1st Edition

Interdisciplinary Research on Climate and Energy Decision Making 30 Years of Research on Global Change

Edited By M. Granger Morgan Copyright 2023
348 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the role and importance of interdisciplinary research in addressing key issues in climate and energy decision making. For over 30 years, an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students anchored at Carnegie Mellon University, joined by investigators and students from a number of other collaborating institutions across North America, Europe, and Australia, have worked... Read more
  1. Tools to Analyze Uncertainty
    Granger Morgan
  2. Let’s Do the Same for Climate Change
    Granger Morgan
  3. The ICAM Model of Climate Change
    Granger Morgan and Hadi Dowlatabadi
  4. Getting Experts to Give Us Their "Betting Odds"
    Granger Morgan
  5. What the Public Knows about Climate Change
    Granger Morgan
  6. Social/Ecological Dimensions of Climate Change Hadi Dowlatabadi, Granger Morgan, Mike Griffin, and Tim McDaniels
  7. Impacts on Public Health
    Elizabeth Casman and Hadi Dowlatabadi
  8. Energy Efficiency
    Inês Azevedo
  9. Energy Rebound
    Granger Morgan and Brinda Thomas
  10. Energy from the Wind and the Sun
    Jay Apt
  11. Capturing and Disposing of Carbon Dioxide from Power Plants
    Granger Morgan and Dalia Patino-Echeverri
  12. Can Nuclear Power Help Solve the Climate Problem?
    Granger Morgan and Ahmed Abdulla
  13. Making Electric Power More Resilient
    Jay Apt and Granger Morgan
  14. Transportation without Carbon Dioxide
    Granger Morgan and Parth Vaishnav
  15. Uncertainty in Energy and Other Forecasts
    Granger Morgan
  16. We Have No Choice but to Adapt
    Granger Morgan and Hadi Dowlatabadi
  17. Scrubbing Carbon Dioxide out of the Atmosphere
    Joshuah Stolaroff
  18. A Last Resort – Engineering the Planet
    Granger Morgan
  19. What We Have Learned
    Granger Morgan (informed by many others)


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Biography

M. Granger Morgan is the Hamerschlag University Professor of Engineering in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) at Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. He holds a PhD in Applied Physics from the University of California at San Diego. He was the founding Department Head in EPP, a job he held for 38 years. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.