Urban Energy Systems for Low Carbon Cities

• Author : Ursula Eicker
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2018-11-30
• ISBN : 9780128115541

With an increase of global energy demand arising in urban settlements, the key challenges for the urban energy transition include analysis of energy efficiency options and the potential of renewable energy systems within the existing building stock, making cities a key actor in the transition success. In Urban Energy Systems for Low Carbon Cities, indicators to evaluate urban energy performance are introduced and the status quo of monitoring and efficiency valuation schemes are discussed. The book discusses advances on the

• Author : Junyue Yan,Bin Chen,Jin Yang
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2016
• ISBN : OCLC:1039293899

• Author : Steffen Lehmann
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2014-09-15
• ISBN : 9781317659136

Low Carbon Cities is a book for practitioners, students and scholars in architecture, urban planning and design. It features essays on ecologically sustainable cities by leading exponents of urban sustainability, case studies of the new directions low carbon cities might take and investigations of how we can mitigate urban heat stress in our cities’ microclimates. The book explores the underlying dimensions of how existing cities can be transformed into low carbon urban systems and describes the design of low carbon

• Author : Jinyue Yan,Ronald Wennersten,Bin Chen,Yuexia Lv
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2016
• ISBN : OCLC:1039262405

• Author : Harriet Bulkeley,Vanesa Castán Broto,Mike Hodson,Simon Marvin
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2010-12-14
• ISBN : 9781136883262

Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a ‘low carbon’ future implies a large scale reorganisation in the way societies produce and use energy. Cities are critical in this transition because they concentrate social and economic activities that produce climate change related emissions. At the same time, cities are increasingly recognised as sources

• Author : James Keirstead,Nilay Shah
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2013-02-27
• ISBN : 9780415529013

Energy demands of cities need to be met more sustainably. This book analyses the technical and social systems that satisfy these needs and asks how methods can be put into practice to achieve this. Drawing on analytical tools and case studies developed at Imperial College London, the book presents state-of-the-art techniques for examining urban energy systems as integrated systems of technologies, resources, and people. Case studies include: a history of the evolution of London's urban energy system, from pre-history to

• Author : Chaouki Ghenai,Tareq Salameh
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release Date : 2018-06-13
• ISBN : 9781789233001

Air conditioning system is one of the major consumers of electrical energy in many parts of the world today. It represents between 40 and 70% of the energy consumption in commercial buildings. The demand of energy for air conditioning systems is expected to increase further in the next decades due to the population growth, the new economic boom, and the urbanization development. The rapid growth of air conditioning and electricity consumption will contribute further to climate change if fossil and nonrenewable resources

• Author : James Keirstead,Nilay Shah
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2013-03-05
• ISBN : 9781135076313

Energy demands of cities need to be met more sustainably. This book analyses the technical and social systems that satisfy these needs and asks how methods can be put into practice to achieve this. Drawing on analytical tools and case studies developed at Imperial College London, the book presents state-of-the-art techniques for examining urban energy systems as integrated systems of technologies, resources, and people. Case studies include: a history of the evolution of London's urban energy system, from pre-history to

• Author : Axel Baeumler,Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez,Shomik Mehndiratta
• Publisher : World Bank Publications
• Release Date : 2012-04-12
• ISBN : 9780821389881

This book summarizes experiences from the World Bank s activities related to low-carbon urban development in China. It highlights the need for low-carbon city development and presents details on specific sector-level experiences and lessons, a framework for action, and financing opportunities.

• Author : Jukka Heinonen,Sanna Ala-Mantila,Ortzi Akizu-Gardoki
• Publisher : MDPI
• Release Date : 2021-04-01
• ISBN : 9783036503622

Ongoing urbanization and ever-growing harmful environmental impacts from urban areas necessitate a sustainability transformation in cities. However, cities are also centers of wealth creation and consumption, which both drive environmental degradation. It is clear that cities need to re-establish themselves as low-energy/low-carbon systems, but the transformation is complex in many ways and time is running out. This Special Issue, “Energy Efficient Cities of Today and Tomorrow”, seeks to provide a more profound understanding of the future energy requirements of

• Author : Liang Bentan
• Publisher : Paths International Ltd
• Release Date : 2016-08-31
• ISBN : 9781844644070

In China, as Internet of Things and cloud-computing have been widely used in various areas, the concept of Intelligent City quickly became one of the most exciting topics in urban development. Various institutes and organizations (e.g., National Technology Department, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences) proposed their ideas on how to build intelligent cities in China. Intelligent City has tremendous benefits to modern China. First of all, China needs to construct its own intelligent cities in

• Author : Shobhakar Dhakal,Matthias Ruth
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2017-03-10
• ISBN : 9783319497303

This book addresses key topics in the current deliberations and debates on low carbon cities that are underway globally. Contributions by experts from around the world focus on the key factors required for creating low carbon cities. These include appropriate infrastructure, ensuring co-benefits of climate actions, making best use of knowledge and information, proper accounting of emissions, and social factors such as behavioral change. Readers will gain a better understanding of these drivers and explore potential transformation pathways for cities.

• Author : Songlin Feng,Weiguang Huang,Jun Wang,Mingquan Wang,Jun Zha
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2015-01-23
• ISBN : 9783662459690

In the face of increasingly serious resource and environmental challenges, the world has already accepted low-carbon development as the main way forward for future city construction. Chinese cities have encountered many problems during their development, including land constraints, energy shortages, traffic congestion and air pollution. For this reason, the national meeting of the Central Work Conference on Urbanization made the strategic decision to take a new approach to urbanization and indicated that in future the key features of urbanization in

• Author : Hooman Farzaneh
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2018-07-13
• ISBN : 9789811307829

This book capitalizes on two hot topics: the Low Carbon Emission Development Strategies and climate change in Asian cities. There is resurgence in making policies to investigate more aspects of the energy-environment spectrum for the global energy market in the future. This book helps the policy makers and researchers to understand which actions should be taken to reduce the environmental impacts of economic activities in different regions in Asia. The clean energy strategy proposed in this book refers to the

• Author : Weiguang Huang,Mingquan Wang,Jun WANG,Kun GAO,Song LI,Chen Liu
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2016-03-29
• ISBN : 9783662490716

This book is based on multidisciplinary research focusing on low-carbon healthy city planning, policy and assessment. This includes city-development strategy, energy, environment, healthy, land-use, transportation, infrastructure, information and other related subjects. This book begins with the current status and problems of low-carbon healthy city development in China. It then introduces the global experience of different regions and different policy trends, focusing on individual cases. Finally, the book opens a discussion of Chinese low-carbon healthy city development from planning and design,