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Sustainable energy roadmaps : guiding the global shift to domestic renewables / Alexander Ochs and Shakuntala Makhijani with Xing Fu-Bertaux, Matt Lucky, and Sam Shrank ; Lisa Mastny, editor

By: Contributor(s): Series: Worldwatch report; 187Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Worldwatch Institute, c2012Description: 46 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9781878071699
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TJ808 .O26 2012
Contents:
The unsustainability of the current energy system -- Sustainable energy for all -- Sustainable energy roadmaps -- Analyzing energy efficiency potentials -- Assessing renewable energy resource potentials -- Integrating renewables into the grid -- Assessing socioeconomic impacts of the renewable energy transition -- Reforming policy, governance and finance -- Insights from a case study: energy roadmap for the Dominican Republic -- Roadmaps for the future -- Endnotes.
Summary: "Although progress has been slow on a global agreement to address human-caused climate change, much is happening within individual nations and communities that offers promise for moving toward an energy system that is environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable"-- P. 6

The unsustainability of the current energy system -- Sustainable energy for all -- Sustainable energy roadmaps -- Analyzing energy efficiency potentials -- Assessing renewable energy resource potentials -- Integrating renewables into the grid -- Assessing socioeconomic impacts of the renewable energy transition -- Reforming policy, governance and finance -- Insights from a case study: energy roadmap for the Dominican Republic -- Roadmaps for the future -- Endnotes.

"Although progress has been slow on a global agreement to address human-caused climate change, much is happening within individual nations and communities that offers promise for moving toward an energy system that is environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable"-- P. 6

Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-45)

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