Interdisciplinary Research on Climate and Energy Decision Making - 30 Years of Research on Global Change

This book explores the role and importance of interdisciplinary research in addressing key issues in climate and energy decision making.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Tools to Analyze Uncertainty
   Granger Morgan
2. Let’s Do the Same for Climate Change
   Granger Morgan
3. The ICAM Model of Climate Change
   Granger Morgan and Hadi Dowlatabadi
4. Getting Experts to Give Us Their "Betting Odds"
   Granger Morgan
5. What the Public Knows about Climate Change
   Granger Morgan
6. Social/Ecological Dimensions of Climate Change Hadi Dowlatabadi, Granger Morgan, Mike Griffin, and Tim McDaniels
7. Impacts on Public Health
   Elizabeth Casman and Hadi Dowlatabadi
8. Energy Efficiency
   Inês Azevedo


9. Energy Rebound
   Granger Morgan and Brinda Thomas


10. Energy from the Wind and the Sun
    Jay Apt


11. Capturing and Disposing of Carbon Dioxide from Power Plants
    Granger Morgan and Dalia Patino-Echeverri


12. Can Nuclear Power Help Solve the Climate Problem?
    Granger Morgan and Ahmed Abdulla


13. Making Electric Power More Resilient
    Jay Apt and Granger Morgan


14. Transportation without Carbon Dioxide
    Granger Morgan and Parth Vaishnav


15. Uncertainty in Energy and Other Forecasts
    Granger Morgan


16. We Have No Choice but to Adapt
    Granger Morgan and Hadi Dowlatabadi


17. Scrubbing Carbon Dioxide out of the Atmosphere
    Joshuah Stolaroff


18. A Last Resort – Engineering the Planet
    Granger Morgan
19. What We Have Learned
    Granger Morgan (informed by many others)

Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3

Über den Autor / die Autorin

M. Granger Morgan is the Hamerschlag University Professor of Engineering in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) at Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. He holds a PhD in Applied Physics from the University of California at San Diego. He was the founding Department Head in EPP, a job he held for 38 years. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Zusammenfassung

This book explores the role and importance of interdisciplinary research in addressing key issues in climate and energy decision making.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: M. Granger Morgan
• Mitarbeit: M. Granger Morgan (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 16.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032360980
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3236098-0
• Seiten: 336
• Serie: Research and Teaching in Environmental Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Bildungswesen; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Technik > Wärme-, Energie- und Kraftwerktechnik; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, ENERGY, SCIENCE / Energy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Energy Policy, Politics & government, Politics and government, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Higher education, tertiary education, Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology