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Energy Analysis for a Sustainable Future : Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism.
The vast majority of the countries of the world are now facing an imminent energy crisis, particularly the USA, China, India, Japan and EU countries, but also developing countries having to boost their economic growth precisely when more powerful economies will prevent them from using the limited su...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover; Energy Analysis for a Sustainable Future; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1 Defining the problem; 1 Energy accounting: sources of ambiguity; 2 Energy analysis: the troublesome birth of a new domain of knowledge; 3 The aggregation of energy flows at the national level; 4 The proper use of semantic and formal categories in energy accounting; 5 Energy flows under human control: energy input, power capacity and human labour; 6 Cutting through the confusion in net energy analysis.
- Part 2 Proposing a solution7 In search of a richer, integrated and multi-scale accounting protocol; 8 Concepts, ideas and representations underlying the multi-scale integrated accounting of society's energy metabolism; 9 Dual accounting of energy flows and the characterization of the metabolic pattern across hierarchical levels; 10 Studying the feasibility and desirability of the metabolic pattern of society from within; 11 Using the MuSIASEM approach to check the external constraints on the metabolic pattern of modern societies.
- 12 Using MuSIASEM for studying scenarios based on alternatives to fossil energyConclusions: where do we go from here?; Appendix 1 The historical roots of the ambiguity of the quantification of energy; Appendix 2 The tautology used to generate the quantitative assessments in the flow chart illustrated in Figure 4.2; References; Index.