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The complexity of carbon reduction and economic sustainability is significantly complicated by competing aspects of socioeconomic practices as well as legislative, regulatory, and scientific requirements and protocols. An easy to read and understand guide, Sioshansi, along with an international grou...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sioshansi, Fereidoon P. (Fereidoon Perry)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2011.
Temas:
Renewable energy sources.
Energy conservation > Social aspects.
Renewable Energy
�Energies renouvelables.
�Economies d'�energie > Aspect social.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Power Resources > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Energy.
SCIENCE > Energy.
Energy conservation > Social aspects
Renewable energy sources
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction Can We Have Our Cake and Eat It Too?
  • Part I: Challenge of Sustainability
  • 1 Why Do We Use So Much Energy, and What For? / Fereidoon P. Sioshansi
  • 2 Which Energy Future? / Frank A. Felder, Clinton J. Andrews, Seth D. Hulkower
  • 3 Energy "Needs", Desires, and Wishes: Anthropological Insights and Prospective Views / Fran�coise Bartiaux, Nathalie Frogneux, Olivier Servais
  • 4 Equity, Economic Growth, and Lifestyle / Niels I. Meyer, Frede Hvelplund, J�rgen S. N�rg�ard
  • 5 We Can't Have Our Cake and Eat it Too: Why the Energy and Climate Problems Cannot Be Solved in Consumer-Capitalist Society / Ted Trainer
  • 6 Sustainability: Will There Be the Will and the Means? / Carlo Andrea Bollino, Paolo Polinori
  • 7 Is It Possible to Have It Both Ways? / Alan Moran
  • 8 Efficiency First: Designing Markets to Save Energy, and the Planet / Noah Long, Pierre Bull, Nick Zigelbaum
  • Part II: Technological Fixes
  • 9 Getting to Zero: Green Building and Net Zero Energy Homes / Meredith Gray, Jay Zarnikau
  • 10 Beyond the Meter: Enabling Better Home Energy Management / Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez, John A. "Skip" Laitner, Kat A. Donnelly
  • 11 How Organizations Can Drive Behavior-Based Energy Efficiency / William Prindle, Scott Finlinson
  • 12 Reinventing Industrial Energy Use in a Resource-Constrained World / Marilyn A. Brown, Rodrigo Cortes-Lobos, Matthew Cox
  • 13 Prospects for Renewable Energy / Douglas Arent, Paul Denholm, Easan Drury, Rachel Gelman, Maureen Hand, Chuck Kutscher, Margaret Mann, Mark Mehos, Alison Wise
  • 14 Heating Systems When Little Heating Is Needed / Klaas Bauermann, Christoph Weber
  • Part III: Case Studies
  • 15 Why China Matters / Bram Buijs
  • 16 Swiss 2000-Watt Society: A Sustainable Energy Vision for the Future / Roland Stulz, Stephan Tanner, Ren�e Sigg
  • 17 Zeroing in on Zero Net Energy / Nicholas B. Rajkovich, William C. Miller, Anna M. LaRue
  • 18 Toward Carbon Neutrality: The Case of the City of Austin, TX / Jennifer Clymer
  • 19 Rising to the Challenge of Sustainability: Three Cases of Climate and Energy Governance / Benjamin K. Sovacool
  • Epilogue: Can We Get There from Here? / Fereidoon P. Sioshansi.

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