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on Environmental Economics |
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Issue of 2026–02–16
sixty-six papers chosen by Francisco S. Ramos, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco |
| By: | Elias Asproudis (Swansea University, School of Social Sciences, Department of Economics, UK); Eleftherios Filippiadis (Department of Economics, University of Macedonia, Greece) |
| Abstract: | This paper examines how environmental taxes, abatement effort, and green trade unions interact within a differentiated duopoly under decentralised and centralised wage setting structures. We show that trade union environmental awareness acts as a substitute for environmental taxation: as unions internalize local damages in wage negotiations, the regulator optimally chooses a lower emissions tax. Centralised wage bargaining leads to higher wages and lower emissions, while decentralised bargaining yields higher output, profits, and social welfare. From a policy perspective, we argue that incorporating green trade unions’ environmental preferences into environmental governance can improve efficiency of the environmental policy taxation. |
| Keywords: | environmental tax, abatement effort, green trade unions, environmental damages, labour market structure |
| JEL: | Q5 L13 D43 J5 H2 |
| Date: | 2026–03 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mcd:mcddps:2026_03 |
| By: | Daniel Kim (University of Waterloo [Waterloo]); Sébastien Pouget (TSM - Toulouse School of Management Research - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - Comue de Toulouse - Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - TSM - Toulouse School of Management - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - Comue de Toulouse - Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse, TSE-R - Toulouse School of Economics - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - Comue de Toulouse - Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement) |
| Abstract: | We empirically study whether carbon emissions affect firms' cost of capital raised on conventional bond markets. We find that firms with higher carbon emissions face higher spreads in the secondary market but not in the primary market. We show that this gap is related to uncertainty about climate concerns that affects differently primary and secondary market. This gap is also affected by the reputation of underwriting dealers: high reputation promotes the incorporation of climate concerns into bond yields. Our findings imply that, on average, carbon emissions do not affect the cost of capital in bond markets, thereby reducing firms' financial incentives for decarbonization. |
| Keywords: | Climate finance, Carbon premium, Bond markets, Green investors, Underwriting dealers |
| Date: | 2026–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05470890 |
| By: | Tenkhoff, Leona; Voigt, Lisa |
| Abstract: | As climate negotiators gathered in Belém for the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30), the surrounding rainforest was in the spotlight, with COP30 being dubbed a "forest COP". As one of its key projects, the Brazilian government launched the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF). The fund for the conservation and restoration of standing rainforestsaims to serve as a successful and innovative initiative in multilateral cooperation through blended finance. However, there remains a gap between current forest finance and what is needed to reach the Rio Convention targets. Germany and a few other European states have pledged investments into the fund and could shape its implementation. Additional financing mechanisms for forest restoration play a complementary role and should be enhanced. Still, not all success lies in finance. Forest finance mechanisms must reconcile targets of increasing carbon sequestration and storage in forests along with biodiversity and sustainability targets, while upholding the rights of local populations. |
| Keywords: | Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30), Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), multilateral cooperation, Rio Convention, Paris Agreemen, carbon sequestration and storage, Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:swpcom:335917 |
| By: | Burgess, Matthew G.; Brown, Patrick T.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Pielke, Roger Jr |
| Abstract: | Adaptation is often framed as marginally important to addressing climate change, and as socio-technically difficult and ineffectual. We combine theoretical and empirical analyses to show that adaptation—especially via economic development—is actually often the dominant driver of climate-sensitive societal outcomes, especially on smaller space and time scales. This aligns adaptation with markets and governance incentives. For these reasons, widely studied climate-sensitive outcomes such as crop yields, affluence, and damage and death rates from climate-related hazards have broadly and steadily improved over the past several decades, as have indirectly climate-sensitive outcomes such as mortality from violence and self-harm. These improvements provide important context to recent pessimistic studies of adaptation that focus on outcomes’ marginal sensitivities to climate. They also underscore the importance of economic development to human well-being, and they suggest that economically costly climate policies could harm climate-sensitive outcomes. Moreover, we show that the range of plausible greenhouse gas emissions scenarios has narrowed, providing greater clarity to the temperatures and types of impacts society must adapt to. Our analyses highlight where adaptation and development are currently underappreciated in climate change research and policy. |
| Date: | 2026–01–25 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:m7tqu_v1 |
| By: | Sebastian Ritter (AQR-IREA, University of Barcelona); Vicente Royuela (AQR-IREA, University of Barcelona) |
| Abstract: | As the EU races to meet its 2030 emissions reduction target, regional disparities in transition progress threaten to leave some territories behind. We introduce the Regional Green Transition Performance Index (RGTP), a novel composite measure capturing progress across seven pillars (environmental; energy; circular economy and waste; sustainable development; just transition; innovation and policy; and transport and mobility) for 232 European NUTS2 regions over 14 years. Drawing on 31 indicators, we map spatial patterns and dynamic processes. Furthermore, we argue that the green transition acts as a structural force whose potential effects on regional development can be expressed along two axes: vulnerability and opportunity. We propose an alternative measure of Regional Green Transition Opportunity index (RGTO) which we combine with the existent Regional Green Transition Vulnerability index (RGTV) of RodríguezPose & Bartalucci (2024) to construct a simple 2×2 typology of regions. We translate this evidence into a policy playbook: pair risk-mitigation with opportunity-creation and embed diffusion mechanisms so gains propagate beyond individual regions. The paper contributes an open dataset, a transparent methodology to separate performance, opportunities, and vulnerabilities which responds to the EU’s performance-based policy agenda by offering a region-level monitoring tool that complements cohesion instruments (ERDF/CF/JTF/ESF+) and flags where to reduce vulnerabilities while mobilizing opportunities in the green transition. |
| Keywords: | green transition; European Union; regional inequality; green transition index. JEL classification: C43; Q56; R11; R12 |
| Date: | 2026–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:aqr:wpaper:202601 |
| By: | Burke, Matt (Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield); Mohaddes, Kamiar (University of Cambridge); Raissi, Mehdi (University of Cambridge) |
| Abstract: | This paper examines how climate change affects sovereign credit ratings and borrowing costs under the latest IPCC climate scenarios. We integrate country-specific income-loss estimates from Mohaddes and Raissi (2025) into the IMF's Q-CRAFT macro-fiscal framework and apply a Random Forest emulator to predict rating trajectories. We also use the CDS-spread mapping from Aizenman et al. (2013) to translate these rating changes into borrowing-cost effects. Results show negligible rating impacts under the Paris aligned scenario but significant downgrades (up to 2.8 notches) and increases in borrowing costs (30 basis points) under high-emission, slow-adaptation pathways by 2100 for the G20 countries. Monte Carlo simulations highlight substantial tail risks and cross-country heterogeneity, with tail outcomes producing downgrades of up to six notches by century end. We further extend the analysis to unrated economies and incorporate acute physical risks from climate-related natural disasters, using DIGNAD to estimate their cumulative GDP effects over 30 years and feeding these into the Q-CRAFT and the Random Forest emulator to project ratings. Disaster exposure can induce 1–3 notch downgrades by 2050 for highly vulnerable emerging economies. |
| Keywords: | Climate, natural disasters, adaptation, credit ratings, debt, machine learning |
| JEL: | C45 G24 H63 Q54 |
| Date: | 2026–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:amz:wpaper:2026-03 |
| By: | Phoebe Koundouri; Stathis Devves; Georgios Feretzakis; Conrad Landis; Theofanis Zacharatos; Eirini Anaxagorou; Konstantinos Astrinakis; George Kokkinakis; Dimosthenis Keranopoulos; Elisavet Maloukou; Eleni Mavrogonatou; Anastasia Milioni; Katerina Electra Philippou; Mario Strori; Svetlana Tsamtsidou; Aikaterini Tzifa; Dimitris Vavourakis |
| Abstract: | This report presents a comprehensive assessment of the contribution of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) to the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Using a structured monitoring and evaluation framework developed within the SDSN and AE4RIA ecosystem, the analysis evaluates AUEB's performance across four core pillars: research, education, governance and operations, and external outreach and leadership. The assessment combines advanced quantitative and qualitative methodologies, including large-scale analysis of research outputs, course curricula, and institutional actions, supported by natural language processing and semantic mapping techniques. Results show that AUEB demonstrates strong and systematic alignment with SDGs related to governance, institutions, partnerships, economic growth, innovation, and gender equality, particularly SDG 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions) and SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals), which dominate both research and educational activities. In contrast, environmental and resource-oriented SDGs-such as climate action, biodiversity, water, and energy-remain comparatively underrepresented, especially in research outputs. The governance and operations analysis documents a growing but still uneven integration of sustainability practices, with several initiatives lacking consistent quantitative monitoring. The report concludes that while AUEB has established a solid institutional foundation for SDG engagement, achieving a balanced and holistic contribution to the 2030 Agenda requires targeted strengthening of environmental SDGs, improved data systems, and deeper integration of sustainability across all institutional functions. The framework and findings are intended to support evidence-based strategic planning and provide a replicable model for SDG assessment in higher education institutions. |
| Date: | 2026–01–29 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:aue:wpaper:2603 |
| By: | Aymeric Bellon |
| Abstract: | I study the impact of lenders’ environmental responsibility. The empirical setting exploits the U.S. Lender Liability Act of 1996, which reduced lenders’ exposure to the environmental clean-up costs attached to some of their debtors’ collateral, and employs difference-indifferences specifications estimated using EPA and U.S. Census microdata. Firms whose lenders face lower environmental liability risks increase pollution, reduce investment in abatement technologies by 14.7%, while experiencing small production and employment distortions. Lenders facing higher liability risks offer loans with less favorable pricing, thus financially incentivizing firms to become more environmentally responsible, and potentially monitor borrowers via shorter debt maturity. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Lender Liability Risks; Pollution; Corporate Finance; Sustainable Finance; CERCLA; Secured Debt; Debt Structure; Environmental Regulation |
| JEL: | G21 Q58 K32 D22 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cen:wpaper:26-05 |
| By: | Burke, M.; Mohaddes, K; Raissi, M. |
| Abstract: | This paper examines how climate change affects sovereign credit ratings and borrowing costs under the latest IPCC climate scenarios. We integrate country-specific income-loss estimates from Mohaddes and Raissi (2025) into the IMF’s Q-CRAFT macro-fiscal framework and apply a Random Forest emulator to predict rating trajectories. We also use the CDS-spread mapping from Aizenman et al. (2013) to translate these rating changes into borrowing-cost effects. Results show negligible rating impacts under the Paris-aligned scenario but significant downgrades (up to 2.8 notches) and increases in borrowing costs (30 basis points) under high-emission, slow-adaptation pathways by 2100 for the G20 countries. Monte Carlo simulations highlight substantial tail risks and cross-country heterogeneity, with tail outcomes producing downgrades of up to six notches by century end. We further extend the analysis to unrated economies and incorporate acute physical risks from climate-related natural disasters, using DIGNAD to estimate their cumulative GDP effects over 30 years and feeding these into the Q-CRAFT and the Random Forest emulator to project ratings. Disaster exposure can induce 1–3 notch downgrades by 2050 for highly vulnerable emerging economies. |
| Keywords: | Climate, Natural Disasters, Adaptation, Credit Ratings, Debt, Machine Learning |
| JEL: | C45 G24 H63 Q54 |
| Date: | 2026–02–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cam:camdae:2608 |
| By: | Fauziah Zen (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)); Denisa Athallia (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)); Nadira Melia (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)) |
| Abstract: | ASEAN governments spent over US$30 billion on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2023 – around three times public spending on renewable energy (RE). This persistent fiscal bias, despite rising climate risks and net-zero commitments, entrenches dependence on fossil fuels and undermines the competitiveness of clean energy. This Policy Brief examines the fiscal barriers that sustain this dependency, including fossil-fuel subsidies, policy instability, and persistent financing gaps, and proposes policy pathways to accelerate a just energy transition. Focusing on Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, the analysis shows that existing tax incentives, carbon pricing initiatives, and blended finance mechanisms have not yet been sufficient to offset fossil-fuel price advantages or mobilise investment at the scale required. The brief argues that phasing out fossil-fuel subsidies, scaling up green and blended finance, and proactively managing stranded assets are critical to breaking fossil-fuel lock-in and aligning fiscal policy with ASEAN’s climate and development objectives. Latest Articles |
| Date: | 2026–01–30 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:era:wpaper:pb-2025-17 |
| By: | Mohamed Hajjaji (SPE - Laboratoire « Sciences pour l’Environnement » (UMR CNRS 6134 SPE) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli [Université de Corse Pascal Paoli], UTM - Tunis El Manar University [University of Tunis El Manar] [Tunisia] = Université de Tunis El Manar [Tunisie] = جامعة تونس المنار (ar)); Maude Chin Choi (SPE - Laboratoire « Sciences pour l’Environnement » (UMR CNRS 6134 SPE) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli [Université de Corse Pascal Paoli]); Tchougoune Moustapha Mai (SPE - Laboratoire « Sciences pour l’Environnement » (UMR CNRS 6134 SPE) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli [Université de Corse Pascal Paoli]); Christian Cristofari (SPE - Laboratoire « Sciences pour l’Environnement » (UMR CNRS 6134 SPE) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli [Université de Corse Pascal Paoli]); Dhafer Mezghani (UTM - Tunis El Manar University [University of Tunis El Manar] [Tunisia] = Université de Tunis El Manar [Tunisie] = جامعة تونس المنار (ar)); Abdelkader Mami (UTM - Tunis El Manar University [University of Tunis El Manar] [Tunisia] = Université de Tunis El Manar [Tunisie] = جامعة تونس المنار (ar)) |
| Abstract: | As part of the energy transition and efforts to develop green ports, green hydrogen emerges as a promising and environmentally sound solution for achieving carbon neutrality. This study investigates the potential of green hydrogen to decarbonize the Port of Ajaccio through a power-to-power strategy. A detailed electricity consumption profile was constructed based on data from docked vessels and two adjacent buildings. A multi-objective optimization model was employed to determine the optimal configuration of a hybrid energy system. The optimal system includes 12 MW of photovoltaic panels, a 5 MW electrolyzer, a 3 MW fuel cell, and 320 kg of hydrogen storage under water at 35 bar. This configuration enables a significant reduction in pollutant emissions: carbon dioxide (CO₂) by 80.02%, nitrogen oxides (NOₓ) by 84.27%, particulate matter (PM) by 84.27%, and sulfur dioxide (SO₂) by 84.26%. The resulting levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is estimated at 298 €/MWh, making it a competitive alternative to conventional fossil-fuel-based generation. Furthermore, the study highlights the advantages of underwater hydrogen storage, demonstrating that greater storage depths lead to increased hydrogen density, reduced storage volume requirements, and minimized visual impact an essential aspect for enhancing public acceptance. |
| Keywords: | green hydrogen, carbon neutrality, power-to-power, underwater hydrogen storage, Green ports |
| Date: | 2025–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05483331 |
| By: | Jamel Boukhatem (University of Tunis El-Manar); Marouane Alaya (University of Tunis El-Manar) |
| Abstract: | This study investigates economic growth convergence within the MENA region using a spatial econometric approach. The empirical findings reveal that environmental factors significantly influence the convergence process. Growth convergence appears to be shaped not only by each country’s idiosyncratic characteristics but also by environmental feedback effects from neighboring countries and the intensity of ecological spillovers. These spillovers are not limited to immediate (first-order) or contiguous neighbors; they also extend to higher-order neighbors and may ultimately impact the entire region. |
| Date: | 2025–10–20 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:erg:wpaper:1797 |
| By: | Nour Nsiri (UMR MoISA - Montpellier Interdisciplinary center on Sustainable Agri-food systems (Social and nutritional sciences) - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - 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, CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes); Georgios Kleftodimos (CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes, UMR MoISA - Montpellier Interdisciplinary center on Sustainable Agri-food systems (Social and nutritional sciences) - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - 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); Sophie Drogué (UMR MoISA - Montpellier Interdisciplinary center on Sustainable Agri-food systems (Social and nutritional sciences) - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - 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) |
| Abstract: | Context To improve agricultural productivity and water sustainability in water-scarce regions, it is essential to understand the efficiency and diversity of farming practices Objective This study aims to assess the diversity and efficiency of farming systems in Morocco's Chtouka-Massa plain. It focuses on resource management, agricultural intensification, and water use, identifying inefficiencies and proposing sustainable solutions. Methods Using Principal Component Analysis and Hierarchical Clustering, we classify 40 farm households into three distinct typologies: (i) extensive cereal-arboriculture systems, (ii) semi-intensive mixed cereal-vegetable systems, and (iii) intensive vegetable farming systems. A meta-frontier approach combined with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is then applied to assess disparities in resource efficiency, technological performance, and environmental sustainability among these typologies. Results and conclusions Our results show that extensive cereal-arboriculture systems exhibit the highest resource efficiency—particularly in water, nitrogen, and labor—but achieve the lowest gross margins due to limited agricultural intensification. Semi-intensive mixed systems demonstrate moderate efficiency but consume the largest amounts of water, largely sourced from subsidized private wells. Intensive vegetable farming systems, while generating the highest gross margins, are the least efficient due to high input costs, reliance on desalinated water, and labor-intensive practices. Targeted policy interventions are needed to optimize resource use and promote sustainable practices adapted to each farming typology. Significance This study provides actionable insights for policymakers aiming to enhance the sustainability of agricultural systems and groundwater resources in arid and semi-arid regions. The findings support the need for targeted policies to enhance groundwater management. |
| Keywords: | Farm household typology, Efficiency, DEA Model, Meta-Frontier, Farm household typology Efficiency DEA Model Meta-Frontier |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05398998 |
| By: | Canan Yildirim (Rennes SB - Rennes School of Business); Dieter Vanwalleghem (Rennes SB - Rennes School of Business) |
| Abstract: | This paper examines financial market reactions to the rise and collapse of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a major voluntary climate initiative launched in April 2021. Using an event study, we find that only founding members experienced significant negative stock price reactions, with average declines of 2% upon joining, suggesting investors viewed the commitments as credible but costly. Later signings and exits had no significant effect, reflecting declining credibility as the alliance weakened its governance amid political pressure and member departures. These findings underscore the role of institutional context and internal governance in shaping market responses to voluntary environmental commitments in banking. 1 We are grateful to NZBA for providing us with the full dates of signings, and Jojo Jacob, Anke Piepenbrink, and other seminar participants for their helpful comments during the Center for Unframed Thinking seminar, Spotlight on Green Transition (June 2025). |
| Keywords: | Event study, Voluntary environmental alliances, Financial institutions, Climate change, Environmental strategy |
| Date: | 2026–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05381657 |
| By: | Bidoia, Marco; Giupponi, Carlo |
| Abstract: | Coastal zones are among the environments most threatened by climate change. Although various efforts for global mapping and classification of coastal social and ecological systems have been undertaken, the ability to analyse and describe the spatial heterogeneity and multidimensionality of these phenomena remains limited. In the current study, we developed a methodological framework for assessing risk from extreme sea levels and examined its application at the global level. A multi-criteria analysis method was applied to the current scenario and to two future combinations of shared socioeconomic (SSP2 and 5) and representative concentration pathways (RCP4.5 and 8.5), accounting for risk attitudes. Risk maps derived from multi-criteria analysis aggregation of spatial indicators of hazard, vulnerability, and exposure enabled the identification of global hot spots, comprising large areas facing high levels of risk, mostly located in Northern Europe, South-East Asia and Southern USA. Spatial clusters with common risk features were identified and mapped using multivariate analysis. The results contribute to improving the state of the art by providing a synoptic view of global coastal risks. Given the high spatial resolution (1 km), the proposed methods may also be helpful for improving adaptation strategies at the regional and national scales and for facilitating the sharing of solutions between areas with similar situations identified by cluster mapping. |
| Keywords: | Climate Change, Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2026–01–29 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:feemwp:391377 |
| By: | Mohammed Elhaj Mustafa Ali (University of Khartoum); Abdul-Hameed Elias Suliman (University of Khartoum) |
| Abstract: | This study primarily aims to test the applicability of the inverted U-shaped Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis to Sudan using time series data from 1970 to 2022. The study is driven by the rise in greenhouse gas emissions—such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4)—during the last decades in which the country became an oil producer and exporter. To achieve this objective, the study employs the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) co-integration technique, which is well-suited for analyzing short- and long-run relationships. Following the essential pre-tests, the analysis reveals a significant integrated relationship among the variables under consideration. The primary finding of the analysis is that the EKC in Sudan follows a U-shaped pattern. This implies a direct relationship between economic development and environmental deterioration, particularly in terms of CO2 emissions. The findings also highlight that the continuous growth in energy consumption, electricity production, and urbanization directly contributes to environmental degradation. Based on these results, the study proposes a number of recommendations, including policy interventions and behavioral changes, aimed at addressing the environmental imbalance identified in the analysis. |
| Date: | 2025–05–20 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:erg:wpaper:1777 |
| By: | Cella, Cristina (Financial Stability Department, Central Bank of Sweden); Schubert, Valentin (Research Department, Central Bank of Sweden) |
| Abstract: | Physical climate risks significantly influence banks’ collateral practices. Drawing on comprehensive loan-level data from Sweden, we find that adverse weather events increase both the likelihood and the amount of collateral required for new loans. For existing loans, banks are less inclined to reappraise collateral following weather shocks; when reappraisals occur, collateral values are typically revised downward. Our analysis also highlights the mitigating role of geographic proximity between borrowers and lenders. Overall, our results indicate that while banks limit potential losses from physical climate risks by tightening collateral requirements, this practice may eventually exacerbate firms’ financial constraints. |
| Keywords: | bank lending; collateral; climate risk |
| JEL: | G21 G32 |
| Date: | 2026–01–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:rbnkwp:0460 |
| By: | Uddin, Main |
| Abstract: | The work focuses on the implementation of textile industry effluent management, the current pollution scenario in Bangladesh caused by these effluents, and the proposed solution of installing an effluent treatment plant. Despite the presence of ETP equipment in almost all textile industries in Bangladesh, many factories do not operate them regularly because of high maintenance and operational costs (Rahman & Islam 2020). Rapid industrialization has intensified environmental pollution through the discharge of untreated toxic waste (Islam Rahman and Akter 2021). On the other hand, increasing industrialization is contributing to severe pollution of the environment by poisonous waste discharge. The liquid effluents from industries are causing major havoc to the environment, ecology, agriculture, aquaculture, and public health since the development of textile industries in the country. It had become a prerequisite to set up ETP in each industrial establishment, particularly at dyeing industries that were discharging immense amounts of liquid waste to the rivers every day. However, for the successful implementation of ETPs, industry owners will need to be socially responsible. At the same time, the government should provide factory owners with logistical support and a relaxed timeframe to set up ETPs. |
| Date: | 2026–01–20 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:chnuv_v1 |
| By: | Raimondo, Sebastian; Biondani, Martino; Giupponi, Carlo |
| Abstract: | Overtourism is not just overcrowding: it is a systemic imbalance sustained by feedbacks between visitors, residents’ welfare, the performance of local facilities, and environmental quality. Tourism carrying capacity sits at the centre of overtourism research and policy, yet it is still commonly operationalised as static visitor limits, implicitly assuming that thresholds could be set without accounting for the feedbacks they are meant to regulate. Here we introduce a minimal dynamical model that retains the essential feedbacks through which residents, tourists, economic capital, and environmental quality co-evolve. From this model, a formal definition of tourism carrying capacity emerges as a state-dependent quantity shaped by economic conditions, environmental quality, and social responses, and tempered by congestion and competitive pressure. Crucially, capacity alone is a weak planning target: sustainability depends on the long-run regime selected by the coupled system, and on how that regime shifts under perturbations. A bifurcation analysis of policy-relevant parameters maps tipping points and the resulting regime structure, from stable coexistence to multistability and sustained oscillations, including overtourism outcomes where tourism and capital persist while residents and environmental quality collapse. Overall, the results clarify, in a unified and rigorous setting, why capacity thresholds may inadequately reflect the dynamic complexity of tourism systems, and how integrated dynamical analyses can inform more robust policy design. |
| Keywords: | Climate Change, Environmental Economics and Policy, Sustainability |
| Date: | 2026–02–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:feemwp:391379 |
| By: | Robert Huang; Matthew E. Kahn |
| Abstract: | Long-run studies of agricultural productivity use balanced county-level panel data to document slow adaptation to climate change in U.S. agriculture. We revisit this treatment-effect puzzle using a selection model that incorporates the optimizing behavior of heterogeneous farmers. Using data from 1980 to 2020, we document three dynamic selection effects. First, counties that completely exit farming alter the composition of the balanced panel sample. Second, higher-skilled workers are more likely to leave rural areas as weather conditions worsen. Third, smaller farms consolidate into larger farms in counties affected by climate change. We document that the yield damage function’s slope depends on the county’s educational level and farm size. Causal estimates of weather impacts must account for selection effects along several adaptation margins of adjustment. |
| JEL: | Q1 Q54 |
| Date: | 2026–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:34771 |
| By: | Diengdoh, Vishesh Leon (Meghalaya Climate Change Centre) |
| Abstract: | Multi-level governance (MLG) emphasises the importance of subnational institutions and actors in climate governance. From an MLG perspective, state legislatures and legislators in India represent potentially important but empirically underexamined sites of climate governance, given their roles in articulating local concerns, exercising policy oversight, and holding executive actors accountable. This study provides the first systematic synthesis of climate-related legislative discourse in India by examining over three decades (1993–2025) of legislative questions from the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly. Using a public corpus of 9, 522 questions retrieved from the National eVidhan Application (NeVA) portal, the study applies an iteratively developed keyword-based annotation approach to distinguish between explicit climate discourse and implicit climate-relevant engagement. The findings show that explicit references to climate change are exceedingly rare, accounting for 0.06% of all legislative questions, consistent with the limited formal integration of state legislatures within India’s climate governance framework. In contrast, legislators frequently engage with climate-relevant sectors such as coal, flood, forests, and irrigation, framing these issues primarily through administrative and financial concerns rather than through climate change narratives. This pattern highlights the unrealised potential of subnational legislatures as sites of climate governance. By focusing on legislative attention and discourse, this study contributes new empirical evidence on subnational climate governance in the Global South and highlights opportunities for mainstreaming climate-change discourse within legislative processes. |
| Date: | 2026–01–29 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:5ncpt_v1 |
| By: | Phoebe Koundouri (Dept. of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business); Conrad Landis; Theofanis Zacharatos; Stathis Devves; Ethan Chandler; Angelos Plataniotis; Kostas Dellis; Monika Mavragani |
| Abstract: | In 2015, States around the world choose a universal approach for sustainable development to result into the achievement of several Goals and specific indicators, setting the milestone for the year 2030. (Agenda 2030, SDGs, Paris Climate Agreement). This decision was taken under the clear vision for the importance of the role played by regional and municipal authorities to implement the relevant targets. The current report follows the previous one, created in 2022, being essentialy the next step for a broadening and the deepening of the SDG's monitoring across the 13 Greek regions. This report also based on the literature created by the SDSN (Lafortune et al., 2019; Lafortune et al., 2021), which uses data from official statistics, academic research, and expert assessments to provide a total scoreboard per nation and target. The 2019 edition of the SDG Index which was launched at the United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in July 2019 in New York, has been audited by the EU Joint Research Centre (JRC) has audited the SDG index created in 2019 (New York, UN High-level Political Forum) issuing the relevant methodology and the validity of the results (Papadimitriou, E., Fragoso Neves, A. and Becker, W., 2019). The current report performs the scoreboards in detail regarding SDG's and Indicators that are relevant for the achievement of sustainable development in the 13 Greek regions. Thessaly and the Eastern Macedonia & Thrace are holding the top of the score for 2023. Yet, major challenges remain in order to achieve all 17 SDGs. The 2023 SDG Index and Dashboards for Greek regions produce the following significant outcomes: - No region has achieved the goal for SDG 1 up to 13 and 16, while most of the regions have to overcome significant challenges. - Four (4) regions have already achieved the goal for SDG 15, while the other regions are facing moderate to mild challenges. - Two (2) regions have already achieved the target for SDG 14, while the other ones present moderate to mild challenges, holding a significant heterogeneity in their performance. - The regions of Attica, Southern Aegean and Crete will have to make more efforts to improve the scores that are now presenting significant and major challenges for the implementation of the SDGs by 2030, given that more than 3/5 of the Greek population lives in these areas (Eurostat, 2023). - There is a remarkable lack of reliable data at regional level for many of the indicators regarding SDG 12 and SDG 17, therefore it is necessary to improve data availability a at the level of Greek regions. One (1) region has seen to meet the goal for SDG 17, but seems to be normal since it is about the Capital of the country. |
| Date: | 2026–01–29 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:aue:wpaper:2602 |
| By: | Venkatachalam Anbumozhi (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)); Eiji Yamaji; Kaliappa Kalirajan |
| Abstract: | Global agri-food systems are under acute pressure from climate change, conflict, persistent inequality, and continued population growth. The result is rising food insecurity and widening gaps in progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly across the Global South. Digital transformation offers a powerful pathway to reverse these trends by increasing productivity, reducing environmental impacts, strengthening resilience, and improving food system governance. Building on commitments from the past four Global South G20 Presidencies – Indonesia (2022), India (2023), Brazil (2024), and South Africa (2025) – the United States G20 Presidency in 2026 has a unique opportunity to consolidate momentum through a coherent, forward-looking framework that links digitalisation with sustainability and SDG acceleration. This policy brief proposes a G20 action plan grounded in a digital–data–innovation–sustainability nexus. It highlights five drivers of digital transformation: productivity gains, improved market access and inclusion, enhanced resilience, strengthened food and nutrition security, and data-driven policymaking. To realise these benefits, the G20 should expand rural digital infrastructure, promote responsible data governance, incentivise sustainable digital innovations, and build institutional and financial capacity, especially for women and youth. The brief also calls for establishing an international governance structure for digitally enabled virtual food reserves to support food security during crises. Together, these measures can help G20 members build more productive, sustainable, and equitable food systems and accelerate SDG achievement by 2030. Latest Articles |
| Date: | 2026–01–30 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:era:wpaper:pb-2025-19 |
| By: | Zitao Hong; Zhen Peng; Xueping Liu |
| Abstract: | Against the backdrop of ongoing carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals, accurate prediction of enterprise carbon emission trends constitutes an essential foundation for energy structure optimization and low-carbon transformation decision-making. Nevertheless, significant heterogeneity persists across regions, industries and individual enterprises regarding energy structure, production scale, policy intensity and governance efficacy, resulting in pronounced distribution shifts and non-stationarity in carbon emission data across both temporal and spatial dimensions. Such cross-regional and cross-enterprise data drift not only compromises the accuracy of carbon emission reporting but substantially undermines the guidance value of predictive models for production planning and carbon quota trading decisions. To address this critical challenge, we integrate causal inference perspectives with stable learning methodologies and time-series modelling, proposing a stable temporal prediction mechanism tailored to distribution shift environments. This mechanism incorporates enterprise-level energy inputs, capital investment, labour deployment, carbon pricing, governmental interventions and policy implementation intensity, constructing a risk consistency-constrained stable learning framework that extracts causal stable features (robust against external perturbations yet demonstrating long-term stable effects on carbon dioxide emissions) from multi-environment samples across diverse policies, regions and industrial sectors. Furthermore, through adaptive normalization and sample reweighting strategies, the approach dynamically rectifies temporal non-stationarity induced by economic fluctuations and policy transitions, ultimately enhancing model generalization capability and explainability in complex environments. |
| Date: | 2026–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2602.00775 |
| By: | Marc Aliana (Department of Finance and Accounting, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain); Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll (Department of Finance and Accounting, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain); Diego Prior (Department of Business, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain); Emili Tortosa-Ausina (IVIE, Valencia and IIDL and Department of Economics, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain) |
| Abstract: | This paper examines eco-productivity convergence across European Union regions while explicitly incorporating institutional quality within a multilevel governance framework. Using a panel of 216 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2010–2023, we analyse whether regions converge in their ability to generate economic output while limiting environmental pressures, and how this process is shaped by both national and regional Quality of Government (QoG). Ecoproductivity is measured using a nonparametric frontier approach based on Data Envelopment Analysis, with labour and capital as inputs, GDP as a desirable output, and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, transformed into an outputoriented ‘GHG savings’ indicator. The results show that average eco-productivity levels are around 8% higher when QoG is accounted for, cross-regional dispersion is considerably lower, and β-convergence is consistently stronger and statistically significant across all subperiods. Overall, eco-productivity convergence is associated with QoG, suggesting that sustainable regional catch-up is more likely where green investment is matched by improvements in institutional quality. |
| Keywords: | Cohesion Policy; Eco-productivity convergence; Multilevel governance; Quality of Government. |
| JEL: | C14 C61 O18 Q56 R11 |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:jau:wpaper:2026/05 |
| By: | Thomas Jacquet |
| Abstract: | This article assesses the short- and medium-term effects of extreme heat on agricultural productivity across French departments during 1980-2023. Using high-resolution ERA5-Land temperature data and CORINE Land Cover, we construct a sector-specific Extreme Degree Days (EDD) index, weighted by cropland and pasture shares to capture sector-specific thermal stress. We estimate department-specific impulse responses via local projections and find significant and persistent productivity losses following heat shocks above 29 °C, with effects intensifying over a four-year horizon and attenuating only modestly thereafter. A Wald test confirms substantial regional heterogeneity in sensitivity to extreme temperatures. The negative impacts are particularly pronounced in lower-productivity, livestock-oriented departments clustered between 44.5° and 46° north latitude. These findings underscore the macroeconomic relevance of a spatially disaggregated measure of exposure to extreme temperatures and highlight the urgency of region-specific adaptation strategies as these episodes intensify. |
| Keywords: | Agriculture; Climate change; Extreme heat; France; Productivity |
| JEL: | O13 Q19 Q54 |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:drm:wpaper:2026-4 |
| By: | Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) |
| Abstract: | Liquefied natural gas (LNG) plays a pivotal role in ASEAN’s energy security and its transition towards lower-carbon energy systems. As electricity demand continues to rise alongside economic growth and urbanisation, LNG offers a flexible and relatively lower-emissions alternative to coal, while providing the firm capacity required to support the integration of renewable energy. However, global LNG markets have entered a period of heightened volatility, characterised by rapid and wide-ranging price fluctuations driven by shifting supply–demand balances, geopolitical developments, and evolving energy policies in major consuming regions. This Policy Brief examines recent developments in global and regional LNG markets, with particular attention to Southeast Asia. It analyses the structural drivers of price volatility, including Europe’s increased reliance on LNG, China’s expanding and fluctuating gas demand, and the growing role of the United States as a major LNG supplier. The brief also highlights the emergence of new LNG-importing countries in ASEAN and the implications of market uncertainty for their energy security and investment planning. In addition, it addresses the increasing importance of methane emissions management and greenhouse gas mitigation in shaping the long-term role of LNG. Drawing on expert discussions held between 2024 and 2025, the brief proposes policy directions to stabilise LNG markets in ASEAN while aligning energy security objectives with climate commitments. Latest Articles |
| Date: | 2026–01–30 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:era:wpaper:pb-2025-20 |
| By: | Konstantinos Gavriilidis; Diego R. Känzig; Ramya Raghavan; James H. Stock |
| Abstract: | We develop a novel measure of climate policy uncertainty based on newspaper coverage. Our index spikes during key U.S. climate policy events—including presidential announcements on international agreements, congressional debates, and regulatory disputes—and shows a recent upward trend. Using an instrument for plausibly exogenous uncertainty shifts, we find that higher climate policy uncertainty decreases output and emissions while raising commodity and consumer prices, acting as supply rather than demand shocks. Faced with this trade-off, monetary policy does not accommodate climate policy uncertainty shocks, shaping their transmission. Firm-level analyses show stronger declines in investment and R&D when firms have higher climate change exposure. |
| JEL: | D80 E66 H23 L50 Q58 |
| Date: | 2026–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:34762 |
| By: | Bastianin, Andrea; Castelnovo, Paolo; Frattini, Federico Fabio; Vona, Francesco |
| Abstract: | This paper develops a novel text-based approach to identify CRM-saving innovation using patent data and studies how mineral price signals shape the direction of technological change. Using patent data from 1978–2020, we distinguish technologies that rely on CRMs from those that explicitly aim to reduce their use through efficiency improvements, substitution, or recycling. We provide evidence consistent with the induced-innovation hypothesis: higher mineral prices reallocate inventive effort toward CRM-saving technologies, while having little effect on CRM-reliant innovation. The response strengthens over time and is especially pronounced for battery minerals and rare earth elements. These findings are robust to alternative specifications and are reinforced by complementary identification strategies, including a falsification test and the use of plausibly exogenous supply-side price variation. |
| Keywords: | Climate Change, Environmental Economics and Policy, Resource/Energy Economics and Policy, Sustainability |
| Date: | 2026–01–30 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:feemwp:391378 |
| By: | Nicolas B. Verger (DCU - Dublin City University [Dublin]); Raffi Duymedjian (EESC-GEM - Grenoble Ecole de Management); Vlad P Glăveanu (DCU - Dublin City University [Dublin]) |
| Abstract: | Meritocracy is often discussed as an issue of distributive justice – that is, as the fair allocation of resources. Capitalist organizations are frequently structured around meritocracy, rewarding people hierarchically according to their talent and hard work. Amid concerns that these organizations also contribute to sustaining the ecological crisis, how does meritocracy contribute to, or maintain, environmental damage? In this Connexion piece, we explore this issue. Our analysis identifies a dominant system embedded within capitalism, which we call the Meritocracy of Production. This system views the world primarily as a collection of exploitable resources, rewarding maximization, efficiency and innovative exploitation aimed at unlimited outputs, often justifying extensive resource extraction with little regard for socio-ecological consequences. By contrast, we discuss practices (e.g. bricolage, upcycling, low-tech) that exemplify a Meritocracy of Preservation. This alternative emphasizes sustainable co-existence and collective robustness, valuing dignified, respectful and interdependent relations within ecological and social environments. It rewards practices that sustainably contribute to co-habitation and co-existence. We argue these two meritocratic systems are ontologically equivalent, each offering distinct worldviews, narratives and modes of engagement with the world. People and organizations navigate tensions between these poles by borrowing discursive and representational elements from both systems. While these elements simultaneously influence everyday practices, capitalist organizations are heavily skewed toward the Meritocracy of Production, placing little emphasis on valuing efforts of dynamic preservation—that is, on amplifying the worth and dignity of multiple things-in-the-world, not as a return to a pristine past, but as their ongoing rearrangements to enable their cohabitation. Recognizing this interplay highlights the need to shift towards greater ecological balance and environmental responsibility. |
| Abstract: | La méritocratie est souvent abordée comme une question de justice distributive, c'est-à-dire comme une allocation équitable des ressources. Les organisations capitalistes sont fréquemment structurées autour de la méritocratie, récompensant les individus de manière hiérarchique en fonction de leur talent et de leur travail. Alors que ces organisations sont également mises en cause pour leur contribution au maintien de la crise écologique, comment la méritocratie participe-t-elle aux dommages environnementaux, ou les perpétue-t-elle ? Dans cet article de Connexion, nous explorons cette question. Notre analyse met en évidence un système dominant inscrit dans le capitalisme, que nous appelons la méritocratie de la production. Ce système considère le monde avant tout comme un ensemble de ressources exploitables et valorise la maximisation, l'efficacité et l'exploitation innovante orientées vers une production illimitée, justifiant souvent une extraction intensive des ressources sans réelle prise en compte des conséquences socio-écologiques. À l'inverse, nous examinons des pratiques (par exemple le bricolage, l'upcycling, le low-tech) qui illustrent une méritocratie de la préservation. Cette alternative met l'accent sur une coexistence durable et une robustesse collective, en valorisant des relations dignes, respectueuses et interdépendantes au sein des environnements écologiques et sociaux. Elle récompense les pratiques qui contribuent de manière durable à la cohabitation et à la coexistence. Nous soutenons que ces deux systèmes méritocratiques sont ontologiquement équivalents, chacun proposant des visions du monde, des récits et des modes d'engagement distincts avec celui-ci. Les individus et les organisations naviguent entre ces pôles en empruntant des éléments discursifs et représentationnels à chacun des deux systèmes. Bien que ces éléments influencent simultanément les pratiques quotidiennes, les organisations capitalistes restent fortement orientées vers la méritocratie de la production, accordant peu d'importance à la valorisation des efforts de préservation dynamique — c'est-à-dire à l'amplification de la valeur et de la dignité de multiples entités-au-monde, non pas comme un retour à un passé pristine, mais comme des réagencements continus permettant leur cohabitation. Reconnaître cette interaction met en lumière la nécessité d'un déplacement vers un plus grand équilibre écologique et une responsabilité environnementale accrue. |
| Keywords: | Creative preservation, creativity, ecology, innovation, meritocracy, post-growth, resource, resourcification, sustainability ORCID iDs |
| Date: | 2025–07–13 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:gemptp:hal-05422094 |
| By: | Ghosh, Anupam (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) |
| Abstract: | Little causal evidence exists regarding the long-term impacts of natural disasters on crime. Using a balanced panel of county-level crime data spanning 1980–2020, this paper estimates the short- and long-run effects of hurricanes of varying intensities that affected U.S. counties between 1990 and 2010. Findings indicate that while minor hurricanes have little effect on crime, major hurricanes cause significant increases in property crime. In the decade following exposure to major hurricanes, property crime rates rise by 8.5% relative to the baseline mean, imposing an estimated per-capita social cost of $120 on treated counties. These effects are largely driven by evacuation orders and selective out-migration in the short run and by declining per-capita incomes in the long run. Furthermore, hurricane effects are disproportionately larger for counties with less disaster experience and lower incomes, which risk losing 1.4% and 2.2% of per capita GDP, respectively, due to hurricane-induced crime. Overall, the findings underscore the need for greater resource allocation toward vulnerable communities and increased investment in disaster resilience measures to mitigate the economic and social consequences of climate change. |
| Date: | 2026–01–25 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:smwtk_v1 |
| By: | Jackson, Nadine R. |
| Abstract: | This essay investigates prisons in the U.S. South as infrastructures of state-manufactured socio- ecological warfare. Drawing from necropolitics, carceral geography, and political ecology, I propose carceral socio-ecological violence as a framework for analyzing how incarceration produces environmental violence that extends beyond confinement. Prisons contaminate ecosystems, dismantle community knowledge systems, and undermine the social cohesion required for collective survival. EPA compliance data from 232 facilities across thirteen states (2019–2024) reveal sustained and extreme violations: wastewater discharges exceeded federal toxicity thresholds by 2, 400%, and radiological contamination persisted for twelve consecutive reporting cycles. Over 72% of these violations occurred in communities facing structural poverty, racial segregation, and political disenfranchisement—elements of a broader strategy of state-sanctioned abandonment. The essay examines the 2025 rollback of environmental protections, including the closure of environmental justice offices, deletion of compliance and violation records, and mass exemption of industrial polluters from federal law. In response, I propose a community-based Environmental Justice Governance Framework rooted in collective autonomy, including independent monitoring networks, direct community control over environmental and public health decisions, and decentralized resource infrastructures. Carceral socio-ecological violence exposes how mass incarceration, environmental degradation, and epistemic erasure function as interlocking systems of racial control. Affirming the necessity of abolition, I call for the transfer of environmental and public health governance to communities historically targeted by state violence and systemic neglect. |
| Date: | 2026–01–24 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:rk8je_v1 |
| By: | Vladimir Hlasny; Yasmine Abdelfattah (Cairo University); Shireen AlAzzawi; Hala Abou-Ali; Rania Megally |
| Abstract: | Energy poverty across the Middle East and North Africa leads to health and growth hazards for millions of children, who are exposed and vulnerable to poor climate conditions at home. These hazards are heightened by the increasing occurrence of extreme temperature and precipitation events, as children become even more exposed and their organisms even more vulnerable to indoor climate conditions. This paper investigates the nexus between indoor and outdoor climate conditions, on the one hand, and children s anthropometric development (stunting, wasting) and mortality (neonatal and infant), on the other hand. Children s access to clean energy is gauged using a Multidimensional Energy Poverty Index or a principal component analysis score of households connection to electricity, and usage of clean fuels and cooking facilities. Highresolution temperature data are matched to households at the level of provinces. The analysis is applied to household-level microdata from 22 health surveys across ten MENA developing countries, and trends over time are assessed. We find that energy poverty has positive effects on longer-term anthropometric growth (i.e., risk of stunting) across most countries, but the effects on shorter-term or more acute health indicators, including wasting and mortality, are limited. Energy poverty is associated with stunting particularly in Morocco, Mauritania, Palestine and Tunisia. It is also modestly associated with infant mortality, especially in Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey. Girls, and children of wealthier, more educated parents in urban areas face lower stunting, wasting and mortality risks in most countries. These results underscore the necessity for targeted genderresponsive policies addressing energy poverty and climate resilience to improve child health outcomes in the region. |
| Date: | 2025–08–20 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:erg:wpaper:1789 |
| By: | Edwige Fain (ISARA); Stéphane Lemarié (GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes); Aline Fugeray-Scarbel (GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes); Adrien Hervouet (GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes) |
| Abstract: | The agrosupply sector plays a key role in the transition toward reduced pesticide use by developing and commercializing alternative crop protection market offerings. This article examines the business models of agrosupply actors based on eight cases-including biocontrol, equipment, and digital tools. Results reveal diverse models, some mirroring pesticide approaches and others drawing on digital-economy logics, with providers generally aiming for pesticide-level performance while requiring limited changes to existing practices. In the discussion, we distinguish models according to their implications for ecological transition and suggest that lowsustainability pathways rely on business models largely compatible with pesticide models, with the risk of reinforcing structural lock-ins and hindering future shifts toward strong sustainability. |
| Keywords: | Agrosupply sector, Multiple-case study, Business model, Biocontrol, Digital agriculture, Lock-in, Crop protection |
| Date: | 2026–01–17 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05476198 |
| By: | Glenn Sheriff; Danae Hernandez-Cortes; TC Chakraborty; Theresa DeConcini |
| Abstract: | Demographic disparities in exposure to various sources of environmental stress are well documented. While specific stressors are linked to adverse health outcomes, there is uncertainty about how they interact. A first step towards evaluating these joint impacts is to understand the degree to which the same individuals are exposed to extreme simultaneous exposure to each stressor. Here, we adapt the Alkire-Foster multi-dimensional poverty measure to rank exposures to multi-dimensional environmental harm in a way that accounts for the frequency, breadth, and severity of exposure among the extremely exposed. This measure can be used to normatively compare distributions of extreme simultaneous exposure for a given group both across time and in comparison with other groups. We use publicly-available data on air toxics, PM2.5, and land surface temperature to identify trends in the multi-exposure index for socio-demographic groups based on race/ethnicity and poverty status for 168 U.S. cities. Controlling for city-characteristics, we find persistent, yet narrowing, multi-exposure gaps on the basis of race/ethnicity between people of color (POC) and non-Hispanic White. Within each group, individuals in households above the poverty line fare better than those below, but above-poverty POC have similar multi-exposure to below-poverty non-Hispanic White. |
| JEL: | Q5 Q52 Q53 |
| Date: | 2026–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:34739 |
| By: | Shuyao Wu; Delong Li; Zhonghao Zhang |
| Abstract: | Urban parks play a vital role in delivering various essential ecosystem services that significantly contribute to the well-being of urban populations. However, there is quite a limited understanding of how people value these ecosystem services differently. Here, we investigated the relationships among nine ecosystem service demands in urban parks across China using a large-scale survey with 20, 075 responses and a point-allotment experiment. We found particularly high preferences for air purification and recreation services at the expense of other services among urban residents in China. These preferences were further reflected in three distinct demand bundles: air purification-dominated, recreation-dominated, and balanced demands. Each bundle delineated a typical group of people with different representative characteristics. Socio-economic and environmental factors, such as environmental interest and vegetation coverage, were found to significantly influence the trade-off intensity among service demands. These results underscore the necessity for tailored urban park designs that address diverse service demands with the aim of enhancing the quality of urban life in China and beyond sustainably. |
| Date: | 2026–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2602.11442 |
| By: | Zhonghui Luo; Kenji TAKEUCHI |
| Abstract: | This study examines how Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) shapes disparities in air pollution exposure across individuals with different levels of education. Using a shift–share instrumental variable based on world import demand to predict provincial EPU fluctuations, we construct an individual-level panel dataset linking personal exposure to EPU and SO2 concentration across six survey waves from 2000 to 2015. The results indicate that a 1% increase in the EPU index leads to an average rise of approximately 1.15μg/m3 in SO2 exposure among individuals without a high school degree, relative to those with one. Mechanism analyses suggest that this effect operates mainly through two channels:changes in government regulatory behavior and in firm-level emission decisions. |
| Keywords: | Economic Policy Uncertainty; Environmental Inequality; Government Regulation; Firm Emission Decisions |
| JEL: | D63 D81 Q53 |
| Date: | 2026–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:kue:epaper:e-25-011 |
| By: | César Ducruet; Mariantonia Lo Prete |
| Abstract: | Europe as a whole is often regarded as a frontrunner in the domain of port-city sustainability, thanks to a wide set of international, national, and local initiatives. This paper is a review of local initiatives that are either individual (single port city) or collective (partnerships among several port cities), in the domains of energy transition and transport fluidity. We find that individual initiatives concentrate in northern Europe, in the largest ports, and at a few southern ones like Valencia or Marseilles. Conversely, collective actions are more concentrated in the south, including mostly small and medium-sized port cities, through projects financed by the European Commission. Besides, we show that port-urban congestion and PM2.5 pollution concentrate in the demographically and logistically largest port cities, which also dominate container throughput rankings and have the highest number of initiatives. We discuss the imperatives of ensuring a better regional balance across the continent and its port-city hierarchy. |
| Keywords: | congestion; energy transition; Europe; population exposure; port cities; transport fluidity |
| JEL: | I15 Q53 Q56 R40 R11 |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:drm:wpaper:2026-3 |
| By: | Chen Liu |
| Abstract: | Single-use plastics (SUPs) remain a major contributor to environmental degradation in ASEAN+3 despite a decade of national bans, regional declarations, and growing circular economy commitments. Yet most policy frameworks continue to rely on product-focused interventions – bans, charges, and recycling mandates – without adequately considering the behavioural drivers that shape everyday consumption, particularly in the post-COVID context. This Policy Brief draws on a survey of 1, 492 respondents across five Asian cities (Hanoi, Phnom Penh, Depok, Harbin, and Shanghai) conducted between 2022 and 2023. The findings reveal substantial disparities in weekly SUP consumption – ranging from 55 to 132 items per person – with Shanghai recording 2.4 times the levels observed in Hanoi and Depok. Across the five surveyed cities, about 56% of SUP items are disposed of without separation, while single-use face mask usage remains about 2.6 times as high as pre-pandemic levels. Demographic factors strongly influence consumptio The evidence underscores that one-size-fits-all approaches are unlikely to achieve significant reductions. Instead, cities require tailored policy roadmaps that integrate behavioural insights, infrastructure reforms, demographic-targeted interventions, and circular economy mechanisms, supported by adaptive ASEAN+3 cooperation aligned with the emerging global plastics treaty. A post-COVID plastics policy framework must balance environmental sustainability with public health, local consumption cultures, and evolving economic activities such as food delivery and e-commerce. Latest Articles |
| Date: | 2026–01–30 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:era:wpaper:pb-2025-18 |
| By: | Greenhill, Simon; Walker, Brant J; Shapiro, Joseph S |
| Abstract: | Projecting the effects of proposed policy reforms is challenging because no outcome data exist for regulations that governments have not yet implemented. We propose an ex ante deep learning framework that can project effects of proposed reforms by mapping outcomes observed under past regulations onto the legal criteria of proposed future policies (i.e., by “relabeling”). We apply this framework to study changes in jurisdiction of the US Clean Water Act (CWA). We compare our ex ante deep learning projection of jurisdiction under the Supreme Court’s Sackett decision against widely used projections from domain experts. Ex ante machine learning generates exceptional performance improvements over the leading domain expert model that the US Environmental Protection Agency currently uses, with 65 times more accurate identification of jurisdictional sites. We also develop an ex post deep learning model trained with data after policy implementation. Ex post deep learning performs best. Sackett deregulates one-third of all previously regulated US waters, particularly floodplains and pristine fish habitats, totaling 700, 000 deregulated stream miles and 17 million deregulated wetland acres. Deep learning can effectively project consequences of far-reaching regulatory reforms before they are implemented, when projections are both most uncertain and most useful. |
| Keywords: | Social and Behavioral Sciences, Environmental policy, Clean Water Act, machine learning |
| Date: | 2026–02–09 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cdl:agrebk:qt6tx6m2fn |
| By: | Pascal de Clarens (LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - Nantes Univ - IAE Nantes - Nantes Université - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Sociétés - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université) |
| Abstract: | This article reconsiders the concept of materiality through a systemic and integrative lens, extending it beyond its traditional financial scope. While materiality has long been defined as the relevance of information for economic decision-making (as in IAS 1.7), emerging challenges-intangibles, environmental degradation, and social expectations-demand a broader understanding. We explore Double Materiality Matrix to measure Double materiality Assessment (DMA), which accounts not only for financial impacts on firms, but also for their external effects on society and the environment.Building on this, we propose an extended double materiality matrix incorporating intangible assets and overarching dimensions. Far from being a mere compliance tool, the matrix becomes a strategic device enabling firms to assess risks, align governance, and reorient business models.We highlight limitations in CSRD's stakeholder identification processes, particularly their tendency to obscure high-impact, low-visibility actors in the value chain. To address misalignment in ESG perceptions, we introduce various methods based on inter-rater agreement (ICC, Fleiss' Kappa, MAD) to support collective strategic calibration.An interactive application operationalizes this matrix, offering dynamic visualization across six CSRD dimensions, with filters by theme, urgency, magnitude, and probability. Ultimately, we argue for a paradigm shift: materiality should be seen not only as an accounting constraint, but as a vector of transformation toward sustainable and resilient corporate ecosystems. |
| Keywords: | "management tool", intangibles, Double materiality Matrix |
| Date: | 2025–09–18 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05464039 |
| By: | Karmouni, Hajar el; Dehove, Henri; Alles, Benjamin; Baudry, Julia; Kesse-Guyot, Emmanuelle; Péneau, Sandrine; Touvier, Mathilde; Mofakhami, Malo; Group, USPN Student Citizens’ Assembly; Bellicha, Alice (University Sorbonne Paris Nord) |
| Abstract: | Background: Improving students’ diet is a public health priority, yet interventions often fail to address the structural barriers students face, particularly in socioeconomically disadvantaged settings. This study aimed to assess how students involved in a co-creation process (i.e. a student citizens’ assembly) conceptualise and prioritise solutions to improve students’ access to healthier, more climate-friendly diets. Methods: This participatory research took place at a French university (Sorbonne Paris Nord) located in socioeconomically disadvantaged suburbs of Paris. A student citizens’ assembly was conducted with the aim to co-create concrete proposals that would enhance students’ access to sustainable diets and physical activity. The assembly involved 27 students randomly selected among a pool of volunteers. Over three days in November 2024, students received awareness-raising and training, deliberated among themselves then with institutional and local stakeholders, and formulated proposals. For each proposal, students were asked to rate anonymously their approval on a 10-point scale. Proposals related to diet (i.e. not physical activity) were analysed a posteriori using two complementary frameworks: the DONE framework classifying determinants of diet (individual, interpersonal, environmental /policy) and the FAO dimensions of sustainable diets (health, ecological, socioeconomic, cultural). Results: Overall, 31 proposals were formulated, of which 77% targeted environmental and policy determinants of diet (e.g. institutional regulations, university policies, food assistance solutions, improved food affordability and availability, food labelling). Other proposals referred to individual (19%) and interpersonal determinants (3%). In addition, 39%, 29%, 23% and 10% proposals addressed the health, socio-economic, ecological and cultural dimensions, respectively. Mean approval ratings (SD) for each proposal ranged from 6.7 (4.0) to 9.7 (0.9), with a mean (SD) value for all proposals of 8.6 (0.7). Proposals addressing the socio-economic dimension received the highest approval ratings (mean [SD] 9.0 [0.6], vs 8.4 [0.6], 8.4 [0.8] and 7.9 [0.4] for the health, ecological and cultural dimensions, respectively). Conclusion: The predominance of environmental and policy measures targeting economic access to food highlights the importance of co-creation and its value to align interventions with participants’ needs and expectations. One major challenge that warrants further investigation is the capacity of stakeholders to implement such proposals, and to evaluate their effectiveness. |
| Date: | 2026–01–30 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:8smwr_v1 |
| By: | Mundschenk, Lovisa; Janssen, Lisa; Werner, Hannah (University of Zurich); Reiljan, Andres; Cicchi, Lorenzo |
| Abstract: | Climate change has become increasingly politicized, prompting concerns that it may generate new societal rifts. While elite-level rhetoric—particularly among radical right actors—has grown more adversarial, it remains unclear whether similar affective divisions have emerged among citizens. Using cross-national survey data, this paper examines affective polarization over climate change in France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, and Poland. Mirroring real-world debates that pit stricter climate protection against economic prosperity, we assess mutual affect between individuals on either side of this division, and estimate polarization across the full attitudinal spectrum. Across all countries, we find significant affective polarization with a clear asymmetric pattern: pro-climate citizens express clear in-group warmth and out-group coldness, whereas pro-growth citizens show little affective opposition and in some cases even evaluate climate-oriented individuals more positively than their own group. Moreover, affective polarization among pro-climate respondents is not associated with reduced political tolerance. These findings suggest that mass affective polarization over climate action is less entrenched than elite discourse implies. |
| Date: | 2026–01–23 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:pm3qd_v1 |
| By: | Barasa, Laura (University of Nairobi, School of Economics); Kihiu, Evelyne (International Potato Center); Vaz, João Manuel Lameiras (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campolide Campus); Tanga, Chrysantus (International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology) |
| Abstract: | Food and nutrition insecurity, combined with poor waste management and sanitation, are common features of urban informal settlements. We conducted a cluster-randomized controlled trial with 810 households in Kibera to evaluate the effects of urban agriculture interventions—climate smart gardens (CSGs) and black soldier fly frass fertilizer (BSFFF) derived from recycled human waste—on food and nutrition security, household welfare, and food production. The interventions significantly enhanced food and nutrition security and home food production, with stronger effects observed in female-headed households. While vegetable consumption expenditure declined, food and total consumption expenditure remained unaffected. These results underscore the potential of circular economy interventions to simultaneously improve nutrition, waste management, and gender equity in densely populated informal settlements. |
| Keywords: | urban agriculture; informal settlements; climate smart gardens; frass fertilizer; food and nutrition security; household welfare; food production; gender equality |
| JEL: | I31 N57 Q12 Q15 Q18 Q53 |
| Date: | 2026–02–11 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:gunefd:2026_001 |
| By: | Cavit Baran (Sabancõ University); Janet Currie (Yale University and NBER); Bahadõr Dursun (Newcastle University and IZA); Erdal Tekin (American University, IZA, and NBER) |
| Abstract: | This paper provides the first nationwide U.S. evidence on the effects of electric vehicle (EV) adoption on air quality and child health. Using county-level data from 2010-2021, we link EV registrations to air pollution, birth outcomes, and emergency department visits. Endogenous adoption is addressed using two-way fixed effects and an instrumental variables strategy exploiting the rollout of federally designated Alternative Fuel Corridors. Greater EV adoption significantly lowers nitrogen dioxide and improves infant and child health, reducing very low birth weight, prematurity, and asthma-related emergency visits. The largest health gains occur in high-pollution areas and exceed $1.2-$4.0 billion annually. |
| Date: | 2026–01–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cwl:cwldpp:2486 |
| By: | Robin Fischer; Anton Pichler |
| Abstract: | Mobilising private capital is a critical bottleneck of the energy transition, yet recent crisis-driven windfall profits for fossil power firms suggest that market signals may still favour carbon-intensive assets. Here we analyse a panel of 900 European power firms (2001-2023) to resolve whether these profits reflect a durable profitability advantage or a crisis-driven anomaly. Using machine-learning clustering and Bayesian model averaging, we identify a structural divergence: wind and solar portfolios exhibit rising profitability, with return on assets among wind-dominated firms increasing by over 6% between 2014 and 2023. Conversely, higher fossil portfolio shares are increasingly associated with lower profitability, with marginal effects reaching -4% by 2023, while renewable-dominated firms match or outperform their fossil-heavy counterparts across most European regions. These findings suggest that the record profits of fossil incumbents were distinct outliers, masking an ongoing decline in the profitability of carbon-intensive business models. |
| Date: | 2026–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2601.22167 |
| By: | Helmi Mansour (University of CarthageAuthor-Email: helmi.mansour.2022@ihec.ucar.tn); Monia Ghazali (University of CarthageAuthor-Email: monia.ghazali@ihec.u-carthage.tn) |
| Abstract: | Driven by climate change concerns and the transition toward renewable energy, the dynamics of global investment are shifting significantly. This rapid change is particularly concerning for MENA countries, as their dependence on oil revenues exposes their economies to substantial sustainability risks. In this context, soft power—an intangible form of influence rooted in a country's attractive qualities—emerges as a critical yet underexplored factor influencing the decisions of policymakers and investors. Using a dynamic panel model, the research first analyzes data from 77 countries, then narrows the focus to the MENA region to explore the relationship between soft power trends and inward FDI flows. The System GMM estimation results reveal that soft power has a positive and significant influence on inward foreign direct investment flows, with this effect being particularly strong in MENA countries. As such, this study highlights the strategic importance of leveraging soft power to enhance investment appeal on the global stage and serves as a reference for policymakers aiming to attract foreign investors, especially for MENA countries, where the need to move beyond oil dependence is becoming increasingly critical. |
| Date: | 2025–09–20 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:erg:wpaper:1794 |
| By: | Borchers Arriagada, Nicolas; Conte Grand, Mariana; Reyes, Daniel; Rojas, Diego; Yoong, Pui Shen |
| Abstract: | This paper examines Paraguay’s vulnerability to the European Union’s Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products. Drawing on trade data, customs firm-level data, and high-resolution geospatial analysis, it assesses exposure at the country, firm, and geographic levels. The results show that Paraguay’s direct export exposure to the European Union’s Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products is modest, but indirect exposure through Argentina’s soy value chain could affect up to 13 percent of Paraguay’s exports. Firm-level evidence indicates that soy and rubber exports are concentrated among a few large firms, whereas the emerging wood and forestry sector is fragmented across small and medium-sized enterprises with limited capacity to absorb compliance costs. Geospatial analysis suggests that only 0.4 to 2 percent of soybean areas may be at risk of noncompliance, concentrated in Itapúa, San Pedro, and Alto Paraná. Overall, Paraguay’s vulnerability stems primarily from indirect value-chain linkages, underscoring the need for targeted support and regional coordination within MERCOSUR to strengthen environmental governance. |
| Date: | 2026–01–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:11291 |
| By: | A. de Costa (University of Moratuwa); Vathsala Wickramasinghe (University of Moratuwa) |
| Abstract: | The objectives of the study were to investigate 1) whether paternalistic leadership affects exploitative and exploratory innovation, and 2) whether intrinsic motivation and environmental dynamism moderate the direct effects of paternalistic leadership on exploitative and exploratory innovation. The study was conducted in Sri Lanka by taking a sample of respondents from the information technology sector. The results indicate a notable distinction between the factors driving exploitative and exploratory innovation. Both types of innovations are significantly affected by paternalistic leadership. However, it has a positive influence on exploitation while it has a negative influence on exploration. Intrinsic motivation significantly predicts only the exploratory innovation, while environmental dynamism significantly predicts only the exploitative innovation. This divergence can be explained by the inherent differences in the nature of these two types of innovation. Overall, this research advances theoretical understanding and provides practical guidance. |
| Keywords: | Employee motivation, Leadership and innovation, Innovation performance, Innovation management, Leadership styles, Environmental dynamism, Intrinsic motivation, Exploratory innovation, Exploitative innovation, Paternalistic leadership |
| Date: | 2026–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05479919 |
| By: | Hyndman, Rob J.; Grunwald, Gary K. |
| Abstract: | We consider modelling time series using a generalized additive model with firstorder Markov structure and mixed transition density having a discrete component at zero and a continuous component with positive sample space. Such models have application, for example, in modelling daily occurrence and intensity of rainfall, and in modelling the number and size of insurance claims. We show how these methods extend the usual sinusoidal seasonal assumption in standard chain-dependent models by assuming a general smooth pattern of occurrence and intensity over time. These models can be fitted using standard statistical software. The methods of Grunwald and Jones (1998) can be used to combine these separate occurrence and intensity models into a single model for amount. We use 36 years of rainfall data from Melbourne, Australia, as a vehicle of illustration, and use the models to investigate the effect of the El Nino phenomenon on Melbourne's rainfall. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Land Economics/Use |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:monebs:267393 |
| By: | Ahmed Azougagh (LIREFIMO, FSJES, USMBA, FES - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Économie, Finance et Management des Organisations, Faculté des Sciences Juridiques, Économiques et Sociales, Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fès, Maroc); Soussi Charaf Eddine (LIREFIMO, FSJES, USMBA, FES - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Économie, Finance et Management des Organisations, Faculté des Sciences Juridiques, Économiques et Sociales, Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fès, Maroc) |
| Abstract: | Facing a growing crisis of confidence in traditional institutions and an increasing demand for more democratic practices, the participatory governance approach offers relevant solutions to territorial challenges linked to sustainable development. Participatory governance directly involves citizens in decision-making processes, while sustainable territorial development aims to foster economic growth that is environmentally responsible and socially equitable. This study examines how these two approaches can complement one another, emphasizing the crucial role of citizen participation in creating development models that are both more sustainable and more democratic. It also discusses key principles of participatory governance such as transparency, inclusion, deliberation, and accountability. Several theoretical perspectives enrich this analysis, including deliberative democracy and empowerment theory. The objective of this research is to explore the relationship between these two concepts based on data collected in the Fès–Meknès region. It also includes secondary goals such as contributing to theoretical understanding and assessing the impact of participatory governance on sustainable and inclusive development in the region. |
| Abstract: | Face à la crise de confiance dans les institutions traditionnelles et à la demande de plus de démocratie, l'approche de la gouvernance participative offre des solutions aux défis territoriaux en relation avec le développement durable. D'autre part, La gouvernance participative implique directement les citoyens dans la prise de décision, tandis que le développement territorial durable cherche à promouvoir une croissance économique respectueuse de l'environnement et équitable sur le plan social. Ce travail examine comment ces deux approches peuvent se compléter, en mettant en avant l'importance de la participation citoyenne pour créer des modèles de développement plus durables et démocratiques. Il discute aussi des principes de la gouvernance participative tels que la transparence, l'inclusion, la délibération, et la responsabilisation. Divers courants théoriques enrichissent cette réflexion, notamment la démocratie délibérative et la théorie de l'empowerment. L'objectif de la recherche est d'explorer la relation entre ces deux concepts en se basant sur des données collectées à Fès-Meknès, et inclut des sous-objectifs comme l'enrichissement théorique et l'évaluation de leur impact sur le développement durable et inclusif dans la région. |
| Keywords: | Linkages JEL Classification: O35 Paper Type: Empirical Research, Social Innovation, Liens Classification JEL: O350 Type du papier: recherche empirique Social and Solidarity Economy, Innovation sociale, économie sociale et solidaire, économie sociale et solidaire Innovation sociale Liens Classification JEL: O350 Type du papier: recherche empirique Social and Solidarity Economy Social Innovation Linkages JEL Classification: O35 Paper Type: Empirical Research |
| Date: | 2025–11–26 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05389267 |
| By: | Ayato Kitadai; Shunta Yoshimura; Takuya Nakashima; Noora Torpo; Rei Miratsu; Naoki Mizutani; Nariaki Nishino |
| Abstract: | This study develops a novel class of queueing game to explain a common practice in cargo shipping "Sail Fast, Then Wait" (SFTW), and demonstrates that resolving information asymmetry among ships can deconcentrate port arrival times. We formulate a competitive navigating environment as an incomplete information game where players strategically decide their arrival time within heterogeneous feasible sets under First-Come, First-Served port policy. Our results show that in incomplete information settings, SFTW emerges as the unique symmetric equilibrium. Conversely, under complete information, the set of equilibria expands, allowing for slower and more environmentally friendly actions without compromising service order. We further quantitatively evaluate the effect of information enrichment based on empirical data. Our findings suggest that the prevalence of technologies enabling ships to infer others' private information can effectively reduce SFTW and enable more energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable operations. |
| Date: | 2026–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2602.01958 |
| By: | Martial, Léo (Chuo University) |
| Abstract: | This article examines the evolution of urban imaginaries and their influence on infrastructure design, focusing on Japan as a case study. The futuristic visions of the 1970s, illustrated by Gunther Radtke and groups such as Archigram, celebrated speed, growth, and technology. By contrast, the ecological, economic, and social crises of the 21st century have fostered imaginaries centered on sobriety, resilience, and inclusivity. These shifts raise key questions: how can we reconcile past legacies with present challenges, and how can infrastructures anticipate the needs of a changing world? Japan, marked by demographic decline yet persistent large-scale technological projects, offers a privileged lens. Campaigns to dismantle obsolete infrastructures in rural areas show pragmatic adaptation, while the SCMaglev train embodies faith in technological progress. These tensions echo broader debates opposing advocates of ecological degrowth to defenders of modernization. Through case studies on mobility, energy, and ecological infrastructures, the article shows how imaginaries shape design choices. It highlights the challenges and opportunities of transition toward sustainable and resilient models, stressing the importance of inclusive, transdisciplinary dialogue to define the values and priorities guiding future infrastructures in an uncertain world. |
| Date: | 2025–09–29 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:5dhuc_v1 |
| By: | McLeod, Mike |
| Abstract: | This paper presents a formal methodological framework for diagnosing and addressing challenges within urban music ecosystems, with a focused application to small venue resilience. Building upon the integrated ecological framework for popular music studies established in Waxing Ecological (McLeod, 2024), this work translates ecological theory into a structured analytical protocol. I adapt and operationalise Elinor Ostrom's Social-Ecological Systems (SES) framework—including its core subsystems, multi-tiered variables, and design principles for commons governance—to model the complex interdependencies characterising urban music ecologies. The methodology integrates insights from Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) theory to account for non-linear dynamics, emergence, and feedback. It provides researchers and policymakers with a replicable, stepwise process for system mapping, variable identification, resilience assessment, and the design of adaptive, polycentric governance strategies. While demonstrated through the critical problem of small venue sustainability, the framework is designed as a flexible diagnostic toolkit for a wide range of problem sets within cultural ecosystems, moving decisively from ecological metaphor to rigorous socio-ecological analysis. A companion paper (McLeod, 2026) demonstrates the full empirical application of this six-phase protocol to the UK's grassroots music venue ecosystem using Music Venue Trust longitudinal data (2014–2025). |
| Date: | 2026–01–23 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:yef2u_v1 |
| By: | Shakirah binti Noor Azlan (UCYP University, Jalan Tanjung Lumpur, 26060, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. Author-2-Name: Shah Rollah bin Abdul Wahab Author-2-Workplace-Name: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia. Author-3-Name: Fatin Fazrida binti Peros Khan Author-3-Workplace-Name: UCYP University, Jalan Tanjung Lumpur, 26060, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. Author-4-Name: Author-4-Workplace-Name: Author-5-Name: Author-5-Workplace-Name: Author-6-Name: Author-6-Workplace-Name: Author-7-Name: Author-7-Workplace-Name: Author-8-Name: Author-8-Workplace-Name:) |
| Abstract: | " Objective - Workplace accidents are often underestimated, yet they significantly affect an organization's reputation, costs, productivity, and employee retention. This study investigates the role of employee engagement and its dimensions in influencing psychological empowerment, safety climate, and safety performance. Methodology/Technique - Data were collected via questionnaires from 400 operator-level employees across seven Malaysian electrical and electronics manufacturing companies. Findings - Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using Smart-PLS was used to examine the relationships. The results indicate that employee engagement significantly mediates the relationship between safety climate and psychological empowerment, contributing to improved safety performance. These findings underscore the importance of fostering employee engagement and its dimensions to enhance organizational safety and overall performance. Novelty - Furthermore, the study yielded a model encompassing safety climate, psychological empowerment, employee engagement, and safety performance. This study has demonstrated that workplace safety encompasses employees' views and behaviors in electrical and electronics manufacturing businesses. Type of Paper - Empirical" |
| Keywords: | Safety climate, psychological empowerment, employee engagement, SmartPLS. |
| JEL: | J24 J28 M12 |
| Date: | 2026–03–31 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gtr:gatrjs:jmmr359 |
| By: | Philipp Jonas Kreutzer; Josef Taalbi |
| Abstract: | Collaboration is expected to play a central role in the transition to a bioeconomy - a central pillar of a green economy. Such collaboration is supposed to connect traditional biomass processing firms with diverse actors in fields where biomass ought to substitute existing or create novel products and processes. This study analyzes the network of technology collaborations among innovating firms in Sweden between 1970 and 2021. The results reveal generally positive associations between direct and indirect ties, with meaningful increases in innovation output for each additional direct collaboration partner. Relationships between brokerage positions and innovation output were statistically insignificant, and cognitive proximity - while following theoretical expectations - materially insignificant. These associations are mostly equal between actors heavily invested in the bioeconomy and those focusing on other innovation areas, indicating that these actors operate under largely similar mechanisms linking collaboration and subsequent innovation output. These results suggest that stimulating collaboration broadly - rather than attempting to optimize collaboration compositions - could result in higher number of significant Swedish innovations, for bioeconomy and other sectors alike. |
| Date: | 2026–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2602.05112 |
| By: | Al Said Ahmat (MAGELLAN - Laboratoire de Recherche Magellan - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Lyon) |
| Abstract: | The tourism sector, particularly vulnerable to health and security crises, highlights the structural weaknesses of travel agencies. In this unstable context, organizational resilience becomes a major issue. Technological innovations, especially virtual tourism, are emerging as strategic levers to overcome certain constraints, enhance customer experience, and expand access to new markets. In addition to supporting the attractiveness of tourism offers, these tools can contribute to more sustainable tourism by reducing the over-visitation of certain destinations. However, their deployment raises challenges in terms of costs, adoption, and territorial inequalities. This research explores how travel agencies appropriate virtual tourism tools to reinvent their business models, increase their competitiveness, and strengthen their adaptability. It revolves around the following question: how are these technologies transforming agency practices in the context of industry transformation? Socio-economic and managerial impact of the articleVirtual tourism generates multiple impacts such as social, economic, and managerial. Socially, it broadens access to cultural experiences while reducing the carbon footprint, thus contributing to more inclusive and sustainable tourism. Economically, it pushes stakeholders to rethink their business models by adopting hybrid and flexible structures, enhancing their adaptability in times of crisis. However, its implementation depends on significant technological investments and strategic collaborations. From a managerial standpoint, this transition requires a redefinition of strategies, the upskilling of teams in digital tools, and more agile governance capable of steering innovation in an unstable environment. Although its development is hindered by the diversity of application contexts, virtual tourism opens new perspectives. This study thus highlights its potential to durably transform the sector, while laying the foundations for a more resilient and innovative ecosystem. |
| Abstract: | Le secteur du tourisme, particulièrement vulnérable aux crises sanitaires et sécuritaires, met en lumière les fragilités structurelles des agences de voyage. Dans ce contexte instable, la résilience organisationnelle devient un enjeu majeur. Les innovations technologiques, notamment le tourisme virtuel, émergent comme des leviers stratégiques permettant de surmonter certaines contraintes, d'améliorer l'expérience client et d'élargir l'accès à de nouveaux marchés. En plus de soutenir l'attractivité des offres, ces outils peuvent contribuer à un tourisme plus soutenable, en limitant la sur-fréquentation de certaines destinations. Néanmoins, leur déploiement pose des défis en termes de coûts, d'appropriation et d'inégalités territoriales. Cette recherche interroge la manière dont les agences de voyage s'approprient les dispositifs de tourisme virtuel pour réinventer leurs modèles économiques, accroître leur compétitivité et renforcer leur capacité d'adaptation. Elle s'articule autour de la question suivante : comment ces technologies transforment-elles les pratiques des agences dans un contexte de mutation du secteur ? L'impact socio-économique et managérial de l'article Le tourisme virtuel génère des impacts multiples à la fois sociaux, économiques et managériaux. Socialement, il élargit l'accès aux expériences culturelles tout en réduisant l'empreinte carbone, contribuant ainsi à un tourisme plus inclusif et durable. Économiquement, il pousse les acteurs à repenser leurs modèles d'affaires en adoptant des structures hybrides et flexibles, renforçant leur capacité d'adaptation en période de crise. Toutefois, sa mise en œuvre dépend d'investissements technologiques conséquents et de collaborations stratégiques. Sur le plan managérial, cette transition implique une refonte des stratégies, une montée en compétences numériques des équipes et une gouvernance plus réactive, capable d'orienter l'innovation dans un environnement instable. Bien que son développement soit freiné par la diversité des contextes d'application, le tourisme virtuel ouvre de nouvelles perspectives. L'étude met ainsi en évidence son potentiel pour transformer durablement le secteur, tout en posant les bases d'un écosystème plus résilient et innovant. |
| Keywords: | Travel agencies, Organizational resilience, Strategic adaptation, Virtual tourism, Virtual tourism Strategic adaptation Organizational resilience Travel agencies |
| Date: | 2025–11–08 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05370423 |
| By: | Jingni Zhang; David Popp |
| Abstract: | Electric vehicles (EVs) are crucial for cutting transportation emissions, yet the policy drivers of EV innovation remain underexplored. This study analyzes firm-level panel data on EV and battery patents, covering more than 4, 000 firms across 19 countries from 2010 to 2021, to assess how these policy tools and their interactions in different time horizons influence innovative activity. We test the effects of individual policy instruments that either raise demand for EVs or support the development of EV technologies. Stringent fuel-economy standards, financial incentives, adoption targets, and public R&D investments each significantly increase patenting in EV and battery technologies. Moreover, long-term EV targets amplify the innovative impact of public R&D and standards while diminishing the marginal effect of short-term price signals. The results suggest that governments can accelerate clean automotive innovation by combining long-term adoption commitments with sustained R&D investment or strong performance standards, and by managing these instruments as a coordinated policy portfolio rather than as separate tools. The study contributes cross-country, firm-level evidence that links policy design to the direction of clean technology innovation. |
| JEL: | O31 O38 Q55 |
| Date: | 2026–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:34763 |
| By: | Astrid Sneyers |
| Abstract: | This paper aims at disentangling the mutual link between conflict, drought and food security in Somalia. The analysis is conducted using various indicators for food security and on different sub-national aggregation levels. The evidence is based on data from three household-level surveys, collected in various regions in Somalia between 2013-2015. While the general these that drought triggers conflict is confirmed, a negative effect of both drought and conflict on non-food expenditures is found, suggesting that these households buy less non-food items when confronted with distressing situations. Increasing drought and conflict effects on food consumption scores and food expenditures are furthermore encountered for households in Somaliland and Puntland. We test the hypothesis of differing effects of conflict and drought for households in various food security situations, with different food consumption scores, and find empirical support for the existence of a potential ’food insecurity trap’. |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hic:wpaper:449 |
| By: | Emilio Jesús Legonía (School of Government, Universidad de los Andes) |
| Abstract: | The relationship between regional universities and the capacities of subnational government officials in Amazonian contexts remains largely unexplored. Examining and discussing this issue could drive meaningful changes in local governance and development. This thesis takes a qualitative approach to analyze this relationship within the broader context of asymmetric decentralization and ongoing deforestation in the Amazon. The study focuses on two Amazonian regions in Peru and Colombia, allowing for a comparative perspective on the dynamics between these institutions at the regional level. The findings suggest that the narrative of limited capacities among subnational officials serves as a trap, obscuring deeper structural issues related to centralism and exclusion. Moreover, the lack of recognition of the relationship between subnational governments and regional universities prevents the effective use of their combined expertise to generate evidence that could support decision-making, governance, and sustainable local development. |
| Keywords: | State capacity; subnational government; university, Amazon. |
| Date: | 2025–06–17 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:col:000547:022181 |
| By: | François-Charles Wolff (LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - Nantes Univ - IAE Nantes - Nantes Université - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Sociétés - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université); Pierre-Alexandre Mahieu (LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - Nantes Univ - IAE Nantes - Nantes Université - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Sociétés - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université); Brice Trouillet (LETG - Nantes - Littoral, Environnement, Télédétection, Géomatique - UBO EPE - Université de Brest - UR2 - Université de Rennes 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - LETG - Littoral, Environnement, Télédétection, Géomatique UMR 6554 - UBO EPE - Université de Brest - UR2 - Université de Rennes 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Nantes Univ - IGARUN - Institut de Géographie et d'Aménagement Régional de l'Université de Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Humanités - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université); Alexia Pigeault (LETG - Nantes - Littoral, Environnement, Télédétection, Géomatique - UBO EPE - Université de Brest - UR2 - Université de Rennes 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - LETG - Littoral, Environnement, Télédétection, Géomatique UMR 6554 - UBO EPE - Université de Brest - UR2 - Université de Rennes 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Nantes Univ - IGARUN - Institut de Géographie et d'Aménagement Régional de l'Université de Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Humanités - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université, CAPACITÉS SAS - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université); Nicolas Rollo (LETG - Nantes - Littoral, Environnement, Télédétection, Géomatique - UBO EPE - Université de Brest - UR2 - Université de Rennes 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - LETG - Littoral, Environnement, Télédétection, Géomatique UMR 6554 - UBO EPE - Université de Brest - UR2 - Université de Rennes 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Nantes Univ - IGARUN - Institut de Géographie et d'Aménagement Régional de l'Université de Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Humanités - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université) |
| Abstract: | While participatory democracy invites all citizens to take part directly in the decision-making process, the selection of participants in public debates is a critical issue for the legitimacy of the resulting public choices. This paper examines this question in the context of the national public debate on offshore wind energy held in France in the first quarter of 2024. We study an original survey measuring spatial preferences for offshore wind energy in which both participants in the public debate and respondents from the general population were simultaneously surveyed. We find large differences between the two groups of respondents in terms of gender, age, and education, as well as in their spatial preferences for wind farm locations. Using an entropy balancing approach, we reject the hypothesis that these differences in spatial preferences are due to composition effects. These findings underscore the need for policymakers to exercise caution when interpreting the outcomes of public debates. |
| Keywords: | Democracy, Spatial Preferences, Offshore Wind Energy, Discrete Choice Experiment, Entropy Balancing, Participatory |
| Date: | 2026–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05473955 |
| By: | Alexandre Coulondre (LAB'URBA - LAB'URBA - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 - Université Gustave Eiffel) |
| Abstract: | En 2025, l'urgence environnementale s'impose à tous les niveaux de la gouvernance des territoires. La sobriété foncière, et sa traduction dans des objectifs de zéro artificialisation nette (ZAN) a beaucoup concentré l'attention ces dernières années. Mais une autre sobriété, moins souvent identifiée, apparait tout aussi centrale dans la lutte contre le dépassement des limites planétaires : la sobriété immobilière. Cet article synthétise les débats tenus par quinze professionnels et chercheurs sur le sujet dans le cadre du parcours "Peut-on se passer de faire plus de mètres carrés sur nos fonciers ?" des Assises Nationales du Foncier et des Territoires (ANFT) organisées par le LIFTI à Nancy les 6 et 7 février 2025. |
| Keywords: | Limites planétaires, Comptabilité écologique, Sobriété, Immobilier, Modèles économiques, Besoins - Logements |
| Date: | 2025–06–30 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05475904 |
| By: | Oechssler, Jörg |
| Abstract: | I study a formal mechanism that can sustain Pareto optimality in a new and very broad class of dilemma games. In the absence of a central authority that could enforce multilateral agreements, the mechanism is based on binding unilateral commitments, which condition a player's (possibly multidimensional) contribution on other players' contributions. I show that unexploitable better response dynamics converge to Pareto optimal contributions when the game is played recurrently. |
| Keywords: | public goods; climate treaties; conditional contributions |
| Date: | 2026–02–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:awi:wpaper:0770 |
| By: | Arinc, Ibrahim Said (SOCAR Türkiye) |
| Abstract: | This article examines critical mineral supply chains through a geo-economic and governance-oriented lens, drawing on Global Value Chain (GVC) theory and insights from asymmetric interdependence. It argues that supply vulnerabilities extend beyond geological endowment and extraction, increasingly reflecting coordination failures across transnational value chains, particularly at midstream and downstream stages involving refining, processing, logistics, certification, and regulatory alignment. While existing scholarship has largely treated hydrocarbon corridors and critical mineral supply risks as separate domains, limited attention has been paid to corridor-based governance arrangements capable of coordinating extraction, transit, processing, and market access across Eurasia. The study adopts a qualitative, policy-oriented methodology combining conceptual analysis, review of institutional and policy frameworks, and an embedded case study of the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC). The SGC serves as an institutional reference to examine how geographically connected actors, including Central Asian producers, Azerbaijan, Türkiye, and European markets, have managed asymmetric interdependence through long-term cooperation, intergovernmental frameworks, and coordinated state and commercial participation. Building on these insights, the article develops a corridor-based governance perspective for Eurasian critical mineral supply chains. It conceptualizes the Eurasian Critical Minerals Corridor not as an existing institutional structure, but as an analytical framework for examining how variable-geometry cooperation can structure interdependence, reduce exposure to value-chain vulnerabilities, and support more resilient supply arrangements. In doing so, the article advances a governance-centered interpretation of critical mineral supply chains and demonstrates how institutional lessons from energy corridors can inform policy debates on critical mineral security and the political economy of the energy transition. |
| Date: | 2026–01–21 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:exjsp_v1 |
| By: | Cullen S. Hendrix (Peterson Institute for International Economics) |
| Abstract: | Cuts to agricultural development assistance and food aid by the United States and other advanced economies are creating a global vacuum just as climate change and conflict drive global hunger up. Many food-insecure developing economies with significant hunger lack the resources to self-finance agricultural research and development (R&D) and have had to depend increasingly on themselves--and one another--to meet rising food needs. Hendrix argues that the BRICS+ economies--Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia--are well positioned to fill the world's food security gap. Key Takeaways For BRICS+, the stakes are existential because hunger and climate vulnerability are clear domestic challenges, not distant risks. Investments in climate-resilient, regionally adapted crop research would provide self-insurance and also help stabilize neighboring fragile states, where food insecurity drives migration. The returns to investments will be greatest if they are accompanied by science-based regulatory reforms. Governments of economies wary of biotechnology should educate the public and reform regulations to reap the benefits of advanced agricultural technologies. BRICS+ have the scientific know-how, institutional capacity, and capital to underwrite a massive increase in public agricultural R&D funding. Doing so would be an opportunity to demonstrate that they are capable of providing global leadership. |
| Date: | 2026–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iie:pbrief:pb26-4 |
| By: | Levi Gama Ribeiro; Victor Hugo Pimen Damasceno; Laldiane de Souza Pinheiro |
| Abstract: | No atual cenário do mercado imobiliário, cada vez mais competitivo, a diferenciação nas estratégias de venda tornou-se essencial para o êxito de novos empreendimentos. Nesse cenário, os loteamentos fechados ganharam destaque pela crescente busca por qualidade de vida. Entretanto, a rentabilidade desse tipo de projeto está diretamente associada à eficácia das vendas. Com o objetivo de otimizar esse processo, foi desenvolvido um modelo de precificação baseado em análise multicritérios, visando maior assertividade para o empreendedor e melhor percepção de valor para o cliente. O modelo considera fatores como topografia, área do lote, proximidade de áreas verdes, incidência solar e segurança. A importância de cada critério foi definida por pesquisa como clientes, corretores, arquitetos e engenheiros civis, utilizando a Análise Hierárquica de Prioridades (AHP). Na sequência, técnicas de georreferenciamento qualificaram os lotes, gerando mapas que indicam seu nível de atratividade. Os lotes mais valorizados recebem pontuações maiores, servindo como base para a precificação. O valor inicial é calculado pela multiplicação da área pelo preço médio da região, sendo ajustado com técnicas estatísticas e fatores de correção. Assim, lotes com atributos desejados têm preços explorados de forma mais completa, enquanto os menos atrativos tornam-se mais competitivos com valores acessíveis. A aplicação do modelo resulta no aumento do valor geral das vendas do empreendimento. Além disso, a qualificação dos lotes constitui argumento de venda consistente, pois a precificação é justificada por critérios relevantes para o cliente. Por sua flexibilidade, o modelo pode ser aplicado a outros empreendimentos, tornando-se um diferencial competitivo no mercado. |
| Keywords: | Gated Community Development; Georeferencing; Georreferenciamento; Lot Pricing; Loteamento Fechado; Multi-Criteria; Multicritérios; Precificação de Loteamento; profitability; Rentabilidade |
| JEL: | R3 |
| Date: | 2025–01–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lre:wpaper:lares-2025-109 |