Preface 1. Energy and Economic Growth Robert U. Ayres
2. Win-Win Strategies for Tackling Oil and Natural Gas Constraints while Expanding Renewable Energy Use Michael Jefferson
3. After the Fossil Era Luigi Sertorio
4. Biomass or Biomess? The promises and Limits of Bioenergy Joachim H. Spangenberg
5. Cost and Environmental Effectiveness of the Climate Change Mitigation Measures Natasa Markovska, Mirko Todorovski, Tome Bosevski, and Jordan Pop-Jordanov
6. Sustainable Environmental Management in Croatia – Waste and Climate ChangeDaniel R. Schneider
7. Studying the ″Addiction to Oil″ of Developed Societies Using the Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal Metabolism (MSIASM)87Mario Giampietro
8. Systemic Economic Instruments for Energy, Climate, and Global Security James Greyson
9. Sustainability and Economic Feasibility of Combinations of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Fossil Fuels for Production of Heat and ElectricityKiril Popovski and Sanja Popovska Vasilevska
10. Third Party Financing: New Financial Tools for Energy Efficiency – An International PerspectiveClaudio Ferrari
11.Vital Problems of Human Development, Indicators and Eco-Centric SolutionsAlexander Gorobets
12. Lifestyles, Energy, and Sustainability: The Exploration of ConstraintsIgor Matutinovic
13. Approaches to Sustainable Energy Consumption Patterns Damjan Krajnc, Rebeka Lukman and Peter Glavic
14. Energy, Environment and Security in Eastern EuropeOleg Udovyk
15. Capacity Building for Sustainable Energy Access in the Sahel/Sahara Region: Wind Energy as Catalyst for Regional Development Khalid Benhamou
16. Bio-diesel and/or Hydrogen in Croatia – Challenge and Necessity Ante Krstulovic and Frano Barbir
17. Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research for Future MarketsHanns-Joachim Neef
18. Hydrogen Production from BiomassMu′taz Al-Alawi
19. PV Large Scale Rural Electrification Programs and the Development of Desert Regions Sifeddine Labed
20. Life Cycle Impacts and Total Costs of Present and Future Photovoltaic Systems: State-of-the Art and Future Outlook of a Strategic Technology Option for a Sustainable Energy SystemMarco Raugei and Paolo Frankl
21. Integrated Systems and Zero Emission Production Patterns in Agriculture, Industry and the Energy Sector – Why ″Green″ is not EnoughSergio Ulgiati, Amalia Zucaro and Stefano Dumontet
22. Biorefinery: Biomaterials and Bioenergy from Photosynthesis, within Zero Emission Framework Janis Gravitis
23. Geographical Information System (GIS) and Emergy Synthesis Evaluation of Urban waste ManagementPier Paolo Franzese, Giovanni Fulvio Russo and Sergio Ulgiati
24. Elements of Global Roadmap for Climate Sustainability: Factors Affecting the Reduction of CO Emissions Mia Pihlajamäki, Jyrki Luukkanen and Jarmo Vehmas
25. Carbon Management for Secure CommunitiesNigel Mortimer
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