Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change

Renewable energy expert Mark Diesendorf issues a powerful challenge in this clear and comprehensive guide to the technology and policies we need to adopt to ensure an ecologically sustainable energy future for the planet. Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change brings together the science, technology, economics and policy issues to provide a unique and truly interdisciplinary approach. It details the enormous recent changes in the energy sector and profiles the renewable energy technologies that can transform our fossil-fuelled energy systems into ecologically sustainable ones. The book provides in-depth analysis of: • scenarios for transitioning our polluting energy system to one basedon the efficient use of renewable energy • sustainable transport and planning for better cities • why nuclear energy is not the answer • the politics and policies of climate change mitigation • myths about wind and solar energy and energy efficiency • what people can do to overcome vested interests and push reluctant governments to take effective action. Taking stock of the latest advances in energy efficiency and energy storage, the book is of interest to students at undergraduate and postgraduate level studying energy policy and economics, environmental policy and environmental politics as well as professionals and policy makers.

Diesendorf, Mark

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Routledge

Renewable energy expert Mark Diesendorf issues a powerful challenge in this clear and comprehensive guide to the technology and policies we need to adopt to ensure an ecologically sustainable energy future for the planet.
Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change brings together the science, technology, economics and policy issues to provide a unique and truly interdisciplinary approach. It details the enormous recent changes in the energy sector and profiles the renewable energy technologies that can transform our fossil-fuelled energy systems into ecologically sustainable ones. The book provides in-depth analysis of: • scenarios for transitioning our polluting energy system to one basedon the efficient use of renewable energy • sustainable transport and planning for better cities • why nuclear energy is not the answer • the politics and policies of climate change mitigation • myths about wind and solar energy and energy efficiency • what people can do to overcome vested interests and push reluctant governments to take effective action. Taking stock of the latest advances in energy efficiency and energy storage, the book is of interest to students at undergraduate and postgraduate level studying energy policy and economics, environmental policy and environmental politics as well as professionals and policy makers.

Global warming is the hottest political issue of the day, and it is likely to become even more pressing over the coming years .This is a positive, proactive book that proposes a set of policies and strategies for implementing the most promising cleaner energy technologies by all spheres of government, business and community organizations. The book argues that despite being a coal- and oil-dependent country, Australia could achieve an ecologically sustainable energy system. All we need is the political will.

Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy

Business & Money

Economics

University of New South Wales Press

Responding to the global flowering of commitment to environmental issues, this handbook shows activists and citizens how to pressure governments and businesses to create a framework for large and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. With examples of climate-action movements in the United States, the UK, and Australia, this manual draws inspiration from these successes. In presenting these positive case studies of grassroots social movements that brought about change, the guide refutes the myths disseminated by vested interests and the greenhouse mafia who are trying to undermine effective action.

Climate Action: A Campaign Manual for Greenhouse Solutions

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

NewSouth Publishing

The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation shows that we have unwittingly fallen into an existential crisis of our own making. We have allowed large corporations, the military and other vested interests to capture governments and influence public opinion excessively. We have created a god called ‘the market’ and allowed our most important decisions to be made by this imaginary entity, which is in fact a human system controlled by vested interests. The result has been the exploitation of our life support system, our planet, and most of its inhabitants, to the point of collapse. This book argues that the way out of our black hole is to build social movements to apply overwhelming pressure on government and big business, weaken the power of vested interests and strengthen democratic decision-making. This must be done simultaneously with action on the specific issues of climate, energy, natural resources and social justice, in order to transition to a truly sustainable civilisation.

The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation: Technological, Socioeconomic and Political Change

Taylor, Rod

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Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change

Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change

Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy

Climate Action: A Campaign Manual for Greenhouse Solutions

Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change

The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation: Technological, Socioeconomic and Political Change