Rise and fall of the carbon civilisation

resolving global environmental and resource problems

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Rise and fall of the carbon civilisation

resolving global environmental and resource problems

Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation: Resolving Global Environmental and Resource Problems
Author: Patrick Moriarty, Damon Honnery
Published by Springer London
ISBN: 978-1-84996-482-1
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84996-483-8

Table of Contents:

  • The Problems We Face
  • Global Climate Change
  • Earth’s Resources Are Finite
  • Uncertainty in Global Environmental and Resource Problems
  • Renewable Energy: Too Little, Too Late?
  • Nuclear Energy: The Ultimate Technological Fix?
  • Engineering for Greater Energy Efficiency
  • Getting Rid of Atmospheric Carbon: Sequestration and Air Capture
  • Great and Desperate Measures: Geo-engineering
  • The New Economy
  • Conclusions

Publish Date
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Language
English
Pages
218

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Table of Contents

The problems we face
Global climate change
Earth's resources are finite
Uncertainty in global environmental and resource problems
Renewable energy : too little, too late?
Nuclear energy : the ultimate technological fix?
Engineering for greater energy efficiency
Getting rid of atmospheric carbon : sequestration and air capture
Great and desperate measures : geo-engineering
The new economy
Conclusions.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
London, New York
Series
Green energy and technology -- 1865-3529, Green energy and technology

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
551.6
Library of Congress
QC903 .M67 2011, TJ807-830QC902.8-903

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 218 p. :
Number of pages
218

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25403220M
Internet Archive
risefallcarbonci00mori
ISBN 10
1849964823
ISBN 13
9781849964821
LCCN
2010935691
OCLC/WorldCat
662410277

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16767696W

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