Patents and Climate Change : There's No Place Like Home.
After 4.5 billion years of change, is the planet Earth a complex and delicate ecosystem? It is well-known that some human activities may be part of a climate-change process that affects global warming. Environmental scientists continue to make substantial progress in advancing our understanding of h...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2017
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Summary: | After 4.5 billion years of change, is the planet Earth a complex and delicate ecosystem? It is well-known that some human activities may be part of a climate-change process that affects global warming. Environmental scientists continue to make substantial progress in advancing our understanding of how such activities affect climate change. Since the year 1989, hundreds of global-warming related patents have been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This original and important book thus provides an easy-to-read summary of such patents. Within many of the summaries, there ar. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (135 pages) |
ISBN: | 9781527500693 1527500691 |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |