1st Edition
Energy Analysis for a Sustainable Future Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism
Introduction Part 1: Defining the Problem 1. Energy Accounting: Sources of Ambiguity 2. Energy Analysis: the Troublesome Birth of a New Domain of Knowledge 3. The Aggregation of Energy Flows at the National Level 4. The Proper Use of Semantic and Formal Categories in Energy Accounting 5. Energy Flows Under Human Control: Energy Input, Power Capacity and Human Labour 6. Cutting Through the Confusion in Net Energy Analysis Part 2: Proposing a Solution 7. In Search of a Richer, Integrated and Multi-scale Accounting Protocol 8. Concepts, Ideas, and Representations Underlying the Multi-scale Integrated Accounting of Society’s Energy Metabolism 9. Dual Accounting of Energy Flows and the Characterization of the Metabolic Pattern Across Hierarchical Levels 10. Studying the Feasibility and Desirability of the Metabolic Pattern of Society from Within 11. Using the MuSIASEM Approach to Check the External Constraints on the Metabolic Pattern of Modern Societies 12. Using MuSIASEM for Studying Scenarios Based on Alternatives to Fossil Energy Conclusions: Where do we go from here?
Biography
Mario Giampietro is an ICREA Research Professor at ICTA (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology), Department of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Kozo Mayumi is a Professor at the University of Tokushima, Japan. He is a co-founder and organizer of the Biennial International Workshop ‘Advances in Energy Studies’, which started in 1998.
Alevgül H. Şorman is a Researcher in the Integrated Assessment and Societal Metabolism group at ICTA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
