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Neocolonial or not?
Published in Sharlissa Moore, Sustainable Energy Transformations, Power, and Politics, 2018
In spite of Morocco’s focus on increasing its energy independence, I found that Moroccan government officials largely supported regional electricity integration. I found strong support in my interviews for the eventual export of renewable energy from Morocco to Europe, provided that export offers value-added for Morocco’s development of a national innovation system and that there is a just process for developing plans for regional integration. Many Moroccan officials I interviewed saw regional integration as a facet of energy security and of sustainable development. Many interviewees viewed Morocco as unfairly excluded from European electricity markets, especially since Morocco generates electrons that are compatible with the EU’s grid. The outcomes of the envisioned regional electricity system related to politics and justice are dependent on the development of a just integration procedure. Capacity building that enables less powerful countries to avoid coercion is a prerequisite to achieving just regional integration. The development of North-South partnership on energy research projects would be an important step toward the initiation of a Mediterranean electricity integration process that is not based on coercion but on procedural justice.
Ultraviolet irradiation of crumb rubber on mechanical performance and mechanism of rubberised asphalt
Published in Road Materials and Pavement Design, 2019
Y. Xiang, Y. Xie, G. Long, L. Zeng
Infrastructures under interconnection and intercommunication conditions are essential for regional integration development. In order to promote economic development in western China and strengthen transportation in central and western regions, China is building a dense road network and meanwhile the ministry of transport is vigorously promoting recycling resources and western communications constructions, thus, crumb rubber (CR)-modified asphalt (AR) pavement has accumulated a considerable amount of engineering practices within western China in recent years. Wasted ground tyres are once regarded as a kind of “black pollution”, but now these tyres could be processed to prepare CR for enhancing road performances of AR pavement (Navarro, Partal, Martínez-Boza, & Gallegos, 2010; Singh, Kumar, Gupta, Chauhan, & Chauhan, 2013; Ziari, Goli, & Amini, 2016). Nevertheless, because of the high altitude in western China, the intensity of ultraviolet irradiation is very strong which makes AR pavement surface aging, leads to accrue damages and diseases and eventually weakens road performances and shortens the service life.
A new water management model and the role of IWRA in water disputes
Published in Water International, 2021
The synergistic water management model brings with it the need for an enabler: a resources-based, regional integration. Regional integration includes mapping regional primary resources, such as water, energy, mineral, land and others, to optimize resource use and management across the region and to allow the sharing of benefits and the complementary exchange and trade of the resources. Such a model will transform water management from a sectoral resource into a multisectoral resource and from a competitive platform into a regionally focused synergistic model that plays a role in regional development and contributes to economic and human security.