This study focuses on China’s residential sector and examines energy use growth resulting from income increases and urbanization development. We also look at the energy transition (from primitive fuels to advanced fuels) caused by economic development, as well as the mitigation potential of greenhouse gas and air pollutants emissions. Several studies have provided evidence of a positive correla...

Changes in the demographic and socio-economic compositions of populations are relevant to the climate change issue because these characteristics can be important determinants both of the capacity to adapt to climate change impacts as well as of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. However, the incorporation of major trends such as aging, urbanization, and changes in household size into proj...

Fu-Guo Deng, Gui Lu Long and Hong-Yu Zhou 1 The Key Laboratory of Beam Technology and Material Modification of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Low Energy Nuclear Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China 2 Key Laboratory For Quantum Information and Measurements of Ministry of Education, and Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China 3 Key Laborator...

background: obesity is one of the major health problems in the world; in this regard iran is not an exception. the present study was conducted to investigate the overweight, obesity, and its related factors in adult women who referred to health centers in shiraz, iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 240 women who referred to health centers and aged 18-65 years old were selected through...

Sustainable development is highly dependent on the implementation of environmental education programs, which has as its ultimate goal to produce environmentally literate citizens that undertake environmentally friendly actions. Efforts on environmental education along past years are now perceived on the increase of citizens awareness on European countries and, particularly, in Portugal. However...

Wei-Tzer Huang 1,*, Kai-Chao Yao 1, Chun-Ching Wu 1, Yung-Ruei Chang 2, Yih-Der Lee 2 and Yuan-Hsiang Ho 2 1 Department of Industrial Education and Technology, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua 500, Taiwan; [email protected] (K.-C.Y.); [email protected] (C.-C.W.) 2 The Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Taoyuan City 325, Taiwan; [email protected] (Y.-R.C.); ydlee@i...