Homepage : Sussex Energy Group. Building Research & Information. Energy Geographies Working Group, Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) Understanding new energy models for cities in the south. Durham Urban Transitions. With over half the world's population, cities are large sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
Cities are also vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Urban infrastructure systems, such as utilities and housing, have a critical role in both reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and in enhancing resilience to the potential impacts of climate change. These systems are socio-technical, that is, they include technical components, such as the technologies which generate energy (e.g. solar panels on a roof), and social components, the institutions which guide the development of these technologies (e.g. planning laws) and the behaviors through which energy demand is produced (e.g. using hot water). Analysing how these urban socio-technical systems are responding to climate change may help us to understand the nature of systemic change and the challenges of how cities can respond to a changing climate. Durham Energy Institute. LEC - News.
Environmental Change Institute (ECI) - Oxford University.