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on Environmental Economics |
| By: | Khondaker Golam Moazzem; Mashfiq Ahasan Hridoy; Rafat Alam |
| Abstract: | The global energy landscape is undergoing a pivotal transformation, driven by the dual imperatives of sustainable development and climate change mitigation. This transition from traditional fossil fuels to renewable energy sources presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities, particularly in the context of developing nations such as Bangladesh. With its dense population and burgeoning energy needs, Bangladesh stands at a critical juncture in its energy development trajectory. This paper explores the implications of Bangladesh’s energy transition on employment and skill requirements within the power and energy sector. Through a comprehensive analysis, the study aims to project the net employment impact by 2030, taking into account the evolving energy mix and the potential for job creation versus job displacement. |
| Keywords: | Energy Transition, Power and Energy Sector, Employment, sustainable energy, Bangladesh |
| Date: | 2024–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pdb:opaper:152 |
| By: | Khondaker Golam Moazzem; Faisal Quaiyyum |
| Abstract: | The global energy landscape is undergoing a pivotal transformation, driven by the dual imperatives of sustainable development and climate change mitigation. This transition from traditional fossil fuels to renewable energy sources presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities, particularly in the context of developing nations such as Bangladesh. With its dense population and burgeoning energy needs, Bangladesh stands at a critical juncture in its energy development trajectory. This paper explores the implications of Bangladesh’s energy transition on employment and skill requirements within the power and energy sector. Through a comprehensive analysis, the study aims to project the net employment impact by 2030, taking into account the evolving energy mix and the potential for job creation versus job displacement. |
| Keywords: | Energy Transition, Power and Energy Sector, Employment, sustainable energy, Bangladesh |
| Date: | 2024–04 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pdb:opaper:153 |
| By: | Angel, Tobias; Berthe, Alexandre; Costantini, Valeria; D’Angeli, Mariagrazia |
| Abstract: | This study investigates the relationship between distinct types of inequality and CO2 emissions using panel data on 156 countries from 1995 to 2020. Using fixed effects panel and quantile regression techniques, we report estimates that indicate that pre-distribution (inequality reduction by structural changes and social protection) is better aligned with the goal of carbon emission reduction than redistribution (inequality reduction by transfers). However, those countries who contribute the least to global warming face the highest environmental degrading effect of pre-distribution. In contrast, pre-distribution decreases or does not affect the carbon emissions of the biggest global polluters. Redistribution, on the other hand, exhibits the reverse pattern. Moreover, we differentiate in this analysis between production-based and consumption-based emissions, finding on average higher challenges regarding joint inequality and emission reduction in countries that produce carbon intensive commodities. These findings call for international cooperation, structural changes and social protection policies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of joint inequality and carbon emission reduction. |
| Keywords: | Climate Change, Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024–06–24 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:feemwp:343512 |
| By: | Rivadeneyra, Perla; Cornacchia, Federico; Martinez, Alberto; Bidoia, Marco; Giupponi, Carlo |
| Abstract: | In recent decades, the rapid development of coastal regions, driven by sustained economic growth and population migration, has amplified their susceptibility to climate-induced hazards. The need to address these challenges in socio-economic coastal hotspots has become a pressing concern, requiring research and analysis to empower local decision-makers to undertake timely and appropriate adaptation measures. Simultaneously, many of these coastal areas boast rich natural habitats, which offer a diverse array of ecosystem services that can enhance climate resilience through both adaptation and mitigation efforts. This study, focuses on the Venice Lagoon, a region particularly vulnerable to natural hazards like sea-level rise, erosion, and flooding due to its low-lying coastal areas, seeks to examine the coastal protection and carbon sequestration services provided by seagrasses and salt marshes. Leveraging the InVEST platform known for its capabilities in valuing ecosystem services and assessing interventions for the protection and restoration of natural capital, this research takes a multi-platform approach by integrating the Coastal Vulnerability and Coastal Blue Carbon models to compute a composite index of these two ecosystem services. Additionally, we incorporate other tools that aid in the computation of the inputs to the InVEST models such as ARIES (Artificial Intelligence for Environment & Sustainability) and the QGIS plugins Molusce and SCP. We also provide estimates of carbon stocks, net carbon sequestration, and the economic value of these habitats for 2040 and 2060. The main outcome of this study is a combined index of coastal protection and carbon sequestration services developed to highlight crucial areas for the provisioning of these services, emphasizing the interconnectedness of socio-ecosystem components in coastal regions. In this study, we highlight the importance of using integrated assessment of ecosystem services in the context of climate change. |
| Keywords: | Climate Change, Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024–06–21 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:feemwp:343511 |
| By: | Sulehri, Fiaz Ahmad; Ali, Amjad |
| Abstract: | Sustainable development is of great significance for present and future generations. This study examines the mediation role of economic growth on sustainable development through country risk. We have employed the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique to examine the direct and indirect effects of exogenous and endogenous variables. We conducted this analysis using a sample of 24 countries that contributed approximately 65% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 2000 to 2019. The empirical analysis based on direct effects establishes that country risk reduces economic growth and sustainable development. Interestingly, the empirics of indirect effects reveal that country risk has a positive and significant indirect impact on sustainable development by using economic growth as a mediator. Moreover, the negative direct effect of country risk on sustainable development is greater than the total negative effect due to the positive indirect effect. Finally, policymakers should minimize country risk to promote economic growth, ensuring environmental, social, and economic sustainability for the safety of current and future generations. |
| Keywords: | Country Risk, Economic Growth, Sustainable Development, Structural Equation Model |
| JEL: | F30 O44 Q56 |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:121290 |
| By: | Bettina Meinhart |
| Abstract: | Abstract:International climate targets have far-reaching implications for all areas of the economy and life, including trade policy. To reach the target of the Paris Agreement, it may be necessary to link trade and environmental policy, whereby one way of linking the two policy areas is to include environmental provisions (EPs) in trade agreements. Several motives for including environmental concerns in trade agreements exist, ranging from promoting environmental cooperation and ensuring a level playing field to pursuing protectionist interests. In principle, the inclusion of environmental aspects is not a new development. Since the 1990s, EPs have been frequently integrated into trade agreements, for example on issues such as hazardous waste, deforestation or biodiversity protection. In recent years, as climate initiatives have gained prominence at the EU level, the number of EPs in trade agreements has steadily increased. Thereby, the inclusion of these concerns is very heterogeneous in terms of the subject matter and enforceability. A closer look at the enforceability indicator is crucial, because if EPs are not legally enforceable, addressing environmental concerns may not have an impact on trade and the environment. The European Commission is aware of this issue and therefore published the review of its policy chapter on trade and sustainable development in June 2022. This identifies how the contribution of EU trade agreements to promoting environmental protection can be improved, mentioning, among other actions, the strengthening of enforcement through trade sanctions as a last resort. Whether the current changes are effective in terms of environmental and trade impacts will be seen in further research. |
| Date: | 2022–10 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wsr:pbrief:y:2022:m:10:i:055 |
| By: | Zhou, Sophie Lian; van der Ploeg, Frederick |
| Abstract: | We study climate change in a model with a carbon-intensive and a green sector, each subject to stochastic productivity shocks, and show how the underlying economic structure affects the risk-adjusted discount rate and the climate risk premium in the social cost of carbon (SCC). Consumption growth, aggregate consumption volatility, and the climate beta depend on the elasticity of substitution between the two sectors and the relative size of the sectors, and vary during the green transition. The time path of the climate risk premium is hump-shaped, with the climate beta playing a dominant role in its magnitude. For strong substitutability between the two sectors and low correlation between the sectoral shocks, decarbonization can temporarily reduce aggregate consumption risk, as the climate beta becomes negative in the mid phase of the transition. The risk-adjusted discount rate first falls then rises during the green transition, leading to a SCC to GDP ratio that rises then falls as the green sector grows. We illustrate our analytical results numerically. |
| Keywords: | social cost of carbon, climate beta, carbon risk premium, two-sector model, asset pricing |
| JEL: | E60 G12 H23 O41 Q54 |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:bubdps:299239 |
| By: | Fotios Kalantzis; Salma Khalid; Alexandra Solovyeva; Marcin Wolski |
| Abstract: | Using a novel cross-country dataset, which merges firm-level financials with information on firms’ participation in the European Unions’ Emissions Trading System (ETS), we investigate how firm performance is affected by tightening of environmental policies that put a price on pollution. We find that more stringent policies do not have a strong negative impact on the profitability of ETS-regulated or non-ETS firms. While firms report an increase in their input costs during periods of high carbon prices, their reported turnover is also higher. Among ETS-regulated firms which must purchase emission certificates under the EU ETS, tightening of climate policies in periods of high carbon prices results in increased investment, particularly in intangible assets. We establish robustness of our results using a quantile regression analysis, ensuring our key findings are not driven by distributional irregularities. Our findings provide support for the benefits of EU ETS on accelerating firms’ climate transition, while keeping firm-level financial costs at bay. |
| Keywords: | climate finance; climate change; decarbonization; firm-level analysis; Emissions Trading System (ETS) |
| Date: | 2024–06–28 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2024/135 |
| By: | Sukhgeet Kaur; Michael G. Pollitt |
| Keywords: | Renewable energy, solar pumps, feeder level solarisation, energy water nexus, energy subsidies, irrigation water, electricity, groundwater depletion, Punjab |
| JEL: | Q1 Q20 Q25 Q42 Q58 O13 O38 P48 |
| Date: | 2024–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:enp:wpaper:eprg2408 |
| By: | Sandoval M, Luis A.; Lopez, María J.; Mejia, William A.; Morales, Sarahi D.; Mamani Escobar, Brenda A. |
| Keywords: | Institutional And Behavioral Economics, Marketing, Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343714 |
| By: | Bolakhe, Kumar; Yu, Tun-Hsiang E.; Sykes, Virginia R.; Smith, Aaron; Boyer, Christopher N. |
| Keywords: | Production Economics, Environmental Economics And Policy, Agribusiness |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343595 |
| By: | Li, Xinrui; Yu, Chin-Hsien; Zhao, Jinsong; Shi, Yingyi |
| Keywords: | Production Economics, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343667 |
| By: | Hu, Jinhua; Mu, Fan; Jiang, Xinling; Wu, Zhong'an; Olasehinde, Toba; Fan, Yubing; Wang, Tong |
| Keywords: | Production Economics, Environmental Economics And Policy, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343634 |
| By: | Wang, Zuyi; Thayer, Anastasia W.; Kim, Man-Keun; Vassalos, Michael; De Figueiredo Silva, Felipe; Smith, Nathaniel B. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Farm Management |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343937 |
| By: | Dong, Yifan; Fei, Chengcheng; McCarl, Bruce A.; Zilberman, David |
| Keywords: | Land Economics/Use, Crop Production/Industries, Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343999 |
| By: | Jiang, Xinling; Huo, Zinuo; Yuan, Yuan; Wu, Zhong'an; Olasehinde, Toba; Fan, Yubing |
| Keywords: | Farm Management, Environmental Economics And Policy, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343635 |
| By: | Boy, Karl-Friedrich; Panknin, Lea; Ziesmer, Johannes; Henning, Christian H.C.A. |
| Keywords: | Political Economy, Environmental Economics And Policy, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343926 |
| By: | Gensch, Luisa; Jantke, Kerstin; Schneider, Uwe A.; Rasche, Livia |
| Keywords: | Land Economics/Use, Environmental Economics And Policy, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343670 |
| By: | Tang, Chuan; Luo, Fangjie; Guo, Yifeng; You, Dan |
| Keywords: | International Development, Environmental Economics And Policy, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344048 |
| By: | Gong, Binlei; Li, Haoyang; Lin, Liguo; Ling, Hanxiang |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Production Economics, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343700 |
| By: | Fan, Xinxin; Lee, Yuanyao Stanley; Khanna, Madhu; Kent, Jeffery; Shi, Rui; Guest, Jeremy; Lee, DoKyoung |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343741 |
| By: | Maria Cotofan; Karlygash Kuralbayeva; Konstantinos Matakos |
| Abstract: | The effects of climate change have become far more noticeable in recent years, with abnormally high temperatures recorded across the world. Maria Cotofan, Karlygash Kuralbayeva and Konstantinos Matakos examine how spikes in temperature influence political behaviour and how age groups respond differently. |
| Keywords: | preference formation, environmental policies, policy support, voting |
| Date: | 2024–06–20 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cep:cepcnp:684 |
| By: | Schmitz, Tom; Colantone, Italo; Ottaviano, Gianmarco |
| Abstract: | This paper shows how to combine microeconometric evidence on the effects of environmental policy with a macroeconomic model, accounting for general equilibrium spillovers that have mostly been ignored in the literature. To this end, we study the effects of a recent US air pollution policy. We use regression evidence on the policy’s impact across industries and local labor markets to calibrate a quantitative spatial model allowing for general equilibrium spillovers. Our model implies that the policy lowered emissions by 11.1%, but destroyed approximately 250’000 jobs. Ignoring spillovers overestimates job losses in polluting industries, but underestimates job losses in clean industries. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024–06–18 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:feemwp:343507 |
| By: | Julia Mink (University of Bonn) |
| Abstract: | This study quantifes the financial burden of acute air pollution on the French healthcare system. By combining comprehensive French administrative health data for a nationally representative sample with high-resolution geospatial data on air pollution and meteorological conditions, the healthcare costs of air pollution exposure are estimated more accurately and comprehensively than in the previous literature. I use an instrumental variable approach exploiting weekly variations in local concentrations of nitrogen dioxide, ground-level ozone and particulate matter induced by variations in altitude weather conditions. I find that air pollution causes healthcare costs to the French healthcare system in the order of several billion per year, even though air pollutant concentrations are mostly below the current European air quality standards considered safe for human health. My cost estimates are about 10 times higher than those estimated in previous studies, suggesting that the health costs of air pollution have been severely underestimated. While air pollution has a large effects on overall spending in more polluted and populated urban areas due to the higher number of affected people, the marginal effects appear to be greater in low-pollution and less populated areas. Reducing population exposure even at low air pollution concentrations should therefore be an important public health goal. Even the most stringent 2021 WHO guideline values should not be considered safe for human health. |
| Keywords: | Air pollution, healthcare cost, instrumental variable approach |
| JEL: | I12 J14 Q51 Q53 |
| Date: | 2024–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ajk:ajkdps:320 |
| By: | Shi, Xiangyu; Wang, Chang |
| Abstract: | Input-output linkages among sectors and firms are largely overlooked when assessing regulatory policies. Using a carbon emissions regulation in China as an example, we find that the regulation facilitates the transition to green technologies and reduces entry and carbon emissions in the regulated sectors with large carbon emissions. We also find unintended spillovers via the input-output network, resulting in more entry and innovation in the downstream sectors; and less entry and innovation in the upstream sectors. These facts can be rationalized by a firm-dynamics model with input-output linkages. The results of quantitative exercises are much different when taking input-output linkages into account. |
| Keywords: | carbon emissions regulation; firm dynamics; innovation; input-output networks |
| JEL: | C1 D2 E2 L2 Q5 |
| Date: | 2024–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:121359 |
| By: | Cecilia Castaldo; Matilde Giaccherini; Giacomo Pallante; Alessandro Palma |
| Abstract: | We investigate the role of information strategy in shifting the purchasing preferences of “green” organic consumers towards a subset of “greener” products that foster adaptation to climate change. We focus on organic pasta, a widely consumed food, to conduct field experiment that involves consumers purchasing on the on-line shop of an Italian organic brand leader. Participants received one of two informational messages about an ancient durum wheat cultivar, renowned for its drought tolerance compared to modern durum wheat. The colloquial message results in 13% increase in the market share of “greener” pasta, despite its price premium. Conversely, the science-based message is effective only among consumers who prioritize environmental sustainability in their organic food purchases and rely on scientific information in their daily lives. Overall effects persist for at least three months and are more pronounced among women, young individuals, and those with higher levels of education. Potential moral licensing is detected among the “greenest” consumers who were already highly engaged. |
| Keywords: | field experiment, consumers, information, organic food, climate change adaptation |
| JEL: | C93 Q57 D12 |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_11161 |
| By: | Francesca Caselli; Andresa Lagerborg; Mr. Paulo A Medas |
| Abstract: | This paper studies the impact of green fiscal rules – designed to protect climate-related spending –on debt dynamics. Simulations of green rules that exempt green spending from the rule limits for an emergingmarket economy illustrate that they can lead to unsustainable debt dynamics when the net zero emissions goal is pursued mostly using spending-based instruments (e.g., investment and subsidies). Or the rule would need to implicitly assume a large fiscal adjustment in the non-green budget, which would undermine its credibility. It will be needed to build broad public consensus for a more comprehensive fiscal strategy that tackles the difficult policy tradeoffs that will be required and takes into account long-term effects. A more appropriate mix of climate policies, including actively employing carbon pricing, should be pursued within the overall setting of fiscal and debt objectives. Developing ‘green’ medium-term fiscal frameworks would help to integrate climate change considerations into fiscal policy design in a more comprehensive manner. |
| Keywords: | Fiscal rule; golden rule; medium-term fiscal framework; MTFF |
| Date: | 2024–06–21 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2024/125 |
| By: | Cheng, Haotian; Escobedo, Francisco; Thomas, Alyssa; Reyes, Jesus Felix De Los; Soto, Jose R. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Institutional And Behavioral Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343562 |
| By: | Eisenbarth, Sabrina; Day, Brett; Golub, Alla; Baldos, Uris Lantz C. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Research Methods/Statistical Methods, Land Economics/Use |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343765 |
| By: | Shin, Kiseok; Grant, Jason; Arita, Shawn; Sydow, Sharon; Tomlin, Hazelle; Jones, Jason P. H.; Marshall, Elizabeth |
| Keywords: | International Relations/Trade, Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343962 |
| By: | Karwowski, Nicole; Hrozencik, Robert A.; Skidmore, Marin; Rosenberg, Andrew B. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Land Economics/Use, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343739 |
| By: | Ko, Minkyong; Ta, Chi L.; Garg, Teevrat; Lewis, Eric |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, International Development |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343776 |
| By: | Drigo, Alessandra |
| Abstract: | This study is the first to examine the relationship between PM2.5 concentration and per capita income at the municipality level for Italy. The novelty of this work is also to explore the role of agglomerations and morphological factors in influencing the income-pollution correlation in the year 2013, and to assess its persistence to 2019. While there is not an unconditional environmental justice gap in Italy, controlling for land morphology and agglomerations variables weakens the positive correlation between PM2.5 and per capita income to the point of disappearance. Notably, being located in the Padana Valley ecoregion serves as a key indicator of environmental injustice nation-wide. The excess of PM2.5 exposure in the region increased mortality risk by 13.8% in 2013 and 10.88% in 2019 with respect to the WHO threshold (5 mg/m³ annual average). The largest environmental justice gap in relative measures shows a difference in mortality risk of 9.31% in 2013 and 7.04% in 2019 between the populations of the most polluted ecoregion (Padana Valley) and the least polluted one (Apennines). When attempting to disentangle the pollution variation among municipalities within the same province, the per capita income level of municipalities emerges as a significant indicator. An increase of 10, 000 euros in the average per capita income of the municipality corresponds to a decrease of 2.01 mg/m³ in PM2.5 annual average exposure level (-1.6% in mortality risk) in 2013 and 1.05 mg/m³ (-0.7% in mortality risk) in 2019. |
| Keywords: | Climate Change, Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024–06–20 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:feemwp:343509 |
| By: | Roman Stöllinger |
| Abstract: | Abstract:The case for green industrial policy is strong and it is the obvious instrument to induce the structural transformation towards an emission-free economy. At the core of such a transformation lies the decarbonisation of the energy system. The industrial policy effort required to achieve the ambitious net zero objective in the European Green Deal (EGD) can be divided into three policy tasks: expanding renewable energy sources, raising energy efficiency across sectors and developing new technologies for industrial production processes where clean technologies are not available yet. While the first two tasks can rely on cost-competitive technologies and the required investment costs could in the long run pay for themselves, the third task constitutes formidable technological challenges that need to be tackled with a mission-oriented industrial policy. The industrial policy package employed ought to be a mix of public investments, green subsidies coupled with appropriate environmental regulations and an industrial mission for developing net zero industrial technologies. Importantly, with investment costs estimated at 1.75% of GDP per year, achieving the objectives of the EGD seems feasible also from a financial perspective. Despite this optimistic tone, the EGD is far from being a safe bet, and its success can easily be threatened by a plethora of factors, including opposition by vested interests or geopolitical confrontations. |
| Date: | 2023–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wsr:pbrief:y:2023:m:06:i:59 |
| By: | Wang, Xialin; Wang, Jinxia; Sun, Tianhe; Zhang, Lijuan |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Food Security And Poverty, Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343825 |
| By: | Moritz A. Drupp; Zachary M. Turk; Ben Groom; Jonas Heckenhahn |
| Abstract: | While the global economy continues to grow, ecosystem services tend to stagnate or decline. Economic theory has shown how such shifts in relative scarcities can be reflected in project appraisal and environmental-economic accounting, but empirical evidence has been sparse to put theory into practice. To estimate the relative price change in ecosystem services that can be used for making such adjustments, we perform a global meta-analysis of contingent valuation studies to derive income elasticities of willingness to pay (WTP) for ecosystem services to proxy the degree of limited substitutability. Based on 861 income-WTP pairs from more than 400 studies, we estimate an income elasticity of WTP of around 0.8. Combined with estimates of good-specific growth rates, we estimate relative price change of ecosystem services of around 2.2 percent per year. In an application to natural capital valuation of forest ecosystem services by the World Bank, we show that public forest natural capital should be uplifted by around 60 percent. Our assessment of aggregate public natural capital yields a larger value adjustment of between 100 and 170 percent, depending on the discount rate. We discuss implications for policy appraisal and for improving estimates of natural capital in comprehensive wealth accounts. |
| Keywords: | willingness to pay, ecosystem services, income elasticity, limited substitutability, growth, relative prices, contingent valuation, forests, natural capital |
| JEL: | D61 H43 Q51 Q54 Q58 |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_11156 |
| By: | Uwineza, Yvette; Nozari, Soheil; Suter, Jordan F.; Rouhi Rad, Mani |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Community/Rural/Urban Development |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343694 |
| By: | Ofori, Isaac K.; Gbolonyo, Emmanuel Y.; Ojong, Nathanael Ojong |
| Abstract: | Tracking the progress of countries in inclusive green growth (IGG) is crucial for shaping effective sustainable development policies. However, comprehensive IGG data is often inaccessible. Accordingly, rigorous empirical contributions in this direction in the context of Africa remain sparse. To address this, we computed IGG scores for 22 African countries from 2000-2020. Our data reveal that only nine of these countries are achieving green and inclusive growth. This dataset equips researchers and institutions to assess IGG progress and identify pathways for African governments to promote sustainable development |
| Keywords: | Africa; Inclusive green growth; IGG Index; Sustainable Development |
| JEL: | E01 O55 Q01 |
| Date: | 2024–06–24 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:121317 |
| By: | Akram, Agha A.; Quinones, Esteban J.; Turiansky, Abbie; Siegal, Kim |
| Keywords: | International Development, Environmental Economics And Policy, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343881 |
| By: | Johnson, David R.; Bahalou Horeh, Marziyeh; Liu, Jing; Zuidema, Shan; Chepeliev, Maksym; Hertel, Thomas W. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy, Land Economics/Use |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343944 |
| By: | Kucuk, Merve; Ulubasoglu, Mehmet; Vu, Ha |
| Abstract: | Climatic shocks introduce additional complexities to individuals’ lives and influence their critical decisions, both present and into the future. We utilise longitudinal administrative data on Australian individual retirement contributions to present the first estimated effects of natural disasters on retirement savings. Using the 2010-2011 Queensland floods as a natural experiment, we document that retirement contributions increase following the disaster. We show that individuals update their risk perceptions post-disaster, which drive changes in their portfolio choices across retirement savings, investment property ownership, and other interest-generating financial instruments. Our findings offer important insights into the relationship between individuals' planning horizons, retirement savings and their adaptive strategies in maintaining retirement welfare amidst demographic changes and increased environmental risks. |
| Keywords: | climate change, retirement savings, risk perceptions |
| JEL: | D14 D9 Q54 |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:121241 |
| By: | Kishore, Siddharth; Nemati, Mehdi; Dinar, Ariel; Struthers, Cory; MacKenzie, Scott A.; Shugart, Matthew S. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343546 |
| By: | Thomas Pfeffer; Alexandra Gössl |
| Abstract: | Die Agenda 2030 mit ihren 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ist ein globaler Aktionsplan zur Bewältigung der drängendsten ökologischen, wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit, zu dessen Umsetzung sich auch Österreich bekannt hat. Um diese Ziele zu erreichen, ist die Entwicklung von Skills bzw. Kompetenzen (Wissen, Fähigkeiten und Haltungen) in der Bevölkerung von entscheidender Bedeutung. Die Studie sucht nach Verbindungen zwischen unterschiedlichen Konzepten zu Future Skills und den 17 SDGs. Im Kapitel 2 „Allgemeine Grundkompetenzen“ werden sieben internationale Rahmenkonzepte zur Definition von Bildungszielen für die Schulbildung und das Lebenslange Lernen vorgestellt und miteinander verglichen. Kapitel 3 „Berufliche Spezialkompetenzen“ beschäftigt sich mit der Mehrdeutigkeit des Skills-Begriffs im beruflichen Kontext anhand der Darstellung arbeitsmarktpolitischer Initiativen. Kapitel 4 „Skills-Initiativen in Österreich“ analysiert 30 österreichische Skills-Initiativen der letzten fünf Jahre und bewertet ihre Relevanz für die Erreichung der SDGs. Die Studienergebnisse führen zu einer Reihe von Schlussfolgerungen und Handlungsoptionen, die in Kapitel 5 präsentiert werden. |
| Keywords: | Österreich, Sustainable Development Goals, Future Skills, Bildungsziele, Kompetenzkonzepte, Skills-Initiativen |
| JEL: | I25 I21 I28 |
| Date: | 2023–09 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wsr:ecbook:y:2023:m:09 |
| By: | Liu, Ziheng; Shi, Guanming; Grainger, Corbett; Mitchell, Paul D. |
| Keywords: | Livestock Production/Industries, Environmental Economics And Policy, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343869 |
| By: | Towe, Charles A.; Liu, Pengfei; Meyer, Natalie; Dang, Ruirui |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Farm Management, Community/Rural/Urban Development |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343842 |
| By: | Tanner, Sophia; Wang, Ying; Pratt, Bryan; Bowman, Maria S.; Wallander, Steven; Lupi, Frank |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Agricultural And Food Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343746 |
| By: | Yu, Chengzheng; Zhang, Zhi Min; Wei, Liangchun |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Health Economics And Policy, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343628 |
| By: | Aina, Ifedotun V.; Thiam, Djiby; Narita, Daiju; Afego, Pyemo; Dinar, Ariel |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Agricultural And Food Policy, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343812 |
| By: | Chatzinikolaou, Dimos (Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Economics); Vlados, Charis (Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Economics) |
| Abstract: | Achieving green and sustainable development is a fundamental characteristic of the emerging new globalisation, evident at the organisational and broader socioeconomic levels. This conceptual research explores how the recent literature approaches the dimensions and methodologies of green organisations, introducing a mechanism for advising and reinforcing their green physiology in Stra.Tech.Man terms (strategy-technology-management synthesis). The Green Stra.Tech.Man Scorecard is an action research diagnostic tool for all organisational sizes, regardless of industry, ownership type, or location, integrating fundamental green organisational dimensions. |
| Keywords: | Green development; new globalisation; Stra.Tech.Man approach |
| JEL: | D23 L10 Q01 |
| Date: | 2024–03–15 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ris:duthrp:2024_003 |
| By: | Guo, Hongdong; Bai, Rongrong; Jin, Songqing; Shupp, Robert S.; Wang, Yu |
| Keywords: | Crop Production/Industries, Environmental Economics And Policy, International Development |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343806 |
| By: | Akhundjanov, Sherzod B.; Oladi, Reza; Nehra, Arpita; Caplan, Arthur |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343708 |
| By: | Gong, Ziqian; Baker, Justin S.; Wade, Christopher M.; Havlík, Petr |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Land Economics/Use, Productivity Analysis |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343581 |
| By: | Sarkar, Sampriti; Lupi, Frank; Sears, Molly; Lal, Preet |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Land Economics/Use, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343744 |
| By: | Lu, Qinan; Shang, Chen; Hou, Lingling; Liu, Ziheng; Liu, Pengfei |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343555 |
| By: | Du, Zhushan; Feng, Hongli; Arbuckle, J. Gordon |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344010 |
| By: | Sun, Falin; Hou, Peibin; Qiu, Huanguang; Kong, Xiangwen |
| Keywords: | Agribusiness, Environmental Economics And Policy, Industrial Organization |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343678 |
| By: | Han, Jung Hoon; Zheng, Xiaoyong; Pan, Lei; Cengiz, Ezgi; Rojas, Christian |
| Keywords: | Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343701 |
| By: | Frances C. Moore; Moritz A. Drupp; James Rising; Simon Dietz; Ivan Rudik; Gernot Wagner |
| Abstract: | Estimating the cost to society from a ton of CO2 - termed the social cost of carbon (SCC) - requires connecting a model of the climate system with a representation of the economic and social effects of changes in climate, and the aggregation of diverse, uncertain impacts across both time and space. Increasingly a growing literature has examined the effect of fundamental structural elements of the models supporting SCC calculations. This work has accumulated in piecemeal fashion, leaving their relative importance unclear. Here we perform a comprehensive synthesis of the evidence on the SCC, combining 1823 estimates of the SCC from 147 studies with a survey of authors of these studies. The distribution of published 2020 SCC values is wide and substantially right-skewed, showing evidence of a heavy right tail (truncated mean of $132). Analysis of variance reveals important roles for the inclusion of persistent damages, representation of the Earth system, and distributional weighting. However, our survey reveals that experts believe the literature is biased downwards due to an under-sampling of structural model variations and biases in damage-function and discount-rate. To address this imbalance, we train a random forest model on variation in the literature and use it to generate a synthetic SCC distribution that more closely matches expert assessments of appropriate model structure and discounting. This synthetic distribution has a mean of $284 per ton CO2, respectively, for a 2020 pulse year (5%–95% range: $32–$874), higher than all official government estimates, including a 2023 update from the U.S. EPA. |
| Keywords: | social cost of carbon |
| JEL: | Q54 |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_11153 |
| By: | Sharma, Bijay P.; Khanna, Madhu; Li, Tongtong; Daigneault, Adam J. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Research Methods/Statistical Methods, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343738 |
| By: | Marcelo Arbex; Zachary Mahone |
| Abstract: | Environmental concerns over growing raw material extraction and waste generation have led many governments, including the United States, to introduce policies intended to reduce the extraction of new materials from the earth and boost material recycling. In the policy sphere, this is referred to as circularity. This paper develops a quantitative growth model with material use and directed technical change to quantify the costs of circularity policies. We study the United States goal of 50% recycling by 2030 and find it would require doubling recycling subsidies and cost 0.17% in consumption-equivalent welfare. However, this policy would also increase virgin extraction. Achieving a substantial reduction in new material extraction itself is very costly. Returning to 1970 levels of extraction entails a long run consumption cost of 6% and lost growth of 1.1% per decade. |
| Keywords: | Materials; Directed technical change; Growth; Circular economy |
| JEL: | H23 O33 O44 Q38 Q53 Q55 Q58 |
| Date: | 2024–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mcm:deptwp:2024-06 |
| By: | Sukhgeet Kaur; Michael G. Pollitt |
| Keywords: | Agriculture, energy water nexus, entitlement, incentive, groundwater, irrigation, electricity consumption, paddy, subsidy, electricity pricing, discrete choice, Punjab |
| JEL: | O13 Q1 Q4 Q5 Q12 Q24 Q25 Q28 Q48 Q57 |
| Date: | 2024–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:enp:wpaper:eprg2407 |
| By: | Darius Sultani; Sebastian Osorio; Claudia Günther; Michael Pahle; Katrin Sievert; Tobias S. Schmidt; Bjarne Steffen; Ottmar Edenhofer |
| Abstract: | Novel Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technologies have seen a first wave of deployment, driven by investments through voluntary carbon markets and by specific support policies. To sustain the momentum, a credible long-term policy path is urgently needed to lead removal technologies through the valley of death, and to ramp-up sufficient capacities to limit global warming to well below 2°C. The integration of removals into carbon compliance markets has been widely discussed as a potential option. Even though current allowance prices in markets like the European emissions trading system (EU ETS) are still considerably lower than removal cost, integration and the prospects of rising allowance prices could increase long-term certainty for investors. What is more, integration would also help to find to the efficient mix of emissions abatement and removal. To date, however, it remains unclear how exactly such an integration can take place. We address this gap in three parts. We (1) characterise a first-best vision for removals in the form of an economically desirable, long-term regulatory framework to work towards to. We (2) then analyse the implications of a first-best - i.e. direct and unconstrained - integration of permanent removals into the EU’s carbon compliance market using the numerical model LIMES-EU. In our base scenario, we find more than 60 Mt of CDR entering the market annually by 2050, cutting allowance prices considerably. This underpins the general cost-effectiveness of integration. However, high uncertainty on CDR cost and fragmented regulation give rise to the risks of abate-ment deterrence and excessive biomass use, which need to be accounted for through a second-best sequencing approach. We consequently (3) derive a three-stage path for removal integration into the EU ETS, based on risk reduction contingencies that serve as preconditions for entering subsequent stages. |
| Keywords: | carbon dioxide removal, emissions trading, policy sequencing, technology learning |
| JEL: | H23 Q52 Q55 Q58 |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_11173 |
| By: | Cheng, Haotian; Baldwin, Elizabeth; Ponce, Alex; Lien, Aaron; Henry, Adam; Soto, Jose R. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Institutional And Behavioral Economics, Political Economy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343564 |
| By: | Huang, Yu-Kai; Khanna, Madhu; Wuestenberg, Madelynn; VanLoocke, Andy |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Land Economics/Use, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343610 |
| By: | Zhang, Jingfang; Malikov, Emir; Miao, Ruiqing; Ghosh, Prasenjit N. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Crop Production/Industries, Research Methods/Statistical Methods |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343758 |
| By: | Toke S Aidt; Facundo Albornoz; Esther Hauk |
| Abstract: | This article explores the complex interplay between deforestation policies and foreign influence, using a game theoretical model to analyze geopolitical factors influencing forest conservation decisions in countries with significant rainforests. The model highlights the conflicting interests of foreign powers – one aiming for economic benefits from agriculture and the other advocating for forest preservation due to environmental services. The paper demonstrates how domestic political dynamics and economic shocks influence the regulatory decisions on deforestation. This understanding is crucial for formulating strategies that balance developmental needs and global environmental concerns. |
| Keywords: | Foreign influence, geopolitics, deforestation, food security, Brazil, China, rainforest. |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:not:notgep:2024-03 |
| By: | Taheripour, Farzad; Chepeliev, Maksym; Aguiar, Angel H. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Land Economics/Use, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343655 |
| By: | Majeed, Fahd; Khanna, Madhu; Mwebaze, Paul; McCall, James; Waechter, Katy; Jia, Mengqi; Peng, Bin; Miao, Ruiqing; Kaiyu, Guan; Macknick, Jordan |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343890 |
| By: | Yoo, Juyoung; Penn, Jerrod; Fannin, James Matthew; Hu, Wuyang |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Marketing, Consumer/ Household Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343989 |
| By: | Hu, Chenyang; Chen, Zhenshan; Zhang, Wei; Bosch, Darrell J. |
| Keywords: | Land Economics/Use, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343955 |
| By: | Hrozencik, Robert A.; Rouhi Rad, Mani; Uz, Dilek; Li, Liqing |
| Keywords: | Community/Rural/Urban Development, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343894 |
| By: | Ayinde, Opeyemi E.; Oyedeji, Oluwafemi A.; Omotesho, Kemi; Abdoulaye, Tahirou; Bankole, Folusho; Ayinde, Love J. |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Risk And Uncertainty, Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343828 |
| By: | Saengavut, Voravee; Kim, Man-Keun; Nuam, Cing Khawl |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Research And Development/ Tech Change/Emerging Technologies, Farm Management |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343760 |
| By: | Kang, Qi; McCallister, Donna; Fischer, Laura; Badruddoza, Syed; Gao, Long |
| Keywords: | Agribusiness, Consumer/ Household Economics, Demand And Price Analysis |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343888 |
| By: | Shen, Mingzhou; Fan, Qin; Fisher-Vanden, Karen; Wrenn, Douglas H. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Labor And Human Capital, Land Economics/Use |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343565 |
| By: | Horan, Rick; Finnoff, David; Sims, Charles |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy, Public Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343973 |
| By: | Zattler, Jürgen K. |
| Abstract: | The environment in which development policy operates has changed quickly. Some of these changes are longer-term trends to which development policy should adapt: the global economy is in upheaval, while global crises are becoming the norm and are increasing the debt level even further. Moreover, they are exacerbating inequality in our partner countries, which in turn is undermining democratic structures. Public budgets are increasingly coming under pressure and populist forces are calling into question the very principle of development policy. At the same time, the world is becoming more multipolar and developing countries are gaining in self-confidence.Development policy needs to find structural answers to these challenges: – It should explicitly see itself as part of overall policy and should systematically contribute to overcoming global challenges; – It must find new ways to ensure that environmental transformation goes hand in hand with social progress; – It needs to become even more effective and more political, particularly by systematically integrating bilateral contributions into the policies of the partner countries and into multilateral and European approaches; moreover, policy reforms must be addressed comprehensively, most importantly those related to the green transformation; – It must profoundly change the way it mobilises private investments, focusing not on subsidising individual investments but on transforming markets; – Finally, development partners need to team up to find solutions to the acute debt and financial crisis. This paper will not only outline current trends and formulate principles for a modern development policy. It will also show examples of how these principles could be put into practice through concrete initiatives: – Socio-ecological fiscal reforms: environmentally harmful subsidies can be repurposed for social security – A new Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to reduce intra-country inequality – Climate programmes that focus on policy reforms. |
| Keywords: | international financial system, development financing |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:idospb:299129 |
| By: | Pratt, Bryan; Nagler, Amy M.; Rashford, Benjamin S.; Raff, Zach; Iovanna, Rich; Wallander, Steven |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Agricultural And Food Policy, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343916 |
| By: | Sukhgeet Kaur; Michael G. Pollitt |
| Keywords: | Agriculture, energy water nexus, electricity, discrete choice, Punjab, India |
| JEL: | O13 Q1 Q4 Q5 Q12 Q24 Q25 Q28 Q48 Q57 |
| Date: | 2024–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:enp:wpaper:eprg2406 |
| By: | Chepeliev, Maksym; Golub, Alla; Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique; Cao, Peiyu; Diniz Oliveira, Thais; Gonzalez Fischer, Carlos; Herrero, Mario; Mason-D'Croz, Daniel |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343875 |
| By: | Melkani, Aakanksha; Mieno, Taro; Hrozencik, Robert A.; Rimsaite, Renata; Brozovic, Nick |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Agricultural And Food Policy, Land Economics/Use |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344018 |
| By: | Yvonne Wolfmayr; Elisabeth Christen; Hendrik Mahlkow; Birgit Meyer; Michael Pfaffermayr |
| Abstract: | Abstract: Geoeconomic concepts are gaining importance in EU trade policy. In this context new trade policy instruments are designed to protect the internal market against unfair trade practices, coercive actions as well as to ensure sustainable supply chains and the protection of human rights. The study extensively overviews seven policy instruments: Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI), Enforcement Regulation (ER), International Procurement Instrument (IPI), Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDD), Level Playing Field Provisions in the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (LPF), and EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products (EUDR). Using gravity models and a quantitative general equilibrium trade model, the impact of the selected trade policy instruments on trade and welfare of the EU as well as Austria is estimated based on different scenarios. |
| Keywords: | trade, Welfare, human rights, EU trade policy, unfair trade practices, sustainable supply chains, internal market, Geoeconomic concepts, trade policy instruments, Anti-Coercion Instrument, coercive actions, Foreign Subsidy Instrument, International Procurement Instrument, gravity models, Deforestation Initiative, Enforcement Regulation, EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, impact, Level Playing Field Provisions, quantitative general equilibrium trade model, Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence |
| JEL: | F14 F55 F15 F13 Q56 F18 Q01 |
| Date: | 2024–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wsr:ecbook:y:2024:m:01:i:2024-02 |
| By: | Ramaswamy, Karthik; Lark, Tyler; Uludere Aragon, Nazli Z. |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Production Economics, Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344073 |
| By: | Anouck Adrot (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Lola Brunet (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Henri Isaac (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| Abstract: | Data sharing is a major driver to disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), which is essential to cross-border regions' resilience. However, sharing data for DRR at borders remains challenging and a limited spectrum of regions have been significantly progressing on this path. While the literature recommends that cross-border regions and organizations settle data ecosystems, studies also evidence that ecosystems face difficulties in developing sustainable rules for data sharing. A better understanding of the impediments of data sharing in cross-border DRR ecosystems is therefore necessary and remains missing in the literature. This research, based on a qualitative and collaborative design, is a work in progress focusing on the Italian-French border. Based on 24 qualitative interviews and archive analysis, we have identified four major challenges that organizations need to overcome to support data sharing for DRR at borders. First, cross-border DRR actors struggle harmonizing their perspectives over their common environment, whether it is environmental or data-related. Second, they face persistent elements of fragmentation, particularly reinforced at frontiers. Third, these organizations meet the challenge of building a sustainable bond of trust between one another about data. Fourth, they lack data maturity, thus impeding good use of data within the ecosystem. Our findings contribute to a more situated understanding of data sharing at borders and call for more consideration of the border settings from practitioners that participate in data sharing. |
| Keywords: | Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), cross-border, data sharing, natural risk, ecosystems |
| Date: | 2024–05–25 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04600311 |
| By: | Caruso, Tony; Rosselle, Macy; Haddock, Teresa; Schaefer, K. Aleks |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Agricultural And Food Policy, Marketing |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344002 |
| By: | Harleman, Max; Weber, Jeremy G. |
| Abstract: | A core public administration literature seeks to understand whether decentralized collective action institutions will emerge to provide public goods, such as management of environmental resources. Few studies examine how they perform relative to the state at providing public goods, and they fail to account for the possibility that the state might self-select into providing public goods in the most challenging contexts. If it does, finding that the state performs worse than collective action institutions could reflect its more challenging context rather than differences in knowledge, skill, or motivation. We examine several quantitative measures of performance in remediating polluted water discharges from abandoned coal mines in Pennsylvania, a task sometimes done by the state and sometimes by nonprofit watershed associations. We find that the two types of institutions address discharges with generally similar water quality problems and build systems that yield similar initial improvements in water quality. However, watershed association systems better maintain effectiveness at reducing acidity and removing heavy metals over time. The findings suggest a role for sustained public investment in collective action institutions to address complex and enduring environmental problems. |
| Keywords: | collective action, abandoned mines, water quality, decentralization |
| JEL: | H4 Q5 |
| Date: | 2023–12–22 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:121315 |
| By: | Tran, Dat Q.; Le, Kieu; Nguyen, Nguyen NT; Huynh, Minh VT; Durand-Morat, Alvaro; Bairagi, Subir; Tran, Ty V. |
| Keywords: | Research Methods/Statistical Methods, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343689 |
| By: | Hanna Schwank |
| Abstract: | Natural disasters are growing in frequency globally. Understanding how vulnerable populations respond to these disasters is essential for effective policy response. This paper explores the short- and long-run consequences of the 1906 San Francisco Fire, one of the largest urban fires in American history. Using linked Census records, I follow residents of San Francisco and their children from 1900 to 1940. Historical records suggest that exogenous factors such as wind and the availability of water determined where the fire stopped. I implement a spatial regression discontinuity design across the boundary of the razed area to identify the effect of the fire on those who lost their home to it. I find that in the short run, the fire displaced affected residents, forced them into lower paying occupations and out of entrepreneurship. Experiencing the disaster disrupted children’s school attendance and led to an average loss of six months of education. While most effects attenuated over time, the negative effect on business ownership persists even in 1940, 34 years after the fire. Therefore, my findings reject the hope for a “reversal of fortune” for the victims, in contrast to what is found for more recent natural disasters such as hurricane Katrina. |
| Keywords: | Natural Disasters; Internal Migration; Economic History, Regional and Urban Economics |
| JEL: | N91 N31 Q54 O15 J61 J62 |
| Date: | 2024–07 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bon:boncrc:crctr224_2024_571 |
| By: | Stoeckli, Sabrina; Merian, Sybilla (University of Zurich); Wanner, Silvan; Stucki, Matthias; Chaudhary, Abhishek |
| Abstract: | Our food production, distribution, and consumption threaten biodiversity. Thus, we need to promote biodiversity conservation along the food supply chain. We expanded the existing methodology for assessing crops’ biodiversity impact on other food products and calculated the biodiversity footprints of 51 frequently consumed foods in Switzerland. We find that biodiversity loss is predominantly caused by a few hedonic and animal-based products (e.g., coffee, beef). Discussing various intervention strategies demonstrates that consumers, retailers, and producers all play a pivotal role in biodiversity conservation. This research provides practical and non-technical information on biodiversity quantification, suggests a concrete research agenda, and thereby enables behavioral scientists as well as practitioners in the food sector to identify effective strategies for more biodiversity-friendly food supply chains. |
| Date: | 2024–06–25 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:zpvq4 |
| By: | Vollebergh, Herman (Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management) |
| Date: | 2023 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tiu:tiutis:0a3c8aaf-2b01-4fe9-bfe7-a756be79db7a |
| By: | Ayinde, Opeyemi E.; Belewu, Kafayat Yemisi; Jacob, Sinmidele M.; Ojo, Tomilola O.; Ayinde, Love J. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics And Policy, Institutional And Behavioral Economics, Research And Development/ Tech Change/Emerging Technologies |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343803 |
| By: | Petersen, Thies; Denker, Tom; Koppenberg, Maximilian; Hirsch, Stefan |
| Keywords: | Consumer/ Household Economics, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343692 |
| By: | Crespo, Daniel; Nemati, Mehdi; Dinar, Ariel; Frankel, Zachary; Halberg, Nick |
| Keywords: | Risk And Uncertainty, Agricultural And Food Policy, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343879 |
| By: | Michele Fioretti; Junnan He; Jorge Tamayo |
| Abstract: | We study firms' strategic interactions when each firm may own multiple production technologies, each with its own marginal cost and capacity. Increasing industry concentration by reallocating non-efficient capacity to the largest and most efficient firm can decrease market prices as it incentivizes the firm to outcompete its rivals. However, with large reallocations, the standard monotonic relationship between concentration and prices re-emerges as competition weakens due to the rival's lower capacity. Thus, we demonstrate a U-shaped relationship between market prices and industry concentration when firms are diversified. This result does not rely on economies of scale or scope. We find consistent evidence from the Colombian wholesale energy market, where strategic firms are diversified with fossil-fuel and renewable technologies, exploiting exogenous variation in renewable capacities. Our findings not only apply to the green transition but also to other industries and suggest new insights for antitrust policies. |
| Date: | 2024–07 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2407.03504 |
| By: | Zhao, Jing; Cochrane, Mark; Zhang, Xin; Elmore, Andrew; Lee, Janice; Su, Ye |
| Keywords: | Land Economics/Use, Environmental Economics And Policy, Community/Rural/Urban Development |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344016 |
| By: | Shi, Xiangyu; Gong, Jiaowei; Zhang, Xin; Wang, Chang |
| Abstract: | Using a novel city-level high-frequency panel data set of social and public events in Chinese cities, we document that extreme high temperatures significantly reshape social dynamics. Extreme high temperatures lead to an increase in social cooperation, and the effects are more salient when productivity is lower and labor is more intensively used. This implies extreme high temperatures boost the relative returns of cooperation given lowered productivity. Our estimates and quantitative model suggest that the human race adapts to global warming by reshaping its social dynamics: adaptation via social dynamics offsets about one-third of the negative impacts of extreme high temperatures on the economy. |
| Keywords: | Social dynamics; Public events; Social cooperation; Protest; Temperatures; Climate change; China |
| JEL: | D7 D9 O1 Q5 |
| Date: | 2024–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:121358 |
| By: | Chepeliev, Maksym; Gatto, Alessandro; Hertel, Thomas W.; Simonato, Thiago C. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Research Methods/Statistical Methods |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343801 |
| By: | - |
| Abstract: | En este documento se presenta un protocolo para la estimación de daños y pérdidas en el sector ambiental basado en la metodología para la evaluación de daños y pérdidas creada por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y adaptada al contexto institucional hondureño. Este esfuerzo va en línea con acuerdos internacionales suscritos por Honduras. Como se afirmó en el 27° período de sesiones de la Conferencia de las Partes en la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (COP 27) y se señala en el Marco de Sendái para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres, es perentorio potenciar el desarrollo y la difusión de metodologías para la estimación de los efectos de corto y largo plazo del cambio climático en el sector ambiental. Se hacen dos aplicaciones ilustrativas del protocolo. En la primera, se estimaron daños y pérdidas mediante análisis multitemporal basado en técnicas de sensores remotos, considerando ecosistemas de bosque en tres zonas escogidas como piloto: el Valle de Sula, el Corredor Seco y la Biosfera Río Plátano. En la segunda, se estimó una línea de base para parques nacionales. |
| Date: | 2024–05–13 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ecr:col022:80374 |
| By: | Chen, Kelin; Zhang, Jun; Zhang, Yuehua |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Consumer/ Household Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343855 |
| By: | Miao, Yiyuan; Swallow, Brent M.; Goddard, Ellen W.; Sheng, Jiping |
| Keywords: | Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Marketing, Environmental Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343830 |
| By: | Wu, Tong; Lin Lawell, C. Y. Cynthia; Just, David R.; Zhao, Jiancheng; Fei, Zhangjun; Wei, Qiang |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Research Methods/Statistical Methods, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343630 |
| By: | Garcia Gomez, Viviana; Möhring, Niklas; Wang, Yanbing; Finger, Robert |
| Keywords: | Farm Management, Institutional And Behavioral Economics, Crop Production/Industries |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343529 |
| By: | Emily Quiroga; Michael Tanner |
| Abstract: | The study on risk preferences and its potential changes amid natural catastrophes has been subject of recent study, producing contradictory findings. An often proposed explanation specifically distinguishes between the opposite effect of realized and unrealized losses on risk preferences. Moreover, higher-order risk preferences and its relation to post-disaster behaviors remain unexplored, despite potential theoretical implications. We address these gaps in the literature by conducting experiments with 600 individuals post Turkeys 2023 catastrophic earthquake, specifically heavily affected individuals who are displaced, those who are not and a control group. Results indicate higher risk-taking in heavily affected individuals when compared to unaffected individuals. Our results are specifically driven by affected females. We find no pre existing differences in risk preferences between earthquake and control areas using 2012 data. Within the heavily affected group of individuals, higher house damage, our proxy for realized losses, increases risk aversion. Regarding higher-order risk preferences for individuals heavily affected by the earthquake, we find that prudence is positively associated with selfprotective behaviors after the earthquake, specifically internal migration and/or displacement. While precautionary savings shows initially no correlation to prudence, a positive association emerges when considering that prudence is also related to occupational choices, with individuals with stable incomes and who save being more prudent. Our results contribute insights into how disasters influence risk preferences, specifically aiming to address contradictory findings in the literature, while presenting novel evidence on the relationship between prudence and post-natural disaster behaviors. |
| Date: | 2024–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2406.15905 |
| By: | Camille Horvath; C\'eline Raimbert; Gwena\"elle Raton |
| Abstract: | In response to the negative environmental, social, and economic externalities of the dominant food model, a consensus is emerging on the need to develop alternative food systems capable of facilitating a transition to a more sustainable model. Among these alternatives, short food supply chains (SFSCs) are identified as potential crucibles of alternativity. Defined as distribution channels with a maximum of one intermediary between producer and consumer, SFSCs can contribute to the reterritorialization of food flows and the creation of relational and geographical proximities among food chain actors. This study examines how logistical engagement translates into the choice of SFSC points of sale by consumers and farmers. It evaluates this engagement through the travel times farmers and consumers are willing to endure to sell or buy at an SFSC point of sale, and the prices they are willing to accept or pay for SFSC products. A discrete choice experiment conducted in 2022 with 154 farm managers and 1022 consumers analyzed preferences regarding types of points of sale, sales prices, travel times, and relational proximity. The results show that consumers engaged in SFSCs favour alternative points of sale such as farms and associations, even for longer travel times. Farmers also value these points of sale, with logistical engagement more pronounced among those already marketing through SFSCs. Supermarkets appear less attractive to alternative profiles but serve as entry points for new participants in SFSCs. Relational proximity between farmers and consumers is important, with a preference for direct exchanges during sales. This study highlights the importance of actor engagement in SFSCs and offers perspectives for developing alternative logistics by valuing relational proximity and using conventional points of sale as entry points for new actors in the SFSCs. |
| Date: | 2024–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2406.18123 |
| By: | Stoeckli, Sabrina; Merian, Sybilla (University of Zurich); Holenweger, Geraldine; Nielsen, Kristian Steensen; Natter, Martin |
| Abstract: | Food is a major driver of the biodiversity crisis. Therefore, fostering biodiversity-friendly diets is essential for reducing biodiversity loss and restoring nature. However, how accurately the public perceives biodiversity impact of food is unknown. We conducted a preregistered quota-based study with 1, 744 citizens from Switzerland to examine public perceptions of food-related biodiversity footprints. Only a minority recognizes how substantially food affects biodiversity. The food-related actions perceived as being the most impactful concern more local, organic, and less animal-based foods. Participants—especially those with high problem awareness—systematically overestimated Switzerland-specific biodiversity footprints. The magnitude of this pattern varies across foods, and only a few high-impact foods (e.g., cocoa, olive oil) are underestimated. We demonstrate that a simple educational intervention can alter perceptions of biodiversity footprints. Although we find no change in the general accuracy of footprint ratings, we observe an improvement in the ability to recognize high-impact foods. |
| Date: | 2024–06–27 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:2w4tc |
| By: | Rob Bauer (Maastricht University and ECCE); Katrin Gödker (Bocconi University, CESifo, and IGIER); Paul Smeets (University of Amsterdam); Florian Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn) |
| Abstract: | We investigate financial experts’ beliefs about climate risk pricing and analyze how those beliefs Influence stock return expectations. In a comprehensive survey, we elicit experts beliefs using both structured and open-ended questions. We establish that experts share the view that climate risks are insufficiently reflected in stock prices, yet they hold heterogeneous beliefs about the source and persistence of the mispricing. Through the analysis of experts’ text responses, we delineate distinct mental models used by financial professionals to interpret and predict the asset pricing implications of climate risks. Differences in experts’ mental models explain variation in return expectations in the short-term (1-year) and long-term (10-year). Furthermore, we document that experts’ political leanings and geography determine the type of mental model they hold. In a last step, we show that one widely held mental model, which is based on second-order beliefs, causally affects experts’ return expectations using an information provision experiment. |
| Keywords: | Climate Finance, Climate Risks, Mental Models, 2nd order beliefs, Expectations |
| JEL: | D01 G10 G40 |
| Date: | 2024–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ajk:ajkdps:319 |
| By: | Rob Bauer; Katrin Gödker; Paul Smeets; Florian Zimmermann |
| Abstract: | We investigate financial experts’ beliefs about climate risk pricing and analyze how those beliefs influence stock return expectations. In a comprehensive survey, we elicit experts beliefs using both structured and open-ended questions. We establish that experts share the view that climate risks are insufficiently reflected in stock prices, yet they hold heterogeneous beliefs about the source and persistence of the mispricing. Through the analysis of experts’ text responses, we delineate distinct mental models used by financial professionals to interpret and predict the asset pricing implications of climate risks. Differences in experts’ mental models explain variation in return expectations in the short-term (1-year) and long-term (10-year). Furthermore, we document that experts’ political leanings and geography determine the type of mental model they hold. In a last step, we show that one widely held mental model, which is based on second-order beliefs, causally affects experts’ return expectations using an information provision experiment. |
| Keywords: | climate finance, climate risks, mental models, 2nd order beliefs, expectations |
| JEL: | D01 G10 G40 |
| Date: | 2024–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bon:boncrc:crctr224_2024_569 |
| By: | Resta, Emanuela; Logroscino, Giancarlo; Tafuri, Silvio; Preethymol, Peter; Noviello, Chiara; Costantiello, Alberto; Leogrande, Angelo |
| Abstract: | The following article analyses the relationship between the mental health index and the variables of the Environment, Social and Governance-ESG model in the Italian regions between 2004 and 2023. The econometric analysis is aimed at investigating in detail the relationships between the mental health index and the individual components of the ESG model. The results are critically discussed. |
| Keywords: | ESG, Mental Health Index, Panel Data, Data Analysis |
| JEL: | I11 I12 I13 I14 I18 |
| Date: | 2024–06–13 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:121202 |
| By: | Hou, Peibin; Kong, Xiangwen; Sun, Falin; Qiu, Huanguang |
| Keywords: | International Relations/Trade, International Development, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343646 |
| By: | Shi, Xiangyu; Zhang, Xin |
| Abstract: | We study how extreme (high) temperatures affect firm dynamics---entry, exit, and aggregate productivity---in Chinese manufacturing sectors. Existing studies focus on the effects on incumbent firms (intensive margin), while we examine the effects on entry and exit (extensive margin), and their relationship with the aggregate productivity. Extreme temperatures lower the productivity of incumbent firms (productivity effects), while selecting firms with higher productivity to survive (selection effect). Exploiting a unique data set on the registration information of the universe of firms allows us to document this novel general equilibrium mechanism, whereby resources released by eliminated low-productivity firms are reallocated to firms with higher productivity. Thus, the combined effects on aggregate productivity are muted, a finding that differs from the consensus in the literature that extreme (high) temperatures worsen productivity and economic outcomes. We quantify these effects using a heterogeneous firm framework a la Melitz (2003). The results shed light on the importance of firm dynamics in stipulating climate policies. |
| Keywords: | C15, D21, D22, E23, Q56 |
| JEL: | C1 D2 E2 L2 Q5 |
| Date: | 2024–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:121351 |
| By: | International Monetary Fund |
| Abstract: | Context and outlook. Economic growth is recovering from the impact of the unfavorable global economic environment and domestic factors. Growth is expected to continue strengthening, supported by improvements in the business environment and subsiding global commodity prices. Inflation is projected to remain within the central bank’s target range. Growth-friendly fiscal consolidation is underway, anchored by the ECF arrangement, and the current account deficit is narrowing reflecting fiscal consolidation, easing commodity prices, and tight external financing conditions. The medium-term outlook is positive contingent on implementation of the authorities’ reform agenda, anchored by the ECF arrangement. Climate change poses a major threat, as Tanzania is highly vulnerable but not well-prepared to address the effects of climate change. |
| Date: | 2024–06–25 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:imf:imfscr:2024/187 |
| By: | Kwon, Daye; Liverpool-Tasie, Saweda; Reardon, Thomas A.; Mason-Wardell, Nicole M.; Tasie, Oyinkansola |
| Keywords: | International Development, Agricultural And Food Policy, Agribusiness |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343947 |
| By: | Hafish, Muhammad; Famiola, Melia |
| Abstract: | The purpose of this paper is to focus on the contribution of stakeholder engagement to Sustainable innovation (SI) within the context of sustainable food and agriculture context. It investigates whether engagement with different stakeholders promotes sustainable innovation. The empirical analysis is based on a distinctive single case study of sustainable-oriented ventures that successfully deliver sustainable impact within their SI. A qualitative study, which an abductive approach was performed in order to delve the stakeholder engagement and its relationship with the type of SI. We use multiple data sources. Primary data such as semi-unstructured interview with several representative innovating ventures. Then, secondary data from multiple sources gathered to acquire deeper knowledge and information to capture the retrospective data about SI journey and development process of the ventures. Result showed that proactive role in venture to engage with various and wider stakeholders is needed to foster the SI particularly in system-building SI. Moreover, sustainability-oriented innovation (SI) as a journey and its characteristics constitutes from on practices that constitute day-to-day SI activities, strategies, activities, and linkages that resulting SI output and outcome. Particularly, stakeholders are part of these linkages. The wider and various of stakeholders also its engagement in co-creation of SI is affecting the output and outcomes of its SI. This research extends the response to the lack of systematic knowledge about stakeholder collaboration in SI. This paper provides a fine-grain qualitative analysis, a single case study, and identifies several types of stakeholders with various roles in the SI. |
| Date: | 2024–06–26 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:bp94f |
| By: | Irving Llamosas-Rosas; Erick Rangel González; Felipe J. Fonseca; Rita Karolina Cantú Zendejas |
| Abstract: | According to the World Health Organization, people's exposure to particles 2.5 microns or less in diameter (PM2.5) causes respiratory tract diseases. The measurement of these particles represents a considerable challenge due to the lack of monitoring stations. This research proposes the use of recent advances in adjustments to satellite data to obtain accurate PM2.5 data. Thus, the impact of said pollutant on acute respiratory infections and pneumonia in Mexico in the period 2011 to 2021 is quantified. The results indicate that a 10% increase in the average levels of PM2.5 is reflected in an increase of 0.85% in reported cases of acute respiratory infections, which represents 209, 977 additional annual cases. For pneumonia, an increase of 1.41% was found, equivalent to an annual increase of 1, 998 reported cases. |
| Keywords: | PM2.5;Satellite Data;Acute Respiratory Infections;Profundidad Óptica de Aerosoles |
| JEL: | I15 Q53 O10 |
| Date: | 2024–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bdm:wpaper:2024-04 |
| By: | Luigi Guiso (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) and CEPR); Tullio Jappelli (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF, and CEPR) |
| Abstract: | We implement a survey experiment to study whether awareness of the consequences of hydrogeological risk affects people’s willingness to fight it. To do so, we leverage a representative panel of 5, 000 Italian individuals interviewed at quarterly frequency, starting in October 2023. We elicit survey participants’ willingness to contribute to a public fund to finance investment to secure areas exposed to hydrogeological risk under different information treatments. We find that disclosing information about the consequences of hydrogeological risk causes individuals to increase both support for public funding and individual willingness to pay for the policy. Compared to the control group, individuals exposed to the treatment were 9 percentage points more likely to contribute to the fund and more willing to contribute an additional €29. Applying the information treatment to the whole working age population could raise as much as €0.26 billion per year. We provide evidence that individual willingness to pay depends on individual knowledge that the success of the policy depends critically on the willingness to pay of other citizens. |
| Keywords: | Natural Disasters; Willingness to Pay; Insurance. |
| JEL: | H31 H2 H23 |
| Date: | 2024–06–24 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sef:csefwp:723 |
| By: | Agossadou, Arsene J.; McCallum, Chloe; Siegrist, Michael; Finger, Robert; Nayga, Rodolfo M. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343877 |
| By: | Katungi, Enid M.; Larochelle, Catherine; Magreta, Ruth; Banda, Arnold |
| Keywords: | International Development, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343995 |
| By: | Aitken, John A.; Sprenger, Amber; Mika, Grace; Alaybek, Balca |
| Keywords: | Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Consumer/ Household Economics, Agricultural And Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343915 |
| By: | Dakpo, K Hervé; Latruffe, Laure; Desjeux, Yann |
| Keywords: | Production Economics, Productivity Analysis, Research Methods/Statistical Methods |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344050 |
| By: | Thomas Fackler; Oliver Falck; Moritz Goldbeck; Fabian Hans; Annina Hering |
| Abstract: | We investigate differences in labor demand between German automotive firms specializing in green propulsion technology and those with a focus on combustion engines. To this end, we introduce a firm-level labor demand index based on the near-universe of online job postings and firms’ patent portfolios. Workforce adjustments are a crucial dimension of technology-related structural change, and labor demand as a highly reactive decision parameter is an ideal measure to detect employment adjustments. Our index enables us to distinguish labor demand by firms’ greenness in real-time, a notable advantage over survey or administrative data. In a difference-in-differences setup, we exploit the poly-crisis triggered by unexpected escalations of trade conflicts and sustained by consequences of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. We find green firms’ labor demand is significantly and persistently higher than before the outbreak of the poly-crisis, by 34 to 50 percentage points compared to firms with a focus on combustion technology. This gap widens over time and is not driven by unobserved firm heterogeneity. Green firms systematically adjust labor demand towards production and information technology jobs. |
| Keywords: | low carbon technology, firm employment decisions, sustainability, disruptive innovation |
| JEL: | C55 J23 M51 O14 O33 |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_11160 |
| By: | Fuller, Katherine; Gao, Shijun; Ford, Jennifer; Bell, Brooke; Nikkah, Amin; Tichenor, Nicole; Zhang, Fang Fang; Decker, Jessica; Webb, Patrick; Cash, Sean B. |
| Keywords: | Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession, Health Economics And Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:344011 |
| By: | Run-Xuan Tang |
| Abstract: | This paper presents an innovative Comprehensive Growth Dynamic Model (CGDM). CGDM is designed to simulate the temporal evolution of an event, incorporating economic and social factors. CGDM is a regression of logistic regression, power law regression, and Gaussian perturbation term. CGDM is comprised of logistic regression, power law regression, and Gaussian perturbation term. CGDM can effectively forecast the temporal evolution of an event, incorporating economic and social factors. The illicit trade in wildlife has a deleterious impact on the ecological environment. In this paper, we employ CGDM to forecast the trajectory of illegal wildlife trade from 2024 to 2034 in China. The mean square error is utilized as the loss function. The model illuminates the future trajectory of illegal wildlife trade, with a minimum point occurring in 2027 and a maximum point occurring in 2029. The stability of contemporary society can be inferred. CGDM's robust and generalizable nature is also evident. |
| Date: | 2024–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2406.11908 |
| By: | Meneses, Michael A.; Casteel, Clare; Gomez, Miguel I.; Just, David R.; Kanbur, Ravi; Lee, David R.; Lin Lawell, C. Y. Cynthia |
| Keywords: | Productivity Analysis, Resource/Energy Economics And Policy, Farm Management |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343606 |
| By: | Nouve, Yawotse; Zheng, Yuqing; Zhao, Shuoli; Kaiser, Harry M.; Dong, Diansheng |
| Keywords: | Demand And Price Analysis, Consumer/ Household Economics, Agribusiness |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343798 |
| By: | Carry, Inga |
| Abstract: | Die EU setzt für ihre Versorgung mit sogenannten kritischen Rohstoffen auf eine Verstärkung der Kooperation mit gleichgesinnten Staaten. Als "perfect match" sieht EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen in diesem Zusammenhang Kanada an, ein rohstoffreicher und verlässlicher Partner, der die geopolitischen Interessen und Nachhaltigkeitsziele der EU teilt. Kanada will seine Lieferketten diversifizieren und dem Einfluss chinesischer Akteure in seiner Bergbauindustrie durch eine Politik des Friendshoring entgegenwirken. Dabei zeigt sich die kanadische Regierung weitaus offener als die US-Regierung für eine Zusammenarbeit mit der EU in Rohstofflieferketten und Schlüsselindustrien. Eine Vertiefung der Kooperation ist für beide Seiten vorteilhaft. Um die Rohstoffpartnerschaft wirklich zu einem perfekten Match zu machen, sollte die EU jedoch stärkere finanzielle Anreize setzen für die Verzahnung der europäischen und kanadischen Industrien, den wissenschaftlichen Austausch und die technische Zusammenarbeit fördern und sich für starke unternehmerische Sorgfaltspflichten in Lieferketten einsetzen. |
| Keywords: | Kritische Rohstoffe, Strategische Rohstoffe, Lithium, Graphit, Nickel, Kobalt, Kupfer, Seltene Erden, Kathodenaktivmaterial, CAD, Critical Raw Materials Act, CRMA, Manitoba, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Ring of Fire, ESG, ESG+1, Mineral Security Partnership, MSP, Benefits-Sharing Framework, EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, CSDDD |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:swpakt:299530 |
| By: | Lisette Ibanez (CEE-M - Centre d'Economie de l'Environnement - Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement - UM - Université de Montpellier); Gilles Grolleau (ESSCA Research Lab - ESSCA - Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d'Angers); Simon Mathex (CEE-M - Centre d'Economie de l'Environnement - Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement - UM - Université de Montpellier); Sophie Clot (UOR - University of Reading) |
| Abstract: | Nous sommes nombreux à en avoir conscience : adopter des modes de vie plus écologiques est devenu une nécessité. Pour autant, nous n'agissons pas de manière écologiquement vertueuse en toutes circonstances (loin de là), et, surtout, nous nous accordons, parfois inconsciemment, des « écarts » après avoir fourni une bonne action sur le plan environnemental. C'est ce qu'on appelle « l'effet de compensation morale », à découvrir dans ce nouvel article de notre série « Nos vies mode d'emploi ». |
| Date: | 2024–05–26 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04624658 |
| By: | Dai, Bingyan; Gomez, Miguel I.; Fan, Xiaoli; Loeb, Gregory; Shrestha, Binita |
| Keywords: | Farm Management, Crop Production/Industries, Research Methods/Statistical Methods |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea22:343531 |