Covers optimal adaptation and mitigation strategies, challenges of cost-benefit analysis, decision rules, and global efforts to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations.
Introduces energy systems engineering, emphasizing decision-making in process and energy systems design, industry's role in energy consumption, and climate change mitigation.
Explores climate change mitigation through abatement strategies and cost-benefit analysis, emphasizing the trade-offs between economic activities and environmental impacts.
Explores the trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation in combating climate change, emphasizing the power of adaptation and the need for further research on adaptation strategies.