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.

For over 30 years, an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students anchored at Carnegie Mellon University, joined by investigators and students from a number of other collaborating institutions across North America, Europe, and Australia, have worked together to better understand the global changes that are being caused by both human activities and natural causes. This book tells the story of their successful interdisciplinary work. With each chapter written in the first person, the authors have three key objectives: (1) to document and provide an accessible account of how they have framed and addressed a range of the key problems that are posed by the human dimensions of global change; (2) to illustrate how investigators and graduate students have worked together productively across different disciplines and locations on common problems; and (3) to encourage funders and scholars across the world to undertake similar large- scale interdisciplinary research activities to meet the world's largest challenges.

Exploring topics such as energy efficiency, public health, and climate adaptation, and with a final chapter dedicated to lessons learned, this innovative volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, energy transitions and environmental studies more broadly.

List of contents

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

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: M. Granger Morgan
• Assisted by: M. Granger Morgan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032361000
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3236100-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Research and Teaching in Environmental Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; 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