Geoengineering Responses to Climate Change Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lenton, Tim. (Editor), Vaughan, Naomi. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Physics.; Chemistry, inorganic.; Meteorology.; Climatic changes.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.; Meteorology/Climatology.; Climate Change.; Inorganic Chemistry.; Earth System Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5770-1

Failure by the international community to make substantive progress in reducing CO2 emissions, coupled with recent evidence of accelerating climate change, has brought increasing urgency to the search for additional remediation approaches. This book presents a selection of state-of-the-art geoengin...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Sunshades for Solar Radiation Management
• 3. Stratospheric Aerosols for Solar Radiation Management
• 4. Solar Radiation Management, Cloud Albedo Enhancement
• 5. Ocean Fertilization for Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere
• 6. Biochar, Tool for Climate Change Mitigation and Soil Management
• 7. Carbon Dioxide Sequestration, Weathering Approaches to
• 8. Geoengineering Policy and Governance Issues
• Index.