A5007263620- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Noise Effects and Management
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Energy Load and Power Forecasting
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Risk Perception and Management
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Mining and Resource Management
California Institute of Technology
2022-2025
Linde (United States)
2025
University of Cambridge
2017-2024
Indian Statistical Institute
2024
Agence internationale de l'énergie
2020-2021
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
2016-2020
Centre for Sustainable Energy
2019
Abstract Background Achieving climate targets will require a rapid transition to clean energy. However, renewable energy (RE) firms face financial, policy, and economic barriers mobilizing sufficient investment in low-carbon technologies, especially low- middle-income countries. Here, we analyze the challenges successes of financing Nigeria Brazil using three empirically grounded levers: environments, channels, instruments. Results While has leveraged innovative policy instruments mobilize...
Abstract Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of best available evidence, especially during crises. However, recent years epistemic authority science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public scientists. We interrogated these with a preregistered 68-country survey 71,922 respondents and found that most countries, people agree should engage more society policymaking. variations between within...
Abstract Science is integral to society because it can inform individual, government, corporate, and civil decision-making on issues such as public health, new technologies or climate change. Yet, distrust populist sentiment challenge the relationship between science society. To help researchers analyse science-society nexus across different geographical cultural contexts, we undertook a cross-sectional population survey resulting in dataset of 71,922 participants 68 countries. The data were...
India locked down 1.3 billion people on March 25, 2020 in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. The economic cost it was estimated at USD 98 billion, while social costs are still unknown. This study investigated how government formed reactive policies to fight coronavirus across its policy sectors. Primary data collected from Press Information Bureau (PIB) form press releases plans, policies, programme initiatives and achievements. A text corpus 260,852 words created 396 documents PIB. An...
Due to the unprecedented burdens on public health, agriculture, and other socio-economic cultural systems, climate change-induced heatwaves in India can hinder or reverse country’s progress fulfilling sustainable development goals (SDGs). Moreover, Indian government’s reliance its Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI), which may underestimate impact of developmental efforts. An analytical evaluation heat index (HI) with CVI shows that more than 90% country is at extremely cautious dangerous...
Slum rehabilitation policies in India is observed to have a rebound effect on the occupants, where rehabilitated occupants move back horizontal slums. In this study, we investigate cause behind phenomenon based theory of homeostasis, loss homeostasis refers occupants' heightened discomfort and distress their built environment. A novel methodological framework was developed it principles participatory backcasting approach homeostasis. Thirty households Mumbai's slum housing were interviewed...
Public perception of emerging climate technologies, such as greenhouse gas removal (GGR) and solar radiation management (SRM), will strongly influence their future development deployment. Studying perceptions these technologies with traditional survey methods is challenging, because they are largely unknown to the public. Social media data provides a complementary line evidence by allowing for retrospective analysis how individuals share unsolicited opinions. Our large-scale, comparative...
This study explores the effect of slum rehabilitation on appliance ownership and its implications residential electricity demand. The low-income scenario makes it unique because entire proposition is based importance non-income drivers that includes effects changing built environment (BE), household practices (HP) appliances characteristics (AC). demonstrates quantitatively factors around energy influence ownership, therefore consumption. methodology consists questionnaire design across...
Abstract The building and construction sector accounts for around 39% of global carbon dioxide emissions remains a hard-to-abate sector. We use data-driven analysis high-level climate action on reduction in the using 256,717 English-language tweets across 13-year time frame (2009–2021). Using natural language processing network analysis, we show that public sentiments emotions social media are reactive to these policy actions. Between 2009–2012, discussions green building-led emission...
Abstract The ongoing global race for bigger and better artificial intelligence (AI) systems is expected to have a profound societal environmental impact by altering job markets, disrupting business models, enabling new governance welfare structures that can affect consensus climate action pathways. However, the current AI are trained on biased datasets could destabilize political agencies impacting change mitigation adaptation decisions compromise social stability, potentially leading...
Geoengineering techniques such as solar radiation management (SRM) could be part of a future technology portfolio to limit global temperature change. However, there is public opposition research and deployment SRM technologies. We use 814,924 English-language tweets containing #geoengineering globally over 13 years (2009-2021) explore emotions, perceptions, attitudes toward using natural language processing, deep learning, network analysis. find that specific conspiracy theories influence...
The interaction of energy and buildings institutes a complex socio-technical system that influences the eudemonic well-being occupants. Understanding these drivers become even more necessary in impoverished areas where occupants struggle to avail essential services. literature indicates injustice can be addressed through provisioning comfort, cleanliness, convenience (3Cs) as critical cultural services low-income areas. This study investigates socio-architectural influence for slum...
Text-based data sources like narratives and stories have become increasingly popular as critical insight generator in energy research social science. However, their implications policy application usually remain superficial fail to fully exploit state-of-the-art resources which digital era holds for text analysis. This paper illustrates the potential of deep-narrative analysis using tools from cutting-edge domain computational sciences, notably topic modelling. We argue that a nested...
Scientists have developed a strong consensus that Earth’s climate is changing and human activities play an important role in these changes. However, current research shows the United States, there significant partisan polarization on change its causes, leading to denialism. In this paper, we shed light political social determinants of action. Using May 2022 nationally representative survey American registered voters (n = 2,096), examine multivariate correlates trust university opinions about...
Rural off-grid renewable energy solutions often fail due to uncertainties in household demand, insufficient community engagement, inappropriate financial models and policy inconsistency. Social shaping of technology (SST) appliances provides a critical lens understanding the involved socio-technical drivers behind these constraints. This study employs an SST investigate appliance uptake 14,580 households Rwanda, such that can aid design for green growth at grassroots level. The methodology...
Free riders, who benefit from collective efforts to mitigate climate change but do not actively contribute, play a key role in shaping behavioral action. Using sample of 2096 registered American voters, we explore the discrepancy between two groups free riders: cynics, recognize significance environmental issues adopt sustainable behaviors, and doubters, neither nor engage such actions. Through statistical analyses, show these are different. Doubters predominantly male, younger, with lower...
A global transition toward a sustainable energy system, incorporating for example Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs), is essential decarbonizing electricity production, meeting demands, and mitigating the impacts of climate change. However, growing scale renewable development has exacerbated local environmental social challenges; improper assessment RETs led to recorded conflicts resource injustice in transitioning communities. The purpose this study analyze cases resulting conflict...