Energy And Environment In The Tropics

Author : Shaharin Anwar Sulaiman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811966880

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Energy and Environment in the Tropics by Shaharin Anwar Sulaiman Pdf

The tropical zones are dominated by developing countries, which mainly face problematic environmental issues. Different than four-season countries, tropical countries have a continuous summer-like season and therefore they are rich in clean energy sources like solar and biomass. Hence, the mitigations of environment and energy issues in the tropics would require specific understanding and different approach to solutions. This book offers an assortment of studies on scenarios of environment as well as energy demand and power generation technologies in the tropics. Many of the countries within the tropics are highly populated, and this results in various problems related to the environment and energy. The demand for energy in these countries keeps increasing but concurrently there are also environmental issues that require serious attention. As the global concern on the environment is alarming today, the choice of power generation should be of the cleanest possible resource. This various reports on research activities carried out in the tropics on the aspect of environment and energy presented in this book are highly beneficial for those who like to see an improvement in the tropics with regard to environment and energy systems.

Author : Shaharin A. Sulaiman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9811591423

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Clean Energy Opportunities in Tropical Countries by Shaharin A. Sulaiman Pdf

This book highlights the present scenario of energy demand and power generation technologies in tropical countries. The tropics are well known to receive direct sunlight. Furthermore, different than four-season countries, tropical countries have a continuous summer-like season, and therefore, they are rich in clean energy sources, like solar and biomass. Home to 40% of the world’s population, the demand for energy in these countries keeps increasing. With the present serious global concern on the environment, the choice of power generation is no doubt the cleanest possible resources. This book delves into the opportunity that various tropical countries have in pursuing environmentally friendly power generation systems.

Author : Abdul Malek Abdul Rahman ,Karam Mustafa Al-Obaidi
Publisher : Penerbit USM
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789674613365

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Climate Conscious Low-Energy Tropical Built Environment (Penerbit USM) by Abdul Malek Abdul Rahman ,Karam Mustafa Al-Obaidi Pdf

Climate Conscious Low-Energy Tropical Built Environment is a welcome addition to the knowledge on green and sustainable architecture. Both the authors shared their vast knowledge and experience on low-energy and passive solar design. The approach is on the technology adapted and applied to ‘welcoming the sun’ as well as to ‘rejecting the sun’, with the emphasis on the passive elements design. As the world now is facing the rapid increase of population, the architects need to consider the future path of the built environment. A good knowledge in low-energy built environment in order to sustain the well-being of the earth is essential, before considering on the aspects of mechanical components. This book is written in a clear and engaging style to suit all readers, the architecture and built environment students and professions as well as readers in general. As there are many books on this topic, but none emphasize the context of tropical climate. This is the first book on the low-energy built environment within the context of tropical climate. Abdul Malek Abdul Rahman was interested in indoor thermal comfort while researching his PhD topic on “Design for Natural Ventilation in Low-Cost Housing in Tropical Climate”. With a firm belief that to be thermally comfortable without mechanical aids in tropical climates, one should be under shade and receiving ample air movement concurrently, which is not naturally possible. Therefore, he sets out for further researches, literatures and acute observations on this issue. With university research funds, he investigated in hypothesis and experimented on low-cost cooling technologies, attended and read books and references on related topics. Equipped with reliable cameras, he captured ideas and happenings spontaneously to confirm his conviction. He believes that in order to re-examine the philosophy of energy efficient architectural design, one has to detach oneself from architecture and to understand other related disciplines (mechanical engineering, to be exact) in order to value add and upgrade the architecture towards sustainability. He finds the future is very challenging on this issue as population increase is real and that when left uncheck would affect the comfort of human psyche. Technology now is the solution and research must include latest technology available during the particular time of change. Karam Mustafa Al-Obaidi has interest in architectural design systems specifically in the tropics. He focuses on dynamic environment in relation with surroundings. His research is towards energy and how it influences the architectural form. With university research funds, he implemented experimental investigation to obtain reliable examination of the built environment. The future of architecture in terms of technology is challenging in this tropical region. He finds that understanding energy in both consumption and efficiency is limited due to the climatic constraints. Therefore, he believes that creating a platform to integrate related disciplines could provide solutions regarding the issue of energy efficiency. In his opinion, nature is the main source of inspiration, thus designing models that respond to tropical environment could provide comfort and durability for users and buildings.

Author : Randall Baker
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000447590

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Environmental Management in the Tropics by Randall Baker Pdf

The arrival of western science and economic interests to the tropics has dramatically changed the tropical environment and its ecology. Environmental Management in the Tropics discusses the ecology of the tropics and examines how it is different from the temperate zone where western science evolved. The author discusses how native people traditionally subsisted in different ecological zones of the tropics and how they rationalized their relationship. The author also takes a critical look at the impact of colonialism in the tropics and how it changed traditional cultures and their relationship with the environment. The current clash between economics and ecology in the tropics is explored in depth. According to the author, we are now able to draw "a line in the sand" and illustrate the consequences of continuing current practices. Environmental Management in the Tropics shows how this situation developed and discusses how the two opposing concepts must be brought back into harmony. The book is one of the few studies to take a truly interdisciplinary approach combining the serious inevitabilities of natural science with the variables of history, culture, politics, and economics. It gives us a new respect for the past and tradition of the tropics and clearly spells out why dramatic changes must occur to prevent further degradation of the tropical environment. Environmental Management in the Tropics is an important reference for ecologists, conservationists, scientists, researchers, environmental consultants, land managers and developers, members of the world regulatory community, and anyone working on projects in tropical regions.

Author : Oktoviano Gandhi,Dipti Srinivasan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030419523

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Sustainable Energy Solutions for Remote Areas in the Tropics by Oktoviano Gandhi,Dipti Srinivasan Pdf

This book covers multifaceted aspects of sustainable energy solutions for remote areas in the tropics, particularly focusing on Southeast Asia. With insights from both the academic world and real-life implementation, readers will gain an overview of the range of energy problems currently facing the remote tropics, and what potential solutions are available. The book provides a detailed overview of various energy needs in the Southeast Asian tropics, a region where a significant portion of the population still lives without access to electricity. It not only addresses technical solutions to the energy problems but also tackles the social and wider implications, offering readers a more holistic understanding of the potential held by renewable energy. The chapters are structured to present first an overview of the problem at hand, and then a description of the technologies that could potentially solve it. Applications of the technologies; business models that are now available or being developed; the impact of the technologies; and future, more sustainable solutions are all discussed. Given its in-depth analysis, the book will be of interest to energy professionals in the tropics, energy policymakers, and students studying sustainable energy.

Author : Jin-Bee Ooi
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : 9971690632

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Natural Resources in Tropical Countries by Jin-Bee Ooi Pdf

Author : Martin Kellman,Rosanne Tackaberry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781134819607

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Tropical Environments by Martin Kellman,Rosanne Tackaberry Pdf

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the complex systems of the tropics, covering a broad, cross-regional range of humid through to semi-arid tropical climate zones. Offers a balanced mix of biophysical and human management issues.

Author : Tri Harso Karyono,Robert Vale,Brenda Vale
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319496016

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Sustainable Building and Built Environments to Mitigate Climate Change in the Tropics by Tri Harso Karyono,Robert Vale,Brenda Vale Pdf

This book offers a selection of the best papers presented during the International conference on Mitigating and Adapting Built Environments for Climate Change in the Tropics, held at Tanri Abeng University (TAU), Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2015. The book is divided into four main parts. The first part deals with the general issue of climate change, the cause and the ways to mitigate and to adapt the built environment for climate change in a number of countries. Part 2 deals with the conceptual ways to mitigate building for climate change. The ways to reduce cooling energy in tropical buildings by means of passive design. Part 3 offers papers that examine the way to overcome disasters in the city caused by climate change. The final part deals with the role of plants in mitigating and adapting built environments to climate change - the use of plants, trees and bushes to directly and indirectly reduce carbon emissions are discussed.

Author : Kiron C. Neale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000049350

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Mainstreaming Solar Energy in Small, Tropical Islands by Kiron C. Neale Pdf

This book explores how cultural considerations can improve policymaking to achieve mainstream solar energy in small, tropical islands. Focusing on Trinidad, Barbados and Oʻahu, Kiron C. Neale looks at how culture can affect and be affected by the policies that support the household adoption of two key energy technologies: solar water heating and photovoltaics. Drawing on interviews with residents and energy officials, and an examination of the institutional, socio-economic and physical factors that affect energy systems such as governance structures and energy resource availability, the author explores themes including the impact of insularity on energy transitions and behavioural and cultural change. Overall, this book rebrands policies as instruments of cultural change and puts forward recommendations applicable to all small, tropical islands. Following the islands’ transition to renewable energy, this book will be of great interest to scholars of energy policy, energy transitions, climate change, cultural studies and small states development, as well as industry professionals working on energy policy implementation.

Author : Carmenza Robledo,Markku Kanninen,Lucio Pedroni
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9789792446043

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Tropical Forests and Adaptation to Climate Change by Carmenza Robledo,Markku Kanninen,Lucio Pedroni Pdf

Author : Shaharin A. Sulaiman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9811591415

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Clean Energy Opportunities in Tropical Countries by Shaharin A. Sulaiman Pdf

This book highlights the present scenario of energy demand and power generation technologies in tropical countries. The tropics are well known to receive direct sunlight. Furthermore, different than four-season countries, tropical countries have a continuous summer-like season, and therefore, they are rich in clean energy sources, like solar and biomass. Home to 40% of the world's population, the demand for energy in these countries keeps increasing. With the present serious global concern on the environment, the choice of power generation is no doubt the cleanest possible resources. This book delves into the opportunity that various tropical countries have in pursuing environmentally friendly power generation systems.

Author : Patrick L. Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521645239

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Tropical Ecosystems and Ecological Concepts by Patrick L. Osborne Pdf

An introductory textbook on tropical ecology, unique in its international scope and balanced coverage of both aquatic and terrestrial systems.

Author : Charles A.S. Hall,Patrick Van Laake,Carlos Leon Perez,Gregoire Leclerc
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080492216

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Quantifying Sustainable Development by Charles A.S. Hall,Patrick Van Laake,Carlos Leon Perez,Gregoire Leclerc Pdf

Until recently, the phenomenal economic development of the Asian tigers, Chile, and Malaysia, as well as the sustained economic growth of the United States, painted a very desirable and optimistic picture of free markets, fiscal responsibility, and, more generally, the entire dogma of neoclassical economics. As of the fall of 1998, however, the economies of many tropical countries have contracted severely, and the enthusiasm of the developing tropics for the free market and all of its ancillary policies is decidedly cooler. Have our traditional approaches to economics been failing the developing world? This interdisciplinary book covers the conditions of the developing tropics, the resistance of some of their problems to earlier attempts at solutions, and the use of new tools to develop a much more comprehensive and empirical framework for analysis and decision making. It also presents the development of cutting edge technology that links GIS and modeling approaches with extensive databases on meteorology, soils, agricultural production, and land use. The book discusses whether development is sustainable through a synthesis of demographic, economic, and resource-specific considerations. Costa Rica is uniquely suited to this study because of its size, stage of development, democratic institutions, and national databases. A CD-ROM containing all data and programs, color images, animated models, large data tables, and references accompanies the book. Links economic and biophysical analyses of sustainability Presents new tools and approaches for analysis and decision-making Includes a CD-ROM containing data and programs, color images, animated models, and references

Author : Shaharin A. Sulaiman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811591402

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Clean Energy Opportunities in Tropical Countries by Shaharin A. Sulaiman Pdf

This book highlights the present scenario of energy demand and power generation technologies in tropical countries. The tropics are well known to receive direct sunlight. Furthermore, different than four-season countries, tropical countries have a continuous summer-like season, and therefore, they are rich in clean energy sources, like solar and biomass. Home to 40% of the world’s population, the demand for energy in these countries keeps increasing. With the present serious global concern on the environment, the choice of power generation is no doubt the cleanest possible resources. This book delves into the opportunity that various tropical countries have in pursuing environmentally friendly power generation systems.

Author : Sandy Cairncross,Richard Feachem
Publisher : Earthscan Water Text
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1844071901

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Environmental Health Engineering in the Tropics by Sandy Cairncross,Richard Feachem Pdf

In the decade since the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the response of the world's governments and authorities to the threats to the global environment has been to enforce the reduction of energy consumption and harmful emissions - solutions primarily ba