Sustainable Energy Production and Consumption

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Energy and Economic Growth

   • Robert U. Ayres

   Pages 1-23

3. Win-Win Strategies for Tackling Oil and Natural Gas Constraints while Expanding Renewable Energy Use

   • Michael Jefferson

   Pages 25-42

4. After the Fossil Era

   • Luigi Sertorio

   Pages 43-53

5. Biomass or Biomess? The promises and Limits of Bioenergy

   • Joachim H. Spangenberg

   Pages 55-65

6. Cost and Environmental Effectiveness of the Climate Change Mitigation Measures

   • Natasa Markovska, Mirko Todorovski, Tome Bosevski, Jordan Pop-Jordanov

   Pages 67-73

7. Sustainable Environmental Management in Croatia – Waste and Climate Change

   • Daniel R. Schneider

   Pages 75-85

8. Studying the “Addiction to Oil” of Developed Societies Using the Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal Metabolism (MSIASM)

   • Mario Giampietro

   Pages 87-138

9. Systemic Economic Instruments for Energy, Climate, and Global Security

   • James Greyson

   Pages 139-158

10. Sustainability and Economic Feasibility of Combinations of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Fossil Fuels For Production of Heat And Electricity

    • Kiril Popovski, Sanja Popovska Vasilevska

    Pages 159-170

11. Third Party Financing: New Financial Tools for Energy Efficiency – An International Perspective

    • Claudio Ferrari

    Pages 171-183

12. Vital Problems of Human Development, Indicators and Eco-Centric Solutions

    • Alexander Gorobets

    Pages 185-197

13. Lifestyles, Energy, and Sustainability: The Exploration of Constraints

    • Igor Matutinovic

    Pages 199-211

14. Approaches to Sustainable Energy Consumption Patterns

    • Damjan Krajnc, Rebeka Lukman, Peter Glavic

    Pages 213-226

15. Energy, Environment and Security in Eastern Europe

    • Oleg Udovyk

    Pages 227-239

16. Capacity Building for Sustainable Energy Access in the Sahel/Sahara Region: Wind Energy as Catalyst for Regional Development

    • Khalid Benhamou

    Pages 241-249

17. Bio-diesel and/or Hydrogen in Croatia – Challenge and Necessity

    • Ante Krstulovic, Frano Barbir

    Pages 251-263

18. Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research for Future Markets

    • Hanns-Joachim Neef

    Pages 265-272

19. Hydrogen Production from Biomass

    • Mu'taz Al-Alawi

    Pages 273-280

20. PV Large Scale Rural Electrification Programs and the Development of Desert Regions

    • Sifeddine Labed

    Pages 281-292

Energy and environmental security are major problems facing our global economy. Fossil fuels, particularly crude oil, are confined to a few regions of the world and the continuity of supply is governed by dynamic political, economic and ecological factors. These factors conspire to force volatile, often high fuel prices while, at the same time, environmental policy is - manding a reduction in greenhouse gases and toxic emissions. Yet incr- sed growth and demand for welfare by developed and developing countries are placing higher pressure on energy resources. In particular, a large fraction of “new consumers” in developing countries already reached a purchasing power high enough as to be able to access to commodity and energy markets worldwide, thus boosting energy consumption and competition for all kinds of resources. Such a trend, although in principle may represent a progress towards diffuse welfare and wealth as well as much needed equity, is at present contributing to a rush for the appropriation of available resources which are directly and indirectly linked to energy and may contribute to planetary instability if it is not adequately understood and managed. A coherent energy strategy is required, addressing both energy supply and demand, security of access, development problems, equity, market dy- mics, by also taking into account the whole energy lifecycle including fuel production, transmission and distribution, energy conversion, and the impact on energy equipment manufacturers and the end-users of energy systems.

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• Sustainable Energy
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• bioenergy
• biomass
• development
• energy technology
• photosynthesis
• production
• climate change

• University of Split, Croatia

  Frano Barbir

• University of Naples Parthenope, Italy

  Sergio Ulgiati

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