as of politics and regulation. Adapting cognitive mapping the book offers graphic demonstrations of the resultant constructive misunderstandings of regulatory and scientific signals and accordingly an alternative perspective on the nature of risk. The latest regulatory developments are shown to possess the potential to address these issues but only insofar as they are understood as distinct from previous legal forms and in particular as an example of reflexive law. | Behind the Mask Regulating Health and Safety in Britain's Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

GBP 29.99
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The Russian Economy under Putin

The Russian Economy under Putin

This book presents a comprehensive view of the state of the Russian economy under President Putin. It considers the extent of Russia’s integration in the world economy where Russia’s exports of oil and gas are a key factor discusses Russia’s internal challenges including changing demographics declining government revenue the need to counter over-reliance on the oil and gas sector and the consequences of high military spending and assesses the prospects for economic reform highlighting especially the power struggles between different vested interests. Overall the book provides a basis for understanding what has been going on in the Russian economy under President Putin and what the future may look like given the external environment internal challenges and reform processes. | The Russian Economy under Putin

GBP 39.99
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Energy in Europe Issues and Policies

Energy in Europe Issues and Policies

Originally published in 1986. Energy economics emerged in the 1970s as one of the most controversial and critical aspects of European economic and political development. This book provides a fully comprehensive but easily accessible guide to the key issues of energy policy placing them in a European context. As well as discussing oil price movements and their effects on European prosperity it assesses the role of energy conservation and pricing policies. The chapters discuss the economic political and social impact of nuclear power programmes North Sea oil and gas discoveries Soviet gas imports and coal field closures and go on to forecast possible future developments. This is for all those concerned with European and energy studies especially political scientists geographers economists and environmental and resource specialists. | Energy in Europe Issues and Policies

GBP 29.99
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The Bhopal Syndrome Pesticides Environment and Health

The Bhopal Syndrome Pesticides Environment and Health

First published in 1988 The Bhopal Syndrome documents one of world’s worst industrial disaster: The Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984. The tragedy exposed a variety of issues plaguing rapid development such as the negligence of corporations and government prioritizing of commercial benefits over human lives inadequate post-disaster rehabilitation and compensation and frightening levels of environmental pollution. The author argues that the Bhopal gas tragedy is being replicated across the globe at various intensities facilitating a dangerous normalisation. He asserts that workers and consumers should fight for their ‘right to know’ about working conditions chemicals used in pesticides the harm caused by producing such chemicals how these chemicals end up on our food as well as the manner in which the chemicals interact in our body. Climate crisis and undeterred industrial development still haunt our reality making this book an essential read for any concerned citizen and for students of disaster management industrial disasters climate change environment toxicology and workers’ rights. | The Bhopal Syndrome Pesticides Environment and Health

GBP 99.99
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The Handbook of Carbon Management A Step-by-Step Guide to High-Impact Climate Solutions for Every Manager in Every Function

The Handbook of Carbon Management A Step-by-Step Guide to High-Impact Climate Solutions for Every Manager in Every Function

Every manager and every employee in every function can embed climate solutions and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This book written by experts in the field of sustainability in business shows you how. The climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges we face today and it affects all aspects of business and society. Consequently everyone needs to know the best high-impact climate solutions that can be embedded into their organisational area. In this book you will find ideas for your team your department and your organisation to make this a reality. We provide you with implementation plans and inspiring case studies with practical and helpful tools that will help you to scale up climate solutions effectively and efficiently. If you are an owner of a company or an executive in any organisation you will benefit from this step-by-step guide on how to set up your own greenhouse gas management plan how to set targets and how to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of your whole organisation. We explain key terms such as Net Zero Carbon Neutral carbon emissions equivalents and the three scopes. In order to halve our emissions worldwide by 2030 to achieve Net Zero by 2050 individual actions on a large scale are required but also systemic changes. We look at the bigger picture in this book and also how you could effect change. This is the first book to offer an easy-to-implement approach to decarbonise organisations and transform societies and is appropriate for managers at any level. This book can also be used in business schools to inspire future managers and business leaders. Last but not least everyone can find ideas here that they can implement in their personal lives – let’s scale up together! | The Handbook of Carbon Management A Step-by-Step Guide to High-Impact Climate Solutions for Every Manager in Every Function

GBP 29.99
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Everyday Energy Politics in Central Asia and the Caucasus Citizens’ Needs Entitlements and Struggles for Access

Everyday Energy Politics in Central Asia and the Caucasus Citizens’ Needs Entitlements and Struggles for Access

The perception of Central Asia and its place in the world has come to be shaped by its large oil and gas reserves. Literature on energy in the region has thus largely focused on related geopolitical issues and national policies. However little is known about citizens’ needs within this broader context of commodities that connect the energy networks of China Russia and the West. This multidisciplinary special issue brings together anthropologists economists geographers and political scientists to examine the role of all forms of energy (here: oil gas hydropower and solar power) and their products (especially electricity) in people’s daily lives throughout Central Asia and the Caucasus. The papers in this issue ask how energy is understood as an everyday resource as a necessity and a source of opportunity a challenge or even as an indicator of exclusionary practices. We enquire into the role and views of energy sector workers rural consumers and urban communities and their experiences of energy companies’ and national policies. We further examine the legacy of Soviet and more recent domestic energy policies the environmental impact of energy use as well as the political impact of citizens’ energy grievances. This book was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey. | Everyday Energy Politics in Central Asia and the Caucasus Citizens’ Needs Entitlements and Struggles for Access

GBP 46.99
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Energy Strategies for the UK

Energy Strategies for the UK

Originally published in 1982. This book describes a comprehensive and integrated model of the UK energy sector which focuses on decision-making and optimisation rather than on forecasting or simulation. It incorporates the production and investment policy of all the major fuels over a fifty-year horizon and analyses strategy under a variety of different assumptions about costs demands technology and future decisions. The chapters cover a wide spectrum of energy problems and policy including scenarios of rising oil and gas prices and there are striking calculations of the costs of a non-nuclear plus conservation strategy. Interesting reading for those concerned with energy policy. | Energy Strategies for the UK

GBP 29.99
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The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor An Environmental and Economic Critique

The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor An Environmental and Economic Critique

In this book Thomas B. Cochran takes a critical look at the economic and environmental arguments which have been made in favour of an early introduction of the liquid metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR) as a central component of the United States electrical energy system. First published in 1974 Cochran presents LMFBR as having no environmental advantage over light water reactors and the high temperature gas reactor and seriously questions the economic advantages. This title should be a useful for students interested in environment and sustainability studies and it is a valuable resource for discussions of future energy strategy. | The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor An Environmental and Economic Critique

GBP 36.99
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Energy Resource Extraction and Society Impacts and Contested Futures

Energy Resource Extraction and Society Impacts and Contested Futures

Energy is central to the fabric of society. This book revisits the classic notions of energy impacts by examining the social effects of resource extraction and energy projects which are often overlooked. Energy impacts are often reduced to the narrow configurations of greenhouse gas emissions chemical spills or land use changes. However this neglects the fact that the way we produce distribute and consume energy shapes society political institutions and culture. The authors trace the impacts of contemporary energy and resource extraction developments and explain their significance for the shaping of powerful social imaginaries and a reconfiguration of political and democratic systems. They analyse not only the complex histories and landscapes of industrial mining and energy development including oil coal wind power gas (fracking) and electrification but also their significance for contested energy and social futures. Based on ethnographic and interdisciplinary research from around the world including case studies from Australia Germany Kenya the Netherlands Nicaragua Norway Poland Turkey UK and USA they document the effects on local communities and how these are often transformed into citizen engagement protest and resistance. This sheds new light on the relationship between energy and power reflecting a wide array of pertinent impacts beyond the usual considerations of economic efficiency and energy security. The volume is aimed at advanced students and researchers in anthropology sociology human geography science and technology studies environmental studies and sustainable development as well as professionals working in the field of impact assessments. | Energy Resource Extraction and Society Impacts and Contested Futures

GBP 38.99
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The Permafrost Environment

The Permafrost Environment

Originally published in 1986 The Permafrost Environment examines how the search for oil gas and minerals in the arctic region instigated new and vitally important needs to understand the permafrost environment. The construction of roads airfields buildings and pipelines in this inhospitable environment has posed enormous problems for engineers and geologists. This book is a comprehensive review of the nature of the permafrost environment and its utilization. It looks at environmental processes and their effects and examines the management problems which result. It provides a detailed look at how normal procedures for construction etc. need to be modified to cope with the special conditions and it gives examples from throughout the arctic region including Canada Siberia Alaska Greenland and Northern Scandinavia.

GBP 29.99
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The Nigerian Oil Economy From Prosperity to Glut

The Nigerian Oil Economy From Prosperity to Glut

The development of Nigeria's oil industry is examined comprehensively in this book originally published in 1984. It charts the changing course of her economy and examines the dramatic effect oil has had on Nigeria's domestic and international policies. Oil has enabled her to command a powerful position in African affairs and within OPEC itself but at the same time has held back other forms of economic development. Nigeria's future in the oil industry as well as in related fields such as gas is assessed both in the light of her former policies and in the changing world economy. This book will be of interest to all concerned in the oil industry international finance or world power politics. | The Nigerian Oil Economy From Prosperity to Glut

GBP 32.99
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Haruki Murakami Storytelling and Productive Distance

Haruki Murakami Storytelling and Productive Distance

Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance studies the evolution of the monogatari or narrative and storytelling in the works of Haruki Murakami. Author Chikako Nihei argues that Murakami’s power of monogatari lies in his use of distancing effects; storytelling allows individuals to cross into a different context through which they can effectively observe themselves and reality. His belief in the importance of monogatari is closely linked to his generation’s experience of the counter-­-culture movement in the late1960s and his research on the 1995 Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack caused by the Aum shinrikyo cult major events in postwar Japan that revealed many people’s desire for a stable narrative to interact with and form their identity from. | Haruki Murakami Storytelling and Productive Distance

GBP 38.99
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The Corporatization and Environmental Sustainability of Australian Universities A Critical Perspective

The Corporatization and Environmental Sustainability of Australian Universities A Critical Perspective

Analysing the juxtaposition of two trends in universities – corporatisation and environmental sustainability – this book explores how they are more contradictory than compatible. Hans A Baer argues that this contradiction is unavoidable because of the capitalist parameters in which they operate including a commitment to on-going economic growth which contributes to social inequality environmental degradation and greenhouse gas emissions. Drawing on archival sources and Baer’s experiences in university sustainability forums the book exposes how what universities claim to do in relation to environmental sustainability compares with their research educational operational and institutional activities. Presenting a critique of and a radical alternative to the status quo this book is suitable for academics and students of anthropology environmental studies and higher education. | The Corporatization and Environmental Sustainability of Australian Universities A Critical Perspective

GBP 130.00
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How China's Rise is Changing the Middle East

How China's Rise is Changing the Middle East

This book explores the extent to which China’s rise is changing the economic security political and social-cultural aspects of the Middle East – a region of significant strategic importance to the West and of increasing importance to the East. With its growing dependence on Middle East oil and gas China has more at stake in this region than any other Asian power and not surprisingly has begun increasing its engagement with the region with profound implications for other stakeholders. The book charts the history of China’s links with the Middle East discusses China’s involvement with each of the major countries of the region considers how China’s rise is reshaping Middle Easterners’ perceptions of China and the Chinese people and examines the very latest developments. | How China's Rise is Changing the Middle East

GBP 39.99
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Stopping Climate Change Policies for Real Zero

Stopping Climate Change Policies for Real Zero

Written by one of the leading experts in the field Paul Ekins Stopping Climate Change provides a comprehensive overview of what is required to achieve ‘real zero’ carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 and negative emissions thereafter which is the only way to stop human- induced climate change. This will require innovation in socio-technical systems and in human behaviour on an unprecedented scale. Stopping Climate Change describes the changes required to meet this goal: in technologies social institutions and individual activities. Paul Ekins examines in detail issues around the supply and demand of energy and materials and the efficiency of their use. It also analyses greenhouse gas removal technologies offsetting and geoengineering and plots the reduction of the non- CO2 greenhouse gas-emitting activities. Having set out the changes required Ekins considers the economic implications in terms of both the innovation and investments that are necessary to bring them about and the effects that these are likely to have on national economies. The evidence presented points clearly to the economic impacts of decarbonisation being positive for the majority of countries and for the world as a whole even before considering the benefits of avoided climate change. When the health benefits of stopping the burning of fossil fuels are factored in the global net benefits of decarbonisation are unequivocal. Drawing on examples from the UK and Europe but with wider relevance at a global scale Stopping Climate Change clearly shows how determined policy action at different levels could stop climate change. It will be of great interest to students scholars and policymakers researching and working in the field of climate change and energy policy. | Stopping Climate Change Policies for Real Zero

GBP 35.99
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