Smart green cities : toward a carbon neutral world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Clark, Woodrow W. (Author), Cooke, Grant, 1947- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Modern Civilization is The City
  • Cities are Getting Bigger
  • Land Area
  • Urban Density
  • Climate Change Impacts Cities
  • Cities Are the Battle Ground for Climate Change
  • What is the Answer?
  • 2. Key Problems Facing Modern Cities
  • Congestion and Air Quality is a Global Problem
  • Climate Change and Global Warming
  • Wealth and Inequality
  • Homelessness
  • City Sprawl = Agglomerations
  • Infrastructure Issues
  • Not Enough Water
  • Unprecedented Challenges
  • 3. The Green Industrial Revolution
  • The First Industrial Revolution
  • The Second Industrial Revolution
  • Not Enough Supply, Too Much Demand
  • The Green Industrial Revolution
  • Sustainability is the Key
  • The Green Industrial Revolution's Key Components
  • Government Support and Involvement is Crucial
  • The Next Economics: Civic Capitalism
  • 4. Smart and Green are Sustainable
  • Sustainable Cities are the Answer
  • Denmark
  • Agile Systems
  • Sustainability Starts at Home.
  • Note continued: Creating Sustainable Communities
  • Three Smart Green Cities
  • Bristol, United Kingdom
  • 5. Technologies That Make a City Smart and Green
  • Storage Technologies
  • Vehicle to Grid (V2G) Power Storage in Electric Cars
  • Hydrogen
  • a Breakthrough Technology
  • Smart, Green Grids
  • Europe's Parallel Lines
  • China's Leading Smart Grid
  • Greener Waste Collecting
  • Emerging Green Technologies
  • A Revolution in Lighting Technologies and Peak Demand Response
  • Cool Roofs Will Offset Carbon
  • Nanotechnology
  • "Really" Small Things
  • Regeneration Braking: From Trains to Cars to Trains and Back Again
  • Combined Heat and Power (CHP)
  • Heat Pumps and Seawater Heat Pumps
  • Biofuel: A Transitional Energy Power
  • Algae as a Biofuel Source
  • Green Industrial Revolution Fuel from Plants
  • Waste to Energy
  • Commercializing Emerging Technologies
  • 6. Sustainable Green Transport
  • Sustainable Transport.
  • Note continued: Walking Empowers Residents to Experience Their Environment
  • Bicycling
  • Public Transportation
  • Hybrids, Electric, and Hydrogen Vehicles
  • Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles
  • Uber and Zip Cars
  • Cities without Autos
  • 7. China
  • Revolutionary Green Transformation
  • China's Wind Power
  • China's Solar Valley City
  • China's Leading Smart Grid
  • Emerging World Leader in Environmental Sustainability
  • A Green Technology Culture
  • 8. The Next Economics for a Greener World
  • True Costs of Oil and Natural Gas
  • Free-market Economics Has Failed
  • China's Central Planning Model
  • The Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) Model
  • The Nation State of California
  • Paying to Mitigate Climate Change
  • Green Jobs: A Key Benefit
  • Private Investment is Needed
  • Google Invests Over $1 Billion in Green Tech
  • 9. Smart Ecocities
  • New Ideas For Urban Living
  • Curitiba, Brazil
  • Auroville, India
  • Freiburg, Germany
  • Stockholm, Sweden
  • Adelaide, Australia.
  • Note continued: Masdar City, United Arab Emirates
  • Tianjin
  • China's Ecocity
  • Progress in Other Nation States
  • University of California Davis, West Village
  • a Net Zero Energy Community
  • 10. Smart Green Cities
  • The Green Industrial Revolution
  • Toward a Greener and Smarter Future
  • Grid Parity
  • Energy Deflation
  • Zero Marginal Cost
  • The Anthropocene Era
  • Quay Valley: A Smart Green Future City-California Style
  • Berlin
  • To Become Climate-Neutral
  • Smart Green Cities Are Here Now.