This book explores how energy efficiency is a major component in the development of sustainable real estate. Efficiency is one of the most frequently-mentioned aspects of government policies for green building design in the United States and around the world. There has been a significant amount...

Preface -- Ch 1 Review of Policies Towards the Acceleration of the Adoption of Renewable Energy Technologies -- Ch 2 Renewable Energy Technology Adoption in the Pacific Northwest -- Ch 3 Evaluating Polices Towards the Adoption of Renewable Energy Technologies -- Ch 4 Assessment of Wind Potential...

This book explains how income growth and better environmental qualities go hand in hand, and reviews the drivers and barriers to sustainable innovation on the basis of real-life cases. It discusses why innovation-based income growth reduces environmental impacts and how the huge global markets...

1. Market Solutions for Climate Change -- 2. Energy Security in the Asia-Pacific Region -- 3. Asia’s Role in the Global Economic Architecture -- 4. Energy Economics in China’s Policy-Making Plan -- 5. The Economics of The Green Industrial Revolution -- 6. The Logic of Qualitative Business...

Rahmenbedingungen des Outsourcings von Energieeffizienzmaßnahmen über Energie-Performance-Contracting und dessen Kooperationsanreize -- Agencytheoretische Einordnung der Anreizproblematik als Double Moral Hazard -- Anreizanalyse möglicher Vertragsmodelle und Bestimmung anreizgerechter...

This book presents an in-depth empirical analysis of consumer response to alternative policies for energy conservation. Its main focus is on innovative policy instruments that have attracted increasing attention from academics and energy conservation practitioners alike: critical peak pricing,...

1 Overview of Behavioral Economics and Policy -- 2 The Four Pillars of Behavioral Paternalism -- 3 Failing Better: What We Learn by Confronting Risk and Uncertainty -- 4 Behavioral Nudges and Consumer Technology -- 5 Private-Sector Nudging: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertain -- 6 Who Should...

Operative Belegungsplanung von Warmbreitbandstraßen -- Modellierung des Energieverbrauchs von Industrieöfen -- Entscheidungsunterstützung mittels mathematischer Modellierung und heuristischem Lösungsverfahren.

This volume explores: how conflicting scenarios involving energy use/conservation could be reconciled; how we can shape a more sustainable energy system from the existing one; and the possible technological progress and innovations to enable a brighter future

Konzeption einer energieorientierten Maschinenbelegungsplanung für identische parallele Maschinen -- Klassifikation und Formulierung eines Entscheidungsmodells zur Konkretisierung des Konzepts -- Analyse und Entwurf von Methoden zur Umsetzung des Entscheidungsmodells -- Evaluation der...