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Energizing Sustainable Cities - Assessing Urban Energy (Paperback, New)
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Energizing Sustainable Cities - Assessing Urban Energy (Paperback, New)
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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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