This book analyses the deep interaction between the world's environmental crises, energy production, conversion and use, and global regulation policies. Bringing together experts from a wide range of scientific fields, it offers the reader a broad scope of knowledge on such topi…
This book analyses the deep interaction between the world's environmental crises, energy production, conversion and use, and global regulation policies. Bringing together experts from a wide range of scientific fields, it offers the reader a broad scope of knowledge on such topi…
This book provides an innovative look at our global energy supply as if it were a single portfolio of assets through which we can generate wealth, while mitigating climate change.
by National Research Council (U.S.)., Climate Research Committee, National Research Council (U.S.)., Panel on Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Research and Assessment, National Research Council (U.S.)., Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change
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by National Academies Press (U.S.), National Research Council (U.S.)., Climate Research Committee, National Research Council (U.S.)., Panel on Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Research and Assessment, National Research Council (U.S.)., Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change
"The implications of climate change for the environment and society depend on the rate and magnitude of climate change, but also on changes in technology, economics, lifestyles, and policy that will affect the capacity both for limiting and adapting to climate change. Describing…
by National Research Council (U.S.)., Climate Research Committee, National Research Council (U.S.)., Panel on Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Research and Assessment, National Research Council (U.S.)., Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change
Climate change is the most difficult threat facing humanity this century and negotiations to reach international agreement have so far foundered on deep issues of justice. Providing provocative and imaginative answers to key questions of justice, informed by political insight an…
Ambitious measures to reduce carbon emissions are all too rare in reality, impeded by economic and political concerns rather than technological advances. In this timely collection of essays, Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton show that the impact of inaction on climate chan…
