Dictionary of Energy: Expanded Edition - Softcover

Cutler J. Cleveland

9780080964911: Dictionary of Energy: Expanded Edition

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0080964915 ISBN 13: 9780080964911

Publisher: Elsevier Science, 2009

Written by the editor of The Encyclopedia of Energy, Cutler Cleveland, Dictionary of Energy gives professionals across the multi-disciplinary field of energy a tool to better communicate on energy matters and understand energy issues and opportunities. This paperback edition, priced at less than half the price of the hardcover edition and expanded with over 500 new terms, makes this valuable reference available to an even wider audience beyond energy scientists, including new professionals, students, and corporate oil and gas companies.

Over 10,000 entries covering some 40 scientific disciplines and topics
Essays by scientists, biographical entries on key individuals, and historical comments
Historical quotes on energy matters
Illustrated with 100 photos and illustrations
Now expanded with over 500 new terms and available in paperback at half the price of the first edition

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From the Back Cover:

The Dictionary of Energy, Second Edition is a comprehensive and authoritative reference on all aspects of energy and its role in society. Written by Cutler J. Cleveland and Christopher Morris, the editors of Handbook of Energy: Volumes I and II and the Encyclopaedia of Energy; this trusted resource comes at a time when the topic of energy prices, resources, and environmental impacts are at the forefront of news stories and political discussions. The second edition of the Dictionary of Energy contains over 10,000 terms across 40 key subject areas in energy, including terms related to Oil and Gas, Economics, Policy, Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Coal, Solar, Nuclear, Wind, Hydropower, and Health and Safety. Throughout the dictionary, “window essays provide additional information on key issues like biomass, ecological footprint, exergy, fuel cell, and Jevons’ paradox. The Dictionary of Energy, Second Edition is a valuable reference for undergraduate and graduate students, academics, and research scientists who study energy, as well as business corporations, professional firms, government agencies, foundations, and other groups whose activities relate to energy.

Key Features

Comprises over 10,000 terms and definitions covering 40 scientific disciplines and topics
Window essays on significant terms are written by leading scientists in the field
Definitions are accompanied by photos and illustrations

New to This Edition

Over 2,200 new or revised terms
New window essays on subjects such as life cycle assessment, methane, and tragedy of the commons
Seventy-five percent of photos and illustrations either revised or new for this edition

Related Titles from Elsevier Cleveland, C. & Morris C. (Eds.), Handbook of Energy, Volume I: Diagrams, Charts, and Tables (2013, ISBN: 978-0-08-046405-3) Cleveland, C. & Morris C. (Eds.), Handbook of Energy, Volume II: Chronologies, Top Ten Lists, and Word Clouds (2014, ISBN: 978-0-12-417013-1) Letcher, T., Future Energy, Second Edition: Improved, Sustainable and Clean Options for our Planet (2014, ISBN: 978-0-08-099424-6)

About the Author:

Cutler J. Cleveland is the Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Boston University, where he also holds the position of Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment. Dr. Cleveland is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier Science, 2004), winner of an American Library Association award, Editor-in-Chief of the Dictionary of Energy (Elsevier Science, in press) and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ecological Economics. Dr. Cleveland is a member of the American Statistical Association’s Committee on Energy Statistics, an advisory group to the Department of Energy, and a participant in the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum. He has been a consultant to numerous private and public organizations, including the Asian Development Bank, Charles River Associates, the Technical Research Centre of Finland, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the MacArthur Foundation have supported his research. Dr. Cleveland’s research focuses on the ecological-economic analysis of how energy and materials are used to meet human needs. His research employs the use of econometric models of oil supply, natural resource scarcity, and the relation between the use of energy and natural resources and economic systems. Dr. Cleveland publishes in journals such as Nature, Science, Ecological Modeling, Energy, The Energy Journal, The Annual Review of Energy, Resource and Energy Economics, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, and Ecological Economics. He has won publication awards from the International Association of Energy Economics and the National Wildlife Federation.

Christopher Morris is owner of Morris Books and a professional lexicographer who has edited more than 20 different dictionaries on a wide variety of subjects. He is editor in chief of the award-winning Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology, which provides the largest vocabulary of science yet compiled and features special essays by 120 eminent scientists, including nine Nobel laureates. He served as chief editor of the Macmillan school dictionary series, which includes several of the largest-selling educational dictionaries in U.S. history. He has also been an author of school and college textbooks and has compiled many different scientific glossaries, for fields such as ecology, endocrinology, microbiology, oncology, reproductive biology, and toxicology. He and Cutler Cleveland previously collaborated on the Encyclopedia of Energy, winner of an American Library Association award, for which Dr. Cleveland was editor in chief and he served as chief development editor.

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