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This book calls for rethinking current climate, energy and sustainability policy-making by presenting new insights into the rebound phenomenon; i.e., the driving forces, mechanisms and extent of rebound effects and potential means of mitigating them. It pursues an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-18
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This monograph adresses the challenge of the environmental assessment of leightweight electric vehicles. It poses the question whether the use of lightweight materials in electric vehicles can reduce the vehicles’ environmental impact and compares the environmental...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-07-25
Collection :
Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management
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This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent for the past 150 years...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-07-14
Collection :
The Frontiers Collection
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Thermal Solar Desalination: Methods and Systems presents numerous thermal seawater desalination technologies varying from the very simple, easy to construct and operate solar stills, to the more advance membrane and indirect distillation methods. All types of solar...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2016-06-28
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In this book, leading international experts explore the emerging concept of the zero energy mass custom home (ZEMCH) – designed to meet the need for social, economic, and environmental sustainability – and provide all of the knowledge required for the delivery of zero...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-06-25
Collection :
Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering
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Das interdisziplinär aufgebaute Buch bietet kommunalen Energieversorgern Hilfestellung, damit sie ihre Energieverbundsysteme analysieren und optimal steuern lernen. Es gibt einen Überblick über den Aufbau und die Komponenten von kommunalen Energieverbundsystemen. Die...
Editeur :
Springer Vieweg
Parution :
2016-06-13
ePub
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Low-Carbon Energy Security from a European Perspective draws on the European Commission's funded project MILESECURE-2050. It considers low-carbon energy security and energy geopolitics in Europe, with a focus on four thematic clusters: challenging the energy security...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2016-06-08
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This Brief identifies various aspects of energy challenges faced by the Chinese central/local governments, and also provides an opportunity to study how best to achieve green growth and a low-carbon transition in a developing country like China. The progress of China’s...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-06-02
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
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This book focuses on the impacts of the built environment, and how to predict and measure the benefits and consequences of changes taking place to address sustainability in the development and building industries. It draws together the best treatments of these subjects...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-19
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In this book, a number of long-term energy scenarios are developed for Nigeria considering the impact of vital factors that may influence energy policies in the country’s future energy system. The energy scenarios were developed through the Long-Range Energy...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-18
Collection :
Frontiers in African Business Research
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This book presents an in-depth
empirical analysis of consumer response to alternative policies for energy
conservation. Its main focus is on innovative policy instruments that have
attracted increasing attention from academics and energy conservation...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-12
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Economics
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Developing the Global Bioeconomy: Technical, Market, and Environmental Lessons from Bioenergy brings together expertise from three IEA-Bioenergy subtasks on pyrolysis, international trade, and biorefineries to review the bioenergy sector and draw useful lessons for the...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2016-05-02
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This detailed case study of Gazprom explores motivation behind the company's foreign policies, it's strategies and tactics. It examines the challenges Gazprom faces in the European market and emphasizes the role of politics in Russsia's gas trade.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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This book provides an up-to-date, rigorous analysis of the state of the art of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation. It focuses on the economic analysis of solar PV generation technologies as well as the policies that have been devised and implemented around the globe to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-04-22
Collection :
Green Energy and Technology
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This book introduces the issues and problems that arise when implementing smart energy management for sustainable manufacturing in the automotive manufacturing industry and the analytical tools and applications to deal with them. It uses a number of illustrative...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-04-15
Collection :
Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing
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This Brief identifies various aspects of energy challenges faced by the Chinese central/local governments, and also provides an opportunity to study how best to achieve green growth and a low-carbon transition in a developing country like China. The progress of China’s...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-04-07
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
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This resource is the first-ever compilation of industry-authored case studies on how power companies are making strides toward achieving sustainable electricity in North America. The book features recent game changing efforts, candid insider stories about...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-04-03
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Future of Utilities - Utilities of the Future: How technological innovations in distributed generation will reshape the electric power sector relates the latest information on the electric power sector its rapid transformation, particularly on the distribution network...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2016-03-15
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This book investigates energy management
approaches for energy efficient or energy-centric system design and
architecture and presents end-to-end energy management in the recent
heterogeneous-type wireless network medium. It also considers energy management
in wireless...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-01-14
Collection :
Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
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This volume features papers from the 18th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, held by the University of Zaragoza in collaboration with the Spanish Association of Project Management and Engineering (AEIPRO). It illustrates the state of the art...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-12-21
Collection :
Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering
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