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The Palgrave Handbook of International Energy Economics
This open access handbook is distinguished by its emphasis on international energy, rather than domestic energy policies or international geopolitic aspects. Addressing key topics such as energy production and distribution, renewables and corporate energy structures, alongside global energy trends, regional case studies and emerging areas such as the digitalization of energy and energy transiti…
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- 9783030868840
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- LXVI, 770p. ill.
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- 333.79 MAN t
Understanding Energy Innovation : Learning from Smart Grid Experiments
This open access book uses smart grids to explore and better understand energy innovation, from a social science perspective. Understanding Energy Innovation has four core themes—networks, nodes, narratives and nostalgia—and each chapter tackles a theme, using case studies from Australia and Europe. Energy innovation is currently occurring at a rapid pace, in response to a host of problems …
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- 9789811662539
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- 101p
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- 621.31 LOV
Citizen activities in energy transition : user innovation, new communities, a…
This book addresses the rapidly changing citizen roles in innovation, technology adoption, intermediation, market creation, and legitimacy building for low-carbon solutions. It links research in innovation studies, sustainability transitions, and science and technology studies, and builds a new approach for the study of user contributions to innovation and sociotechnical change. Citizen Activit…
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- 8
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- 9780367680251
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- xii, 190 p
- Series Title
- Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology,
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- 333.794 HYY c
Grassroots innovation movements
Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks of community groups, activists, and researchers have been innovating grassroots solutions for social justice and environmental sustainability for decades. Unencumbered by disciplinary boundaries, polic…
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- 10
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- 9781317451198
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- xiii, 240 p
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- Pathways to Sustainability
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- 303.484 SMI g
Artificial intelligence for digitising industry : applications
This book provides in-depth insights into use cases implementing artificial intelligence (AI) applications at the edge. It covers new ideas, concepts, research, and innovation to enable the development and deployment of AI, the industrial internet of things (IIoT), edge computing, and digital twin technologies in industrial environments. The work is based on the research results and activities …
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- 9788770226646
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- -
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- 006.3 OVI
Sustainable energy access for communities : rethinking the energy agenda for …
This open access book examines the transition to sustainable energy systems in emerging cities. Experts from around the world present case studies from different countries and discuss efforts were needed for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The authors look into the issue of environment vs. economics and discuss the question of whether the energy transition goa…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030684105
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- xxiv, 170p. : ill.
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- -
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- 333.794 SUS s
Energy Justice Across Borders
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. We must find new and innovative ways of conceptualizing transboundary energy issues, of embedding concerns of ethics or justice into energy policy, and of operationalizing response to them. This book stems from the emergent gap; the need for comparative approaches to energy justice, and for those that consider ethical traditions that go beyon…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783030240219
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- XIV, 305
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- 333.79 Ene
Nuclear law : the global debate
This open access book traces the journey of nuclear law: its origins, how it has developed, where it is now, and where it is headed. As a discipline, this highly specialized body of law makes it possible for us to benefit from the life-saving applications of nuclear science and technology, including diagnosing cancer as well as avoiding and mitigating the effects of climate change. This book se…
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- 9789462654952
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- viii + 333 p
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- 343.0925 NUC n
Energy efficiency and indoor environment quality
This Special Issue addresses a topic of great relevance. In developed countries, there is a higher prevalence of people choosing to spend time indoors. Data show that the time a person spends at home ranges from 60% to 90% of the day, and 30% of that time is spent sleeping, though this varies depending on the individual. Taking into account these data, indoor residential environments have a dir…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783036525075
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- vii, 184p.: ill.
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- -
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- 690 LEZ
Achieving the Paris climate agreement goals : Part 2: science-based target se…
This open access book is designed as a continuation of the editor’s 2019 book Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals. This volume provides an in-depth analysis of industry sectors globally, and its purpose is to present emission reduction targets in 5-year steps (2025 to 2050) for the main twelve finance sectors per the Global Industry Classification System. This scientific analysis aims…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030991777
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- lxxviii: 384 PG; ill.
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- -
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- 621.042 ACH a
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