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Urban Energy Transition
Renewable Strategies for Cities and Regions
- 2nd Edition - August 12, 2018
- Editor: Peter Droege
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 0 7 4 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 0 7 5 - 3
Urban Energy Transition, second edition, is the definitive science and practice-based compendium of energy transformations in the global urban system. This volume is a timely and r… Read more
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Request a sales quoteUrban Energy Transition, second edition, is the definitive science and practice-based compendium of energy transformations in the global urban system. This volume is a timely and rich resource for all, as citizens, companies and their communities, from remote villages to megacities and metropolitan regions, rapidly move away from fossil fuel and nuclear power, to renewable energy as civic infrastructure investment, source of revenue and prosperity, and existential resilience strategy.
- Covers technical, financial, systems, urban planning and design, landscape, mapping and modelling, and sociological issues related to urban renewable energy transformations
- Presents city-wide renewable energy strategies and urban thermal performance planning, sector coupling, and smart distributed renewable energy and storage systems
- Examines individual and mass transport systems in the contexts of urban mobility trends and energy innovations
- Explains successful innovations in solar bond finance, blockchain technology enabled peer-to-peer renewable energy trading systems, and the case for renewable energy based regional monetary systems
- Features foci on societal, community and user enabling aspects such as energy justice, prosperity and democracy, and urban renewable energy legislation, programs and incentives
- Includes analytic case insights into successful practices from around the globe that provide local, regional and country-specific governance and organizational perspectives
Urban energy managers and urban planners; policy makers, practitioners and researchers in urban sustainability; scholars, teachers and students
- No. of pages: 706
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: August 12, 2018
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081020746
- eBook ISBN: 9780081020753
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Peter Droege
Peter Droege directs the Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development, the global advisory and research organization for the rapid transition to regenerative communities, cities, regions and infrastructure. Professor Droege serves also as President of Eurosolar, the European Association for Renewable Energy, and as General Chairman, World Council for Renewable Energy. A recipient of the European Solar Prize in Education, Peter Droege initiated the Chair for Sustainable Spatial Development at the University of Liechtenstein while holding a Conjoint Professorship at the Faculty of Engineering, School of Architecure and the Built Environment, University of Newcastle, Australia. Professor Droege has authored or edited numerous books, including Intelligent Environments (Elsevier 1997), Urban Energy Transition, 1st Edition: From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Power (Elsevier 2008).
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Director, Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development, President, Eurosolar, European Association of Renewable Energy and General Chairman, World Council for Renewable EnergyRead Urban Energy Transition on ScienceDirect