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  • Galvin - Economic Inequality and Energy Consumption in Developed Countries

    How Extremes of Wealth and Poverty in High Income Countries Affect CO2 Emissions and Access to Energy

    Edited by Ray Galvin ...
    Inequality and Energy: How Extremes of Wealth and Poverty in High Income Countries Affect CO2 Emissions and Access to Energy challenges energy consumption researchers in developed countries to reorient their research frameworks to include the effects of economic inequality within the scope of their investigations, and calls for a new set of paradigms for energy consumption research. The book ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • A Critical Appraisal of Germany's Thermal Retrofit Policy

    Turning Down the Heat

    by Ray Galvin, Minna Sunikka-Blank ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Germany is seen as a leader in thermal retrofit policy and practice, but how effective is its approach? A Critical Appraisal of Germany's Thermal Retrofit Policy examines this policy in context and assesses its effectiveness. It finds that technical constraints and the costs of retrofitting reduce the rate of progress, while planning underestimates the influence of user behavior in the form of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Rebound Effect in Home Heating

    A guide for policymakers and practitioners

    by Ray Galvin ...
    Series series BRI Research Series
    This is a definitive guide to the rebound effect in home heating – the increase in energy service use after a technological intervention aimed at reducing consumption. It sets out what the effect is, how it plays out in the home heating sector, what this implies for energy saving initiatives in this sector, and how it relates to rebound effects in other sectors. The book outlines how the concept ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

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  • Energy and the Wealth of Nations

    Understanding the Biophysical Economy

    by Charles A. S. Hall, Kent A. Klitgaard ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between producers and consumers. In this “perpetual motion” of interactions between firms that produce and households that consume, little or no accounting is given of the flow of energy and materials from the environment and back again. In the standard economic model, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Bedside Essays for Lovers (of Cities)

    by Daniel Solomon ...
    Series series Island Press E-ssentials
    In this provocative collection of essays, renowned architect Daniel Solomon delves into the complexities of what makes a city vibrant. Acknowledging that a city is not a static thing, he argues we need to pay more attention to nurturing what he calls “continuous cities.” In such a city, he says, “new buildings, new institutions, and new technologies don’t rip apart the old and wreck it. They ... Read more

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  • Rail Vehicle Dynamics

    by Klaus Knothe, Sebastian Stichel ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book on the dynamics of rail vehicles is developed from the manuscripts for a class with the same name at TU Berlin. It is directed mainly to master students with pre-knowledge in mathematics and mechanics and engineers that want to learn more. The important phenomena of the running behaviour of rail vehicles are derived and explained. Also recent research results and experience from the ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Urban Green

    Architecture for the Future

    by Neil B. Chambers ...
    Sustainable design is booming, but the men and women dedicated to reducing their carbon impact have lost sight of what they are trying to save: the natural world. Author Neil Chambers has been at the forefront of cutting-edge, sustainable architecture for years, and Urban Green is his revolutionary vision for bringing the power of the conservation and design movements together. He advocates ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Intercity Transport and Climate Change

    Strategies for Reducing the Carbon Footprint

    Edited by Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Shigeru Morichi, Tae Hoon Oum, Werner Rothengatter ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    While intercity passenger transport counts for about 2% of the total passenger transport volume the share of the total passenger kilometers traveled is estimated more than one third. In many countries the major part of intercity transport is performed by car and air and as a result, the contribution to the carbon footprint is substantially higher than the share of overall passenger transport ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Past and Future City

    How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities

    by Stephanie Meeks, Kevin C. Murphy ...
    At its most basic, historic preservation is about keeping old places alive, in active use, and relevant to the needs of communities today. As cities across America experience a remarkable renaissance, and more and more young, diverse families choose to live, work, and play in historic neighborhoods, the promise and potential of using our older and historic buildings to revitalize our cities is ... Read more

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  • Demography and Infrastructure

    National and Regional Aspects of Demographic Change

    Edited by Tobias Kronenberg, Wilhelm Kuckshinrichs ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Population ageing has been going on for many decades, but population shrinking is a rather new phenomenon. The population of Germany, as in many other countries, has passed a plateau and is currently shrinking. Demographic change is a challenge for infrastructure planning due to the longevity of infrastructure capital and the need to match supply and demand in order to ensure cost-efficiency. This ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Understanding Green Building Guidelines: For Students and Young Professionals

    by Traci Rose Rider ...
    Summarizes the main issues and strategies of the forceful and fast-paced green building movement.Many professions are increasingly producing tools to assist clients in breaking down and understanding the different elements that reside under the umbrella of the sustainability movement. For the design and construction professions, this unpacking often takes the form of green building guidelines and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD