Energy Transition and Energy Democracy in East Asia

This is an open access book.The subject of this book is to provide down-to-earth information on what kind of actions are being taken by the Government, Local community, Businesses, Researchers, NGOs on the energy transition in this region. It gives an updated picture of the energy transition in the East Asian countries, where the economic growth, as well as CO2 emission growth, is significant. …

Global climate policy :actors, concepts, and enduring challenges

Analyses of the international climate change regime consider the challenges of maintaining current structures and the possibilities for creating new forms of international cooperation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The resistance dilemma :place-based movements and the climate crisis

"The book focuses on a strategic choice by the North American wing of the global climate movement: to ally themselves with place-based interests, including Indigenous groups, to block new coal plants, coal port expansion, fracking, and more recently, oil sands pipelines. The strategy by climate activists to target fossil fuel infrastructure has been effective at movement building and driving po…

A case for climate engineering

A leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming."Climate engineering -- which could slow the pace of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere -- has emerged in recent years as an extremely controversial technology. And for good reason: it carries unknown risks and it may undermine comm…

Carbon capture

A concise overview of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a promising but overlooked climate change mitigation pathway.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Carbon Capture and Storage: Efficient Legal Policies for Risk Governance and …

A theoretical and practical analysis of the complex liability issues raised by carbon capture and storage systems for containing greenhouse gases.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Electrify :an optimist's playbook for our clean energy future

"Saul Griffith lays out an accessible, rigorously-researched plan to decarbonize the U.S. economy in time to address climate change. His plan, in short, is to "electrify everything." Griffith uses his deep understanding of U.S. energy flows, materials, and clean energy technologies to show that decarbonizing in time to meet climate goals is not only possible, but can be done without major sacri…

Water Governance in the Face of Global Change From Understanding to Transfor…

This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of multi-level water governance, developing a conceptual and analytical framework that captures the complexity of real water governance systems while also introducing different approaches to comparative analysis. Applications illustrate how the ostensibly conflicting goals of deriving general principles and of taking context-specific factors in…

Integrating Local Farmers Knowledge Systems in Rainfall Prediction and Availa…