- Title
- Urban energy transition: an introduction
- Creator
- Droege, Peter
- Relation
- Urban Energy Transition: From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Power p. 1-14
- Relation
- http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.authors/714278/description#description
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Around the world, cities and urban communities plant the seeds to a great transformation, unprecedented in history in its reach and magnitude. The growing footprint of contemporary and especially wealthy cities is well documented. Their carbon belching thirst for fossil fuels, their demand for an ever rising stream of global resources, their contribution to land clearing, second to fossil fuel combustion in concentrating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - all these conditions are not only painfully understood, but have begun to drive important shifts in urban energy and environmental policy making. Urban communities in developing countries confront energy transition challenges that are only superficially different from those of the more industrialized world. Their challenge is to stabilize a growing hunger for secure energy supplies, avoid polluting and wasteful industries and power systems, and - not unlike their more developed sisters - shun development directions that hardwire costly and inefficient mobility patterns for generations to come. Enlightened community leaders and governments are sharply attuned to the need to enhance human health and urban livelihood, and construct bridges of access, equity and empowerment. They seek to nurture more vital and autonomous rural and peri-urban regions, to help reduce and even deflect migrational pressures, but they also hope to craft new development directions that radically depart from the congested coal-and-petroleum path that has been blazed by the economically dominant world, ever since the industrial revolution as referred to by both Lenzen et al, and Kenworthy in this book.
- Subject
- urban communities; fossil fuels; resources; environmental policy making
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/803538
- Identifier
- uon:6429
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780080453415
- Language
- eng
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