**Acknowledgements**

I am grateful to my son Seyfen for his support and growing interest in my research on global warming and its mitigation. His relevant thoughts and questions on the environment and society have been a great source of motivation to conduct this work and further projects. I especially thank him for teaching me "*Nihongo*".

Thanks also go to Yemad Mabrouk, an outstanding Math lecturer and one of my favourite colleagues, who helped resolve graphical issues.

I am also grateful to Rebekah Pribetic for her great availability as an Author Service Manager and to the whole team at IntechOpen for improving the English and editing.
