nep-env New Economics Papers
on Environmental Economics
Issue of 2020‒04‒13
forty-one papers chosen by
Francisco S. Ramos
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

  1. Economic, pro-social and pro-environmental factors influencing participation in an incentive-based conservation program in Bolivia By Manon Authelet; Julie Subervie; Patrick Meyfroidt; Niguel Asquith; Driss Ezzine-de Blas
  2. The Conditional Relationship between Renewable Energy and Environmental Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa By Simplice A. Asongu; Chimere O. Iheonu; Kingsley O. Odo
  3. Green Growth Pathways for Saudi Arabia By KAPSARC, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center
  4. Groping climate vulnerability in western mountainous Nepal: applying climate vulnerability index By Bista, Raghu
  5. Environmental Kuznets Curve and Pollution Haven Hypothesis By Sinha, Apra; Kumar, Abhishek; Gopalakrishnan, Badri Narayanan
  6. Foreign Direct Investment, Domestic Investment and Green Growth in Nigeria: Any Spillovers? By Akintoye V. Adejumo; Simplice A. Asongu
  7. Effects of competition forms and market structure on green innovation incentives By Iwata, Hiroki
  8. Is Environmental Tax Harmonization Desirable in Global Value Chains? By Cheng, Haitao; Kato, Hayato; Obashi, Ayako
  9. Dynamic Behaviour of Hydro/Thermal Electrical Operators Under an Environmental Policy Targeting to Preserve Ecosystems Integrity and Air Quality By Houeida Hedfi; Ahlem Dakhlaoui; Abdessalem Abbassi
  10. Is Environmental Tax Harmonization Desirable in Global Value Chains? By Cheng, Haitao; Kato, Hayato; Obashi, Ayako
  11. Trends in water-related technological innovation: Insights from patent data By Xavier Leflaive; Ben Krieble; Harry Smythe
  12. Impact of Upstream Plant Level Pollution on Downstream Water Quality: Evidence from the Clean Water Act By Chakraborti, Lopamudra
  13. Regional Integration and Energy Sustainability in Africa: Exploring the Challenges and Prospects for ECOWAS By Opeyemi Akinyemi; Uchenna Efobi; Evans Osabuohien; Philip Alege
  14. The role of women on boards in corporate environmental strategy and financial performance: A global outlook By Xie, Jun; Nozawa, Wataru; Managi, Shunsuke
  15. Tall wheatgrass (Thinopyrum ponticum (Podp)) in a real farm context, a sustainable perennial alternative to rye (Secale cereale L.) cultivation in marginal lands By Carlos S. Ciria; Carlos M. Sastre; Juan Carrasco; Pilar Ciria
  16. Determining feature importance for actionable climate change mitigation policies By Romit Maulik; Junghwa Choi; Wesley Wehde; Prasanna Balaprakash
  17. Essence of Multilateral Energy Technology Collaboration:A Case Study of International Energy Agency (IEA) Technology Collaboration Programmes (TCPs) By Takashi Hattori; Hoseok Nam
  18. Drivers of eco-innovation and economic development in the Spanish hospitality industry By Sotiriadis, Marios; Magadán-Díaz, Marta; Rivas-García, Jesús
  19. Promoting Green or Restricting Gray? An Analysis of Green Portfolio Standards By Hiroaki Ino; Toshihiro Matsumura
  20. Does Climate Change Make Foodgrain Yields More Unpredictable? Evidence from India By Saumya Verma; Shreekant Gupta; Partha Sen
  21. The Role of ICT and Financial Development on CO2 Emissions and Economic Growth By Ibrahim D. Raheem; Aviral K. Tiwari; Daniel Balsalobre-lorente
  22. The Ecological Impact of Place-Based Economic Policies By Garg, Teevrat; Shenoy, Ajay
  23. Responding to Economic and Ecological Deficits By Jonathan M. Harris
  24. Optimal Combination of Arctic Sea Ice Extent Measures: A Dynamic Factor Modeling Approach By Francis X. Diebold; Maximilian Gobel; Philippe Goulet Coulombe; Glenn D. Rudebusch; Boyuan Zhang
  25. Worker mobility and the purchase of low CO2 emission vehicles in France: a datamining approach By Raphaël Homayoun Boroumand; Stéphane Goutte; Thomas Péran; Thomas Porcher
  26. Youth empowerment in non-timber forest products (NTFPs) of sub-Saharan Africa: The role of corporate social responsibility in Niger Delta, Nigeria By Joseph I. Uduji; Elda N. Okolo-Obasi
  27. Science-Driven Societal Transformation, Part III: Design By John C. Boik
  28. Confronting climate change: Adaptation vs. migration strategies in Small Island Developing States By Lesly Cassin; Paolo Melindi-Ghidi; Fabien Prieur
  29. Modelling strategies for the reduction of fat dormice in northern Italian hazel groves. By Scire', Giovanni
  30. Travel Cost Method Considering Trip-day Counts as Integers By Kono, Tatsuhito; Yoshida, Jun
  31. Optimal Combination of Arctic Sea Ice Extent Measures: A Dynamic Factor Modeling Approach By Francis X. Diebold; Maximilian G\"obel; Philippe Goulet Coulombe; Glenn D. Rudebusch; Boyuan Zhang
  32. Mind your Ps and Qs! An Experiment on Variable Allowance Supply in the US Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative By Lana Friesen; Lata Gangadharan; Peyman Khezr; Ian A. MacKenzie
  33. Kernel density decomposition with an application to the social cost of carbon By Richard S. J. Tol
  34. Science-Driven Societal Transformation, Part I: Worldview By John C. Boik
  35. Climate policy costs of spatially unbalanced growth in electricity demand: the case of datacentres By Fitiwi, Desta; Lynch, Muireann Á.
  36. The Impact of Vulnerability and Income distribution on Inequality and Poverty: Analysis of Flood and landslides in Vulnerable Locations of Nepal By Bista, Raghu
  37. The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health: Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon By Mouganie, Pierre; Ajeeb, Ruba; Hoekstra, Mark
  38. PELATIHAN DAN IKLIM ORGANISASI TERHADAP KEBERHASILAN USAHA PERIKANAN MASYARAKAT (STUDI KASUS PADA DINAS PETERNAKAN DAN PERIKANAN (BIDANG PERIKANAN) KOTA SUNGAI PENUH By Tanjung, Mariani St.B
  39. The Effect of Outside Temperature on Criminal Court Sentencing Decisions By Evans, Sally; Siminski, Peter
  40. Science-Driven Societal Transformation, Part II: Motivation and Strategy By John C. Boik
  41. From technological demonstrator to sustainable supply chain demonstrator: a conceptual framework By Brunelle Marche; Fedoua Kasmi; Fabio Sanchez; Frédérique Mayer; Laurent Dupont

  1. By: Manon Authelet (Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech [Gembloux] - Université de Liège); Julie Subervie (CEE-M - Centre d'Economie de l'Environnement - Montpellier - FRE2010 - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier - UM - Université de Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Patrick Meyfroidt (ELI - Earth and Life Institute [Louvain-La-Neuve] - UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain); Niguel Asquith (John F. Kennedy School of Government - Harvard University [Cambridge]); Driss Ezzine-de Blas (Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement)
    Abstract: The effectiveness of incentive-based conservation programs depends on how they influence and interact with multiple motivations of the participants. Here, we studied an incentive-based program for forest conservation in Bolivia – called "Reciprocal Water Agreements" – that mixes material compensations with pro-social and pro-environmental motivations as a way to reduce crowding-out of intrinsic motivations and to increase participation. Based on a sample of 424 households who were offered the program, we analysed econometrically the households' characteristics that influenced (i) the probability of participation in the program, (ii) the intensity of the participation, measured as the area allocated in the agreement, and (iii) the modality of participation, measured as the probability of participation in the different types of agreements. We found that economic factors favoured participation of better-off households owning property titles, more forested land with lower conservation opportunity cost, more agricultural tools and access to off-farm income. In addition, both pro-social factors – a deeper or older integration into social networks, and greater compliance to social norms of reciprocity, but also weaker institutional trust – as well as pro-environmental factors – including awareness of environmental problems, greater knowledge about solutions to environmental problems and a perceived positive balance of gains and losses in ecosystem services – also influenced positively the probability of participation and the area involved in the program. Finally, we found that participation into more restrictive agreements was enabled by a stronger sense of individual responsibility towards environmental problems and a weaker perceived control over environmental behaviours. Our results highlight the factors that could increase uptake and factors on which the program might focus in order to have a greater impact on pro-environmental behaviours. They also suggest that incentive-based program can be designed to take advantage of pro-social and pro-environmental motivations as strongly as of economic ones.
    Keywords: Motivations,participation,incentive-based conservation program,forest conservation,South America,Bolivia.
    Date: 2020
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-02513101&r=all
  2. By: Simplice A. Asongu (Yaoundé/Cameroon); Chimere O. Iheonu (University of Nigeria, Nsukka); Kingsley O. Odo (University of Nigeria, Nsukka)
    Abstract: This paper complements existing literature by assessing the conditional relationship between renewable energy and environmental quality in a sample of 40 African countries for the period 2002 to 2017. The empirical evidence is based on fixed effects regressions and quantile fixed effects regressions. The findings from both estimation techniques show that renewable energy consistently decreases carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Moreover, the negative effect is a decreasing function of CO2 emissions or the negative effect of renewable energy on CO2 emissions decreases with increasing levels of CO2 emissions. In other words, countries with higher levels of CO2 emissions consistently experience a less negative effect compared to their counterparts with lower levels of CO2 emissions. Policy implications are discussed.
    Keywords: Panel econometrics; Renewable energy; Carbon emissions; Africa
    JEL: Q32 Q40 O55
    Date: 2019–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:abh:wpaper:19/074&r=all
  3. By: KAPSARC, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center)
    Abstract: Green growth emphasizes that positive environmental outcomes can be consistent with economic prosperity and that greater social wellbeing can be achieved through ‘less use, more value’ policies.
    Keywords: Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Circular Carbon Economy, Climate Change, Diversification, Economic Growth, Energy Efficiency, Energy Price Reform, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Development
    Date: 2019–03–09
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:prc:wbrief:ks--2020-wb02&r=all
  4. By: Bista, Raghu
    Abstract: This study examines the relationship between the magnitude of climate vulnerability, location and altitude of the catchment areas of Sot Khola sub water basin in western mountainous Surkhet, Nepal by building climate vulnerability index by cluster based on the primary data sources. Household survey covering adaptive, sensitive and exposure was conducted in 642 households of the catchment areas for the primary data set. The study has built climate vulnerability index (CVI) of Sot Khola sub water basin’s catchment areas, which provides sufficient evidence of heterogeneity in vulnerability of household across location and altitude of the catchment areas. In all clusters, all households are vulnerable at different level. About 69 percent household in all clusters is vulnerable in which 31 percent households are highly vulnerable. Lower cluster of the catchment areas ( Lekhagaon and Kunathari) are more vulnerable than upper cluster of the catchment areas(Gadhi), except the lower cluster of Gadhi. Therefore, the altitude and magnitude of climate change vulnerability have negative correlation in case of water-induced disasters. In case of climate change vulnerability, household’s socio economic and magnitude of climate change vulnerability have also negative correlation.
    Keywords: climate change, vulnerability, water basin, water-induced disasters, flood
    JEL: O53 Q25 Q54 Q56 Q57 Q58
    Date: 2019–01–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:99047&r=all
  5. By: Sinha, Apra; Kumar, Abhishek; Gopalakrishnan, Badri Narayanan
    Abstract: There has been limited empirical work done in the recent past to test the hypotheses of EKC and PH. Results obtained in this paper validate EKC hypothesis for total carbon dioxide emissions and carbon dioxide emissions from liquid fuel consumption from a panel of countries. This is robust to inclusion of additional covariates and division of countries on the basis of income. Financial development increases total emissions in high income countries whereas it decreases emissions in non high income countries in the long run. Trade to GDP ratio does not affect emissions significantly in case of high income countries. In case of non high income countries, trade to GDP ratio increases the emissions from solid fuel in the long run. Also in case of non high income countries increase in trade to GDP ratio increases total emissions and emissions from liquid fuel consumption in short run. Therefore, there is evidence in favour of pollution haven hypothesis in short run. It is logical as we expect the emissions shifting aspect of trade to be operative in short run whereas in long run the trade should be determined by comparative advantages.
    Keywords: Environment; CO2 emissions; Kuznets Curve; International Trade; Development
    JEL: Q43 Q56
    Date: 2020–03–04
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:98930&r=all
  6. By: Akintoye V. Adejumo (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria); Simplice A. Asongu (Yaoundé, Cameroon)
    Abstract: Globally, investments in physical and human capital have been identified to foster real economic growth and development in any economy. Investments, which could be domestic or foreign, have been established in the literature as either complements or substitutes in varying scenarios. While domestic investments bring about endogenous growth processes, foreign investment, though may be exogenous to growth, has been identified to bring about productivity and ecological spillovers. In view of these competing–conflicting perspectives, this chapter examines the differential impacts of domestic and foreign investments on green growth in Nigeria during the period 1970-2017. The empirical evidence is based on Auto-regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and Granger causality estimates. Also, the study articulates the prospects for growth sustainability via domestic or foreign investments in Nigeria. The results show that domestic investment increases CO2 emissions in the short run while foreign investment decreases CO2 emissions in the long run. When the dataset is decomposed into three sub-samples in the light of cycles of investments within the trend analysis, findings of the third sub-sample (i.e. 2001-2017) reveal that both types of investments decrease CO2 emissions in the long run while only domestic investment has a negative effect on CO2 emissions in the short run. This study therefore concludes that as short-run distortions even out in the long-run, FDI and domestic investments has prospects for sustainable development in Nigeria through green growth.
    Keywords: Investments; Productivity; Sustainability; Growth
    JEL: E23 F21 F30 O16 O55
    Date: 2019–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:abh:wpaper:19/078&r=all
  7. By: Iwata, Hiroki
    Abstract: This paper analyzes the effects of environmental policy on green innovation. We compare the incentives for green innovation in both the Cournot and Bertrand competition. It is shown that positive incentives for green innovation exist in both competition models. When environmental regulations are imposed, the effects of the probability of success on green innovation incentives differ between the Bertrand and Cournot competition. Additionally, we clarify the conditions necessary for the establishment of the Porter hypothesis in both competition models.
    Keywords: Cournot and Bertrand competition, Green innovation, Porter hypothesis
    JEL: L13 Q52 Q55
    Date: 2020–03–27
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:99305&r=all
  8. By: Cheng, Haitao; Kato, Hayato; Obashi, Ayako
    Abstract: The spatial unbundling of parts production and assembly currently characterizes globalization, leading to the worldwide dispersion of pollution. We consider socially optimal (cooperative) environmental taxes in a two-country model of global value chains in which the location of both parts and assembly can differ. When unbundling costs are so high that parts and assembly must colocate in the pre-globalized world, pollution is spatially concentrated, and harmonizing environmental taxes maximizes global welfare. In contrast, with low unbundling costs triggering the dispersion of parts and thus pollution throughout the world as today, harmonization fails to maximize global welfare. Similar results hold when the two countries non-cooperatively choose their environmental taxes.
    Keywords: Environmental policy; Fragmentation; Emission tax competition; International coordination; Trade in parts and component
    JEL: F18 F23 Q56 Q58
    Date: 2020–03–27
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:99303&r=all
  9. By: Houeida Hedfi (UR MASE - Modélisation et Analyse Statistique et Economique - ESSAIT - Ecole Supérieure de la Statistique et de l'Analyse de l'Information - Université de Carthage - University of Carthage); Ahlem Dakhlaoui (LEGI - Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion Industrielle [Tunis] - Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie); Abdessalem Abbassi (Centre de Recherche en économie de l'Environnement, de l'Agroalimentaire, des Transports et de l'Énergie (CREATE) - Université Laval)
    Abstract: In this paper, we analyse the effect of an environmental policy that targets to enhance ecosystems integrity as well as air quality in the wholesale electricity market. We developed a dynamic Cournot game between a hydro and a thermal risk adverse electricity producers under demand uncertainty. We demonstrate that while improving air quality necessarily raises the market price, enhancing ecosystems integrity can, under water abundance hypothesis, reduce it. Moreover, in order to establish a statement about the environmental policy efficiency, we examine interactions between both environmental measures and their potential side effects. We show that prioritizing natural flow regime minimises necessarily the taxation efficiency on lowering air pollution and emphasizes the price rise due to the taxation. Nevertheless, the effect of the taxation policy on the efficiency of the ecosystems integrity policy depends on the hydro producer's ability to substitute thermal units. In order to establish a precise environmental statement, the regulation authority needs to compare, using appropriate criteria , the importance of an avoided unit of surrounding ecosystem alteration to an avoided unit of air polluting production, in the whole ecosystem functioning.
    Keywords: Electricity generation,Environmental policy,Dynamic modelling,Imperfect competi- tion,Ecosystems integrity,Air quality
    Date: 2020–03–28
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:halshs-02523330&r=all
  10. By: Cheng, Haitao; Kato, Hayato; Obashi, Ayako
    Abstract: The spatial unbundling of parts production and assembly currently characterizes globalization, leading to the worldwide dispersion of pollution. We consider socially optimal (cooperative) environmental taxes in a two-country model of global value chains in which the location of both parts and assembly can differ. When unbundling costs are so high that parts and assembly must colocate in the pre-globalized world, pollution is spatially concentrated, and harmonizing environmental taxes maximizes global welfare. In contrast, with low unbundling costs triggering the dispersion of parts and thus pollution throughout the world as today, harmonization fails to maximize global welfare. Similar results hold when the two countries non-cooperatively choose their environmental taxes.
    Keywords: Environmental policy, Fragmentation, Emission tax competition, International coordination, Trade in parts and components
    JEL: F18 F23 Q56 Q58
    Date: 2020–04
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hit:econdp:2020-04&r=all
  11. By: Xavier Leflaive (OECD); Ben Krieble (OECD); Harry Smythe (OECD)
    Abstract: Innovation has a role to play to mitigate water-related risks and to support the provision of water services on which our well-being and sustainable development depend. Water-related innovation originate in a wide range of countries, with different levels of ambition. They disseminate at different scales globally.This paper uses patent data to document trends in the invention of technologies to promote water security since 1990, focusing on the countries in which inventions are developed, where they might be commercialised, and in which subsectors they originate. The water-related technologies identified in the paper can be clustered into three categories: i) water pollution abatement; ii) demand-side; and iii) supply-side. The paper describes a number of important trends that can inform a broader discussion on the factors that might hinder, or enhance, inventive activity to promote water security.
    Keywords: droughts, floods, green tech, innovation, patent, water pollution
    JEL: O13 O31 O38 Q25 Q55
    Date: 2020–04–07
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:oec:envaaa:161-en&r=all
  12. By: Chakraborti, Lopamudra
    Abstract: This is the first study to find empirical evidence that pollutant inputs from major point sources worsens downstream water quality, net of upstream pollution levels, and controlling for location-specific factors. We utilize a panel data on monthly biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) concentration for a sample of 87 municipal and industrial plants located in the states of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, for the period 1990-2003. We define water quality as monthly dissolved oxygen (DO) from 67 locations within 25 miles downstream. We find that upon an increase in aggregate BOD (by one or more plant) downstream DO net of ambient levels before their effluent outfalls declines by 0.001 mg/L. Despite the small magnitude (due to natural attenuation), the results are robust to distance traveled by pollutant and seasonal considerations of high temperature or low stream flow. From our results, we infer that self-reported pollution does not exhibit underreporting biases.
    Keywords: U.S. Clean Water Act, Ambient Water Quality Model, Self-Reported Pollution, Total Maximum Daily Loads, Over-compliance
    JEL: Q52 Q53
    Date: 2019–12–10
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:99090&r=all
  13. By: Opeyemi Akinyemi (Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria); Uchenna Efobi (CEPDeR, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria); Evans Osabuohien (CEPDeR, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria); Philip Alege (Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria)
    Abstract: This study explores the extent to which regional integration can be a viable tool in driving energy sustainability in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) sub-region of Africa, and vice versa. It examines the existing opportunities and the attendant challenges for improved firms’ productivity in the sub-region through the appraisal of the ECOWAS West African Power Pool (WAPP). Using three measures of energy sustainability, namely: energy security, energy equity, and environmental sustainability; the study presents the performance of the ECOWAS sub-region in ensuring regional integration for energy sustainability. The findings from the study reveal, inter alia, that there are prospects and benefits for energy integration for sustainable development in the region. Though some progress had been made, there are many challenges. Also, where progress had been made, it is not uniform across the sub-region, though factors such as rising population and political instability could be responsible. It is recommended that the political economy surrounding regional energy integration should be given a priority among the Member States to ensure that there is positive political will for speedy achievement of set goals. Also, investment in human capital to manage the different projects and maintain the facilities cannot be overemphasised.
    Keywords: ECOWAS, Energy, Green growth, Sustainable development, Regional Integration
    JEL: F15 P28 Q43 R11 R58
    Date: 2019–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:abh:wpaper:19/081&r=all
  14. By: Xie, Jun; Nozawa, Wataru; Managi, Shunsuke
    Abstract: This study examines the impact of board gender diversity on corporate environmental strategy and financial performance. Based on 12 corporate environmental policies in 3389 firms worldwide, we identified four types of corporate environmental strategies by using the latent class regression model: an inactive strategy, a reactive strategy, a pollution prevention strategy and a sustainable development strategy. The empirical evidence shows that women on boards contribute to the promotion of proactive environmental strategies, including the pollution prevention strategy, which is found to bring about sustained competitive advantage in both short-term and long-term financial performance, and the sustainable development strategy, which is positively associated with long-term financial performance. Following the natural-resource-based view of the firm, these findings indicate that women on boards can be seen as a key resource in the organizational process, which provides a shared vision of the future and strong moral leadership to the top management team.
    Keywords: Women on Boards; Corporate Environmental Strategy; Latent Class Regression Model; Pollution Prevention Strategy; Sustainable Development Strategy
    JEL: M14 Q5
    Date: 2020–04–03
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:99470&r=all
  15. By: Carlos S. Ciria; Carlos M. Sastre; Juan Carrasco; Pilar Ciria
    Abstract: In order to face the expected increasing demand of energy crops without creating conflicts of land occupation sustainability, farmers need to find reliable alternatives in marginal agricultural areas where the production of food hardly ever is economically and environmentally sustainable. The purpose of this work was the study of the viability of the introduction of new non food crops in marginal areas of real farms. This study compares the profit margin and the energy and environmental performance of growing tall wheatgrass, in the marginal area of a rainfed farm versus rye, the annual crop sowed traditionally in the marginal area of the farm. The cited farm owned 300 ha of which about 13 percent was marginal. The methodology was based on the use of the profit margin of the crops as indicator for the economic assessment and Life Cycle Assessment LCA as technique for the energy and the environmental evaluations. Results of the economic analysis showed a slight enhancement of the profit margin for tall wheatgrass 156 Euro ha-1 y-1 compared to rye 145 Euro ha-1 y-1. Environmental LCA was driven by CO2 fixation due to soil organic matter increase and reduced inputs consumption for tall wheatgrass that produced a Global Warming Potential GWP of -1.9 Mg CO2 eq ha-1 y-1 versus 1.6 Mg CO2 eq ha-1 y-1 obtained for rye. Tall wheatgrass cultivation primary energy consumption was less than 40 percent of rye s consumption. According to the results achieved it was concluded that tall wheatgrass is better option than rye from the energy and the environmental point of views and slight better option from the economic view. Considering these results, monetarization of the CO2 eq reductions of tall wheatgrass compared to rye is essential to improve its profit margin and promote the implantation of this new crop in marginal areas of farms.
    Date: 2020–02
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2003.13395&r=all
  16. By: Romit Maulik; Junghwa Choi; Wesley Wehde; Prasanna Balaprakash
    Abstract: Given the importance of public support for policy change and implementation, public policymakers and researchers have attempted to understand the factors associated with this support for climate change mitigation policy. In this article, we compare the feasibility of using different supervised learning methods for regression using a novel socio-economic data set which measures public support for potential climate change mitigation policies. Following this model selection, we utilize gradient boosting regression, a well-known technique in the machine learning community, but relatively uncommon in public policy and public opinion research, and seek to understand what factors among the several examined in previous studies are most central to shaping public support for mitigation policies in climate change studies. The use of this method provides novel insights into the most important factors for public support for climate change mitigation policies. Using national survey data, we find that the perceived risks associated with climate change are more decisive for shaping public support for policy options promoting renewable energy and regulating pollutants. However, we observe a very different behavior related to public support for increasing the use of nuclear energy where climate change risk perception is no longer the sole decisive feature. Our findings indicate that public support for renewable energy is inherently different from that for nuclear energy reliance with the risk perception of climate change, dominant for the former, playing a subdued role for the latter.
    Date: 2020–03
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2003.10234&r=all
  17. By: Takashi Hattori (Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University); Hoseok Nam (Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University)
    Abstract: Energy transition has been an important issue in achieving climate action. A “multilateral energy technology cooperation” is often considered a driver that leads to multilateral cooperation being successful. International Energy Agency (IEA) Technology Collaboration Programmes (TCPs) are an interesting case study because they have a long history. For over 40 years, they have worked toward the achievement of energy and climate goals. Statistical analysis was performed to explore the increase in entities’ participation in and the distribution of 38 TCPs. An email survey was administered to learn about the opinions and thoughts of representatives in 18 TCPs. The survey’s purpose was to understand current evidence on the roles and effectiveness of IEA TCPs in energy technology cooperation. The survey responses were analyzed to understand the correlation among input, output, and outcome as well as goal and implementing capacity. The results revealed that most respondents were satisfied with input and output. The current energy policy situation and possible greenhouse gas reduction in one’s country were selected as the main reasons for four outcomes: policy adoption, technology deployment, economic benefit, and social acceptance. Regression analysis demonstrated the correlation among input, output, and outcome of IEA TCPs. These findings have ramifications for future multilateral cooperation and implications for energy collaboration development.
    Keywords: Energy; Technology; Multilateral cooperation; Survey
    JEL: F53 O33 P48 Q48
    Date: 2020–03
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:kyo:wpaper:1023&r=all
  18. By: Sotiriadis, Marios; Magadán-Díaz, Marta; Rivas-García, Jesús
    Abstract: Eco-innovation is a challenge for tourism industry, given the connection and interrelationship between environmental quality, economic development and business performance. Th eco-innovation plans represents a new field of research in its infancy. This paper addresses the conceptual evolution of eco-innovation to subsequently develop an analytical framework that tentatively explores this concept and its implementation in Spanish hotel companies through two basic internal characteristics of these organizations: their economic development and business performance, and their respective size, measured in terms of capacity. A qualitative research method was implied, making a set of case studies of 10 Spanish hotel groups, through documentary evidence and structured interviews. Findings suggest the influencing and determining factors for eco-innovation action.
    Keywords: Eco-innovation, economic development, environmental responsibility, hospitality industry, drivers, organizational change, Spain
    JEL: L83 Q56
    Date: 2018–10–28
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:99161&r=all
  19. By: Hiroaki Ino (School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University); Toshihiro Matsumura (Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo)
    Abstract: This study theoretically examines green portfolio standards with monetary penalties in an oligopoly market. We find that green portfolio standards are inefficient policy tools if the purpose of the government is to promote green products, whereas they attain firstbest optimality if the purpose is to restrict non-green products. Green portfolio standards may work well under the mixed aims of promoting green and restricting non-green products. Moreover, by applying the principle of our results, we highlight the inefficiency of an employment promotion program for handicapped workers in Japan.
    Keywords: green industrial policy, negative externality of gray products, positive externality of green products, renewable portfolio standards, zero emission vehicle program, employment promotion program
    JEL: Q58 Q48 L51
    Date: 2020–04
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:kgu:wpaper:206&r=all
  20. By: Saumya Verma; Shreekant Gupta; Partha Sen
    Abstract: How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district level panel dataset from 1966-2011. A stochastic production function is estimated with exogenous climate anomalies. We find that climate change adversely affects both the level and variability of crop yields - rice yields are reduced by rainfall extremes whereas extremely high temperatures make yields of all three crops highly variable with the biggest impact on millets.
    Keywords: agriculture, climate change, foodgrain yields, India, millets, rice, stochastic production function
    JEL: Q54 O13 D24
    Date: 2020
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_8161&r=all
  21. By: Ibrahim D. Raheem (EXCAS, Liège, Belgium); Aviral K. Tiwari (Kochi, India); Daniel Balsalobre-lorente (Ciudad Real, Spain)
    Abstract: This study explores the role of the information and communication Technology (ICT) and financial development (FD) on both carbon emissions and economic growth for the G7 countries for the period 1990-2014. Using PMG, we found that ICT has a long run positive effect on emissions, while FD is a weak determinant. The interactive term between the ICT and FD produces negative coefficients. Also, both variables are found to impact negatively on economic growth. However, their interactions show they have mixed effects on economic growth (i.e., positive in the short-run and negative in the long-run). Policy implications were designed based on these results.
    Keywords: ICT; Financial development; Carbon emissions; Economic growth and G7 countries
    JEL: E23 F21 F30 O16
    Date: 2019–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:abh:wpaper:19/058&r=all
  22. By: Garg, Teevrat (University of California, San Diego); Shenoy, Ajay (University of California, Santa Cruz)
    Abstract: Does economic development have an unavoidable ecological cost? We examine the ecological impacts of one of India's signature place-based economic policies involving massive tax benefits for new industrial and infrastructure development following the creation of the new state of Uttarakhand. The policy, which had an explicit pro-environment mandate, resulted in no meaningful change in local forest cover. Our results suggest that even in settings with low levels of enforcement, place-based economic policies with pro-environment mandates can achieve sizeable economic expansion without major ecological costs.
    Keywords: place-based economic policies, agglomeration, deforestation
    JEL: Q53 O40 Q56 H54
    Date: 2020–03
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp13075&r=all
  23. By: Jonathan M. Harris
    Abstract: Macroeconomic theory was shaken up in the wake of the financial crisis, with neoclassical approaches proving inadequate to analyze or respond to the need for policy action. Despite efforts to return to more conventional macro perspectives, a continuing re-evaluation of economic theory has important implications both for traditional economic concerns such as employment and inflation, and for ecological issues and the climate crisis. An emerging “green Keynesian†approach combines a radical Keynesian analysis with ecological priorities such as drastic carbon emissions reduction. One important aspect of this reorientation of theory is the analysis of economic and ecological deficits. In the years since the financial crisis, both economic and ecological deficits have increased. This poses a challenge for “green Keynesian†policy. It is therefore necessary to have effective analyses to measure and respond to ecological deficits, as well as policy measures to deal with economic deficits. This paper proposes a new approach to measuring ecological deficits, and a new perspective on economic deficits and debt. Since there is no single unitary measure for depletion or degradation of different kinds of resources, it is necessary to measure different kinds of deficit for different resources, with a goal of reducing all of these to zero or replacing them with surpluses. The analysis involves exploring the specific economic implications of reducing both ecological and economic deficits, which involves re-conceptualizing economic growth and "degrowth", and provides an alternative to current U.S. policies under the Trump administration, which are contributing to widening both deficits.
    Date: 2019–04
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dae:daepap:19-01&r=all
  24. By: Francis X. Diebold (University of Pennsylvania); Maximilian Gobel (ISEG - Universidade de Lisboa); Philippe Goulet Coulombe (University of Pennsylvania); Glenn D. Rudebusch (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco); Boyuan Zhang (University of Pennsylvania)
    Abstract: The diminishing extent of Arctic sea ice is a key indicator of climate change as well as an accelerant for future global warming. Since 1978, Arctic sea ice has been measured using satellite-based microwave sensing; however, different measures of Arctic sea ice extent have been made available based on differing algorithmic transformations of the raw satellite data. We propose and estimate a dynamic factor model that combines four of these measures in an optimal way that accounts for their differing volatility and cross-correlations. From this model, we extract an optimal combined measure of Arctic sea ice extent using the Kalman smoother.
    Keywords: Climate modeling, nowcasting, model averaging, ensemble averaging
    JEL: Q54 C22
    Date: 2020–03–31
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pen:papers:20-012&r=all
  25. By: Raphaël Homayoun Boroumand (ESG Research Lab - ESG Management School); Stéphane Goutte (Cemotev - Centre d'études sur la mondialisation, les conflits, les territoires et les vulnérabilités - UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, LED - Laboratoire d'Economie Dionysien - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis); Thomas Péran (Paris School of Business); Thomas Porcher (Paris School of Business)
    Date: 2019
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01644639&r=all
  26. By: Joseph I. Uduji (University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria); Elda N. Okolo-Obasi (University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria)
    Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the multinational oil companies’ (MOCs) corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in Nigeria. Its special focus is to investigate the impact of General Memorandum of Understanding (GMoUs) on rural young people involved in non-timber forest products (NTFPs) for sustainable livelihood in Niger Delta, Nigeria. Designed/methodology/approach – Data for this study were collected from primary sources, using participatory rural appraisal (PRA) technique of semi-structured interview (SSI) questionnaire. The use of a participatory research technique in collecting CSR impact data especially as it concerns the rural young people is because it involves the people being studied, and their views on all the issues are paramount. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Inferential statistical tool-estimation of logit model was used to test the two research hypotheses. Findings – The results indicate that general memorandum of understandings (GMoUs) have not given adequate attention to the young people as a special target sub-group who live in rural areas and depend mostly on NTFPs. Results also show that a number of factors hindering rural young people from the use and development of NTFPs include a policy vacuum, non-destructive harvesting, and destruction of natural habitats, bushfires, population growths and high demands. Research limitations/implications – The semi structure interview questionnaire was directly administered by the researchers with the help of research assistants. The use of local research assistants was because of the inability of the researchers to speak the different local languages and dialects of the many ethnic groups of Ijaws, Ogonis, Ikweres, Etches, Ekpeyes, Ogbas, Engennes, Obolos, Isokos, Nembes, Okirikas, Kalabaris, Urhobos, Iteskiris, Igbos, Ika-Igbos, Ndonis, Orons, Ibenos, Yorubas, Ibibios, Anangs, Efiks, Bekwarras, Binis, Eshans, Etsakos, Owans, Itigidis, Epies, Akokoedos, Yakkurs, etc, in the sampled rural communities. Practical implications –An appropriate GMoU-intervention framework for a sustainable promotion of NTFPs, domestication of NFTPs, improving harvesting and processing techniques are necessary to facilitate good security, reduction of poverty and improved livelihoods, particularly for the economically-marginalized and forest-dependent rural young people is imperative. Social implications – Sustainable livelihoods of the forest-dependent rural young people in sub-Saharan Africa would require some focused CSR interventions on the NTFPs for sustainable livelihood. Facilities pertaining to storage, grading, processing and value addition through convergence of existing schemes and programmes should be promoted and created. MOCs are in a position to empower the rural young people with information about the market, policy and products to enable the rural people strategize and access returns from NTFPs in sub-Saharan Africa. Originality/value – This research adds to the literature on multinational enterprises (MNEs) CSR initiatives in developing countries and rationale for demands for social projects by host communities. It concludes that business has an obligation to help in solving problems of sustainable livelihood.
    Keywords: Economic Empowerment, Corporate social responsibility, Multinational oil companies, Rural young people, Non-timber forest products, sub-Saharan Africa
    Date: 2019–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:abh:wpaper:19/082&r=all
  27. By: John C. Boik (Principled Societies Project)
    Abstract: The risks posed by climate change, biodiversity loss, and other major social and environmental problems have become severe. Increasingly, scientists, global policy experts, and the general public conclude that bold, even transformational change is required across all sectors of society. This paper is the third in a three-part series that adds to the discussion by proposing a novel science-based research and development program aimed at societal transformation, where transformation is understood as the shift to new systems (e.g., new governance, economic, and financial systems). Such transformation can be called systems change or systems migration, and is viewed here as a necessary complement to reform efforts. The first two papers in the series provide definitions, aims, hypotheses, reasoning, worldview, and a theory of change, and discuss the role of science in transformation. This paper discusses fitness metrics, a prototype system, and design principles. It introduces possibilities for system design, highlights topics worth exploring, and summarizes ideas that might serve as guides to future research.
    Keywords: transformation, systems change, sustainability, complexity, complex systems, complex adaptive systems, societal cognition, wellbeing, well-being, local currency, community currency, complementary currency, digital currency, democracy, economic democracy, direct democracy, environmental economics, climate change, global warming, biodiversity loss, active inference, free energy principle, self-organizing criticality, SAILS, LEDDA
    JEL: B50 C63 D31 I3 O1 O30 P20 P41 P50 Q01 Q54 Q57
    Date: 2020–04
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:psp:wpaper:0012&r=all
  28. By: Lesly Cassin (EconomiX - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Paolo Melindi-Ghidi (EconomiX - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, AMSE - Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Fabien Prieur (CEE-M - Centre d'Economie de l'Environnement - Montpellier - FRE2010 - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier - UM - Université de Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
    Abstract: This paper examines the optimal adaptation policy of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to cope with climate change. We build a dynamic optimization problem to incorporate the following ingredients: (i) local production uses labor and natural capital, which is degraded as a result of climate change; (ii) governments have two main policy options: control migration and/or conventional adaptation measures ; (iii) migration decisions drive changes in the population size; (iv) expatriates send remittances back home. We show that the optimal policy depends on the interplay between the two policy instruments that can be either complements or substitutes depending on the individual characteristics and initial conditions. Using a numerical analysis based on the calibration of the model for different SIDS, we identify that only large islands use the two tools from the beginning, while for the smaller countries, there is a substitution between migration and conventional adaption at the initial period
    Keywords: SIDS,climate change,adaptation,migration,natural capital.
    Date: 2020
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-02515116&r=all
  29. By: Scire', Giovanni
    Abstract: The production of hazelnuts represents an important resource for several Italian rural areas. Sicily and Piedmont, two of the most important producers of hazelnuts, are affected by the presence of the dormouse (Glis glis), that has considerably severely harmed the production of hazelnuts. This study aims to analyse the issue in the Province of Cuneo in Piedmont and to evaluate the sustainability of the policies implemented by using the System Dynamics (SD) methodology. An SD predator-prey microworld was built to reproduce the main relevant cause and effect relationships between the development of the dormouse population and local hazelnut production. The results of the SD microworld simulation show the effects of reduction policies on hazelnut production over time. The findings and further research recommendations are briefly reported in the conclusion section.
    Keywords: MODEL FOREST, SYSTEMS ANALYSIS, SYSTEMS DYNAMICS, FAT DORMOUSE, EDIBLE DORMOUSE, HAZELNUTS, DYNAMIC SUSTAINABILITY, AGRICULTURE, PREDATOR-PREY MICROWORLD, DYNAMIC MODEL, STOCK AND FLOW DIAGRAM, CASUAL LOOP DIAGRAMS.
    JEL: C02 C61 C63 M00 Q0 Q00 Q01 Q10 Q15 Q18 Q23 Q57
    Date: 2019–02–22
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:98938&r=all
  30. By: Kono, Tatsuhito; Yoshida, Jun
    Abstract: The Travel Cost Method (TCM) is a typical benefit measurement method, using the fact that people substitute the benefit of visiting some sites for their travel cost. However, in the case of tourist sites, travelers do not choose the number of days spent in a tourist city as continuous numbers but integer numbers. We investigate how a bias could arise from ignoring integer numbers of nights in TCM. We derive the formula of what factors constitute the bias. Next, we numerically show that when measuring benefits of improving quality at sites, the maximum bias could be around 20%.
    Keywords: Project Evaluation, Travel cost method, Integer property
    JEL: Q26 Q56
    Date: 2020–03–24
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:99244&r=all
  31. By: Francis X. Diebold; Maximilian G\"obel; Philippe Goulet Coulombe; Glenn D. Rudebusch; Boyuan Zhang
    Abstract: The diminishing extent of Arctic sea ice is a key indicator of climate change as well as an accelerant for future global warming. Since 1978, Arctic sea ice has been measured using satellite-based microwave sensing; however, different measures of Arctic sea ice extent have been made available based on differing algorithmic transformations of the raw satellite data. We propose and estimate a dynamic factor model that combines four of these measures in an optimal way that accounts for their differing volatility and cross-correlations. From this model, we extract an optimal combined measure of Arctic sea ice extent using the Kalman smoother.
    Date: 2020–03
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2003.14276&r=all
  32. By: Lana Friesen (School of Economics, University of Queensland); Lata Gangadharan (Department of Economics, Monash University, Australia); Peyman Khezr (School of Economics, University of Queensland); Ian A. MacKenzie (School of Economics, University of Queensland)
    Abstract: Using an experimental approach, we investigate the new institutional design for the US Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The proposed scheme incorporates two allowance reserves that adjust the initial supply of allowances in the event of unexpectedly high or low allowance demand. In particular, allowance supply is increased when the initial clearing price is above a pre-determined upper trigger price, and decreased when the initial clearing price is below a pre-determined lower trigger price. We provide evidence that these two trigger prices act as focal points: the distribution of clearing prices is bimodal and aligns with the trigger prices. We also show that decreasing the range between the two trigger prices increases total revenue but decreases allocative efficiency. Importantly, we find the regulation is more sensitive to changes in trigger prices than reserve quantities.
    Keywords: supply reserve; pollution allowances; experiment.
    JEL: C91 C92 Q58
    Date: 2020–03–31
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:qld:uq2004:618&r=all
  33. By: Richard S. J. Tol
    Abstract: A kernel density is an aggregate of kernel functions, which are itself densities and could be kernel densities. This is used to decompose a kernel into its constituent parts. Pearson's test for equality of proportions is applied to quantiles to test whether the component distributions differ from one another. The proposed methods are illustrated with a meta-analysis of the social cost of carbon. Different discount rates lead to significantly different Pigou taxes, but not different growth rates. Estimates have not varied over time. Different authors have contributed different estimates, but these differences are insignificant. Kernel decomposition can be applied in many other fields with discrete explanatory variables.
    Date: 2020–03
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2003.09276&r=all
  34. By: John C. Boik (Principled Societies Project)
    Abstract: Humanity faces serious social and environmental problems, including climate change and biodiversity loss. Although many of these problems have been discussed in the scientific and lay literature for decades, societies as a whole have so far failed to take adequate steps to reduce risks. Where progress has been made, it has been mostly incremental. Increasingly, scientists, global policy experts, and the general public conclude that incremental approaches are insufficient and transformative change is needed across all sectors of society. However, the meaning of transformation is still unsettled in the literature, as is the proper role of science in fostering it. This paper is the first in a three-part series that adds to the discussion by proposing a novel science-based research-and-development program aimed at societal transformation. While acknowledging the necessity of reform to existing systems (e.g., governance, economic, and financial systems), the focus of the series is on transformation understood as systems change or systems migration. The series provides definitions, aims, reasoning, worldview, and a theory of change, and discusses fitness metrics and design principles for new systems. This first paper proposes a worldview intended to serve as the foundation for the R&D program. The worldview is built using ideas from evolutionary biology, complex systems science, cognitive sciences, and information theory, among other fields. It defines an intrinsic purpose for a society and also for societal systems, which are viewed as the cognitive architecture of a society. Subsequent papers in the series build on the worldview. An underlying hypothesis is that new systems can be developed in a science-based process to be fit for purpose and to reflect value and meaning as per worldview.
    Keywords: transformation, systems change, sustainability, complexity, complex systems, complex adaptive systems, societal cognition, wellbeing, well-being, local currency, community currency, complementary currency, digital currency, democracy, economic democracy, direct democracy, environmental economics, climate change, global warming, biodiversity loss, active inference, free energy principle, self-organizing criticality, SAILS, LEDDA
    JEL: B50 C63 D31 I3 O1 O30 P20 P41 P50 Q01 Q54 Q57
    Date: 2020–04
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:psp:wpaper:0010&r=all
  35. By: Fitiwi, Desta; Lynch, Muireann Á.
    Date: 2020
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:esr:wpaper:wp657&r=all
  36. By: Bista, Raghu
    Abstract: Natural disaster is a key exogenous driver to unpredictable risk of uncertainty and cost of economic loss. GDP loss at national economy and welfare loss at household level in the world are major cost of such disaster. The cost that is a burden to households could change on income distribution and household income vertically and horizontally and then their livelihood and welfare. This relationship makes a curiosity whether natural disaster could change income distribution at household level in developing countries, where socio economic vulnerable groups exist so that alternative policy option can be explored to minimize such bad effects on socio economic vulnerable groups and their livelihood and welfare. This paper measures empirically the income distribution effects of natural disaster at household level based on primary data sets collected through household survey in Sot Khola water basin by using Gini coefficient method. As reference line, inequality and poverty level are employed. Comprehensive and comparative analytical tools are used for testing above research question based on two periodic data sets and information. As a result, the water shed areas had higher inequality and poverty level than national inequality line (0.33) before natural disaster. The residents were socio economically and geographically vulnerable. The natural disaster damaged heavily tangible and non-tangible assets, houses, household utensils, documents, dresses, valuable indigenous materials, emotions and food grains. Thus, the vulnerable households lost inferior their assets and insufficient food grains. Its distribution was acute at higher and lower altitude watershed areas and households than middle areas and households. In general, higher altitude watershed areas and households were more vulnerable than middle and then lower altitude watershed areas and households. Such acuteness of economic loss redistributed their inequality and poverty level in such a way with the cost of risk and uncertainty. Thus, the vulnerable population became more vulnerable and the non-vulnerable population with their adaptive capacity became less vulnerable. Thus, the natural disaster has negative income distribution effect at household level, particularly at the vulnerable household with expansion of inequality and poverty. Therefore, natural disaster results the growth of vulnerability at rural hilly areas of the river basin.
    Keywords: natural disasters, income distribution, income inequality, poverty, Nepal
    JEL: D13 D6 I32 I38 Q54 Q57 Q58
    Date: 2020–11–04
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:98935&r=all
  37. By: Mouganie, Pierre (American University of Beirut); Ajeeb, Ruba (American University of Beirut); Hoekstra, Mark (Texas A&M University)
    Abstract: An estimated 40 percent of the world's garbage is burned in open-air fires, which are responsible for as much as half of the global emissions of some pollutants. However, there is little evidence on the health consequences of open-air waste burning. In this paper, we estimate the effect of in utero exposure to open-air waste burning on birth outcomes. We do so by examining the consequences of the Lebanese garbage crisis of 2015, which led to an abrupt, unanticipated increase in waste burning in residential neighborhoods in Beirut and Mount Lebanon. To identify effects, we exploit variation in exposure across neighborhoods before and after the crisis. Results indicate exposure had large impacts on birth outcomes; in utero exposure to at least one open-air waste burn increased premature births by 4 percentage points (50%) and low birth weight by 5 to 8 percentage points (80 - 120%). Given previous research documenting the long-run effects of prenatal shocks on adult health, human capital, and labor market outcomes, this suggests open-air waste burning imposes significant costs on populations worldwide.
    Keywords: prenatal health, in utero pollution exposure, open-air waste burning
    JEL: I18 H41
    Date: 2020–03
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp13036&r=all
  38. By: Tanjung, Mariani St.B
    Abstract: The research is proposed to test the influence of Training and Organizational Climate on the Success of Fisheries. The population in this study is the Sungai Penuh City community which has a total of 120 fisheries businesses. Furthermore, by using the Slovin formula, a sample size of 92 businesses was selected with a sampling technique based on Proportional Cluster Random Sampling. This study uses primary data and secondary data. Data analysis techniques used are path analysis and test hypotheses using t test with data analysis using SPSS version 20. The results of the study based on showing that partially the Training and Organizational Climate has a positive and significant effect on Business Success. The results also show that the Organizational Climate variable acts as an intervening variable between Training and Business..
    Date: 2020–01–22
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:sfxev&r=all
  39. By: Evans, Sally (University of Technology, Sydney); Siminski, Peter (University of Technology, Sydney)
    Abstract: Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making. This paper is the first investigation of the impact of temperature on the outcomes of criminal court cases. It is motivated by Heyes and Saberian (2019, AEJ: Applied Economics), who found strong effects of temperature on judges' decisions in immigration cases, drawing on 207,000 cases. We apply similar methods to analyse 2.8 million criminal court cases in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1994 to 2019. Most of the estimates are precise zeros. We conclude that outcomes of criminal court cases (which are far more prevalent globally than immigration cases) are not influenced by fluctuations in temperature, an unsurprising but reassuring result.
    Keywords: criminal courts, temperature, climate, decision making
    JEL: K14 K41 Q54
    Date: 2020–02
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp13010&r=all
  40. By: John C. Boik (Principled Societies Project)
    Abstract: Climate change, biodiversity loss, and other social and environmental problems pose grave risks. Progress so far has been incremental, and as a result scientists, global policy experts, and the general public increasingly conclude that bold change is required across all sectors of society. At least two kinds of bold change are conceivable: reform of existing systems (e.g., financial, economic, and governance systems), including their institutions, policies, rules, and priorities; and transformation, the development of and migration to new, improved systems. This paper is the second in a series of three that together present a novel science-based research and development program aimed at transformation. Two underlying hypotheses are that new systems can be developed in a science-based process to be fit for purpose, and system fitness can be compared across designs. Societies are understood as superorganisms, and systems are understood as a societal cognitive architecture. The first paper in the series provides definitions, aims, hypotheses, and a worldview. This paper discusses motivations, the role of science in transformation, and a theory of change. The proposed R&D program and theory of change are sound, viable, and affordable. A local-global-viral strategy invites the science community to play a unique co-leadership role with local communities in the development and testing of new societal systems. Systems are implemented via a civic club model, where participation is voluntary. Clubs grow and replicate based on merit and aided by club networks. Advantages of the strategy are discussed.
    Keywords: transformation, systems change, sustainability, complexity, complex systems, complex adaptive systems, societal cognition, wellbeing, well-being, local currency, community currency, complementary currency, digital currency, democracy, economic democracy, direct democracy, environmental economics, climate change, global warming, biodiversity loss, active inference, free energy principle, self-organizing criticality, SAILS, LEDDA
    JEL: B50 C63 D31 I3 O1 O30 P20 P41 P50 Q01 Q54 Q57
    Date: 2020–04
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:psp:wpaper:0011&r=all
  41. By: Brunelle Marche (ERPI - Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs - UL - Université de Lorraine); Fedoua Kasmi (ERPI - Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs - UL - Université de Lorraine); Fabio Sanchez (ERPI - Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs - UL - Université de Lorraine); Frédérique Mayer (ERPI - Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs - UL - Université de Lorraine); Laurent Dupont (ERPI - Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs - UL - Université de Lorraine)
    Date: 2020–03–27
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02500528&r=all

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