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Low Carbon Economy is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in low carbon economy. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of low carbon economy. Al…
Sally M. Elgizawy, Salah M. El-Haggar, Khaled Nassar
Construction and demolition waste constitutes a huge part of the solid waste management system and is continuous on the rise because of the booming housing and building industry worldwide. Construction and demolition waste is not clear in its definition; it d…
Irene Alvarado-Van der Laat
This study aims to assess the relation between the so called “Ecotourism” behavior and Willingness-To-Pay (WTP) in order to compensate on site for their carbon foot print, plus their familiarity with common environmental terms, in the Monteverde Region of Cos…
Ryuji Matsuhashi, Kae Takase
After the Liberal Democratic Party won the election in 2012, Prime Minister Abe stated that the government would strive to implement aggressive abatement measures against global warming. Here, we define five types of green innovation and three types of green…
Tahazzud Hossain
The consumption of natural resources (e.g. raw material, water & energy) in the industries is bringing welfare to the society but per unit of product from the industry is linked with the generation of environmental pollutants and emissions. Resource constrain…
Qian Zhang, Dexiang Mei
This paper applies non-linear granger causality test and impulse response function method to analyze the spillover effect of housing prices fluctuation among six major Chinese cities, namely, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Chongqing. Resu…
Mohamed Abdelkareem Abdrabo, Mahmoud Adel Hassaan, Abdel Rahman N. Selmy
It is widely believed, according to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) projections, that there will be an increase in the global average sea level of 0.18 cm to 0.59 cm through the twenty-first century. The coastal area of the Nile delta is…
Akito Ozawa, Yoshikuni Yoshida
Improving energy efficiency in the residential sector is a pressing issue in Japan. This study examines the economic and environmental impacts of introducing the following distributed energy resources: photovoltaics (PV), a fuel cell, and a battery. We estima…
Hyunsook Lee, Kiyo Kurisu, Keisuke Hanaki
To reduce the environmental load of the household sector, it is important to enhance people’s pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs). Information provision has been considered as one of the possible methods for fostering PEBs. However, previous studies have seldo…
Eduardo Oliveira Teles, Marcelo Santana Silva, Francisco Gaudêncio M. Freires, Ednildo Andrade Torres
The energy transition has become an increasingly attractive and necessary issue nowadays because of the tendency of scarcity and increased demand for fossil energy, and associated environmental impacts—for example, increased emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs…
Ghislain Dubois
The objectives of this paper are to understand the features of simulated low carbon lifestyles under strong greenhouse gas emissions reduction assumptions (20%, 50%), the nature of trade-offs and the hierarchy of choices operated by households within a limite…
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Low Carbon Economy is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in low carbon economy. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of low carbon economy. Al… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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