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impacts of personal spending patterns and lifestyle choices, via demands of
resources of particular services and goods, is seriously impacting the urban environment [1, 14]. To maintain the resource consumption, resource productivity, as well
as resource intensity, it is necessary to investigate the pattern of consumption that is
associated with resources to the economic, social, and environmental effects at the
context or scale where rural area is the best option in comparison to the urban area.
Hence, the initial world scientific evaluation on the effects of production and consumption was published in 2019 by the International Resource Panel of United
Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), which recognized the priority actions
for both urban and rural areas and the findings of the study indicated that consumption by household associated with energy using, food, shelter, and mobility products
is the major cause of life cycle effects of consumption and generates limited level of
the existing natural resources in rural area [24, 33]. As a result, to safeguard these
natural resources through the implementation of basic principles of complex ecological issues, it is necessary to undertake deurbanization and rural development to
encounter challenges generated internationally through increasing urbanization and
ecological degradation.
Energy
Significant advancement is being carried out in the transition of energy from fossil
fuels to environmentally friendly sustainable energy systems where rural areas are
having the most advantageous role in comparison to urban area. As a result, changes
that need to be made on the present-day conventional energy consumption will be
not only on how energy is supplied, but also on how it is used, and it is important to
reduce the volume of energy needed to deliver different goods and/or services.
Thus, stabilizing and decreasing the emissions of CO 2 simply requires energy efficiency and renewable energy to remain as the “twin pillars” of environmental sustainability where rural area can be the best option to support decreasing of CO 2
emission. Based on the current historical examination, the growth rate in the demand
of energy has generally overtaken the rate of enhancements in energy efficiency [2,
31]. This is because of the ongoing population in urban area. Consequently, aggregate use of energy as well as correlated emissions of carbon have constantly
increased, which ultimately causes deadly climate changes. As a consequence, supplies of renewable and sustainable energy which is more easily abundant in rural
area would be an exigent demand to alleviate global energy demand and mitigate
climate change crisis. Therefore, clean and renewable energy (and energy efficiency) are no longer niche sectors that are promoted only by governments and
environmentalists; it must be promoted by the private sector by increasing the levels
of investment for confirming a clean and green earth and here rural development can
play a vital role.
Simply, to achieve a clean world, it is essential to look after the sustainable and
renewable energy sector through application technology, carrying out advanced
15 Deurbanization and Rural Development
impacts of personal spending patterns and lifestyle choices, via demands of
resources of particular services and goods, is seriously impacting the urban environment [1, 14]. To maintain the resource consumption, resource productivity, as well
as resource intensity, it is necessary to investigate the pattern of consumption that is
associated with resources to the economic, social, and environmental effects at the
context or scale where rural area is the best option in comparison to the urban area.
Hence, the initial world scientific evaluation on the effects of production and consumption was published in 2019 by the International Resource Panel of United
Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), which recognized the priority actions
for both urban and rural areas and the findings of the study indicated that consumption by household associated with energy using, food, shelter, and mobility products
is the major cause of life cycle effects of consumption and generates limited level of
the existing natural resources in rural area [24, 33]. As a result, to safeguard these
natural resources through the implementation of basic principles of complex ecological issues, it is necessary to undertake deurbanization and rural development to
encounter challenges generated internationally through increasing urbanization and
ecological degradation.
Energy
Significant advancement is being carried out in the transition of energy from fossil
fuels to environmentally friendly sustainable energy systems where rural areas are
having the most advantageous role in comparison to urban area. As a result, changes
that need to be made on the present-day conventional energy consumption will be
not only on how energy is supplied, but also on how it is used, and it is important to
reduce the volume of energy needed to deliver different goods and/or services.
Thus, stabilizing and decreasing the emissions of CO 2 simply requires energy efficiency and renewable energy to remain as the “twin pillars” of environmental sustainability where rural area can be the best option to support decreasing of CO 2
emission. Based on the current historical examination, the growth rate in the demand
of energy has generally overtaken the rate of enhancements in energy efficiency [2,
31]. This is because of the ongoing population in urban area. Consequently, aggregate use of energy as well as correlated emissions of carbon have constantly
increased, which ultimately causes deadly climate changes. As a consequence, supplies of renewable and sustainable energy which is more easily abundant in rural
area would be an exigent demand to alleviate global energy demand and mitigate
climate change crisis. Therefore, clean and renewable energy (and energy efficiency) are no longer niche sectors that are promoted only by governments and
environmentalists; it must be promoted by the private sector by increasing the levels
of investment for confirming a clean and green earth and here rural development can
play a vital role.
Simply, to achieve a clean world, it is essential to look after the sustainable and
renewable energy sector through application technology, carrying out advanced
15 Deurbanization and Rural Development