Energy for Sustainability Foundations for Technology, Planning, and Policy /

• Main Authors: Randolph, John (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Masters, Gilbert (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2018.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Environmental education.; Renewable energy resources.; Natural resources.; Climate change.; Environmental and Sustainability Education.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Natural Resource and Energy Economics.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.

Despite a 2016-18 glut in fossil fuel markets and decade-low fuel prices, the global transformation to sustainable energy is happening. Our ongoing energy challenges and solutions are complex and multidimensional, involving science, technology, design, economics, finance, planning, policy, politics,...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Section I: Energy Patterns and Trends
• The Energy Imperative and Patterns of Use
• Energy Sources and Sustainability
• Energy Futures
• Section II: Energy Fundamentals
• Energy Fundamentals
• Energy Analysis and Life-Cycle Assessment
• Section III: Buildings and Energy
• Energy Efficiency for Buildings
• Solar Energy for Buildings: Approaching Zero Net Energy
• Whole Building to Zero Net Energy
• Section IV: Sustainable Electricity
• Centralized Electric Power Systems
• Distributed Energy Resources
• Photovoltaic Systems
• Large-Scale Renewables
• Section V: Sustainable Transportation and Land Use
• Transportation Energy and Efficient Vehicles
• Alternative Fuels, Biofuels, and Biomass
• Whole Community Energy, Mobility, and Land Use
• Section VI: Energy Policy and Planning
• Market Transformation to Sustainable Energy
• Energy Policy
• U.S. State and Community Energy Policy and Planning
• References and Further Reading
• Index.