The global population has rapidly urbanized over the past century, and the urbanization rate
is projected to reach about 70% by 2050. In line with these trends and the increasing …

In recent years, the concept of smart sustainable cities has come to the fore. And it is rapidly
gaining momentum and worldwide attention as a promising response to the challenge of …

Geography is intriguing because it is there all around you; the world that is an inextricable
part of your everyday life. The fascination of the discipline is that it gives you keys that can …

Many researchers investigate the socio-demographic and economic factors-induced energy
consumption, particularly fossil fuel-based non-renewable energy consumption, but there …

Residential energy use accounts for roughly 20% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in
the United States. Using data on 93 million individual households, we estimate these GHGs …

There is a lack of theoretical and empirical studies regarding social sustainability. The
literature reveals that the “social” was integrated late into debates on sustainable …

Energy poverty is a critical policymaking problem in the world, while the outlined solutions in
academic and policy literature talks about the solutions, without addressing the possible …

In the coming decades the energy sector will have to face three major transformations
concerned with climate change, security of supply and energy poverty. The first two have …

This paper attempts to investigate the impact of economic growth and CO 2 emissions on
energy consumption for a global panel of 58 countries using dynamic panel data model …

The question of whether urbanization contributes to increasing carbon dioxide emissions
has been mainly investigated via scaling relationships with population or population density …