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Double jeopardy :combating nuclear terror and climate change
Making the case that we can use nuclear power to combat climate change even as we reduce the risks of nuclear terror. Humanity faces two existential threats: nuclear annihilation and catastrophic climate change. Both have human origins, and both are linked to the use of nuclear energy. Inherent in the use of atomic fission is the risk that the technology and materials can be diverted to terrori…
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- 9780262353687
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- 1 online resource (288 pages) :illustrations.
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Energy Policies for Sustainable Development Strategies the Case of Nigeria
In this book, a number of long-term energy scenarios are developed for Nigeria considering the impact of vital factors that may influence energy policies in the country’s future energy system. The energy scenarios were developed through the Long-Range Energy Alternatives Planning System (LEAP) model. The model identified the future energy demand and supply pattern using a least-cost combinati…
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- 978-981-10-0974-7
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Energy Security and Development the Global Context and Indian Perspectives
This volume provides a systematic framework for energy suppliers, policy makers, academics, students, and all others interested in energy security, and analyzes key issues concerning energy, security and sustainability with the help of a wealth of data. While sustainability is the broadest objective, energy security is an important part of it, at the global, national and societal levels. The de…
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- 978-81-322-2065-7
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Transforming nuclear safeguards culturethe IAEA, Iraq, and the future of non-…
The role of organizational culture in international efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.In Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture, Trevor Findlay investigates the role that organizational culture may play in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, examining particularly how it affects the nuclear safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the paramount glob…
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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…
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- 0262367289
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Helmholtz and the conservation of energy :contexts of creation and reception
"Exhaustive history of Helmholtz's work on the conservation of energy and its broad acceptance"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363839
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GrowthFrom microorganisms to megacities
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- 9780262354516
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- 1 online resource (688 pages).
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Cooperating for the climate :learning from international partnerships in Chin…
"An accessible yet in-depth analysis of recent developments in US-China clean energy collaboration, the most important bilateral relationship in the world in terms of climate change"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262372640
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Nuclear choices for the twenty-first century :a citizen's guide
"Citizen's guide to making informed choices about nuclear technologies, energy, and weapons"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236302X
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Energy tax and regulatory policy in Europe :reform priorities
Concise introductions to the main issues in energy policy and their interaction with environmental policies in the EU. The European Union (EU) faces critical challenges in energy policy making, the most pressing of which are how to achieve the deep greenhouse gas reductions promised at the December 2015 UN Conference of the Parties in Paris, and how this effort can be coordinated with already e…
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