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{"title":"A new approach towards the sustainability of urban-rural integration: The development strategy for central villages in the Abbasiya District of Iraq using GIS techniques","authors":"Ahmed Hussein Allawi,&nbsp;Haider Mohammed Jawad Al-Jazaeri","doi":"10.1016/j.regsus.2023.02.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsus.2023.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The development of rural areas usually has a positive impact on the urban-rural integration. This study explores an innovative approach to stimulate rural development by proposing qualified villages as central villages that can provide basic urban services for their residents and residents of neighboring villages. This approach can contribute to overcoming the various problems that rural areas faced at the social, economic, and environmental levels. It seeks to achieve spatial sustainability of rural areas, representing a new approach by integrating urban development methods to revitalize rural villages. The study analyzed 15 villages in Abbasiya District of AL Kufa City in the Najaf Governorate of Iraq. Based on the GIS techniques and the analysis of urban service indicators (village population, percentage of urban building materials used in villages, distance between village and health centers, distance between village and main roads, nature of economic activity, distance between village and educational institutions, distance between village and drinking water sources, number of communication towers, and distance between village and urban administrative center), this study proposed that Abu Gharb and Albu Ghraib can served as central villages in Abbasiya District in the future. This study establishes a new rural spatial structure to achieve rural sustainable development, improves the development status of rural areas, and provides a theoretical basis for the government and relevant institutions to use urban service indicators achieving rural sustainable development and formulating relevant development policies in Abbasiya District.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34395,"journal":{"name":"Regional Sustainability","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 28-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47735541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Production of Railwayscape in urban environment: Analysing railway heritage tourism potential in Siliguri City, India","authors":"Iman Banerjee","doi":"10.1016/j.regsus.2023.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsus.2023.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>For a long time, it has been argued that the theories and practices devoted to urban planning and management should conform to the fundamental role of planning policies in the production of urban space, but not merely the spatial distribution of the produced services. Towards this wider connotation, this study introduces the notion of Railwayscape, grounded on the theory of ‘The Production of Space’, to examine the role of railway station districts as catalysts of urban development through the social production of urban space. The present research sets out to establish the notion of Railwayscape and apply it in a railway heritage, i.e., the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) and its point of inception, Siliguri City, India. Accordingly, a criteria-based evaluation of four railway station districts (New Jalpaiguri, Siliguri Town, Siliguri Junction, and Sukna) in Siliguri and its surroundings was performed. The information regarding the selected four railway station districts is obtained through field observation and key informant consultation, supplemented by published literature and remote sensing data. This evaluation is succeeded by the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis accentuating the potential strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with the selected four railway station districts and their prospects to become the potential Railwayscape. The results of this research show that there is no railway station district in Siliguri that can fully meet the demands of the locals and tourists, therefore, relfecting a lack of awareness of the historical values of these districts. The results also indicate that there are significant differences in the relative potentials of railway station districts to become the Railwayscape in urban environment. The outcomes of this research, therefore, are expected to encourage policy-making insitutions and practitioners to realise the ‘place value’ of some railway station districts and their potentials to yield better economic, social and structural virtue for a wide range of actors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34395,"journal":{"name":"Regional Sustainability","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46842429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Land tenure security, place satisfaction and loyalty in the peri-urban area of Ibadan City, Nigeria","authors":"Taiwo Oladapo Babalola","doi":"10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Land tenure security is pertinent to achieving the sustainable development agenda in cities where land is needed and useful for development purposes. Sufficient empirical research has been done to prove the importance of tenure security for investment, resilience, conservation, food security, as well as health and well-being, but it has not been clarified if and how land tenure security could adequately influence place loyalty and satisfaction with the residential environment, as it is clear that place loyalty and satisfaction are pertinent to inclusive development. Using the case of Ibadan City, the study examined how different dimensions of tenure security could determine residents’ place loyalty and satisfaction. The study employed a survey cross-sectional research design to distribute 514 structured questionnaires to household heads across 4 sampled peri-urban local government areas while 452 were retrieved for analysis. Hierarchical regression analysis model was employed to understand the association between tenure security dimensions and satisfaction (as model I) and loyalty (as model II). For the model I, <em>F</em> ​= ​8.640, <em>P</em> ​= ​0.000, <em>R</em> ​= ​0.555 and <em>R</em>² ​= ​0.308 while for model II <em>F</em> ​= ​9.157, <em>P</em> ​= ​0.001, <em>R</em> ​= ​0.415, and <em>R</em>² ​= ​0.173. This thus means that residents’ place loyalty and satisfaction can partly be explained by tenure security. In particular, respondents with no eviction experience, recognized property rights, and invulnerable to eviction have higher odds of being satisfied and loyal. Therefore, the study recommends protection, improvement and upgrading of land tenure security as one of the means to promote place loyalty and satisfaction which is essential to achieving inclusive and sustainable developments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34395,"journal":{"name":"Regional Sustainability","volume":"3 4","pages":"Pages 346-355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666660X22000664/pdfft?md5=de816ff531b24e6e95c9375c305b25f6&pid=1-s2.0-S2666660X22000664-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46724716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Charging infrastructure planning for electric vehicle in India: Present status and future challenges","authors":"Sulabh Sachan ,&nbsp;Praveen Prakash Singh","doi":"10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The challenge to deal with environmental contamination along with national goals such as energy security, reliability, and self-dependency due to depleting fossil fuel resources has motivated researchers to find an alternate solution in the transport sector. Due to this, electrification of the transport sector has become an achievable solution that has caught attention with increasing penetration in the market share. India is a participant in the Paris Agreement which aims to curtail the production of greenhouse gases and limit the escalating temperature. Public intervention and changes in policy and regulations are the key aspects of this technological transition. Compared to internal combustion engine (ICE) engine-based vehicles, the consumers’ frame of mind concerns about adapting to e-mobility is anxiety over charging times and driving range. Thus, the development of charging stations plays a crucial role in promoting electric vehicles (EVs). This study investigates to identify different barriers that exist in the Indian context related to the adoption of e-mobility. Furthermore, this work emphasizes the recent developments in charging infrastructure planning in India. Also, the status of the installed charging stations is examined. Developing appropriate charging stations are associated with several challenges which are also highlighted to provide guidance to public and private entities that can be adopted in their respective business model. The low EV adoption rate is considerably low compared to other countries having the second largest population and seventh largest country; there is a long path to match the growth rate. Hence it becomes essential to develop a robust and suitable charging infrastructure to promote the sale and use of EVs in India.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34395,"journal":{"name":"Regional Sustainability","volume":"3 4","pages":"Pages 335-345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666660X22000706/pdfft?md5=2c138faf945245119925d66d837a854d&pid=1-s2.0-S2666660X22000706-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47706241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Optimal decision-making considering inter-supply-chain competition and negative-spillover from environmental effort","authors":"Jiguang Wang ,&nbsp;Yushang Hu ,&nbsp;Yucai Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Focusing on negative-spillover from environmental effort, this paper explores the issues of competition and optimal decision-making based on two competing two-stage manufacturer-dominated supply chains: centralized and decentralized. We developed the Stackelberg competition models according to four identified competition scenarios (pure centralized structure-CC, mixed structure-DC, mixed structure-CD, and pure decentralized structure-DD). By comparing the results of the four scenarios, we find that negative-spillover from environmental effort negatively impacts environmental-effort providers and reduces the optimal profit of the manufacturer providing the environmental effort, which in turn reduces the profit of the entire supply chain. The inter-supply-chain competition also produces a negative incentive for environmental-effort providers but provides a free riding effect on the non-provider, and this effect increases as competition increases. In terms of network externality, the structural change of a supply chain from centralized to decentralized is altruistic, which generates a double-marginalization (i.e., the network externality enhances competitor performance). Furthermore, the leader supply chain with a centralized structure is more willing to provide greater environmental effort, whereas when the leader supply chain structure remains unchanged, its environmental effort depends on the negative-spillover effect and the follower supply chain structure. Therefore, excessive supply chain competition should be avoided, and the negative-spillover effect of environmental effort should be reduced to motivate environmental-effort providers to increase their environmental efforts and promote the development of sustainable green supply chains. Future research should examine retailer-dominated supply chain competition and compare the results with the conclusions of this study.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34395,"journal":{"name":"Regional Sustainability","volume":"3 4","pages":"Pages 319-334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666660X22000652/pdfft?md5=17ce44c67d25bcfa0a53a018e0c1f1f7&pid=1-s2.0-S2666660X22000652-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43295109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Traditional agroecological knowledge and practices: The drivers and opportunities for adaptation actions in the northern region of Ghana","authors":"Enoch Yeleliere ,&nbsp;Thomas Yeboah ,&nbsp;Philip Antwi-Agyei ,&nbsp;Prince Peprah","doi":"10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Agroecological practices are promoted as a more proactive approach than conventional agriculture to achieving a collective global response to climate change and variability while building robust and resilient agricultural systems to meet food needs and protect the integrity of ecosystems. There is relatively limited evidence on the key traditional agroecological knowledge and practices adopted by smallholder farmers, the factors that influence smallholder farmers’ decision to adopt these practices, and the opportunities it presents for building resilient agricultural systems. Using a multi-scale mixed method approach, we conducted key informant interviews (<em>n</em> ​= ​12), focus group discussions (<em>n</em> ​= ​5), and questionnaire surveys (<em>N</em> ​= ​220) to explore the traditional agroecological knowledge and practices, the influencing factors, and the opportunities smallholder farmers presented for achieving resilient agricultural systems. Our findings suggest that smallholder farmers employ a suite of traditional agroecological knowledge and practices to enhance food security, combat climate change, and build resilient agricultural systems. The most important traditional agroecological knowledge and practices in the study area comprise cultivating leguminous crops, mixed crop-livestock systems, and crop rotation, with Relative Importance Index (RII) values of 0.710, 0.708, and 0.695, respectively. It is reported that the choice of these practices by smallholder farmers is influenced by their own farming experience, access to market, access to local resources, information, and expertise, and the perceived risk of climate change. Moreover, the results further show that improving household food security and nutrition, improving soil quality, control of pest and disease infestation, and support from Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and local authorities are opportunities for smallholder farmers in adopting traditional agroecological knowledge and practices for achieving resilient agricultural systems. The findings call into question the need for stakeholders and policy-makers at all levels to develop capacity and increase the awareness of traditional agroecological knowledge and practices as mechanisms to ensure resilient agricultural systems for sustainable food security.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34395,"journal":{"name":"Regional Sustainability","volume":"3 4","pages":"Pages 294-308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666660X22000640/pdfft?md5=8023848d83aa45db67d9fec6b63d5250&pid=1-s2.0-S2666660X22000640-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43456822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing and mapping soil erosion risk zone in Ratlam District, central India","authors":"Sunil Saha,&nbsp;Debabrata Sarkar,&nbsp;Prolay Mondal","doi":"10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Evaluation of physical and quantitative data of soil erosion is crucial to the sustainable development of the environment. The extreme form of land degradation through different forms of erosion is one of the major problems in the sub-tropical monsoon-dominated region. In India, tackling soil erosion is one of the major geo-environmental issues for its environment. Thus, identifying soil erosion risk zones and taking preventative actions are vital for crop production management. Soil erosion is induced by climate change, topographic conditions, soil texture, agricultural systems, and land management. In this research, the soil erosion risk zones of Ratlam District was determined by employing the Geographic Information System (GIS), Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE), Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), and machine learning algorithms (Random Forest and Reduced Error Pruning (REP) tree). RUSLE measured the rainfall eosivity (R), soil erodibility (K), length of slope and steepness (LS), Land cover and management (C), and support practices (P) factors. Kappa statistic was used to configure model reliability and it was found that Random Forest and AHP have higher reliability than other models. About 14.73% (715.94 km²) of the study area has very low risk to soil erosion, with an average soil erosion rate of 0.00–7.00 × 10³ kg/(hm²·a), while about 7.46% (362.52 km²) of the study area has very high risk to soil erosion, with an average soil erosion rate of 30.00 × 10³–48.00 × 10³ kg/(hm²·a). Slope, elevation, stream density, Stream Power Index (SPI), rainfall, and land use and land cover (LULC) all affect soil erosion. The current study could help the government and non-government agencies to employ developmental projects and policies accordingly. However, the outcomes of the present research also could be used to prevent, monitor, and control soil erosion in the study area by employing restoration measures.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34395,"journal":{"name":"Regional Sustainability","volume":"3 4","pages":"Pages 373-390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666660X22000676/pdfft?md5=657a43c1ccec03da65def6e00ea0f16c&pid=1-s2.0-S2666660X22000676-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42281133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessment of the impact of climate change on the occurrences of malaria, pneumonia, meningitis, and cholera in Lokoja City, Nigeria","authors":"Isaac Ayo Oluwatimilehin ,&nbsp;Joseph Omojesu Akerele ,&nbsp;Tolulope Adedoyin Oladeji ,&nbsp;Mojisola Hannah Omogbehin ,&nbsp;Godwin Atai","doi":"10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examined the impact of climate change on the occurrence of malaria, pneumonia, meningitis, and cholera in Lokoja City, Nigeria with the aim of investigating the spatial distribution and prevalence of the four kinds of diseases as well as the coping strategies of people in the area. We collected the rainfall and temperature data of Lokoja City during 2000–2020 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the medical records data of the four kinds of diseases from the Kogi State Ministry of Health. We also conducted a semi-structured questionnaire of 250 residents, who have experienced one of these diseases, to investigate their coping strategies with these diseases. The Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis were used to research the relationship between the climate parameters and cases of diseases. The result showed annual variations in climatic parameters with <em>R</em>² ​= ​0.0557, 0.0009, and 0.4915 for rainfall, maximum and minimum temperatures respectively. A positive and significant relationship were observed between maximum temperature and malaria (<em>r</em> ​= ​0.80), rainfall and malaria (<em>r</em> ​= ​0.54), minimum temperature and meningitis (<em>r</em> ​= ​0.64), as well as rainfall and cholera (<em>r</em> ​= ​0.66) at <em>P</em> ​&lt; ​0.05. For the regression analysis <em>R</em>² ​= ​0.71, 0.50, and 0.52 for malaria, cholera, and meningitis, respectively at <em>P</em> ​&lt; ​0.05. During 2000–2020, cases of malaria were highest in Ward A with 15,422, while 715 cases of pneumonia were highest in Kupa North. In Ward A 3787 cases of cholera were recorded to be the highest, while cases of meningitis were highest in Kupa North with 2383 cases. Investigation revealed that malaria is more common in the wet season while cholera and meningitis cases were highest in the dry season. The study revealed that the most practiced coping strategy is the use of medications by about 90% of the respondents. More studies are recommended in the study area to establish a causal link between climate change and disease occurrences, and intervention from government in form of prevention and control programmes should be vigorously implemented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34395,"journal":{"name":"Regional Sustainability","volume":"3 4","pages":"Pages 309-318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666660X2200069X/pdfft?md5=6c5593ce29f528f94fa4926ec6d46d47&pid=1-s2.0-S2666660X2200069X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49112039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Right-wing and populist support for climate mitigation policies: Evidence from Poland and its carbon-intensive Silesia region","authors":"Mahir Yazar ,&nbsp;Lukas Hermwille ,&nbsp;Håvard Haarstad","doi":"10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research on environmental behaviour is often overlooked in literature on regime destabilization in energy transitions. This study addresses that gap by focusing on socio-political and demographic factors shaping support for carbon regime destabilization policies in one of the most carbon-intensive regions of Europe. Carbon-intensive industries, especially coal mining and coal-based power generation, are often concentrated in a few carbon-intensive regions. Therefore, decarbonization actions will affect those regions particularly strongly. Correspondingly, carbon-intensive regions often exert significant political influence on the two climate mitigation policies at the national level. Focusing on Poland, we investigate socio-political and demographic factors that correlate with the approval or rejection of the two climate mitigation policies: increasing taxes on fossil fuels such as oil, gas, and coal and using public money to subsidize renewable energy such as wind and solar power in Poland and its carbon-intensive Silesia region. Using logistic regression with individual-level data derived from the 2016 European Social Survey (ESS) and the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES), we find party-political ideology to be an important predictor at the national level but much less so at the regional level. Specifically, voting for right-wing party is not a divisive factor for individual support of the two climate mitigation policies either nationally or regionally. More interestingly, populism is a strong factor in support of increasing taxes on fossil fuel in the carbon-intensive Silesia region but is less important concerning in support of using public money to subsidize renewable energy in Poland overall. These results show the heterogeneity of right-wing party and populism within the support for the two climate mitigation policies. Socio-demographic factors, especially age, gender, education level, employment status, and employment sector, have even more complex and heterogeneous components in support of the two climate mitigation policies at the national and regional levels. Identifying the complex socio-political and demographic factors of climate mitigation policies across different national versus carbon-intensive regional contexts is an essential step for generating <em>in situ</em> decarbonization strategies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34395,"journal":{"name":"Regional Sustainability","volume":"3 4","pages":"Pages 281-293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666660X22000639/pdfft?md5=5a8fa88f6c3c2b74f0a4083d492908ea&pid=1-s2.0-S2666660X22000639-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49399023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Influencing factors and contribution analysis of CO2 emissions originating from final energy consumption in Sichuan Province, China","authors":"Wei Liu ,&nbsp;Zhijie Jia ,&nbsp;Meng Du ,&nbsp;Zhanfeng Dong ,&nbsp;Jieyu Pan ,&nbsp;Qinrui Li ,&nbsp;Linyan Pan ,&nbsp;Chris Umole","doi":"10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsus.2022.11.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Within the context of CO₂ emission peaking and carbon neutrality, the study of CO₂ emissions at the provincial level is few. Sichuan Province in China has not only superior clean energy resources endowment but also great potential for the reduction of CO₂ emissions. Therefore, using logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) model to analysis the influence degree of different influencing factors on CO₂ emissions from final energy consumption in Sichuan Province, so as to formulate corresponding emission reduction countermeasures from different paths according to the influencing factors. Based on the data of final energy consumption in Sichuan Province from 2010 to 2019, we calculated CO₂ emission by the indirect emission calculation method. The influencing factors of CO₂ emissions originating from final energy consumption in Sichuan Province were decomposed into population size, economic development, industrial structure, energy consumption intensity, and energy consumption structure by the Kaya–logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition model. At the same time, grey correlation analysis was used to identify the correlation between CO₂ emissions originating from final energy consumption and the influencing factors in Sichuan Province. The results showed that population size, economic development and energy consumption structure have positive contributions to CO₂ emissions from final energy consumption in Sichuan Province, and economic development has a significant contribution to CO₂ emissions from final energy consumption, with a contribution rate of 519.11%. The industrial structure and energy consumption intensity have negative contributions to CO₂ emissions in Sichuan Province, and both of them have significant contributions, among which the contribution rate of energy consumption structure was 325.96%. From the perspective of industrial structure, secondary industry makes significant contributions and will maintain a restraining effect; from the perspective of energy consumption structure, industry sector has a significant contribution. The results of this paper are conducive to the implementation of carbon emission reduction policies in Sichuan Province.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34395,"journal":{"name":"Regional Sustainability","volume":"3 4","pages":"Pages 356-372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666660X22000688/pdfft?md5=2c924392cdc572e8636af26459b0f031&pid=1-s2.0-S2666660X22000688-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41939918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}