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Our societies need to solve difficult issues to attain sustainability. The main challenges include, among others, global warming, demographic change, an energy crisis, and loss of biodiversity. In tackling these issues, a holistic understanding of our living space is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-01-30
Collection :
Urban and Landscape Perspectives
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Energy Systems Security features articles from the Wiley Handbook of Science and Technology for Homeland Security covering topics related to electricity transmission grids and their protection, risk assessment of energy systems, analysis of interdependent energy...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2014-01-16
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21,52€
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This book provides a rough entry into the interdisciplinary field of Infranomics. It enables better decision making in an increasing ambiguous, complex, emergent, interdependent, and uncertain world where we attempt to anticipate modern society trends and patterns in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-03
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This book focuses on Renewable Energy (RE) governance - the institutions, plans, policies and stakeholders that are involved in RE implementation - and the complexities and challenges associated with this much discussed energy area. Whilst RE technologies have advanced...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-11-29
Collection :
Lecture Notes in Energy
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The book analyzes energy technologies, business models and policies to promote sustainable development. It proposes a set of recommendations for further activities and networking on access to energy and renewable energies and promotes an integrated approach to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-11-26
ePub
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Electricity Economics: Production Functions withElectricity studies the production output from analyzing patterns of electricity consumption. Since electricity data can be used to measure scenarios of economic performance due to its accuracy and reliability, it could...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-11-22
ePub
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This book contributes to debates on current sustainability practices, with a focus on assessment tools as applied in higher education institutions. These institutions are challenged to carry out management, research, and teaching, and to create settings that allow...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-11-19
ePub
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This groundbreaking new book features holistic coverage of technological breakthroughs, financing trends, workforce development issues, and comparative regional case studies in solar energy. It provides a global bird's-eye view of the industry for scientists, engineers,...
Editeur :
Elsevier Science
Parution :
2013-11-14
epub sans DRM
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-10%
62,29€
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This book aims to provide a rigorous yet pragmatic approach to the valuation and management of investments in the energy sector. Time and uncertainty pervade most if not all issues relevant to energy assets. They run from the early stage of prototype and demonstration...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-11-11
Collection :
Lecture Notes in Energy
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An Exploration into China's Economic Development and Electricity Demand by the Year 2050, is an exploratory study of national and regional economic development, energy demand and electricity demand in China by the year of 2050. China's economy grows rapidly and it is...
Editeur :
Elsevier
Parution :
2013-11-01
epub sans DRM
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-18%
97,57€
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ThAccelerating the diffusion of energy-efficient renovations is a key policy lever in order to reduce the environmental impact of buildings. This book provides a broad, systemic perspective on the causes of the diffusion of energy-efficient renovations in Switzerland...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-11-01
Collection :
Lecture Notes in Energy
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Methods and Models for Assessing Energy Resources covers the proceedings of the First IIASA Conference on Energy Resources, held on May 20-21, 1975. This book mainly focuses on energy resources, such as coal, oil and natural gas, and uranium resources, and the...
Editeur :
Pergamon
Parution :
2013-10-22
epub sans DRM
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-18%
91,71€
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This book is devoted to the problems of identifying the potential for, designing and implementing, energy-saving measures in beet sugar factories. As the sugar industries in various countries differ considerably with respect to the economic conditions for factory...
Editeur :
Elsevier Science
Parution :
2013-10-22
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Offre spéciale
-19%
71,21€
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This book fills a gap in the available literature on energy policy by dealing with the relationship between energy and land-use planning. It considers, in a systematic way, energy developments in national, regional and local planning policy contexts, concentrating...
Editeur :
Pergamon
Parution :
2013-10-22
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-12%
66,17€
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Energy for Rural and Island Communities covers the proceedings of the conference held in Inverness, Scotland on September 22-24, 1980, which aims to gather several professionals concerned with energy supplies for island and rural communities in the 1980s. The papers in...
Editeur :
Pergamon
Parution :
2013-10-22
epub sans DRM
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71,21€
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This book discusses the history of thermal heat generators and focuses on the potential for these processes using micro-electrical mechanical systems (MEMS) technology for this application. The main focus is on the capture of waste thermal energy for example from...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-10-10
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Despite efforts to increase renewables, the global energy mix is still likely to be dominated by fossil-fuels in the foreseeable future, particularly gas for electricity and oil for land, air and sea transport. The reliance on depleting conventional oil and natural gas...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-09-03
Collection :
Lecture Notes in Energy
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Das vorliegende Buch quantifiziert die Potenziale für mehr Energieeffizienz in der Industrie anhand technologie- und branchenbezogener Analysen. Ausgehend von den methodischen Grundlagen werden im ersten Teil die strom- und wärmebasierten Querschnittstechnologien und...
Editeur :
Springer Vieweg
Parution :
2013-07-23
ePub
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Solar Energy Forecasting and Resource Assessment is a vital text for solar energy professionals, addressing a critical gap in the core literature of the field. As major barriers to solar energy implementation, such as materials cost and low conversion efficiency,...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2013-06-25
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Integrated Resource Strategic Planning and Power Demand-Side Management elaborates two important methods -Integrated Resource Strategic Planning (IRSP) and Demand Side Management (DSM) - in terms of methodology modeling, case studies and lessons learned. This book...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-05-20
Collection :
Power Systems
ePub
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