Kristin Shrader-Frechette

What Will Work (eBook, PDF)

Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What Will Work makes a rigorous and compelling case that energy efficiencies and renewable energy-and not nuclear fission or "clean coal"-are the most effective, cheapest, and equitable solutions to the pressing problem of climate change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199794751
• Artikelnr.: 38137638

Autorenporträt

Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Ph.D is O'Neill Endowed Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame. She teaches courses in environmental sciences, quantitative risk assessment, philosophy of science, environmental health, and science and ethics. With degrees in mathematics and in philosophy of science, she has done 3 post-docs: in biology, economics, and hydrogeology. For 26 years, the US National Science Foundation has funded her research. Author of 16 books and 380 professional articles -- translated into 13 languages - and energy-environmental-health advisor to many nations and governments, she directs the Notre Dame Center for Environmental Justice and Children's Health. She is also the author of Environmental Justice (2002), and Taking Action, Saving Lives (2007), both published by Oxford University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Glossary
Chapter 1: Why Climate-Change Skeptics Are Wrong
Chapter 2: Trimming the Data on Nuclear Greenhouse Emissions
Chapter 3: Trimming the Data on Nuclear Costs
Chapter 4: Nuclear Safety, Flawed Science, and Accident Cover-Up
Chapter 5: Nuclear Energy and Environmental Justice
Chapter 6: The Solution: Using Renewable Energy, Efficiency, and Conservation to Address Climate Change
Chapter 7: Answering Objections
Chapter 8: Conclusions
Notes