Urban Energy Transition
Cities and Regions for a Stable Climate
- 3rd Edition - November 28, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editor: Peter Droege
- Language: English
Urban Energy Transition, Third Edition: Cities and Regions for a stable climate is the most current scientific and practice-based compendium on energy transformations in the globa… Read more
Urban Energy Transition, Third Edition: Cities and Regions for a stable climate is the most current scientific and practice-based compendium on energy transformations in the global urban system. It also yields perspectives on climate stabilization and the need for comprehensive and additional climate action and policy frames that work in conjunction with the energy transition. This fresh volume examines both established and emerging economic, design, governance, policy and technology related insights and contains contributions from Africa, Asia, Australia, Central Europe and North America.
- Covers design, engineering, planning, and modeling of urban climate change adaptation and mitigation measures;
- Presents global city-wide renewable energy strategies, resource efficiency and urban thermal performance planning, electric vehicle accommodation and solar-smart distributed renewable energy systems;
- Explains successful innovations in distributed renewable energy communities, finance, policy and the need to manage emerging conflicts and divergent realities in a warming world;
- Includes analytic case insights into successful practices from around that provide local, regional, and country-specific and global governance and organizational perspectives.
Energy and sustainability practitioners and researchers, scholars, teachers and students in sustainability and urban energy managers, Scientific communities in the field of social sciences, technology studies, sustainability studies, regional studies, urban- and regional planning
The great shift
From cities of waste to climate stabilizing communities
Peter Droege
Solar and smart cities
Smart solar integration insights from four pioneers: Masdar City, Stockholm, Freiburg and San Diego
Saeed Esfandi and John Byrne
Urban housing transformations
Refurbishing suburbs to regenerate cities: energy, architecture and technology for housing
Eliana Cangelli, Michele Conteduca, Hassan Zaiter and Elnaz Behnam Kia
Distributed renewable energy
Enabling distributed renewable energy uptake in South African cities
Tanaka Shumba-Mukudu, Mark Borchers, Joshua Archibald Dippenaar and Silas Mulaudzi
Net-zero to climate-positive city
Towards a climate-positive world: the dramatic shift to net-zero, then climate-positive cities
Peter Newman, Jan Peters, Xavi Riuz Arozarena and Jemma Green
The renewable energy precinct
Learning from Fairwater Living Laboratory – towards a precinct-based approach for decarbonization and regeneration
Leena Thomas, Nimish Biloria, Sara Wilkinson, Joseph Wyndham and Alfredo Huete
Cities after petroleum
Transition from the oil economy to post-oil cities
Roger Brewster
EV infrastructure propagation
Electric vehicle adoption: a review of the quality of infrastructure in Kenya
Winfred Kimuya and Wilson Ombati Nyang’au
Towards autonomous islands
Designing a safe and cost-efficient power supply with a PV system in the City of Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia
Parag Patil, Giovanni Maurice Pradipta and Dieter D. Genske
Beyond heat islands
Energy conservation effects on air conditioning due to urban heat island countermeasures: a simulation at city-block scale
Yujiro Hirano and Toshiaki Ichinose
Building in the Pyrocene
Resistant architecture for bushfire zones
Deborah Ascher Barnstone
The role of the building sector
Net-zero buildings: exploring the complexity of a sector-wide transition in the new-buildings sector in South African cities
Megan Euston-Brown
Understanding energy in cities
Energy and emission profiles of sub-Saharan African cities: an evidence-based analysis to empower cities in responding to energy and climate change Issues
Joel Yongoua Nana, Mark Borchers and Zanie Cilliers
Urban energy governance
Community assumption of energy governance shifts decision-making and planning in the U.S. to community clean-energy authorities
John Byrne and Job Taminiau
Public urban energy innovators
Empirical analysis of local government efforts in the U.S. to drive urban energy transition: subscriber versus community solar energy
Job Taminiau, John Byrne and Thomas Benson
Metropolltan energy transition
Climate neutrality in large cities – the Berlin case
Bernd Hirschl
Thermal city and community perspectives
Accelerated heat transition in Germany: socio-economic challenges using the example of Berlin
Julika Weiss and Janis Bergmann
Tapping liquid waste for urban energy efficiency
Wastewater heat in Berlin: how geo-based wastewater heat maps and wastewater heat can contribute to a low-carbon urban energy system
Elisa Dunkelberg, Lukas Torliene, Michel Gunkel and Heinrich Gürtler
Searching for urban resource efficiency
Decarbonization of urban environment by municipal solid waste-to-energy system: technical and policy considerations
Ogheneruona Endurance Diemuodeke, Kesiena Owebor and Chukwumerije Okereke
Avoiding unintended consequences
Burning landscapes: the country's great transformation through renewable energies threatens to fail because of its mistakes
Uli Hellweg
Nature-based support in national strategies
Unlocking nature-based solutions for climate resilience: mangroves and Somalia’s Nationally Determined Contributions
Liban Hassan
Shoring up the biosphere
All for Earth: accelerating the urban energy transition in its planetary rescue context
Peter Droege
- Edition: 3
- Latest edition
- Published: November 28, 2025
- Language: English
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Peter Droege
Peter Droege directs Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development, LISD, active in the transition to regenerative communities and regions. Professor Droege served as President of the European Association for Renewable Energy, Eurosolar, and Executive Chairman, World Council for Renewable Energy. He received the European Solar Prize in Education and initiated the Chair for Sustainable Spatial Development at the University of Liechtenstein, holding a Honorary Professorship at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Droege is co-founder of the Global Climate Geodesign Challenge evolved in the International Geodesign Collaboration with Esri. He taught at MIT, Tokyo University and the University of Sydney and has authored and edited books such as Intelligent Environments; Renewable City; Urban Energy Transition; Climate Design; 100-Percent Renewable; Regenerative Region; Regenerative Spaces; Cross-Border Life and Work; Urban Energy Transition 2; Intelligent Environments 2; and Urban and Regional Agriculture.
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development, President, Eurosolar, European Association of Renewable Energy and General Chairman, World Council for Renewable Energy