Preface ........................................................ ix
1. Energy and Economic Growth .................................. 1
Robert U. Ayres
2. Win-Win Strategies for Tackling Oil and Natural Gas
Constraints while Expanding Renewable Energy Use ........... 25
Michael Jefferson
3. After the Fossil Era ....................................... 43
Luigi Sertorio
4. Biomass or Biomess? The promises and Limits of Bioenergy ... 55
Joachim H. Spangenberg
5. Cost and Environmental Effectiveness of the Climate
Change Mitigation Measures ................................. 67
Natasa Markovska, Mirko Todorovski, Tome Bosevski and
Jordan Pop-Jordanov
6. Sustainable Environmental Management in Croatia - Waste
and Climate Change ......................................... 75
Daniel R. Schneider
7. Studying the "Addiction to Oil" of Developed Societies
Using the Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal
Metabolism (MSIASM) ........................................ 87
Mario Giampietro
8. Systemic Economic Instruments for Energy, Climate, and
Global Security ........................................... 139
James Greyson
9. Sustainability and Economic Feasibility of Combinations
of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Fossil Fuels for
Production of Heat and Electricity ........................ 159
Kiril Popovski and Sanja Popovska Vasilevska
10. Third Party Financing: New Financial Tools for Energy
Efficiency - An International Perspective ................. 171
Claudio Ferrari
11. Vital Problems of Human Development, Indicators and
Eco-Centric Solutions ..................................... 185
Alexander Gorobets
12. Lifestyles, Energy, and Sustainability: The Exploration
of Constraints ............................................ 199
Igor Matutinović
13. Approaches to Sustainable Energy Consumption Patterns ..... 213
Damjan Krajnc, Rebeka Lukman and Peter Glavić
14. Energy, Environment and Security in Eastern Europe ........ 227
Oleg Udovyk
15. Capacity Building for Sustainable Energy Access in
the Sahel/Sahara Region: Wind Energy as Catalyst for
Regional Development ...................................... 241
Khalid Benhamou
16. Bio-diesel and/or Hydrogen in Croatia-Challenge and
Necessity ................................................. 251
Ante Krstulović and Frano Barbir
17. Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research for Future Markets ........ 265
Hanns-Joachim Neef
18. Hydrogen Production from Biomass .......................... 273
Mu'taz Al-Alawi
19. PV Large Scale Rural Electrification Programs and
the Development of Desert Regions ......................... 281
Sifeddine Labed
20. Life Cycle Impacts and Total Costs of Present and Future
Photovoltaic Systems: State-of-the Art and Future
Outlook of a Strategic Technology Option for
a Sustainable Energy System ............................... 293
Marco Raugei and Paolo Frankl
21. Integrated Systems and Zero Emission Production Patterns
in Agriculture, Industry and the Energy Sector -
Why "Green" is not Enough ................................. 305
Sergio Ulgiati, Amalia Zucaro and Stefano Dumontet
22. Biorefinery: Biomaterials and Bioenergy from
Photosynthesis, within Zero Emission Framework ............ 327
Janis Gravitis
23. Geographical Information System (GIS) and Emergy
Synthesis Evaluation of Urban waste Management ............ 339
Pier Paolo Franzese, Giovanni Fulvio Russo and
Sergio Ulgiati
24. Elements of Global Roadmap for Climate Sustainability:
Factors Affecting the Reduction of CO2 Emissions .......... 353
Mia Pihlajamäki, Jyrki Luukkanen and Jarmo Vehmas
25. Carbon Management for Secure Communities .................. 361
Nigel Mortimer
Author Index .................................................. 369
Subject Index ................................................. 371
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