Driving Climate Change
Cutting Carbon from Transportation
- 1st Edition - September 15, 2006
- Latest edition
- Authors: Daniel Sperling, James S. Cannon
- Language: English
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing global society. The debate over what to do is confounded by the uncertain relationship between increasing greenhouse gas em… Read more
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Description
Description
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing global society. The debate over what to do is confounded by the uncertain relationship between increasing greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, and the impact of those changes on nature and human civilization.
Driving Climate Change will provide professionals and students alike with the latest information regarding greenhouse emissions while presenting the most up-to-date techniques for reducing these emissions. It will investigate three broad strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions: 1) reducing motorized travel, 2) shifting to less energy intensive modes, and 3) changing fuel and propulsion technologies. Findings will be presented by the leaders in the field with contributions from professors, researchers, consultants and engineers at the most prominent institutions - commercial, academic and federal - dealing with environmental research and policy.
Key features
Key features
- Includes a comprehensive evaluation of current industrial practice
- Provides technologically sound and manageable techniques for engineers, scientists and designers
- Incorporates guidelines for a sustainable future
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction and Overview
Peaking of World Oil Production and Its Mitigation
Toward A Policy Agenda For Climate Change: Changing Technologies and Fuels and the Changing Value of Energy
Coordinated Policy Measures for Reducing the Fuel Use of the U.S. Light Duty Vehicle Fleet
Carbon Burdens from New Car Sales in the United States
Reducing Vehicle Emissions through Cap-and-Trade Schemes
North American Feebate Analysis Model
Reducing Growth in Vehicle Miles Traveled: Can We Really Pull It Off
International Comparison of Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Passenger Vehicles
Reducing Transport-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Developing Countries: The Role of the Global Environmental Facility
What Multilateral Banks (And Other Donors) Can Do To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Case Study of Latin America and the Caribbean
From Public Understanding to Public Policy: Public Views on Energy, Technology & Climate Science in the United States
Narrative Self-Identity and Societal Goals: Automotive Fuel Economy and Global Warming Policy
Lost in Option Space: Risk Partitioning to Guide Climate and Energy Policy
Towards a Transportation Policy Agenda for Climate Change
Appendix A: About the Editors and Authors
Appendix B: Asilomar Attendees List for 2005
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: September 15, 2006
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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Daniel Sperling
Dr. Sperling is recognized as a leading international expert on transportation technology assessment, energy and environmental aspects of transportation, and transportation policy. In the past 20 years, he has authored or co-authored over 140 technical papers and six books.
Associate Editor of Transportation Research D (Environment)
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