Isbn: 9781107024069 - transforming energy: solving climate change with technology policy (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 362 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.80 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Climate change will be an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe unless we move quickly to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Policy experts advise us that we need to make major changes to our lifestyles, and our governments need to agree globally binding treaties and implement market instruments like carbon taxes. This advice is a mistake: it treats technological innovation as being at the periphery of the climate policy challenge, whereas it needs to be at its core; we will phase out emissions when and only when the technologies to replace fossil fuels are good enough, and policies need - quickly - to support these new technologies directly. Anyone with an interest in climate change and energy policy will find this book forward-thinking and invaluable. Professional policy-makers, climate and energy policy researchers, and students of energy and public policy, economics, political science, environmental studies, and geography will find this book especially stimulating.…

Zustand: New. This book shows how promoting clean energy technologies - from solar panels to electric cars - can end human-induced climate change. Num Pages: 360 pages, 14 b/w illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: RNFY; RNPG; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 730. . 2015. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …