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Record Nr.

UNINA9910863178003321

Autore

Pincetl Stephanie

Titolo

Energy Use in Cities : A Roadmap for Urban Transitions / / by Stephanie Pincetl, Hannah Gustafson, Felicia Federico, Eric Daniel Fournier, Robert Cudd, Erik Porse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Springer International Publishing, 2020

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030556013

3030556018

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 180 p. 23 illus., 19 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

333.7909794

320

Soggetti

Environmental policy

Sociology

Energy policy

Human geography

Sociology, Urban

Political planning

Environmental Policy

Energy Policy, Economics and Management

Human Geography

Urban Sociology

Public Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Larger Context, Cities, Smart and Big Data -- Chapter 3: Building Energy Data Access and Aggregation Rules. Chapter 4: Building an Energy Atlas -- Chapter 5:User Design and Functionality -- Chapter 6: Data Analytics -- Chapter 7: Case Studies -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"Prof Pincetl and colleagues have compiled a valuable and insightful study on constructing the Southern California Energy Atlas, a unique



and world leading resource. This book is informative, instructive, and an essential guide to those seeking to build a knowledge base upon which to take actions supporting the transition of the built environment towards becoming zero-carbon, energy efficient, and resilient." - Ian Hamilton, Associate Professor,UCL Energy Institute,London 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 need energy data in order to understand energy flows and plan for a more sustainable future. However, this data is often either not utilized or not available. Using California as an example, the book describes how to construct a energy data hub for sophisticated, socially-conscious research, and how it may be used to assist local governments and community based organizations to meet their sustainability goals. This methodology maps highly-detailed building energy use to understand patterns of consumption across buildings, neighborhoods, and socioeconomic divisions. The book then details the steps required to replicate this methodology elsewhere, demonstrating the importance of openly-accessible building energy data for transitioning cities to meet the climate planning goals of the twenty-first century. It also explains why actual data, not modeled or sampled data, is critical for accurate analysis and insights. Finally, it acknowledges the complex institutional context for this work and some of the obstacles the project has faced - utility reluctance, public agency oversight, funding and path dependencies. This book will be of great value to scholars across the environmental sectors - especially to those studying sustainable urban energy - as well as to practitioners and policy makers in these areas. Stephanie Pincetl is Director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.She works on complex urban systems and their socio-environmental impacts with an aim to provide actionable science for a just energy transition. .