To prevent further increases in energy consumption, the government of Iran commenced energy subsidy reform in 2010. This paper investigates the fuel conservation effects of the reform in Iran using a homothetic translog cost function that provides estimates of the own- and cross-price elasticities of fuel demands. The percentage reduction in fuel demands is estimated using the likely effect of ...

energy conservation in buildings plays a vital role for sustainable development of societies and nations. although, newer buildings in developing nations are being constructed using energy conservation approach, existing buildings have higher energy demand to meet the desired comfort. excessive energy demand for cooling the built environment is a major problem over most of the arid climatic zon...

the study investigated secondary school students' environmental awareness in india and iran. nine hundred and ninety-one students were selected through the stratified random sampling technique from 103 secondary schools of mysore city (india) and tehran city (iran). subjects consisted of 476 boys and 515 girls. they were assessed using the environment awareness ability measure (eaam). resu...