Sustainable Energy and Climate Strategies: lessons from planning processes in five municipalities P. Fenton 1 , S. Gustafsson 2 , J. Ivner 3 , J. Palm 4 1 Corresponding author Paul Fenton, Tel: +46 13 286602, Email: [email protected], Division of Environmental Technology & Management, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden 2 Sara Gustafsson, Email: [email protected], Division of En...

 Vehicle miles travel per lane mile  Transportation service index  Personal spending on transportation Activity System  Income (GNI/capita)  Education  Life Expectancy Environmental System  Greenhouse gases (CO2)  Air Pollutants (CO, NO2,SO2, PM10, VOC)  Water Pollutants (BOD)  Energy Consumption Estimation of Performance Indices for the Planning of Sustainable Transportation Systems ...

the aim of this research is to analyze the environmental principals which are used for land use planning of iranian communities in order to determine whether they are sufficient and efficient for conserving and improving the quality of urban environments or not. first, the environmental principals were extracted from municipal local plans (community plans) of the spatial planning systems of ira...

1 Interdisciplinary Center for Energy Planning, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil, 2 School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, KZN, South Africa, 3 Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth, NH, USA, 4 New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), Johannesburg, GT, South Africa, 5 Faculty of Agricultu...

Low carbon energy technologies are not deployed in a social vacuum; there are a variety of complex ways in which people understand and engage with these technologies and the changing energy system overall. However, the role of the public's socio-environmental sensitivities to low carbon energy technologies and their responses to energy deployments does not receive much serious attention in plan...

The forecasted shortage of fossil fuels and the ever-increasing effect of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on global warming and environmental stability are two international problems with major technical, economic and political implications in the 21st century. Therefore, it is urgent to restructure present energy production and utilization systems in order to ensure that fossil fuels are used w...

In order to allow for a transition of the current central market and network structure of todays electricity grid to a decentralized smart grid, an efficient management of numerous distributed energy resources will become more and more indispensable. The integration of controllable but distributed and individually configured small devices entails new challenges for the design of future control ...

Sustainable development requires implementing suitable policies integrating several competing objectives on economic, environmental, energy and social criteria. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) using goal programming is a popular and widely used technique to study decision problems in the face of multiple conflicting objectives. MCDA assists policy makers by providing clarity in choosing...