Overview
- Features new chapters on emerging technologies for climate change mitigation, including non-CO2-GHGs
- Comprehensively covers the impact of climate change
- Provides clear scientific rationale for the reality of climate change
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Table of contents (138 entries)
Keywords
- Fuel Cells
- Greenhouse Gases
- Renewable Energy
- Sea-level Rise
- Climate Change Solutions
- CO2 Emission
- Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
- Water Scarcity
- Deforestation
- Wildfire Threats
- Ocean Acidification
- Coral bleaching
- Permafrost thaw
- Gas Fermentation
- Industrial Decarbonisation
- Sustainable Aviation Fuels
- Sustainable Smart Cities
- Sustainable Building Design
- Climate-resistant building materials
About this book
Now in its 4th, extended edition, this completely revised and significantly expanded handbook addresses important new research findings and the global need for action related to climate change in its two most relevant aspects: mitigation and adaptation.
There is a growing consensus that anthropogenic activities have been driving global climate change, and the consequence will be catastrophic for civilization. Reducing the 37.1 billion metric tons of CO2 produced annually (2017 global emissions) along with other greenhouse gases, particularly methane, has become a leading grand challenge and the pursuit of sustainable energy, environments, and economies is a complex issue affecting the daily life of every citizen.
In this 4th edition, readers will find new chapters covering the causes and impacts of global warming, the climate change impacts on health, biodiversity, and the economy, and emerging technologies for climate change mitigation. Particular attention is given to topics such as wildfire threats, ocean acidification, coral bleaching, sea level rise, and permafrost thaw. The latest research on sustainable aviation fuels, carbon mineralization, and smart cities is also covered in this new edition, as well as topics like sustainable building design, climate-resistant building materials, and sustainable agriculture.
The Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation collates information in this multi-disciplinary area, providing readers with a comprehensive overview of the scientific background and current and emerging technologies. Intended for an interdisciplinary, global audience of researchers and decision-makers at universities and in industry, it covers climate change models; established, mature, and promising future technologies and ideas; the impact of climate change; strategies for dealing with global warming; the related political frameworks; and climate education.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Maximilian Lackner is study programme director of the Master “Innovation and Technology Management” and “International Business and Engineering” at the University of Applied Sciences FH Technikum Wien, Vienna, Austria. He has obtained his PhD in technical chemistry from Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, in 2003 and his habilitation in chemical engineering from Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, in 2009. Dr. Lackner in docent at Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria and Xidian University, Xi’An, China. Having founded 6 companies, Dr. Lackner has more than 15 years of professional experience in the polymer industry in various senior leadership positions in Austria and China. His research interests include biopolymers, in-situ brownfield remediation technologies, process systems engineering and industrial engineering. Dr. Lackner has authored over 100 scientific publications. He is founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Biobased Plastics.
Dr. Baharak Sajjadi is an assistant professor of Petroleum and Geological Engineering in the Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy at the University of Oklahoma, USA. She has obtained her PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, in 2015, and has served as a research assistant professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Mississippi, USA. She has over 10 years of research experience in advanced refinery processes and bioprocesses, carbon conversion and modification technologies, renewable energies, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD simulation). Dr. Sajjadi has published over 50 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. She pioneered the use of ultrasound, non-thermal plasma, and chemical methods for carbon capture and conversion, natural gas conversion, and other environmental applications.
Dr. Wei-Yin Chen is a professor emeritus of Chemical Engineering of the University of Mississippi. He has had over 40-years of experience in developing technologydriven, knowledge-based, carbon conversion programs for in-furnace NO reduction, coal liquefaction, and low-temperature carbon modifications for sustainable food, energy, and water nexus. He founded and has been leading the Sustainable Energy and Environmental Group (SEEG) with over 250 collaborators around the globe. The SEEG pioneered the use of ultrasound, light, non-thermal plasma, biological, and chemical methods to modify the material surface for carbon gasification, carbon activation for CO2 capture and wastewater treatment, soil amendment, electrode fabrication, desalination/deionization, biomedical material, fuel cell, etc. He has been awarded by UM and national and international organizations for his contributions to research, teaching, and services. He has served as a reviewer or panelist for institutions around the globe.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Editors: Maximilian Lackner, Baharak Sajjadi, Wei-Yin Chen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6431-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Chemistry and Mat. Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Chemistry, Materials and Physics
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-6431-0Due: 23 June 2024
Number of Pages: XXVII, 4600
Number of Illustrations: 500 b/w illustrations, 1000 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, general