Energy And The City

Author : Joan Eischen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Energy industries
ISBN : 0615540368

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Energy and the City by Joan Eischen Pdf

Women are critical for the future success of the energy industry. Talent scarcity has gained new relevance now that energy is such a hot topic in international politics. "Energy and the City" profiles thirty-one senior executive women in the energy industry. The women interviewed talked about the changes to both the workplace and home front, which brought for those who followed better work environments and personal choices. The book focuses on the challenges women faced as a minority in a room full of men and how they overcame obstacles. In the interviews that were conducted, three overarching themes emerged. *Visibility leads the discussion on the first major areas: creating your own personal brand and finding your voice in the shift from team player to leader. *Sponsorship is required for advancement. Mentoring is valuable for personal development and networking is essential, but women need sponsors to get ahead. *Work/life balance is the largest obstacle for career advancement and the women interviewed share their experiences on how they managed career and family.Embarking on a new career can be daunting. If you are uncertain about your place in an organization or industry, you can find yourself wondering, "Is it just me?" While this tendency is not unique to women, the guidance of women who have come before gives you the confidence to move forward in your career from entry level to executive level. Energy and the City helps readers to climb the corporate ladder and avoid missteps along the way.

Author : Voula P. Mega
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780387258201

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Sustainable Development, Energy and the City by Voula P. Mega Pdf

No progress towards sustainable development is possible without the participation of informed and aware citizens and decision-makers. This book examines a dynamic sector – energy - and a space – city - that are critical for sustainability. Urban energy systems are capital intensive and have long lives. Immediate change is difficult, but innovation is crucial for progress toward more intelligent systems. Here is an informative guide for decision makers and citizens alike.

Author : Andres Luque-Ayala,Jonathan Silver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317143567

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Energy, Power and Protest on the Urban Grid by Andres Luque-Ayala,Jonathan Silver Pdf

Providing a global overview of experiments around the transformation of cities' electricity networks and the social struggles associated with this change, this book explores the centrality of electricity infrastructures in the urban configuration of social control, segregation, integration, resource access and poverty alleviation. Through multiple accounts from a range of global cities, this edited collection establishes an agenda that recognises the uneven, and often historical, geographies of urban electricity networks, prompting attempts to re-wire the infrastructure configurations of cities and predicating protest and resistance from residents and social movements alike. Through a robust theoretical engagement with established work around the politics of urban infrastructures, the book frames the transformation of electricity systems in the context of power and resistance across urban life, drawing links between environmental and social forms of sustainability. Such an agenda can provide both insight and inspiration in seeking to build fairer and more sustainable urban futures that bring electricity infrastructures to the fore of academic and policy attention.

Author : Rocco Papa,Romano Fistola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319311579

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Smart Energy in the Smart City by Rocco Papa,Romano Fistola Pdf

This book examines the energy dimension of the smart city from the perspective of urban planning, providing a complete overview that ranges from theoretical aspects to practical considerations and projects. In addition, it aims to illustrate how the concept of the smart city can enhance understanding of the urban system and foster new forms of management of the metropolis, including with respect to energy supply and use. Specifically, the book explores the different dimensions of the relationship between energy and the city, discusses methodological issues with a special focus on ontological approaches to sustainability, and describes practices, tools, and good examples of energy-related urban planning. The authors represent the main Italian research groups working in the field, Italy being an excellent example of a country exposed to energy problems due to, for example, vulnerability to climate change and lack of primary energy resources. This book will be valuable for students of urban planning, town planners, and researchers interested in understanding the changing nature of the city and the challenges posed by energy issues.

Author : Austin Troy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300165807

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The Very Hungry City by Austin Troy Pdf

"This book explores how cities around the world consume energy, assesses innovative ideas for reducing urban energy consumption, and discusses why energy efficiency will determine which cities thrive economically in the future"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Harold L. Platt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226670751

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The Electric City by Harold L. Platt Pdf

Describes consumers' shifting habits of fuel consumption, tracing how use of wood led to burning coal and coal gas, to the arrival, to the arrival of the arc lamp, and then the coming of electricity. Shows that the city government and utility brokers faced two problems: how to generate a cheap supply of electricity, and how to sell electrical energy to people who were already enjoying gas services. The solutions were found by Samuel Insull, president of Commonwealth Edison Company, who put electrical technology on a sound economic footing.

Author : Voula P. Mega
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0387243542

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Sustainable Development, Energy and the City by Voula P. Mega Pdf

No progress towards sustainable development is possible without the participation of informed and aware citizens and decision-makers. This book examines a dynamic sector – energy - and a space – city - that are critical for sustainability. Urban energy systems are capital intensive and have long lives. Immediate change is difficult, but innovation is crucial for progress toward more intelligent systems. Here is an informative guide for decision makers and citizens alike.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on the City
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UCR:31210015684762

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Energy and the City by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on the City Pdf

Author : David Miller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781487554583

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Solved by David Miller Pdf

If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly. Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, this book is a summons to every city to make small but significant changes that can drastically reduce our carbon footprint. We cannot wait for national governments to agree on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage the average temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees. In Solved, David Miller argues that cities are taking action on climate change because they can – and because they must. The updated paperback edition of Solved: How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis demonstrates that the initiatives cities have taken to control the climate crisis can make a real difference in reducing global emissions if implemented worldwide. By chronicling the stories of how cities have taken action to meet and exceed emissions targets laid out in the Paris Agreement, Miller empowers readers to fix the climate crisis. As much a “how to” guide for policymakers as a work for concerned citizens, Solved aims to inspire hope through its clear and factual analysis of what can be done – now, today – to mitigate our harmful emissions and pave the way to a 1.5-degree world.

Author : David Owen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101140314

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Green Metropolis by David Owen Pdf

Look out for David Owen's next book, Where the Water Goes. A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future. Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all, spend far less time in automobiles. Residents of Manhattan—the most densely populated place in North America—rank first in public-transit use and last in percapita greenhouse-gas production, and they consume gasoline at a rate that the country as a whole hasn’t matched since the mid-1920s, when the most widely owned car in the United States was the Ford Model T. They are also among the only people in the United States for whom walking is still an important means of daily transportation. These achievements are not accidents. Spreading people thinly across the countryside may make them feel green, but it doesn’t reduce the damage they do to the environment. In fact, it increases the damage, while also making the problems they cause harder to see and to address. Owen contends that the environmental problem we face, at the current stage of our assault on the world’s nonrenewable resources, is not how to make teeming cities more like the pristine countryside. The problem is how to make other settled places more like Manhattan, whose residents presently come closer than any other Americans to meeting environmental goals that all of us, eventually, will have to come to terms with.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on the City
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : City planning
ISBN : PURD:32754066834981

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Renewable Energy and the City by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on the City Pdf

Author : Shalanda Baker
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642830675

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Revolutionary Power by Shalanda Baker Pdf

In September 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, completely upending the energy grid of the small island. The nearly year-long power outage that followed vividly shows how the new climate reality intersects with race and access to energy. The island is home to brown and black US citizens who lack the political power of those living in the continental US. As the world continues to warm and storms like Maria become more commonplace, it is critical that we rethink our current energy system to enable reliable, locally produced, and locally controlled energy without replicating the current structures of power and control. In Revolutionary Power, Shalanda Baker arms those made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to remake the system in the service of their humanity. She argues that people of color, poor people, and indigenous people must engage in the creation of the new energy system in order to upend the unequal power dynamics of the current system. Revolutionary Power is a playbook for the energy transformation complete with a step-by-step analysis of the key energy policy areas that are ripe for intervention. Baker tells the stories of those who have been left behind in our current system and those who are working to be architects of a more just system. She draws from her experience as an energy-justice advocate, a lawyer, and a queer woman of color to inspire activists working to build our new energy system. Climate change will force us to rethink the way we generate and distribute energy and regulate the system. But how much are we willing to change the system? This unique moment in history provides an unprecedented opening for a deeper transformation of the energy system, and thus, an opportunity to transform society. Revolutionary Power shows us how.

Author : Peter Droege
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080560466

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Urban Energy Transition by Peter Droege Pdf

This compendium of 29 chapters from 18 countries contains both fundamental and advanced insight into the inevitable shift from cities dominated by the fossil-fuel systems of the industrial age to a renewable-energy based urban development framework. The cross-disciplinary handbook covers a range of diverse yet relevant topics, including: carbon emissions policy and practice; the role of embodied energy; urban thermal performance planning; building efficiency services; energy poverty alleviation efforts; renewable community support networks; aspects of household level bio-fuel markets; urban renewable energy legislation, programs and incentives; innovations in individual transport systems; global urban mobility trends; implications of intelligent energy networks and distributed energy supply and storage; and the case for new regional monetary systems and lifestyles. Presented are practical and principled aspects of technology, economics, design, culture and society, presenting perspectives that are both local and international in scope and relevance.

Author : Robert Sroufe,Craig E. Stevenson,Beth A. Eckenrode
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642830507

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The Power of Existing Buildings by Robert Sroufe,Craig E. Stevenson,Beth A. Eckenrode Pdf

In The Power of Existing Buildings, academic sustainability expert Robert Sroufe, and construction and building experts Craig Stevenson and Beth Eckenrode, explain how to realize the potential of existing buildings and make them perform like new. This step-by-step guide will help readers to: understand where to start a project; develop financial models and realize costs savings; assemble an expert team; and align goals with numerous sustainability programs. The Power of Existing Buildings will challenge you to rethink spaces where people work and play, while determining how existing buildings can save the world. The insights and practical experience of Sroufe, Stevenson, and Eckenrode, along with the project case study examples, provide new insights on investing in existing buildings for building owners, engineers, occupants, architects, and real estate and construction professionals.

Author : David Hawkey,Janette Webb,Heather Lovell,David McCrone,Margaret Tingey,Mark Winskel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317577072

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Sustainable Urban Energy Policy by David Hawkey,Janette Webb,Heather Lovell,David McCrone,Margaret Tingey,Mark Winskel Pdf

Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically improving the efficiency with which we use all energy sources. Such deliberate transformative change is, however, without precedent. Sustainable Urban Energy Policy debates the major public issue of developing a sustainable, clean and affordable energy system by adopting a distinctive focus on heating in cities. In this way, the book constructs an original account of clean energy policy, politics and provision, grounded in new empirical data derived from case studies of urban and multi-level governance of sustainable heat and energy saving in the UK and Europe. Offering an original conceptual framework, this study builds on socio-technical studies, economic and urban sociology, human geography, applied economics and policy studies in order to understand energy governance and systemic change in energy provisions. This book is a valuable resource for students and academics in the areas of Science and Technology Studies, Sociology, Geography (Urban Studies) and Political Economy as well as energy policy makers, social housing providers and energy practitioners.