The real estate sector experienced a very dynamic cycle from the second half of the nineties until very recently in many countries, which was refl ected in striking increases in house prices and a growing importance of the construction sector in the economy. This boom phase of residential markets has been followed by a phase of decline during which prices and activity have fallen off. Although ...

Expanding access to solar photovoltaics (PV) may help reduce the incidence of energy poverty. Yet, little is known about strength and magnitude this relationship. This paper uses cross-sectional survey data from Australian Bureau Statistics conduct a retrospective analysis effects having rooftop PV for households. As main identification challenges are potential omitted variables reverse causali...

Energy-efficient retrofits (EERs) are probably the most cost-effective method to address energy poverty in residential sector. However, actual EER rates far below those called for recent policy goals. A large body of literature has examined determinants influencing households’ decisions but with scattered and contextually limited results. Consequently, there is a lack comprehensive quantitative...

Today, urbanization (living at apartments) phenomenon as the most common type of residence of cities has been changed so that mainly reflects the chaos in this area. Too much attention paid to economic indicators compromised the balance in the housing sector and created a new type of buildings. The occurred changes indicate ignoring cultural characteristics, less attention paid to cultural conc...

With energy resource scarcity and energy crisis in the world, energy efficiency has become a subject of great importance. In warm and humid climates as well as cold and mountainous ones, annual energy consumption is too high to achieve desirable living conditions in built environments, and hence energy efficiency measures and practices in such buildings is of utmost priority. Given the direct r...

Specification of PM2.5 spatial and temporal characteristics is important for understanding PM2.5 adverse effects and policymaking. We applied network analysis to studying the dataset MIX, which contains PM2.5 emissions recorded from 2168 monitoring stations in China in 2008 and 2010. The results showed that for PM2.5 emissions from industrial sector 8 clusters were found in 2008 but they merged...