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From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Power
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Edited By
Peter Droege, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia; World Council for Renewable Energy
Description
This compendium of 29 chapters from 18 countries contains both fundamental and advanced insight into the inevitable shift from cities
dominated by the fossil-fuel systems of the industrial age to a renewable-energy based urban development framework. The cross-disciplinary
handbook covers a range of diverse yet relevant topics, including: carbon emissions policy and practice; the role of embodied energy;
urban thermal performance planning; building efficiency services; energy poverty alleviation efforts; renewable community support networks;
aspects of household level bio-fuel markets; urban renewable energy legislation, programs and incentives; innovations in individual transport
systems; global urban mobility trends; implications of intelligent energy networks and distributed energy supply and storage; and the
case for new regional monetary systems and lifestyles. Presented are practical and principled aspects of technology, economics, design,
culture and society, presenting perspectives that are both local and international in scope and relevance.
Audience
Architects, urban planners and policy makers; energy experts and efficiency planners; state and local government leaders and officials;
renewable energy systems planners; municipal energy experts and leaders; government agencies; renewable energy industry leaders and policy
makers; political leaders.
Researchers and lecturers in architecture, building and architectural design science and engineering; urban
ecologists and environmental engineers; energy engineers and scientists; academic staff in urban and regional planning, infrastructure
planning, urban history, theory and criticism.
Contents
Urban energy transition: an introduction
Peter Droege
1 Principles and drivers
Solar City: reconnecting energy generation and use to
the technical and social logic of solar power
Hermann Scheer
Urbanization, increasing wealth and energy transitions: comparing experiences
between the USA, Japan and rapidly developing Asia Pacific economies
Peter J. Marcotullio and Niels B. Schulz
Undoing atmospheric harm:
civil action to shrink the carbon footprint
John Byrne, Lado Kurdgelashvili and Kristen Hughes
Direct versus embodied energy: the need
for urban lifestyle transitions
Manfred Lenzen, Richard Wood and Barney Foran
Energy, development and sustainable monetary systems
Shann
Turnbull
2 Policy, practice and dynamics
Energy and urban environmental regimes
Steve Hammer
Climate change and cities: the making
of a climate friendly future
Shobhakar Dhakal
City energy networking in Europe
Marco Keiner, Arley Kim
Energy use and CO2 production
in the urban passenger transport systems of 84 international cities: findings and policy implications
Jeff Kenworthy
3 Aspects of technology:
opportunities and applications
Storage systems for reliable future power supply networks
Dirk Uwe Sauer
The Media Laboratory City Car:
a new approach to sustainable mobility
William J. Mitchell, Ryan Chin, and Andres Sevtsuk
Towards the intelligent grid: a review of
the literature
John Gardner and Peta Ashworth
Innovations in rural and peri-urban areas
Nancy Wimmer
4 Transforming the built environment
Towards the renewable built environment
Federico Butera
Counteracting urban heat islands in Japan
Toshiaki Ichinose
Ecodesign and
the transition of the built environment
Ken Yeang
Financing the energy refurbishment of buildings
Jan W. Bleyl
Sustainability on the
urban scale: green urbanism – new models for urban growth and neighbourhoods
Steffen Lehmann
5 International urban agendas
Barcelona
and the power of solar ordinances: political will, capacity building and people?s participation
Josep Puig
Reducing carbon emissions
in London: from theory to practice
Anthony R Day, Chris Dunham, PG Jones and L Hinojosa
Urban energy and carbon management in Leicester
Peter Webber and Paul Fleming
Oxford?s carbon emissions reduction: plans and tools
Rajat Gupta
Integrating energy in urban planning
in Vietnam and Thailand
Jessie L. Todoc
Sustainable energy systems and the urban poor: Nigeria, Brazil, the Philippines
Joy Clancy,
Olu Maduka, Feri Lumampao and Adriana Andrez
Energy planning in South African cities
Leila Mohamed, Mark Borchers, Megan Euston-Brown
Household markets for ethanol – prospects for Ethiopia
Erin Laurell Boyd
Lagos, Nigeria: Sustainable energy technologies for an emerging
African mega-city
Richard Ingwe
Freedom from fossil fuel and nuclear power: the scope for local solutions in the United States
Tam
Hunt
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 664 pages, publication date: MAR-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-08-045341-5
ISBN-10: 0-08-045341-4
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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