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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. This book will provide prof...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sperling, Daniel, Cannon, James Spencer, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, ©2007.
Temas:
Global warming > Prevention > Congresses.
Transportation > Environmental aspects > Congresses.
Motor vehicles > Fuel consumption > Congresses.
Climatic changes > Congresses.
Véhicules automobiles > Carburants > Consommation > Congrès.
Climat > Changements > Congrès.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control.
Climatic changes.
Global warming > Prevention.
Motor vehicles > Fuel consumption.
Transportation > Environmental aspects.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction and overview / Dan Sperling and James S. Cannon
  • Peaking of world oil production and its mitigation / Robert L. Hirsch, Roger Bezdek and Robert Wendling
  • Toward a policy agenda for climate change : changing technologies and fuels and the changing value of energy / Duncan Eggar
  • Coordinated policy measures for reducing the fuel use of the U.S. light duty vehicle fleet / Anup P. Bandivadekar and John B. Heywood
  • Carbon burdens from new car sales in the United States / John DeCicco, Freda Fung and Feng An
  • Reducing vehicle emissions through cap-and-trade schemes / John German
  • North American feebate analysis model / Alexandre Dumas, David L. Greene and André Bourbeau
  • Reducing growth in vehicle miles traveled : can we really pull it off? / Gary Toth
  • International comparison of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles / Feng An
  • Reducing transport-related greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries : the role of the global environmental facility / Walter Hook
  • What multilateral banks (and other donors) can do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions : a case study of Latin America and the Caribbean / Deborah Bleviss
  • From public understanding to public policy : public views on energy, technology and climate science in the United States / David M. Reiner
  • Narrative self-identity and societal goals : automotive fuel economy and global warming policy / Kenneth S. Kurani, Thomas S. Turrentine and Reid R. Heffner
  • Lost in option space : risk partitioning to guide climate and energy policy / David L. Bodde
  • Toward a transportation policy agenda for climate change / David Burwell and Daniel Sperling.

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