Energy Science

Sustainable Energy and Environment
An Earth System Approach

Editors: Sandeep Narayan Kundu, PhD
Muhammad Nawaz, PhD

Sustainable Energy and Environment

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: September 2019
Hardback Price: See ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781771887632
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-77463-427-1
E-Book ISBN: 9780429430107
Pages: 392pp w/index
Binding Type: hardbound / ebook / paperback
Notes: 24 color and 121 b/w illustrations


Reviews
“The timing of this text is excellent. Never in history has it been more crucial to help students understand the important interrelationships between the earth, energy and environment. By identifying a gap not currently provided by available textbooks, this edition demonstrates a well-presented and integrated overview of earth processes, energy and the environment, with sustainability in mind. Using a series of invited chapters, the editors take the reader through a logical flow of information and provide valuable instruction relating to the environmental impacts of renewable and non-renewable energy sources whilst exploring how a sustainable future might be achieved. The editors have produced a highly useful text for earth and environmental science students in an easy-to-understand style.”
— Diane Margot Pearson, Professor in Environmental Management, Institute of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, New Zealand


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The study of the Earth, energy, and the environment—together—is critical for gaining a thorough understanding of where life stands today amid the continuous growth and development around us. Understanding how the Earth has evolved and how its subsystems interact and influence various energy resources and impact the environment we live in is critical to sustaining life on this planet. This volume is a comprehensive introductory book that looks at Earth, energy, and the environment in an integrated manner that will lead to a thorough comprehension of and appreciation for the complex planet on which we live.

Sustainable Energy and Environment: An Earth System Approach provides a holistic understanding of Earth, energy, and the environment through a careful selection of invited chapters. The book looks at Earth from the perspective of a livable planet and elaborates the surface and subsurface processes and the various energy cycles where energy is transformed and stored in the planet’s various spheres. The chapters discuss the interactions between the different parts of Earth—how energy is exchanged between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere, and how they impact the environment in which we live.

Beginning with an introduction that highlights the strong nexus between Earth, energy, and environment through connectivity and interactivity of natural processes that influence the sustainability of life, the book goes on to discuss Earth in particular—its origin and evolution, its surfaces and rock-forming processes, in the context of past climates, climate changes, and influencing planetary cycles. The volume then focuses on energy—its fundamentals and its various forms. The authors cover conventional and unconventional fossil fuels and renewables and the aspects of energy availability and economics. The fact that energy is central to life and its activities is elaborated in the included chapters. This section reinforces the connection between different energy forms with Earth’s surface and subsurface processes. The final section examines the environment— its impact on human health and well-being, climate change and resulting environmental impacts, environmental disasters from exploration, production and usage of energy, and balancing energy usage and its environmental impacts.

This holistic approach to the integrated science of earth, energy and environment provides a comprehensive and all-around understanding of the complex planet that is home to mankind. The book is particularly intended for those studying introductory earth sciences, energy fundamentals, and environmental studies. At the same time students in related disciplines, such as ecology, agriculture, petroleum and gas—and indeed all those are interested in Earth, environment, and energy—should find this book as an inviting basic introduction to the interconnectedness of Earth, energy, and the environment. Some of the concepts that are introduced go beyond the general scope of basic courses, making the volume also suitable for more advanced studies.

Key features:
  • Presents the fundamentals of Earth as a system along with its processes and evolutionary history
  • Explores perspectives of energy mineral resources and their present and future potential
  • Describes environmental impacts of anthropogenic energy harvesting and its uses through examples and case studies

CONTENTS:
Preface

PART I: EARTH
1. Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
Farha Sattar, Muhammad Nawaz, and Sandeep Narayan Kundu

2. Minerals and Rock-Forming Processes
Muhammad Nawaz, Farha Sattar, and Sandeep Narayan Kundu

3. Earth’s Energy Balance and Climate
Sandeep Narayan Kundu

4. Mass Extinctions on Earth
Sanghamitra Pradhan, Shreerup Goswami, and Sandeep Narayan Kundu

PART II: ENERGY
5. Energy and Electricity
Sanjib Kumar Sahoo

6. Unconventional Fossil Fuels
Deepak Dash, Lokanath Peddinti, and Sandeep Narayan Kundu

7. Coal Seam Gas: Evaluation, Extraction and Environmental Issues
Debadutta Mohanty

8. Minerals as Sources of Energy
Abani Ranjan Samal

9. Harvesting Energy from Wind
Sandeep Narayan Kundu and Munukutla Sruti Keerti

PART II: THE ENVIRONMENT
10. Environmental Impacts of Fossil Fuels
Satyabrata Nayak, Madhumita Das, Binapani Pradhan, and Sandeep Narayan Kundu

11. Geospatial Technology Applications in Environmental Disaster Management
Maher Ibrahim Sameen, Ratiranjan Jena, and Biswajeet Pradhan

12. Environmental Impacts of Renewable Energy
Nausheen Mazhar and Sahar Zia

13. Geological Influence on Surface Water Quality
Loo Mei Yee and Sandeep Narayan Kundu

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Sandeep Narayan Kundu, PhD
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore & Geoscientist at Fugro Singapore Marine

SSandeep Narayan Kundu, PhD, is a geoscientist with over 20 years of experience in industry and academics alike. He currently serves as an adjunct faculty at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), and also works fulltime for Fugro Singapore Marine as a geoscientist. Dr. Kundu worked in various capacities in the energy exploration industry in the geoscience domain at multinational organizations such as BHP Billiton Fugro Surveys and Reliance Industries. He also researched at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena (Germany), the Institute of Geoinformatics, Muenster (Germany); Indian Institute of Technology (ISM, India); and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India). Dr. Kundu is a recipient of the prestigious British Council Fellowship and the Junior Research Fellowship in Earth Sciences. He has delivered keynote addresses at international forums, which include the likes of the Institute of Indian Geographers, IQPC, and PRAXIS conferences. As a SEAPEX Senior Lecturer at NUS, he designed and developed the Petroleum Geoscience and Petroleum Exploration educational modules, which he taught at the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. His primary research interests involve geospatial technology applications for exploration of natural resources, map the seafloor and evaluate environmental change.

Muhammad Nawaz, PhD
Faculty, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

Muhammad Nawaz, PhD, is geomorphologist with expertise in geographic information systems (GIS), decision support systems (DSS), and environmental science. Dr. Nawaz is a NFP (Netherlands Fellowship Programme) fellow and currently works in the Faculty at the Department of Geography of the National University of Singapore, where he teaches subjects that include biophysical environment, planet earth, energy resources, coastal environments, and spatial data handling. Since 1993, Dr. Nawaz has served at several different universities, including Punjab University in Pakistan and on the Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC) at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He has vast experience and knowledge in design, development, delivery, coordination, and teaching of courses related to physical geography, GIS, and environmental science to undergraduate-, graduate-, and postgraduate-level students. Dr. Nawaz has over twenty years of research covering a broad range of issues relating to catchment management and sustainable development. Before joining NUS, Dr. Nawaz worked as a Lecturer at the Environment Science eLearning at Charles Darwin University, Australia, and before this, he has worked as Associate Head/Assistant Professor at the GIS Centre, University of the Punjab, Pakistan. He has conducted multidisciplinary research in several catchments, including the Darwin Harbour and Daly River catchment, Australia; the Mangla Reservoir catchment, Pakistan; and Saddang Watershed, TanaToraja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Dr. Nawaz’s expertise includes sediment source identification, multicriteria evaluation, and GIS applications in decision making.




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