Overview
- Discusses fossil fuels and alternatives, CO2 mitigation and climate change
- Brings together multidisciplinary knowledge on energy issues
- Includes political aspects of carbon finance and international negotiations
- Reflects the increasing interest in renewable energy and energy efficiency
Part of the book series: Integrated Science & Technology Program (ISTP, volume 2)
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About this book
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 rulesÂ
This book invites the reader to consider the multidisciplinary aspects of these urgent energy/environmental issues.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Change, Energy Issues and Regulation Policies
Editors: Jean Bernard Saulnier, Marcelo D. Varella
Series Title: Integrated Science & Technology Program
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6661-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6660-0Published: 03 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9727-7Published: 15 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6661-7Published: 18 June 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-2375
Series E-ISSN: 2211-2383
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 308
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Renewable and Green Energy, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture)