TUESDAY, 19 October 2010

 

 

Plenary Session:

 

Adjusting to new energy realities in the second half of the age of oil

             (presentation)

             Charlie Hall, State University of New York at Syracuse, USA

 

Session 1.1: Understanding the situation: Analysis of the metabolic patterns of societies

 

Putting metabolic patterns of society within a larger perspective

             (presentation)

             Mark Brown, University of Florida, USA

 

Analysing metabolic trends of European countries to come to terms with energetic realities

             (presentation)

             Alevgul H. Sorman, Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona, Spain

 

Session 1.2:  Urban Metabolic Patterns

 

Positioning rust belt cities for a sustainable future: step 1, an evaluation of neighbourhood socio-ecological metabolism

             (presentation)

             Myrna Hall, State University of New York at Syracuse, USA

 

Urban energy metabolism using ecological network analysis: case study of four Chinese cities

             (presentation)

             Brian Fath, Towson University, US

 

Energy infrastructure for a high humane and low carbon future

             (presentation)

             Sudhakara Reddy Basireddy, Indira Gandhi Inst. of Development Research, India

 

Session 1.3:  Modelling changes in the metabolism of societies

 

Modelling a trophically balanced economy

             (presentation)

             John R. Schramski, University of Georgia, USA

 

The meaning of rebound effects in the energy-related practices of households

             (presentation)

             Sophie Némoz, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

 

MuSIASM for sustainable policies: Romanian metabolism in productive and pransportation Sectors (MuSIASEM at level n-4)

             (presentation)

             Raluca Ioana Iorgulescu, Siena College, USA

 

Modelling the energy dynamics of human civilizations within the theory of cultural evolutionism

             (presentation)

             Georgios Karakatsanis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

 

The robustness of the environmental kuznets curve for CO2

             (presentation)

             Tommaso Luzzati, University of Pisa, Italy

 

Proposal for an analytical simile of intra-European exchange of matter-energy: Manoilescu-Georgescu-Roegen model

             (presentation)

             Vasile Dogaru, West University of Timisoara, Romania

 

 

Session 1.4: Energy metabolism and the environment

 

EROEI and net energy in the exploitation of natural resources. A study based on the Lotka-Volterra Model.

             (presentation)

             Ugo Bardi, Universitŕ di Firenze, Italy

 

Bioenergy and its actual mitigation of climate change: Does carbon neutral mean climate neutral?

             (presentation)

             Francesco Cherubini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

 

Searching meaningful indicators within the water world. How can exergy help?

             (presentation)

             Amaya Martínez Gracia, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

 

Environmental impact of using different energy sources for family house heating

             (presentation)

             Henryk Manteuffel Szoege, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland

 

           7th Biennial International Workshop

       Advances in Energy Studies 2010

           Can we break the addiction to fossil energy?

 

           Barcelona, 19-21 October 2010