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The complexity of carbon reduction and economic sustainability is significantly complicated by competing aspects of socioeconomic practices as well as legislative, regulatory, and scientific requirements and protocols. An easy to read and understand guide, Sioshansi, along with an international grou...
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Butterworth-Heinemann,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123851369 |
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The complexity of carbon reduction and economic sustainability is significantly complicated by competing aspects of socioeconomic practices as well as legislative, regulatory, and scientific requirements and protocols. An easy to read and understand guide, Sioshansi, along with an international group of contributors, moves through the maze of carbon reduction methods and technologies, providing steps and insights to meet carbon reduction requirements and maintaining the health and welfare of the firm. The book's three part treatment is based on a clear and rigorous exposition of a wide range of options to reduce the carbon footprint Part 1 of the book, Challenge of Sustainability, examines the fundamental drivers of energy demand - economic growth, the need for basic energy services, and the interdependence of economic, political, environmental, social, equity, legacy and policy issues. Part 2 of the book, Technological Solutions, examines how energy can be used to support basic energy service needs of homes, commercial and industrial facilities and for other applications. Part 3 of the book, case studies, covers a number of innovative projects, initiatives, concepts or self-imposed targets in different parts of the world with the aim of significantly reducing energy use and carbon footprint of a company, a community, a city or an entire country. There was a widespread recognition among environmental engineers and energy economist of the importance of carbon reduction while sustaining the firm's economic growth. The only book to bring together both subjects into one easy to understand reference, Carbon Reduction and Economic Sustainability not only clearly explains which option has the lowest energy/carbon footprint but also which option would better suit the business in question. This includes carbon reduction for residential, transport, industrial and public sectors. The only book to clearly explain the economic and environmental engineering aspects of carbon re |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780123851369 012385136X |
| Index Number: | TJ808 |
| CLC: | TK01 |
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Can We Have Our Cake and Eat It Too? -- Challenge of Sustainability -- Why Do We Use So Much Energy, and What For? / Which Energy Future? / Energy "Needs", Desires, and Wishes: Anthropological Insights and Prospective Views / Equity, Economic Growth, and Lifestyle / We Can't Have Our Cake and Eat it Too: Why the Energy and Climate Problems Cannot Be Solved in Consumer-Capitalist Society / Sustainability: Will There Be the Will and the Means? / Is It Possible to Have It Both Ways? / Efficiency First: Designing Markets to Save Energy, and the Planet / Technological Fixes -- Getting to Zero: Green Building and Net Zero Energy Homes / Beyond the Meter: Enabling Better Home Energy Management / How Organizations Can Drive Behavior-Based Energy Efficiency / Reinventing Industrial Energy Use in a Resource-Constrained World / Prospects for Renewable Energy / Heating Systems When Little Heating Is Needed / Case Studies -- 15 Why China Matters / Swiss 2000-Watt Society: A Sustainable Energy Vision for the Future / Zeroing in on Zero Net Energy / Toward Carbon Neutrality: |