Impact of household demographic characteristics on energy conservation and carbon dioxide emission: Case from Mahabad city, Iran

Soltani, Mohammad; Rahmani, Omeid; Ghasimi, Dara S.M.; Ghaderpour, Yousef; Pour, Amin Beiranvand; Misnan, Siti Hajar; Ngah, Ibrahim

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2020.116916

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“…They argue that income level is an important predictor of energy conservation behavior of households and have a significant positive impact on their conservation, but our findings are similar to the Rasool et al (2019) and Soltani et al (2020). They argue that income level has no association with energy conservation behavior.…”

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confidence: 48%

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Impact of Demographic, Psychological Attributes and Financial Consciousness of Households on their Energy Conservation Behavior: Testing the Mediating Role of Behavioral Intention

Ahmad

Rashid

Choudary

2020

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The implementation of energy sustainable practices is acknowledged to be a vital step towards resolving the problem of energy shortage. However, the energy conservation behavior of households in developing countries has not gained much attention. Therefore, this research aims to examine the effect of psychological attributes and financial consciousness on the energy conservation behavior of residential individual in the presence of behavioral intentions. For the purpose of this study, we performed a regression analysis on the data set collected through a questionnaire survey of 310 residential individuals in Lahore, Pakistan. Results reveal that the psychological attributes and financial consciousness of the households have a significant effect on their energy conservation behavior. Further, the findings of the study establish a significant mediating role of households' behavioral intentions towards energy conservation. The findings of this study suggest that media campaigns and energy conservation seminars should emphasize the adoption of energy-saving technologies.

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confidence: 48%

“…They argue that income level has no association with energy conservation behavior. Soltani et al (2020), who proposed that there is no association between educational level and energy conservation behavior. This may be due to the absence of material on energy conservation in the curriculum of various degree programs.…”

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confidence: 99%

Impact of Demographic, Psychological Attributes and Financial Consciousness of Households on their Energy Conservation Behavior: Testing the Mediating Role of Behavioral Intention

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Rashid

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2020

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“…Increasing income accompanied by urbanization has led to a rise in household energy consumption. To address this rising trend in energy consumption, policymakers in Iran have tried to enforce energy efficiency improvements for LPG appliances [28].…”

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“…Sepehr et al [60] reported that the household sector in Iran allocates about 40% of total energy demand. Therefore, it will undoubtedly have a higher CO 2 emission level and a more considerable impact on the environment [28]. Hence, a tendency exists among people to act in a way to reduce the effect of energy consumption on the environment.…”

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“…A study on households' energy consumption and CO 2 emissions in cities is important to a country like Iran with a population of more than 80 million and an urbanization rate of 3.5% [13]. The share of households in the total energy demand in Iran in 2010 has been about 25% and increased to 50% in 2019 [19,28], which makes it the highest compared to other sectors. Against this backdrop, a study on household energy consumption patterns is necessary considering the important role energy plays in human development.…”

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An Overview of Household Energy Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Iran

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This review tends to obtain a deeper understanding of the methods used in household energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in Iran. Issues relating to energy consumption and CO2 emissions are very complex. This complexity arises from the fact that energy demand and energy consumption in Iran are influenced by many factors, such as income, household size, age, and gender. In Iran, the relevant energy sources mostly include liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and electricity, which are used for different sectors, such as transportation, industry, and residential. This overview looks at both the theories and empirical studies of household energy consumption and CO2 emissions in Iran. Since energy consumption typically results in air pollution, it is often used as an indicator of environmental degradation. Although Iran is recently faced to energy efficiency improvement from all sectors, household energy requirements have been significantly increased. In Iran, a prime motivator had been improving living standards. As Iran gradually turns into a consumer society, households have an enormous influence on the direct use of energy and related CO2 emissions as well as through indirect use, as embodied in goods and services. The findings of this study can help policymakers to focus on renewable energy projects in order to reduce energy consumption and mitigate CO2 emissions.

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Analysis of factors influencing carbon emissions of urban households: A case study of old urban community in northern China

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Wang,

Tian

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CO2 emissions reduction of urban residents is one of the main ways to mitigate climate change. Clarifying the key factors of carbon emissions can provide a reference basis for the government to formulate carbon reduction policies. The old urban community that widely exist in most cities in northern China is taken as the research object. Based on the fuzzy interpretive structural model and structural equation model, a new method is proposed to explore the influencing factors of household carbon emissions (HCEs). It is found that behavior change attitude and low‐carbon personal cognition are the two most important factors affecting HCE. Elderly families, high‐income families, and low‐education families are the groups with higher per capita HCE. Different suggestions were proposed to promote HCE reduction for the high‐income young tenants and low‐income elderly local residents in the community. In addition, by introducing multi‐agent judgment, the coupling model proposed in this study reduces the subjectivity caused by excessive reliance on single agent judgment in previous studies. It enhances the credibility of research conclusions and provides a good methodological reference for research in similar fields.

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Impact of household demographic characteristics on energy conservation and carbon dioxide emission: Case from Mahabad city, Iran

Cited by 39 publications

References 37 publications

Impact of Demographic, Psychological Attributes and Financial Consciousness of Households on their Energy Conservation Behavior: Testing the Mediating Role of Behavioral Intention

Impact of Demographic, Psychological Attributes and Financial Consciousness of Households on their Energy Conservation Behavior: Testing the Mediating Role of Behavioral Intention

An Overview of Household Energy Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Iran

Analysis of factors influencing carbon emissions of urban households: A case study of old urban community in northern China

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