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Is carbon capture and storage (CCS) the technology that could be key to slowing climate change or an expensive diversion? Few people are aware that we already have the technology to remove most of the carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuelled power and industry. This same technology is needed to deliver the negative emissions called for in almost all integrated assessment models. Collectively, this rather prosaic and unexciting technology is termed Carbon Capture and Storage, CCS--or Bio-energy with CCS, BECCS, when delivering negative emissions. This short book describes the technology, and takes a brief look at some of the reasons why society is not yet urgently reaching for it.

Carbon sequestration. --- Carbon dioxide mitigation. --- Climate change mitigation. --- Environmental science, engineering & technology. --- SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental).

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While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twenty-first century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques-more commonly known as "fracking"-on local communities. In Fractured Communities, Anthony E. Ladd and other leading environmental sociologists present a set of crucial case studies analyzing the differential risk perceptions, socio-environmental impacts, and mobilization of citizen protest (or quiescence) surrounding unconventional energy development and hydraulic fracking in a number of key U.S. shale regions. Fractured Communities reveals how this contested terrain is expanding, pushing the issue of fracking into the mainstream of the American political arena.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy. --- NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection. --- SCIENCE / Environmental Science. --- Shale gas industry --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Hydraulic fracturing --- Gas industry --- Fracking (Engineering) --- Fracturing, Hydraulic --- Hydrofracking --- Hydraulic engineering --- Rock mechanics --- Risk assessment --- Social aspects --- EPA. --- climate change. --- drilling. --- energy. --- environment. --- fossil fuel. --- fracking. --- fuel. --- hydraulic. --- natural gas. --- oil. --- protest. --- sustainable energy.