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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Reduced damage to health and environment from energy saving : a methodology for integrated assessment applied to a case study in Hungary /

Aunan, K. January 1998 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oslo, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.
2

Home energy conservation psychological and environmental worldviews /

Felts, Anne. Phillips, Ronald G. January 2008 (has links)
The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on September 22, 2009). Thesis advisor: Ronald G. Phillips. Includes bibliographical references.
3

Energy conservation in building services in Hong Kong /

Lai, Hung-kit. January 1994 (has links)
Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references.
4

Developing community energy projects : experiences from Finland and the UK

Martiskainen, Mari January 2014 (has links)
Community energy has drawn interest from the general public, policy makers and researchers in the UK over the last few years. Community energy projects, such as energy saving measures and renewable energy projects, are usually organised by civil society groups rather than commercial businesses. This DPhil research approaches community energy as local grassroots innovation and compares its development in two different countries, Finland and the UK. Key research question is: Why and how do community energy projects develop and how do they contribute to niche development? The thesis uses Sustainability Transitions studies literature, especially literature on Strategic Niche Management (SNM), as a theoretical framing, and empirical in-depth analysis of four community energy projects, two in the UK and two in Finland. The research examines how community energy projects develop in ‘niches'. Research findings highlight that motivations for projects include monetary savings, energy savings and climate change. Projects are developed by pre-existing community groups or groups that have come together to develop an energy project. Local embedding of community energy projects to each project's individual circumstances helps successful project delivery. Pre-existing skills and tacit knowledge such as the ability to seek information and fill in funding applications can aid success. Engagement with key stakeholders further shapes projects' aims and objectives. Community energy projects benefit from a clear leader who works with a supportive team. There is evidence of projects networking at the local and national level in the UK, while in Finland networking remains limited to the local area and projects often develop in isolation. Furthermore, there is a clear lack of active intermediary organisations in the Finnish context. Policy discourse at the government level can aid the attractiveness of community energy, while continued funding support encourages more people to get involved in projects in their local areas.
5

Energy efficient design : an investigation on collective urban built form /

Giridharan, R. January 1996 (has links)
Thesis (M.U.D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-109).
6

Cap and trade or a carbon tax? how to reduce CO₂ emissions /

Klein, Matthew. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of Political Science, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.
7

Development and verification of a simplified building energy model

Valade, Rachel Elizabeth. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (M. S.)--Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. / Committee Chair: Dr. Sheldon Jeter; Committee Member: Dr. Ruchi Choudhary; Committee Member: Dr. Srinivas Garimella.
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Energy efficient design an investigation on collective urban built form /

Giridharan, R. January 1996 (has links)
Thesis (M.U.D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-109) Also available in print.
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Sustainable energy transitions in Austria : a participatory multi-criteria appraisal of scenarios

Kowalski, Katharina January 2012 (has links)
In the light of advancing climate change and the anticipated scarcity of affordable fossil fuels, a transition towards more sustainable energy systems is vital to allow for the long-term sustainability of human wellbeing. Energy is a key sustainability issue, at the heart of the complex interactions of socioeconomic and biophysical systems. The overall aim of this study is to contribute to furthering the understanding of these systems interactions. It intends to deliver methodological insights on how to identify and appraise favourable energy futures in a changing and uncertain world. In order to cope with the complexity and uncertainty of future developments and with the plethora of partly contradictory social preferences, a participatory approach was combined with scenario development and the application of an appraisal tool that takes account of the multidimensionality of system interlinkages. In a case study for Austria, favourable renewable energy scenarios were developed in a participatory setting, involving key Austrian energy stakeholders. The scenario development consisted of two stages: first an exploratory stage with stakeholder engagement and second a modelling stage generating forecasting-type scenarios. Accordingly, the scenarios consist of a narrative part, the storyline, and a modelled, quantitative part. The application of Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) allowed the integration of multi-dimensional sustainability information (social, environmental, economic, and technological criteria) and the social preferences of the stakeholders into the appraisal of the energy scenarios. In the case study presented, five renewable energy scenarios for Austria for 2020 were compared against 17 sustainability criteria. The study illustrates how the combined use of participatory scenario building techniques and MCA acknowledges and integrates inherent complexity, irreducible uncertainty, multi-dimensionality, and, a multiplicity of legitimate perspectives in the appraisal. The main empirical result of the sustainability appraisal undertaken shows that, contrary to the current energy policy in Austria, a profoundly decentralised energy system (scenario E) and an innovative long-term investment strategy (scenario C) rank highest, whereas the renewable strategy based on biomass (scenario D), which represents the dominant political trajectory in Austria's renewable energy policy, ranks very low. The research demonstrates the integration of biophysical, social, economic, and, technological appraisal criteria, presents and discusses best practice criteria, and, illustrates the challenges and opportunities to incorporate bio-physical aspects into the concept of sociotechnical systems and their transitions in the light of a more sustainable development.
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Determinants of investment in energy conservation /

Velthuijsen, Jan Willem. January 1995 (has links)
Thesis (doctoral)--Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen, 1995. / Summary in Dutch. Material type: Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-291).

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