Energy & Energy Use

Energy and Energy Use is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues. Every article in this set was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic. The essays in Energy and Energy Use discuss the use of both fossil and alternative fuels as well as renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation. See below for the complete Table of Contents.

Energy & Energy Use Table of Contents

Contributors
Alternative energy sources
Alternative fuels
Alternatively fueled vehicles
Atomic Energy Commission
Biomass conversion
Biopiracy and bioprospecting
Breeder reactors
Brundtland Commission
Carbon footprint
Chalk River nuclear reactor explosion
Chelyabinsk nuclear waste explosion
Chernobyl nuclear accident
Coal
Coal-fired power plants
Cogeneration
Compact fluorescent lightbulbs
Corporate average fuel economy standards
Department of Energy, U.S.
Ducktown, Tennessee
Earth resources satellites
Earth-sheltered construction
Electric vehicles
Electronic waste
Energy conservation
Energy-efficiency labeling
Energy policy
Energy Policy and Conservation Act
Ethanol
Forest management
Fossil fuels
Gasoline and gasoline additives
Geographic information systems
Geothermal energy
Grazing and grasslands
Green Revolution
Hanford Nuclear Reservation
Heat pumps
Hoover Dam
Hybrid vehicles
Hydroelectricity
Hydrogen economy
Internal combustion engines
International Atomic Energy Agency
International Institute for Sustainable Development.
Light pollution
Love Canal disaster
Nanotechnology
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Nuclear fusion
Nuclear power
Oil crises and oil embargoes
Oil drilling
Oil shale and tar sands
Old-growth forests
Overconsumption
Photovoltaic cells
Planned obsolescence
Power plants
Race-to-the-bottom hypothesis
Refuse-derived fuel
Renewable energy
Renewable resources
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Resource depletion
SL-1 reactor accident
Smart grids
Solar automobile racing
Solar energy
Solar One
Solar water heaters
Strip and surface mining
Superphénix
Synthetic fuels
Tennessee Valley Authority
Three Mile Island nuclear accident
Tidal energy
Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Trans-Siberian Pipeline
Wind energy
Bibliography
Category Index
Index

About Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues
An up-to-date A-Z guide on science, policy, and social issues related to the global environment. The Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues assembles information from numerous fields of knowledge relevant to the study of the environmental issues, including biology, geology, anthropology, demographics, genetics, and engineering, and explains the interrelationships of these issues in easily understood terms.

All of the original essays have been evaluated for their currency, and many of them have been either completely replaced or substantially revised to reflect the latest information available. The Further Reading sections accompanying the essays have all been updated.

Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues contains alphabetically arranged articles that range in length from 300 to 3,000 words. They cover a wide variety of topics, including endangered animal species, air pollution, national parks, environmental legislation, oil spills, alternative energy sources, and global climate change. In recognition of the fact that people spend an overwhelming proportion of their time in human-made environments, essays also cover such topics as sick building syndrome, noise pollution, smog, and urban planning.

Each essay begins with a category subhead and the definition of the topic, along with any relevant dates. A brief summary of the environmental significance of the topic follows. Each article of more than 300 words has a list of suggested further readings to aid students who are seeking resources for more in-depth information on the topic at hand. All articles are accompanied by cross-references to related articles in the set, and every article is signed by the academics and other experts who wrote them. The title also includes nearly numerous photographs, charts, graphs, tables, and maps that illuminate the events and concepts detailed in the essays.