Urban areas are critical in accomplishing the clean energy transition and meeting the
climate goals in the Paris Agreement. The first part of this paper presents a systematic …

Sustainable Urbanism in China explores the notion of" Sustainable Urbanism" by
considering the role sustainable neighborhood planning plays in the larger picture of …

Recent strategic policies and regulations dealing with market liberalization and
decarbonization plans, such as the European directives contained in the recent EU Clean …

The development of local energy communities observed in the last years requires the
reorganization of energy consumption and production. In these newly considered energy …

The progressive development of local energy communities requires the reorganization of the
energy production and consumption, with a new energy system in which the technical and …

The chapter proposes the correction of the concept of “smart city.” It is substantiated that the
specificity of the redistribution of the population and economic resources to the major cities …

Consumer trends like local consumption, sharing of property, and environmental awareness
change our habits and thereby our surroundings. These trends have their origin in our direct …

Implementation of PEDs requires immense infrastructure investments in energy efficiency
measures, energy generation, transformation and storage as well as in new mobility …

The development of local energy communities observed in the last years requires the
reorganization of energy consumption and production. In these newly considered energy …