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UNINA9910797360303321 |
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Climate change mitigation : greenhouse gas reduction and biochemicals / / edited by Jimmy Alexander Faria Albanese, PhD, and M. Pilar Ruiz, PhD |
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Toronto ; ; New Jersey : , : Apple Academic Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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0-429-15447-X |
1-77188-235-2 |
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1 online resource (390 pages) |
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Greehnouse gas mitigation |
Climate change mitigation |
Organic compounds - Environmental aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 -- |
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Chapter 12: Safe Climate Policy is Affordable: 12 Reasons |
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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. |
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UNINA9910967100303321 |
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Novoa Adriana <1963-> |
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From man to ape : Darwinism in Argentina, 1870-1920 / / Adriana Novoa and Alex Levine |
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Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2010 |
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9786613058461 |
9781283058469 |
1283058464 |
9780226596181 |
0226596184 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (294 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Evolution (Biology) - Argentina - History |
Science - Argentina - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Roots of Evolutionary Thought in Argentina -- Chapter 2. The Reception of Darwinism in Argentina -- Chapter 3. The Triumph of Darwinism in Argentina -- Chapter 4. The Culture of Extinction -- Chapter 5. Sexual Selection and the Politics of Mating -- Chapter 6. Evolutionary Psychology and Its Analogies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- |
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Upon its publication, The Origin of Species was critically embraced in Europe and North America. But how did Darwin's theories fare in other regions of the world? Adriana Novoa and Alex Levine offer here a history and interpretation of the reception of Darwinism in Argentina, illuminating the ways culture shapes scientific enterprise. In order to explore how Argentina's particular interests, ambitions, political anxieties, and prejudices shaped scientific research, From Man to Ape focuses on Darwin's use of analogies. Both analogy and metaphor are culturally situated, and by studying scientific activity at Europe's geographical and cultural periphery, Novoa and Levine show that familiar analogies assume unfamiliar and sometimes startling guises in Argentina. The transformation of these analogies in the Argentine context led science-as well as the interaction between science, popular culture, and public policy-in surprising directions. In diverging from European models, Argentine Darwinism reveals a great deal about both Darwinism and science in general. Novel in its approach and its subject, From Man to Ape reveals a new way of understanding Latin American science and its impact on the scientific communities of Europe and North America. |
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