Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation Resolving Global Environmental and Resource Problems /
A vast amount has been written on climate change and what should be our response. Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation suggests that most of this literature takes a far too optimistic position regarding the potential for conventional mitigation solutions to achieve the deep cuts in greenhouse ga...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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London :
Springer London,
2011.
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Σειρά: | Green Energy and Technology,
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 1. The Problems We Face
- 2. Global Climate Change
- 3. Earth's Resources Are Finite
- 4. Uncertainty in Global Environmental and Resource Problems
- 5. Renewable Energy: Too Little, Too Late?
- 6. Nuclear Energy: The Ultimate Technological Fix?
- 7. Engineering for Greater Energy Efficiency
- 8. Getting Rid of Atmospheric Carbon: Sequestration and Air Capture
- 9. Great and Desperate Measures: Geo-engineering
- 10. The New Economy
- 11. Conclusions.