Climate Change and Global Energy Security: Technology and Policy Options - Hardcover

Brown, Marilyn A.; Sovacool, Benjamin K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262016257 ISBN 13: 9780262016254

Verlag: MIT Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Tackling climate change and improving energy security are two of the twenty-firstcentury's greatest challenges. In this book, Marilyn Brown and Benjamin Sovacool offer detailedassessments of the most advanced commercially available technologies for strengthening global energysecurity, mitigating the effects of climate change, and enhancing resilience through adaptation andgeo-engineering. They also evaluate the barriers to the deployment of these technologies andcritically review public policy options crucial to their adoption. Arguing that society has all thetechnologies necessary for the task, Brown and Sovacool discuss an array of options available today,including high-efficiency transportation, renewable energy, carbon sequestration, and demand-sidemanagement. They offer eight case studies from around the world that document successful approachesto reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and improving energy security. These include the Danishapproach to energy policy and wind power, Brazil's ethanol program, China's improved cookstoveprogram; and the U.S. Toxics Release Inventory. Brown and Sovacool argue that meeting the twinchallenges of climate change and energy security will allow us to provide energy, maintain economicgrowth, and preserve the natural environment--without forcing tradeoffs among them.

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Marilyn A. Brown is Professor of Energy Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Visiting Distinguished Scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority. In 2007, she was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for her coauthorship of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change Working Group III Assessment Report on Mitigation of Climate Change. Benjamin K. Sovacool is Assistant Professor in the Lew Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Dirty Energy Dilemma: What's Blocking Clean Power in the United States and other books. Brown and Sovacool are the editors of Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths.

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• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262016257
• ISBN 13: 9780262016254
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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