Global Change, Energy Issues and Regulation Policies

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 rules

This book invites the reader to consider the multidisciplinary aspects of these urgent energy/environmental issues.

List of contents

From the contents:
Global Change Research II: some keys to the climate/energy crisis.- Greenhouse gases and climatic change.- New perspectives for fossil fuels: Hydrocarbons in "unconventional" settings.- Urban physical infrastructure adaptation to climate change.- Sustainable Nuclear Energy helps Europe to meet its energy challenges.- CO₂ Capture transport and storage, a promising technology for limiting climate change.- New energy sources and CO₂ treatment.- Introduction to Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies and their Contribution to a Sustainable Energy Future.- Biomass for energy: energetic and environmental challenges of biofuels.- Meeting Environmental and Energy Challenges: CNG Conversion of Motor Vehicles in Dhaka.- After Copenhagen, Revisiting both the scientific and political framings of the climate change regime.- The Drafting of the Future International Climate Regime: From the Copenhagen Accord to the Cancún Agreements.- (...).- Index.

Summary

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 policiesthe possible competition between foodstuff production and that of agro-fuels urban adaptation negotiations at the international level financial rules This book invites the reader to consider the multidisciplinary aspects of these urgent energy/environmental issues.  

Product details

• Assisted by: Jea Bernard Saulnier (Editor), Jean Bernard Saulnier (Editor), D Varella (Editor), D Varella (Editor), Jean Bernard Saulnier (Editor), Marcelo D. Varella (Editor), Marcelo Dias Varella (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9789400797277
• ISBN: 978-94-0-079727-7
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 17 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 488 g
• Illustrations: XII, 308 p. 56 illus., 51 illus. in color.
• Series: Integrated Science & Technology Program; Integrated Science & Technology Program
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Development theory and development policy; B, Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Environmental Social Sciences, Earth and Environmental Science, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Energy technology & engineering, Renewable and Green Energy, Energy Policy, Energy industries & utilities, Earth System Sciences, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture), Fossil fuel technologies, Fossil fuels, Fossil Fuel, Renewable energy resources, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Energy and state