This collection of essays addresses pivotal problems about our planet’s environment and ecology. It highlights the inter-relation of science, philosophy, ethics, and religion, concluding with an ethical analysis of the overlapping challenges that require urgent attention.
The Great 1976 Tangshan Earthquake
In 1975, China predicted the Haicheng earthquake, saving thousands. Eighteen months later, jubilation turned to despair when the unpredicted Tangshan quake killed over 250,000. This book explores this epic success and failure and offers a viable future for earthquake prediction.
This book presents a theory of integrated knowledge creation, essential for addressing sustainability. It develops and tests a novel intellectual process for producing sound knowledge, unearthing the foundation for a new field: the scholarship of sustainability.
This book challenges the idea of progress that treats nature as an inexhaustible resource. It proposes a revolutionary alternative: harmonious progress that respects nature’s boundaries, defining a clear action plan using renewable energy, smart grids, and green settlements.
Global waste threatens our ecosystem, but it also presents an opportunity. This collection of essays discusses transforming underutilized biomass waste into value-added products, covering sources, techniques, and policies for a circular economy.
You know water is essential, but do you know what kind is best for your wellbeing? Do you know about the intimate structure of water, or what superionic ice—a.k.a. hot ice—is? These questions and more are answered within this book.