E-raamat: Urban Energy Transition: Renewable Strategies for Cities and Regions

Urban Energy Transition: From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy, Second Edition, provides a cross-disciplinary handbook that covers a range of diverse topics, including carbon emissions policy and practice, the role of embodied energy, urban thermal performance planning, building efficiency services, renewable community support networks, urban renewable energy legislation, programs and incentives, global urban mobility trends, the implications of intelligent energy networks and distributed energy supply and storage, and the case for new regional monetary systems and lifestyles.

This book is the definitive science and practice-based compendium of energy transformations in the global urban system. It is a timely resource as communities, from small villages, to megacities and metro regions, move increasingly towards renewable energy as infrastructure investment, resilience strategy and a source of revenue.

• Covers the technical, environmental and sociological issues related to urban energy
• Contains chapters on societal issues, such as energy poverty alleviation, the aspects of household level biofuel markets and innovations in individual transport systems
• Includes case studies from around the globe that provide country-specific organizational perspectives
• Provides a systems-based understanding of policy frameworks and action agendas