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Table 14 ISED classified according to the indirect, direct driving force, and state [46]

From: Sustainability indices for energy utilization using a multi-criteria decision model

Indirect driving force

Direct driving force

State

1. Population: total; urban

14. Energy use per unit of GDP

16. Energy use per capita

2. GDP per capita

15. Expenditure on energy sector: total investments, environmental control, hydrocarbon exploration and development, R&D, net energy import expenses

17. Indigenous energy production

3. End-use energy prices with and without tax/subsidy

21. Fraction of disposal income spent on fuels (total population, 20% poorest)

18. Net energy import dependence

4. Shares of sectors in GDP value added

23. Quantities of air pollutant emissions—sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrous oxides (NOx), particulates, CO2, volatile organic compounds (VOC)

22. Fraction of households: heavily dependent on non-commercial energy; without electricity

5. Distance traveled per capita: total, by urban public transport mode

26. Quantities of greenhouse gas emissions

24. Ambient concentration of pollutants in urban areas: SO2, NOx, suspended particulates, CO2, ozone

6. Freight transport activity: total, by mode

27. Radionuclides in atmospheric radioactive discharges

25. Land area where acidification exceeds critical load

7. Floor area per capita

28. Discharges into water basins: waste/storm water, radionuclides, oil into coastal waters

30. Accumulated quantity of solid wastes to be managed

8. Manufacturing value added by selected energy intensive industries

29. Generation of solid waste

32. Quantity of accumulated radioactive wastes awaiting disposal

9. Energy intensity: manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, commercial and public services, residential sector

31. Generation of radioactive waste

34. Fatalities due to accidents with breakdown by fuel chains

10. Final energy intensity of selected energy intensive products

33. Land area taken up by energy facilities and infrastructure

37. Life time of proven fossil fuel reserves

11. Energy mix: final energy, electricity generation, and primary energy supply

35. Fraction of technically exploitable capability of hydropower currently not in use

39. Life time of proven uranium reserves

12. Energy supply efficiency: fossil fuel efficiency for electricity generation

36. Proven recoverable fossil fuel reserves

41. Rate of deforestation

13. Status of deployment of pollution abatement technologies: extent of use, average performance

38. Proven uranium reserves

 

19. Income inequality

40. Intensity of use of forest resources as fuelwood

 

20. Ratio of daily disposable income/private consumption per capita of 20% poorest population to the prices of electricity and major household fuels

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