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Energy Use and Climate Change: History and Foresight

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Affordable and Clean Energy

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Appropriable technical potential; Energetic metabolism; Energy consumption; Global primary energy consumption; Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP); Social metabolism; Total primary energy supply (TPES); World energy consumption

Definitions

An overview is given of physical energy unit definitions, climate change concepts, and standard institutional and academic energy terminology.

Physical Energy Units

The standard measure for an amount of energy is joule which equals the work done when a force of one newton (N) moves the point of its application a distance of 1 m in the direction of the force. One newton (N) gives to a mass of 1 kg an acceleration of 1 m per second. The amount of energy or work (J) over time is expressed in a unit of power or watt (W), which is equal to 1 J of work applied over 1 s. The rate of energy transfer per unit area is the energy flux density, expressed in watt per square meter. Energy is either kinetic (energy in motion such as...

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This project has received funding from ERASMUS + Programme of the European Union (Jean Monnet Excellence Center on Sustainability, ERASME).

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  1. Jean Monnet Excellence Center on sustainability (ERASME), University of Clermont Auvergne, CERDI, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Florian Dierickx & Arnaud Diemer

  2. University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Florian Dierickx

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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Dierickx, F., Diemer, A. (2020). Energy Use and Climate Change: History and Foresight. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Affordable and Clean Energy. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71057-0_30-1

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