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Water and Energy Futures in an Urbanized Asia

Author : Erik Roswell Peterson
Publisher : CSIS
ISBN 13 : 9780892065219
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (652 download)

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Book Synopsis Water and Energy Futures in an Urbanized Asia by : Erik Roswell Peterson

Download or read book Water and Energy Futures in an Urbanized Asia written by Erik Roswell Peterson and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2007 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inherent tensions between economic development and poverty alleviation on the one hand and environmental sustainability on the other are widely acknowledged. As we look to the future, how these issues intersect in China will have enormous significance for developments in that country as well as around the entire world. This report explores the complex simultaneous phenomena of rapid urbanization, resource management, and the broader public policy challenges and opportunities in Asia. A number of compelling questions arise: What are the most promising technological innovations to promote environmentally sustainable economic growth? What factors are most significant in driving change? How are priorities assigned, and how are those priorities changing? How are the players changing? What kinds of policies, regulations, and other governance tools help identify trajectories that at once promote economic development and address environmental degradation? To answer these and other related questions, CSIS sought out experts from nongovernmental organizations and academia to examine dynamics in the region and water and energy issues more broadly.

Sustainable and Resilient Water and Energy Futures

Author : Josh Sperling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable and Resilient Water and Energy Futures written by Josh Sperling and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A safe, secure and affordable water future,Äîfor life, health, economy,Äîare foundational outcomes from a new form of ethics for water stewardship and energy management. Current business as usual in water and energy systems have not led to sustainable, healthy nor resilient pathways for urban and rural communities alike. Today, an estimated 400 million people live in cities with significant water shortages. This is while 25% of water is currently lost before even used in urban areas (up to 60% in some cities) due to aging infrastructure. In addition, on average, only 10% of wastewater is treated before returning to water bodies in developing countries. By 2040, more than 66% of the world,Äôs populations could suffer from severe water shortages; and by 2050, an 80% increase in urban water demand (over current levels) may result in one billion city dwellers and 36% (one in three) of cities expected to face water crises. A crisis is often a catalyst for innovation and this chapter is a call to cities to enable strategic responses,Äîmoving away from legacy ,Äòsiloed,Äô infrastructures, over-allocated water resources and emerging ethical dilemmas to integrated water- and energy-related urban nexus strategies.

Energy Futures and Urban Air Pollution

Author : Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309178835
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Energy Futures and Urban Air Pollution by : Chinese Academy of Sciences

Download or read book Energy Futures and Urban Air Pollution written by Chinese Academy of Sciences and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States and China are the top two energy consumers in the world. As a consequence, they are also the top two emitters of numerous air pollutants which have local, regional, and global impacts. Urbanization has led to serious air pollution problems in U.S. and Chinese cities; although U.S. cities continues to face challenges, the lessons they have learned in managing energy use and air quality are relevant to the Chinese experience. This report summarizes current trends, profiles two U.S. and two Chinese cities, and recommends key actions to enable each country to continue to improve urban air quality.

Lessons in Sustainable Development from China & Taiwan

Author : S. Hsu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137358505
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Lessons in Sustainable Development from China & Taiwan written by S. Hsu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Taiwan and China are extremely populous nations that, due to population pressures and continuing high growth levels, have experienced challenges in sustainable development. Hsu illustrates Taiwan's path toward sustainable development and contrasts it to that of China, suggesting ways in which Taiwan can help China implement its environmental and social policies, and in which China might help Taiwan continue its path toward sustainable environmental and social policies. She explains that although Taiwan is a small compared to China, some aspects of its development model can (and should) be scaled up for larger countries. The importance of regulation enforcement is clear regarding Taiwan's environmental protection program, as is the promotion of small and medium sized enterprises in promoting income and social equality. Similarly, China's experimental methodology - using small areas to explore different ways of living or different technologies - can be useful in Taiwan. In Lessons in Sustainable Development, Hsu examines China and Taiwan in terms of inequality and environmental issues.

Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures

Author : Stamatina Th. Rassia
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642376614
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Book Synopsis Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures by : Stamatina Th. Rassia

Download or read book Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures written by Stamatina Th. Rassia and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures presents works written by eminent international experts from a variety of disciplines including architecture, engineering and related fields. Due to the ever-increasing focus on sustainable technologies, alternative energy sources, and global social and urban issues, interest in the energy systems for cities of the future has grown in a wealth of disciplines. Some of the special features of this book include new findings on the city of the future from the macro to the micro level. These range from urban sustainability to indoor urbanism, and from strategies for cities and global climate change to material properties. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers active in architecture, engineering, the social and computational sciences, building physics and related fields.

Urban Drought

Author : Bhaswati Ray
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811089477
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Urban Drought written by Bhaswati Ray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents water insecurity issues in urban areas while developing a water security index and explores the innovative approaches to water development and management with examples from Asian cities. The urban water crisis is a global phenomenon, but it is more obvious in the megacities of the developing world. Urban drought, although not a familiar term, will pose a significant threat to humankind in the near future, especially in the context of increasing population in cities. Many cities are already unable to provide safe, clean water for their citizens. Some of the world’s largest cities depend heavily on groundwater for their water supply. It is unlikely that dependence on aquifers, which take many years to recharge, will be sustainable. As urban populations grow, water use will need to shift from agriculture to municipal and industrial uses, making decisions about allocating between different sectors difficult. Inefficient water-use practices by households and industries, fragmented management of water between sectors and institutions, climate-induced water shortages, environmental degradation of water sources, and inadequate use of alternate sources are also issues of major concern. Despite recent advances in the literature, there exists a considerable gap in attempting an integrated water-resource management approach. Covering all aspects of urban drought and water insecurity, this book is a valuable resource for students, researchers, academics, policy makers, and development practitioners.

Integrated Sustainable Urban Water, Energy, and Solids Management

Author : Vladimir Novotny
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119593662
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Integrated Sustainable Urban Water, Energy, and Solids Management written by Vladimir Novotny and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for urban areas to achieve sustainability by recovering water, energy, and solids Integrated Sustainable Urban Water, Energy, and Solids Management presents an integrated and sustainable system of urban water, used (waste) water, and waste solids management that would save and protect water quality, recover energy and other resources from used water and waste solids including plastics, and minimize or eliminate the need for landfills. The author—a noted expert on the topic—explains how to accomplish sustainability with drainage infrastructures connected to receiving waters that protect or mimic nature and are resilient to natural and anthropogenic stresses, including extreme events. The book shows how to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses to net zero level through water conservation, recycling, and generating blue and green energy from waste by emerging emission free technologies while simultaneously installing solar power on houses and wind power in communities. Water conservation and stormwater capture can provide good water quality for diverse applications from natural and reclaimed water to blue and green energy and other resources for use by present and future generations. This important book: Considers municipal solid waste as an ongoing source of energy and resources that will eliminate the need for landfills and can be processed along with used water Presents an integrated approach to urban sustainability Offers an approach for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by communities to net zero Written for students, urban planners, managers, and waste management professionals, Integrated Sustainable Urban Water, Energy, and Solids Management is a must-have guide for achieving sustainable integrated water, energy, and resource recovery in urban areas.

The water, energy and food-security nexus in Asia and the Pacific

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231006347
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The water, energy and food-security nexus in Asia and the Pacific written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Climate Smart Development in Asia

Author : Ancha Srinivasan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136496912
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Climate Smart Development in Asia written by Ancha Srinivasan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of China, India and Asia’s other emerging economies and their ability to take a ‘low-carbon’ and ‘climate-resilient’ development path determine the future of global carbon emissions and climate change. Indeed, the battle to confront global climate change will be won or lost in Asia. The transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy (LCE), which involves many steps towards improved energy efficiency, alternative energy sources and transport systems, sustainable land use, eco-friendly consumption and proactive adaptation, may be regarded as the world's fourth revolution, after the industrial revolution, agricultural revolution, and the information revolution. Asia is highly vulnerable to impacts of climate change. Yet because of its dynamic economies and massive populations, Asia offers the greatest opportunity for overcoming the trade-offs and pursuing low-carbon development pathways. With a growing consensus that there is limited time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, scientists, engineers, policymakers, and economists across Asia have recently begun discussions on how Asia can make a transition to LCE. Most discussions, however, focused on transfer of technologies from developed to developing countries and overlooked other equally important challenges such as financing, governance, and information dissemination. This book is the first to look at these neglected aspects of LCE and attempt to integrate both market-based and technology-based solutions into a comprehensive strategy to creating a roadmap for LCE in Asia. This book is an essential reading for economists, policy makers, practitioners, engineers and researchers concerned with climate change, energy production and development in Asia and the impacts and potential for the world.

Environmental Policy

Author : Thomas Walker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111940259X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Policy written by Thomas Walker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Global environmental challenges have caused a range of policy solutions, approaches, and models to emerge. As these challenges are expected to intensify in the near future, environmental policy and its instruments are increasingly becoming a topic of discussion, action, and disagreement in academic, professional, and mass media outlets. This fixation on the topic of policy is well-justified considering the consequences policy can have on all levels of society - global, national, sectoral, organizational, and even personal. Policy has a vital role in reducing environmental damage, incentivizing positive environmental behavior, and guiding practice toward a more sustainable future. While most policies have economic repercussions, environmental policies, and specifically new environmental policy instruments, have exhibited a special and complex relation to the economy. The environment can thus be considered an envelope encompassing and sustaining the economic system - much more than just a factor of production"--

Resilient and Adaptive Tokyo

Author : Wanglin Yan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819938341
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Resilient and Adaptive Tokyo written by Wanglin Yan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Planning Support Science for Smarter Urban Futures

Author : Stan Geertman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319578197
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Planning Support Science for Smarter Urban Futures written by Stan Geertman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management) Conference, held in the second week of July 2017 at the University of South Australia in Adelaide. It provides a state-of-the-art overview of the availability and application of planning support systems (PSS) in the context of smart cities, big data, and urban futures. Rapid advances in computing, information, communication and web-based technologies are reaching into all facets of urban life, creating new and exciting urban futures. With the universal adoption of networked computing technologies, data generation is now so massive and all pervasive in society that it offers unprecedented technological solutions for planning and managing urban futures. These technologies are essential to effective urban planning and urban management in an increasingly challenging world, with socially disruptive changes, more complex and sophisticated urban lives and the need for resilience to deal with the possibility of adverse future environmental events and climate change. The book discusses examples of these technologies which encompass, inter alia: ‘smart urban futures’, where cities with myriad sensors are networked with communication technologies that enable the city planners to monitor well-being and be responsive to citizens' needs to allow dynamic management in real-time; PSS that encompass new hardware, develop new indicators, applications and innovative ways of facilitating public and community involvement in the management and planning of urban areas; and urban modelling that draws on theory and the richness of data from the growing range of urban sensing and communication technologies to build a better understanding of urban dynamics, trends and 'what-if' scenario investigations, and to provide better tools for planning and policymaking.

The Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus in Asia and the Pacific

Author : Zafar Adeel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031290356
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book The Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus in Asia and the Pacific written by Zafar Adeel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Energy Transition

Author : Peter Droege
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0081020759
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Urban Energy Transition written by Peter Droege and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Energy Transition, second edition, is the definitive science and practice-based compendium of energy transformations in the global urban system. This volume is a timely and rich resource for all, as citizens, companies and their communities, from remote villages to megacities and metropolitan regions, rapidly move away from fossil fuel and nuclear power, to renewable energy as civic infrastructure investment, source of revenue and prosperity, and existential resilience strategy. Covers technical, financial, systems, urban planning and design, landscape, mapping and modelling, and sociological issues related to urban renewable energy transformations Presents city-wide renewable energy strategies and urban thermal performance planning, sector coupling, and smart distributed renewable energy and storage systems Examines individual and mass transport systems in the contexts of urban mobility trends and energy innovations Explains successful innovations in solar bond finance, blockchain technology enabled peer-to-peer renewable energy trading systems, and the case for renewable energy based regional monetary systems Features foci on societal, community and user enabling aspects such as energy justice, prosperity and democracy, and urban renewable energy legislation, programs and incentives Includes analytic case insights into successful practices from around the globe that provide local, regional and country-specific governance and organizational perspectives

TransFEWmation: Towards Design-led Food-Energy-Water Systems for Future Urbanization

Author : Rob Roggema
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303061977X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book TransFEWmation: Towards Design-led Food-Energy-Water Systems for Future Urbanization written by Rob Roggema and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses a spectrum of approaches to designing the food-energy-water nexus at different spatial-urban scales. The book offers a framework for working on the FEW-nexus in a design-led context and integrates the design of urban neighbourhoods and regions with methodologies how to simultaneously engaging residents and stakeholders and evaluating the propositions in a FEW-print, measuring the environmental impact of the different designs. The examples are derived from on the ground practices in Sydney, Tokyo, Detroit, Amsterdam and Belfast.

Sustainable Energy Futures in Southeast Asia

Author : Murray Hiebert
Publisher : CSIS Reports
ISBN 13 : 9780892067602
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Energy Futures in Southeast Asia written by Murray Hiebert and published by CSIS Reports. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Potential sales of billions of dollars of energy equipment produced by U.S. companies are at stake in the major economies of the region. They are expected to import as much as $16 billion worth of energy products over the next few years to power their economic growth. But unless the United States launches new initiatives to snare sizable shares of this investment, U.S. companies are unlikely to be major players in all this trade.

Virtual Water

Author : Chittaranjan Ray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000732045
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Water written by Chittaranjan Ray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual Water explores the role of "virtual water" – the water embedded in a product – in ongoing conversations of agriculture, trade and sustainability in an increasingly inter-connected world. A pervasive theme throughout the book is the general lack of knowledge of the use of water in producing and consuming food. The chapters, arising from a workshop supported by the OECD Co-operative Research Programme: Biological Resources Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, on virtual water, agriculture and trade at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, consider questions of gaps in knowledge, why sustainability matters and the policy implications of virtual water trade. Contributors show how water is a lens through which to examine an array of vital issues facing humanity and the planet: human and animal health; food production; environmental management; resource consumption; climate change adaptation and mitigation; economic development, trade and competitiveness; and ethics and consumer trust. Virtual Water will be of great interest to scholars of water, resource management and consumption, the environmental aspects of development, agriculture and food production. It originally published as a special issue of Water International.