Publisher's Synopsis
Learn to use Transition Engineering to address global problems and shift away from unsustainable activities
Transition Engineering (TE) focuses on achieving strategic changes in complex systems that work well but also cause harm and externalities. Rapid reduction in energy use, for example, is imperative for mitigating climate risk, yet a rapid reduction in energy supply would cause severe and widespread damage worldwide. If coal, oil, and gas supplies were to suddenly drop by eighty percent, modern cities would be paralyzed and entire economies would fail. TE addresses this kind of ?wicked problem? by innovating and delivering solutions that radically change energy-consuming systems while managing the risks of resource use, environmental impacts, social stability, and economic balance and consistency.
How to Make Change with Transition Engineering is a detailed, highly practical overview of applying the TE approach to develop sustainable solutions for wide range of engineering challenges. This real-world guide provides the tools necessary to use TE thinking in the design, development, implementation, and management of sustainable, resilient, and energy-efficient engineered systems. Readers learn about new and emerging strategies that respond to critical issues such as greenhouse gas production, global climate change, the scarcity of industrial minerals, the decline of world oil supplies, and more. Designed to directly support project managers and engineers in the workplace, this valuable resource:
- Demonstrates how readers can use TE thinking to meet their needs for change
- Describes the background and fundamental concepts of Transition Engineering
- Explains how to use TE as a workable design and decision-making tool in various engineering contexts
- Helps readers to use TE to test, assess, and evaluate both current projects and new proposals
- Features extensive illustrations, review questions and exercises, and case studies of TE in practice
How to Make Change with Transition Engineering is essential reading for all engineers and project managers wanting to learn the TE methodology and apply it in their work and solve real problems
