Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change
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ISBN: 9780415706148
Author/Editor: Mark Diesendorf
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2014
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Description
Renewable energy expert Mark Diesendorf issues a powerful challenge in this clear and comprehensive guide to the technology and policies we need to adopt to ensure an ecologically sustainable energy future for the planet.
Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change brings together the science, technology, economics and policy issues to provide a unique and truly interdisciplinary approach. It details the enormous recent changes in the energy sector and profiles the renewable energy technologies that can transform our fossil-fuelled energy systems into ecologically sustainable ones.
The book provides in-depth analysis of:
* scenarios for transitioning our polluting energy system to one basedon the efficient use of renewable energy
* sustainable transport and planning for better cities
* why nuclear energy is not the answer
* the politics and policies of climate change mitigation
* myths about wind and solar energy and energy efficiency
* what people can do to overcome vested interests and push reluctant governments to take effective action.
Taking stock of the latest advances in energy efficiency and energy storage, the book is of interest to students at undergraduate and postgraduate level studying energy policy and economics, environmental policy and environmental politics as well as professionals and policy makers.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.59 kg |
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Product Properties
| Year of Publication | 2014 |
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| Table of Contents | Foreword E. O. Wilson Prologue Kofi Annan Chapter 1What is Biodiversity? By Stuart Pimm, Maria Alice dos Santos Alves, Eric Chivian, and Aaron Bernstein Chapter 2How is Biodiversity Threatened by Human Activity? By Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein Chapter 3Ecosystem Services By Jerry Melillo and Osvaldo Sala Chapter 4Medicines from Nature By David J. Newman, John Kilama, Aaron Bernstein, and Eric Chivian Chapter 5Biodiversity and Biomedical Research By Eric Chivian, Aaron Bernstein, and Joshua P. Rosenthal Chapter 6Threatened Groups of Organisms Valuable to Medicine By Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein Chapter 7Ecosystem Disturbance, Biodiversity Loss, and Human Infectious Disease By David H. Molyneux, Richard S. Ostfeld, Aaron Bernstein, and Eric Chivian Chapter 8Biodiversity and Food Production By Daniel Hillel and Cynthia Rosenzweig Chapter 9Genetically Modified Foods and Organic Farming By Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein Chapter 10 What Individuals Can Do to Help Conserve Biodiversity By Jeffrey A. McNeely, Eleanor Sterling, and Kalemani Jo Mulongoy Appendix Agencies, Organizations, Treaties, Conventions, and NGOs Working to Conserve Biodiversity Part A: Co-sponsors Part B: Treaties, Conventions, and Intergovernmental Organizations Part C: Non-Governmental Organizations |
| Author | Mark Diesendorf |
| ISBN/ISSN | 9780415706148 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
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