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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797360303321

Titolo

Climate change mitigation : greenhouse gas reduction and biochemicals / / edited by Jimmy Alexander Faria Albanese, PhD, and M. Pilar Ruiz, PhD

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto ; ; New Jersey : , : Apple Academic Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-429-15447-X

1-77188-235-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 pages)

Disciplina

363.738747

Soggetti

Greehnouse gas mitigation

Climate change mitigation

Organic compounds - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

PART I: FOUNDATIONS -- Chapter 1: Climate-Change Impact Potentials as an Alternative to Global Warming Potentials -- Chapter 2: The Macroecology of Sustainability -- PART II: BIOMASS IN ENERGY AND CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES -- Chapter 3: Biological Feedstocks for Biofuels -- Chapter 4: From Tiny Microalgae to Huge Biorefineries --

Chapter 5: Catalysis for Biomass and CO2 Use Through Solar Energy: Opening New Scenarios for a Sustainable and LowCarbon Chemical -- Chapter 6: Quantifying the Climate Impacts of Albedo Changes Due to Biofuel Production: A Comparison with Biogeochemical Effects-- Chapter 7: Biofuel for Energy Security: An Examination on Pyrolysis Systems with Emissions from Fertilizer and Land-Use Change -- Chapter 8: Energy Potential and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Bioenergy Cropping Systems on Marginally Productive Cropland --

Chapter 9: Streamflow Impacts of Biofuel PolicyDriven Landscape Change -- PART III: BIOMASS CHALLENGES -- Chapter 10: Trading Biomass or GHG Emission Credits? -- Chapter 11: Indirect Land Use Changes of Biofuel Production: A Review of Modeling Efforts and Policy Developments in the European Union -- PART IV: CONCLUSIONS --



Chapter 12: Safe Climate Policy is Affordable: 12 Reasons

Sommario/riassunto

Climate change is a significant threat to humanity's future. Culturally, politically, economically, and personally, however, we are all deeply embedded in a system that continues to send us on a collision course that leads directly toward this threat. At this point, climate change is inevitable. What we must do now is to find ways to prepare-and do all we can to slow our race to disaster. This means that a transition to a lower-carbon economy is unavoidable.Biochemical research is vitally necessary for the transition we must make, and it will be an essential component of any climate policy.