Peter Droege: Urban Energy Transition
Urban Energy Transition
Buch
- From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Power
- Elsevier Science, 04/2008
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780080453415
- Bestellnummer: 2230358
- Umfang: 664 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 2008
- Gewicht: 1375 g
- Maße: 247 x 173 mm
- Stärke: 38 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 1.4.2008
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Inhaltsangabe
Urban energy transition: an introduction1 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 people's participation
Reducing carbon emissions in London: from theory to practice
Urban energy and carbon management in Leicester
Oxford's 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