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Sustainable Energy Production and Consumption

Benefits, Strategies and Environmental Costing

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Frano Barbir

    1. University of Split, Croatia

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  2. Sergio Ulgiati

    1. University of Naples Parthenope, Italy

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  • Interdisciplinary and intriguing approach to sustainable energy issues
  • Covering energy technologies, analyses, societal metabolism, economics, environment
  • Discussing questions such as “Biomass or biomess” or “Why green is not enough”

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Life Cycle Impacts and Total Costs of Present and Future Photovoltaic Systems: State-of-the Art and Future Outlook of a Strategic Technology Option for a Sustainable Energy System

    • Marco Raugei, Paolo Frankl
    Pages 293-304

  2. Integrated Systems and Zero Emission Production Patterns in Agriculture, Industry and the Energy Sector – Why “GREEN” is not Enough

    • Sergio Ulgiati, Amalia Zucaro, Stefano Dumontet
    Pages 305-325

  3. Biorefinery: Biomaterials and Bioenergy from Photosynthesis, within Zero Emission Framework

    • Janis Gravitis
    Pages 327-337

  4. Geographical Information System (GIS) and Emergy Synthesis Evaluation of Urban waste Management

    • Pier Paolo Franzese, Giovanni Fulvio Russo, Sergio Ulgiati
    Pages 339-352

  5. Elements of Global Roadmap for Climate Sustainability: Factors Affecting the Reduction of CO2 Emissions

    • Mia Pihlajamäki, Jyrki Luukkanen, Jarmo Vehmas
    Pages 353-360

  6. Carbon Management for Secure Communities

    • Nigel Mortimer
    Pages 361-368

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 369-372
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About this book

Energy and environmental security are major problems facing our global economy. Fossil fuels, particularly crude oil, are confined to a few regions of the world and the continuity of supply is governed by dynamic political, economic and ecological factors. These factors conspire to force volatile, often high fuel prices while, at the same time, environmental policy is - manding a reduction in greenhouse gases and toxic emissions. Yet incr- sed growth and demand for welfare by developed and developing countries are placing higher pressure on energy resources. In particular, a large fraction of “new consumers” in developing countries already reached a purchasing power high enough as to be able to access to commodity and energy markets worldwide, thus boosting energy consumption and competition for all kinds of resources. Such a trend, although in principle may represent a progress towards diffuse welfare and wealth as well as much needed equity, is at present contributing to a rush for the appropriation of available resources which are directly and indirectly linked to energy and may contribute to planetary instability if it is not adequately understood and managed. A coherent energy strategy is required, addressing both energy supply and demand, security of access, development problems, equity, market dy- mics, by also taking into account the whole energy lifecycle including fuel production, transmission and distribution, energy conversion, and the impact on energy equipment manufacturers and the end-users of energy systems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Split, Croatia

    Frano Barbir

  • University of Naples Parthenope, Italy

    Sergio Ulgiati

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