Super polluters : tackling the world's largest sites of climate-disrupting emissions /

"Power plants are the lifeblood and bane of modern society. Electrification has revolutionized transportation and communication, dramatically improved medical care, spurred the rise of the metropolis, and enabled the global population to grow by over four billion during the past century. But be...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Grant, Don S. (Autor), Jorgenson, Andrew (Autor), Longhofer, Wesley (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Colección:Society and the environment.
Temas:
Electric power-plants > Environmental aspects.
Air > Pollution.
Carbon dioxide mitigation.
Environmental sociology.
Centrales électriques > Aspect de l'environnement.
Gaz carbonique > Réduction.
Sociologie de l'environnement.
SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental).
SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change
climate change.
environmental sociology.
pollution.
power plants.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Who Is Responsible for This Mess? : The Climate Crisis and Hyperemitting Power Plants
  • Cleaning Up Their Act : Potential Emission Reductions from Targeting the Worst of the Worst Power Plants
  • Recipes for Disaster : How Social Structures Interact to Make Environmentally Destructive Plants Even More So
  • A Win-Win Solution? : The Paradoxical Effects of Efficiency on Plants' CO2 Emissions
  • Bottom-Up Strategies : The Effectiveness of Local Policies and Activism (with Ion Bogdan Vasi)
  • Next Steps : Future Research and Action on Society's Super Polluters.

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