Regional Realities (Asynchronous Session)
While We Were Sleeping: A Review of the Potential Effects of the One Belt, One Road Initiative on Sustainability in the Aviation Industry View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Kelly George, Patti Clark
China instigated One Belt, One Road (OBOR) to connect China on a global scale not envisioned since the original Silk Road. The scope of this project includes development of trade routes, communications, cultural exchanges and transportation infrastructure. Twenty-six percent of the megaproject transportation initiatives are in aviation. Several experts forecast the Chinese to surpass the US as the world’s biggest aviation market by 2022. Has the world been asleep at the wheel while this expansion was taking place? Or is the project overly aggressive and will aviation infrastructure constraints will thwart the prediction? Does China have the power to bring aviation market share forecast to fruition? This exploratory research scrutinized the plan, progress, and projections in relation to capacity limitations to provide insight into these questions. The promise of the OBOR initiative is immense, as are the opportunities and risks to sustainable development in the aviation and aerospace industry.
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation for the Mexico City Region: An Integrative Collaborative Approach View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Timothy Downs
All over the world, cities and their surrounding regions – exemplified by Mexico City Region - are already experiencing major impacts of climate change, and these will intensify in the future. They include impacts to water supply and sanitation, food and agriculture, energy systems, critical infrastructure, the economy, livelihoods, property, and other drivers of human health and wellbeing. Not only are these impacts inter-related in complex ways, they vary spatially across populations and landscapes, over time, and tend to magnify existing socio-economic injustices. How can we gauge these impacts? How can we build societal capacity to understand such complex problems and respond to them to mitigate risks, buffer impacts, and reveal and confront inequities/injustices? Using the case of climate change impacts and adaptations for Mexico City region, we present an interdisciplinary, engaged approach to sustainability/climate change resilience research and practice, sharing preliminary findings, processes, and methodologies. Themes include: 1) Ecological realities are exemplified by our definition of the regional study area using hydrological data and land use/land cover (LU/LC) data, as well as population densities; 2) the participation process is framed as a socio-technical capacity building enterprise, with co-created education and knowledge networks playing a central role; 3) the economic, social and cultural contexts directly inform the design of the project, as well as being inputs to coupled human-environment models; 4) education, assessment and policy are conceived as shared stakeholder activities that focus the work and give it meaning.
Mass Concentration and Morphological Analysis of PM10 and PM2.5 Particles During Day Hours and 24 Hours in Congested Road in Muscat, Oman View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Hilal Al Shidi
The study was conducted to evaluate the mass concentration and physicochemical characteristics of PM10 and PM2.5 samples in Muscat. PM10 and PM2.5 samples were collected using the particulates e-sampler from Sultan Qaboos Road, the most congested road with an estimate of 4193 per hour in Muscat, Oman. The average PM10 concentration in Muscat varied from 38.78 µg/m3 during the 24 hours to 32.93 µg/m3 in the day hours. PM2.5 concentration ranged from 20.74 µg/m3 during day hours to 17.85 µg/m3 for 24 hours. However, the estimated Total Suspended Particles varied from 110.93 µg/m3 in 24 hours to 94.19 µg/m3 in the day hours. These results in general reveal how the heavy traffic in day hours contribute largely to the particulate pollution. Average concentrations of PM10 and PM2.5 in Muscat were below NAAQS (2006) and WHO (2005) standards. Scanning Electron Microscopy coupled with energy dispersive spectrometer (SEM-EDS) of PM2.5 particles show spherical like fly ash and chain like soot aggregates with less abundance of irregular shape particles. These might have originated from fuel burning and vehicle emissions. On the other hand, PM10 particles were irregular, chain like soot aggregates and spherical like fly ashes that are referred to originate from natural and anthropogenic emissions. Fe, O and Si are the major components present in the PM2.5 and PM10 particles while other elements are present in lower percentages.
Environment and Economic Sustainability Under the South Korean New Green Growth Deal in Post-Pandemic Scenario: Songdo as a Case Study View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Reazul Ahsan, Kyungsuk Chae, Yoonhwa Song, Eunji Hyun
In Korea, cities have an important role in shaping the modern Korean economy and advancing green growth because over 80% of the population lives in cities. Since 1960 rapid urbanization and industrial growth have gone hand in hand to shape modern Korea. However, COVID-19 changes how Korean Cities are functioning. The First COVID-19 positive case was found on 20th January 2020 and increased exponentially, which shut down Korea's major urban economy. In contrast, the 2nd wave of COVID-19 in August gave the urban residents and the economy a big shake. However, on 14th July, the South Korean Government announced the New Green Deal to kickstart environmentally sustainable economic growth. The New Green Deal will not only focus on the economy but also green urbanism and environmental sustainability. This study aims to assess how the existing urban system and residents can respond to this Green New Deal in this post-pandemic scenario. This study will use Songdo as a case study and use a qualitative approach to conduct the study. Under the qualitative method, this study will use interviews with selected urban communities to assess public response and do a document review to evaluate the government approach to address post-pandemic situations under New Deal to ensure Korea's economic and environmental sustainability.
Toll Road Creates Its Own Vehicles: Qua Vadis the Green Development in Indonesia to Sustainability View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Dodik Siswantoro, Aria Farah Mita, Evony Silvino Violita
The paper aims to analyze the rapid development of toll road in Indonesia as it may not align to green development which reduces Green Houses Gases (GHG). However, this policy would contradict to green campaign and the commitment of the government of Indonesia to reduce Green Houses Gases (GHG) based on Paris agreement. The toll road development may threaten sustainability due to emission by motor vehicles. The research analyzed the toll road data with traffic volume and planned to new road development. It uses secondary data from toll operator and other related data such as carbon emission, and vehicle production. Descriptive analysis applied to explain the related issues in green development and sustainability. Toll road development may cause people to use the private car rather than public transportation such as train which have lower carbon emission. Toll road can be a trigger for the increase of emission as people may be comfortable using private car. Even though the volume of cars may decrease as there were restrictions to heavy toll road repairs, it is only temporary. Thus, comfort factor may result in people’s reluctance to use public transportation. Therefore, the development of a new toll road should be evaluated, and priority and long term goal factors must be given important consideration.
