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Managing Global Warming

An Interface of Technology and Human Issues

  • 1st Edition - November 8, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Trevor Letcher
  • Language: English

Managing Global Warming: An Interface of Technology and Human Issues discusses the causes of global warming, the options available to solve global warming problems, and how each… Read more

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Managing Global Warming: An Interface of Technology and Human Issues discusses the causes of global warming, the options available to solve global warming problems, and how each option can be realistically implemented. It is the first book based on scientific content that presents an overall reference on both global warming and its solutions in one volume. Containing authoritative chapters written by scientists and engineers working in the field, each chapter includes the very latest research and references on the potential impact of wind, solar, hydro, geo-engineering and other energy technologies on climate change.

With this wide ranging set of topics and solutions, engineers, professors, leaders and policymakers will find this to be a valuable handbook for their research and work.

Key features

  • Presents chapters that are accompanied by an easy reference summary
  • Includes up-to-date options and technical solutions for global warming through color imagery
  • Provides up-to-date information as presented by a collection of renowned global experts

Readership

Energy engineers, researchers, graduate students, professors and lecturers in Engineering, scientists and engineers working in energy, industrialists and engineers working in future energy developments

Table of contents

A INTRODUCTION1. Why do we have global warming?Professor T M Letcher2. Greenhouse Gas Removal, the Numbers InvolvedDr. Robert Chris3. The Present Status of Electricity Generation in the World; how important it is, which industrial methods of electricity generation world uses, how efficient they are, how they interact in an electrical grid.Professor Igor Pioro

B REDUCING CO2: FOSSIL FUELS, NUCLEAR ENERGY 4. The Future of Fossil Fuels Trevor M Letcher5. Nuclear FissionProfessor Igor Pioro6. Nuclear Fusion: what of the Future?Dr Richard Kembleton,

C REDUCING GREENHOUSE GASES: RENEWABLES and ZERO CARBON/ CARBON NEUTRAL FORMS OF ENERGY and ELECTRIC CARS7. The Potential of Renewable EnergiesProfessor Patrick Moriarty and Professor Damon Honnery, 8. HydropowerProfessor Ånund Killingtveit9. Solar EnergyDr Lee Phillips10. WindProfessor Subhamony Bhattacharya11. Energy Infrastructure and StorageProfessor Gareth Harrison12. BiomassProfessor Mirjam Roeder13. Biomass: Quantifying the Effects of Forest-Based EnergyProfessor Annette Cowie14. Hydrogen Fuel, Fuel Cells and methane Dr Johannes Lindorfer15. Ground Source Heat PumpsProfessor Subhamony Bhattacharya16. Carbon SequestrationProfessor Subhamony Bhattacharya,

    D REDUCING CO2: INDUSTRY, FARMING and IMPROVED EFFICIENCY

  1. Plant Derived Chemicals including Plastics as a way of Reducing GHG Pollution

    2. Professor Janet L Scott,

  2. Reduce CO2 Pollution by Investing in CO2 as a Chemical Feedstock (CH4?)

    3. Professor Peter Styring,

  3. Greener farming: managing carbon and nitrogen cycles to reduce GHG emissions

    4. Professor Nic Lampkin and Dr Laurence Smith,

    E GEO-ENGINEERING

  4. Geo-engineering (sunlight reflection methods (SRM); negative emissions technologies (NET) and greenhouse gas removal (GGR))

    5. Dr Renaud de Richter,

    F ENVIRONMENTAL and HUMAN ISSUES

  5. Ethics of Geo-engineering:

    6. Clare Heyward,

  6. Economics of Climate Change and Global Warming

    7. Professor Peter Howard,

  7. Migration and Climate Change

    8. Dr Andreas C Simonelli,

  8. Social Justice in Climate Change

    9. Ms Alice Venn,

  9. Economics of Geo-engineering

    10. Professor Juan B Moreno Cruz,

  10. Justice in Managing Climate Change

    11. Professor Ivo Wallimann-Helmer,

  11. Local Actions and Personal Actions:

Dr Phil Ireland,

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 8, 2018
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Trevor Letcher

Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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