Urban Energy And Climate

Author : M. Santamouris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113425797X
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy and Climate in the Urban Built Environment written by M. Santamouris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both the number and percentage of people living in urban areas is growing rapidly. Up to half of the world's population is expected to be living in a city by the end of the century and there are over 170 cities in the world with populations over a million. Cities have a huge impact on the local climate and require vast quantities of energy to keep them functioning. The urban environment in turn has a big impact on the performance and needs of buildings. The size, scale and mechanism of these interactions is poorly understood and strategies to mitigate them are rarely implemented. This is the first comprehensive book to address these questions. It arises out of a programme of work (POLISTUDIES) carried out for the Save programme of the European Commission. Chapters describe not only the main problems encountered such as the heat island and canyon effects, but also a range of design solutions that can be adopted both to improve the energy performance and indoor air quality of individual buildings and to look at aspects of urban design that can reduce these climatic effects. The book concludes with some examples of innovative urban bioclimatic buildings. The project was co-ordinated by Professor Mat Santamouris from the University of Athens who is also the editor of the book. Other contributions are from the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, ENTPE, Lyons, France and the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Author : Peter Droege
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080560465
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Energy Transition written by Peter Droege and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium of 29 chapters from 18 countries contains both fundamental and advanced insight into the inevitable shift from cities dominated by the fossil-fuel systems of the industrial age to a renewable-energy based urban development framework. The cross-disciplinary handbook covers a range of diverse yet relevant topics, including: carbon emissions policy and practice; the role of embodied energy; urban thermal performance planning; building efficiency services; energy poverty alleviation efforts; renewable community support networks; aspects of household level bio-fuel markets; urban renewable energy legislation, programs and incentives; innovations in individual transport systems; global urban mobility trends; implications of intelligent energy networks and distributed energy supply and storage; and the case for new regional monetary systems and lifestyles. Presented are practical and principled aspects of technology, economics, design, culture and society, presenting perspectives that are both local and international in scope and relevance.

Author : Peter Marcotullio
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811268134
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Energy And Climate: Prospects For A Sustainable Transition written by Peter Marcotullio and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the continuous migration of people towards metropolitan areas in search of employment, the demands for core services and energy, coupled with an increasing awareness of the impact of climate change, have placed the management and planning of global urban energy under a lot of pressure. Trends toward urban energy service transformations that offer greater affordability, reliability, efficiency and adaptability provide hope for a global sustainable future. At the same time, there are also limits to these transitions, as well as risks involved. For example, on one end of the spectrum, our urban energy future includes land use sprawl, high fossil fuel use, pollution, and unhealthy urban conditions. On the other side of this transition spectrum is more energy choices, and healthier, more livable cities, along with less energy use and fewer greenhouse gas emissions. What the future might hold for transforming the world's cities depends upon an understanding of the risks of current trajectories and the opportunities for and limitations to developing sustainable urban energy systems.This edited volume brings together leading experts on the prospects and challenges of urban energy innovation and on related-economic, social and environmental sustainability transitions. The focus of the volume is on multidisciplinary reviews, research informing technologies and policies for sustainability, and analytical insights addressing rapid urbanization and changes across a diverse typology of global cities. The volume will include an overview of the current state of urban energy systems. It will also document and evaluate urban energy prospects for a sustainable, resilient future.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264091378
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities and Climate Change written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how city and metropolitan regional governments working in tandem with national governments can change the way we think about responding to climate change.

Author : James Keirstead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415529018
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Energy Systems written by James Keirstead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the technical and social systems that satisfy these needs and asks how methods can be put into practice to achieve this.

Author : Peter Marcotullio
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9789811268113
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Energy and Climate written by Peter Marcotullio and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the continues migration of people towards metropolitan areas in search of employment, the demands for core services and energy, coupled with an increasing awareness of the impact of climate change, have placed the management and planning of global urban energy under a lot of pressure. Trends toward urban energy service transformations that offer greater affordability, reliability, efficiency and adaptability provide hope for a global sustainable future. At the same time, there are also limits to these transitions, as well as risks involved. For example, on one end of the spectrum, our urban energy future includes land use sprawl, high fossil fuel use, pollution, and unhealthy urban conditions. On the other side of this transition spectrum is more energy choices, and healthier, more livable cities, along with less energy use and fewer greenhouse gas emissions. What the future might hold for transforming the world's cities depends upon an understanding of the risks of current trajectories and the opportunities for and limitations to developing sustainable urban energy systems. This edited volume brings together leading experts on the prospects and challenges of urban energy innovation and on related-economic, social and environmental sustainability transitions. The focus of the volume is on multidisciplinary reviews, research informing technologies and policies for sustainability, and analytical insights addressing rapid urbanization and changes across a diverse typology of global cities. The volume will include an overview of the current state of urban energy systems. It will also document and evaluate urban energy prospects for a sustainable, resilient future"--

Author : Arnulf Grübler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1849714398
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energizing Sustainable Cities written by Arnulf Grübler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century will be increasingly urban.

Author : Helmut E. Landsberg
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0080924190
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Urban Climate written by Helmut E. Landsberg and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1981-08-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Urban Climate aims to summarize analytical studies directed toward physical understanding of the rural-urban differences in the atmospheric boundary layer. Attempts to quantify conditions have met with some success. There is certainly a clear understanding of the physical relations that create the climatic differences of urbanized areas. Although some of the earlier classical studies are cited here, the emphasis is on the work done during the last decade and a half. This volume comprises 11 chapters, beginning with an introductory chapter discussing the literature surrounding the topic, its historical development, and the problem of local climate modification. The second chapter presents an assessment of the urban atmosphere on a synoptic and local scale, and examines the observational procedures involved. The following chapters then go on to discuss urban air composition; urban energy fluxes; the urban heat island; the urban wind field; models of urban temperature and wind fields; moisture, clouds, and hydrometeors; urban hydrology; special aspects of urban climate; and finally, urban planning. This book will be of interest to practitioners in the fields of meteorology, urban planning, and urban climatology.

Author : Peter Droege
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0081020759
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Energy Transition written by Peter Droege and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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

Author : Heba Allah Essam E. Khalil
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482250659
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy Efficiency in the Urban Environment written by Heba Allah Essam E. Khalil and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy Efficiency in the Urban Environment is a study of energy crisis, urbanisation, and climate change, as well as a discussion of how to combat these global challenges. With a special focus on Egypt, this book addresses the macroscale of urbanism from the perspective of city dwellers' quality of life, and explores the microscale of buildings and