Energy and Sustainable Futures : Proceedings of 2nd ICESF 2020

The research included in this book covers a wide range of topics in the areas of energy and sustainability including:• ICT and control of energy;• conventional energy sources;• energy governance;• materials in energy research;• renewable energy;

Chapter 1. Introduction: The City as a Multifaceted and Dynamic Constitutional Entity.- Part I. Cities Within National Power Structures.- Chapter 2. Cities and the Dutch Constitution.- Chapter 3. Modes of Urban Autonomy: The Constitutional Characteristics of Self-Governance in Amsterdam, Paris and Hamburg.- Chapter 4. Reanimating Brussels: The Beating Heart of the Belgian Federation.- Chapter 5. How much Local Autonomy is Good for a City? An Analysis of the Peruvian Constitutional Design for Cities and its Effects in the Case of the Lima.- Chapter 6. Comparative Constitutional Politics in Hong Kong and Macau under Chinese Sovereignty.- Chapter 7. A Tale of Three Cities: The City in German Constitutional Law.- Part II. Cities and Citizens.- Chapter 8. The Constitution and the City: Reflections on Judicial Experimentalism Through an Urban Lens.- Chapter 9. Urban Governance and the Right to a Healthy City.- Chapter 10. Topical Storm Approaching: Regulating Public Assemblies and Responding to Online Falsehoods in the City State of Singapore.- Chapter 11. The City of London: Dominance, Democracy and the Rule of Law?.- Part III. Cities and the International Arena.- Chapter 12. Accelerating Cities, Constitutional Brakes? Exploring the Local Authorities between Global Challenges and Domestic Law.- Chapter 13. European Cities between Self-Government and Subordination: Their Role as Policy-Takers and Policy-Makers.- Part IV. Constitutional Law in the Age of the City.- Chapter 14. Urbanization, Megacities, Constitutional Silence.- Chapter 15. Redrawing the Boundaries of City Governance: Preliminary Lines of Inquiry into Metropolitan Cities, Socio-Economic Challenges and Constitutional Law.