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Engineering (R0) eBook Series

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  • Dimensions of the Sustainable City

    Edited by Mike Jenks, Colin Jones ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The CityForm consortium’s latest book, Dimensions of the Sustainable City, is the first book to report on an empirical multi-disciplinary study specifically designed to address urban sustainability. Drawing together the various dimensions of sustainability – economic, social, transport, energy and ecological – the book examines their relationships both to each other and to urban form.The book ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Surviving the 21st Century

    Humanity's Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them

    by Julian Cribb ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us? Besides describing these challenges from the latest scientific perspectives, it also outlines and integrates the solutions, both at global and individual level and concludes optimistically. This book brings together in one easy-to ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Spain’s Photovoltaic Revolution

    The Energy Return on Investment

    by Pedro A. Prieto, Charles A. S. Hall ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROI or EROEI) is the amount of energy acquired from a particular energy source divided by the energy expended, or invested, in obtaining that energy. EROI is an essential and seemingly simple measure of the usable energy or “energy profit” from the exploitation of an energy source, but it is not so easy to determine all of the energy expenditures that should ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Modern Solid Waste Management in Practice

    The City of Malmö Experience

    by Anna Bernstad Saraiva Schott, Henrik Aspegren, Mimmi Bissmont, Jes la Cour Jansen ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book focuses on sustainable solid waste management in an urban context and gives an example of how a modern city can work with waste management for increased sustainability in close cooperation with the academy. The book describes challenges which the city is facing and presents a case on how these can be tackled based on several research and development projects performed in the City of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Energy Efficiency and the Future of Real Estate

    Edited by N. Edward Coulson, Yongsheng Wang, Clifford A. Lipscomb ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores how energy efficiency is a major component in the development of sustainable real estate. Efficiency is one of the most frequently-mentioned aspects of government policies for green building design in the United States and around the world. There has been a significant amount of effort devoted to the creation of green practices in real estate, including building construction, ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Integrated Spatial and Energy Planning

    Supporting Climate Protection and the Energy Turn with Means of Spatial Planning

    by Gernot Stoeglehner, Georg Neugebauer, Susanna Erker, Michael Narodoslawsky ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book focuses on spatial planning – an important determinant of energy saving and renewable energy supply. Revealing the key driving forces for spatial development supporting the shift towards energy efficiency and renewable energy supplies, it shows the importance of integrated spatial and energy planning approaches for a timely and sustainable change of energy systems, thus supporting ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Energy Law: An Introduction

    by Raphael J. Heffron ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The aim of this short text is simply to introduce a reader to this topic. It is intended for a global audience and rather than being restricted to potential energy law students of a particular country. It is also written for students of other disciplines such as geographers, social scientists and engineers. It should also be engaging to those in a variety of professional practices who want an ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Save Energy and Cut Your Bills: Teach Yourself

    by Nick White ...
    Save Energy and Cut Your Bills offers you straightforward and achievable strategies for reducing your energy bills and living a more environmentally aware life.With lots of useful tools to assess your energy and carbon use, it gives practical advice on everything from heating your home to managing teenage consumers.Includes:-Energy-saving actions categorized into 'no cost', 'low cost' and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Rethinking Place Branding

    Comprehensive Brand Development for Cities and Regions

    Edited by Mihalis Kavaratzis, Gary Warnaby, Gregory J. Ashworth ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    As Place Branding has become a widely established but contested practice, there is a dire need to rethink its theoretical foundations and its contribution to development and to re-assert its future. This important new book advances understanding of place branding through its holistic, critical and evidence-based approach. Contributions by world-leading specialists explore a series of crucially ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Energy Law in Brazil

    Oil, Gas and Biofuels

    Edited by Yanko Marcius de Alencar Xavier ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book describes the energy-law situation in Brazil. It focuses on three specific energy sectors: oil, natural gas and biofuel. The decision to concentrate on these areas takes into account the role that these energy sectors play in the economic, political and legal systems in Brazil, as well as the fact that they are the primary subjects of current discussions surrounding economic regulation ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Technopolis

    Best Practices for Science and Technology Cities

    Edited by Deog-Seong Oh, Fred Phillips ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Six years of UNESCO-World Technopolis Association workshops, held at various world cities and attended by government officials and scholars from nearly all the world’s countries, have resulted in a uniquely complete collection of reports on science park and science city projects in most of those countries. These reports, of which a selected few form chapters in this book, allow readers to compare ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • From Understanding to Action

    Sustainable Urban Development in Medium-Sized Cities in Africa and Latin America

    Edited by Christopher Zegras, Marco Keiner, Willy A. Schmid, Diego Salmerón ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Hans van Ginkel Rector, United Nations University The challenges of the world's future are linked to the growing share of the global population that will reside in urban areas. UN projections indicate that by 2030 the world's urban population share will rise to 60 percent. Of the two billion added to the global population, 99 percent will be added to the urban areas of the world. Of this number, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD