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1 online resource (xi, 295 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing global society. The debate over what to do is confounded by the uncertain relationship between increasing greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, and the impact of those changes on nature and human civilization. This book will provide professionals and students alike with the latest information regarding greenhouse emissions while presenting the most up-to-date techniques for reducing these emissions. It will investigate three broad strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions: 1) reducing motorized travel, 2) shifting to less energy intensive modes, and 3) changing fuel and propulsion technologies. Findings will be presented by the leaders in the field with contributions from professors, researchers, consultants and engineers at the most prominent institutions - commercial, academic and federal - dealing with environmental research and policy. * Includes a comprehensive evaluation of current industrial practice * Provides technologically sound and manageable techniques for engineers, scientists and designers * Incorporates guidelines for a sustainable future. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction and Overview; Peaking of World Oil Production and Its Mitigation; Toward A Policy Agenda For Climate Change: Changing Technologies and Fuels and the Changing Value of Energy; Coordinated Policy Measures for Reducing the Fuel Use of the U.S. Light Duty Vehicle Fleet; Carbon Burdens from New Car Sales in the United States; Reducing Vehicle Emissions through Cap-and-Trade Schemes; North American Feebate Analysis Model; Reducing Growth in Vehicle Miles Traveled: Can We Really Pull It Off; International Comparison of Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Passenger Vehicles; Reducing Transport-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Developing Countries: The Role of the Global Environmental Facility; What Multilateral Banks (And Other Donors) Can Do To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Case Study of Latin America and the Caribbean; From Public Understanding to Public Policy: Public Views on Energy, Technology & Climate Science in the United States; Narrative Self-Identity and Societal Goals: Automotive Fuel Economy and Global Warming Policy; Lost in Option Space: Risk Partitioning to Guide Climate and Energy Policy; Towards a Transportation Policy Agenda for Climate Change;Appendix A: About the Editors and Authors; Appendix B: Asilomar Attendees List for 2005. |
| Note |
Chapters based on presentations and discussions at the Tenth Biennial Asilomar Conference on Transportation and Energy, August 23-26, 2005, in Pacific Grove, California. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction and overview / Dan Sperling and James S. Cannon -- Peaking of world oil production and its mitigation / Robert L. Hirsch, Roger Bezdek and Robert Wendling -- Toward a policy agenda for climate change : changing technologies and fuels and the changing value of energy / Duncan Eggar -- Coordinated policy measures for reducing the fuel use of the U.S. light duty vehicle fleet / Anup P. Bandivadekar and John B. Heywood -- Carbon burdens from new car sales in the United States / John DeCicco, Freda Fung and Feng An -- Reducing vehicle emissions through cap-and-trade schemes / John German -- North American feebate analysis model / Alexandre Dumas, David L. Greene and André Bourbeau -- Reducing growth in vehicle miles traveled : can we really pull it off? / Gary Toth -- International comparison of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles / Feng An -- Reducing transport-related greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries : the role of the global environmental facility / Walter Hook -- What multilateral banks (and other donors) can do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions : a case study of Latin America and the Caribbean / Deborah Bleviss -- From public understanding to public policy : public views on energy, technology and climate science in the United States / David M. Reiner -- Narrative self-identity and societal goals : automotive fuel economy and global warming policy / Kenneth S. Kurani, Thomas S. Turrentine and Reid R. Heffner -- Lost in option space : risk partitioning to guide climate and energy policy / David L. Bodde -- Toward a transportation policy agenda for climate change / David Burwell and Daniel Sperling. |
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Transportation -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses.
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Motor vehicles -- Fuel consumption -- Congresses.
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Climatic changes -- Congresses.
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Global warming -- Prevention -- Congresses.
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Véhicules automobiles -- Carburants -- Consommation -- Congrès. |
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Climat -- Changements -- Congrès. |
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Transport -- Aspect de l'environnement -- Congrès. |
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Climatic changes |
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Global warming -- Prevention |
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Motor vehicles -- Fuel consumption |
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Transportation -- Environmental aspects |
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Emissionsverringerung |
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Klimaänderung |
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Treibhausgas |
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Sperling, Daniel.
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Cannon, James Spencer, 1949-
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Asilomar Conference on Transportation and Energy (2005 : Pacific Grove, Calif.)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Driving climate change. Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, ©2007 0123694957 9780123694959 (OCoLC)73514133 |
| ISBN |
0080464688 (electronic bk.) |
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9780080464688 (electronic bk.) |
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