Handbook of climate change mitigation and adaptation /

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Edition:	Second edition.
Imprint:	Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2016] ©2017
Description:	1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Language:	English
Subject:	Climate change mitigation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Climate change mitigation. Handbooks and manuals.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11267906

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Other authors / contributors:	Chen, Wei-Yin, 1950- editor. Suzuki, Toshio (Scientist), editor. Lackner, Maximilian, editor.
ISBN:	9783319144092 331914409X 9783319144108 3319144103 9783319144085 3319144081
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 24, 2016).
Summary:	Annotation The second edition of this important work covers additional topics of climate change mitigation and adaption strategies. It expands the scope of the first edition in the areas of mitigation and adds important new information on adaptation to climate change. Since the publication of the first edition, important new research findings have been gathered and natural events have continued to highlight the need for action.
Other form:	Print version: Handbook of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Second edition. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2016] 3319144081 9783319144085
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-319-14409-2

Table of Contents:

Introduction to climate change mitigation
Loss and damage associated with climate change impacts
Paleoclimate changes and significance of present global warming
Life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions
Some economics of international climate policy
Ethics and environmental policy
Mass media roles in climate change mitigation
Economics for a sustainable planet
Emissions trading
Carbon markets: linking the international emission trading under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS)
European Union (EU) strategy to face the climate change challenge in the framework of the international committments
Implications of climate change for the petrochemical industry: mitigation measures and feedstock transitions
Venture capital investment and trend in clean technologies
Analysis of the co-benefits of climate change mitigation
The role of aviation in climate change mitigation.
Carbon liability
Climate change and carbon sequestration in forest ecosystems
Impact of climate change on biodiversity
Sea-level rise and hazardous storms: impact assessment on coasts and estuaries
Projected impacts of climatic changes on cisco oxythermal habitat in Minnesota Lakes and management strategies.

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