
Energy and Climate Change
An Introduction to Geological Controls, Interventions and Mitigations
Description
Key Features
- Provides an overarching narrative linking Earth system science with an integrated approach to energy and climate change
- Includes a unique breadth of coverage from modern to "deep time" climate change; from resource geology to economics; from climate change mitigation to adaptation; and from the industrial revolution to the Anthropocene
- Readable, accessible, and well-illustrated, giving the reader a clear overview of the topic
Readership
Geologists interested in resource generation and resource limits, from an earth system science perspective; climate scientists interested in carbon cycle links between resource usage and climate change, and ancient geological (deep time) climate change; environmental scientists interested in the earth system science context of energy and climate change. Students, policy makers, energy professionals, people interested in the Anthropocene, and energy statisticians, energy historians and economists
Table of Contents
1. The carbon cycle, fossil fuels and climate change
2. Natural global warming: climate change in "deep time"
3. Artificial global warming: the "fossil economy"
4. The coming industrial revolution? Fossil fuels and developing countries
5. Geology and the reduction of emissions
6. Climate change adaptation: geological aspects
7. Feedbacks and tipping points
8. The geological macroscope
9. Energy and climate change: geological controls, interventions and mitigations
Product details
- No. of pages: 206
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2018
- Published: March 20, 2018
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128120224
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128120217
About the Author
Michael Stephenson
