Global Change, Energy Issues and Regulation Policies: 2

ISBN 10: 9400766602 / ISBN 13: 9789400766600

Verlag: Springer, 2013

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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 topics as:

• climate change and exhaustion of resources
• the relationship between basic science and the development of sustainable energy technologies
• the relationship between global and local environmental policies
• the possible competition between foodstuff production and that of agro-fuels
• urban adaptation
• negotiations at the international level
• financial rules 

This book invites the reader to consider the multidisciplinary aspects of these urgent energy/environmental issues.

 

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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, including physics, geosciences, social sciences, and so on, it offers the reader a broad scope of knowledge on such topics as:

• climate change and exhaustion of resources
• the relationship between basic science and the development of sustainable energy technologies
• the relationship between global and local environmental policies
• the possible competition between foodstuff production and that of agro-fuels

The conclusions emphasize five technological keys for the solution of the energy/environmental crisis:

• improvement of energy efficiency and savings
• green electricity production
• nuclear energy
• carbon management
• energy vector use optimisation

Further keys, such as:

• urban adaptation
• negotiations at the international level
• financial rules

are to be found in fields such as law and politics.

This book invites the reader to consider the multidisciplinary aspects of these urgent energy/environmental issues. It will be of special interest to those involved in environmental protection, energy issues and sustainable development, and international relations.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Global Change, Energy Issues and Regulation ...
Verlag: Springer
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Très bon