Gender equality and climate change mitigation: Are women a secret weapon?

Climate change and gender: economic empowerment of women through climate mitigation and adaptation?

Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation with Urban planning for a Livable city in Tehran

Climate change impacts are seen within growing numbers of cities in low- and middle-income countries, so there is growing interest in the adaptation and mitigation plans and programs put forward by city authorities. This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the constraints which cities face them in this subject by analyzing the case of Tehran. City has a commitment to decentralizatio...

Cooperation on Climate-Change Mitigation†

We model greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a dynamic game. Countries’ emissions increase atmospheric concentrations of GHG, which negatively affects all countries' welfare. We analyze self-enforcing climate-change treaties that are supportable as subgame perfect equilibria. A simulation model illustrates conditions where a subgame perfect equilibrium supports the first-best outcome. In one of o...

Climate Change Mitigation and OPEC Economies

Declaration In accordance with the Regulations for Higher Degrees by Research, I hereby declare that the whole thesis now submitted for the candidature of Doctor of Philosophy is a result of my own research and independent work except where reference is made to published literature. I also hereby certify that the work embodied in this thesis has not already been submitted in any substance for a...

Population and climate change: moving toward gender equality is the key.

Despite the clamour of climate change deniers, the overwhelming scientific view is that anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are leading to an increasing instability of our climate. These emissions, around 240 billion tons since the start of the industrial revolution, are perturbing the natural cycles, which always cause the climate to change. The predictions are that these perturbat...