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Climate change is a matter of extreme urgency. Integrating science and economics, this book demonstrates the need for measures to put a strict lid on cumulative carbon emissions and shows how to implement them. Using the carbon budget framework, it reveals the shortcomings of current policies and the debates around them, such as the popular enthusiasm for individual solutions and the fruitless search for 'optimal' regulation by economists and other specialists. On the political front, it explains why business opposition to the policies we need goes well beyond the fossil fuel industry, requiring a more radical rebalancing of power. This wide-ranging study goes against the most prevalent approaches in mainstream economics, which argue that we can tackle climate change while causing minimal disruption to the global economy. The author argues that this view is not only impossible, but also dangerously complacent.

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This book highlights various aspects of shale gas production and discusses the associated problems, which have greatly influenced the current situation on the global gas market. It focuses on issues such as production technologies, environmental protection, and the impacts of shale gas production on human beings. Further, it investigates the role of shale gas in the development and implementation of foreign policy of many nations that welcomed the possibility to produce this hydrocarbon in their own countries. Taking into consideration the information published by world energy research centers, the prospects of shale gas production in different regions of the world are examined in detail. Given its coverage and scope, the book will greatly benefit specialists in the areas of hydrocarbon production, international relations and foreign policy, world economics and technologies, ecology and environmental protection.

Environment. --- Fossil fuels. --- Geochemistry. --- Economic geology. --- Environmental chemistry. --- Environmental Chemistry. --- Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture). --- Economic Geology. --- Chemistry, Environmental --- Economic geology --- Chemical composition of the earth --- Chemical geology --- Geological chemistry --- Geology, Chemical --- Fossil energy --- Geology, economic. --- Physical geology --- Mines and mineral resources --- Chemistry --- Ecology --- Earth sciences --- Fuel --- Energy minerals

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Fabian Metasch setzt sich mit der Erarbeitung von Planungsmodellen mit Effizienzmessung für Hilfs- und Nebenprozesse des Braunkohletagebaus im sächsischen Revier auseinander. Dabei analysiert der Autor den Unternehmensbereich der Aus- und Vorrichtung (AuV) als einen essenziellen, kostenintensiven und operativ arbeitenden Teil der komplexen Wertschöpfungskette innerhalb der Kohlegewinnung- und Verstromung. Ausgehend von den statistischen Analysen und dem gesammelten Expertenwissen können so belastbare Planungsmodelle für alle technologischen, prozessualen und ressourcenorientierten Aspekte erarbeitet werden. Diese Modelle ermöglichen den Abteilungen des Controllings und des Stabes eine rollierende Planung hinsichtlich der Kernaufgaben der AuV im mittel- und langfristigen Bezugszeitraum. Dadurch können die Kosten und Leistungen besser geplant und unter Effizienzkriterien bewertet werden. Der Inhalt Theoretische Grundlagen der Bergbauplanung und Effizienzmessung Entwicklung von Planungsmodellen für die AuV Erarbeitung von Plan- und Kontrollkarten für die hinterlegte Prognose und Kontrolle von Kosten und Leistungen Die Zielgruppen Dozenten und Studenten der Fachbereiche Betriebswirtschaft, Bergbau und Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen Fach- und Führungskräfte in den Bereichen Controlling und Planung Der Autor Fabian Metasch ist zurzeit in der mittelfristigen technologischen Planung der Vorschnittarbeitsebenen in den Braunkohletagebauen Nochten und Reichwalde tätig. .

Global analysis (Mathematics). --- Energy Policy, Economics and Management. --- Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture). --- Analysis. --- Analysis, Global (Mathematics) --- Differential topology --- Functions of complex variables --- Geometry, Algebraic --- Energy policy. --- Energy and state. --- Fossil fuels. --- Mathematical analysis. --- Analysis (Mathematics). --- 517.1 Mathematical analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- Fossil energy --- Fuel --- Energy minerals --- Energy and state --- Power resources --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Energy conservation --- Government policy

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Canada is a well-endowed country that serves as an ideal model to lead the reader through the development of energy, resources, and society historically and into a post-carbon future. The book provides an historical perspective and describes the physical resource limitations, energy budgets, and climate realities that will determine the potential for any transition to renewable energy. Political and social realities, including jurisdiction and energy equality issues, are addressed. However, we cannot simply mandate or legislate policies according to social and political aspirations. Policies must comply with the realities of physical laws, such as the energy return on investment (EROI) for fossil-fuel based and renewable energy systems. EROI is discussed in both historical terms and in reference to the greater efficiencies inherent in a distributed generation, mainly electric, post-carbon society. Meyer explores the often misleading concepts and terms that have become embedded in society and tend to dictate our policy making, as well as the language, social and personal goals, and metrics that need to change before the physical transition can begin at the required scale. This book also reviews what nations have been doing thus far in terms of renewables, including the successes and failures in Canada and across the globe. Ontario’s green energy fiasco, and a comparison of the different circumstances of Norway and Alberta, for example, are covered as part of the author’s comparison of a wide range of countries. What are the achievements, plans, and problems that determine how well different countries are positioned to make “the transition”? The transition path is complex, and the tools we need to develop and the physical infrastructure investments we need to make, are daunting. At some point in time, Canada and Canadians, like all nations, will be living on 100% renewable energy. Whether the social and technological level that endures sees us travelling to the stars, or subsisting at a standard of living more similar to the pre-fossil fuel era, is far from certain.

Energy policy. --- Energy and state. --- Natural resources. --- Renewable energy resources. --- Fossil fuels. --- Energy Policy, Economics and Management. --- Natural Resource and Energy Economics. --- Renewable and Green Energy. --- Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture). --- Fossil energy --- Fuel --- Energy minerals --- National resources --- Natural resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Energy and state --- Power resources --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Energy conservation --- Economic aspects --- Government policy