Center for Sustainable Development: Recent submissions
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Instruments of energy subsidy reforms in Arab countries — The case of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries
( Elsevier , 2020 , Conference)© 2019 Energy subsidies can account for a large share of government expenditures in some GCC countries. In light of fiscal imbalances since 2014, these countries have reiterated their intention to decrease subsidies and ... -
Water‐Energy‐Food Security Nexus in the Eastern Nile Basin: Assessing the Potential of Transboundary Regional Cooperation
( John Wiley & Sons, Inc , 2017 , Book chapter)With increasing demands and pressures on energy, food, and water resources in the region of the Eastern Nile basin, development projects and also potential for conflict along the Nile waters have increased. This study ... -
Urban Climate Change Vulnerability, Responses, and Policies in Qatar: An Assessment
( Springer Nature , 2018 , Book chapter)Urban climate change policies are critical for reducing carbon emissions and increasing societal resilience to future risks. This is especially true for the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) which are arid ... -
Beyond the pledges: reflections on sustainability transitions in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)The adoption of the SDGs is a step, not a success. (James 2015) On 1 January 2016, 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) paving the way towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development became effective, after being ... -
Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development
( Springer Nature , 2018 , Book chapter)With changing and mounting pressures on environmental resources due to economic and demographic developments, environmental policymaking is a wide and continuously growing field. The birth hour of modern environmental ... -
Community-based adaptation to climate change in Egypt-status quo and future policies
( Springer , 2017 , Book chapter)For many of Egypt's communities, climate change represent an increasing threat to development and livelihoods that remains underrepresented in terms of policies and strategies. The vulnerability of communities in agricultural ... -
A quest for the Arabian atom? Geopolitics, security, and national identity in the nuclear energy programs in the Middle East
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Nuclear energy programs are currently under formalization in countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), with the first power plants in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) due to be operational in 2020, and Saudi Arabia's ... -
Green Climate Fund (GCF): Role, Capacity Building, and Directions as a Catalyst for Climate Finance
( Springer, Cham , 2019 , Book chapter)The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is one of the several special climate change funds that have been established under Article 11 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These funds aim to finance ... -
Balancing the benefits from the water–energy–land–food nexus through agroforestry in the Sahel
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article Review)Regions affected by resource scarcity, poverty, and land-use conflicts need to advocate the merits of practices strongly grounded in sustainable land management. This review paper provides an analysis of agroforestry as ... -
Urban water pricing in Yemen: a comparison of increasing block tariffs to other pricing schemes
( Routledge , 2017 , Article)This study examines the viability of increasing block tariffs (IBTs) to achieve the right balance between efficiency, financial requirements and equity, and compares them to alternative pricing schemes. Using numerical ... -
Comparison between Thermo-Alkaline and Electro-Fenton Disintegration Effect on Waste Activated Sludge Anaerobic Digestion
( Hindawi Limited , 2019 , Article)Disintegration of municipal waste activated sludge (WAS) using thermo-alkaline (TA) and electro-Fenton (EF) methods was investigated and compared in terms of the efficiency of sludge solubilisation and enhancement of ... -
Optimization of iron dosage for microalgal biomass production as a feedstock for biofuel
( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2019 , Article)Summary: Biomass and metabolite production of three marine (Tetraselmis sp., Nannochloropsis sp., Chlorocystis sp.) and three freshwater microalgae (Scenedesmus sp., Chlorella sp., Monoraphidium sp.) were studied under ... -
Concretizing green growth and sustainable business models in the water sector of Jordan
( MDPI AG , 2019 , Article)The green growth paradigm has gained much attention from various governments worldwide as a guiding strategy for national and sectoral growth strategies. There is, however, little knowledge on how to integrate green growth ... -
Effect of harvesting methods on the energy requirement of Tetraselmis sp. biomass production and biocrude yield and quality
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)A halo-tolerant Tetraselmis sp. was grown in a 100,000 L raceway pond in the Qatari desert environment. As the biomass density reached 0.679 g/L, after 7 days, five different harvesting methods (i.e., cross-flow filtration, ... -
Microalgal nutrients recycling from the primary effluent of municipal wastewater and use of the produced biomass as bio-fertilizer
( Center for Environmental and Energy Research and Studies , 2019 , Article)Availability of N, P and other trace metals in municipal wastewater (MWW) makes it very attractive to produce microalgae biomass using MWW. Although limited organic carbon is available in MWW, supplementing flue gas as CO2 ... -
Potential of novel desert microalgae and cyanobacteria for commercial applications and CO2 sequestration
( Springer Netherlands , 2019 , Article)CO2 fixation by phototrophic microalgae and cyanobacteria is seen as a possible global carbon emissions reducer; however, novel microalgae and cyanobacterial strains with tolerance to elevated temperatures and CO2 ... -
Enzymatic pre-hydrolysis of organic fraction of municipal solid waste to enhance anaerobic digestion
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)Enzymatic pretreatment was proposed to enhance the anaerobic digestion of Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW). Enzyme cocktails were produced at laboratory scale from Aspergillus niger fermentation on wheat ... -
Thermal modeling and optimization of microalgal biomass production in the harsh desert conditions of State of Qatar
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)Microalgal culture in solar conditions raises several challenges, especially in the harsh desert areas of the Middle East where microalgal culture is a valuable candidate for biomass production on non-arable land. Here we ... -
Hydrothermal liquefaction of marine microalgae biomass using co-solvents
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of microalgae biomass is a promising conversion technology in which wet biomass is treated under high temperature (280–350 °C) and pressure (5–21 MPa), and the associated water in the wet ... -
Microalgal bioremediation of petroleum-derived low salinity and low pH produced water
( Springer Netherlands , 2019 , Article)Due to the presence of toxic organic compounds and heavy metals, it is essential to treat the produced water before reuse or discharge to the environment. In this study, produced water sample was collected from a local ...
