Climate change mitigation : greenhouse gas reduction and biochemicals / edited by Jimmy Alexander Faria Albanese, PhD, and M. Pilar Ruiz, PhD.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faria Albanese, Jimmy Alexander, editor.

Ruiz, M. Pilar (Maria Pilar), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greenhouse gas mitigation.

Climate change mitigation.

Organic compounds--Environmental aspects.

Organic compounds.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; New Jersey : Apple Academic Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Climate change is a significant threat to humanity's future. Culturally, politically, economically, and personally, however, we are all deeply embedded in a system that continues to send us on a collision course that leads directly toward this threat. At this point, climate change is inevitable. What we must do now is to find ways to prepare-and do all we can to slow our race to disaster. This means that a transition to a lower-carbon economy is unavoidable.Biochemical research is vitally necessary for the transition we must make, and it will be an essential component of any climate policy.

Contents:

PART I: FOUNDATIONS

Chapter 1: Climate-Change Impact Potentials as an Alternative to Global Warming Potentials

Chapter 2: The Macroecology of Sustainability

PART II: BIOMASS IN ENERGY AND CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES

Chapter 3: Biological Feedstocks for Biofuels

Chapter 4: From Tiny Microalgae to Huge Biorefineries

Chapter 5: Catalysis for Biomass and CO2 Use Through Solar Energy: Opening New Scenarios for a Sustainable and LowCarbon Chemical

Chapter 6: Quantifying the Climate Impacts of Albedo Changes Due to Biofuel Production: A Comparison with Biogeochemical Effects

Chapter 7: Biofuel for Energy Security: An Examination on Pyrolysis Systems with Emissions from Fertilizer and Land-Use Change

Chapter 8: Energy Potential and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Bioenergy Cropping Systems on Marginally Productive Cropland

Chapter 9: Streamflow Impacts of Biofuel PolicyDriven Landscape Change

PART III: BIOMASS CHALLENGES

Chapter 10: Trading Biomass or GHG Emission Credits?

Chapter 11: Indirect Land Use Changes of Biofuel Production: A Review of Modeling Efforts and Policy Developments in the European Union

PART IV: CONCLUSIONS

Chapter 12: Safe Climate Policy is Affordable: 12 Reasons

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-15447-X

1-77188-235-2

OCLC:

916953945