Circulated in November 2011, Oxford’s Environmental Science Update includes information on new titles and developments, new textbook reviews, and
recent highlights.
This issue includes:
Energy Systems and Sustainability, Second Edition
Oxford University Press: Focus on Sustainability
Highlighting our best-selling titles on global sustainability
Recently Reviewed
Including reviews of Introduction to Physical Hydrology, Spatial Data Analysis, and Remote Sensing of Vegetation
Edited by Bob Everett, Godfrey Boyle, Stephen Peake, and Janet
Ramage
How can we provide clean, safe, sustainable energy supplies for the world despite rising population levels and increasing economic development? Today,
energy and sustainability are of primary concern and form the focus of this book and its companion volume, Renewable Energy.
Interdisciplinary in its approach and global in its perspective, this book provides a contemporary exploration of the economic, social, environmental, and
policy issues raised by current systems of energy use, as well as describing their key physical and engineering features. The historical evolution of the
world's energy systems, the principles underlying their use, and their present status and future prospects are analysed, while emphasizing the important
issue of sustainability.
Beginning with a survey of basic energy concepts, the book describes the magnitude and patterns of human energy needs at various levels. Focus then turns
to an overview of the fossil and nuclear-fuelled energy that, together with hydroelectric power and traditional biofuels, supply most of the world's
commercial energy needs. Sections on economics describe the basic methods by which the monetary costs of energy are calculated, and discuss the issue of
'external' costs of energy production. The concluding chapters consider the sustainability problems associated with both fossil and nuclear fuel use, and
ways in which they might be ameliorated by various technological and social developments. This is done in the context of a rising use of renewable
energy.
Find out more about Energy Systems and Sustainability or order your inspection copy.
Oxford University Press publishes a range of interdisciplinary
textbooks on sustainability, spanning science and social science perspectives.
Energy Science: Principles, Technologies, and Impacts
John Andrews and Nick Jelley
Energy Science integrates the science behind the key energy sources at our disposal with
the socioeconomic issues surrounding their use to give an objective overview of the range of energy sources available to us today. Covering both
traditional and renewable energy sources, the book encourages readers to evaluate various energy sources on the basis of sound quantitative
understanding. It also explores fundamentals of energy generation, storage and transmission, to build a complete picture of energy supply.
Find out more about Energy Science or order your inspection copy.
Climate Change: From Science to Sustainability, Second Edition
Stephen Peake and Joe Smith
Climate change is one of the most complex, multilayered and interdisciplinary intellectual puzzles facing us today. Climate Change: From Science to
Sustainability offers a unique interdisciplinary journey through this important, and equally fascinating, field. It takes the reader from keystones of
the underlying science - and not just the headlines - through to the philosophical and political consequences of climate change.
Taking into account latest scientific research and policy decisions, it blends earth science, biology, technology, economics, geography, politics,
philosophy and ethics - together with other themes - to present a coherent, balanced overview of the field, with a particular eye towards one goal: the
sustainability of our planet.
Find out more about Climate Change or order your inspection copy.
Environment, Development, and Sustainability: Perspectives and Cases from Around the World
Edited by Gordon Wilson, Pamela Furniss, and
Richard Kimbowa
As the human population continues to place increasing demands on the planet we inhabit we face the biggest challenge of our time: how can we exploit the
natural resources that we need - whether it be for water, food, or energy - in a way that preserves the environment, is equitable and doesn't compromise the
long-term future of the planet and its biodiversity?
Environment, Development, and Sustainability represents an examination of three integrated issues that form the main on-going challenge of this
century. Featuring a range of perspectives and case studies from North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia, the book reflects the multiple ways in
which environment, development and sustainability are intertwined everywhere - in rich and poor countries, and those in between.
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A selection of recent reviews of Oxford University Press Environmental Science titles.
Introduction to Physical Hydrology
Martin Hendriks
"The enterprise of Hendriks in writing this book represents an ambitious and difficult task, with the self-stated objective being to provide 'a combined
approach to hydrology from environmental and social perspectives, in addition to the more traditional physical geography and civil engineering perspectives'.
This approach works well and is likely to be well received by those wishing to rapidly immerse themselves in this field with little or no prior knowledge. It
is an ideal introductory text for undergraduates in hydrology."
Progress in Physical Geography, 2011
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Fundamentals of Weather and Climate, Second Edition
Robin McIlveen
“The book is set at just the right level for students…who are not studying meteorology to degree level, but who need a substantial appreciation of the
processes that produce weather and climate. This second edition of McIlveen's book is up-to-date with the science and attractively presented… I am delighted
that this textbook is once more available and look forward to it enjoying a long life as a standard undergraduate text."
Amazon.co.uk reviewer
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Spatial Data Analysis: An Introduction for GIS Users
Christopher Lloyd
"It has long been this reviewer’s contention that if a student is taught the fundamentals and theory of geographic information systems, then all one has
to ask is how does a particular software package do what I need? With this textbook Lloyd has achieved what he stated and provides a great resource for
understanding advanced topics in spatial data analysis."
Joe Aufmuth, University of Florida in Journal of Spatial Science
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Remote Sensing of Vegetation: Principles, Techniques, and Applications
Hamlyn G. Jones and Robin A. Vaughan
“Jones and Vaughan have produced a very useful contribution to the remote sensing literature. The authors combine the theoretical underpinnings of the
techniques introduced, with very useful material applied remote sensing. Despite a focus on vegetation I found the book to be of a wider interest…The book is
clearly aimed at undergraduates and is well written and has some very good graphics. I would not hesitate to recommend the book as an undergraduate
text.”
Amazon.co.uk reviewer
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