Abstract Entangled by a web-like pattern of rivers and rivulets, Nepal’s energy sector currently is dominated hydroelectricity which sustains major portion the country’s economy. But still, after more than hundred years its operation, sector’s dependence on imports uncanny. This not only upsizes project cost but also time human resources. The research, therefore, aims to aid cause examining pro...

To achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs), it is necessary to solve the problem of assessing and measuring energy sustainability performance. A popular indicator used for this purpose World Energy Council (WEC) index, or Trilemma Index, which based on such key metrics as security, equity, environmental sustainability, country context. Each four metrics, dimensions, includes many indicator...

L IKE A FIRE-AND-BRIMSTONE PREACHER, NATHAN S. Lewis has been giving a lecture on the energy crisis that is both terrifying and exhilarating. To avoid potentially debilitating global warming, the chemist from the California Institute of Technology says civilization must be able to generate more than 10 trillion watts of clean, carbon-free energy by 2050. That level is three times the U.S.’s ave...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for an integrated response, the kind that has defined Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) efforts in the past decade.NTD interventions have the greatest relevance for SDG3, the health goal, where the focus on equity, and its commitment to reaching people in need of health services, wherever they may live and whatever their circumstances, is fundament...

China is home to nearly half of the world’s 50,000 large dams, which provide irrigation, flood protection, and hydroelectricity. Most of these projects involve substantial population displacement, which can disrupt social capital, the webs of interdependence and support that community members maintain with one another through relationships of trust and reciprocity. We use new empirical evidence...

The La Grande River watershed, located in the James Bay region (54°N, Quebec, Canada), is a major contributor to the production of hydroelectricity in the province. Peatlands cover up to 20% of the terrestrial environment in this region. Their hydrological behavior is not well understood. The present study is part of a multidisciplinary project which is aimed at analyzing the hydrological proce...

Known as "Simsar" in Nepal, wetlands are those areas which lie between the land and deepwater and remian waterlogged or submerged under water, seasonally or throughout the year. Generally the land is so muddy that one cannot easily walk over it, and water is so deep that one can neither swim nor get drowned. River floodplains, shallow margins of lakes and reservoirs, shallow and seasonal ponds,...

This research was motivated by the high contribution and growth of CO2 emissions in Asia Pacific. The study aims to analyze influence population, GDP per capita hydroelectricity consumption on environmental degradation 5 Pacific countries using indicators carbon dioxide emissions. method used regression analysis panel data with support EViews 10 software. Data obtained from BP Statistical Revie...

Water warriors: As Brazil has already dammed and utilised its more accessible rivers, new hydroelectricity projects are planned in remote areas including the Amazon rainforests, where they endanger both ecological treasures and the livelihoods of indigenous groups. The photo shows members of the Munduruku tribe, who have recently won a rare success in blocking the fi rst of many reservoirs plan...