Developing countries' energy needs and priorities under a sustainable development perspective: A linguistic decision support approach

Karakosta, C; Askounis, D

dc.contributor.author	Karakosta, C	en
dc.contributor.author	Askounis, D	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:33:08Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:33:08Z
dc.date.issued	2010	en
dc.identifier.issn	0973-0826	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/20342
dc.subject	Clean development mechanism	en
dc.subject	Decision support	en
dc.subject	Linguistic variables	en
dc.subject	Sustainable development	en
dc.subject	Technology needs assessments	en
dc.subject	Technology transfer	en
dc.subject.other	clean development mechanism	en
dc.subject.other	climate change	en
dc.subject.other	decision support system	en
dc.subject.other	developing world	en
dc.subject.other	electricity	en
dc.subject.other	energy efficiency	en
dc.subject.other	energy use	en
dc.subject.other	mitigation	en
dc.subject.other	stakeholder	en
dc.subject.other	sustainable development	en
dc.subject.other	technology transfer	en
dc.title	Developing countries' energy needs and priorities under a sustainable development perspective: A linguistic decision support approach	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1016/j.esd.2010.07.008	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2010.07.008	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	2010	en
heal.abstract	Sustainable Development (SD) has been discussed extensively in the theoretical literature since the concept was adopted as an overarching goal of economic, social development and environmental protection. The relationship between SD and climate change is of particular importance to developing countries due to their development process and the particular climate challenges that many of them face. The notion is that strategies pursuing SD and climate change mitigation can be mutually reinforcing. In the frame of climate change, the transfer of low-carbon sustainable technologies could ideally provide a framework of helping developing countries to find new sustainable development paths. The aim of this paper is to present a Linguistic Decision Support Approach, based on the Linguistic Ordered Weighted Averaging (LOWA) operator, with the objective of assessing developing countries' energy service needs and priorities. In our approach, a range of energy services and criteria for the assessment were defined, related stakeholders were also involved so as to identify energy service needs and priorities that are most applicable to the country's sustainable development. In this respect, the approach followed could enhance the so far applied Technology Needs Assessments (TNA) and establish a clear understanding of the host country's overall medium to long-term energy and environmental strategy. The application of the particular approach to cross representative developing countries around the world indicated energy efficiency in industry and electricity for industry as high priority energy services. (C) 2010 International Energy Initiative. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	en
heal.publisher	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV	en
heal.journalName	Energy for Sustainable Development	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.esd.2010.07.008	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000208285200012	en
dc.identifier.volume	14	en
dc.identifier.issue	4	en
dc.identifier.spage	330	en
dc.identifier.epage	338	en