This book analyses the deep interaction between the world’s environmental crises, energy production, conversion and use, and global regulation policies.
Bringing together experts from a wide range of scientific fields, it offers the reader a broad scope of knowledge on such topics as:
- climate change and exhaustion of resources
- the relationship between basic science and the development of sustainable energy technologies
- the relationship between global and local environmental policies
- the possible competition between foodstuff production and that of agro-fuels
- urban adaptation
- negotiations at the international level
- financial rules
This book invites the reader to consider the multidisciplinary aspects of these urgent energy/environmental issues.
Bringing together a wide range of experts, this book covers climate change and exhaustion of resources; the relationship between global and local environmental policies; competition between food and agro-fuels production; international negotiations and more.