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Following the success of its predecessor, this second edition of
The Future of Energy Use provides essential analysis of the use of
different forms of energy and their environmental and social
impacts. It examines conventional, nuclear and renewable sources
and technologies, using relevant case studies and providing a vital
link between technology and related policy issues. The new edition
has been comprehensively developed and updated, including new text,
diagrams and tables, with entire new sections that reflect the
significant changes that have occurred since the first edition. New
material includes: a stronger focus on climate change policy and
energy security; a discussion of the long run marginal costs of
oil; coverage of the biofuels debate in both the developed and
developing worlds; an outline of developments in the built
environment (including transport issues); and the relationship
between behaviour and energy use. It reviews policy shifts with
relation to energy efficiency, carbon capture and storage, combined
heat and power, and combined cycle gas turbines. There is new
coverage of nuclear waste, storage and proliferation, and new
material on microgeneration and biofuels, as well as essential new
information on carbon markets and the hydrogen economy. The result
is a unique introduction and guide to all the vital issues within
energy for students, academics and professionals new to the field.
Climate change is the single largest threat to the attainment of
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and sustainable
development. Addressing climate risk is a challenge for all. This
book calls for greater collaboration between climate communities
and disaster development communities. In discussing this, the book
will evaluate the approaches used by each community to reduce the
adverse effects of climate change. One area that offers some
promise for bringing together these communities is through the
concept of resilience. This term is increasingly used in each
community to describe a process that embeds capacity to respond to
and cope with disruptive events. This emphasizes an approach that
is more focused on pre-event planning and using strategies to build
resilience to hazards in an adaptation framework. The book will
conclude by evaluating the scope for a holistic approach where
these communities can effectively contribute to building
communities that are resilient to climate driven risks.
This urgent book brings our cities to the fore in understanding the
human input into climate change. The demands we are making on
nature by living in cities has reached a crisis point and unless we
make significant changes to address it, the prognosis is terminal
consumption. Providing a radical new argument that integrates
global understandings of making nature and making cities, the
authors move beyond current policies of mitigation and adaption and
pose the challenge of urban stewardship to tackle the crisis. Their
new way of thinking re-orients possibilities for environmental
policy and calls for us to reinvent our cities as spaces for
activism.
This urgent book brings our cities to the fore in understanding the
human input into climate change. The demands we are making on
nature by living in cities has reached a crisis point and unless we
make significant changes to address it, the prognosis is terminal
consumption. Providing a radical new argument that integrates
global understandings of making nature and making cities, the
authors move beyond current policies of mitigation and adaption and
pose the challenge of urban stewardship to tackle the crisis. Their
new way of thinking re-orients possibilities for environmental
policy and calls for us to reinvent our cities as spaces for
activism.
Climate change is the single largest threat to the attainment of
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and sustainable
development. Addressing climate risk is a challenge for all. This
book calls for greater collaboration between climate communities
and disaster development communities. In discussing this, the book
will evaluate the approaches used by each community to reduce the
adverse effects of climate change. One area that offers some
promise for bringing together these communities is through the
concept of resilience. This term is increasingly used in each
community to describe a process that embeds capacity to respond to
and cope with disruptive events. This emphasizes an approach that
is more focused on pre-event planning and using strategies to build
resilience to hazards in an adaptation framework. The book will
conclude by evaluating the scope for a holistic approach where
these communities can effectively contribute to building
communities that are resilient to climate driven risks.
Adapting to the consequences accelerated climate change and
increasing variability is a huge challenge, particularly for poorer
countries. This book reports on research with 14 developing
countries on climate adaptation. It finds that there is an urgent
need to build the resilience of communities to ensure that they can
respond to, and cope with, climatic disturbances. We can no longer
separate risk and development. We need holistic and continuing
approaches to adapting to climate change.
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