Rise and fall of the carbon civilisation : resolving global environmental and resource problems | Moriarty, Patrick, Honnery, Damon

Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation: Resolving Global Environmental and Resource Problems
Author: Patrick Moriarty, Damon Honnery
Published by Springer London
ISBN: 978-1-84996-482-1
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84996-483-8

Table of Contents:

• The Problems We Face
• Global Climate Change
• Earth’s Resources Are Finite
• Uncertainty in Global Environmental and Resource Problems
• Renewable Energy: Too Little, Too Late?
• Nuclear Energy: The Ultimate Technological Fix?
• Engineering for Greater Energy Efficiency
• Getting Rid of Atmospheric Carbon: Sequestration and Air Capture
• Great and Desperate Measures: Geo-engineering
• The New Economy
• Conclusions

Includes bibliographical references and index
The problems we face -- Global climate change -- Earth's resources are finite -- Uncertainty in global environmental and resource problems -- Renewable energy : too little, too late? -- Nuclear energy : the ultimate technological fix? -- Engineering for greater energy efficiency -- Getting rid of atmospheric carbon : sequestration and air capture -- Great and desperate measures : geo-engineering -- The new economy -- Conclusions