scholarly journals RES Implementation in Urban Areas: An Updated Overview

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Delponte ◽  
Corrado Schenone
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Infrastructure Investment ◽  
Energy Planning ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Period ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Critical Issues

In the past, national energy planning guided the development of a central program for infrastructure investment over a defined time period. However, in the current geopolitical context, environmental damage, fossil fuel depletion, and territorial imbalance caused by the centralised energy model are all factors that require a change of energy structure, establishing actions to invest in energy diversification, and solid commitment to local renewable energies. This also implies an enhancement of the role played by local bodies, and particularly by municipalities, in achieving the targets of the Kyoto Protocol and now of the Paris Agreement, because renewable sources need to be studied, applied, and exploited at the local scale. Within this framework, this paper is organized as an overview on the promotion and implementation of the major RES technologies in the deployment of the new energy paradigm at the urban scale, taking into account multiple targets. A survey of existing literature underlines how the RES topic is mostly approached as a problem of energy supply and implementation of technology, but actual sustainability in terms of a social development process and improvement of quality of life by residents is often neglected. Then, this overview stimulated the authors to highlight three main critical issues and gaps and support the need of an all-encompassing approach as a final recommendation for a general RES urban planning advancement.

Approaches to Urban Noise Management in India

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neelima S. Naik
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Noise Pollution ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
Urban Noise ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
The Past ◽  
Metropolitan Cities

Noise pollution in urban areas is recognized as a major environmental concern in India. The lack of infrastructure and fast paced life in major metropolitan cities of India has made the urban environment extremely crowded, busy as well as noisy and as a result the millions of people living in the major metropolitan areas are suffering from the impacts of noise pollution. Noise levels are escalating at such a rate that it has become a major threat to the quality of human lives. Direct links between noise and health have been established by research conducted over the past few decades. There are several causes for urban degradation such as population migration, environmental considerations not adequately being incorporated into master plans, uncoordinated and haphazard development, weak implementation of plans and laws and inadequate institutional competences and resource crunch. This paper discusses the causal factors, impacts and the different approaches adopted by the Central Government as well as some major State Pollution Control Boards to curb the urban noise problem and the need for looking into non-conventional solutions such as Ecocity programme to bring in visible environmental improvement.

Teaching Urban Politics and Urban Policy

1990 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Michael J. Rich
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
The Past ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Substance Abuse Education

We are a nation of cities. The 1980 census reported that almost three out of every four Americans lived in urban areas, and estimates are that the 1990 census will show that the proportion of the population living in urban areas will increase further. Many of the nation's most pressing domestic problems deeply affect the well being of urban residents: welfare reform, homelessness, substance abuse, education, health care for the uninsured, quality of the work force, and the like, all have significant urban dimensions. And while we may never see “urban” regain the popularity it obtained during most of the 1960s, any policy response designed to address these pressing problems will have a major urban component; whether it is called urban policy is another matter. It was interesting to observe during the past presidential campaign how frightened the candidates were of using the word urban or city. While I have not yet seen a content analysis of the 1988 election campaign, the words urban and city were noticeably absent from the debates, speeches, and sound bites. We did, however, hear a lot about community in one of the debates.The purpose of this essay is to highlight some of the prominent issues cities and their residents are likely to face in the 1990s, with emphasis on ways in which these issues can be structured into an undergraduate urban policies and urban policy curriculum through reference to the recent book literature.

scholarly journals Hak Kepemilikan Tempat Tinggal bagi WNA di Bidang Properti

2017 ◽  
pp. 138-153
Author(s):  
Suwardi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Residential Property ◽  
Property Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Maximum Time ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Land Availability

The residential property sector in Indonesia remains attractive even though there are several factors that have hampered growth over the past two years. The ownership for singles related to property refers to Government Regulation Number 40 of 1996 concerning Building Use Rights, Business Use and Use Rights to Land; Government Regulation Number 41 of 1996 concerning Housing or Residential Houses by Foreigners Domiciled in Indonesia; Law Number 25 of 2007 concerning Investment. Secondly, foreigners can buy or own a house in Indonesia above usufructuary rights, but the maximum time period given is 10 years for land under 2000 square meters. At present, more than 50% of Indonesia's population lives in urban areas. This means that there will be more houses, apartments and condominiums to be built in Indonesian urban areas to meet growing demand. This situation also implies that due to lack of land availability in urban areas, prices tend to rise rapidly, while developers need to increasingly focus on vertical property development such as apartments and condominiums.

scholarly journals NOISE POLLUTION IN URBAN AREAS. CASE STUDY – CLUJ-NAPOCA TOWN

1970 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Mihăiescu ◽  
Antonia Odagiu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Noise Pollution ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
State And Local Government ◽  
State And Local

Noise is a disturbance to the human environment that is escalating at such a high rate that it will become a major threat to the quality of human lives. In the past thirty years, noise in all areas, especially in urban areas, has been increasing rapidly. There are numerous effects on the human environment due to the increase in noise pollution. Slowly, insensibly, we seem to accept noise and the physiological and psychological deterioration that accompanies it as an inevitable part of our lives. Although we attempt to set standards for some of the most major sources of noise, we often are unable to monitor them. Community awareness of environmental noise has increased and there is a higher expectation for state and local government to reduce noise levels. The present study provides an evaluation of noise pollution in Cluj-Napoca. Equivalent noise levels (L eq) were measured in 10 points (each point measured during 30 min). Measured values were confronted with Romanian legislation allowed limits. The most noise-polluted points in Cluj Napoca were Mănăştur district – traffic circle and Aurel Vlaicu street (at the international airport limit), with measured L eq of 75.5 dB(A) and 75.91 dB(A).

scholarly journals Model for Selection of the Best Location Based on Fuzzy AHP and Hurwitz Methods

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Slavko Arsovski ◽  
Gordana Todorovic ◽  
Zorica Lazić ◽  
Zora Arsovski ◽  
Nikolina Ljepava ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Fuzzy Ahp ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Real Life Data ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Selection Of

The problem of evaluation and selection of parking lots is a part of significant issues of public transport management in cities. As population expands as well as urban areas, solving the mentioned issues affects employees, security and safety of citizens, and quality of life in long-time period. The aim of this paper is to propose a multicriteria decision model which includes both quantitative and qualitative criteria, which may be of either benefit or cost type, to evaluate locations. The criteria values and the importance of criteria are either precise or linguistic expressions defined by trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. The human judgments of the relative importance of evaluation criteria and uncertain criteria values are often vague and cannot be expressed by exact precise values. The ranking of locations with respect to all criteria and their weights is performed for various degrees of pessimistic-optimistic index. The proposed model is tested through an illustrative example with real life data, where it shows the practical implications in public communal enterprises.

scholarly journals Quality management of electricity service with photovoltaic generation distributed in rural area

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
Gino Joaquín Mieles ◽  
Alcira Magdalena Vélez Quiroz ◽  
Ciaddy Gina Rodríguez Borges ◽  
Antonio Vázquez Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Energy Planning ◽  
Electricity Grid ◽  
Energy Models ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Good Living

The need to search for new energy models that are integrally sustainable for the present and the future, especially photovoltaic solar energy that would contribute to a radical change in Manabí Ecuador where populations are living in rural areas away from the electricity grid, which causes impacts negative economic and in some rural electrification projects, and low quality have oriented national policies towards the search for the best alternatives, such as renewable sources, that is, the efficient use of resources and the increase in reliability, coverage, and quality in the electrical supply that Manabí has. Emphasizing "good living" as an objective of the Ecuadorian government, meeting its needs for the development of its agricultural, artisanal, commercial and industrial activities. Thus, avoiding that due to lack or poor quality of energy that prevents them from being able to carry out an activity typical of the countryside or rural areas, these people migrate to the cantonal headwaters, further thickening the cords of misery. The work presents an analysis on the quality of the electric service in isolated areas of the Chone municipality, proposing solutions that can improve the quality of the service, through sustainable energy planning using indigenous resources from the territory.

scholarly journals MEMBANGUN TATA RUANG TERBUKA HIJAU MENUJU LINGKUNGAN SEHAT DAN ASRI : SEBUAH ANALISA PERSPEKTIF HUKUM PENATAAN RUANG

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Dian Ferricha ◽  
Zulham Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
The City ◽  
Rapid Transfer

That the development and growth of the city / urban is so significant accompanied by the rapid transfer of land functions, has caused environmental damage that can reduce the carrying capacity of land in sustaining the lives of people in urban areas, so it is necessary to make efforts to maintain and improve the quality of the environment through the provision of open space adequate green.

scholarly journals Composting Systems

HortScience ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 697g-698
Author(s):  
Francis R. Gouin
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Mature Compost ◽  
Intensively Managed ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Composting Systems

During the past decade, numerous commercial composting systems have been developed. Time, as well as economics, are determining which of these systems are feasible. Systems that take time but can operate at low cost are surviving, as are more costly systems capable of producing a mature compost in the shortest possible time. Which system to use can be determined by the amount of space available and the amount of feedstock to be composted. Where space is limited and the volume of feedstock is high, more intensively managed systems are necessary. When space is not a limiting factor, more passive systems may be adequate. Of the more costly system developed, those systems with the least amount of down time and with a high degree of versatility appear to be surviving. Although it is possible to optimize the rate of composting through good engineering and management, there exists a given time period, depending on the feedstock necessary to produce quality mature compost. Minimizing production time to the point where the quality of the compost is jeopardized will result in wide-spread rejection. As horticulturists, we must stand firm in demanding compost standards with qualities based on our needs. Based on the diversity of our industry, the horticultural industries are likely to be the largest potential users of commercial compost.

A Psychosemantic Analysis of the Dynamics of Russian Life Quality (1917 to 1998)

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Victor F. Petrenko ◽  
Olga V. Mitina
Keyword(s):  
Life Quality ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Personal Constructs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semantic Spaces

This articles concerns the perception by Russians of the social aspects of Russian life after the October Revolution of 1917. The methodology of research is the construction of subjective semantic spaces on the basis of the evaluation by Russian citizens of the quality of life under the different governments. The authors analyze the influence of respondents' age and political orientation on their assessment of the past and the present. This research proposes to reconstruct the system of categories (superordinate personal constructs in the terminology of G. Kelly, 1955 ) through which people perceive life in Russian society and assess the governments of the USSR and its legal successors (1917 to 1998). Another aspect of the research is the evaluation of Russian life quality under the various governments within this time period.

scholarly journals Towards Evaluation the Cornerstone of Smart City Development: Case Study in Dalat City, Vietnam

Smart Cities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khoa Hoang Viet Bach ◽  
Sung-Kyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Adaptive Model ◽  
City Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Process Of Urbanization

Over the past decade, the process of urbanization in Vietnam has taken place rapidly, leading to strong social disturbances and causing cities to face many problems. All these challenges have put pressure on urban planning and governance to make adjustments to allow cities to become livable. Moreover, the quality of urbanization is reflected not only in growth but also in harmonious development in all aspects. The urban development process must accordingly be handled by more smart solutions. Smart city development is becoming a trend not only in urban areas all over the world but also in Vietnam. The paper aims to assess the initial phases of the smart city development process in Dalat City. It first evaluated a four-dimensional smart city’s strategic elements of city vision and transformation known as Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats. Then, based on these analytical characteristics, an adaptive model for development is suggested. This paper extends the previous research on smart cities and draws attention to further study on smart city development in Vietnam.

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