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Energizing Sustainable Cities Assessing Urban Energy

By: Arnulf Grübler(Editor), David Fisk(Editor)
213 pages, 16 colour & 30 b/w illustrations, 23 tables
Publisher: Earthscan
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Urban systems now house about half of the world's population, but determine some three quarters of the global economy and its associated energy use and resulting environmental impacts. The twenty-first century will be increasingly urban. Sustainable development therefore needs first to be defined and analyzed, and then realized in urban settings. Energy is one of the key challenges, but also one of the key opportunities in the required urban sustainability transition.

Energizing Sustainable Cities is the result of a major international effort to conduct the first comprehensive assessment of energy-related urban sustainability issues conducted under the auspices of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA). The assessment is also unique in that it embeds energy issues into the broader sustainability agenda of cities: including housing for the poor, functional transport systems, as well as environmental quality, in addition to the challenges imposed by climate change.

Written by an eminent team of internationally renowned scholars it presents new data, new analysis, as well as new policy insights. It includes the first comprehensive global coverage overview of urban energy use and of the specifics of urban energy demand and supply. Major development and sustainability challenges of cities are assessed in detail and public and private sector opportunities and constraints of a sustainability transition examined in detail. Technological and policy options are put in a much needed context in terms of their respective role as drivers of urban energy demand as well as potentials for reductions in energy use and associated emissions of local pollutants as well as greenhouse gases. The analysis presents both a comprehensive literature review as well as novel, spatially explicit models of integrated urban energy policy analysis. Energizing Sustainable Cities concludes with a summary assessment of policy options, priorities as well as paradoxes.
 

Contents

1. Introduction and Overview (Arnulf Grubler and David Fisk)
2. Urbanization Past and Future (Arnulf Grubler and Thomas Buettner)
3. Urbanization Dynamics (David Fisk)
4. City Walls and Urban Hinterlands: The Importance of System Boundaries (Julia Steinberger and Helga Weisz)
5. Urban Energy Use (Arnulf Grubler and Niels B. Schulz)
6. Energy Access and Housing for Low-income Groups in Urban Areas (David Satterthwaite and Alice Sverdlik)
7. Energy Demand and Air Pollution Densities, including Heat Island Effects (Niels B. Schulz, Arnulf Grubler and Toshiaki Ichinose)
8. Supply Constraints and Urban Policy Frameworks (David Fisk)
9. Drivers of Urban Energy Use and Main Policy Leverages (Xuemei Bai, Shobhakar Dhakal, Julia Steinberger, and Helga Weisz)
10. Transport Systems (Gerd Sammer)
11. Urban Energy Systems Planning, Design and Implementation (James E. Keirstead and Nilay Shah)
12. Urban Air Quality Management (Shobhakar Dhakal)
13. Summary and Conclusion (Arnulf Grubler and David Fisk)

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By: Arnulf Grübler(Editor), David Fisk(Editor)
213 pages, 16 colour & 30 b/w illustrations, 23 tables
Publisher: Earthscan
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