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- Editors:
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Naim Hamdia Afgan
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Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Maria Graça Carvalho
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Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Table of contents (55 chapters)
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Sustainability Development in Energy Strategy
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- Mário J. Fernandes, Agostinho Figueira, José Cotrim
Pages 1-10
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- Naim H. Afgan, Maria G. Carvalho, Nikolai V. Hovanov
Pages 11-33
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- Avram Bar-Cohen, Suzana Prstic, Kazuaki Yazawa, Madhu Iyengar
Pages 35-57
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- Samuel Sideman, Amir Landesberg
Pages 59-72
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- F. Orecchini, A. Micangeli, I. Pollini, A. Santiangeli, L. Del Campo, F. Zuccari
Pages 73-84
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- M. La Gennusa, G. Rizzo, M. Rizzo, G. Scaccianoce
Pages 95-104
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- Neven Duic, Luís Manuel Alves, Maria da Graça Carvalho
Pages 105-116
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Economic Evaluation of New and Renewable Energy Source
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- Rui M. G. Castro, J. P. Sucena Paiva
Pages 145-153
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- Beatrice Coda, Roland Berger, Klaus R. G. Hein
Pages 155-167
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- Zeljko Bogdan, Drazen Loncar, Nikola Serman
Pages 169-178
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- Dimitris Th. Askounis, Argiris G. Kagiannas, John Psarras
Pages 179-190
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- Dimitris Th. Askounis, Argiris G. Kagiannas, John Psarras
Pages 191-202
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- Anildo Costa, Cláudio Monteiro, Vladimiro Miranda, Luís M. Monteiro Alves, Maria GraÇa da Carvalho
Pages 211-220
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- Neven Duić, Franjo Juretić, Mladen Zeljko, Željko Bogdan
Pages 221-231
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About this book
Sustainable development encompasses economic, social, and ecological perspectives of conservation and change in natural resources. It is generally defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This definition is based on the ethical imperative of equity within and between generations. Moreover, apart from meeting; "the basic needs of all"; sustainable development implies sustaining the natural life support systems on Earth, and extending to all the opportunity to satisfy their aspirations for a better life. Hence, sustainable development is more precisely defined as a process of change in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development, and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspiration. To date, various definitions and stationary-state criteria of sustainability have been proposed. Many authors have been concerned with only part of the problem, such as the technological assumptions, the ability to substitute natural resources in economic transformation processes, and the resilience and importance of ecological processes. But, the social dimension did not receive the same attention, and has not been adequately integrated into formal analysis. The engineering community has to play an important role in sustainable development with appropriate evaluation of the engineering systems. In this respect energy, water and environment systems require multi-criteria evaluation methods for the assessment of the economic, environmental and social aspect of the systems.
