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Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Wei-Yin Chen

    1. Departmemt of Chemical Engineering, University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA

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  2. Toshio Suzuki

    1. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Nagoya, Japan

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  3. Maximilian Lackner

    1. Institute of Advanced Engineering Technologies, University of Applied Sciences FH Technikum Wien, Vienna, Austria

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  • Provides clear scientific rationale for the reality of climate change
  • Comprehensively covers the impact of climate change
  • Presents detailed proposed solutions and actions
  • Considers adaptation in a variety of contexts
  • Presents accessible and jargon-free information
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (84 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. Scientific Evidences of Climate Change and Societal Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to Climate Change Mitigation

      • Maximilian Lackner, Wei-Yin Chen, Toshio Suzuki
      Pages 3-15

    3. Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change Impacts

      • Linta M. Mathew, Sonia Akter
      Pages 17-45

    4. Paleoclimate Changes and Significance of Present Global Warming

      • Asadullah Kazi
      Pages 47-60

    5. Life Cycle Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

      • L. Reijnders
      Pages 61-91

    6. Some Economics of International Climate Policy

      • Karen Pittel, Dirk Rübbelke, Martin Altemeyer-Bartscher, Sebastian Otte
      Pages 93-125

    7. Ethics and Environmental Policy

      • David J. Rutherford, Eric Thomas Weber
      Pages 127-165

    8. Mass Media Roles in Climate Change Mitigation

      • Kristen Alley Swain
      Pages 167-219

    9. Economics for a Sustainable Planet

      • Arif S. Malik
      Pages 221-255

    10. Emissions Trading

      • Roger Raufer, Paula Coussy, Carla Freeman, Sudha Iyer
      Pages 257-312

    11. Carbon Markets: Linking the International Emission Trading Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS)

      • Itziar Martínez de Alegría, Gonzalo Molina, Belén del Río
      Pages 313-339

    12. European Union (EU) Strategy to Face the Climate Change Challenge in the Framework of the International Commitments

      • Itziar Martínez de Alegría, María-Azucena Vicente-Molina, Cristian Moore
      Pages 341-382

    13. Implications of Climate Change for the Petrochemical Industry: Mitigation Measures and Feedstock Transitions

      • Simon J. Bennett, Holly A. Page
      Pages 383-426

    14. Venture Capital Investment and Trend in Clean Technologies

      • John C. P. Huang
      Pages 427-476

    15. Analysis of the Co-benefits of Climate Change Mitigation

      • Douglas Crawford-Brown
      Pages 477-488

    16. The Role of Aviation in Climate Change Mitigation

      • Katsuya Hihara
      Pages 489-523

  3. Impact of Climate Change and Adaptation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 525-525
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    2. Carbon Liability

      • Yoshihiro Fujii
      Pages 527-554

    3. Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration in Forest Ecosystems

      • Dafeng Hui, Qi Deng, Hanqin Tian, Yiqi Luo
      Pages 555-594
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About this book

The second edition of this important work covers additional topics of climate change mitigation and adaption strategies. It expands the scope of the first edition in the areas of mitigation and adds important new information on adaptation to climate change. Since the publication of the first edition, important new research findings have been gathered and natural events have continued to highlight the need for action.  

Reviews

“The handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation is an impressive selection of contributions spanning a broad spectrum of climate change related topics that integrate scientific, socio-economic and technological perspectives.” (Stephanie Hänsel, Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 77, 2018)   

Editors and Affiliations

  • Departmemt of Chemical Engineering, University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA

    Wei-Yin Chen

  • National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Nagoya, Japan

    Toshio Suzuki

  • Institute of Advanced Engineering Technologies, University of Applied Sciences FH Technikum Wien, Vienna, Austria

    Maximilian Lackner

About the editors

Dr. Wei Chen is currently at the University of Mississippi, Department of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Maximilian Lackner is currently at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. Dr. Toshio Suzuki is currently at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan.  

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