Urban energy transition : from fossil fuels to renewable power /

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Contemporary cities, initially shaped by the logic of the Industrial Revolution, have evolved into a worldwide urbanization force, driven by readily available and relatively cheap fossil fuel supplies. They now face major changes as the fossil fuel era rapidly comes to a close. The end of this era m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Droege, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston ; London : Elsevier, 2008.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Cities and towns > Energy consumption.
Greenhouse gas mitigation.
Greenhouse gas mitigation > Government policy.
City and town life > Environmental aspects.
City planning > Environmental aspects.
Villes > Consommation d'�energie.
Gaz �a effet de serre > R�eduction.
Gaz �a effet de serre > R�eduction > Politique gouvernementale.
Vie urbaine > Aspect de l'environnement.
Urbanisme > Aspect de l'environnement.
Cities and towns > Energy consumption
City and town life > Environmental aspects
City planning > Environmental aspects
Greenhouse gas mitigation
Greenhouse gas mitigation > Government policy
Stadt
Energieverbrauch
Energieeinsparung
Erneuerbare Energien
Kohlendioxidemission
Emissionsverringerung
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Urban energy transition: an introduction
  • 1 Principles and drivers
  • *Solar City: reconnecting energy generation and use to the technical and social logic of solar power
  • *Urbanization, increasing wealth and energy transitions: comparing experiences between the USA, Japan and rapidly developing Asia Pacific economies
  • *Undoing atmospheric harm: civil action to shrink the carbon footprint
  • *Direct versus embodied energy: the need for urban lifestyle transitions
  • *Energy, development and sustainable monetary systems
  • 2 Policy, practice and dynamics
  • *Energy and urban environmental regimes
  • *Climate change and cities: the making of a climate friendly future
  • *City energy networking in Europe
  • *Energy use and CO2 production in the urban passenger transport systems of 84 international cities: findings and policy implications
  • 3 Aspects of technology: opportunities and applications
  • *Storage systems for reliable future power supply networks
  • *The Media Laboratory City Car: a new approach to sustainable mobility
  • *Towards the intelligent grid: a review of the literature
  • *Innovations in rural and peri-urban areas
  • 4 Transforming the built environment
  • *Towards the renewable built environment
  • *Counteracting urban heat islands in Japan
  • *Ecodesign and the transition of the built environment
  • *Financing the energy refurbishment of buildings
  • *Sustainability on the urban scale: green urbanism new models for urban growth and neighbourhoods
  • 5 International urban agendas
  • *Barcelona and the power of solar ordinances: political will, capacity building and peoples participation
  • *Reducing carbon emissions in London: from theory to practice
  • *Urban energy and carbon management in Leicester
  • Oxfords carbon emissions reduction: plans and tools
  • *Integrating energy in urban planning in Vietnam and Thailand
  • *Sustainable energy systems and the urban poor: Nigeria, Brazil, the Philippines
  • *Energy planning in South African cities
  • *Household markets for ethanol prospects for Ethiopia
  • *Lagos, Nigeria: Sustainable energy technologies for an emerging African mega-city
  • *Freedom from fossil fuel and nuclear power: the scope for local solutions in the United States.

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