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“dirk uwer”

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  • Carbon Capture and Storage

    The Legal Landscape of Climate Change and Mitigation Technology, Second Edition

    by Dirk Uwer, Daniel Zimmer ...
    Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a quickly evolving next generation technology which mitigates climate change by capturing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) before it is released into the atmosphere. CCS technology reduces carbon emissions so plays an essential role in meeting global and regional temperature targets. This Special Report explores the most recent regulatory, political and economic ... Read more

    $130.49 USD

  • Carbon Capture and Storage

    The Legal Landscape of Climate Change Mitigation Technology

    by Dirk Uwer, Daniel Zimmer ...
    Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a quickly evolving next generation technology which mitigates climate change by capturing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) before it is released into the atmosphere. CCS technology reduces carbon emissions so plays an essential role in meeting global and regional temperature targets. This Special Report explores the most recent regulatory, political and economic ... Read more

    $94.49 USD

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    by Theodore Ong ...
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  • Nuclear 2.0

    Why a green future needs nuclear power

    by Mark Lynas ...
    Everything you thought you knew about nuclear power is wrong. This is just as well, because nuclear energy is essential to avoid catastrophic global warming.While renewables will surely play an important part in our future energy strategy, expecting them to deliver all the world's power is dangerously delusional. In 2014, statistics showed that wind and solar power contributed only 1 per cent of ... Read more

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  • The Economics of Water

    Rules and Institutions

    by Georg Meran, Markus Siehlow, Christian von Hirschhausen ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it discusses and analyzes central issues in integrated water resource management, water tariffs, water markets, and transboundary water management. By illustrating the interplay ... Read more

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  • A Vast Machine

    Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

    by Paul N. Edwards ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, “sound science.” In A Vast Machine ... Read more

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  • Paris Climate Agreement: Beacon of Hope

    by Ross J. Salawitch, Timothy P. Canty, Austin P. Hope, Walter R. Tribett, Brian F. Bennett ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume presents an Empirical Model of Global Climate developed by the authors and uses that model to show that global warming will likely remain below 2ºC, relative to preindustrial, throughout this century provided: a) both the unconditional and conditional Paris INDC commitments are followed; b) the emission reductions needed to achieve the ... Read more

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  • Generating Electricity in a Carbon-Constrained World

    Edited by Fereidoon Sioshansi ...
    The electric power sector is what keeps modern economies going, and historically, fossil fuels provided the bulk of the energy need to generate electricity, with coal a dominant player in many parts of the world. Now with growing concerns about global climate change, this historical dependence on fossil-fuels, especially those rich in carbon, are being questioned. Examining the implications of the ... Read more

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  • The Hydrogen Economy

    Opportunities and Challenges

    Edited by Michael Ball, Martin Wietschel ...
    Responding to the sustained interest in and controversial discussion of the prospects of hydrogen, this book strives to reflect on the perspectives of a hydrogen economy in light of the global energy challenge, in particular the question of how to meet the growing demand for transport energy in the long term and how to secure sustainable energy for transportation. This book stands out from other ... Read more

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  • Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy

    Multidisciplinary Methods and Tools for a Low Carbon Society

    Edited by Haris Doukas, Alexandros Flamos, Jenny Lieu ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associated risks, as well as public acceptance and portfolio analysis in climate policy, and presents methods for evaluating the costs and benefits of ... Read more

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  • Enabling Asia to Stabilise the Climate

    Edited by Shuzo Nishioka ...
    This book presents good practices in Asia and ASEAN countries for effectively promoting advances in response to climate change, which can help to achieve sustainable development in Asia and around the world. As a proposal, the aim is to influence the discussions at COP 21 by providing a positive agenda with concrete actions from an Asian perspective. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 ... Read more

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  • Africa-EU Renewable Energy Research and Innovation Symposium 2018 (RERIS 2018)

    23–26 January 2018, National University of Lesotho On occasion of NULISTICE 2018

    Edited by Moeketsi Mpholo, Dirk Steuerwald, Tonny Kukeera ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book presents the proceedings of the 2nd Africa-EU Renewable Energy Research and Innovation Symposium (RERIS 18), held in Maseru, Lesotho in January 2018. The symposium aimed to foster research cooperation on renewable energy between Africa and Europe – in academia, as well as the private and public sectors.Addressing thematic areas such as• Grid-connected renewable energy;• ... Read more

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