Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability and Pavements

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gopalakrishnan, Kasthurirangan (Editor), Steyn, Wynand JvdM (Editor), Harvey, John (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Green Energy and Technology,
• Subjects: Energy.; Renewable energy resources.; Transportation.; Climate change.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Climate Change Management and Policy.

Climate change, energy production and consumption, and the need to improve the sustainability of all aspects of human activity are key inter-related issues for which solutions must be found and implemented quickly and efficiently.  To be successfully implemented, solutions must recognize the rapidly...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Pavement Life Cycle Assessment
• Application of LCA Results to Network-level Highway Pavement Management
• The Product Process Service Life Cycle Assessment Framework to Estimate GHG Emissions for Highways
• Anticipating and Responding to Pavement Performance as Climate Changes
• Climate Change Scenarios and their potential effects on Transportation Infrastructure Systems.     .