Resources for Environmental Physics
Please feel free to send me any reference material you feel would be a
useful addition to this list. Corrections and improvements/updates to charts
and graphs would also be appreciated.
Online units conversion
site.
Students who have contributed.
Presentations:
- Foundations of Environmental Physics;
Understanding Energy Use and Human Impacts, Kyle Forinash (Island
Press, July 2010). Available on Amazon.
- Forinash's PowerPoints on Energy.
- Forinash's PowerPoints on Global
Warming.
- K. Forinash; Ideas for teaching
environmental physics, Contributed talk, AAPT winter meeting, San Jose, CA, 2015.
- Forinash's (mostly environmental) Tweets.
Overheads, tables, instructor notes, articles, web sites by topic:
- Population and its effects (water, pollution,
food supplies).
- Energy Conversion Processes (1st and 2nd Laws,
motors, power,
conservation, insulation, conservation, lighting).
- Non-Renewable Energy (fossil fuels, energy use,
projections of future use, petroleum, coal, natural gas).
- Nuclear Energy (reactors, radiation, reactors).
- Renewable Energy (solar, wind, hydro, tide,
geothermal, waves).
- Energy Storage (energy content of fuels,
batteries, flow batteries, capacitors, load leveling).
- Transportation (gas mileage, well to
wheels analysis, tranportation risks).
- Climate.
- Risk and Economics (risk tables, exposure risk,
meteors, economics).
Books:
- Energy; Its Physical Impact on the
Environment, D.W. Devins (John Wiley and Sons, 1982).
- Consider a Spherical Cow, John
Harte (University Science Books, 1988).
- Power Surge, Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution, C. Flavin
and N. Lenssen (W.W. Norton and Company, 1994).
- Energy, Physics and the Environment, E.L. McFarland, J.L. Hunt
and J.L. Campbell (Wuerz Publishing, 1994).
- Environmental Physics, E. Boeker and R. van Grondelle (John
Wiley and Sons, 1995).
- Global Warming Selected Reprints
ed. J. Firor (AAPT Press, 1995).
- Energy, Its Use and the Environment, R.A. Hinrichs (Saunders College
Publishing, 1996).
- Global Environmental Change,
Karl K. Turekian (Prentice Hall, 1996).
- Charging Ahead; The Business of Renewable Energy and What it Means
for America, J. J. Berger (U. California Press, 1998).
- Beyond Growth, The Economics of Sustainable Development, H. E
Daly (Becon Press, 1996).
- Energies, An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and
Civilization, Vaclav Smil (MIT Press, 1999).
- Should We Risk It? Exploring
Environmental, Health, and Technological Problem Solving, D. M.
Kammen and D. M. Hassenzal (Princeton University Press, 1999).
- The consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices, M.
Brower and W. Leon (Three Rivers Press, 1999).
- Something New Under the Sun, An Environmental History of the
Twentieth-Century World, J. R. McNeill (W. W. Norton Company,
2000).
- The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made
History, B. Fagan (Basic Books, 2000).
- Global Warming: The Science of Climate
Change, F. Drake (Arnold Books, 2000).
- The Two Mile Time Machine; Ice Cores,
Abrupt Climate Change and Our Future, R. B Alley (Princeton
University Press, 2000).
- Renewable Energy: Its physics, engineering, environmental impacts,
economics and planning, Bent Sorensen (Academic Press 2000).
- Thermal Physics, D. V. Schroeder (Addison Wesley Longman,
2000).
- Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New
England, Diana Muir (University Press of New England, 2000).
- Introduction to Nuclear Engineering, J. R. Lamarsh, A. J.
Baratta (Prentice Hall, 2001).
- Dynamic Climatology, Basis in Mathematics and Physics, J. N.
Rayner (Blackwell Publishers, 2001).
- Environmental Physics, Clare Smith (Routledge Press, 2001).
- Introduction to Environmental Physics Planet Earth, Life and
Climate, N. Mason and P. Hughes (Taylor and Francis, 2001).
- Principles of Environmental Physics, J. L. Monteith and M.
Unsworth (Buterworth Heinemann, 2001).
- Consider a Cylindrical Cow, John
Harte (University Science Books, 2001).
- Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil
Shortage, K. S. Deffeyes (Princton University Press, 2001).
- Risk-Benefit Analysis, R. Wilson
and E. A. C. Crouch (Harvard University Press, 2001).
- The Future of Life, E. O. Wilson
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2002).
- Whose water is it?, B. McDonald, D. Jehl, eds. (2003, National
Geographic, Washington, DC).
-
Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable
Surprises (National Acadamy Press, 2002).
- It must be beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science,
ed. G. Farmelo (Granta Press, 2002).
- Green Plastics, E. S. Stevens (Princeton University Press,
2002). This book contains recipes for making your own organic
plastics.
- The Energy Resources and Economics Workbook (Internal Energy,
2003).
- Fuel Cells Explained, J. Laramine and A. Dicks (Wiley, Hoboken,
NJ 2003).
- Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, J. Houghton (Cambridge
UP, 3rd ed 2004).
- Nuclear Energy: Principles, Practices and Prospects, D. Bodansky
(Springer, New York, 2nd ed 2004).
- The New Ecological Home: The complete Guide to Green Building
Options, D. D. Chiras (Chelsea Green, White Water Junction, VT,
2004).
- Making Technology Work, J. M. Deutch and R. K. Lester (Cambridge
University Press, 2004).
- Renewable Energy; Power for a sustainable future, G. Boyle
(Oxford University Press, 2004).
- Sustainable Energy: Choosing Among Options, J.W. Tester, E. M.
Drake, M. J. Driscoll, M. W. Golay and W. A. Peters (MIT Press, Cambridge,
MA 2005).
- Water footprints of nations: Water use by people as a function of
their consumption pattern, A. Y. Hoekstra, A. K. Chapagain (Springer
Science, 2005).
- Elementary Climate Physics, F. W. Taylor (Oxford University
Press, 2005).
- Energy at the Crossroads; Global Perspectives and Uncertainties,
Vaclav Smil (MIT Press, 2005).
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared M.
Diamond (2005, Penguin).
- Energy and the Environment, J. J. Kraushaar and R. A. Ristinen
(John Wiley and Sons, 2006).
- Exercises in Environmental Physics, V. Faraoni (Springer,
2006).
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma, M. Pollan (2006, the Penguin
Group).
- Energy: Physical, Environmental and Social Impact, 3rd ed. G.
J. Aubrecht (Pearson, 2006).
- Physics of Societal Issues, D. Hafemeister, (2007,
Springer).
- What We Know About Climate Change, K. Emanuel (MIT Press,
2007).
- Principles of Environmental Physics, 3rd ed., J. L
Monteith, M, H, Unsworth (Elsevier, 2008).
- Energy for Sustainability, J. Randolph, G. M. Masters (Island
Press, 2008).
- CO2 Rising; The World's Greatiest Environmental Challenge, T. Volk (MIT Press, 2008).
- Physics of Sustainable Energy: Using Energy Efficiently and Producing
it Renewably, David W. Hafemeister (Editor), B. Levi (Editor), Mark D.
Levine (Editor), P. Schwartz (Editor) (AIP Conference Proceedings,
2008).
- Materials and the Environment; Eco-Informed Material Choice, M.
F. Ashby (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009).
- Sustainable Energy- Without
the Hot Air, David J.C. MacKay (UIT Cambridge Ltd., 2009).
- Searching for a Miracle, Richard Heinberg
(A Joint Project of the International Forum on Globalization and the Post Carbon Institute.
[ False Solution Series #4 ] September 2009).
- Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on
Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik
M. Conway (Bloomsbury Press, 2010).
- Energy Transitions; History, Requirements, Prospects, Vaclav
Smil (Praeger, 2010).
- Principles of Planetary Climate, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
(Cambridge, 2010).
- Foundations of Environmental
Physics; Understanding Energy Use and Human Impacts, Kyle
Forinash (Island Press, July 2010).
- Physics of Radiation and Climate
Michael A. Box, Gail P. Box (CRC Press, 2015).
- Energy: Sources, Utilization, Legislation, Sustainability, Illinois as Model State
G Ali Mansoori, Nader Enayati, L Barnie Agyarko (World Scientific, 2016).