Planet Earth 2011 - Global Warming Challenges and Opportunities for Policy and Practice

Carayannis, Elias

Planet Earth 2011 - Global Warming Challenges and Opportunities for Policy and Practice

Edited by Elias Carayannis

Abstract: The failure of the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen in December 2009 to effectively reach a global agreement on emission reduction targets, led many within the developing world to view this as a reversal of the Kyoto Protocol and an attempt by the developed nations to shirk out of their responsibility for climate change. The issue of global warming has been at the top of the political agenda for a number of years and has become even more pressing with the rapid industrialization taking place in China and India. This book looks at the effects of climate change throughout different regions of the world and discusses to what extent cleantech and environmental initiatives such as the destruction of fluorinated greenhouse gases, biofuels, and the role of plant breeding and biotechnology. The book concludes with an insight into the socio-religious impact that global warming has, citing Christianity and Islam.

JEL-codes: Q50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-953-307-733-8
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Accounting the Carbon Storage in Disturbed and Non-Disturbed Tropical Andean Ecosystems: Enrique Javier Pena, Orlando Zuniga Escobar and Julian Andres Pena Ospina
California Coastal - Cooling a Reverse Reaction from Global Warming General Circulation and Mesoscale Effects: Jorge Gonzalez, Bereket Lebassi and Robert Bornstein
Causes and Consequences of the Late 1960s Great Salinity Anomaly: Gerrit Lohmann and Mihai Dima
Cirrus Clouds and Climate Engineering: New Findings on Ice Nucleation and Theoretical Basis: David Mitchell, Subhashree Mishra and R. Paul Lawson
Climate Change in the Mediterranean over the Last Five Hundred Years: Dario Camuffo, Chiara Bertolin, Antonio della Valle, Claudio Cocheo, Nazzareno Diodato, Silvia Enzi, Mirca Sghedoni, Mariano Barriendos, Roberto Rodriguez, Fernando Dominguez-Castro, Emmanuel Garnier, Maria Joao Alcoforado and Maria Fatima Nunes
Climatic Effect of the Greenhouse Gases Clusterization: Alexander Galashev
Contribution of the Atmospheric Chlorine Reactions to the Degradation of Greenhouse Gases: CFCs Substitutes: Ivan Bravo, Yolanda Diaz- De-Mera, Alfonso Aranda, Elena Moreno and Ernesto Martinez
Destruction of Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases by Using Nonthermal Plasma Process: Young Sun Mok
Effects of Global Warming on Climate Conditions in the Japanese Alps Region: Keisuke Suzuki
Enteric Methane Emission from Pigs: Henry Jorgensen, Knud Erik Bach Knudsen and Peter K. Theil
Environmental Stability for Convective Precipitation Under Global Warming: Tetsuya Takemi, Syohei Nomura and Yuichiro Oku
Four Steps to the Hydrogen Car: Paul McGuiness and Ursa Pirnat
Human Security and Global Warming: Challenges Before Christianity and Islam in Nigeria: Dokun Oyeshola
Influence of Global Warming on the RC Structures and Durability Monitoring in Civil Engineering: Guofu Qiao
Melting of Major Glaciers in Himalayas: Role of Desert Dust and Anthropogenic Aerosols: Anup Prasad, Hesham El-Askary, Ghassem Asrar, Menas Kafatos and Ashok Jaswal
Modeling Renewable Energy Consumption for a Greener Global Economy: Perry Sadorsky
Modeling the Monsoons in a Changing Climate: H Annamalai
Nuclear Methodology for Non-Destructive Multi-Elemental Analysis of Large Volumes of Soil: Lucian Wielopolski
Power Generation Using Nonconventional Renewable Geothermal & Alternative Clean Energy Technologies: Basel I. Abed Ismail
Recent Global Warming Induced Climate Changes: Peter C. Werner, Friedrich-Wilhelm Gerstengarbe, Hermann Oesterle and Martin Wodinski
Reforming CO2 into Fuel Using a TiO2 Photocatalyst Membrane Reactor: Akira Nishimura and Eric Hu
The Choice of Biofuels to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Rogerio Cezar Cerqueira Leite, Manoel Regis Lima Verde Leal and Luis Augusto Barbosa Cortez
The Importance of Advective Fluxes to Gas Transport Across the Earth-Atmosphere Interface: The Role of Thermal Convection: Uri Nachshon, Noam Weisbrod, Maria Dragila and Yonatan Ganot
The Role of Methane Emissions on Ancient and Present Climatic Changes: Guido Barone, Elena Chianese and Angelo Riccio
The Role of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology in Meeting the Challenge of Global Warming: Nigel G Halford
Tropical Dry Forests in the Global Picture: The Challenge of Remote Sensing-Based Change Detection in Tropical Dry Environments: Betsabe De La Barreda-Bautista, Alejandra A. Lopez-Caloca, Stephane Couturier and Jose Luis Silvan-Cardenas
Tuvalu Visualization Project - Net Art on Digital Globe: Telling the Realities of Remote Places: Makiko Harada, Hidenori Watanave and Shuuichi Endo
Using Micro Cogeneration Technologies to Enhance the Sustainable Built Environment: Esam Elsarrag and Yousef Al Horr

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DOI: 10.5772/902

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