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| Author | : Karl Coplan |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2019-12-31 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0231549164 |
Any realistic response to climate change will require reducing carbon emissions to a sustainable level. Yet even people who already recognize that the climate is the most urgent issue facing the planet struggle to understand their individual responsibilities. Is it even possible to live with a sustainable carbon footprint in modern American society—much less to live well? What are the options for those who would like to make climate awareness part of their daily lives but don’t want to go off the grid or become a hermit? In Live Sustainably Now, Karl Coplan shares his personal journey of attempting to cut back on carbon without giving up the amenities of a suburban middle-class lifestyle. Coplan chronicles the joys and challenges of a year on a carbon budget—kayaking to work, hunting down electric-car charging stations, eating a Mediterranean-style diet, and enjoying plenty of travel on weekends and vacations while avoiding long-distance flights. He explains how to set a personal carbon cap and measure your actual footprint, with his own results detailed in monthly diary entries. Presenting the pros and cons of different energy, transportation, and lifestyle options, Live Sustainably Now shows that there does not have to be a trade-off between the ethical obligation to maintain a sustainable carbon footprint and the belief that life should be fulfilling and fun. This powerful and persuasive book provides an individual-level blueprint for a carbon-sustainable tweak to the American dream.
| Author | : Hermann Scheer |
| Publisher | : Earthscan |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 184977112X |
For 200 years industrial civilization has relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap carbon fuels. But continued reliance has had perilous consequences. On the one hand there is the insecurity of relying on the world's most unstable region - the Middle East - compounded by the imminence of peak oil, growing scarcity and mounting prices. On the other, the potentially cataclysmic consequences of continuing to burn fossil fuels, as the evidence of accelerating climate change shows. Yet there is a solution: to make the transition to renewable sources of energy and distributed, decentralized energy generation. It is a model that has been proven, technologically, commercially and politically, as Scheer comprehensively demonstrates here. The alternative of a return to nuclear power - again being widely advocated - he shows to be compromised and illusory. The advantages of renewable energy are so clear and so overwhelming that resistance to them needs diagnosis - which Scheer also provides, showing why and how entrenched interests and one-dimensional structures of thinking oppose the transition, and what must be done to overcome these obstacles.The new book from the award-winning author of THE SOLAR ECONOMY and A SOLAR MANIFESTO demonstrates why the transition to renewable energy is essential and how it can be done.
| Author | : Skip Laitner |
| Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 84 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Energy consumption |
| ISBN | : 0788137441 |
This report will help users to better understand how energy expenditures affect the overall economic well-being of the 13 states within the Southeastern U.S. This volume is a survey of energy production, energy consumption, and energy import data for the U.S. and the aggregate Southeastern U.S. The comparison is made in both dollars and energy units. Covers: coal, natural gas, crude oil, uranium, municipal solid waste, hydropower, biomass, geothermal, solar thermal, solar hot water, photovoltaic and wind. etc. References and bibliography. Glossary.
| Author | : Agencia Internacional de la Energía |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Energy consumption |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Antonello Monti |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2016-09-21 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0128103981 |
Energy Positive Neighborhoods and Smart Energy Districts: Methods, Tools, and Experiences from the Field is a comprehensive guide to this highly interdisciplinary topic. Monti et. al's combined experience make them the most qualified team of editors to explore the processes and tools involved in creating Energy Positive Neighborhoods and Smart Energy Districts in an urban setting. Tools include: - A complete simulation library to quickly support the implementation of a model of the scenario - A set of possible approaches to neighborhood energy optimization - An open, extensible information model for neighbourhood asset description The structure of this book offers different reading paths to appeal to the very varied audience it addresses. It describes the process of adaption and the challenges faced by the decision makers, and also how simulation, optimisation, ICT approaches and business models are combined in a holistic and pragmatic way. It also offers possible business models and a means to quantify them to complete the development process. This book is suitable for students on muti-disciplinary energy engineering courses, energy practitioners, ICT vendors aiming to develop new services to target the building industry, and decision makers aiming to structure an urban renovation program. - Delivers a significant amount of exclusive knowledge on the topics of energy positive neighborhoods and smart energy districts - Allows readers to grasp the complexity of this interdisciplinary topic by providing access to well-structured processes and tools - Includes real life examples of the transformation of two demonstration sites that illustrate the concepts discussed to add context and value to their implementation
| Author | : Eduardo Medeiros |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2024-11-13 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1040216285 |
The concept of self-sufficiency involves the notion of sustainable, circular, and carbon-neutral cities. This book examines how urban planning can lead to greater self-sufficiency. It sheds light on how urban and regional circular and self-sufficiency development can effectively contribute towards the ultimate goals of the United Nations (UN) Agenda 2030 and the European Union (EU) Green Deal. It not only embraces the scientific fields of regional and urban studies but also addresses environmental sustainability-related and regional resilience aspects, such as renewable energy production, sustainable mobility, and the circular economy. This book offers a full toolkit of knowledge on how to effectively implement planning approaches for circular and self-sufficiency development at both urban and regional levels. It begins by presenting a theoretical framework and debate on urban and regional planning approaches that can effectively make cities and regions circular and self-sufficient in certain development domains, such as producing intra-city electric energy, sustainable mobility, and promoting a circular economy. Further, it advances a range of policy development proposals aiming at providing a comprehensive introduction to contemporary thinking about how cities and regions can design innovative planning and governance processes and, where appropriate, build capacity to implement systemic and integrated climate-neutral policies, building on existing place-based territorial capital and experiences developed by local and regional networks. The chapters are written by established authors in their respective domains. This book will thoroughly prepare students and provide knowledge to academics, researchers, and policymakers in the fields of urban and regional planning/development and studies, environmental sustainability, regional resilience, human geography, economic development, and public/EU/UN policies.
| Author | : Fanny Lopez |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2019-04-26 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1119616255 |
In recent years, interest for local energy production, supply and consumption has increased in academic and public debates. In particular, contemporary energy transition discourses and strategies often emphasize the search for increased local energy autonomy, a phrase which can refer to a diverse range of configurations, both in terms of the spaces and scales of the local territory considered and in terms of what is meant by energy autonomy. This book explores policies, projects and processes aimed at increased local energy autonomy, with a particular focus on their spatial, infrastructural and political dimensions. In doing so, the authors – Sabine Barles, Bruno Barroca, Guilhem Blanchard, Benoit Boutaud, Arwen Colell, Gilles Debizet, Ariane Debourdeau, Laure Dobigny, Florian Dupont, Zélia Hampikian, Sylvy Jaglin, Allan Jones, Raphael Ménard, Alain Nadaï, Angela Pohlmann, Cyril Roger-Lacan, Eric Vidalenc – improve our understanding of the always partial and controversial processes of energy relocation that articulate forms of local metabolic self-sufficiency, socio-technical decentralization and political empowerment. Comprising fifteen chapters, the book is divided into four parts: Governance and Actors; Urban Projects and Energy Systems; Energy Communities; and The Challenges of Energy Autonomy.
| Author | : United Nations |
| Publisher | : Energy Statistics of Non-OECD |
| Total Pages | : 76 |
| Release | : 2021-04-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9789212591643 |
This publication is the fourth in a series of pocketbook compilations on energy statistics designed to highlight the availability of data on various aspects of energy production, transformation and use and its linkages to other key statistics. Energy is central to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on climate change, and sound energy statistics are the basis for the reliable measurement of progress, thereby assisting the formulation of policy measures to achieve international and national sustainable development goals.
| Author | : International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA |
| Publisher | : International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2020-04-01 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 9292602500 |
This outlook highlights climate-safe investment options until 2050, policies for transition and specific regional challenges. It also explores options to eventually cut emissions to zero.
| Author | : Manfred Hafner |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 398 |
| Release | : 2020-06-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3030390667 |
The world is currently undergoing an historic energy transition, driven by increasingly stringent decarbonisation policies and rapid advances in low-carbon technologies. The large-scale shift to low-carbon energy is disrupting the global energy system, impacting whole economies, and changing the political dynamics within and between countries. This open access book, written by leading energy scholars, examines the economic and geopolitical implications of the global energy transition, from both regional and thematic perspectives. The first part of the book addresses the geopolitical implications in the world’s main energy-producing and energy-consuming regions, while the second presents in-depth case studies on selected issues, ranging from the geopolitics of renewable energy, to the mineral foundations of the global energy transformation, to governance issues in connection with the changing global energy order. Given its scope, the book will appeal to researchers in energy, climate change and international relations, as well as to professionals working in the energy industry.
