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. Cities are responsible for the largest component of global energy, water, and food consumption as well as related sewage and … paper discusses such new and innovative building services engineering systems, which could contribute to increased energy … integrated system approaches for the integrated and environmentally sound management of energy, water and organic waste, are used …
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study explores possible pathways to sustainability by considering in quantitative detail four contrasting scenarios for the …
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behaviour of energy and matter are not equally mirrored by thermodynamic laws. Thermodynamic insights as typically employed in …
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Many factors to be appropriately addressed in moving towards energy sustainability are examined. These include … with the approach put forward, and options for energy sustainability and the broader objective of sustainability. Energy … sustainability is of great importance to overall sustainability given the pervasiveness of energy use, its importance in economic …
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As many of us begin to embrace the concept of sustainability, we realize that it is not simply something that we ‘do ….’ Rather, sustainability is a destination that we aspire to reach with the selection of the sustainable pathways that we choose … as we proceed along the journey. We are embarking on a new journey with the creation of <i>Sustainability</i>, an on …
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The transport sector is the second largest and one of the fastest growing energy end-use sectors, representing 24% of … global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. The International Energy Agency has developed scenarios for the transport …
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Environmental constraints have always had, and will always have, important consequences for human development. They have sometimes contributed to, or even caused, the reversal of such development. The possibility that such constraints, including climate change, will grow significantly this...
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Energy Return on Investment (EROI) refers to how much energy is returned from one unit of energy invested in an energy …
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) energy quality corrections, (3) energy-economic conversions, and (4) alternative EROI statistics. Lastly, we present step …
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Declining energy return on investment (EROI) of a society’s available energy sources can lead to both crisis and … interpretation. There are many reasons why frugal living and an energy diet could be beneficial. A measure of wellbeing or welfare … gained per unit of energy expended (WROEI) is proposed. A threshold is hypothesized for the relation between energy …
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