Interdisciplinary research on climate and energy decision making : 30 years of research on global change /
Interdisciplinary research on climate and energy decision making : thirty years of research on global change
edited by M. Granger Morgan ; with Ahmed Abdulla, Jay Apt, Inês Azevedo, Ann Bostrom, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Elizabeth Casman, Hadi Dowlatabadi, Mike Griffin, Tim McDaniels, Joshuah Stolaroff, Brinda Thomas, Parth Vaishna, and a cast of several dozen.
- 1 online resource (xii, 336 pages) : illustrations, map.
- Research and teaching in environmental studies series .
- Research and teaching in environmental studies. .
"Earthscan from Routledge" -- Cover, title page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Tools to analyze uncertainty -- 2. Let's do the same for climate change -- 3. The ICAM model of climate change -- 4. Getting experts to give us their "betting odds" -- 5. What the public knows about climate change -- 6. Social/ecological dimensions of climate change -- 7. Impacts on public health -- 8. Energy efficiency -- 9. Energy rebound -- 10. Energy from the wind and the sun -- 11. Capturing and disposing of carbon dioxide from power plants -- 12. Can nuclear power help solve the climate problem? -- 13. Making electric power more resilient -- 14. Transportation without carbon dioxide -- 15. Uncertainty in energy and other forecasts -- 16. We have no choice but to adapt -- 17. Scrubbing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere -- 18. A last resort - engineering the planet -- 19. What we have learned -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Index.
"This book explores the role and importance of interdisciplinary research in addressing key issues in climate and energy decision making. For over thirty years, an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students anchored at Carnegie Mellon University, joined by investigators and students from a number of other collaborating institutions across North America, Europe and Australia, have worked together to better understand the global changes that are being caused by both human activities and natural causes. This book tells the story of their successful interdisciplinary work. With each chapter written in the first person, the authors have three key objectives: 1 to document and provide an accessible account of how they have framed and addressed a range of the key problems that are posed by the human dimensions of global change; 2 to illustrate how investigators and graduate students have worked together productively across different disciplines and locations on common problems; and 3 to encourage funders and scholars across the world to undertake similar large-scale interdisciplinary research activities to meet the world's largest challenges. Exploring topics such as energy efficiency, public health, and climate adaptation, and with a final chapter dedicated to lessons learned, this innovative volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, energy transitions and environmental studies more broadly"--
M. Granger Morgan is the Hamerschlag University Professor of Engineering in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) at Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. He holds a PhD in Applied Physics from the University of California at San Diego. He was the founding Department Head in EPP, a job he held for 38 years. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.