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The Subterranean Forest : Energy Systems and the Industrial Revolution.
The Subterrranean Forest studies the historical transition from the agrarian solar energy regime to the use of fossil energy, which has fuelled the industrial transformation of the last 200 years.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Winwick, Cambridgeshire :
The White Horse Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; I. Energy Systems and Social Evolution; 1. Palaeolithic Hunter-gatherer Societies; 2. The Neolithic Revolution and the Problem of Dynamics; 3. Traditional Agriculture
- A Controlled Solar Energy System; 4. The Structure of the Agrarian Energy System; 5. The Dynamics of Agrarian Societies; 6. Crisis and Transformation; 7. The Industrial System and Fossil Energy; II. Forest and Wood in Preindustrial Germany; 1. Natural Foundations; 2. Preindustrial Wood Consumption; 3. Regulation Problems; III. England: Coal in the Industrial Revolution; 1. Substitution of Wood by Coal.
- 2. Wood and Coal in Iron Smelting3. Transport and Steam Power; 4. Significance of Coal in the Industrial Revolution; IV. Germany in the 18th Century:Wood Crisis and Strategies for Solutions; 1. Conserving Wood; 2. Functional Separation of Agriculture and Forestry; 3. Substitution for Wood; 4. Was the Wood Crisis an Energy Crisis?; V. Perceptions of Fossil Energy; 1. The Finiteness of Fossil Fuels; 2. Classical Political Economy and the Stationary State; 3. Jevons and the Contraction of the Industrial System; 4. Nuclear or Solar Energy; Bibliography; Index.