The Renewable City
A comprehensive guide to an urban revolution
Frequently the site of crisis or turmoil, individual cities can be fragile environments. For the first time in history, however, the future of the entire urban system is being thrown into doubt. Catastrophic climate changes threaten the life support of hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of urban dwellers around the world. Supplies of fossil fuels, especially oil and natural gas, are declining worldwide. Modern cities not only depend on petroleum products for their power, but also for their goods and services - including the making and packaging of virtually all food. How might this precarious global condition be turned around? How can th…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-470-01925-2
- EAN: 9780470019252
- Produktnummer: 2803334
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 322 S.
- Masse: H22.0 cm x B17.0 cm x D2.8 cm 762 g
- Gewicht: 762
Über den Autor
Peter Droege is an expert on the role of renewable energy within the fields of urban design, development and urban infrastructure. He has directed and developed Solar City, a research development effort conducted under the auspices of the International Energy Agency. Droege has performed academic roles at major universities in the United States and Japan, and is presently holding professorial positions at the Universities of Newcastle, Australia and Beijing, China. He is a Chair of the World Council for Renewable Energy, for Asia Pacific, and directs Epolis, a Sydney-based consultancy active in sustainable urban change worldwide.
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