Preface -- Ch 1 Review of Policies Towards the Acceleration of the Adoption of Renewable Energy Technologies -- Ch 2 Renewable Energy Technology Adoption in the Pacific Northwest -- Ch 3 Evaluating Polices Towards the Adoption of Renewable Energy Technologies -- Ch 4 Assessment of Wind Potential...

Mainstreaming Environmental Finance into Financial Markets - Relevance, Potential and Obstacles -- Mainstreaming Framework Conditions for Environmental Finance - The Role of the Public Sector -- Mainstreaming Environmental Finance Markets (I) - Small-Scale Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy...

The book addresses the perceived need for a publication with looks at both, climate smart technologies and the integration of renewable energy and energy efficiency in mitigation and adaptation responses. Based on a set of papers submitted as part of the fifth on-line climate conference (CLIMATE...

Part I Critical review of the orthodox economy -- 1 paradigms -- 2 the commodification of nature and its consequences -- 3 Foundations and instruments of environmental economics -- 4 Free market and sustainability -- 5 Sustainable development in the Brundtland report and its distortion -- Part...

Preface -- 1 Local Utilities in the German Electricity Market and their Role in the Diffusion of Innovations in Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation -- 2 Contracting and Mikro-KWK - the Role of Municipal Utilities in Germany -- 3 Governance variety in the energy service contracting...

This book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of industrial technologies, products, services and policies; and the development and...

Part I: Green IT -- Part II: From Smart Grids to Smart Homes -- Part III: Smart Transportion -- Part IV: Sustainable Enterprises and Management -- Part V: Environmental Decision Support -- Part VI: Social Media for Sustainability.

Konzeption einer energieorientierten Maschinenbelegungsplanung für identische parallele Maschinen -- Klassifikation und Formulierung eines Entscheidungsmodells zur Konkretisierung des Konzepts -- Analyse und Entwurf von Methoden zur Umsetzung des Entscheidungsmodells -- Evaluation der...