Title: Rise and fall of the carbon civilisation
Description: Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation: Resolving Global Environmental and Resource Problems<br />Author: Patrick Moriarty, Damon Honnery<br /> Published by Springer London<br /> ISBN: 978-1-84996-482-1<br /> DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84996-483-8<br /><br />Table of Contents:<p></p><ul><li>The Problems We Face
</li><li>Global Climate Change
</li><li>Earth’s Resources Are Finite
</li><li>Uncertainty in Global Environmental and Resource Problems
</li><li>Renewable Energy: Too Little, Too Late?
</li><li>Nuclear Energy: The Ultimate Technological Fix?
</li><li>Engineering for Greater Energy Efficiency
</li><li>Getting Rid of Atmospheric Carbon: Sequestration and Air Capture
</li><li>Great and Desperate Measures: Geo-engineering
</li><li>The New Economy
</li><li>Conclusions</li></ul>
Subjects: International cooperation, Climate change mitigation, Environmental aspects, Power resources, Engineering, Climatic changes, Hydraulic engineering, Social policy, Renewable energy sources, Nuclear engineering, Renewable natural resources, Environmental protection