The Overburdened Planet: Making Sense of Sustainability
暫譯: 超負荷的星球：理解可持續性

Appleby, Paul

The Overburdened Planet: Making Sense of Sustainability
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2025-09-27
  • 售價: $2,180
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,071
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 374
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 303201509X
  • ISBN-13: 9783032015099
  • 相關分類: 理工類

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商品描述

The primary objective of this book is to explain the science, engineering and politics behind the environmental challenges that face the planet, its ecosystems and its populations, particularly in the light of a growing population, urbanisation and wealth divide. It is intended for anyone who wants a deep dive into the science behind climate change without getting lost in the jargon and emotional rhetoric that is frequently associated with coverage of these issues.

Using accessible language the book provides a non-polemical narrative of the key challenges. Illustrated with examples from around the world, links to relevant websites and suitable colour images, it provides a narrative that starts with the global geopolitical pressures on the environment and climate, ranging from colonisation and conflict to exploitation of finite resources and environmental degradation. A core chapter explores the myriad of impacts that global warming and climate change are having on the planet and explains the science behind the Assessment Reports produced by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, followed by a review of the sources of greenhouse gases, the pressures on finite resources and the methods that have been developed for expressing ecological and carbon footprints.

The remaining chapters look in more detail at the contributions that buildings, construction, transport, infrastructure, industry, food and agriculture make to climate change and environmental degradation, whilst examining some of the solutions to mitigating these impacts. The final chapter offers some ideas for a 'different way of living', including alternatives to the historical obsession with growth.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書的主要目標是解釋面對地球、其生態系統和人口的環境挑戰背後的科學、工程和政治，特別是在不斷增長的人口、城市化和財富差距的背景下。它旨在為任何希望深入了解氣候變化背後科學的人提供幫助，而不會迷失在與這些問題相關的術語和情感修辭中。

本書使用易於理解的語言，提供了一個非對立的敘述，描述了主要挑戰。書中舉例來自世界各地的案例，並提供相關網站的鏈接和合適的彩色圖片，敘述從全球地緣政治對環境和氣候的壓力開始，涵蓋了殖民、衝突、有限資源的開採和環境退化等問題。一個核心章節探討了全球變暖和氣候變化對地球的多種影響，並解釋了聯合國政府間氣候變化專門委員會所產出的評估報告背後的科學，隨後回顧了溫室氣體的來源、對有限資源的壓力以及為表達生態和碳足跡而開發的方法。

其餘章節更詳細地探討了建築、建設、交通、基礎設施、工業、食品和農業對氣候變化和環境退化的貢獻，同時檢視了一些減輕這些影響的解決方案。最後一章提供了一些「不同生活方式」的想法，包括對歷史上對增長的痴迷的替代方案。

作者簡介

Paul Appleby is a specialist in sustainability with a background in environmental engineering and low carbon design of buildings. He is a Chartered Engineer with a First Class Honours Degree in Environmental Engineering and is an Honorary Fellow of CIBSE and a Fellow of the RSA. He advises design and masterplanning teams on the integrated sustainable design of buildings and communities. He has worked in the construction industry as a consultant, lecturer and researcher for some 55 years, including 25 years' international consultancy experience with the URS Corporation (now AECOM) running practices specialising in building health and sustainability, and working with some of the world's leading architects and developers on high profile and award winning projects such as Battersea Power Station, Scottish National Heritage hq Inverness, Tate Modern extension, Greenwich Millennium Village and the Pinnacle tower Bishopsgate.

As well as writing some 70 publications, including key guidance published by CIBSE and others, his book Integrated Sustainable Design of Buildings has appeared in a list of the Cambridge University's 'Top 40 Sustainability Books of 2010'. His follow up: Sustainable Retrofit & Facilities Management was published in January 2013. Both published by Earthscan.

Paul has 10 years' experience of design review, participating in more than 100 panel meetings. He has been a Design Council Built Environment Expert since 2012, a panel member for Design South East since 2015 and was a member of the HS2 Independent Design Panel for 4 years. Paul has also been actively involved with the UK Green Building Council, participating in a number of Task Groups including developing Retrofit Incentives and, in concert with the World GBC, exploring the relationships between productivity, health & wellbeing and sustainability in the office environment.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

保羅·阿普比（Paul Appleby）是一位專注於可持續性的專家，擁有環境工程和低碳建築設計的背景。他是一名特許工程師，擁有環境工程的一級榮譽學位，並且是CIBSE的榮譽院士及RSA的院士。他為設計和總體規劃團隊提供有關建築和社區的綜合可持續設計的建議。他在建築行業擔任顧問、講師和研究員已有約55年，其中包括在URS公司（現為AECOM）擔任國際顧問的25年，專注於建築健康和可持續性，並與一些世界頂尖的建築師和開發商合作，參與了如巴特西發電廠、蘇格蘭國家遺產總部（Inverness）、泰特現代美術館擴建、格林威治千禧村和比肖普門的尖塔等高知名度和獲獎項目的工作。

除了撰寫約70篇出版物，包括CIBSE及其他機構發佈的關鍵指導外，他的書籍《建築的綜合可持續設計》曾入選劍橋大學2010年「40本最佳可持續性書籍」名單。他的後續作品《可持續改造與設施管理》於2013年1月出版，兩本書均由Earthscan出版。

保羅擁有10年的設計審查經驗，參加了超過100次的專家小組會議。自2012年以來，他一直是設計委員會的建成環境專家，自2015年以來是Design South East的專家小組成員，並且曾擔任HS2獨立設計小組的成員4年。保羅還積極參與英國綠色建築委員會，參加了多個工作小組，包括開發改造激勵措施，並與世界綠色建築委員會合作，探索辦公環境中生產力、健康與福祉及可持續性之間的關係。

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