Strategies toward ambitious climate targets usually rely on the concept of'decoupling'; that is,
they aim at promoting economic growth while reducing the use of natural resources and …

The interconnection of urbanization trends and environmental pressures, are due to the
rising demand for resource consumption, waste production and greenhouses gas …

Urban energy metabolism reflects the energy transmission and exchange process to
uncover the structure and functionality of urban activities. The literature on urban energy …

Fossil fuels are the origins of conventional energy production, which has been progressively
transformed into modern innovative technologies with an emphasis on renewable sources …

We performed a comprehensive and internally consistent assessment of the energy
performance of the full range of electricity production technologies in the United Kingdom …

This paper discusses how the deceleration of economic growth, that followed the financial
crisis of 2008, influenced the energy efficiency, allocation and use of 18 European countries …

Rapid urbanization exacerbates urban metabolic activities associated with irreversible
environmental degradation. Evaluating urban metabolic performance is an effective method …

Within the context of the controversial use of the concept energy intensity to assess national
energy performance, this paper proposes an innovative accounting framework: the energy …

Post-industrial societies heavily rely on the consumption of embodied energy for their
activities–ie, energy invested elsewhere to produce what is imported and consumed (or re …

With the expansion of the acceleration of the urbanization process, China experienced a
corresponding high demand for energy, which led to significant changes in energy …