书目名称 | Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation |
副标题 | Resolving Global Env |
编辑 | Patrick Moriarty,Damon Honnery |
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概述 | Provides a technically-informed view of various environmental and resource problems.Gives readers a higher degree of critical awareness regarding frequently suggested solutions to environmental proble |
丛书名称 | Green Energy and Technology |
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描述 | A vast amount has been written on climate change and what should be our response.Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation suggests that most of this literature takes a far too optimistic position regarding the potential for conventional mitigation solutions to achieve the deep cuts in greenhouse gases necessary in the limited time frame we have available. In addition, global environmental problems, as exemplified by climate change, and global resource problems – such as fossil fuel depletion or fresh water scarcity – have largely been seen as separate issues. Further, proposals for solution of these problems often focus at the national level, when the problems are global. The authors argue that the various challenges the planet faces are both serious and interconnected. Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation takes a global perspective in its treatment of various solutions:• renewable energy;• nuclear energy;• energy efficiency;• carbon sequestration; and• geo-engineering.It also addresses the possibility that realistic solutions cannot be achieved until the fundamentally ethical question of global equity – both across nations today and also inter-generational – is fully addressed |
出版日期 | Book 2011 |
关键词 | CP8059; Climate Mitigation and Adaptation; Global Climate Change; Global Environmental Ethics; Global Eq |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-483-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4471-5711-3 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-84996-483-8Series ISSN 1865-3529 Series E-ISSN 1865-3537 |
issn_series | 1865-3529 |
copyright | Springer-Verlag London 2011 |