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- Provides a first of its kind methodology for mapping building energy use
- Highlights the barriers to energy data access necessary for urban transitions
- Offers a look at a field-tested empirical methodology from California, an international leader on energy and climate policy
- Presents a road map for the creation of similar atlases in other cities and regions
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
In an era of big data and smart cities, this book is an innovative and creative contribution to our understanding of urban energy use. Societies have basic data needs to develop an understanding of energy flows for planning energy sustainability. However, this data is often either not utilized or not available. Using California as an example, the book provides a roadmap for using data to reduce urban greenhouse gas emissions by targeting programs and initiatives that will successfully and parsimoniously improve building performance while taking into account issues of energy affordability. This first of its kind methodology maps high-detail building energy use to understand patterns of consumption across buildings, neighborhoods, and socioeconomic divisions in megacities. The book then details the steps required to replicate this methodology elsewhere, and shows the importance of openly-accessible building energy data for transitioning cities to meet the climate planning goals of thetwenty-first century. It also explains why actual data, not modeled or sampled, is critical for accurate analysis and insights. Finally, it acknowledges the complex institutional context for this work and some of the obstacles – utility reluctance, public agency oversight, funding and path dependencies. This book will be of great value to scholars across the environmental sectors, but especially to those studying sustainable urban energy as well as practitioners and policy makers in these areas.
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— Ian Hamilton, Associate Professor,UCL Energy Institute,London
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
Stephanie Pincetl, Hannah Gustafson, Felicia Federico, Eric Daniel Fournier, Robert Cudd, Erik Porse
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Energy Use in Cities
Book Subtitle: A Roadmap for Urban Transitions
Authors: Stephanie Pincetl, Hannah Gustafson, Felicia Federico, Eric Daniel Fournier, Robert Cudd, Erik Porse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55601-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55600-6Published: 26 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55603-7Published: 27 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55601-3Published: 25 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 180
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Human Geography, Urban Studies/Sociology, Public Policy