Urban Energy Transition

Urban Energy Transition, Third Edition: Cities and Regions for a Stable Climate is the most current scientific and practice-based compendium on energy transformations in the global urban system. It also yields perspectives on climate stabilization and the need for comprehensive and additional climate action and policy frames that work in conjunction with the energy transition. This fresh volume examines both established and emerging economic, design, governance, policy and technology related insights and contains contributions from Africa, Asia, Australia, Central Europe and North America.

• Covers design, engineering, planning, and modeling of urban climate change adaptation and mitigation measures
• Presents global city-wide renewable energy strategies, resource efficiency and urban thermal performance planning, electric vehicle accommodation and solar-smart distributed renewable energy systems
• Explains successful innovations in distributed renewable energy communities, finance, policy and the need to manage emerging conflicts and divergent realities in a warming world
• Includes analytic case insights into successful practices from around the world that provide local, regional, and country-specific and global governance and organizational perspectives