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Climate change mitigation : greenhouse gas reduction and biochemicals /

Climate change is a significant threat to humanity's future. Culturally, politically, economically, and personally, however, we are all deeply embedded in a system that continues to send us on a collision course that leads directly toward this threat. At this point, climate change is inevitable...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Faria Albanese, Jimmy Alexander (Editor ), Ruiz, M. Pilar (Maria Pilar) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakville, ON : Apple Academic Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; About the Editors; Contents; Acknowledgment and How to Cite; List of Contributors; Introduction; PART I: FOUNDATIONS; Chapter 1: Climate-Change Impact Potentials as an Alternative to Global Warming Potentials; Chapter 2: The Macroecology of Sustainability; PART II: BIOMASS IN ENERGY AND CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES; Chapter 3: Biological Feedstocks for Biofuels; Chapter 4: From Tiny Microalgae to Huge Biorefineries; Chapter 5: Catalysis for Biomass and CO2 Use Through Solar Energy: Opening New Scenarios for a Sustainable and LowCarbon Chemical.
  • Chapter 6: Quantifying the Climate Impacts of Albedo Changes Due to Biofuel Production: A Comparison with Biogeochemical EffectsChapter 7: Biofuel for Energy Security: An Examination on Pyrolysis Systems with Emissions from Fertilizer and Land-Use Change; Chapter 8: Energy Potential and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Bioenergy Cropping Systems on Marginally Productive Cropland; Chapter 9: Streamflow Impacts of Biofuel PolicyDriven Landscape Change; PART III: BIOMASS CHALLENGES; Chapter 10: Trading Biomass or GHG Emission Credits?
  • Chapter 11: Indirect Land Use Changes of Biofuel Production: A Review of Modeling Efforts and Policy Developments in the European Union PART IV: CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 12: Safe Climate Policy is Affordable: 12 Reasons; Author Notes; Back Cover.