Urban Energy Transition

Cities and Regions for a Stable Climate

Peter Droege

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 3
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323994385
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Science

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

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1 Introduction: from cities of waste to climate-stabilizing communities
• Chapter 2 Smart solar integration insights from four pioneers: Masdar City, Stockholm, Freiburg, and San Diego
• Chapter 3 Refurbish suburbs to regenerate cities: energy, architecture, and technology for housing
• Chapter 4 Enabling embedded generation uptake in South African cities
• Chapter 5 Toward a climate-positive world: the dramatic shift to net zero, then climate-positive cities
• Chapter 6 Learning from Fairwater Living Laboratory—toward a precinct-based approach for decarbonization and regeneration
• Chapter 7 Transition from the oil economy to postoil cities
• Chapter 8 Electric vehicle adoption in Kenya: a review of the quality infrastructure
• Chapter 9 Designing a safe and cost-efficient photovoltaic energy system for the city of Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia
• Chapter 10 Energy conservation effects on air conditioning due to urban heat island countermeasures: a simulation at a city-block scale
• Chapter 11 Resistant architecture for bushfire zones
• Chapter 12 Net zero buildings: exploring the complexity of sector-wide transition in the new buildings sector in South African cities
• Chapter 13 Energy and emission profiles of Sub-Saharan African cities: building the evidence-base to empower cities in responding to energy and climate change issues
• Chapter 14 Community energy governance reasserted: an emerging political economy of polycentric energy transformation
• Chapter 15 Empirical analysis of local government efforts in the U.S. to drive the urban energy transition: subscriber versus community solar energy
• Chapter 16 Climate neutrality in large cities—the Berlin case
• Chapter 17 Accelerated heat transition in Germany: socioeconomic challenges using the example of Berlin
• Chapter 18 Wastewater heat in Berlin: how geo-based wastewater heat maps and wastewater heat can contribute to a low-carbon urban energy system
• Chapter 19 Decarbonization of the urban environment by municipal solid waste-to-energy system: technical and policy considerations
• Chapter 20 Burning landscapes: the country's great transformation through renewable energies threatens to fail because of its mistakes
• Chapter 21 Unlocking nature-based solutions for climate resilience: mangroves and Somalia’s nationally determined contributions
• Chapter 22 All for Earth: accelerating the urban energy transition in its planetary rescue context
• Index