Climate Change Science
Causes, Effects and Solutions for Global Warming
- 1st Edition - May 21, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: David S-K. Ting, Jacqueline A. Stagner
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 7 6 7 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 4 1 8 2 - 0
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Request a sales quoteClimate Change Science: Causes, Effects and Solutions for Global Warming presents unbiased, state-of-the-art, scientific knowledge on climate change and engineering solutions for mitigation. The book expands on all major prospective solutions for tackling climate change in a complete manner. It comprehensively explains the variety of climate solutions currently available, including the remaining challenges associated with each. Effective, complementary solutions for engineering to combat climate change are discussed and elaborated on. Some of the more high-risk proposals are qualitatively and quantitatively compared and contrasted with low-risk mitigation actions to facilitate the formulation of feasible, environmentally-friendly solutions.
The book provides academics, postgraduate students and other readers in the fields of environmental science, climate change, atmospheric sciences and engineering with the information they need for their roles. Through exploring the fundamental information currently available, exergy utilization, large-scale solutions, and current solutions in place, the book is an invaluable look into how climate change can be addressed from an engineering-perspective using scientific models and calculations.
- Provides up-to-date, comprehensive research on the causes and effects of climate change – both manmade and natural
- Explains the scientific data behind climate change from an interdisciplinary perspective
- Describes the future effects of climate change and the necessity for immediate implementation
- Presents environmentally-friendly solutions and critically analyzes benefits and drawbacks
University researchers including professors and graduate students, in environmental science. Graduate students in engineering
- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Enhancing crop water productivity under increasing water scarcity in South Africa
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Understanding water productivity
- 3. The value of water markets in water scarce regions
- 4. Improving water productivity from a WEF nexus perspective
- 5. Recommendations
- 6. Conclusions
- 2: Can renewable energy sources be a viable instrument for climate change mitigation? Evidence from EU countries via MCDM methods
- Abstract
- Nomenclature
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Literature review
- 3. Research methods
- 4. Data and descriptive statistics
- 5. Climate change mitigation profile of EU countries
- 6. Empirical results
- 7. Conclusion and policy implications
- 3: Carbon emission as a result of forest land change in Islamabad, Pakistan
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Aim & research questions
- 3. Materials and methods
- 4. Results and discussion
- 5. Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- 4: “Integrated coastal management” enhances coastal resilience to climate change—The East Asia experience
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. ICM system
- 3. ICM adoption in the East Asian Seas region
- 4. Climate change impacts on the coastal area
- 5. ICM strengthens environmental and societal resilience
- 6. Conclusion
- 5: Underground methanation, a natural way to transform carbon dioxide into methane
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Power to gas
- 3. Underground methanation
- 4. Conclusions
- Acknowledgment
- 6: Analysis of plant oil-based fuel characteristics for green supply chains
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Model structure: fuel-related properties of plant oils
- 3. Conclusions
- 7: The effects of couple layout on thermoelectric generator performance
- Abstract
- Nomenclature
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methodology
- 3. TEG model establishment and validation
- 4. Effects of layout on the TEG performance
- 5. Conclusions
- Acknowledgment
- 8: Spatio-temporal patterns for human-based architecture to solve metropolitan collapse in Latin America
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Architecture as an intelligent living organism
- 3. Realizing spatio-temporal architecture
- 4. Developing the spatio-temporal architecture in Latin America (case study)
- 5. Conclusion
- 9: The nexus of climate change and urbanization
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Part 1: how urbanization impacts climate change
- 3. Part 2: how climate change impacts urban life
- 4. Part 3: Fundemental climate change mitigation strategies in cities
- 5. Summary
- 10: Bioshading system design method (BSDM)
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Related work
- 3. Bioshading system design method
- 4. Architecture domain—definition process
- 5. Nature domain—abstraction process
- 6. Artifact domain—emulation process
- 7. Discussion
- 8. Conclusions
- 11: Green science: smart building technology to mitigate global energy and water crises
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Material, methods, and simulation
- 3. Results and discussion
- 4. Electricity transformation
- 5. Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- 12: How green energy giants increase their revenues? Impacts on global warming
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Stock market data variation
- 3. Influencing factors for share price variation
- 4. Results, evaluation, and discussion
- 5. Conclusions
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 21, 2021
- No. of pages (Paperback): 302
- No. of pages (eBook): 302
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128237670
- eBook ISBN: 9780128241820
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David S-K. Ting
David S.-K. Ting is the founder of the Turbulence and Energy Laboratory at the University of Windsor, through which he supervises students primarily on energy and thermofluids. He is a prolific author/editor and a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta (APPEGA); Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO); the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE); the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); the Engineering Society for Advancing Mobility Land Sea Air and Space (SAE). He has edited several books for Elsevier, the most recent ones especially focused on sustainable engineering and development practices.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Dept. of Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering (MAME), Faculty of Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, CanadaJS
Jacqueline A. Stagner
Jacqueline A. Stagner is the Undergraduate Programs Coordinator in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Windsor. She is an adjunct graduate faculty member in the Department of Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering and co-advises students in the areas of sustainability and renewable energy, in the Turbulence & Energy Laboratory. She is a professional engineer with a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering and prior to joining the University of Windsor, she worked as a release engineer in the automotive industry. She has disseminated numerous journal articles focused on sustainability and the built environment, in addition to coediting sixteen volumes.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Programs Coordinator, Dept. of Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering (MAME), Faculty of Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, CanadaRead Climate Change Science on ScienceDirect