Does urbanization lead to less residential energy consumption? A comparative study of 136 countries

Wang, Qiang; Lin, Jian; Zhou, Kan; Fan, Jie; Kwan, Mei‐Po

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2020.117765

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“…However, factors such as price, income, urbanization (Adom, 2019), personal values (Mtutu and Thondhlana, 2016), and attitudes and subjective norms (Marzouk and Mahrous, 2020) were revealed to be some of the factors influencing sustainable energy use in Africa. Similar to our study finding, some studies conducted by (Brounen et al, 2012;Zhang and Bai, 2018;Rafindadi and Mika'Ilu, 2019;Wang et al 2020Georgeufot et al 2017) confirmed that, price, income, urbanization, and attitudes influence sustainable energy consumption. Contrariwise, (Salim and Shafiei, 2014) have concluded that urbanization has no apparent effect on energy consumption.…”

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Mapping evidence of individuals’ sustainable consumption behaviour and energy or transport use in Africa: A scoping review

Mensah

2021

IJRBS

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The study aims to systematically map and describe the evidence on individual’s sustainable consumption behaviour and energy and transport use in Africa. The paper employed Arskey and O’Malley’s’ framework of 2005 as a guide to conduct a scoping review. Using keywords separated by Boolean terms (AND/OR) with all limiters removed, relevant published studies in Science Direct, SCOPUS, and Google Scholar were searched. Full-text screening guided by the inclusion criteria was independently conducted and data extraction was done using a piloted form to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data. The results revealed that out of 176 studies, six met this study’s inclusion criteria and were included for data extraction. Among the six included studies, two were multi-country studies involving African countries, and study each was conducted in Ghana, Mauritius, South Africa, and Egypt. Of the included studies, five were on sustainable energy consumption domain, one on energy use and recycling behaviour, and the factors influencing sustainable energy consumption; price, income, urbanization, intention, attitudes, subjective norms and personal values. However, we found no evidence on individual’s sustainable consumption behaviour and transport use. Concluding, the results suggest that limited studies on sustainable consumption behaviour of energy and transport use are found in Africa. Therefore, further studies are needed to protect the gains made so far on environmental sustainability as well as to encourage and improve the individual’s sustainable consumption practices.

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confidence: 91%

Mapping evidence of individuals’ sustainable consumption behaviour and energy or transport use in Africa: A scoping review

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2021

IJRBS

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“…The preliminary determinants and characteristics, including user preferences regarding energy [ 20 – 22 ] and water demand [ 23 – 26 ] in Italy, were derived from the scientific literature. The latest details for household energy consumption were derived from an official report that was published by the Italian Agency for Energy Efficiency (ENEA) [ 27 ].…”

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Simulations of scenarios for urban household water and energy consumption

Casazza

Xue

et al. 2021

PLoS ONE

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The expansion of cities and their impacts currently constitutes a challenge for the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs). In this respect, assessments of resource consumption and the delivery of appropriate policies to support resource conservation are of paramount importance. Previous works in the literature have focused on one specific resource (e.g., water, energy, food) at the household level, while others have analysed the inter-relations among different resources (i.e., the nexus approach) at larger spatial scales (e.g., urban level). Moreover, household behavioural attitudes are generally excluded while assessing resource consumption scenarios. This work overcomes previous limitations by proposing a causal-loop structure derived from the literature, from which simulations of different scenarios can be generated that consider the nexus between food, energy and water at the household level. These simulations can provide alternative scenarios to assess the impacts of monetary policies as well as education and communication actions on the enhancement of resource savings and consider both their current use and household preferences. The metropolitan area of Napoli was chosen as the testbed area for the simulations. The results, in relation to the testbed, proved that communication actions would be most appropriate to increase the level of resource savings. The business-as-usual scenario was especially sensitive to variations in individual preferences towards pro-environmental behaviours and showed their higher impacts on the results. Improvements of this method and its derived scenarios in the context of the urban planning process could support the implementation of informed policies towards the conservation of key resources and promotion of sustainable citizen behaviour.

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“…The construction of urbanization has come into a new period from the level of less than 20% urbanization in 1971 to the level of 59% urbanization in 2018, although the level of urbanization has not yet reached 70% in comparison with the one of the developed countries. Therefore, China has taken urbanization construction as one of the most important development strategies, and the construction of the new-type urbanization has paid more attention to sustainability and coordination [6,7]. "New-type urbanization" is a new urbanization process with the connotations of people's livelihood, sustainable development and quality, the core goal of pursuing equality, happiness, transformation, green, health and intensive, and the key content of realizing regional overall planning and coordination, industrial upgrading and low-carbon transformation, ecological civilization and intensive efficiency, and institutional reform and innovation.…”

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Does Financial Excess Support Land Urbanization—An Empirical Study of Cities in China

Li,

Zou,

Tan

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Most countries have experienced land urbanization, which is indispensable for financial support, especially for their financing function achievement through land appreciation and other channels in the urbanization process. By using 34 provincial capital (sub-provinces) cities in China as the sample, this paper studies the impact of finance on land urbanization construction based on the panel data from 2003 to 2018 under a differential GMM method; besides, the causes of excessive financial support and results generated on different regions are reported. Moreover, a moderate range of financial support for land urbanization is found under the influence of land finance. We obtain the following results: first, there is excessive financial support for land urbanization with regional differences exhibited; for instance, the eastern and central regions have an excessive financial support but the western region does not. Second, land urbanization with an excessive financial support correlates with financial efficiency, while the relatively large financial efficiency leads to the waste of a large number of financial resources. Third, financial support has a single and significant threshold effect on land urbanization construction, and finance has a promoting effect when land finance is less than the threshold value; otherwise, it has an inhibiting effect.

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Does urbanization lead to less residential energy consumption? A comparative study of 136 countries

Cited by 78 publications

References 70 publications

Mapping evidence of individuals’ sustainable consumption behaviour and energy or transport use in Africa: A scoping review

Mapping evidence of individuals’ sustainable consumption behaviour and energy or transport use in Africa: A scoping review

Simulations of scenarios for urban household water and energy consumption

Does Financial Excess Support Land Urbanization—An Empirical Study of Cities in China

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