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Energizing Sustainable Cities: Assessing Urban Energy

Editat de Arnulf Grubler, David Fisk
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 aug 2012
Urban systems now house about half of the world's population, but determine some three quarters of the global economy and its associated energy use and resulting environmental impacts. The twenty-first century will be increasingly urban. Sustainable development therefore needs first to be defined and analyzed, and then realized in urban settings. Energy is one of the key challenges, but also one of the key opportunities in the required urban sustainability transition.
The book is the result of a major international effort to conduct the first comprehensive assessment of energy-related urban sustainability issues conducted under the auspices of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA). The assessment is also unique in that it embeds energy issues into the broader sustainability agenda of cities: including housing for the poor, functional transport systems, as well as environmental quality, in addition to the challenges imposed by climate change.
Written by an eminent team of internationally renowned scholars it presents new data, new analysis, as well as new policy insights. It includes the first comprehensive global coverage overview of urban energy use and of the specifics of urban energy demand and supply. Major development and sustainability challenges of cities are assessed in detail and public and private sector opportunities and constraints of a sustainability transition examined in detail. Technological and policy options are put in a much needed context in terms of their respective role as drivers of urban energy demand as well as potentials for reductions in energy use and associated emissions of local pollutants as well as greenhouse gases. The analysis presents both a comprehensive literature review as well as novel, spatially explicit models of integrated urban energy policy analysis. The volume concludes with a summary assessment of policy options, priorities as well as paradoxes.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781849714396
ISBN-10: 1849714398
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 30 black & white illustrations, 16 colour illustrations, 23 black & white tables
Dimensiuni: 189 x 246 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Professional Practice & Development

Cuprins

1. Introduction and Overview  2. Urbanization Past and Future  3. Urbanization Dynamics  4. City Walls and Urban Hinterlands: The Importance of System Boundaries  5. Urban Energy Use  6. Energy Access and Housing for Low-income Groups in Urban Areas  7. Energy Demand and Air Pollution Densities, including Heat Island Effects  8. Supply Constraints and Urban Policy Frameworks  9. Drivers of Urban Energy Use and Main Policy Leverages  10. Transport Systems  11. Urban Energy Systems Planning, Design and Implementation  12. Urban Air Quality Management

Recenzii

"The book is the result of a major international effort to conduct the first comprehensive assessment of energy-related urban sustainability issues conducted under the auspices of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA). The assessment is also unique in that it embeds energy issues into the broader sustainability agenda of cities: including housing for the poor, functional transport systems, as well as environmental quality, in addition to the challenges imposed by climate change. It includes the first comprehensive global coverage overview of urban energy use and of the specifics of urban energy demand and supply."Soziale Technik

Notă biografică

Arnulf Grubler is Acting Program Leader of the Transitions to New Technologies Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, and Professor in the Field of Energy and Technology at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University., David Fisk is a co-director of the BP Urban Energy Project, and holds the Laing O'Rourke Chair in Systems Engineering and Innovation at Imperial College London.

Descriere

The book is the result of a major international effort to conduct the first comprehensive assessment of energy-related urban sustainability issues conducted under the auspices of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA).

Written by an eminent team of internationally renowned scholars it presents new data, new analysis, as well as new policy insights. It includes the first comprehensive global coverage overview of urban energy use and of the specifics of urban energy demand and supply.