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Statistical Applications and Data Analysis for Sustainable Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

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Dear Colleagues,

Sustainability is running a Special Issue on the topic “Statistical Applications and Data Analysis for Sustainable Development”. In the context of energy transition, the integration of renewables into different sectors has become a relevant topic of interest in recent years. According to the United Nations, new and traditional data sources are also being integrated to produce high-quality, detailed, timely, and relevant information to foster and monitor sustainable development. Under this framework, alternative statistical applications and relevant data analysis are crucial to provide new studies for future power systems and sustainable development scenarios, where the presence of renewables is required by all sectors. In addition, an important variety of statistical analysis tools and data mining approaches are currently available, supported by significant research communities and addressing a broad area of analysis, algorithms, statistical approaches, and practical applications.

Topics of interest for this Issue include but are not limited to the following areas:

  • Indicators for sustainable development;
  • Statistical machine learning methods for sustainable development;
  • Reliability studies toward sustainable development scenarios;
  • Review/overview of sustainability assessment methodologies and statistics;
  • Sensitivity analysis techniques for sustainable development;
  • Monitoring/data analysis and case studies;
  • New trends in statistics analysis and data mining for sustainable development;
  • Statistical analysis for sustainable renewable energy development.

Dr. María C. Bueso
Prof. Dr. Ángel Molina-García
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Keywords

  • data analysis
  • data measurement
  • data types
  • data collection
  • machine learning
  • statistical analysis and methods
  • sustainable development

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Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change and Human Activities on Runoff Using Climate Elasticity Method and General Circulation Model (GCM) in the Buqtyrma River Basin, Kazakhstan
by Moldir Rakhimova, Tie Liu, Sanim Bissenbayeva, Yerbolat Mukanov, Khusen Sh. Gafforov, Zhuldyzay Bekpergenova and Aminjon Gulakhmadov
Sustainability 2020, 12(12), 4968; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su12124968 - 18 Jun 2020
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The variations of climate and water resources in the Buqtyrma River Basin (BRB), which is located at the cross-section of the Altai Mountains, Eurasian Steppe and Tian Shan Mountains, have a great significance for agriculture and ecosystems in the region. Changing climatic conditions [...] Read more.
The variations of climate and water resources in the Buqtyrma River Basin (BRB), which is located at the cross-section of the Altai Mountains, Eurasian Steppe and Tian Shan Mountains, have a great significance for agriculture and ecosystems in the region. Changing climatic conditions will change the hydrological cycle in the whole basin. In this study, we examined the historical trends and change points of the climate and hydrological variables, the contributions of climate change and human activities to runoff changes, and the relative changes in the runoff to the precipitation and potential evapotranspiration from 1950 to 2015 by using the Mann–Kendall trend test, Pettitt test, double cumulative curve and elasticities methods. In addition, a multi-model ensemble (MME) of the six general circulation models (GCMs) for two future periods (2036–2065 and 2071–2100) was assessed to estimate the spatio-temporal variations in precipitation and temperature under two representative concentration pathways (RCPs 4.5 and 8.5) scenarios. Our study detected that the runoff change-point occurred in 1982. The impacts induced by climate change on runoff change were as follows—70% in the upstream, 62.11% in the midstream and 15.34% in the downstream area. The impacts of human activity on runoff change were greater in the downstream area (84.66%) than in the upstream and midstream areas. A continuously increasing trend was indicated regarding average annual temperature under RCP 4.5 (from 0.37 to 0.33 °C/decade) and under RCP 8.5 (from 0.50 to 0.61 °C/decade) during two future periods. Additionally, an increasing trend in predicted precipitation was exhibited under RCP 4.5 (13.6% and 19.9%) and under RCP 8.5 (10.5% and 18.1%) during both future periods. The results of the relative runoff changes to the predicted precipitation and potential evapotranspiration were expected to increase during two future time periods under RCP 4.5 (18.53% and 25.40%) and under RCP 8.5 (8.91% and 13.38%) relative to the base period. The present work can provide a reference for the utilization and management of regional water resources and for ecological environment protection. Full article
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