Global Change, Energy Issues and Regulation Policies [Paperback]

This book analyses the deep interaction between the worlds environmental crises, energy production, conversion and use, and global regulation policies.

?Bringing together experts from a wide range of scientific fields, it offers the reader a broad scope of knowledge on such topics as:

• climate change and exhaustion of resources
• the relationship between basic science and the development of sustainable energy technologies
• the relationship between global and local environmental policies
• the possible competition between foodstuff production and that of agro-fuels
• urban adaptation
• negotiations at the international level
• financial rules?

This book invites the reader to consider the multidisciplinary aspects of these urgent energy/environmental issues.

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Bringing together a wide range of experts, this book covers climate change and exhaustion of resources; the relationship between global and local environmental policies; competition between food and agro-fuels production; international negotiations and more.

Global Change Research II: some keys to the climate/energy crisis.- Greenhouse gases and climatic change.- New perspectives for fossil fuels: Hydrocarbons in unconventional settings.- Urban physical infrastructure adaptation to climate change.- Sustainable Nuclear Energy helps Europe to meet its energy challenges.- CO₂ Capture transport and storage, a promising technology for limiting climate change.- New energy sources and CO₂ treatment.- Introduction to Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies and their Contribution to a Sustainable Energy Future.- Biomass for energy: energetic and environmental challenges of biofuels.- Meeting Environmental and Energy lCD