
Managing Global Warming
An Interface of Technology and Human Issues
Description
Key Features
- Presents chapters that are accompanied by an easy reference summary
- Includes up-to-date options and technical solutions for global warming through color imagery
- Provides up-to-date information as presented by a collection of renowned global experts
Readership
Table of Contents
A INTRODUCTION
1. Why do we have global warming?
Professor T M Letcher
2. Greenhouse Gas Removal, the Numbers Involved
Dr. Robert Chris
3. The Present Status of Electricity Generation in the World; how important it is, which industrial methods of electricity generation world uses, how efficient they are, how they interact in an electrical grid.
Professor Igor PioroB REDUCING CO2: FOSSIL FUELS, NUCLEAR ENERGY
4. The Future of Fossil Fuels
Trevor M Letcher
5. Nuclear Fission
Professor Igor Pioro
6. Nuclear Fusion: what of the Future?
Dr Richard Kembleton,C REDUCING GREENHOUSE GASES: RENEWABLES and ZERO CARBON/ CARBON NEUTRAL FORMS OF ENERGY and ELECTRIC CARS
7. The Potential of Renewable Energies
Professor Patrick Moriarty and Professor Damon Honnery,
8. Hydropower
Professor Ånund Killingtveit
9. Solar Energy
Dr Lee Phillips
10. Wind
Professor Subhamony Bhattacharya
11. Energy Infrastructure and Storage
Professor Gareth Harrison
12. Biomass
Professor Mirjam Roeder
13. Biomass: Quantifying the Effects of Forest-Based Energy
Professor Annette Cowie
14. Hydrogen Fuel, Fuel Cells and methane
Dr Johannes Lindorfer
15. Ground Source Heat Pumps
Professor Subhamony Bhattacharya
16. Carbon Sequestration
Professor Subhamony Bhattacharya,- Plant Derived Chemicals including Plastics as a way of Reducing GHG Pollution
- Reduce CO2 Pollution by Investing in CO2 as a Chemical Feedstock (CH4?)
- Greener farming: managing carbon and nitrogen cycles to reduce GHG emissions
- Geo-engineering (sunlight reflection methods (SRM); negative emissions technologies (NET) and greenhouse gas removal (GGR))
- Ethics of Geo-engineering:
- Economics of Climate Change and Global Warming
- Migration and Climate Change
- Social Justice in Climate Change
- Economics of Geo-engineering
- Justice in Managing Climate Change
- Local Actions and Personal Actions:
D REDUCING CO2: INDUSTRY, FARMING and IMPROVED EFFICIENCY
Professor Janet L Scott,
Professor Peter Styring,
Professor Nic Lampkin and Dr Laurence Smith,
E GEO-ENGINEERING
Dr Renaud de Richter,
F ENVIRONMENTAL and HUMAN ISSUES
Clare Heyward,
Professor Peter Howard,
Dr Andreas C Simonelli,
Ms Alice Venn,
Professor Juan B Moreno Cruz,
Professor Ivo Wallimann-Helmer,
Dr Phil Ireland,
Product details
- No. of pages: 820
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: November 8, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128141045
- eBook ISBN: 9780128141052
About the Editor
Trevor Letcher
