Search or add a thesis

Advanced Search (Beta)
Home > Household Energy Demand in Pakistan the Role Climate Change and Demographic Transition

Household Energy Demand in Pakistan the Role Climate Change and Demographic Transition

Thesis Info

Access Option

External Link

Author

Misbah Aslam

Program

PhD

Institute

Quaid-I-Azam University

City

Islamabad

Province

Islamabad.

Country

Pakistan

Thesis Completing Year

2019

Thesis Completion Status

Completed

Subject

Economics

Language

English

Link

http://prr.hec.gov.pk/jspui/bitstream/123456789/11937/1/Misbah%20aslam%20economics%202019%20qau%20isb%20prr.pdf

Added

2021-02-17 19:49:13

Modified

2024-03-24 20:25:49

ARI ID

1676724748169

Asian Research Index Whatsapp Chanel
Asian Research Index Whatsapp Chanel

Join our Whatsapp Channel to get regular updates.

Similar


This research consists of closely interlinked studies evaluating household energy consumption in relation to demographic transitions, income and price elasticities, and global climate change. First, we examine the impact of ageing and generational effects on household energy consumption behavior. Demographic shift is a worldwide phenomenon, which is mainly common among industrialized nations. However, in the age of fast technology transfer and globalization policy makers cannot undervalue population aging in developing countries, like Pakistan. The relationship between population aging and energy demand has gained importance in Pakistan during the recent times. On the basis of a detailed analysis of micro data spanning over period of 16 years, this study explores the role of generational behavior towards energy consumption, while considering the effects of cohort and age, along with other determinants of energy demand. The decomposition of energy consumption exhibits significant differences in cohort and age effects. The study concludes that, in addition to aging effects, policy makers cannot ignore the recent generation‘s trends of spending increasingly more on energy than previous generations. Secondly, we present a thorough analysis evaluating income and price elasticities of energy demand at household level. For this purpose micro data based on eight independent household surveys spanned over the period of 16 years from 2001 to 2016 are used. We apply pseudo-panel approach by creating 1200 cohorts based on different factors, such as region (urban or rural), climatic zone, the months, and the income deciles. The study reports a relatively higher own price elasticities and these clearly illustrate a decline in the household electricity usage with any increase in the electricity prices. Therefore, any national policies that tend to increase electricity price would curb the overall usage of household electricity. Our estimated cross price elasticities tell that electricity are substitute for gas and firewood in Pakistan. Further, we used quantile regression to explore the relationship between energy consumption and predictors at the middle and both ends of the distribution (20th and 80th percentiles). The results indicate that elasticities are significantly different at different levels of electricity usage. We also estimated electricity elasticities across different heterogeneous groups of households as low, middle, and high income households and rural versus urban households. Our results indicate that electricity demand among low income group is more price elastic than among the high income group. Furthermore, electricity demand in rural areas is more price elastic than in urban areas. Therefore, any policies induced in the energy sector might entail significant redistributive effects. Our findings also unveil that how different income groups heterogeneously respond to any changes in energy price and income. In particular, the rural households are strongly responsive to price changes, while the urban households are responsive to income changes. Finally, in the context of global warming, we examine the impact of climate change on household energy consumption. This study focuses on energy consumption patterns of Pakistani households and further examines the relationship between climatic temperature and the usage of electricity while taking into account the purchase of cooling and heating equipment. We compile household level pseudo-panel data for Pakistan by employing repeated cross sections from 200102 to 2013-14. The direct effects of climatic temperature‘s on electricity consumption are determined by estimating the usage of cooling/heating appliances and indirect effects are determined by estimating the purchases and adaptation of additional cooling/heating appliances. We report substantial differences amongst different climatic zones in terms of their appliances adoption and electricity consumption patterns in relation to climatic temperature changes. The findings of our study can be used to guide policy makers towards adopting some better and a prosperous future plans for the energy sector. These plans will be based on sustainable projects which will tackle the challenges of global warming and climate changes, especially pertaining to diverse climatic-based geographical regions of Pakistan.
Loading...
Loading...

Similar Books

Loading...

Similar Chapters

Loading...

Similar News

Loading...

Similar Articles

Loading...

Similar Article Headings

Loading...

مصر، معیشت اور مطلق العنانیت

مصر ،معیشت اور مطلق العنانیت

میں اور دکتور محمود قاہرہ یونیورسٹی سے کبری الجامعہ کی طرف گامزن تھے کہ سڑک کے کنارے ایک ادھیڑ عمر کا آدمی دیکھا جس کا چہرہ غربت اور معاشی بد حالی کا منہ بولتا ثبوت تھا ۔ موصوف سڑک پر جھاڑو لگا رہا تھا اور بہت سارا کچرا اس کے ناتواں ہاتھوں سے زیادہ کمزور تیلی دار جھاڑو سے اس طرح واپس نکل رہا تھا جس طرح ارنسٹ ہمینگوے کے ناول ’’اولڈ مین اینڈ سی ‘‘ کے مرکزی کردار مچھیرے کے سمندر میں پھینکے ہوئے جال سے نکلتا ہوا پانی ۔میں نے  دکتور محمود کو کہا تمھاری حکومت اس آدمی کو جتنی تنخواہ دے رہی ہے اس میں ایسے ہی کام کی گنجائش نکلتی ہے ۔ مصر کی معاشی حالت اور یہاں کے مزدور کی اوقات کی تلخی کو مدِ نظر رکھ کر میں نے پوچھا کہ تمھارے حکمران بھی تو ساٹھ عشرے میں اشتراکی تھے ، جواب دیا جی بالکل ۔اس نے کہا روس سے مراسم ہی کی وجہ سے یہا ں پر پین عرب ازم اور مصری تہذیب کو زیادہ اجاگر کیا جاتا رہا ہے ۔میں نے کہا شاید اس لیے یہاں کے چوراہوں پر ابوالہول براجمان ہے اور پوری مصری قوم اس آس پر بیٹھی ہے کہ پنجوں پر کھڑا ابوالہول ایک نہ ایک دن اٹھے گا اور مصر ترقی کی شاہرہ پر گامزن ہو گا اور صرف یہ نہیں بلکہ مصریوں کے بیٹوں کو قتل کر نے والے رعمسیس کے نام پر ایک بڑی شاہرہ اور چوک کے نام بھی قاہرہ شہر میں رکھے گئے ۔ دکتور محمود مصر کے سیاسی حالات سے گفتگو کو موڑتے ہوئے مجھ سے پوچھتے ہیں کہ اشتراکیوں کی زندگی کیسے گزرتی ہے ۔میں نے کہا آئیڈیل کی تلاش میں گھٹ گھٹ کر ۔میں نے بات پھر مصر کی طرف...

The Circumstances Where the Quantum of Punishment Prescribed by Islam for Certain Crimes Can Be Reduced or Enhanced

The crime of theft if committed in unavoidable circumstances like extreme hunger or famine, Hadd punishment shall remain suspended. A crime of Zina if committed in a situation where the life of a woman is in danger because of hunger or thirst and she committed Zina to acquire food items or drinking water to save her life, she will be exonerated from the charges of Zina. In the light of Quranic injunctions, the punishment of a slave girl, if she committed Zina, is half as compare to independent women and the punishment for the wives of the Holy Prophet for committing the crime of fawahish or disobedience (Nushuz), is double as compare to other women. 4. Contrary to this principle, if a respectable person committed crimes under Tazir, he deserves lesser punishment or mere admonition in the light of tradition of the Holy Prophet: (Pardon the wrong done by the nobles of the society”.5. For awarding the punishment of Rajm, if the condition of Ihsan is fulfilled, he/she will be killed by stoning. According to Shiah Imamiah, Allama Rasheed Raza and others, when a person who is once married but due to divorce or separation, is living alone or miles away from his wife and not in a position to enjoy her company. If such person committed Zin┐, he or she will not be awarded the punishment of stoning.6. In the light of tradition, it is not allowed to award death punishment except the following three circumstances. Firstly, if a person, being a Mohsan, committed Zina, . Secondly, after accepting Islam, if a person converted to other religion. Thirdly, death punishment can be awarded in retaliation of murder committed

Fabrication & Characterization of Titania-Germanium Tio2-Ge Based Nanocomposites.

Composite nano-films of TiO2-Ge were grown by ‘pulsed laser deposition’ (PLD) technique on Si wafers while deposition conditions were changed. Firstly single run deposition for a longer time (30 min) with varying Ge concentration in N and p-type polished Si wafers. Secondly films were deposited as single, bi- and tri-layers on n-type polished and unpolished Si wafers such that each layer was deposited for 5 mins. In the first batch of samples target-substrate distance was varied to find its effect on optoelectronic properties of film. It was observed that Ge concentration decreased as target-substrate separation was increased. Also substrate type and separation between target and substrate effected the crystallinity, optical & electrical response of film. On p-type (111) Si wafer thin films showed dominant amorphous behaviour with decreasing Ge concentration. Thin films deposited on Si wafer showed an improvement in crystallinity as target-substrate distance was increased resulting in decrease in crystallite size, increase in defects and strains. Raman spectroscopic results and EDX analysis confirmed the Ge presence in all the samples. Ge identification in Raman and its non-identification through XRD may possibly be due to non-crystalline nature of Ge. Composite nature was identified by the Ge peak related to cubic structure rather than tetragonal (i.e. did not follow crystalline structure of TiO2) i.e. no doping occurred. Films grown at a distance of 6 cm from the target showed better optoelectronic properties which exhibited minimum reflectance but maximum direct and indirect absorption transitions it is also confirmed by its photoluminescence (PL) response. It has a constant refractive index with a stable extinction coefficient. This film demonstrated a positive dielectric constant and a negligible dielectric loss confirming its stable optoelectronic behaviour which was confirmed by its I-V response. Better optoelectronic response for the above mentioned film can be positively due to strains and size reduction of crystallite size. In the second batch of experiment single, di- and tri-layered composite films were grown on polished and n-type unpolished Si (100) wafer. Amorphous nature was observed dominantly in all the samples. Di-layered film deposited on polished n-type Si wafer showed a better optical response which is due to minimum variation in its n. Maximum direct and indirect transitions are also observed in it and a broad PL peak is observed around 2-3.5 eV. Although it does not show better electrical properties as compared to tri-layered thin films but overall optoelectronic response of this film is better as compared to other samples. The reason may be the outcome of crystalline nature of film. Thin films (for 5 min) shows reduced crystallinity and hence optoelectronic response in comparison to that for 30 min, this variance can be attributed to the reduced thickness of film. Single layer film has variable n responsible for lower dielectric constant and hence lowest electrical response.