Summary
- Sustainable Travel Practices and the Camino de Santiago de CompostelaHow much carbon does it take to fly across an ocean? Calculating and offsetting carbon emissions, as well as evaluating practices like planting trees, is more complex than you think. In this presentation, Dr. Harper guides us through a scientific thought process that we can use in our daily lives.
Academic Flying and the Means of Communication by ISBN: 9811649111Publication Date: 2022This open access book shines a light on how and why academic work became entwined with air travel, and what can be done to change academia’s flying habit. The starting point of the book is that flying is only one means of scholarly communication among many, and that the state of the planet now obliges us to shift to other means. How can the academic-as-globetrotter become a thing of the past?
Future Transportation by ISBN: 9783036548579Publication Date: 2022Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with transportation activities account for approximately 20 percent of all carbon dioxide (co2) emissions globally, making the transportation sector a major contributor to the current global warming. This book focuses on the latest advances in technologies aiming at the sustainable future transportation of people and goods.
Pricing Carbon Emissions by ISBN: 1003173810Publication Date: 2021-06-15Pricing Carbon Emissions provides an economic critique on the utopian idea of a uniform carbon price for addressing rising carbon emissions, exposing the flaws in the economic propositions with a key focus on the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS).
