ABSTRACT

Transition Engineering: Building a Sustainable Future examines new strategies emerging in response to the mega-issues of global climate change, decline in world oil supply, scarcity of key industrial minerals, and local environmental constraints. These issues pose challenges for organizations, businesses, and communities, and engineers will need to begin developing ideas and projects to implement the transition of engineered systems. This work presents a methodology for shifting away from unsustainable activities. Teaching the Transition Engineering approach and methodology is the focus of the text, and the concept is presented in a way that engineers can begin applying it in their work.

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

chapter 1|24 pages

The Mega-Problems of Unsustainability

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chapter 2|32 pages

Problems of Unsustainability

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chapter 3|21 pages

Complexity and Communication

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chapter 4|41 pages

Transition Engineering

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chapter 5|25 pages

InTIME Models and Methods

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chapter 6|24 pages

Economic Decision Support

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chapter 7|35 pages

Transition Economics

Balancing Costs and Benefits
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chapter 8|9 pages

Conclusion and Discussion

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