Smart green cities : toward a carbon neutral world /
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,
2016.
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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.