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Life cycle management
This book provides insight into the Life Cycle Management (LCM) concept and the progress in its implementation. LCM is a management concept applied in industrial and service sectors to improve products and services, while enhancing the overall sustainability performance of business and its value chains. In this regard, LCM is an opportunity to differentiate through sustainability performance on…
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- 9789401772211
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- xvii, 353p. : ill.
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- 658.5 GUI l
Greening the financial sector : how to mainstream environmental finance in de…
Given the manifold challenges of financial sectors in developing and transition countries, one might be tempted to believe that embarking on “green” finance is not a priority for financial systems development. However, there are a number of arguments against this view. Environmental finance, particularly energy efficiency and renewable energy (EERE) finance, can and should serve as an inter…
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- 9783642050879
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- xiv, 249p. : ill.
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- 332.1 GRE g
Understanding the bigger energy picture : DESERTEC and beyond
This book focuses on the global cycles of energy, water and carbon, which are not only the essentials of our main energy carriers, the fossil fuels, but are also the building blocks of life. The book offers an overview of the basic scientific facts and relationships that are needed to understand today’s energy generation and use, how they relate to global climate, the water cycle and other re…
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- 9783319579665
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- xv, 110p. : ill.
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- 333.79 DUR u
Designing sustainable energy for all : sustainable product-service system des…
This open access book addresses the issue of diffusing sustainable energy access in low- and middle-income contexts.Access to energy is one of the greatest challenges for many people living in low-income and developing contexts, as around 1.4 billion people lack access to electricity.Distributed Renewable Energy systems (DRE) are considered a promising approach to address this challenge and pro…
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- 9783319702230
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- xxxii, 208p. : ill.
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- 621.042 DES d
Energy in Africa : challenges and opportunities
This open access book presents a picture of the current energy challenges on the African continent (and the Sub-Saharan region in particular) and proposes pathways to an accelerated energy transition. Starting with an analysis of the status quo and the outlook for Africa’s energy demand and energy access, it provides an account of the available resources, including hydrocarbons and renewable …
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- 9783319922195
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- xx, 112p. : ill.
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- 333.7915 HAF e
Biofuels and sustainability : holistic perspectives for policy-making
This open access book presents a comprehensive analysis of biofuel use strategies from an interdisciplinary perspective using sustainability science. This interdisciplinary perspective (social science-natural science) means that the strategies and policy options proposed will have significant impacts on the economy and society alike. Biofuels are expected to contribute to reducing greenhouse ga…
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- 9784431548959
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- vi, 265p. : ill.
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- 338.927 BIO b
Designing sustainable technologies, products and policies : from science to i…
This open access book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of industrial technologies, products, services and policies; and the development and management of smart agricultural systems, smart mobility systems, urban infrastructures and energ…
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- 9783319669816
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- xiv, 520p. : ill.
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- 338.927 DES d
eIoT : the development of the energy internet of things in energy infrastructure
This open access book explores the collision between the sustainable energy transition and the Internet of Things (IoT). In that regard, this book’s arrival is timely. Not only is the Internet of Things for energy applications, herein called the energy Internet of Things (eIoT), rapidly developing but also the transition towards sustainable energy to abate global climate is very much at the f…
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- 9783030104276
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- xxviii, 160p. : ill
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- 333.79 MUH e
The Future of transport between digitalization and decarbonization : trends, …
Energy systems are rapidly transitioning towards decarbonization, thanks in part to innovative digital technologies and changing mobility demands. This open access book examines the decarbonization and digitalization transformation in the transport sector, with a particular focus on energy consumption. By studying historical trends and outlining future scenarios, the authors illustrate the evol…
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- 9783030379667
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- xv, 112p. : ill.
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- 628.532 NOU f
Enabling sustainable energy transitions : practices of legitimation and accou…
This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of these practices to help determine whether energy transitions contribute to sustainability. The real-world challenge of climat…
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- 9783030268916
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- xxi, 168p. : ill.
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- 333.79 ENA e
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