Topics include:
- Energy, environment and well-being
- Energy efficiency
- Exergy and emergy
- Energy futures
- Social transition and global environmental change
- Sustainability
- Environmental constraints
- Energy metabolism
- Energy costs of water management
- Energy and mobility
- Waste management (energy costs and potential energy conversion)
- Food and commodity chains
- Cleaner production and appropriate resource management
- Innovative Energy Systems
- Energy supply and use (heat, electricity)
- Photovoltaic electricity – promise, limits and potential
- Energy “network science” to measure social and ecological resilience and systemic health
- Integration of assessment methods
- Circular economy patterns. Integration of city activities and sectors for optimum energy use
- Sustainable finance
- Financing cleaner energy infrastructures and patterns
- Energy policies
- Information and communication tools and networks for energy savings
- Decision making tools
- Urban stakeholders participatory strategies
