Research Catalog

Title

Engineering response to global climate change : planning a research and development agenda / edited by Robert G. Watts.

Publication

Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC/Lewis Publishers, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

Watts, Robert G.

Description

xii, 492 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• Rather than presenting yet another analysis and warning of the perceived warming of the Earth's climate, this new book, written by leading scientists and engineers, actually offers some real solutions to the problem.
• From new ways to curtail energy consumption and reduce carbon dioxide emissions to actual proposals for sea walls and climate-altering atmospheric technologies, this book offers professionals and students exciting new conceptual tools for correcting and alleviating the expected social and environmental threats from global warming.

Subjects

• Ecological engineering
• Greenhouse gases > Environmental aspects
• Global environmental change
• Environmental engineering > Environmental aspects
• Climatic changes

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. The Fifth Revolution / Robert Watts -- App. A Brief History of the Greenhouse Problem -- Ch. 2. Emissions and Budgets of Radiatively Important Atmospheric Constituents / Don Wuebbles, Jae Edmonds and Jane Dignon [et al.] -- Ch. 3. Energy Demand Reduction / Arthur Rosenfeld, Barbara Atkinson and Lynn Price [et al.] -- Ch. 4. Energy Supply / Martin Hoffert, Seth D. Potter and Jerry Delene [et al.] -- Ch. 5. Water Resources / William H. McAnally, Phillip H. Burgi and Darryl Calkins [et al.] -- Ch. 6. Sea Level Rise and Coastal Hazards: An Assessment of Impacts and Coastal Engineering Research Needs / Ashish Mehta, Robert Dean and Hans Kunz [et al.] -- Ch. 7. Agriculture and Biological Systems / Norman R. Scott, John N. Walker and Gerald F. Arkin [et al.] -- Ch. 8. Geoengineering Climate / Brian P. Flannery, Haroon Kheshgi and Gregg Marland [et al.] -- Ch. 9. Engineering Response to Global Environmental Change / Robert Watts.

ISBN

1566702348

LCCN

96047401

OCLC

ocm35742053

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries