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Simona Bigerna, Piyush Choudhary, Nikunj Kumar Jain, Silvia Micheli, Paolo Polinori
Summary: This study estimates the willingness to pay of Indian urban consumers for a continuous supply of electricity using contingent valuation method. The findings show that the amount consumers are willing to pay depends on the duration of power outages, with households preferring shorter outages. Income and environmental attitude also positively influence higher willingness to pay. These insights can inform policymakers in designing more reliable and customer-centric energy generation and distribution models.
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Diana Mutuku Mulatya, Vincent Were, Joseph Olewe, Japheth Mbuvi
Summary: This study evaluated the maximum willingness to pay for SAFI and SATO sanitation products by households in three counties in Kenya and identified the factors affecting their willingness to pay. The main determinants of households' willingness to pay for these sanitation products included proximity to the toilet, household income, type of sanitation product, household socioeconomic status, and satisfaction level with the current toilet. These findings suggest that increasing proximity to toilets, higher incomes, and providing financial support for poor households could potentially increase the demand for these sanitation technologies.
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Kh Zulfikar Hossain, Jianhong Xue, Md Ghulam Rabbany
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K. D. Veliz, G. Ramirez-Rodriguez, F. Ossio
Summary: This study analyzes the willingness of construction companies in Chile to pay to improve the management of C&DW, and finds that variables related to circular economy knowledge, state actions, C&DW management, and productivity have a significant effect on willingness to pay. These results provide new evidence for developing appropriate public policies to address the issue of C&DW and improve management in Chile.
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Mustapha Alhassan, Christopher R. Gustafson, Karina Schoengold
Summary: Groundwater in Ghana may be contaminated and little is known about its value. This paper estimates smallholders' preferences for groundwater protection using different types of information. The findings highlight the importance of using precise information in a developing country setting.
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Jonathan Darkwah Baffoe, Takeshi Mizunoya, Helmut Yabar
Summary: This study calculates the economic value of swampy wetlands in Ghana based on rice farmers' and community members' willingness to pay (WTP), finding that factors such as gender, household size, income, and knowledge of wetland importance influence WTP. Recommendations include educating farmers and the public on wetland ecosystems and family planning, as well as providing rice farmers with irrigation and postharvest facilities.
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Development Studies
Joshua W. Deutschmann, Agnieszka Postepska, Leopold Sarr
Summary: This paper provides new evidence on willingness to pay for electricity service quality improvements in Senegal, suggesting that households and firms are willing to pay a premium for uninterrupted high-quality service. However, willingness to pay for marginal service improvements is lower, highlighting the importance of substantial quality improvements when considering any increase in electricity tariffs. The study also emphasizes the significance of design choices and policy implications in eliciting willingness to pay.
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Ecology
Thais Vilela, Alfonso Malky Harb, Carla Mendizabal Vergara
Summary: This study investigates the willingness of Chilean households to support protected areas through donations or tariffs. The average willingness to pay per household per month ranges from US$ 3 to US$ 8, and it is lower when households are asked to pay via tariffs instead of donations.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Dimitrios Kalfas, Fotios Chatzitheodoridis, Efstratios Loizou, Katerina Melfou
Summary: Peri-urban and urban green spaces are important priorities in the regional policy agenda of local governments, and their value to residents is influenced by factors such as income, knowledge of environmental issues, and perceived benefits. This study explores these factors using the contingent valuation method and highlights the role of environmental economic methods in natural heritage management.
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Energy & Fuels
Ju-Hee Kim, Seong-Jae Seo, Seung-Hoon Yoo
Summary: The study estimated a price premium for electricity generated using domestic solar power facilities in South Korea to be KRW 26.0 per kWh, which accounts for 24.8% of the 2019 electricity price. Factors related to the interviewees' characteristics or recognition were found to significantly affect the price premium.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Md. Nazmul Haque, Mustafa Saroar, Md. Abdul Fattah, Syed Riad Morshed
Summary: Nature-based solutions are gaining popularity globally for addressing urban problems. This study investigates the willingness to pay for the conservation and restoration of urban blue ecosystem services in a low-income fringe community in Khulna city, Bangladesh. The findings reveal dissatisfaction with the existing conditions of the ecosystem services, and only a small percentage of the community is willing to pay for various service facilities. Education, income, and house-ownership are found to have a positive influence on the willingness to pay. Implementing policy measures promptly can help conserve the remaining urban blue ecosystem.
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Economics
Teresa Cristina Garcia, Alvaro Durand-Morat, Wei Yang, Michael Popp, William Schreckhise
Summary: Although Brazil mainly produces first-generation ethanol, a study found that Brazilian consumers are willing to pay an average 8.5% premium for gasoline blended with second-generation ethanol (E2G), and consumers who are more informed about biofuels and have higher income are more likely to pay a premium for E2G. Informing consumers about E2G could enhance the likelihood of adoption.
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Oncology
Qianqian Zhang, Deyu Ren, Xuan Chang, Chen Sun, Ruyue Liu, Jialin Wang, Nan Zhang
Summary: This study found that most rural residents are willing to accept free cancer screening and more than half of them are willing to pay part of the screening cost. However, their willingness to pay is low. Therefore, it is necessary to enhance publicity activities to improve public awareness and participation, and to control the proportion of rural residents paying for screening costs.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yun Sun, Dingxin Chen, Cenchao Wang, Bai-Chen Xie, Mei Shan, Yuan Wang
Summary: China is experiencing an increased demand for renewable electricity due to energy shortage and emission reduction targets. Chinese residents are willing to pay a higher price for renewable electricity, with a focus on its immediate impacts on personal well-being and quality of life. Factors such as economic status, education background, air quality, health concerns, and environmental crisis awareness significantly influence residents' willingness to pay. Different regions show varying sensitivities to these factors.
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Bern Caudill Dealy, Aaron Kearsley, Carolyn Wolff, Elizabeth Botkins, Nellie Lew, Clark Nardinelli
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Ecology
Elisa Bayraktarov, Megan I. Saunders, Sabah Abdullah, Morena Mills, Jutta Beher, Hugh P. Possingham, Peter J. Mumby, Catherine E. Lovelock
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Philipp Trotter, Sabah Abdullah
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Prabhakar Yadav, Peter J. Davies, Sabah Abdullah
ENERGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2018)
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Philipp A. Trotter, Sabah Abdullah
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Biodiversity Conservation
Christopher J. Brown, Sabah Abdullah, Peter J. Mumby
CONSERVATION LETTERS
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sabah Abdullah, Anil Markandya
ENERGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2012)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Jason Flower, Juan Carlos Ortiz, Iliana Chollett, Sabah Abdullah, Carolina Castro-Sanguino, Karlo Hock, Vivian Lam, Peter J. Mumby
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2017)
Letter
Ecology
Elisa Bayraktarov, Megan I. Saunders, Peter J. Mumby, Hugh P. Possingham, Sabah Abdullah, Catherine E. Lovelock
ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
(2017)
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Environmental Studies
Clement A. Tisdell, Harriet J. Preece, Sabah Abdullah, Hawthorne L. Beyer
AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2017)
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Environmental Studies
Rocco Scolozzi, Uta Schirpke, Carlo Detassis, Sabah Abdullah, Alessandro Gretter
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(2015)
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Economics
Sabah Abdullah, Bruce Morley
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Economics
Petr Mariel, Amaya de Ayala, David Hoyos, Sabah Abdullah
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(2013)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
M. Genovese, F. Piraino, P. Fragiacomo
Summary: This research proposes the concept of a hydrogen valley in southern Italy, where hydrogen is produced centrally and delivered via fuel cell hybrid trains to refueling stations, providing transportation services. The analysis from both technical and economic perspectives shows that the cost of hydrogen and energy efficiency reached competitive levels, and hydrogen rail transport offers significant benefits in terms of emissions reduction and economic gains compared to conventional diesel trains and fully electric trains.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Miaomiao Liu, Payam Nejat, Pinlu Cao, Carlos Jimenez-Bescos, John Kaiser Calautit
Summary: This article provides a critical review of the performance of windcatchers, pointing out the current research gaps and issues, and proposing directions for further investigation and market prospects.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Solomon Boadu, Ebenezer Otoo
Summary: Despite Africa's vast energy resources, including wind energy, the continent faces challenges in developing its wind energy industry. Northern African countries and South Africa currently dominate the wind energy sector in Africa. To uplift Africa's socio-economic status, strong political will, supportive policies, and institutional frameworks are needed to drive the development of wind energy and overcome existing challenges.
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(2024)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
E. K. Grubbs, S. M. Gruss, V. Z. Schull, M. J. Gosney, M. V. Mickelbart, S. Brouder, M. W. Gitau, P. Bermel, M. R. Tuinstra, R. Agrawal
Summary: As the global population grows, the demand for food, energy, and water will increase significantly. However, limited land availability and competition for solar resources pose challenges to resource generation technologies. In the United States, both agriculture and solar energy production have adopted densification schemes to improve yields and energy output per unit of land. This research proposes an Agrivoltaic food and energy coproduction architecture that optimizes power generation while maintaining crop productivity by implementing ideal anti-tracking during critical growth periods. This technology offers a viable pathway for widespread solar implementation throughout the contiguous United States.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Han Shao, Rui Henriques, Hugo Morais, Elisabetta Tedeschi
Summary: The integration of offshore wind energy into the electric grid provides opportunities in terms of environmental sustainability and cost efficiency, but poses challenges to power quality. This survey offers a deeper understanding of disturbance detection and classification tools, exploring root causes, disturbance locations, and algorithmic solutions. It highlights synchronized waveform measurement and discusses evaluation metrics for detection and classification algorithms. Additionally, a novel system-wide monitoring framework is proposed.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Eleni Davidson, Yair Schwartz, Joe Williams, Dejan Mumovic
Summary: A continued upward trend in global greenhouse gas emissions poses risks to global infrastructure and built assets. Maintaining high indoor environmental quality standards is a challenge for higher education institutions under future climates. Passive cooling mechanisms may be insufficient to tolerate predicted temperature increases. Different building typologies have varying energy demand projections.
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(2024)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Kexin Pang, Jian Zhou, Stamatis Tsianikas, David W. Coit, Yizhong Ma
Summary: This study proposes a new framework for long-term microgrid expansion planning, using deep reinforcement learning method to consider various uncertainties and constraints. The framework aims to enhance the effectiveness of microgrid expansion planning from the perspectives of economy, resilience, and greenhouse gas emission reduction.
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(2024)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jun Zhao, Kangyin Dong, Xiucheng Dong
Summary: The continuous growth of global electricity penetration has provided modern energy for alleviating energy poverty, but its impact on carbon neutrality has been overlooked. The research reveals that clean electricity from traditional fossil energy and renewable energy has a positive influence on the greenhouse effect. Eradicating energy poverty can effectively alleviate the greenhouse effect, especially in non-Belt and Road Initiative (B&RI) nations.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hossein Shahbeik, Hamed Kazemi Shariat Panahi, Mona Dehhaghi, Gilles J. Guillemin, Alireza Fallahi, Homa Hosseinzadeh-Bandbafha, Hamid Amiri, Mohammad Rehan, Deepak Raikwar, Hannes Latine, Bruno Pandalone, Benyamin Khoshnevisan, Christian Sonne, Luigi Vaccaro, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Su Shiung Lam, Junting Pan, Rafael Luque, Bert Sels, Wanxi Peng, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mortaza Aghbashlo
Summary: This review explores the production of biocrude oil from biomass feedstocks through the process of hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). It discusses the impact of process parameters on the quality, quantity, cost, and environmental impacts of biofuels. The review also highlights the challenges and prospects for the future development of biocrude oil.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Meysam Majidi Nezhad, Mehdi Neshat, Georgios Sylaios, Davide Astiaso Garcia
Summary: Digital twins promise innovation for the marine renewable energy sector by using modern technological advances and the existing maritime knowledge frameworks. This research presents critical aspects of digital twin implementation challenges in marine energy digitalization approaches that use and combine data systems.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yeganeh Sharifian, Hamdi Abdi
Summary: This paper discusses the background and objectives of the multi-area economic dispatch problem, as well as various techniques and methods applied in this field. It also covers comprehensive formulations of the problem and important issues in the field of probabilistic MAED, along with some related concepts and suggestions.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
J. G. B. Churchill, V. B. Borugadda, A. K. Dalai
Summary: The increasing global energy demand and the need to reduce fossil fuel reliance have created a demand for renewable and sustainable fuel sources. This review explores the potential of tall oil, a by-product of the pulping industry, as a feedstock for biofuels. The review provides an overview of tall oil production, purification, and treatment, and investigates recent trends and barriers towards tall oil-derived biofuels.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
David C. Broadstock, Xiangnan Wang
Summary: This study provides a general review of research on district cooling, identifying key topics and themes and highlighting potential research priorities for future studies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
L. Scharnhorst, D. Sloot, N. Lehmann, A. Ardone, W. Fichtner
Summary: This study investigates and analyzes the barriers to demand response in industrial and commercial sectors, highlighting their significance. Concerns about diminished product quality, disruptions to production processes, human resource management, and revenue uncertainty are identified as the most frequently cited barriers. Overcoming these barriers requires bridging knowledge gaps, allocating sufficient resources, and adapting external incentives and policies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tong Feng, Yuechi Sun, Yating Shi, Jie Ma, Chunmei Feng, Zhenni Chen
Summary: Air pollution is a significant global challenge, and policymakers have implemented policies to reduce it. Evaluating the effectiveness of these policies is critical, and our study reveals trends and gaps in air pollution policy research. We found that research has shifted from focusing solely on air pollutants to including methodologies, policies, and health implications. China has emerged as a major contributor in this field of research.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)