Local Governments and Climate Change Sustainable Energy Planning and

Climate change is a serious environmental, security and socio-political challenge. Its impact is already visible at community level around the globe. Tackling this challenge requires urgent action, with the engagement of local governments and communities

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Maryke van Staden Francesco Musco Editors

ADVANCES IN GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH 39

Local Governments and Climate Change Sustainable Energy Planning and Implementation in Small and Medium Sized Communities

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Local Governments and Climate Change

ADVANCES IN GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH VOLUME 39

Editor-in-Chief Martin Beniston, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Editorial Advisory Board B. Allen-Diaz, Department ESPM-Ecosystem Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. R.S. Bradley, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. W. Cramer, Earth System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany. H.F. Diaz, Climate Diagnostics Center, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA. S. Erkman, Institute for communication and Analysis of Science and Technology–ICAST, Geneva, Switzerland. R. Garcia Herrera, Faculated de Fisicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. M. Lal, Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. U. Luterbacher, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. I. Noble, CRC for Greenhouse Accounting and Research School of Biological Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. L. Tessier, Institut Mediterranéen d’Ecologie et Paléoécologie, Marseille, France. F. Toth, International Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ec Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy. M.M. Verstraete, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ec Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy.

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Editors

Local Governments and Climate Change Sustainable Energy Planning and Implementation in Small and Medium Sized Communities

Editors Maryke van Staden ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, European Secretariat Leopoldring 3 D-79098 Freiburg Germany [email protected]

Dr Francesco Musco Department of Planning University IUAV of Venice S. Croce 1957-30135 Venice Italy [email protected]

This book has partially supported by Cariparo Foundation and by the Province of Rovigo within the Local Agenda 21 Polesine Action Plan 2007–2008. Energy research was supported by the Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) programme of the European Commission (EC) which co-funded the Rovigo Climate Conference (contract EIE/SSE/07/031/ SI2.466812).

ISBN 978-1-4020-9530-6 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-9531-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-9531-3 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010924741 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusiv