Local government decision-making competition and regional carbon emissions: Experience evidence and emission reduction measures

This chapter identifies main problems of parking planning in demand-oriented conventional paradigm. Parking planning principles and cost-effective programs in supply-oriented sustainable paradigm are presented in the chapter listing many economic, social and environmental benefits. The chapter describes various parking strategies for developing a sustainable parking plan for smart growth of metropolitan cities, including cases of Istanbul and Vienna. A critical perspective is drawn for the parking planning policies for these city cases. Parking is recognized as an important factor influencing accessibility. Parking planning, parking policies and pricing play a critical role in local government decision making.

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Sustainable Parking Planning for Smart Growth of Metropolitan Cities

E-Planning and Collaboration ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5646-6.ch014 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 301-320

Author(s):

Ozge Yalciner Ercoskun ◽

Ebru Vesile Ocalir Akunal

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Local Government ◽

Critical Role ◽

Smart Growth ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Environmental Benefits ◽

Critical Perspective ◽

Government Decision ◽

Metropolitan Cities ◽

Conventional Paradigm

This chapter identifies main problems of parking planning in demand-oriented conventional paradigm. Parking planning principles and cost-effective programs in supply-oriented sustainable paradigm are presented in the chapter listing many economic, social and environmental benefits. The chapter describes various parking strategies for developing a sustainable parking plan for smart growth of metropolitan cities, including cases of Istanbul and Vienna. A critical perspective is drawn for the parking planning policies for these city cases. Parking is recognized as an important factor influencing accessibility. Parking planning, parking policies and pricing play a critical role in local government decision making.

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Optimal Decisions for Two Risk-Averse Competitive Manufacturers under the Cap-and-Trade Policy and Uncertain Demand

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17031010 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 1010 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hongxia Sun ◽

Jie Yang ◽

Yang Zhong

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Carbon Emissions ◽

Emission Reduction ◽

Carbon Emission ◽

Reduction Rate ◽

Risk Averse ◽

Cap And Trade ◽

Carbon Emission Reduction ◽

Optimal Decisions ◽

The Government

With the increasingly serious problem of environmental pollution, reducing carbon emissions has become an urgent task for all countries. The cap-and-trade (C&T) policy has gained international recognition and has been adopted by several countries. In this paper, considering the uncertainty of market demand, we discuss the carbon emission reduction and price policies of two risk-averse competitive manufacturers under the C&T policy. The two manufacturers have two competitive behaviors: simultaneous decision making and sequential decision making. Two models were constructed for these behaviors. The optimal decisions, carbon emission reduction rate, and price were obtained from these two models. Furthermore, in this paper the effects of some key parameters on the optimal decision are discussed, and some managerial insights are obtained. The results show that the lower the manufacturers’ risk aversion level is, the higher their carbon emission reduction rate and utilities. As the carbon quota increases, the manufacturers’ optimal carbon reduction rate and utilities increase. Considering consumers’ environmental awareness, it is more beneficial for the government to reduce the carbon quota and motivate manufacturers’ internal enthusiasm for emission reduction. The government can, through macro control of the market, make carbon trading prices increase appropriately and encourage manufacturers to reduce carbon emissions.

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E-Participation in Local Government Decision Making

Integrating E-Business Models for Government Solutions ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-240-4.ch012 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 195-210

Author(s):

Peter Demediuk ◽

Rolf Solli

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Local Government ◽

Capacity Building ◽

Citizen Participation ◽

Community Involvement ◽

Modern Society ◽

Technology Choice ◽

Community Capacity Building ◽

Online Technologies ◽

Government Decision

Modern society will only reach its potential when citizens individually and collectively are able to use their knowledge and capabilities to shape their lives and communities. Citizen participation in government decision making that uses online technologies is one way of leveraging this capacity, and has been termed e-participation. Case studies of a Swedish and an Australian local government examine how e-participation fits into initiatives to increase community involvement in decision making. Interactive chat sessions between stakeholders can facilitate debate. Information portals can provide supporting information in interesting and accessible ways. E-voting can enable greater input and influence by a wider number of citizens. But ultimately the technology choice and e-participation implementation must be driven by the objectives of the engagement exercise, and these can range from better decisions to community capacity building and issues of trust and legitimacy.

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Hybrid Predictive Decision-Making Approach to Emission Reduction Policies for Sustainable Energy Industry

Energies ◽

10.3390/en13092220 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (9) ◽

pp. 2220

Author(s):

Chao Zhou ◽

Dongyu Liu ◽

Pengfei Zhou ◽

Jie Luo ◽

Serhat Yuksel ◽

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Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Carbon Emissions ◽

Emission Reduction ◽

Energy Production ◽

Sustainable Energy ◽

Quadratic Model ◽

Energy Investment ◽

Interval Type ◽

Sustainable Economic Growth

Carbon emissions are a prominent issue for sustainable energy production and management. Energy policies under the growing competitive environment could change the priorities of emission reduction and investment decisions. This paper aims to forecast carbon emissions from China and to rank the importance of carbon emissions with interval type 2 (IT2) fuzzy sets (FS) for sustainable energy investments. For this purpose, the quadratic model is applied to measuring emission trends and the Qualitative Flexible Multiple Criteria Method (QUALIFLEX) is used for measuring sustainable energy investment alternatives by the several emission levels. Forecasted values of 29 provinces in China are converted into the linguistic and fuzzy numbers based on IT2 FS respectively to measure the priorities of emission reduction for sustainable economies. The novelty of this paper is to propose a hybrid decision-making approach based on quadratic modeling and the QUALIFLEX method and to discuss the overall energy emission trend and policies for sustainable economic growth. The results demonstrate that emission reduction policies are the most important phenomenon and the environmental factors should be widely considered to construct sustainable energy investments and production.

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