Open access peer-reviewed Edited Volume

Planet Earth 2011 - Global Warming Challenges and Opportunities for Policy and Practice

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Elias Carayannis
Elias Carayannis

George Washington University,
United States of America

Published03 October 2011

Doi10.5772/902

ISBN978-953-307-733-8

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-953-51-6063-2

Copyright year2011

Number of pages658

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Table of Contents

Open access  chapters

1. Climate Change in the Mediterranean over the Last Five Hundred Years

By Dario Camuffo, Chiara Bertolin, Antonio della Valle, Claudio Cocheo, Nazzareno Diodato, Silvia Enzi, Mirca Sghedoni, Mariano Barriendos, Roberto Rodriguez, Fernando Dominguez-Castro, Emmanuel Garnier, Maria Joao Alcoforado and Maria Fatima Nunes

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2. Recent Global Warming Induced Climate Changes

By P. C. Werner, F.-W. Gerstengarbe, H. Österle and M. Wodinski

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3. Environmental Stability for Convective Precipitation Under Global Warming

By Tetsuya Takemi, Syohei Nomura and Yuichiro Oku

2,344
5. Melting of Major Glaciers in Himalayas: Role of Desert Dust and Anthropogenic Aerosols

By Anup K. Prasad, Hesham M. Elaskary, Ghassem R. Asrar, Menas Kafatos and Ashok Jaswal

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11. Tropical Dry Forests in the Global Picture: The Challenge of Remote Sensing-Based Change Detection in Tropical Dry Environments

By Betsabé de la Barreda-Bautista, Alejandra A. López-Caloca, Stephane Couturier and José Luis Silván-Cárdenas

4,763
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14. The Choice of Biofuels to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Rogério Cezar de Cerqueira Leite, Manoel Regis Lima Verde Leal and Luís Augusto Barbosa Cortez

2,444
15. Contribution of the Atmospheric Chlorine Reactions to the Degradation of Greenhouse Gases: CFCs Substitutes

By Iván Bravo, Yolanda Díaz-de-Mera, Alfonso Aranda, Elena Moreno and Ernesto Martínez

2,827
19. Four Steps to the Hydrogen Car

By Paul McGuiness and Urša Pirnat

2,824
24. Influence of Global Warming on the RC Structures and Durability Monitoring in Civil Engineering

By Guofu Qiao, Tiejun Liu, Guodong Sun, Yi Hong, Baoguo Han, Huigang Xiao, Zhichun Zhang and Jinping Ou

3,219
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26. The Role of Methane Emissions on Ancient and Present Climatic Changes

By Guido Barone, Elena Chianese and Angelo Riccio

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27. Enteric Methane Emission from Pigs

By Henry Jørgensen, Peter K. Theil and Knud Erik Bach Knudsen

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