Sustainable Energy Technologies: Options and ProspectsKemo Hanjalic, Roel van de Krol, Alija Lekic Springer Science & Business Media, 2007 M12 7 - 333 pages In pursuit of feasible near-future sustainable and environmentally acceptable - ergy solutions to speci?c needs and based on the available – often speci?c and l- ited – resources as pertinent to many smaller transitional countries, the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina in cooperation with Dubrovnik Inter-University Centre invited a panel of experts to present and discuss the sta- of-the-art in the development of new energy technologies at a conference held in Dubrovnik,Croatia, on23–25September2006. Up-to-datereviewsof the status and prospects of different options in energy conversion and storage technologies were presented by some of the world leading authorities – members of the national and international academies of sciences, directors of institutes, directors of national and international (EU) energy programmes and academics from Belgium, France, G- many, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal and Switzerland. The articles covered new clean and zero-emission coal technologies, solar, wind, nuclear, fuel cells, - drogen and hybrid technologies, accompanied by treatises on the challenge of - creasing global energy needs and consumption, issues of sustainability, and on - ?cient production and use of energy based on modern rationing technologies. This overview was complemented by several regional surveys of needs, resources and priorities, as well as speci?c initiatives towards meeting future energy objectives, pursued in several countries in South-Eastern Europe. This volume has grown out of (but is not con?ned to) extended and revised invited articles presented at the Dubrovnik conference under the auspices of the AcademyofSciencesandArtsofBosniaandHerzegovina. |
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tainability Concept For Energy Water and Environmental Systems | 25 |
lfgan | 51 |
spectives on Wind Energy 75 | 74 |
tovoltaic Cells for Sustainable Energy | 99 |
cEvoy and M Grätzel | 120 |
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Page 39 - Future defined sustainable development as: development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. . . . Sustainable development is a process of change in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development, and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations.
Page 39 - Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.
Page 40 - In order to cope the complexity of sustainability related issues for different systems the indicators have to reflect the wholeness of the system as well as the interaction of its subsystems. Consequently, indicators have to measure intensity of the interactions among elements of the systems and system and its environment.
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Page 40 - ... Developing tools that reliable measure sustainability is a prerequisite for identifying non-sustainable processes informing design-makers of the quality of products and monitoring impacts to the social environment. The multiplicity of indicators and measuring tools being developed in this fast growing field shows the importance of the conceptual and methodological work in this area. The development and selection of indicators require parameters related to the reliability, appropriateness, practicality...
Page 39 - what is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals." He argues that the earth belongs to each generation "during its course, fully and in its own right. The second receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on.
Page 39 - Sustainable development requires taking longerterm perspectives, integrating local and regional effects of global change into the development process, and using the best scientific and traditional knowledge available.