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The foundations and future of energy research
Today is the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. Appropriately, climate action is this year’s theme. Scientific, political and social efforts to address climate change and environmental crises are even more crucial today than they were in 1970.
To celebrate Earth Day and support the efforts of those working towards change in this crucial area, Elsevier is making a collection of book chapters and journal articles freely available on ScienceDirect, covering a range of topics including energy, food science, transportation, health and well-being, water quality, plastic waste, and sustainable cities. Our goal in highlighting these carefully curated chapters and articles is to illustrate the dependability and care that science offers in various aspects of our civilization.
See below for more information on the book chapters and journal articles that you can read on ScienceDirect today and for the next 90 days. This curated collection is part of the full ScienceDirect library, which includes thousands of books by highly respected authors and editorial teams.
Note that you can access these book chapters through any browser without needing to sign in or be within a university IP range. There are also several options for remote access to ScienceDirect if you wish to continue researching a topic in the ScienceDirect collection.
The impact of Earth Day should not be underestimated. After the first Earth Day, landmark environmental laws were passed and each year, April 22 is a point of focus for social and political activity attempting to protect the environment and promote biodiversity. Making these book chapters available to the research community and the general public is part of our support for the ideals of this important annual civic event.
The Earth Day 2020 collection:
Book chapters:
Plastics to Energy
Chapter 2: Major Technologies Implemented for Chemicals and Fuel Recovery
S.M. Al-Salem
Comprehensive Energy Systems
Ibrahim Dincer and Yusuf Bicer
Evaluating Water Quality to Prevent Future Disasters
Chapter 1: Overview: Evaluating Water Quality to Prevent Future Disasters
Satinder Ahuja
Drought Challenges
Chapter 13: Drought Risk Insurance
Daniel Tsegaia and Ishita Kaushikb
Drought Challenges
Robert McLeman
Competition for Water Resources
Chapter 1.2: Competition for Water Resources From the European Perspective
D.Zikos and K.Hagedorn
Encyclopedia of Ecology (Second Edition)
Anne Goujon
Radioactivity in the Environment, 2e
Chapter 10: Decontamination after radiation exposure
Vlado Valković
Plastics to Energy
Chapter 19: The Role of Biodegradable Plastic in Solving Plastic Solid Waste Accumulation
L.S. Dilkes-Hoffman, S. Pratt, P.A. Lant and B. Laycock
Biodiversity of Pantepui
Chapter 17: Pantepui and global warming
Valentí Rull, Sandra Nogu, Elisabet Safont, TeresaVegas-Vilarrúbia
Cheetahs: Biology and Conservation
Chapter 18: Cheetah Conservation and Educational Programs
Courtney Hughes, Jane Horgan, Rebecca Klein, Laurie Marker
Sustainable Power Generation: Current Status, Future Challenges, and Perspectives
Chapter 13: Development of sustainable nuclear power plant project
Nikolay Belyakov
Nuclear Engineering: A Conceptual Introduction to Nuclear Power
Chapter 16: Public Acceptability, Cost and Nuclear Energy in the Future
Malcolm Joyce
Managing Global Warming: An Interface of Technology and Human Issues
Chapter 4: Current and future nuclear power reactors and plants
- Pioro and R. Duffy
Advances in Eco-Fuels for a Sustainable Environment
Chapter 4: Prospective ecofuel feedstocks for sustainable production
- Sandesh Suresh, P.V. Suresh, and Tanaji G. Kudre
Processing and Sustainability of Beverages
Chapter 1: Adding Sustainability to the Beverage Industry Through Nature-based Wastewater Treatment
Dolores Hidalgo and Jesus M. Martin-Marroquin
Sustainable Bioenergy
Chapter 3: Sustainable Bioenergy Development in Africa: Issues, Challenges and the Way Forward
Saidu Muhammad Maishanu, Abubakar Sani Sambo, and Mahmoud Muhammad Garba
Sustainable Food Supply Chains
Chapter 17: Food Systems Sustainability: The complex challenge of food loss and waste
Matteo Vittuari, Fabio DeMenna, Laura Garcia-Herrero, Marco Pagani, Laura Brenes-Peralta, and Andrea Segre
Sustainable Technologies for Fashion and Textiles
Chapter 13: Recycling of plastics into textile raw materials
Cyrus A. Tshifularo and Asis Patnaik
Sustainable Urban Mobility Pathways
Chapter 2: Sustainable urban mobility solutions for Asia, Latin America and the Mediterranean region
Oliver Lah, Saul Alveano, Magdala Arioli, Venn Chesterton, and Lefteris Sdoukopoulos
Earth Day featured journal articles:
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
The wood from the trees: The use of timber in construction
Michael H. Ramage; Henry Burridge; Marta Busse-Wicher; George Fereday; Thomas Reynolds; Darshil U. Shah; Guanglu Wu; Li Yu; Patrick Fleminga; Danielle Densley-Tingleye; Julian Allwood; Paul Dupree; P.F. Linden; Oren Scherman
How photovoltaics can contribute to GHG emission reductions of 55% in the EU by 2030
Arnulf Jäger-Waldau; Ioannis Kougias; Nigel Taylor; Christian Thiel
Benjamin K. Sovacool; Steve Griffiths
Renewable Energy
Transition towards decarbonised power systems and its socio-economic impacts in West Africa
Ayobami Solomon Oyewo; Arman Aghahosseini; Manish Ram; Christian Breyer
Solar Energy
Development of an environmentally friendly PV/T solar panel
Kohei Terashima; Haruki Sato; Toshiharu Ikaga
Energy Reports
The impact of CO2 emissions and economic growth on energy consumption in 58 countries
Kais Saidi; Sami Hammami
Energy
Status and perspectives on 100% renewable energy systems
Kenneth Hansen; Christian Breyer; Henrik Lund
The role of power-to-gas in the future energy system: Market and portfolio effects
Muireann Lynch, Mel T.Devine, Valentin Bertsch
Applied Energy
Kamia Handayani, Tatiana Filatova, Yoram Krozer, Pinto Anugrah
Lili Li, Araz Taeihagh
Gijsvan Leeuwen, Tarek AlSkaif, Madeleine Gibescu, Wilfried van Sark
eTransportation
Antun Pfeifer, Pero Prebeg, Neven Duić
Energy Conversion and Management
A system analysis tool for sustainable biomass utilisation considering the Emissions-Cost Nexus
Yee Van Fan, Raymond R.Tan, Jiří Jaromír Klemeš
Progress in Disaster Science
From risk to resilience: Pathways for sustainable development
Mami Mizutori
Riyanti Djalante
Atta-ur Rahman, Chen Fang
“Build back better” approach to disaster recovery: Research trends since 2006
Glenn Fernandez, Iftekhar Ahmed
Axioms and actions for preventing disasters
Ilan Kelman
Disaster risk reduction and innovations
Takako Izumia, Rajib Shaw, Riyanti Djalante, Mikio Ishiwatari, Takeshi Kominoe
City and Environment Interactions
Qingyang Liu, Jill Baumgartner, Benjamin de Foy, James J.Schauer
Christian Göpfert, Christine Wamsler, Werner Lang
Chrissi Antonopoulos, Alec Trusty, Vivek Shandas
One Earth
The Water Planetary Boundary: Interrogation and Revision
Tom Gleeson, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Samuel C. Zipper, Miina Porkka, Fernando Jaramillo, Dieter Gerten, Ingo Fetzer, Sarah E. Cornell, Luigi Piemontese, Line J. Gordon, Johan Rockstrom, Taikan Oki, Murugesu Sivapalan, Yoshihide Wada, Kate A. Brauman, Martina Florke, Marc F.P. Bierkens, Bernhard Lehner, Patrick Keys, Matti Kummu, Thorsten Wagener, Simon Dadson, Tara J. Troy, Will Steffen, Malin Falkenmark, and James S. Famiglietti
Building Resilience to Climate Change in Informal Settlements
David Satterthwaite, Diane Archer, Sarah Colenbrander, David Dodman, Jorgelina Hardoy, Diana Mitlin, Sheela Patel
The Blue Acceleration: The Trajectory of Human Expansion into the Ocean
Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, Robert Blasiak, Albert V. Norström, Henrik Österblom, Magnus Nyström
Mark Z. Jacobson, Mark A. Delucchi, Mary A. Cameron, Stephen J. Coughlin, Catherine A. Hay, Indu Priya Manogaran, Yanbo Shu, Anna-Katharina von Krauland
The Future of Aquatic Protein: Implications for Protein Sources in Aquaculture Diets
Katheline Hua, Jennifer M. Cobcroft, Andrew Cole, Kelly Condon, Dean R. Jerry, Arnold Mangott, Christina Praeger, Matthew J. Vucko, Chaoshu Zeng, Kyall Zenger, Jan M. Strugnell
Avoiding Amazonian Catastrophes: Prospects for Conservation in the 21st Century
Robert Toovey Walker, Cynthia Simmons, Eugenio Arima, Yankuic Galvan-Miyoshi, Aghane Antunes, Michael Waylen, Maíra Irigaray
Vanessa M. Adams, Megan Barnes, Robert L. Pressey
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Hydrogen production from instant noodle wastewater by organic electrocatalyst coated on PVC surface
- Willy Satrio, Winarto, Sugiono, I.N.G. Wardana
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