Ki‐Hyun Kim, Ehsanul Kabir, Shamin Kabir
Particulate matter (PM) is a key indicator of air pollution brought into the air by a variety of natural and human activities. As it can be suspended over long time and travel over long distances in the atmosphere, it can cause a wide range of diseases that lead to a significant reduction of human l...
Ehsanul Kabir, Pawan Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Adedeji A. Adelodun et al.
M. Mofijur, I.M. Rizwanul Fattah, Md. Asraful Alam, A. B. M. Saiful Islam et al.
COVID-19 has heightened human suffering, undermined the economy, turned the lives of billions of people around the globe upside down, and significantly affected the health, economic, environmental and social domains. This study aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 o...
Ruhul Salim, Shuddhasattwa Rafiq
Muntasir Murshed
Energy security and environmental sustainability have become an integral policy agenda worldwide whereby the global economic growth policies are being restructured to ensure the reliability of energy supply and safeguard environmental well-being as well. However, technological inefficiency is one of...
Pallab Mozumder, Achla Marathe
Soumya Mandal, Barun K. Das, Najmul Hoque
This study investigates the potential application of hybridized energy system (i.e., PV/Wind/Diesel) with battery storage in the northern region of Bangladesh. A techno-economic feasibility of different system configurations is evaluated and an optimized system is selected using HOMER (Hybrid Optimi...
Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Ismat Ara Begum, Jeroen Buysse, Guido Van Huylenbroeck
Douglas F. Barnes, Shahidur R. Khandker, Hussain A. Samad
Solomon Prince Nathaniel, Ogochukwu Christiana Anyanwu, Muhammad Ibrahim Shah
The countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have the greatest potential for renewable energy consumption in the world and is likely to be the most vulnerable to the horrendous effects of climate change. Unfortunately, only a few of the countries have tapped into this potential, a...
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Puneet Dwivedi, Rob Bailis, Lynn M. Hildemann et al.
Biomass combustion with traditional cookstoves causes substantial environmental and health harm. Nontraditional cookstove technologies can be efficacious in reducing this adverse impact, but they are adopted and used at puzzlingly low rates. This study analyzes the determinants of low demand for non...
Barun K. Das, Najmul Hoque, Soumya Mandal, Tapas Pal et al.
Mohammad Mafizur Rahman, Khosrul Alam
Environmental problem is a much discussed issue worldwide. It is a more serious issue for Bangladesh, which is vulnerable to frequent natural disasters. Therefore, this work aims to identify the short-run and long-run causal relationships between clean energy, population density, urbanization, econo...
Rebecca J. Sheesley, James J. Schauer, Zohir Chowdhury, Glen R. Cass et al.
Throughout South Asia biomass is commonly used as a fuel source for cooking and heating homes. The smoke from domestic use of these fuels is expected to be a major source of atmospheric particulate matter in the region and needs to be characterized for input in regional source apportionment models a...
Most. Asikha Aktar, Md. Mahmudul Alam, Abul Quasem Al‐Amin
The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as one of the deadliest infectious diseases on the planet. Millions of people and businesses have been placed in lockdown where the main aim is to stop the spread of the virus. As an extreme phenomenon, the lockdown has triggered a global economic shock at an alarmi...