District Energy Trends Issues And Opportunities

Author : Carolyn Gochenour
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0821349112

Get Book

District Energy Trends, Issues, and Opportunities by Carolyn Gochenour Pdf

This report evaluates the history and development of district heating and district cooling, together referred to as district energy, in North America, Western Europe, Asia, Eastern and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. It reviews the key institutional, economic, financial, technical, and environmental issues in the countries of Eastern and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union in order to arrive at operationally relevant issues as well as to define opportunities for new activities to be supported by the World Bank.

Author : Carolyn Gochenour
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822030014534

Get Book

District Energy Trends, Issues, and Opportunities by Carolyn Gochenour Pdf

This study reviews the history and development of district heating and district cooling, together referred to as district energy in North America, Western Europe, Asia, Eastern and Central Europe, and the Former Soviet Union (FSU). Experience from other parts of the world where DH systems exist could be beneficial to DH industry managers and regulators in Eastern and Central Europe and FSU countries in modernizing their management systems and improving their policies and practices to allow for the attraction of capital that is urgently needed. The report reviews, in a systematic manner, the key institutional, economic, financial, technical, and environmental issues in the countries of Eastern and Central Europe and the FSU with the goal of arriving at operationally relevant issues and defining the awareness and understanding of the nature of activities which can lead to increasing energy efficiency and the attractiveness of district energy to private financing.

Author : Cynthia Rosenzweig,William D. Solecki,Stephen A. Hammer,Shagun Mehrotra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139497404

Get Book

Climate Change and Cities by Cynthia Rosenzweig,William D. Solecki,Stephen A. Hammer,Shagun Mehrotra Pdf

Urban areas are home to over half the world's people and are at the forefront of the climate change issue. The need for a global research effort to establish the current understanding of climate change adaptation and mitigation at the city level is urgent. To meet this goal a coalition of international researchers - the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) - was formed at the time of the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit in New York in 2007. This book is the First UCCRN Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities. The authors are all international experts from a diverse range of cities with varying socio-economic conditions, from both the developing and developed world. It is invaluable for mayors, city officials and policymakers; urban sustainability officers and urban planners; and researchers, professors and advanced students.

Author : Julian A. Lampietti,Anke Sophie Meyer
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : 0821353284

Get Book

Coping With the Cold by Julian A. Lampietti,Anke Sophie Meyer Pdf

Author : Nevin Cohen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781412996822

Get Book

Green Cities by Nevin Cohen Pdf

Colorful bracelets, funky brooches, and beautiful handmade beads: young crafters learn to make all these and much more with this fantastic step-by-step guide. In 12 exciting projects with simple steps and detailed instructions, budding fashionistas create their own stylish accessories to give as gifts or add a touch of personal flair to any ensemble. Following the successful "Art Smart" series, "Craft Smart" presents a fresh, fun approach to four creative skills: knitting, jewelry-making, papercrafting, and crafting with recycled objects. Each book contains 12 original projects to make, using a range of readily available materials. There are projects for boys and girls, carefully chosen to appeal to readers of all abilities. A special "techniques and materials" section encourages young crafters to try out their own ideas while learning valuable practical skills.

Author : Axel Baeumler,Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez,Shomik Mehndiratta
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821389881

Get Book

Sustainable Low-Carbon City Development in China by Axel Baeumler,Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez,Shomik Mehndiratta Pdf

This book summarizes experiences from the World Bank s activities related to low-carbon urban development in China. It highlights the need for low-carbon city development and presents details on specific sector-level experiences and lessons, a framework for action, and financing opportunities.

Author : Maciej M. Sokołowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000043198

Get Book

European Law on Combined Heat and Power by Maciej M. Sokołowski Pdf

This book provides an analysis of the European policy approach to combined heat and power (CHP), a highly efficient technology used by all EU Member States for the needs of generating electricity and heat. European Law on Combined Heat and Power carries out an assessment of the European legal and policy measures on CHP, evaluating how it has changed over the years through progress and decline in specific member states. Over the course of the book, Sokołowski explores all aspects of CHP, examining the types of measures used to steer the growth of cogeneration in the EU and the policies and regulatory tools that have influenced its development. He also assesses the specific role of CHP in the liberalisation of the internal energy market and EU action on climate and sustainability. Finally, by delivering his notions of "cogenatives", "cogenmunities", or "Micro-Collective-Flexible-Smart-High-Efficiency cogeneration", Sokołowski considers how the new EU energy package – "Clean energy for all Europeans" – will shape future developments. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy law and regulation, combined heat and power and energy efficiency, as well as policy makers and energy experts working in the CHP sector.

Author : Fiona Hill,Clifford G. Gaddy
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815796183

Get Book

The Siberian Curse by Fiona Hill,Clifford G. Gaddy Pdf

Can Russia ever become a normal, free-market, democratic society? Why have so many reforms failed since the Soviet Union's collapse? In this highly-original work, Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy argue that Russia's geography, history, and monumental mistakes perpetrated by Soviet planners have locked it into a dead-end path to economic ruin. Shattering a number of myths that have long persisted in the West and in Russia, The Siberian Curse explains why Russia's greatest assets––its gigantic size and Siberia's natural resources––are now the source of one its greatest weaknesses. For seventy years, driven by ideological zeal and the imperative to colonize and industrialize its vast frontiers, communist planners forced people to live in Siberia. They did this in true totalitarian fashion by using the GULAG prison system and slave labor to build huge factories and million-person cities to support them. Today, tens of millions of people and thousands of large-scale industrial enterprises languish in the cold and distant places communist planners put them––not where market forces or free choice would have placed them. Russian leaders still believe that an industrialized Siberia is the key to Russia's prosperity. As a result, the country is burdened by the ever-increasing costs of subsidizing economic activity in some of the most forbidding places on the planet. Russia pays a steep price for continuing this folly––it wastes the very resources it needs to recover from the ravages of communism. Hill and Gaddy contend that Russia's future prosperity requires that it finally throw off the shackles of its Soviet past, by shrinking Siberia's cities. Only by facilitating the relocation of population to western Russia, closer to Europe and its markets, can Russia achieve sustainable economic growth. Unfortunately for Russia, there is no historical precedent for shrinking cities on the scale that will be required. Downsizing Siberia will be a costly and wrenching proce

Author : Maciej M. Sokołowski
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030988968

Get Book

Energy Transition of the Electricity Sectors in the European Union and Japan by Maciej M. Sokołowski Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the energy policies in the European Union and Japan in terms of electricity markets and climate action, including energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, and the reduction of emissions. The book evaluates and compares the regulatory frameworks for achieving energy transitions by answering a number of questions focused on the essence and range of the regulatory models used by leading global economies which herald carbon neutrality by 2050. The book provides a useful framework that systematises Japanese and European energy policies and legislation including electricity-related policies, plans, and programmes. Discussing these issues in relation to the European and Japanese 2050 energy transition the author delves into the four pillars of the transition: market reform, reduction of emissions, promotion of renewables, and enhancing energy efficiency. Each chapter demonstrates the timing of the actions undertaken both in Europe and Japan; analyses the character of the conducted actions, evaluates the stakeholders of the realised agenda; and presents the technologies involved in the energy transition.

Author : Sarah Tenney,Anne C. Salda
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780810878655

Get Book

Historical Dictionary of the World Bank by Sarah Tenney,Anne C. Salda Pdf

This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the World Bank shows the substantial progress the Bank has made, this mainly through the dictionary section with concise entries on its component institutions, related organizations, its achievements in various fields, some of the major projects and member countries, and its various presidents. The introduction explains how the Bank works while the chronology traces the major events over nearly 70 years. Meanwhile, the list of acronyms reminds us just who the main players are. And the bibliography directs readers to useful internal documentation and outside studies.

Author : Anthony G. Bigio,Bharat Dahiya
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Community development, Urban
ISBN : 0821357964

Get Book

Urban Environment and Infrastructure by Anthony G. Bigio,Bharat Dahiya Pdf

Author : United Nations Publications
Publisher : UN
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9211587328

Get Book

District Energy in Cities by United Nations Publications Pdf

This report identifies modern district energy as the most effective approach for many cities to transition to sustainable heating and cooling, by improving energy efficiency and enabling higher shares of renewables. This publication is one of the first reports to provide concrete policy, finance and technology best-practice recommendations on addressing the heating and cooling sectors in cities through energy efficiency improvements and the integration of renewables, both of which are central to the energy transition. These recommendations have been developed in collaboration with 45 champion cities, all of which use district energy, with 11 of them using it to achieve 100 per cent renewables or carbon-neutral targets.

Author : Angelo Basile,Giuseppe Spazzafumo
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128178089

Get Book

Current Trends and Future Developments on (Bio-) Membranes by Angelo Basile,Giuseppe Spazzafumo Pdf

Current Trends and Future Developments in (Bio-) Membranes: Cogeneration Systems and Membrane Technology offers an exhaustive overview of the status of cogeneration systems as they relate to advanced membrane technologies for energy savings. The different options for cogeneration are analyzed, both for large (district) and small (residential) size units, with different primary fuels. Energy efficiency is reported and lifecycle analysis is carried out for all different options. The book outlines strategies for engineering development and process intensification of interest to both industrial and developing countries. Finally, the book includes three chapters on lifecycle analysis (LCA) and economic analysis. Provides an overview of the interconnections between membrane technology and the systems used for the cogeneration of electricity, such as exhaust gas cleaning, carbon capture and sequestration, and low temperature fuel cells Includes two different studies on LCA and a case study on economic analysis Presents comprehensive reviews on various traditional cogeneration systems and compares them to alternative membrane-based technologies Covers membrane based technologies and their application in co-generation systems Addresses key issues on the introduction of process intensification in energy production

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : UCBK:C095085713

Get Book

The Indian Journal of Public Administration by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 1246 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781464964695

Get Book

Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2011 Edition by Anonim Pdf

Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning. The editors have built Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.