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Smart green cities : toward a carbon neutral world
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- Creator
- Woodrow Clark II and Grant Cooke
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 350 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781472455543, 1472455541, 9781472455550, 9781472455567
- OCLC
- ocn948825641
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 -- Creating Sustainable Communities -- Three Smart Green Cities -- Bristol, United Kingdom
- Note continued: 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 -- 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
- Note continued: 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 -- 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