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 21st
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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