Energy, Environment, and Climate

by Richard Wolfson

Emphasizes climate change as an energy-related environmental issue. Energy, Environment, and Climate , Second Edition, is the most contemporary book for the energy course. Written for non-science majors, the text presents the physical concepts in easy-to-understand language and asks students to apply those concepts to contemporary energy issues. Students learn to analyze the important questions that face today’s citizens and deal with the answers both qualitatively and quantitatively. End-of-chapter questions provide an opportunity for students to practice what they’ve learned and provide instructors with questions that can be debated in class.

Genres: Read For School

435 pages, Paperback

First published February 16, 2007

Reviews

[Jack · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good treatment of the topic. Concludes with some alternatives and their potential impacts. Hard choices that will give uncertain results. We can be very certain about ear term costs but we’re just guessing about long term effects

[Graham Barrett · Rating 4 out of 5]

(Read in 2011, review from 2023)

One of the first text books I read when I was in college and starting on my environmental education path. It did its job well enough.

[Heaven Nazario]

school 😒

[Thomas Mind · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book for anyone. It is for anyone new to science, and anyone new to deep ecology. It is also for anyone that is experienced in either or both. Wolfson does as he has always done; he explains both term and examination in clear and concise platforms so the reader can walk away with a broad understanding of system functionality.

The way this book communicates is typical for Wolfson’s work and will not leave the reader feeling like it is the first time they studied algebra. If you really want information that is easily understood, clear, and concise, I very highly recommend this book. It not only explains systems from their foundation, it explains them very well in a read that makes the entire subject of deep ecology interesting.