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Sustainable systems and energy management at the regional level = comparative approaches /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sustainable systems and energy management at the regional level/ Marco Tortora, editor.
Reminder of title:	comparative approaches /
other author:	Tortora, Marco.
Published:	Hershey, Pa. :IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), : 2011.,
Description:	1 online resource (382 p.) :ill. :
Subject:	Energy policy - Environmental aspects. -
Online resource:	http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-61350-344-7
ISBN:	9781613503454 (ebook)

Sustainable systems and energy management at the regional level = comparative approaches /
Sustainable systems and energy management at the regional levelcomparative approaches /[electronic resource] :Marco Tortora, editor. - Hershey, Pa. :IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA),2011. - 1 online resource (382 p.) :ill.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Government policies to promote production and consumption of renewable electricity in the US / Eun-Hee Kim -- 2. Assessing the barriers to greener fiscal measures and ecological tax reform in the transport sector / David Browne, Brian Caulfield and Margaret O'Mahony -- 3. European energy security and sustainability: the Russian perspective / Anatoly Zhuplev and Dmitry A. Shtykhno -- 4. Renewable energy in Italy: incentives, bureaucratic obstacles and Nimby syndrome / Stefano Fanetti -- 5. Technology roadmapping, an efficient tool for driving regional technological changes: case of energy efficiency in the northwest US / Tugrul Daim ... [et al.] -- 6. Production costs and net energy balance of liquid and gaseous biofuels: some regional studies / Filippo Randelli -- 7. Climate change, fuel efficiency and tax revenues: a case study of Brazil and the USA / Bruno Soares Moreira Cesar Borba, Regis Rathmann and David Alves Castelo Branco -- 8. Globalization of the environmental issues: response of the Arab region / Ibrahim Abdel Gelil -- 9. Energy, environment and socio-economic development: Africa's triple challenge and options / Divine Odame Appiah and Francis Kemausuor -- 10. Finding the sweet spot of sustainability in the energy sector: a systems approach to managing the Canadian Oil Sands / Nancy Higginson and Harrie Vredenburg -- 11. The development of a business model for exploiting geothermal energy: a Finnish national project / Esa Stenberg --

Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

"This book provides an interdisciplinary look at the possible relationships that exist between energy and the environment, including theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings on the impacts of regulation policies, market-facilitation policies, and communication models and policies"--Provided by publisher.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9781613503454 (ebook)

LCCN: 2011017286Subjects--Topical Terms:

865477
Energy policy
--Environmental aspects.

LC Class. No.: HD9502.A2 / S925 2011e

Dewey Class. No.: 333.79

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