1st Edition

Smart Green Cities Toward a Carbon Neutral World

By Woodrow Clark II, Grant Cooke Copyright 2016
364 Pages
by Routledge

364 Pages
by Routledge

364 Pages
by Routledge

Smart Green Cities: is a comprehensive overview of what global cities are doing to become sustainable. Woodrow W. Clark II and Grant Cooke have produced a book that is both practical and visionary. They have examined the infrastructure needs - sustainable development, communications, energy, water, waste, and transportation to develop guidelines, processes and best practices. City leaders are key... Read more
Introduction; Modern Civilization is The City; Key Problems Facing Modern Cities; The Green Industrial Revolution; Smart and Green are Sustainable; Technologies That Make a City Smart and Green; Sustainable Green Transport; China—Revolutionary Green Transformation; The Next Economics for a Greener World; Smart Ecocities—New Ideas For Urban Living; Smart Green Cities

Biography

Dr Clark is an expert in economics, renewable energy, and sustainable communities who was a contributing scientist to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which as an organization won the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2007. In the 1990s, he was the first Manager of Energy Technology Transfer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. At the turn of the 21st Century he was California Governor Davis’ Renewable Energy Advisor and then in 2004 formed Clark Strategic Partners, an international renewable energy, economics, and environmental consulting firm. Grant Cooke is a journalist and Silicon Valley businessman with experience in emerging technologies and sustainability. In 2006, he was one of the first businessmen involved with California’s $3.5 billion world-leading energy efficiency program. He is also an established writer with numerous publishing credits including The Green Industrial Revolution: Energy, Engineering and Economics, with Clark.