Shale Gas and Fracking

The Science Behind the Controversy

Michael Stephenson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

170 Seiten

2015
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-801606-0 (ISBN)

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Shale Gas and Fracking: The Science Behind the Controversy explains the relevant geological principles before examining the peer-reviewed evidence and presenting it through a simple and compelling illustrated narrative. Each chapter focuses on a particular controversy, such contamination of well water with gas from fracking, and follows a similar format: starting with the principles; then detailing peer-reviewed case studies for earthquakes, radioactivity, and climate change; and concluding with a judgment of the general risks involved.

Shale Gas and Fracking: The Science Behind the Controversy provides readers with the unbiased information they need to make informed decisions on the controversial issue of fracking.

Michael Stephenson is an expert on energy and climate change and has a unique mixture of experience in modern climate and energy science, policy, “deep time climate science, and coal and petroleum geology. He has published two books on related subjects and over 80 peer-reviewed papers. His recently published book Shale gas and fracking: the science behind the controversy (Elsevier) won an ‘honourable mention’ at the Association of American Publishers PROSE awards in Washington DC in February 2016. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier Journal Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. In addition, as Chief Scientist of the British Geological Survey, Michael Stephenson has represented UK science interests in energy, as well as providing extensive advice to the UK Government.

Preface1. The Fuss About Shale

2. Shale, Shale, Everywhere

3. To Frack or Not to Frack

4. Gas in our Water

5. Did the Earth Move?

6. The Shale Gas Factory

7. Shale Gas and Climate

8. Keeping Watch

9. The Science Behind the Controversy

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Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
Themenwelt	Technik ► Bauwesen
ISBN-10	0-12-801606-X / 012801606X
ISBN-13	978-0-12-801606-0 / 9780128016060
Zustand	Neuware