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  • Challenges and Solutions for Climate Change

    de Katherine Begg, Wytze van der Gaast ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The latest scientific knowledge on climate change indicates that higher greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere through unchecked emissions will provoke severe climate change and ocean acidification. Both impacts can fundamentally alter environmental structures on which humanity relies and have serious consequences for the food chain among others. Climate change therefore poses major socio ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

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  • Large-Scale Solar Power Systems

    Construction and Economics

    de Peter Gevorkian ...
    This book is a comprehensive discussion and economic analysis of large-scale solar power systems, specifically referencing critical issues related to design construction and financing. The book provides practical design, installation, and financing guidelines for large-scale commercial and industrial solar power projects. Engineering design and construction methodologies as well as economic ... Leer más

    $81.99 USD

  • Energy Democracy

    Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables

    de Craig Morris, Arne Jungjohann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book outlines how Germans convinced their politicians to pass laws allowing citizens to make their own energy, even when it hurt utility companies to do so. It traces the origins of the Energiewende movement in Germany from the Power Rebels of Schönau to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s shutdown of eight nuclear power plants following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The authors explore ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Energy in Australia

    Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth

    de Graham Palmer ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    With rapidly declining costs and seemingly unlimited sunshine, the choice of solar in Australia seems obvious. Yet despite its many advantages, homes with solar remain completely dependent on the electricity grid for reliable supply, which in Australia implies mostly coal-fired generation. Indeed, even countries that have invested heavily in solar, such as Spain and Germany, have been unable to ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Globalization of Low-Carbon Technologies

    The Impact of the Paris Agreement

    Edición de Venkatachalam Anbumozhi, Kaliappa Kalirajan ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores the opportunities and barriers within the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) framework of the Paris Agreement for low-carbon technology diffusion. Further, it proposes appropriate and feasible mechanisms required at local, national and regional levels to achieve the INDC targets.The book employs both meta policy analysis and scenario building to examine, whether ... Leer más

    $188.99 USD

  • Stopping Climate Change: the Case for Hydrogen and Coal

    de C.E. Sandy Thomas ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book documents the advantages and limitations of various electricity generation methods. It illustrates how both electricity and motor fuel can be cost-effectively derived from coal, natural gas or other indigenous fuels, thereby eliminating our dependence on imported oil and the power of OPEC. It favours electricity generation systems powered exclusively by natural gas, coal, nuclear and ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Climate-Smart Technologies

    Integrating Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Mitigation and Adaptation Responses

    Edición de Walter Leal Filho, Franziska Mannke, Romeela Mohee, Veronika Schulte, Dinesh Surroop ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The book addresses the perceived need for a publication with looks at both, climate smart technologies and the integration of renewable energy and energy efficiency in mitigation and adaptation responses. Based on a set of papers submitted as part of the fifth on-line climate conference (CLIMATE 2012) and a major conference on renewable energy on island States held in Mauritius in 2012, the book ... Leer más

    $188.99 USD

  • Global Energy Demand and 2-degree Target, Report 2014

    de Valentin Crastan ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This report takes a neutral and independent point of view in attempting to show concrete ways to achieve the goal of reducing CO2 emissions and limiting global warming to the 2-degree target. It presents an overall picture spanning all key countries. In the report, the temporal evolution of the main parameters is given from 1970 to 2011 for all regions of the world and all G-20 countries, starting ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • The European Commission's Energy and Climate Policy

    A Climate for Expertise?

    de J. Dreger ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers a deep insight into the genesis and development of the European Commission's energy and climate legislation, focusing on the interplay of politics and science. How does the Commission react when confronted with knowledge? According to the author, the Commission functions as catalyst transforming knowledge into politics. ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Preparing for Peak Oil in South Africa

    An Integrated Case Study

    de Jeremy J. Wakeford ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Oil is the lifeblood of modern industrial economies. Petroleum powers virtually all motorized transport, which in turn enables most economic activities and provides mobility for citizens. But oil is a finite resource that is steadily depleting. In the past decade, the phenomenon of global peak oil – the fact that annual world oil production must at some point reach a maximum and then decline – has ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Concepts and Instruments for a Rational Bioenergy Policy

    A New Institutional Economics Approach

    de Alexandra Purkus ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book provides an in-depth economic analysis of the challenges associated with bioenergy use and production. Drawing on New Institutional Economics and the theory of economic policy, it develops theory-based recommendations for a bioenergy policy that strives for efficiency and sustainability. Further, it shows how to deal with diverse uncertainties and constraints, such as institutional path ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Green Low-Carbon Development in China

    Edición de Jinjun Xue, Zhongxiu Zhao, Yande Dai, Bo Wang ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The book provides an in depth analyses of the experience and lessons in Chinese energy and emissions reductions policies in a climate change constrained scenario. As China emerges as the world second largest economy and first largest carbon emitter, the country is moving onto a low-carbon development path.Projections of medium and long term energy supply and demand scenarios are presented, based ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD