Options for sustainable development planning based on “GHGs emissions reduction allocation (GERA)” from a national perspective

Tavakoli, Azadeh; Shafie-Pour, Majid; Ashrafi, Khosro; Abdoli, Ghahreman

doi:10.1007/s10668-015-9619-0

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“…At the end of December 31, 2020, this region has also contributed to ~9% of the total confirmed cases of COVID-19 (OWID, 2020 ). Some recent investigations regarding (MECA) countries have demonstrated the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from urban origins above 80% (Ghanbari & Daneshvar, 2020 ; Tavakoli et al, 2016 ). Accordingly, the International Energy Agency has reported that about 90% of the urban-based CO 2 emissions can belong to developing countries (IEA, 2018 ) such as MECA countries.…”

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Investigation of the urbanization contribution to the COVID-19 outbreak in Iran and the MECA countries

Bijari

Mahdinia

Daneshvar³

2021

Environ Dev Sustain

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The main objective of this research was to disclose the correlative contribution of urban-associated factors affecting the COVID-19 outbreak in the macro-scale of MECA countries and the downscaled micro-scale of the provincial divisions in Iran. For this purpose, the correlation coefficients between the variables and clustering analysis were used to expose the possible effects. Results revealed the comparatively strong relationships between some independent variables (e.g., total greenhouse gas emissions, CO 2 emissions, nitrous oxide emissions, and urban population) and confirmed cases (R from 0.619 to 0.695), demonstrating the possible effective role of urbanization and its induced GHG emissions on the COVID-19 outbreak in the country level of the MECA region. Therefore, the results significantly confirmed the strong relationships between some independent variables (e.g., total population, urban population, fuel consumption, NO 2 –CO 2 emissions, energy use, and total intra-changed travels) and confirmed cases (R from 0.724 to 0.945), explaining an explicit relationship between urbanization processes and the COVID-19 outbreak in Iran. Besides, the HCA results revealed the substantial role of the urban population and urban-induced energy use and gas emission in clustering locations regarding the COVID-19 outbreak in both the MECA region and Iran. The main implication of this research is to give a practical correlation between Coronavirus infection and urban constitution, aiming to increase the health of urban societies by creating effective planning in the future.

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Investigation of the urbanization contribution to the COVID-19 outbreak in Iran and the MECA countries

Bijari

Mahdinia

Daneshvar³

2021

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…Moreover, air pollution related to human activities is mainly caused by the emissions of traditional air pollutants, including carbon monoxide (CO), nitrous oxides (NO x ), sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ), black carbon (BC), ammonia (NH 3 ), organic carbon (OC), and non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs), while the climate-change-related air pollution is caused by the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from fossil fuels and other resources, with particular regards to carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ), nitrous oxide (N 2 O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 ), and halocarbons [25]. To quantify the latter emissions, the concept of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2−eq ) has been introduced.…”

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A Thermo-Economic Measure of Sustainability

Lucia,

Grisolia

2024

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Recently, an improvement of the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), named the Thermodynamic Human Development Index (THDI), has been introduced to link socio-economics to environmental and technical pillars of sustainable development. In this paper, the THDI is linked to the Kaya identity to bring out the quantities useful in energy economics and to obtain a clearer tool for the evaluation of sustainability. Moreover, the THDI has been normalized for use as an index for the analysis of sustainability. The component related to environmental emissions, which is included in the THDI, can be linked to the Kaya identity. This linkage allows us to use the THDI for the analysis of scenarios, which is useful for evaluating the possible impacts of any future actions on the development of countries.

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Urban and rural contribution to the GHG emissions in the MECA countries

Ghanbari

Daneshvar²

2020

Environ Dev Sustain

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Options for sustainable development planning based on “GHGs emissions reduction allocation (GERA)” from a national perspective

Cited by 4 publications

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Investigation of the urbanization contribution to the COVID-19 outbreak in Iran and the MECA countries

Investigation of the urbanization contribution to the COVID-19 outbreak in Iran and the MECA countries

A Thermo-Economic Measure of Sustainability

Urban and rural contribution to the GHG emissions in the MECA countries

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