Version 1
: Received: 9 May 2019 / Approved: 10 May 2019 / Online: 10 May 2019 (14:31:53 CEST)
How to cite:
Niankara, I. The Impact of Youth's Biospheric Interests on their Awareness and Expectations about Nuclear Power Technology in the United Arab Emirates. Preprints2019, 2019050127. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201905.0127.v1
Niankara, I. The Impact of Youth's Biospheric Interests on their Awareness and Expectations about Nuclear Power Technology in the United Arab Emirates. Preprints 2019, 2019050127. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201905.0127.v1
Niankara, I. The Impact of Youth's Biospheric Interests on their Awareness and Expectations about Nuclear Power Technology in the United Arab Emirates. Preprints2019, 2019050127. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201905.0127.v1
APA Style
Niankara, I. (2019). The Impact of Youth's Biospheric Interests on their Awareness and Expectations about Nuclear Power Technology in the United Arab Emirates. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201905.0127.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Niankara, I. 2019 "The Impact of Youth's Biospheric Interests on their Awareness and Expectations about Nuclear Power Technology in the United Arab Emirates" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201905.0127.v1
Abstract
Relying on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) extract from the cross-national data sample on the environmental affection and cognition of adolescent students, and seemingly unrelated bivariate weighted ordered probit regression modeling, this study adopts a national perspective to investigate the determinants of adolescent students' awareness and expectations about nuclear power technology and nuclear waste in the UAE. Identification of model parameters is achieved through maximum simulated likelihood estimation. The findings show that each level increase in UAE youth's interest in ecosystem services and sustainability raises their awareness of nuclear electrical power and nuclear waste by 13.5%, while reducing by 2.4% their level of optimism towards the technology. Furthermore, we find significant heterogeneity in youth awareness and expectations about nuclear power technology across the seven Emirates. Accounting for all other factors (including interest in ecosystem services), UAE youth awareness about nuclear electrical power technology appears to not significantly influence their expectations about the evolution of this technology for the next 20 years. Given that the UAE first nuclear power plant ``Barakah'' is scheduled to start operations end of 2019 beginning 2020, and the typical long life-span of nuclear wastes, our results provide important insights for developing sustainable nuclear energy policies and establishing a long-term nuclear energy program in the UAE.
Clean Energy Production; Nuclear Awareness; Nuclear Electrical Power; Nuclear Optimism; Nuclear Waste; Sustainable Development
Subject
Business, Economics and Management, Econometrics and Statistics
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
