Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi, Alevgül Sorman

Energy Analysis for a Sustainable Future (eBook, ePUB)

Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains why conventional energy analysis and statistics are not useful for generating robust energy scenarios and effective assessments of the quality of alternative energy sources. Then it presents an innovative multi-scale approach, illustrated with empirical results, for effectively dealing with sustainability in face of the coming energy crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136264009
• Artikelnr.: 38262984

Autorenporträt

Mario Giampietro is an ICREA Research Professor at ICTA (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology), Department of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. Kozo Mayumi is a Professor at the University of Tokushima, Japan. He is a co-founder and organizer of the Biennial International Workshop 'Advances in Energy Studies', which started in 1998. Alevgül H. ¿orman is a Researcher in the Integrated Assessment and Societal Metabolism group at ICTA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Defining the Problem 1. Energy Accounting: Sources of
Ambiguity 2. Energy Analysis: the Troublesome Birth of a New Domain of
Knowledge 3. The Aggregation of Energy Flows at the National Level 4. The
Proper Use of Semantic and Formal Categories in Energy Accounting 5. Energy
Flows Under Human Control: Energy Input, Power Capacity and Human Labour 6.
Cutting Through the Confusion in Net Energy Analysis Part 2: Proposing a
Solution 7. In Search of a Richer, Integrated and Multi-scale Accounting
Protocol 8. Concepts, Ideas, and Representations Underlying the Multi-scale
Integrated Accounting of Society's Energy Metabolism 9. Dual Accounting of
Energy Flows and the Characterization of the Metabolic Pattern Across
Hierarchical Levels 10. Studying the Feasibility and Desirability of the
Metabolic Pattern of Society from Within 11. Using the MuSIASEM Approach to
Check the External Constraints on the Metabolic Pattern of Modern Societies
12. Using MuSIASEM for Studying Scenarios Based on Alternatives to Fossil
Energy Conclusions: Where do we go from here?