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- Introduction to ESD
This resource provides a brief overview of the concepts of sustainable development as applied to engineering. It is based on a series of lectures given at Cambridge University by Charles Ainger, Visiting Professor in Sustainable Development, sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
- Climate Change
This resource provides an introduction to the topic of Climate Change. It provides information and facts about various known and predicted issues.
- Domestic Energy Use
This resource provides some information on domestic energy use (concentrating mostly on electrical energy) and issues of Engineering Sustainable Development surounding it.
- Road Transport
This resource provides an overview of road transport and its impacts on the environment, society, and economy. It includes vital statistics for usuage and demand. It addresses the magnitude of the environmental impact. The resource proceeds to show the role engineers can play in making our society (and society's use of road transport) more sustainable.
- Recycling Plastics
Some facts and figures about polymer recycling, with a link to a more detailed teaching package originally developed for materials science.
- Renewable Electricity
This resource provides an overview of the renewable electricity market in the UK for 2004 as it fits into the overall UK electricity market. The resource provides some figures for costs and CO2 emission reductions that renewable sources offer. Some information is provided for the non-economic incentives involved.
- Stabilisation Wedges
The methodology presented here, provides a way of estimating how useful current technologies are likely to be in helping to stabilise the CO2 emissions leading to climate change. A number of quantitative estimations are presented based on current data. Although primarily focusing on technological solutions, many of these have associated social and economic effects which can also be discussed.
- Water
This resource provides an overview water use and the sustainability issues affecting water use.
