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{"title":"Heterogeneous impact of green energy innovation on energy transition in the G7 nations: an aggregated and disintegrated analysis through advanced quantile approach","authors":"Xiang Ma, Mohd Naved Khan, Abraham Ayobamiji Awosusi, Berna Uzun, Zilola Shamansurova","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2023.2277422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2277422","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe G7 nations is a major global consumers of natural resources and energy. These nations are confronted with substantial obstacles in their pursuit of sustainable growth through energy transition, while upholding their status as global economic leaders. As a result, this current study conducted an aggregated and disintegrating analysis on the heterogeneous role of green energy innovation on energy transition in G7 nations. Green energy innovation was disintegrated into hydro, solar and wind energy. Moreover, the heterogeneous effects of green innovation in solar, hydro and wind on energy transition was investigated, an analysis that has not been previously examined. For the econometric estimation, we adopted the Quantile-on-Quantile Regression (QQR) and the quantile causality method. The results of the QQR indicates that the positive role of green energy innovation on energy transition in all of the G7 nations. However, this positive role is more dominant in five G7 nations, namely Italy, Germany, Japan, the UK and the USA. Additionally, the result also highlights that the connection between green energy innovation and energy transition is differs across the various quantiles for different nations. Moreover, the quantile causality analysis indicates that green energy innovation has the potential to predict future values in energy transition within the G7 nations. The study emphasizes various policy considerations for promoting energy transition through green energy innovation in G7 nation, which help realizing sustainable development.KEYWORDS: Green energy innovationsquantile-on-quantile approachenergy transitionG7 nationsSustainable development Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Ethical ApprovalAll ethical practices and standards have been observed during the writing of this study.Authors ContributionAll the authors contributed equally to the final manuscript.Availability of dataData is readily available at request from the corresponding author.Additional informationFundingThere was no specific financial support provided for this study.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":" 27","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135242957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Green innovation, foreign investment and carbon emissions: a roadmap to sustainable development via green energy and energy efficiency for BRICS economies","authors":"Queling Zeng, Mehmet Akif Destek, Zeeshan Khan, Ramez Abubakr Badeeb, Changyong Zhang","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2023.2268569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2268569","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn contemporary times, emerging economies are intended to achieve higher economic growth via foreign direct investment and technological innovation. However, due to increased environmental challenges, these economies are adopting green energy as the key source of environmental recovery and net zero emissions. The present study investigates the influence of FDI, technological innovation, green energy, and trade on carbon emissions in BRICS economies during 1990–2022. This study also considers the role of economic expansion in identifying the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). Using several panel diagnostic and cointegration tests, this study validates the slope heterogeneity and the existence of the cointegration between variables. Due to the non-normal data dispersion, this study uses novel moments quantile regression, while bootstrap quantile regression is used for the robustness. The results examined asserted the presence of the EKC hypothesis in the region, where the initial growth enhances emissions while after reaching at a threshold level, the emission level tends to reduce and environmental quality improves. Besides, this study observed that foreign trade and technological innovation are the key drivers of environmental degradation as these indicators significantly enhances pollution emissions. In contrast, foreign investment, energy efficiency, renewable electricity output, and renewable’s consumption significantly improve environmental quality by declining carbon emissions. Following the empirical results, the policy recommendations asserted enhanced investment in renewable and energy efficiency sectors while attracting more foreign investment for sustainable development.KEYWORDS: Foreign direct investmentgreen energyenvironmental Kuznets curvetradetechnological innovationcarbon emissions Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"73 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135272802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The climate change impacts and responses index: quantifying disparities and guiding policies for collective resilience","authors":"Yi Xie, Huimin Li, Jingshu Liu, Lefei Han, Xiaoxi Zhang, Xiaonong Zhou, Xiaokui Guo, Leshan Xiu, Hao Yin, Kun Yin","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2023.2268577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2268577","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIdentifying climate change risks, vulnerabilities of exposed populations, and implemented responses to climate change are crucial for developing effective strategies to mitigate climate hazards. However, existing climate change assessment indexes still have some limitations, such as insufficient consideration of policy response, limited coverage of countries, and lack of a multidimensional perspective. In this study, we developed a novel climate change impacts and responses (CCIR) index that incorporates comprehensive information on climate risks, disease burden, and mitigation actions in response to climate risks and damage. To our best knowledge, the CCIR index is the first of its kind that explores variations in climate risks, impacts, and responses across countries to identify vulnerabilities and find more targeted solutions. A positive correlation was found between the CCIR index and national Gross Domestic Product per capita, indicating that wealthier countries might allocate more resources toward mitigating climate impacts. Moreover, countries with better climate education tended to have a lower carbon footprint, highlighting the importance of climate education. Furthermore, countries with lower risks of emerging infectious diseases were more likely to consume more renewable energy. The results highlight the value of using a multidimensional CCIR framework to analyze the interactions among socioeconomic factors, environmental policies, and climate change risks in 158 countries. This comprehensive approach provides actionable insights to mitigate climate impacts and improve national climate resilience. It also streamlines monitoring efforts and promotes joint climate action across international boundaries. By identifying climate risks and opportunities, the CCIR index can help policymakers design, refine, and implement adaptation policies and measures to respond to the impacts of climate change.Key policy highlights CCIR index evaluates countries’ climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts.Wealthier countries invest more in mitigating climate change.Lower-income and coastal nations are vulnerable to climate change impacts.Countries at lower risk of emerging infectious diseases consume more renewable energy.Climate change education is associated with a lower carbon footprint.KEYWORDS: Climate risksclimate adaptationvulnerabilitygreenhouse gas emissiondisease burdenequity considerations Acronyms CART=Classification and Regression TreesCCPI=Change Performance IndexDALYs=Disability-Adjusted Life YearsDSR=Drivers-State-ResponsesEPI=Environmental Performance IndexFAO=Food and Agriculture OrganizationGBD=Global Burden of DiseaseGDIS=Geocoded DisastersGDP=Gross Domestic ProductGHG=Greenhouse GasIEA=International Energy AgencyIRENA=International Renewable Energy AgencyVIF=Variance Inflation FactorWOS=Web of ScienceCCIR=indicatorsAHO=Air Pollution-related Health OutcomeCCE=Climate Change EducationCCIR=Climate Change Impacts and Response","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"61 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136263746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Formulating sustainable development policy for a developed nation: exploring the role of renewable energy, natural gas efficiency and oil efficiency towards decarbonization","authors":"Muhammad Khalid Anser, Khatib Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Umar, Abraham Ayobamiji Awosusi, Zilola Shamansurova","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2023.2268586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2268586","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"26 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135168680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Racing towards environmental sustainability: a synergy between economic complexity, political stability, and energy transition: policy insight from a bootstrap time varying causality approach","authors":"Xuan Qing Sun, Abraham Ayobamiji Awosusi, Zhixuan Han, Berna Uzun, Erdem Öncü","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2023.2268573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2268573","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTMalaysia’s commitment to ecological quality is evident in its agendas for achieving a sustainable environment by 2030. However, hindrances like challenges towards energy transition efforts, stable political institutions, unclean economic globalization practices, and transiting to a complex economy could potentially delay the nation’s attainment of its environmental goals. Against this backdrop, the current study focuses on examining the roles of political risk, economic globalization, energy transition, and economic complexity on ecological sustainability in Malaysia. In contrast to previous studies, this study innovatively incorporates a dummy variable to account for potential structural breaks that may occur during the study period. Furthermore, this study used an innovative environmental proxy which incorporates both the demand and supply aspect of the environment during computation. Using the time series data from 1984 to 2018 and employed the ARDL estimator method, the empirical results indicate that economic globalization is associated with ecological deterioration in Malaysia in the long run. On the other hand, economic complexity, political stability, and energy transition are shown to promote ecological sustainability in Malaysia in the long run. Moreover, the bootstrap time varying causality method demonstrates that each of the regressors has the capacity to predict the load capacity factor during distinct sub-periods.KEYWORDS: Malaysiaeconomic complexitypolitical stabilitybootstrap time varying causalityenergy transition Disclosure statementWe can assert that there are no conflicts of interest concerning this research.Ethical ApprovalThe ethical standards and practices required were been observed in this research.Authors ContributionAll the authors contributed equally to the final manuscript.Availability of dataThe corresponding author can provide you with the data upon request.Additional informationFundingNo specific funding was granted for this study","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135994851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can consumption of local food contribute to sustainable tourism? Evidence from the perception of domestic tourists","authors":"Mehraj Din Wani, Zubair Ahmad Dada, Shamim Ahmad Shah","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2023.2262950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2262950","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe nexus of tourism and sustainability has emerged as a catchphrase in academic literature in recent years. The present study employed an integrated path model to investigate the increasing significance of sustainable tourism, which is attributed, in part, to the penchant of domestic tourists to consume locally sourced food. The investigation additionally ascertains the potential influence of local food products on the various dimensions of sustainability, including economic, cultural, social, and environmental aspects. Data is collected using a purposeful sample technique, with 462 responses from domestic tourists to the Kashmir Valley being screened and analyzed using SPSS and partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The findings derived from PLS-SEM analysis demonstrate that the act of domestic tourists consuming locally produced food has a considerable and statistically significant influence on sustainability-focused tourism. Furthermore, the consumption of locally grown foods has a positive influence on various dimensions of sustainability, including the economic, social, cultural, and environmental aspects. The present study contributes to the existing scholarly literature on the subjects of regional gastronomy and sustainable tourism. In the current work, the authors aim to present the potential of local food to promote sustainable tourism in the tourist host regions. The outcomes of this research can be utilized by policymakers in the tourism sector to enhance their ability to effectively market indigenous cuisine, thereby sustaining the industry’s enduring viability.KEYWORDS: Sustainable tourismlocal foodPLS-SEMconsumer attitudedomestic tourism Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135648605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparative analysis of ten Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment (NSA) tools offering integrated criteria for urban development","authors":"Aya Elkamhawy, Alaa El.Eashy, Usama Elfiky","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2023.2255562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2255562","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTAligned with the recent trend of climate change mitigation and adaptation to rapid urbanization, sustainable urban development is crucial for creating resilient communities. Various international green building councils have developed Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment (NSA) tools that played an effective role in the urban growth of neighborhoods. However, there is no current NSA tool that includes all the categories required to achieve sustainability. Therefore, ten NSA tools were selected, analyzed, and compared. For an applicable comparative analysis, re-categorization and unifying processes of the selected NSA tools were performed. As a result, new integrated criteria were developed including seven main categories offering a valuable resource for evaluating neighborhood sustainability. The results also revealed that WELL Community V2 Q4, Fitwel CM V2.1, and BREEAM-CM V2012 tools demonstrate the highest efficiency by possessing six out of the seven integrated categories. The other NSA tools need to be improved with regard to the dimensions of sustainability. Furthermore, it was noted that all the selected NSA tools give major attention to the environmental conditions and facilities; however, other aspects such as the social, economic, and institutional features are being ignored. To sum up, the study proposes a novel approach that addresses these shortcomings by providing a more comprehensive framework that aims to support policy development and improve the effectiveness of neighborhood sustainability assessments.KEYWORDS: Sustainabilitygreen building rating systemsNeighborhood Sustainability Assessment (NSA) toolsintegrated criteriaurban development Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Authors’ contributionsElkamhawy was responsible for the literature review, data analysis, writing, review, and editing of the manuscript. El.Eashy and Elfiky provided supervision. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.Data availability statementAll data generated or analyzed during this study are provided in the submitted article and the Supplementary material.Supplementary materialSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2255562.Additional informationFundingThis research received no external funding.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135900001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact-oriented assessment of carbon, water and energy footprints for maize production: a case study in Shandong, China","authors":"Xuan Wang, Lei Xiao, Zhenyan Fan, Yueyuan Chen, Bo Wang, Zhifang Cui","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2023.2263852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2263852","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe continuously increasing demands of food, feed and various corn-derived products accelerate the concern about the corn production on environment. Nevertheless, few researches simultaneously address the issue from different perspectives of carbon, water and energy as well as their temporal variations. Herein, a systematic cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of maize production was conducted with a case study in Shandong, China. Different midpoint and endpoint indices including 10-year average data from 2011 to 2020 and their temporal variations were investigated. The contribution analysis of different processes to these indices revealed that irrigation dominated the midpoint of water scarcity, whereas the sum of direct consumption, fertilizer and diesel production contributed more than 80% to all the other indices. The sensitivity analysis also illustrated that these environmental indices can be reduced by as high as 4% when the aforementioned inputs were individually decreased by 5%. The temporal variation of the global warming potential, aquatic eutrophication and fossil depletion demonstrated that all the three indices were decreased by about 25.0%–31.7% over the last decade. Further persistent efforts to enhance mechanized operation efficiency and explore green and efficient methods for fertilizer and diesel production were highlighted. Moreover, implementations of rational agricultural management such as scientific fertilization and water-efficient irrigation were suggested, in order to have an eco-friendly maize production system.KEYWORDS: Life cycle assessmentmaize productioncarbon footprintwater footprintenergy footprinttemporal variation AcknowledgmentsThis work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 21868011 and the Foundation of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Phytochemicals and Sustainable Utilization under Grant FPRU2020-2.Author contributionsXuan Wang: Investigation, data processing, data curation, writing – original draft.Lei Xiao: Visualization, data curation.Zhenyan Fan: Methodology, formal analysis.Yueyuan Chen: Investigation, funding acquisition.Zhifang Cui: Conceptualization, writing – review and editing, supervision, and funding acquisition. All authors contributed to the study conception and design.All authors jointly reviewed and approved the manuscript for publication.Availability of data and materialsThe datasets used or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationFundingThis work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21868011), the Foundation of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Phytochemicals and Sustainable Utilization (FPRU2020-2) and the financial support from Shandong University of Science and Technology.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136279774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A proposal to measure the circular economy implementation and sustainable development goals achievement using objectively weighted indices","authors":"José-Luis Alfaro Navarro, María-Encarnación Andrés Martínez","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2023.2261007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2261007","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTGovernments, companies and citizens around the world consider necessary to adopt a new circular economy (CE) model that allows solving the planet’s environmental challenges and guaranteeing sustainable economic growth. Europe advocates this philosophy, but there is no widely accepted index to measure CE implementation at a macro level. This paper proposes a new index based on principal component analysis for European Union countries that use all information available without losing any information by the dimensionality reduction and consider objective weights based on the percentage of variance that each one retains. Moreover, we develop a disaggregated analysis considering the CE dimensions set out in the ‘CE monitoring framework’, allowing a more comprehensive analysis than when using a single indicator of CE implementation. This method is also used to build an index of the degree of achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) to see how they relate to the CE; the relationships between CE dimensions; and between SDGs. The results by geographical areas reveal a higher level of CE implementation in western European and EU-15 countries, with Luxembourg, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium alternately holding the top positions depending on the CE dimension considered. Therefore, the new European countries and the countries in the east must encourage measures to improve the implementation of the economy. In addition, there is a positive, strong and significant relationship with SDGs 8, 9 and 11, with both the overall CE implementation index and the disaggregated indices, and a negative one with 7 and 15.KEYWORDS: Circular economysustainable development goalssynthetic indicatorprincipal component analysisEuropean Union Highlights We propose new synthetic indices of the CE implementation and achievement of the SDGs.This proposal accounts for all existing information, leaving nothing out, however, irrelevant it may seem, and uses objective weights.The results show that Luxembourg, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium hold the top positions.Western European countries and those that make up the EU-15 are the ones that present the highest levels of CE implementation.There is a clear relationship between the SDGs 8, 9 and 11 and CE implementation.AcknowledgmentsSpecial thanks to the editor and the anonymous reviewers for their suggestions regarding this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Department of Applied Economics I, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain [grant numbers 00421I126].","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134886829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing resident’s perception towards ecosystem services of urban green spaces in Delhi, India","authors":"None Anand, Prodyut Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1080/13504509.2023.2261013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2261013","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTRecent rapid economic and infrastructure growth in India has led to degraded environmental conditions. Congested and densely populated urban areas have seen increased pollution, water pollution, and habitat and biodiversity loss. Urban green spaces (UGSs) are vital for improving such environmental qualities and coping with environmental challenges within cities. UGSs provide numerous tangible and intangible environmental, recreational/social, and economic benefits, also acknowledged as ecosystem services. This study assessed residents’ perceptions of UGSs ecosystem services in Delhi, India. The main objectives were to (1) understand residents’ visiting patterns of UGSs and corresponding socio-economic correlations (2) assess residents’ knowledge and perceptions of ecosystem services and disservices, and (3) ranking of ecosystem services provided by UGSs based on significance to the residents. This study is based on a survey of 620 randomly selected respondents in UGSs throughout the city. Most respondents knew about ecosystem services in UGSs and believed the ecosystem services outweighed any ecosystem disservices. The results also showed the importance of improving urban microclimate and environmental quality was emphasized. Interestingly, ecosystem services like improve mental health and aesthetic beauty rated high. The improvement of wildlife habitat, fresh water, water flow regulation & runoff mitigation and the collection of fuelwood, fruits, honey and medicine were not seen as important by the respondents. Residents more readily recognized UGSs’ direct benefits over the indirect benefits. Awareness of economic benefit was relatively high. Results from this research could help urban planners and developers to consider residents’ perceptions and expectations when designing UGSs.KEYWORDS: Ecosystem servicesEcosystem disservicesSurveyUrban treesUrban forestryParks AcknowledgmentsWe, authors, like to thank everyone who helped and participate in this research. First author also like to thank fellow researchers, Ms Chindu Chandran, Ms Ishita Mathur, and Mr Prabhakar for initial development of questionnaire. The first author is grateful to UGC, Government of India for providing a doctoral fellowship for research work. The authors also thank the dean, University School of Environment Management (USEM), Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, for providing research facilities.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationFundingThe first author received a National Fellowship for Scheduled Caste (NFSC) from the University Grants Commission, Government of India for doctoral studies under fellowship ID [201718-RGNF-2017-18-SC- DEL-48200] funded by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India.","PeriodicalId":50287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135719510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}