The Environmental Responsibility Reader

by Reynolds, Martin; Blackmore, Chris; Smith, Mark J.

• ISBN13: 9781848133181
• ISBN10: 1848133189
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-15
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Summary

This book is for anyone involved with managing environmental decisions making. The book promotes innovative ways of understanding and taking responsibility for actions in the context of our 'natural' world through a selection of classic and contemporary edited readings accompanied with an editorial narrative. It provides sense-making tools for appreciating and doing something about seemingly intractable modern-day environmental dilemmas--including global warming, fossil fuel consumption, fresh water quality, industrial pollution, habitat destruction, and biodiversity loss. The book draws on contemporary ideas associated with environmental ethics, social learning, communities of practice, systems thinking, ecological citizenship, corporate responsibility, fair trade, and the connections between environmental and social justice; configuring these ideas into practical notions for responsible action.

Author Biography

Martin Reynolds, Chris Blackmore and Mark J. Smith are all lecturers at the Open University, UK.

Table of Contents

Operation and control of electric power systems

Fundamental aspects of operation, control and reliability of AC networks

Evolution of European power systems facing new constraints: impact of distributed power generation

Planning methods for production and transmission of electrical energy

Quality of electricity supply

Applications of synchronized phasor measurements to large interconnected electric power systems

Stability and defence of electric power systems

Voltage instability

Transient stability: evaluation and control

Reliabilty, defence and numerical simulation

Flexible alternative current transmission systems (FACTS)

List of Authors

Index

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