Climate Change and Renewable Energy [[electronic resource] ] : How to End the Climate Crisis / / by Martin J. Bush
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Bush Martin J
|
| Titolo: |
Climate Change and Renewable Energy [[electronic resource] ] : How to End the Climate Crisis / / by Martin J. Bush
|
| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2020. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XXXII, 525 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.707 |
| Soggetto topico: | Environment |
| Climate change | |
| Environmental geography | |
| Environment Studies | |
| Climate Change Management and Policy | |
| Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts | |
| Climate Change | |
| Environmental Geography | |
| Nota di contenuto: | Chapter 1: A planet in peril -- Chapter 2: The overheated Earth -- Chapter 3: The carbon cycle -- Chapter 4: Carbon chaos -- Chapter 5: Coming clean -- Chapter 6: Getting technical -- Chapter 7: Pricing down carbon -- Chapter 8: Denial and deception -- Chapter 9: How to end the climate crisis -- Glossary. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book presents a comprehensive overview of the global climate change impacts caused by the continued use of fossil fuels, which results in enormous damage to the global environment, biodiversity, and human health. It argues that the key to a transition to a low carbon future is the rapid and large-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies in power generation, transport and industry, coupled with super energy-efficient building design and construction. However, the author also reveals how major oil companies and petrochemical conglomerates have systematically attempted to manufacture doubt and uncertainty about global warming and climate change, continue to block the commercialization of solar energy and wind power, and impede the electrification of the transport sector. Martin Bush’s solution is a theory-of-change approach to substantially reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050, which sets out realistic steps that people can take now to help make a difference. Martin J. Bush has over thirty years of senior project management experience in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean in the fields of renewable energy, natural resources management, disaster preparedness, and climate change adaptation and mitigation. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Climate Change and Renewable Energy |
| ISBN: | 3-030-15424-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910370040503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |