Managing Global Warming: An Interface of Technology and Human Issues - Softcover

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Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.

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Managing Global Warming is a brand new title which presents an overall view of the scientific, technical and social issues related to global warming. The book is divided into 27 chapters covering a wide-range of topics which includes: the root causes of global warming; ways of reducing green house gases with renewable energies and geo-engineering; social issues involving ethics, social justice, economics, human migration; and actions to be taken at a personal and local level.

Each chapter has been written by experts in their chosen field and includes the very latest research together with references for further study.

Managing Global Warming will be the handbook for leaders of society, policy makers, teachers and professors, editors and reporters.