Grounding Green Power: Bottom-Up Perspectives on Smart Renewable Energy Policy in Developing Countries
This working paper identifies key components of smart renewable energy policy in developing countries, focusing on the power sector
Étiqueté : sustainable development
Flood risks, climate change impacts and adaptation benefits in Mumbai
An Initial Assessment of Socio-Economic Consequences of Present and Climate Change Induced Flood Risks and of Possible Adaptation Options
Nuclear Power and Sustainable Development
“A central goal of sustainable development is to maintain or increase the overall assets (natural, man-made, human and social) available to future generations while minimizing depletion of finite resources and without exceeding the carrying capacities of ecosystems…”
Energy Efficiency and Conservation: New Tools and Opportunities
Many new and ambitious energy efficiency and conservation laws are being enacted at all levels of government – and with greater financial incentives than provided previously. These innovations are intended to overcome or minimize a variety of market barriers. These innovations, including public-private partnerships, also require significant legal input and creativity to reap the often remarkably large energy and cost savings. This article reviews a range of these tools, especially financial legal mechanisms, that could help significantly reduce U.S. energy consumption.
Sustainable Energy Systems and Applications
This textbook presents analyses of sustainable energy systems and their applications, providing new understandings, methodologies, models and applications along with descriptions of several illustrative examples and case studies.
The Transition to a Green Economy
Les pays en développement craignent d’être dupés par l’économie verte, rapport PNUE/UCED
Environmental and resource sustainability of Chinese cities
… A review of issues, policies, practices and effects
Beyond Rio+20
This report is the product of the Pardee Center Task Force on the Green Economy, which met at the Pardee House in September 2010. As an intellectual contribution to the preparations for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, the Pardee Center convened a small task force of experts to discuss the role of institutions in the actualization of a green economy in the context of sustainable development.
Toward a Sustainable Global Energy Supply Infrastructure
… Net Energy Balance and Density Considerations. This paper complements previous work on the economics of different energy resources by examining the growth potential of alternative electricity supply infrastructures as constrained by innate physical limits…
The Economics of Green Building
Research on climate change suggests that small improvements in the “sustainability” of buildings can have large effects on greenhouse gas emissions and on energy efficiency in the economy…
Megacities : Urban form, governance, and sustainability
This book examines how issues of megacity development, urban form, sustainability, and unsustainability are conceived, how governance processes are influenced by these ideas, and how these processes have in turn influenced outcomes on the ground, in some cases in transformative ways…
