Low Carbon City: Strategies and Case Studies

Abubakar, Ismaila Rimi; Bununu, Yakubu Aliyu

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71061-7_24-3

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“…To sustainably undertake any human activities, nature has a clue in the form of ecological wisdom of developing a mutually beneficial relationship between people and their surrounding nature that must be experienced and respected [20]. Unfortunately, little regard for ecological embeddedness in urban development has separated the individual from the locality, and the built environment from nature [21][22][23]. Therefore, it is only through respect for nature that, amongst other things, healthy and place-based habitats can be re-formulated [24,25].…”

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Fostering Urban Sustainability through the Ecological Wisdom of Traditional Settlements

2020

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Several African and Asian countries have embarked on building new towns to address urbanization challenges such as crowded cities, slums, and pressure on existing infrastructure. These projects have been criticized for being inadequate in fostering environmental sustainability. Based on a desk study, this article reviews the environmental sustainability challenges of these projects and recommends some ecologically embedded practices of traditional settlements that wonderfully survived for many centuries with little adverse social and environmental impacts yet offered opportunities for urbanism. The article discusses how the architecture, urban form, and green infrastructure of traditional settlements present excellent cases of ecological wisdom and embeddedness where the local ecosystems are respected, and every human activity, including the creation of the built environment, is defined by the ecological allowances, where resilience is part of the built environment at both micro and macro scales, and where humanity and nature are equal stakeholders living in unison. The article concludes that these instances of successful ecological embeddedness in traditional settlements can provide lessons for contemporary cities to ponder when envisioning more sustainable built environments for the present and future generations.

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Fostering Urban Sustainability through the Ecological Wisdom of Traditional Settlements

2020

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“…In essence, the state, or more precisely, the bureaucracy, must suit the community's demands. In this scenario, the needs are not individual, but collective (Abubakar & Bununu, 2020).…”

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Public Services to Achieve Good Governance in Indonesia

Ishak

2022

Jurnal Abdimas Peradaban

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To meet the various needs of its people, a country will carry out public services so that then goods, services, and various administrative services needed can be fulfilled. This certainly needs to be done because the effectiveness of a government system will be determined mainly by the quality of the implementation of public services from the state to its people. This research will use a qualitative approach with research data sources and previous studies. The study results show that good governance can be achieved through the participation of various holders of positions in government. Then good public service will show that the performance of government management has good quality. The improvements that can be implemented to improve public services include accelerating the formation of public service law, establishing one-stop services, transparency of public service costs, making SOPs, and implementing reforms for employees working in the public service sector.

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“…The concept of CE can help address the tremendous ecological externalities related to the linear "take, make, trash" manufacturing framework [2]. Besides waste management, CE is also implemented in materials efficiency, product design, product recycling, electro-mobility, and promoting low-carbon city [3][4][5][6]. It is a worldwide strategy where the conventional linear economic framework is shifted to a closed-loop framework by considering the connection between materials use and waste residuals [7,8].…”

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Understanding Public Environmental Awareness and Attitudes toward Circular Economy Transition in Saudi Arabia

Almulhim

Abubakar

2021

Sustainability

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Circular economy (CE) has been globally acknowledged as a national sustainable development (SD) strategy to confront resource shortages and environmental contamination challenges. Although public behaviors and lifestyles play an essential role in achieving sustainability, in developing countries, few studies explored the role of public awareness, attitudes, and lifestyles on CE transition. Thus, it is necessary to elicit public opinion to understand their awareness and attitude regarding CE strategy to determine obstacles to CE implementation and approaches of overcoming them. This study thus focuses on understanding public awareness and attitudes to CE transition in Saudi Arabia. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey distributed to 402 residents of the Dammam Metropolitan Area. The results indicated that the respondents had little understanding of the CE concept due to limited awareness of the topic. However, they held an optimistic attitude towards trash separation and classified their trash as “can be sold”, “reused”, and “exchanged for a new one”. Furthermore, the respondents’ level of awareness regarding the CE transition is positively related to their level of education. In contrast, the inclination towards resource conservation and pro-environmental behavior positively correlates to the age demographic. This paper thus contributes to the empirical literature on CE transition by exploring the public awareness and attitudes towards its implementation in Saudi Arabia.

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Low Carbon City: Strategies and Case Studies

Cited by 7 publications

References 28 publications

Fostering Urban Sustainability through the Ecological Wisdom of Traditional Settlements

Fostering Urban Sustainability through the Ecological Wisdom of Traditional Settlements

Public Services to Achieve Good Governance in Indonesia

Understanding Public Environmental Awareness and Attitudes toward Circular Economy Transition in Saudi Arabia

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