Facing Up to Global Warming What is Going on and How You Can Make a Difference? /

• Main Author: Gray, N.F (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Environment.; Renewable energy resources.; Environmental management.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Climate change.; Sustainable development.; Sustainable Development.; Climate Change.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.

In this volume, Professor N.F. Gray offers a comprehensive primer on climate change, sustainability, and how the two concepts are related. This book consists of fifteen chapters, each treating a specific aspect of the current global crisis, including scientific background as well as an up to date ap...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: The Concept of Living Sustainably
• Defining the Problem
• What is Sustainability?
• The Concept of Resources
• Part II: Greenhouse Gases and Global Warming
• Global Warming and CO2
• Measuring and Offsetting CO2 Emissions
• The Real Cost of Carbon
• Ecological Footprint
• Part II: Our Use of Resources
• Energy - Green or Otherwise
• Travelling Here, There, Everywhere
• Having Enough to Eat
• Where Does Water Fit In
• Waste Not Want Not
• Part IV: Responding to the Impact of Global Warming
• Planet Health
• Your Health and Wellbeing
• In Your Hands.