Shamal Chandra Karmaker

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at University of Dhaka

The growing discourse surrounding biomass energy’s environmental ramifications has ignited debate among policymakers. While biomass remains a primary and readily accessible energy source, various studies have extensively examined its implications for health and the economy. However, there is a lack of evidence regarding its role in mitigating clima...

Public investments in research, development, demonstration, and deployment in energy systems are crucial for accelerating the adoption of new energy technologies that can support a low-carbon just energy transition and promote the fair and equitable distribution of benefits and costs, improving social equity. However, the impact of energy innovatio...

The role of financial development and technological innovation on environmental quality is insufficiently examined by researchers for emerging Asian nations. Thus, this paper scrutinizes the impact of financial progress and technological innovation on the ecological footprint (EF) in the context of emerging Asian countries considering data for the...

This study investigates the impact of people’s demographics, preferred working arrangements and utilization of their free time on environmental consciousness. Such an investigation is timely because of the changing expectations around working, and the rising popularity of work-from-home arrangements leading to increased flexibility. Although the li...

This study investigates the impact of remittances on renewable energy consumption (REC) using a panel of 25 top remittance-receiving countries for 1990-2018. We use a generalized two-stage least squares random effect model to estimate the impact of remittance on renewable energy use. Results showed that remittances and REC have a generally positive...

Promoting residential water conservation is an important aspect of addressing water shortages caused by the rapidly increasing demand for water in both developed and developing countries. For this purpose, to measure how different social, psychological, and behavioral variables influence individual water use and conservation behavior, a questionnai...

Background and Objective: In addition to the reduction of risk of COVID-19 transmission and mortality, vaccination and compliance with the preventive measures of COVID-19 may have important additional benefits for the improvement of mental health. This study examined the levels and determinants of vaccination, compliance with preventive measures, a...

Fossil fuel consumption has triggered worries about energy security and climate change; this has promoted hydrogen as a viable option to aid in decarbonizing global energy systems. Hydrogen could substitute for fossil fuels in the future due to the economic, political, and environmental concerns related to energy production using fossil fuels. Howe...

Water conservation is vital to safeguard future water availability when natural resources like water become extremely scarce. It is fundamental to understand the significant determinants of water conservation activities which can also facilitate the implementation of appropriate policies for water demand management. Thus, the goal of this study was...

This paper explores the impact of remittance on multidimensional energy poverty in Bangladesh by employing a nationally representative Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES)-2016 with a sample size of 46,080 households. Remittance is one of the sources of household income that can be utilized for energy services. Energy poverty is generally...

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) thin films were produced on Si/SiO2 substrate by low pressure sulfurization of molybdenum (Mo) film. Mo films are treated with sulfur vapor at different temperatures to investigate the effect of growth temperature on the structural and morphological features of MoS2 films. Raman measurements confirmed the existence of mu...

Mangroves play a vital role in protecting the coastal community from the climate change effect and in the restoration of the coastal ecosystem. This research has been designed to determine the spatial and seasonal changes of potentially toxic elements’ (PTEs) concentration in sediments and their potential source contribution among the different hum...

This research investigates the differences in awareness and preference of racial groups toward the types of energy that they would like to see incorporated into the future energy system. Based on a national survey of 3000 respondents conducted in 2020, we analyze the differences in awareness, preferences and attitudes among racial groups in the US,...

Children are considered to be especially vulnerable to energy poverty; however, there has been little empirical research on how energy poverty affects early childhood development in energy-poor countries. To overcome this, here we measure energy poverty and early child development using a multidimensional approach based on data from national multip...

This study investigates how sustainable economic development in emerging nations could be enhanced by realizing opportunities presented by the demographic dividend, the digital economy, and ensuring energy efficiency. To date, the linkage between demographic dividend, digital innovation, energy intensity, and sustainable economic growth has not bee...

The incapability of people to have sufficient access to energy sources is known as energy poverty. It is a multi-faceted and complex problem. This research looks into how renewable energy use, economic growth, urbanization, employment, and the consumer price index are all linked to energy poverty in South Asian nations. The relationship between the...

In recent years, the environmental implications of biomass energy use have become an emerging and debatable issue among policymakers. As biomass is one of the major traditional easy sources of energy, its impact on health and economy is justified in several studies. However, there is a scarcity of evidence on the use of biomass energy in climate ch...

Adsorption heat pump (AHP) technologies can help to protect the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing the use of natural refrigerants. The dynamic efficiency of an adsorbate-adsorbent pair is vitally important when developing an effective adsorption-based heat pump system. To design a system that can run under a variety of...

The effective removal of strontium from polluted water is an emerging issue worldwide, especially in Japan, after the destruction of Fukushima’s Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. In the strontium removal process, statistical optimization of associated factors is needed to reduce the quantity of chemicals and the number of experimental trials. In this st...

Cultural diversity is increasing in the US, which is likely to have an impact on preferences toward future energy policy. This research investigates people’s lived experience and preferences through a nationally representative survey (n = 3000) regarding the energy system, and how these relate to cultural group and other demographics. Our study hig...

Several studies have investigated the effect of environmental taxes on economic growth and carbon emissions. However, limited studies have quantitatively identified the connection between environmental taxes and technological innovations. The main focus of this study is to investigate the causal relations between environmental taxes and environment...

The effective removal of strontium from polluted water is an emerging issue worldwide, especially in Japan, after the destruction of Fukushima’s Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. In the strontium removal process, statistical optimization of associated factors is needed to reduce the quantity of chemicals and the number of experimental trials. In this st...

Statistical optimization of performance determining factors is essential for the development of a cesium removal system from aqueous solutions. Therefore, factorial experimental design and multiple regression techniques were employed to assess the primary and interaction effects of the pH, initial concentration, and contact time in the cesium remov...

The effect of biomass energy consumption on the economy, environment, and human development is still a debatable issue, and researchers have not yet been reached any consensus about this issue. Several studies have examined the impact of biomass energy usage concerning economic, environmental, and human wellbeing perspectives and found mixed result...

This paper examines the effect of remittance income on energy consumption and the economy between 1976 and 2019 in the four highest remittance recipient nations of South Asia. The detailed analysis explores long-run and directional relationships utilizing stationary tests, the panel cointegration test, dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS), fully mo...

This paper explores the impact of technological innovation on the quality of the environment during the period 1985-2014, using the environmental footprint (EF) as an environmental proxy for selected Asian nations. The findings show that technological innovation in relation to EF is negative and significant, indicating that a one-point increase in...

The effects of biomass energy consumption on the economy, environment and human development remain a debatable issue, and no consensus on this topic has yet been reached among researchers. Several studies have explored the economic , environmental and human well-being perspectives of biomass energy usage and have found mixed results. The current st...

Rapid urbanization and industrial growth have triggered heavy metal contamination in agricultural soil in Dhaka, which is a serious concern for ecological risk and public health issues. In this study, fifty-four soil samples from agricultural lands of Dhaka had been analyzed for assessing accumulation, spatial enrichment, ecological risk and source...

The effective removal of cesium from aqueous solution is an emerging issue all over the world particularly in Japan after destroyed Daiichi nuclear power plant of Fukushima. To reduce the expended chemicals and reagents in experimental work and number of the experiment, it is required to implement statistical optimization of the factors forthe cesi...

In earlier studies of circular data, the corresponding probability distributions considered were mostly assumed to be symmetric. However, the assumption of symmetry may not be meaningful for some data. Thus there has been increased interest, more recently, in developing skewed circular distributions. In this article we introduce three skewed circul...

Both low socioeconomic status (SES) and behavioural problems in childhood are associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) in adulthood, but their combined effects on CVD are unknown. Study objectives were to investigate the effect of neighbourhood level SES and behavioural problems during childhood on the development of CVD risk factors and events...

In earlier studies of circular data, mostly circular distributions were considered and many biological data sets were assumed to be symmetric. However, presently interest has increased for skewed circular distributions as the assumption of symmetry may not be meaningful for some data. This thesis introduces three skewed circular models based on inv...

The results presented in this study examined factors associated with antenatal care seeking behaviour using the data of BDHS-2007. Multivariate techniques were applied to identify significant determinant of ANC utilization by women in Bangladesh. Five factors have been determined by using factor analyses and these factors are considered as underlyi...

In spite of various effective intervention programs, the under-5 child mortality rate (U5MR) is still high in Bangladesh. The present paper focused on the levels, trends and determinants of U5MR in Bangladesh utilizing data from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS), 2007. Differential pattern in U5MR in Bangladesh was examined using life...

Objective: Malnutrition is referred as the greatest single threat to the world’s public health, especially for the developing countries. Nutritional status is determined anthropometrically and it is outcome of complex interactions between biological, socio-economical variables. This study is conducted to identify the significant determinants of chi...

Objective: Malnutrition is referred as the greatest single threat to the world’s public health, especially for the developing countries. Nutritional status is determined anthropometrically and it is outcome of complex interactions between biological, socio-economical variables. This study is conducted to identify the significant determinants of chi...

For the last few decades, demographers have directed considerable attention towards the study of human fertility through the analysis of birth interval data. This study examines the covariates of birth intervals and the effect of increased birth intervals on current fertility level in Bangladesh. Using the data of BDHS 2007, Cox Proportional Hazard...

Force of mortality is an effective tool for indicating mortality level for a population which is an instantaneous measure of probability of death in a particular instant given survival up to that time. As the force of mortality is a function of the life table number of survivors at a particular age x; in this study third degree polynomial model is...

Although the overall mortality has shown a little decline over the past few years in Bangladesh, infant mortality, particularly during the neonatal period is still high. Employing the 2004 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) data, the present study made an attempt to detect the risk factors associated with child death at the various lev...