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Urban energy transition : from fossil fuels to renewable power /

Contemporary cities, initially shaped by the logic of the Industrial Revolution, have evolved into a worldwide urbanization force, driven by readily available and relatively cheap fossil fuel supplies. They now face major changes as the fossil fuel era rapidly comes to a close. The end of this era m...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Group Author: Droege, Peter
Published: Elsevier,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; Boston ; London :
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Cities and towns > Energy consumption
Greenhouse gas mitigation
Greenhouse gas mitigation > Government policy
City and town life > Environmental aspects
City planning > Environmental aspects
Villes > Consommation d'e nergie
Gaz a effet de serre > Re duction
Gaz a effet de serre > Re duction > Politique gouvernementale
Vie urbaine > Aspect de l'environnement
Urbanisme > Aspect de l'environnement
Stadt
Energieverbrauch
Energieeinsparung
Erneuerbare Energien
Kohlendioxidemission
Emissionsverringerung
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080453415
Summary: Contemporary cities, initially shaped by the logic of the Industrial Revolution, have evolved into a worldwide urbanization force, driven by readily available and relatively cheap fossil fuel supplies. They now face major changes as the fossil fuel era rapidly comes to a close. The end of this era marks the emergence of a new urbanism based on a massive energy transformation, characterized by the growing embrace of efficiency programs, sustainable forms of distributed energy generation, and new urban structures, market approaches, technologies, and policies. If a soft landing from the fossil
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (vii, 655 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780080453415
0080453414
9780080560465
0080560466
Index Number: HT165
CLC: TU984
Contents: Urban energy transition: an introduction -- 1 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 environment

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