Driving Climate Change

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing global society. The debate over what to do is confounded by the uncertain relationship between increasing greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, and the impact of those changes on nature and human civilization. This book will provide professionals and students alike with the latest information regarding greenhouse emissions while presenting the most up-to-date techniques for reducing these emissions. It will investigate three broad strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions: reducing motorized travel, shifting to less energy intensive modes, and changing fuel and propulsion technologies. Findings will be presented by the leaders in the field with contributions from professors, researchers, consultants and engineers at the most prominent institutions - commercial, academic and federal - dealing with environmental research and policy. It includes a comprehensive evaluation of current industrial practice; provides technologically sound and manageable techniques for engineers, scientists and designers; and incorporates guidelines for a sustainable future.

ISBN 0123694957   Pages 312 ISBN13 9780123694959 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc   Weight (grammes) 621 Imprint Academic Press Inc   Published in San Diego Format Hardback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 17 Oct 2006   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress TD   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY 629.04   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		Introduction and overview by Dan Sperling and James S. Cannon		1
2		Peaking of world oil production and mitigation by Robert L. Hirsch and Roger Bezdek and Robert Wendling		9
3		Toward a policy agenda for climate change : changing technologies and fuels and the changing value of energy by Duncan Eggar		29
4		Coordinated policy measures for reducing the fuel use of the U.S. light duty vehicle fleet by Anup P. Bandivadekar and John B. Heywood		41
5		Carbon burdens from new car sales in the United States by John DeCicco and Freda Fung and Feng An		73
6		Reducing vehicle emission through cap-and-trade schemes by John German		89
7		North American feebate analysis model by Alexandre Dumas and David L. Greene and Andre Bourbeau		107
8		Reducing growth in vehicle miles traveled : can we really pull it off by Gary Toth		129
9		International comparison of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles by Feng An		143
10		Reducing transport-related greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries : the role of the global environmental facility by Walter Hook		165
11		What multilateral banks (and other donors) can do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions : a case study of Latin America and the Carribbean by Deborah Bleviss		189
12		From public understanding to public policy : public views on energy, technology, and climate science in the United States by David M. Reiner		201
13		Narrative self-identity and societal goals : automotive fuel economy and global warming policy by Kenneth S. Kurani and Thomas S. Turrentine and Reid R. Heffner		217
14		Lost in option space : risk partitioning to guide climate and energy policy by David L. Bodde		239
15		Toward a transportation policy agenda for climate change by David Burwell and Daniel Sperling		253

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