Encouraging urban households to segregate the waste they generate: Insights from a field experiment in Delhi, India

Submitted by Vidisha Chowdhury on
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Despite the Solid Waste Management Rules (SWM), 2016 stating that waste generators should segregate their waste before it is collected; most households in Delhi continue to be non-compliant. We conduct a study in 15 localities of Delhi to understand whether information, norms and economic incentive would have an effect on households’ compliance to rules. The study uses field experiments to elicit the impact of the interventions.

Waste

Biodiversity/ecosystem services scenario exercises from the Asia–Pacific: typology, archetypes and implications for sustainable development goals (SDGs)

Submitted by Vidisha Chowdhury on
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This paper presents a systematic review of biodiversity/ecosystem services scenario exercises from the Asia–Pacific region. From the limited scholarly literature available, 61 scenario exercises were examined to explore their typology and multiple scenario attributes, including geographic distribution, consideration for influential drivers, choices of ecosystem services, number of alternative futures and temporal horizons for scenario deployment.

Biodiversity
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The impact of development on the climate sensitivity of electricity demand in India

Submitted by Vidisha Chowdhury on
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The climate sensitivity of electricity demand in India is likely to be highly sensitive to growth in income. Thus, both intensive and extensive adjustments in cooling and heating will play an important role in determining future climate change impacts on electricity demand.

Energy

Surprises Up the Energy Ladder

Submitted by Vidisha Chowdhury on
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Traditional discussions of the relationships between energy, CO2 emissions and human development capture between-country differences, but fail to expose within-country energy and CO2 emissions inequality. Household survey data offers researchers a window through which to better understand the unequal distribution of energy use and the Human Development Index (HDI) at a sub-national level.

Energy

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The Environment for Development (EfD) Global Hub is a special unit at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, in Sweden. The Global Hub has a decade-long experience in coordinating the EfD global network. Currently it also coordinates PhD programs in Ethiopia and Rwanda with bilateral funding from Sida.