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Effects of Relative Pricing of Alternative Cooking Energy Sources on Their Substitution: A Comparative Analysis of Rural and Urban Households of Enugu State, Nigeria

Journal of Agricultural Extension, 2020
In recent years, much attention has been directed to finding solutions to the ongoing increase in the use of unclean cooking energy sources, which is especially the case among households in the developing nations.
Anthony NwaJesus Onyekuru, Eric c Eboh, Chukwuma Otum Ume   +2 more
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Consumer behaviour in a social context : implications for environmental policy [PDF]

, 2014
In this paper we summarise some of our recent work on consumer behaviour, drawing on recent developments in behavioural economics, in which consumers are embedded in a social context, so their behaviour is shaped by their interactions with other ...
Dasgupta, Partha, Ulph, Alistair, Ulph, David Tregear, Southerton, Dale   +3 more
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Analysing scenarios for energy emissions reduction in South Africa

Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 2017
Global environmental pressure dictates that South Africa reduces its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while national objectives focus on economic development.
S Moodley, RM Mabugu, R Hassan
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Ecological niche models of biotic interactions predict increasing pest risk to olive cultivars with changing climate

Ecosphere, 2021
Simple, single‐species approaches in distributional ecology leave open questions of possible roles of biotic interactions. We sought to understand impacts of climate change on current and future potential distributions of Olea europaea sensu lato (host ...
Uzma Ashraf, Muhammad Nawaz Chaudhry, A. Townsend Peterson   +2 more
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Practitioners’ perspectives on improving ready-to-eat food vending in urban Nigeria: a practice-based visioning and back-casting approach

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
In many parts of the world, food consumption is shifting from mostly home-based to out-of-home due to transforming of everyday lives as a result of urban development and changing infrastructure.
Kehinde Paul Adeosun, Kehinde Paul Adeosun, Mary Greene, Peter Oosterveer   +3 more
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How to achieve the common developments of green finance and clean energy in China? Evidence from coupling coordination evaluation

Ecological Indicators, 2023
Investigating the integrated development between green finance and clean energy has significant implications for achieving structural energy transformation and sustainable financial development.
Lu-Tao Zhao, Feng-Rong Li, Dai-Song Wang
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Research advances in resource and environmental economics driven by artificial intelligence [PDF]

Ziyuan Kexue
As a key driver of the new technological revolution, artificial intelligence (AI) is profoundly reshaping the research paradigms and analytical tools in resource and environmental economics.
LIU Nan, LI Yongjian, LIU Bowen, ZHANG Yufeng, LI Na
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Renewable energy development in the light of eological-economic theory approaches: challenges for sustainable development policy

Наукові праці Лісівничої академії наук України, 2021
The article outlines the possibilities and difficulties of the transition to renewable energy in Ukraine. In recent years, a number of laws have been passed that have simplified land legislation for the allocation of land for renewable energy, created ...
Pavlo Dubnevych , Ihor Soloviy , Taras Chelepis   +2 more
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Influencing factors and paths of direct carbon emissions from the energy consumption of rural residents in central China determined using a questionnaire survey

Advances in Climate Change Research, 2022
Rural residents have unique lifestyle characteristics, energy consumption methods, energy-saving behaviors, and awareness. And the direct carbon emission from rural residents is based on the combined effect of multiple factors.
Xiao-Wei Ma, Mei Wang, Jing-Ke Lan, Chuan-Dong Li, Le-Le Zou   +4 more
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Quasi-experimental and experimental approaches to environmental economics [PDF]

, 2007
This paper argues that an increased application of quasi-experimental and experimental techniques will improve understanding about core environmental economics questions. This argument is supported by a review of the limitations of associational evidence
Gayer, Ted, Greenstone, Michael
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