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Xiangling LIU, Qamruzzaman M. The role of ICT investment, digital financial inclusion, and environmental tax in promoting sustainable energy development in the MENA region: Evidences with Dynamic Common Correlated Effects (DCE) and instrumental variable-adjusted DCE. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0301838. [PMID: 38709743 PMCID: PMC11073741 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 03/21/2024] [Indexed: 05/08/2024] Open
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His research investigates the interplay among investment in Information and Communication Technology [ICT], digital financial inclusion, environmental tax policies, and their impact on the progression of sustainable energy development within the Middle East and North Africa [MENA] region. Recognizing the distinctive hurdles impeding sustainable energy advancement, effective policy formulation and implementation in MENA necessitate a comprehensive understanding of these variables. Employing a Dynamic Common Correlated Effects [DCE] model alongside an instrumental variable-adjusted DCE approach, this study explores the relationship between ICT investment, digital financial inclusion, environmental tax, and sustainable energy development. The DCE model facilitates the analysis of dynamic effects and potential correlations, while the instrumental variable-adjusted DCE model addresses issues pertaining to endogeneity. The results indicate that both ICT investment and the promotion of digital financial inclusion significantly and positively impact sustainable energy development in the MENA region. Additionally, the study underscores the importance of environmental tax implementation in fostering sustainable energy advancement, highlighting the critical role of environmental policy interventions. Based on these findings, governmental prioritization of ICT investment and initiatives for digital financial service integration is recommended to bolster sustainable energy growth in MENA. Furthermore, the adoption of efficient environmental tax measures is essential to incentivize sustainable energy practices and mitigate environmental degradation. These policy recommendations aim to create a conducive environment for sustainable energy progression in the MENA region, contributing to both economic prosperity and environmental conservation.
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- LIU Xiangling
- School of Business, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Hunan, China
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- School of Business and Economics, United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Zheng B, Wu X, Huo X, Wang S. Can low-carbon cities pilot policy promote enterprise sustainable development? Quasi-experimental evidence from China. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0301317. [PMID: 38696407 PMCID: PMC11065218 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 03/14/2024] [Indexed: 05/04/2024] Open
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With the predicament of sustainable improvement in traditional cities, the low-carbon city pilot policy (LCCPP), as a novel development mode, provides thinking for resolving the tensions of green development, resource conservation and environmental protection among firms. Using Chinese A-share listed companies panel data during 2007-2019, this study adopts the difference-in-differences model to explore the impact of LCCPP on firm green innovation. Based on theoretical analysis, LCCPP-driven environmental rules have the impact of encouraging business green innovation. The relationship between LCCPP and green innovation is strengthened by external media attention and organizational redundancy resources. The mechanism study shows that the incentive effect of LCCPP on firm green innovation is mainly due to the improvement of enterprises' green total factor productivity and financial stability. In addition, the heterogeneity analysis shows that the LCCPP has significantly positive effects in promoting green innovation in high-carbon industries and state-owned enterprises. This research contributes to the understanding of city-level low-carbon policies as a driving force for corporate green innovation, offering practical implications for policymakers and businesses striving for sustainability.
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- Bowen Zheng
- School of Business, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China
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- School of Business, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China
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- School of Business, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China
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- School of Business, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China
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Chen J. Corporate ESG and total factor productivity: Will the fulfillment of social responsibility sacrifice productivity? PLoS One 2024; 19:e0301701. [PMID: 38662743 PMCID: PMC11045099 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2024] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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With the increasing prominence of climate and energy issues, enterprises, as the micro-subjects of economic activities, need to pay attention to environmental responsibility to promote sustainable and high-quality economic development. However, one of the crucial controversies is whether enterprises will sacrifice efficiency to fulfill their environmental responsibilities. To try our best to answer the controversy, this paper explores the impact of ESG on total factor productivity and its mechanism. The research conclusion shows that Chinese enterprises fulfilling ESG responsibilities can improve staff efficiency, reduce financing costs, ease financing constraints, and increase innovation investment, thus effectively improving total factor productivity. Compared to non-state-owned enterprises, this effect is more significant in state-owned enterprises. In addition, the promotion of ESG construction on the total factor productivity of enterprises also presents specific acceleration characteristics. This shows that in the socialist market economy environment, there is an obvious "social responsibility dividend" in the implementation of the ESG concept by Chinese enterprises, which is helpful to enhance their long-term value and realize a win-win of social value and commercial value. The conclusions of this study help deal correctly with the relationship between business value and social value of enterprises and provide inspiration for promoting healthy and sustainable economic development.
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- Jian Chen
- School of Finance, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China
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Yang Q, Ming S, Zhang R, Yan H. Green finance and corporate environmental investment: "Scale Up" or "Efficiency Up"? PLoS One 2024; 19:e0297456. [PMID: 38346062 PMCID: PMC10861075 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2023] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 02/15/2024] Open
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The establishment of green finance reform and innovation (GFRI) pilot zone is an important measure of the Chinese government to urge enterprises to develop green transformation. This paper explores the impact of pilot policies in the GFRI pilot zone on corporate environmental investment. Based on 819 A-share listed enterprises from 2010 to 2020, our staggered difference-in-differences (staggered DID) estimation documents revealed that enterprises in the GFRI pilot zone significantly increased the corporate environmental investment efficiency but reduced the scale of corporate environmental investment.This conclusion remained robust after Propensity Scores Matching difference-in-differences (PSM-DID), replacing dependent variables, and shortening the time window. We contend that the increased research and development (R&D) expenditure and technological innovation are the potential mechanisms at work. Heterogeneity analysis showed that the establishment of GFRI improved the environmental investment efficiency of polluting enterprises but had no effect on green enterprises.Meanwhile, the effect of GFRI exhibited heterogeneity in the type of enterprise ownership. This paper evaluates the implementation effect of GFRI from the perspective of corporate environmental investment, and provides theoretical support and an empirical basis for green finance policy to serve China's green economy.
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- Qu Yang
- Business School, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, China
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- Business School, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, China
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- Business School, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, China
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- Business School, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, 610066, China
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Vidal F, van der Marel ER, Kerr RWF, McElroy C, Schroeder N, Mitchell C, Rosetto G, Chen TTD, Bailey RM, Hepburn C, Redgwell C, Williams CK. Designing a circular carbon and plastics economy for a sustainable future. Nature 2024; 626:45-57. [PMID: 38297170 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06939-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2021] [Accepted: 12/05/2023] [Indexed: 02/02/2024]
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The linear production and consumption of plastics today is unsustainable. It creates large amounts of unnecessary and mismanaged waste, pollution and carbon dioxide emissions, undermining global climate targets and the Sustainable Development Goals. This Perspective provides an integrated technological, economic and legal view on how to deliver a circular carbon and plastics economy that minimizes carbon dioxide emissions. Different pathways that maximize recirculation of carbon (dioxide) between plastics waste and feedstocks are outlined, including mechanical, chemical and biological recycling, and those involving the use of biomass and carbon dioxide. Four future scenarios are described, only one of which achieves sufficient greenhouse gas savings in line with global climate targets. Such a bold system change requires 50% reduction in future plastic demand, complete phase-out of fossil-derived plastics, 95% recycling rates of retrievable plastics and use of renewable energy. It is hard to overstate the challenge of achieving this goal. We therefore present a roadmap outlining the scale and timing of the economic and legal interventions that could possibly support this. Assessing the service lifespan and recoverability of plastic products, along with considerations of sufficiency and smart design, can moreover provide design principles to guide future manufacturing, use and disposal of plastics.
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- Fernando Vidal
- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
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- Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Faculty of Law, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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Jia S, Shang H. Utilizing green financing in developing green HRM resources for carbon neutrality: presenting multidimensional perspectives of China. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2024; 31:8798-8811. [PMID: 38180647 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-31560-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/06/2024]
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This study examines how green finance may encourage the development of green human resource management (HRM) solutions to help China achieve carbon neutrality. For an empirical estimate, the Chinese data is subjected to DEA analysis, Tobit regression, and a sensitivity analysis model. The findings highlight the significance of green finance in the creation of green HRM solutions that aid firms in enhancing their environmental performance, boosting employee happiness, and getting them closer to their carbon neutrality goals. With the use of tools like green bonds and sustainable investment funds, businesses may raise capital for sustainability projects and encourage the adoption of environmentally responsible HRM practices. Moreover, the study results discussed the need to incorporate environmental sustainability considerations into HRM plans, enabling organizations to cultivate a sustainable culture and engage employees in supporting carbon neutrality through green practices in talent acquisition, training and development, performance management, and employee engagement. Incorporating environmental sustainability into HRM processes, boosting stakeholder involvement, and looking into new funding methods are all points emphasized in the study, which aims to enhance the uptake of green HRM initiatives.
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- Shaowei Jia
- School of Economics and Management, East China University of Technology, NanChang, 330000, China
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- Department of Economic Management, Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering, XingTai, 054000, China.
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Amon DJ, McCauley DJ, Blasiak R, Österblom H. Replace Norway as co-chair of High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy. Nature 2024; 626:480. [PMID: 38351337 DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-00403-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
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Liu C, Yang Y, Chen S. How does transition finance influence green innovation of high-polluting and high-energy-consuming enterprises? Evidence from China. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2024; 31:8026-8045. [PMID: 38175514 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-31360-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2023] [Accepted: 11/30/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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Under the impact of "double-carbon" target, transition finance has an important impact on green innovation of Chinese double-high enterprises. Using a sample of 4270 high-polluting and high-energy-consumption listed enterprises (referred to as double-high enterprises) in China from 2012 to 2021, this paper empirically examines the impact of transition finance on the green innovation of China's double-high enterprises by using a fixed-effects model. The study finds that transition finance can have a facilitating effect on green innovation in double-high enterprises. The intermediary mechanism test shows that transition finance can promote green innovation of double-high enterprises through alleviating financing constraints, increasing the level of green management, and enhancing the policy orientation effect. The heterogeneity test finds that transition finance promotes green innovation more significantly for the double-high enterprises that are state-owned, large-scale, and located in regions with high levels of intellectual property protection. Further research finds that the role of transition finance in promoting green innovation in double-high enterprises helps to promote the achievement of green development of double-high enterprises.
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- Chao Liu
- College of Economics and Management, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266590, China
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- College of Economics and Management, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266590, China
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- Department of Finance and Economics, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Jinan, 250000, China.
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Zhang J, Ma X, Liu J, Zhang S. All roads lead to Rome? The impact of heterogeneous green finance on carbon reduction of Chinese manufacturing enterprises. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:116147-116161. [PMID: 37907822 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-30524-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2023] [Accepted: 10/12/2023] [Indexed: 11/02/2023]
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Based on the system theory and Pareto efficiency theory, this paper, based on the data of listed companies in China's A-share manufacturing industry in 2011-2022, explores the impact of market-driven green finance and government-guided green finance on the carbon emission intensity of manufacturing enterprises, and analyzes the intermediary role of debt financing cost. A negative "U" relationship exists in market-driven green finance/government-guided green finance and the carbon emission intensity of manufacturing enterprises. Further research shows that under the higher debt financing cost, market-driven green finance played a weaker carbon reduction effect. The heterogeneity analysis found that market-driven green finance can have a significant non-linear impact of "promoting growth first and weakening later" on the carbon emissions of energy-saving and environmental protection enterprises, large enterprises, and enterprises with high human capital levels. Government-guided green finance has a significant non-linear impact on non-energy-saving and environmental protection enterprises and small enterprises. This paper provides the theoretical basis and practical inspiration for the government to formulate relevant low-carbon development policies and promote the innovation of green financial tools in the financial market.
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- Jiaoning Zhang
- School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830002, China.
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- School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830002, China
- Center for Innovation Management Research of Xinjiang, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830002, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830002, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830002, China
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Liu J, Lu S. Does circular economy affect environmental performance? The mediating role of sustainable supply chain management: the case study in China. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:117288-117301. [PMID: 37864702 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-30125-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Accepted: 09/24/2023] [Indexed: 10/23/2023]
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Governments and professionals have recently tried to improve public environmental knowledge and laws in order to meet growing environmental concerns. As a result, most nations see corporate environmental initiatives like the circular economy and the green supply chain as important (GSCM) as the best ways to address environmental problems. As a result, this study tries to show how important GSCM and the circular economy are regarding the economy of China's relationship to environmental sustainability. This study uses the partial least square structural equation model (PLS-SEM) on data to obtain trustworthy results from 387 Chinese manufacturing companies. A favorable and statistically significant correlation between GSCM, environmental performance, and the circular economy was revealed using PLS-SEM analysis. To raise environmental standards, eco-friendly methods like buying and designing green items are widely regarded today. Imagine if manufacturing companies adopt green supply chain management, which would improve their economic performance and increase operational effectiveness. The secret to a successful corporation is having successful operations.
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- Jiayu Liu
- School of Business Administration, Liaoning Technical University, Fuxin, 123032, China.
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- School of Business Administration, Liaoning Technical University, Fuxin, 123032, China
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Wu J, Liew CY. Green finance and environmental, social, and governance: evidence from Chinese listed companies. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:110499-110514. [PMID: 37792189 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-30139-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 10/05/2023]
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In recent years, academics have paid more attention to green finance, and public companies have reached a broad consensus on the concept of timely environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure. Due to the close relationship between green finance and ESG, this presents an opportunity to determine whether green finance compels companies to actively disclose ESG. The sample for this study consists of China's non-financial A-share listed companies from 2010 to 2021, and the empirical findings demonstrate that green finance can positively influence the ESG performance of listed companies. Through an analysis of heterogeneity, this study reaches the following conclusions: state-owned enterprises, heavy pollution companies, and companies in low-carbon pilot cities perform better in terms of green finance's role in promoting ESG scoring. This study also introduces market concentration and social trust as the moderating variables, enriching the green finance research framework. Through the analysis of moderating variables, the 'black box' effect of green finance on ESG is disclosed, providing theoretical support for the government and companies to better comprehend the policy effect as well as a reference for reform and experimental promotion of green finance.
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- Jing Wu
- Graduate Business School, UCSI University, 56000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- School of Economics and Management, Huangshan University, Huangshan, 245041, Anhui, China
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- Faculty of Business and Management, UCSI University, 56000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Li R, Cao F. The impact of sustainable public procurement on corporate ESG performance-The Chinese evidence. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0292286. [PMID: 37856484 PMCID: PMC10586645 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 09/17/2023] [Indexed: 10/21/2023] Open
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Public procurement is an important bridge between public demand and market supply and may affect corporate behavior. However, in the advocacy of sustainable development, the extant research has rarely combined sustainable public procurement (SPP) with corporate ESG performance, to explore whether governments have contributed to the development of sustainable corporate performance through their sustainable procurement activities. This paper fills in the gap by matching the actual implementation of SPP of 42,369 projects in China over 2015~2020 with 20,125 corporate ESG performance data, to analyze the relationship between SPP implementation and corporate ESG performance. The results show that the implementation of SPP has a significant positive impact on corporate ESG performance. Further heterogeneity analysis reveals that the impact is stronger in China's eastern and central regions than in other regions, and corporates at a mature stage are more likely to follow the government sustainable behavior. In addition, the implementation of SPP has a long-term effect on corporate ESG performance. The above findings have important policy implications: firstly, there is a better role for government to play as the "invisible hand", to participate in the market economy; Specifically, SPP policy should be added to government policy tool box to improve corporate ESG performance in addition to disclosure requirement, and the SPP policy employed should in particular attend to the "missing sectors" of sustainability in SPP for the good of corporate ESG; secondly, the government should implement differentiated policies tailored to the region's economic development conditions and corporate development characteristics; thirdly, a long-term evaluation mechanism should be established so that the government can play a more long-term demonstration and leading role.
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- Runyu Li
- School of Accountancy, Shandong Youth University of Political Science, Shandong, China
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- School of Law, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
- School of Finance and Taxation, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
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Wang A, Ahmad M, Gu X, Ismailova N, Ismailov D. Does the individual effect of resource rents imperative in the attainment of environmental sustainability? Evidence of Southeast Asian economies. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:103718-103730. [PMID: 37684505 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-29605-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2023] [Accepted: 08/26/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023]
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This study investigates the impact of natural resource exploitation on environmental sustainability in Southeast Asian economies, while testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) inverted U-shaped hypothesis, a model which suggests an initial increase in environmental degradation with economic growth followed by a decrease at a certain level of income. Utilizing World Development Indicators data from 1995 to 2018, the research dissects the long-term influence of various resource rents, namely coal, oil, and forest. The research highlights the indispensable role of renewable energy in maintaining ecological balance. Results indicate that while coal rent exacerbates environmental degradation, forest and oil rents prove eco-friendly, although this is only confirmed in fully modified OLS estimation. The study underscores the importance of forest rents in achieving environmental sustainability. Renewable energy emerges as vital for promoting sustainable low-carbon practices. In line with the EKC hypothesis, the study finds that economic growth initially increases carbon emissions, but eventually reduces them. It calls for appropriate measures to manage resource exploitation, ensure renewable energy availability, alleviate energy poverty, and curb deforestation, thereby mitigating ecological damage.
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- Aiwei Wang
- School of Economics, Liaoning University of International Business and Economics, Dalian, 116052, China
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- World Economy Department, Tashkent State University of Economics, 100003, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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- Social Science Department, Communication University of Zhejiang, Hangzhou, 310018, China
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- World Economy Department, Tashkent State University of Economics, 100003, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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- World Economy Department, Tashkent State University of Economics, 100003, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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Chen H, Yan B, Fei R, Bao S. Assessing the impact of trade policy uncertainty on pollution emissions: an analysis of Chinese firms' green transformation. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:104577-104591. [PMID: 37707737 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-29778-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 09/04/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023]
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Oscillations in the global trade milieu have exacerbated the ambiguity experienced by Chinese enterprises, thereby influencing their ecological transition. The ongoing debate over whether trade uncertainty augments corporate emissions, exacerbating pollution, or attenuates emissions, encouraging sustainable production, has yet to reach a consensus. The current investigation employs a textual analysis methodology to explore the influence of trade policy uncertainty on pollution emissions, by sourcing indicators of trade policy uncertainty that echo firm-level uncertainty within the period 2008 to 2021. Utilizing the fixed effects model for our analysis, the findings substantiate that escalated uncertainty at the micro-level catalyzes an increase in pollution emissions originating from firms. Crucially, we find that risk diversification and innovation bolster firms' capacities to manage pollution under escalating uncertainty. Furthermore, our estimation reveals that enterprises with low market competitiveness, high financial constraints, and moderate overseas market share are most significantly impacted, whereas those with robust patent portfolios remain largely unaffected. This study carries considerable implications for firms striving to achieve an ecological transition and offers insights for fostering sustainable and high-quality global economic development.
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- Hongwen Chen
- School of Tourism, Nanchang University, No. 999, Xuefu Avenue, Honggutan New District, Nanchang, 330031, Jiangxi Province, China
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- School of Economics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, No. 182 Nanhu Avenue, Donghu High Tech Development Zone, Wuhan, 430073, Hubei Province, China
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- School of Economics, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China.
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- School of Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, 100081, China
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Cui Q, Ma X, Zhang S, Liu J. Does the implementation of green finance regulation promote the high-quality development of enterprises? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:97786-97807. [PMID: 37597143 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-29355-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2023] [Accepted: 08/11/2023] [Indexed: 08/21/2023]
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The improvement of enterprise total factor productivity and labor productivity is the micro-embodiment of high-quality economic development. Green finance relies on the dual functions of resource allocation and environmental regulation to guide enterprises to adjust their mode of operation through incentive and restraint mechanisms, attach importance to energy conservation and environmental protection, and guide enterprises to develop with high quality. Taking the construction of the green financial supervision system in 2016 as a quasi-natural experiment, we constructed a difference-in-difference model to investigate the impact and mechanism of green finance on the high-quality development of enterprises, based on the panel data of Chinese A-share listed companies from 2006 to 2020. The results show that the implementation of green finance effectively promotes the high-quality development of enterprises. This promotion effect is heterogeneous from perspectives of enterprise-specific characteristics, executive education background, and environmental regulation intensity. The influence mechanisms mainly rely on tightening financial constraints, upgrading the level of green technology innovation, and improving the quality of internal control. These findings provide an important decision-making reference for better implementing green finance policies and promoting high-quality economic development under the green and low-carbon concept and carbon peak carbon neutrality goals.
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- Qi Cui
- School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China.
- Innovation Management Research Center, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China.
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- School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China
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Liao W. How does the digital economy affect the development of the green economy? Evidence from Chinese cities. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0289826. [PMID: 37561718 PMCID: PMC10414653 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2023] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 08/12/2023] Open
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The digital economy may accelerate the upgrading of industrial structures and boost regional innovation output, effectively contributing to China's green economic transformation. The impact of the digital economy on developing the urban green economy is analyzed using data from 280 cities across China from 2010-2019. Using a fixed-effects model and the Spatial Durbin model, the digital economy is found to have a significant impact on urban green economy development. This result is shown to be robust to various factors. There is significant regional variability in the impact of the digital economy on green economic growth, with the strongest impact in the northeast, followed by the central and western regions. Meanwhile, non-resource-based cities and policy pilot cities have a more pronounced role in promoting the digital economy. The intermediate transmission chain of industrial structural upgrading and regional innovation output fosters the growth of the urban green economy via the digital economy. Regional innovation production is responsible for 30.848% of this growth, with the intermediate effect of industrial structural upgrading contributing to 38.155%.
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- Wenqi Liao
- Key Analysis Laboratory of Big Data Statistics, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, China
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Shao L, Chen J. Digital finance and regional green innovation: the perspective of environmental regulation. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:85592-85610. [PMID: 37391561 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-28356-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/02/2023]
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The relationship between digital finance and regional green innovation has been partially confirmed, yet the role of environmental regulation in it remains unexplored. Therefore, this paper examines the impact of digital finance on regional green innovation and tests the moderating role of environmental regulation using Chinese city-level data from 2011 to 2019 as a research sample. The results show that digital finance can significantly promote regional green innovation by alleviating regional financing constraints and increasing regional R&D investment. Besides, digital finance has apparent regional difference effects (the contribution of digital finance to regional green innovation is greater in eastern China than in western China, and the development of digital finance in neighbouring regions has a negative transmission effect on local green innovation). Finally, environmental regulation positively moderates the relationship between digital finance and regional green innovation. This paper explores the relationship between digital finance and regional green innovation from the perspective of environmental regulation, providing empirical evidence to promote regional green innovation.
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- Lingshuang Shao
- Department of Accounting, School of Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Economics and Management School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
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Zeng Q, Tong Y, Yang Y. Can green finance promote green technology innovation in enterprises: empirical evidence from China. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:87628-87644. [PMID: 37428314 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-28342-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2023] [Accepted: 06/15/2023] [Indexed: 07/11/2023]
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Green technology innovation is a crucial step in China's transition towards a green economy and has received substantial financial support through green finance. However, China's efficacy in using green finance to serve enterprise green technology innovation is still at an exploratory stage. This study takes the 2017 policy of the Chinese government on "Green Finance Reform and Innovation Pilot Zones" as a quasi-natural experiment and constructs a difference-in-difference model to examine the impact of green finance on enterprise green technology innovation. The research results reveal that green financial policies significantly promote green technology innovation and have an incentive effect on the application of green invention patents and green utility model patents, with this conclusion being robust. This is particularly true for large-scale enterprises, state-owned enterprises, and non-heavy polluting enterprises. Compared to large-scale enterprises, state-owned enterprises, and non-heavy-polluting enterprises are more inclined to apply for green invention patents. Inspection of influence mechanisms suggests that green finance policies alleviate financing constraints and signaling effect to improve enterprises' green innovation, whereas external market supervision is ineffective. Based on empirical results, relevant policy suggestions are proposed to help green finance better serve enterprises' green innovation.
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- Qian Zeng
- School of Economics and Finance, Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Economics and Finance, Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Economics and Finance, Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an, China.
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Brondizio ES, Giroux SA, Valliant JCD, Blekking J, Dickinson S, Henschel B. Millions of jobs in food production are disappearing - a change in mindset would help to keep them. Nature 2023; 620:33-36. [PMID: 37524923 DOI: 10.1038/d41586-023-02447-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/02/2023]
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Pascual U, Balvanera P, Anderson CB, Chaplin-Kramer R, Christie M, González-Jiménez D, Martin A, Raymond CM, Termansen M, Vatn A, Athayde S, Baptiste B, Barton DN, Jacobs S, Kelemen E, Kumar R, Lazos E, Mwampamba TH, Nakangu B, O'Farrell P, Subramanian SM, van Noordwijk M, Ahn S, Amaruzaman S, Amin AM, Arias-Arévalo P, Arroyo-Robles G, Cantú-Fernández M, Castro AJ, Contreras V, De Vos A, Dendoncker N, Engel S, Eser U, Faith DP, Filyushkina A, Ghazi H, Gómez-Baggethun E, Gould RK, Guibrunet L, Gundimeda H, Hahn T, Harmáčková ZV, Hernández-Blanco M, Horcea-Milcu AI, Huambachano M, Wicher NLH, Aydın Cİ, Islar M, Koessler AK, Kenter JO, Kosmus M, Lee H, Leimona B, Lele S, Lenzi D, Lliso B, Mannetti LM, Merçon J, Monroy-Sais AS, Mukherjee N, Muraca B, Muradian R, Murali R, Nelson SH, Nemogá-Soto GR, Ngouhouo-Poufoun J, Niamir A, Nuesiri E, Nyumba TO, Özkaynak B, Palomo I, Pandit R, Pawłowska-Mainville A, Porter-Bolland L, Quaas M, Rode J, Rozzi R, Sachdeva S, Samakov A, Schaafsma M, Sitas N, Ungar P, Yiu E, Yoshida Y, Zent E. Diverse values of nature for sustainability. Nature 2023; 620:813-823. [PMID: 37558877 PMCID: PMC10447232 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06406-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2022] [Accepted: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
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Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being1,2, addressing the global biodiversity crisis3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature's diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understanding of how and why nature is (under)valued is more urgent than ever4. Notwithstanding agreements to incorporate nature's values into actions, including the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)5 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals6, predominant environmental and development policies still prioritize a subset of values, particularly those linked to markets, and ignore other ways people relate to and benefit from nature7. Arguably, a 'values crisis' underpins the intertwined crises of biodiversity loss and climate change8, pandemic emergence9 and socio-environmental injustices10. On the basis of more than 50,000 scientific publications, policy documents and Indigenous and local knowledge sources, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) assessed knowledge on nature's diverse values and valuation methods to gain insights into their role in policymaking and fuller integration into decisions7,11. Applying this evidence, combinations of values-centred approaches are proposed to improve valuation and address barriers to uptake, ultimately leveraging transformative changes towards more just (that is, fair treatment of people and nature, including inter- and intragenerational equity) and sustainable futures.
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- Unai Pascual
- Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Scientific Campus of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain.
- Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain.
- Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, México
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- Instituto de Ciencias Polares, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego (ICPA-UNTDF), Ushuaia, Argentina
- Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CADIC-CONICET), Ushuaia, Argentina
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- Global Science, WWF, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Aberystwyth Business School, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, México
- Global Resilience Partnership, Cape Town, South Africa
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- School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Ecosystems and Environment Research Program, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Economics and Management, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies and Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Oslo, Norway
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- Research Institute for Nature and Forest INBO, Brussels, Belgium
- Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Brussels, Belgium
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- Wetlands International South Asia, New Delhi, India
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, México
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, México
- Department of Ecosystems and Conservation, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Tourism, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
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- World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Culemborg, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
- Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources, UNU-FLORES, United Nations University, Dresden, Germany
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- Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan
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- International Centre for Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), Bogor, Indonesia
- Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Agroforestry Research Group, Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia
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- Korea Environment Institute, Sejong, Republic of Korea
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- International Centre for Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), Bogor, Indonesia
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- Université Felix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
- Centre Suisse de Recherche Scientifique, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
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- Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Económicas, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, México
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, México
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Centro Andaluz de Evaluación y Seguimiento del Cambio Global (CAESCG), Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, México
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- Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Geography, Institute of Life Earth and Environment, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium
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- School of Business Administration and Economics & Institute for Environmental Systems Research, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany
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- Office for Environmental Ethics, Tübingen, Germany
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- Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
- Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Oslo, Norway
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- Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Institute of Geography, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, México
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- Department of Economics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
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- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Kassel Institute for Sustainability, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
- Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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- Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and Environmental Justice Center, Syracuse University, New York, NY, USA
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Center for Sustainability Studies, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Geography, Institute of Life Earth and Environment, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium
- Institute of Environmental Planning, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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- Aberystwyth Business School, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK
- Ecologos Research Ltd, Aberystwyth, UK
- Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK
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- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
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- International Centre for Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), Bogor, Indonesia
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- Centre for Environment & Development, ATREE, Bengaluru, India
- Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Pune, India
- Shiv Nadar University, Delhi, India
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- Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Scientific Campus of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain
- World Benchmarking Alliance, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, México
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia, México
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- Division of Anthropology, Geography and Development, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Brunel University, London, UK
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- Department of Philosophy and Environmental Studies Program, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil
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- The Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, WA, USA
- Geography Department, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Centre for Climate Justice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nkolbisson Yaoundé, Cameroon
- Congo Basin Institute (CBI), Nkolbisson Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Institute, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK
- African Conservation Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- University of Grenoble Alpes, IRD, CNRS, INRAE, Grenoble, France
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- Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy, School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Global Center for Food, Land and Water Resources, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Global and International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
- Nicholaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany
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- Cape Horn International Center (CHIC), Universidad de Magallanes, Santiago, Chile
- Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Northern Research Station, US Forest Service, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Aigine Cultural Research Center, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
- School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC, Tokyo, Japan
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Laboratorio Ecología Humana, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Altos de Pipe, Venezuela
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Qu S, Wang X, Tao J. Assessing SDG-3 efficiency for SDG-1 by studying interplay of tourism development, poverty alleviation and sustainability. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:93103-93113. [PMID: 37495814 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-28888-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2023] [Accepted: 07/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023]
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The modern world is facing chaos of different connected issues. Achieving sustainability in the tourism industry for poverty reduction is one of them, having limited guidance for stakeholders. Thus, following SDG-3 guidelines for good well-being via tourism development could contribute to SDG-1 for no poverty. This roadmap needs scientific validation. Therefore, this research aims to determine how much of an overall impact tourism has on alleviating poverty and what factors account for the wide range of estimates of that impact. Using data from 2002 to 2020 and the ARDL model with eight variables, including (a) currency supply, (b) GDP per capita, and (c) tourism earnings higher GDP area, the current emphasis is on reducing the likelihood of any negative impacts this business may have on tourism. Lower Gross Domestic Product (GDP) regions, higher profits per capita from tourism, and reduced poverty all have a role. With a 1% significance threshold, the observed data becomes more convincing. Last, the results show that the Laotian government intends for tourism to contribute to long-term environmentally responsible financial development. In addition, the study's empirical results corroborated the conclusion that policymakers should encourage the successful expansion of the tourist industry.
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- Shuguang Qu
- School of Tourism Management, Tianjin Vocational Institute, Tianjin, 300410, China.
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- School of Electronic Information Engineering, Tianjin Vocational Institute, Tianjin, 300410, China
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- School of Tourism Management, Tianjin Vocational Institute, Tianjin, 300410, China
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Lu N, Zhou W. The impact of green taxes on green innovation of enterprises: a quasi-natural experiment based on the levy of environmental protection taxes. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:92568-92580. [PMID: 37491497 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-28718-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/27/2023]
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Green innovation is a strategic choice for Chinese enterprises to achieve in balancing economic performance and environmental benefits. Environmental protection tax (EPT) is the first green tax in China. How to fully leverage the institutional dividends of environmental tax reform to achieve green innovation in enterprises is of great significance for the high-quality development of China's current economy. This study takes the levy of environmental protection taxes as the quasi-natural experiment and uses DID, DDD, PSM-DID and so on to verify the impact of EPT on green innovation. The results show that EPT can improve green innovation through the path of legitimacy pressure and legitimacy management. Notably, the effects are more obvious in enterprises with non-state-owned, low-financing constraints and located in the eastern region. Furthermore, green innovations under the push of environmental protection tax can improve long-term performance, while it has a negative effect on short-term performance. The levy of EPT has the dual dividend effect of economy and environment. Moreover, this study explores the source of the legitimacy pressure and the strategic response of enterprises and provides guidance for government's precise implementation of policies to optimize the role of EPT in green innovation.
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- Na Lu
- School of Economics and Management, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, 655000, China
- School of Business School, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, 650000, China
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- School of Finance, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, 650000, China.
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GDP at 70: why genuinely sustainable development means settling a debate at the heart of economics. Nature 2023; 620:246. [PMID: 37558850 DOI: 10.1038/d41586-023-02509-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
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Zhang Z, Ding Y. The impact of green financial development on stock price crash risk from the perspective of information asymmetry in Chinese listed companies. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:87199-87214. [PMID: 37418190 PMCID: PMC10406662 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-27771-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/08/2023]
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Solving the crash risk problem of corporate stock price caused by information asymmetry can mitigate the negative externality of its carbon emission to become green, low-carbon, and high-quality development. Green finance generally profoundly impacts micro-corporate economics and macro-financial systems but remains a giant puzzle of whether they can effectively resolve the crash risk. This paper examined the impact of green financial development on the stock price crash risk using the sample data of non-financial listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen A stock market in China from 2009 to 2020. We found that green financial development significantly inhibits the stock price crash risk; this is more obvious in listed companies with a high level of asymmetric information. And companies in high-level regions of green financial development attracted more attention from institutional investors and analysts. As a result, they disclosed more information about their operational status, thus reducing the crash risk of corporate stock price from the torrential public pressure of lousy environmental details. Therefore, this study will help continuously discuss the costs, benefits, and value promotion of green finance for synergy between corporate performance and environmental performance to improve ESG capabilities.
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- Zhibin Zhang
- Economic School Shandong Technology and Business University, 191 Binhai Middle Road, Yantai, 264005 Shandong China
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- School of Finance Tongling University, 1335 Cuihu 4th Road, Tongling, 244061 Anhui China
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Dubash NK. The G20 should forge a pact to support nations' shifts to a low-carbon future. Nature 2023; 619:9. [PMID: 37407685 DOI: 10.1038/d41586-023-02208-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/07/2023]
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Xie W, Zhu A, Ali T, Zhang Z, Chen X, Wu F, Huang J, Davis KF. Crop switching can enhance environmental sustainability and farmer incomes in China. Nature 2023; 616:300-305. [PMID: 36927804 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05799-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Accepted: 02/06/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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Achieving food-system sustainability is a multidimensional challenge. In China, a doubling of crop production since 1990 has compromised other dimensions of sustainability1,2. Although the country is promoting various interventions to enhance production efficiency and reduce environmental impacts3, there is little understanding of whether crop switching can achieve more sustainable cropping systems and whether coordinated action is needed to avoid tradeoffs. Here we combine high-resolution data on crop-specific yields, harvested areas, environmental footprints and farmer incomes to first quantify the current state of crop-production sustainability. Under varying levels of inter-ministerial and central coordination, we perform spatial optimizations that redistribute crops to meet a suite of agricultural sustainable development targets. With a siloed approach-in which each government ministry seeks to improve a single sustainability outcome in isolation-crop switching could realize large individual benefits but produce tradeoffs for other dimensions and between regions. In cases of central coordination-in which tradeoffs are prevented-we find marked co-benefits for environmental-impact reductions (blue water (-4.5% to -18.5%), green water (-4.4% to -9.5%), greenhouse gases (GHGs) (-1.7% to -7.7%), fertilizers (-5.2% to -10.9%), pesticides (-4.3% to -10.8%)) and increased farmer incomes (+2.9% to +7.5%). These outcomes of centrally coordinated crop switching can contribute substantially (23-40% across dimensions) towards China's 2030 agricultural sustainable development targets and potentially produce global resource savings. This integrated approach can inform feasible targeted agricultural interventions that achieve sustainability co-benefits across several dimensions.
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- Wei Xie
- China Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
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- China Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
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- School of National Safety and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Research Institute of Economics and Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China.
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- Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
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- China Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
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Crona BI, Wassénius E, Jonell M, Koehn JZ, Short R, Tigchelaar M, Daw TM, Golden CD, Gephart JA, Allison EH, Bush SR, Cao L, Cheung WWL, DeClerck F, Fanzo J, Gelcich S, Kishore A, Halpern BS, Hicks CC, Leape JP, Little DC, Micheli F, Naylor RL, Phillips M, Selig ER, Springmann M, Sumaila UR, Troell M, Thilsted SH, Wabnitz CCC. Four ways blue foods can help achieve food system ambitions across nations. Nature 2023; 616:104-112. [PMID: 36813964 PMCID: PMC10076219 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05737-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2023] [Indexed: 02/24/2023]
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Blue foods, sourced in aquatic environments, are important for the economies, livelihoods, nutritional security and cultures of people in many nations. They are often nutrient rich1, generate lower emissions and impacts on land and water than many terrestrial meats2, and contribute to the health3, wellbeing and livelihoods of many rural communities4. The Blue Food Assessment recently evaluated nutritional, environmental, economic and justice dimensions of blue foods globally. Here we integrate these findings and translate them into four policy objectives to help realize the contributions that blue foods can make to national food systems around the world: ensuring supplies of critical nutrients, providing healthy alternatives to terrestrial meat, reducing dietary environmental footprints and safeguarding blue food contributions to nutrition, just economies and livelihoods under a changing climate. To account for how context-specific environmental, socio-economic and cultural aspects affect this contribution, we assess the relevance of each policy objective for individual countries, and examine associated co-benefits and trade-offs at national and international scales. We find that in many African and South American nations, facilitating consumption of culturally relevant blue food, especially among nutritionally vulnerable population segments, could address vitamin B12 and omega-3 deficiencies. Meanwhile, in many global North nations, cardiovascular disease rates and large greenhouse gas footprints from ruminant meat intake could be lowered through moderate consumption of seafood with low environmental impact. The analytical framework we provide also identifies countries with high future risk, for whom climate adaptation of blue food systems will be particularly important. Overall the framework helps decision makers to assess the blue food policy objectives most relevant to their geographies, and to compare and contrast the benefits and trade-offs associated with pursuing these objectives.
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- Beatrice I Crona
- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere, Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere, Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere, Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Dept. of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Dept. of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Dept. of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Dept. of Environmental Science, American University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Bloomberg School of Public Health, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, USA
- Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Instituto Milenio en Socio-Ecologia Costera, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), New Delhi, India
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- National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
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- Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Hopkins Marine Station, Oceans Department, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, USA
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- Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere, Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Stockholm, Sweden
- Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Ren C, Zhou X, Wang C, Guo Y, Diao Y, Shen S, Reis S, Li W, Xu J, Gu B. Ageing threatens sustainability of smallholder farming in China. Nature 2023; 616:96-103. [PMID: 36813965 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05738-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2022] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 02/24/2023]
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Rapid demographic ageing substantially affects socioeconomic development1-4 and presents considerable challenges for food security and agricultural sustainability5-8, which have so far not been well understood. Here, by using data from more than 15,000 rural households with crops but no livestock across China, we show that rural population ageing reduced farm size by 4% through transferring cropland ownership and land abandonment (approximately 4 million hectares) in 2019, taking the population age structure in 1990 as a benchmark. These changes led to a reduction of agricultural inputs, including chemical fertilizers, manure and machinery, which decreased agricultural output and labour productivity by 5% and 4%, respectively, further lowering farmers' income by 15%. Meanwhile, fertilizer loss increased by 3%, resulting in higher pollutant emissions to the environment. In new farming models, such as cooperative farming, farms tend to be larger and operated by younger farmers, who have a higher average education level, hence improving agricultural management. By encouraging the transition to new farming models, the negative consequences of ageing can be reversed. Agricultural input, farm size and farmer's income would grow by approximately 14%, 20% and 26%, respectively, and fertilizer loss would reduce by 4% in 2100 compared with that in 2020. This suggests that management of rural ageing will contribute to a comprehensive transformation of smallholder farming to sustainable agriculture in China.
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- Chenchen Ren
- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Policy Simulation Laboratory, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Policy Simulation Laboratory, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Penicuik, UK
- University of Exeter Medical School, Truro, UK
- School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
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Khan PA, Johl SK, Kumar A, Luthra S. Hope-hype of green innovation, corporate governance index, and impact on firm financial performance: a comparative study of Southeast Asian countries. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:55237-55254. [PMID: 36882655 PMCID: PMC9991451 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-26262-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2022] [Accepted: 02/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The current production and conception have impacted the environmental hazards. Green innovation (GI) is the ideal solution for sustainable production, consumption, and ecological conservation. The objective of the study is to compare comprehensive green innovation (green product, process, service, and organization) impact on firm financial performance in Malaysia and Indonesia, along with the first study to measure the moderation role of the corporate governance index. This study has addressed the gap by developing the green innovation and corporate governance index. Collected panel data from the top 188 publicly listed firms for 3 years and analyzed it using the general least square method. The empirical evidence demonstrates that the green innovation practice is better in Malaysia, and the outcome also shows that the significance level is higher in Indonesia. This study also provides empirical evidence that board composition has a positive moderation relationship betwixt GI and business performance in Malaysia but is insignificant in Indonesia. This comparative study provides new insights to the policymakers and practitioners of both countries to monitor and manage green innovation practices.
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- Parvez Alam Khan
- Department of Finance, Woxsen Business School, Woxsen University, Hyderabad, Telangana 502345 India
- Department of Management and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Perak, Malaysia
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- Department of Management and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Perak, Malaysia
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- Guildhall School of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University, London, UK
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- ATAL Cell, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi, India
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Yang L, Ma Z, Yin J, Li Y, Lv H. The evolution and determinants of Chinese inter-provincial green development efficiency: an MCSE-DEA-Tobit-based perspective. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:53904-53919. [PMID: 36869949 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-25894-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Continuous and rapid economic development has brought about excessive resource consumption and environmental pollution. Therefore, it is particularly essential to coordinate economic, resource, and environmental factors to achieve sustainable development. This paper develops a new data envelopment analysis (DEA) method that can be used for multi-level complex system evaluation (MCSE-DEA) to reveal the inter-provincial green development efficiency (GDE) in China from 2010 to 2018. Moreover, the Tobit model is applied to explore the influencing factors of GDE. We found that (i) the MCSE-DEA model tends to have lower efficiency scores than the traditional P-DEA (panel data envelopment analysis) model, and the top three provinces are Shanghai, Tianjin, and Fujian; (ii) the efficiency shows an increasing trend during the whole study period. The southeast region and the Middle Yangtze River region have the highest efficiency values, reaching 1.09, while the northwest region ranks last with an average efficiency value of 0.66. Shanghai performs the best, while Ningxia performs the worst, with efficiency values of 1.43 and 0.58, respectively; (iii) the provinces with lower efficiency values mainly come from economically underdeveloped remote regions, which can be attributed to issues of water consumption (WC) and energy consumption (EC). Moreover, there are much room for improvement in solid waste emissions (SW) and soot and industrial dust emissions (SD); (iv) the environmental investment, R&D investment, and economic development level can significantly improve GDE, while industrial structure, urbanization level, and energy consumption have inhibiting effects.
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- Lin Yang
- School of Economics and Management, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010021, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010021, China.
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- School of Economics and Management, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010021, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010021, China
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- School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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Zheng H. The impact of bank's engagement in shadow banking activities on bank's sustainability: Evidence from Chinese commercial banks. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:54979-54992. [PMID: 36881234 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-25944-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The economic and environmental consequences of bad banking practices have aroused much attention. In China, banks are at the center of shadow banking activities through which they avoid regulation and support environmentally unfriendly businesses such as fossil fuel companies and other high-pollution enterprises. In this paper, we study the impact of bank's engagement in shadow banking activities on its sustainability by using annual panel data of Chinese commercial banks. The result shows that bank's engagement in shadow banking activities has a negative impact on its sustainability and the negative impact of bank's engagement in shadow banking activities is more pronounced for city commercial banks and unlisted banks which are less regulated and lack corporate social responsibility (CSR). Furthermore, we explore the underlying mechanism of our findings and prove that bank's sustainability is impeded because it transforms high-risk loan into shadow banking activities which are less regulated. Finally, by using difference-in-difference (DiD) approach, we find that bank's sustainability improved after the financial regulation on shadow banking activities. Our research provides empirical evidence that the financial regulation on bad banking practices is beneficial for bank's sustainability.
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- Hanghang Zheng
- School of Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics, Haidian District, 39 South College Road, Beijing, 100081, People's Republic of China.
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Li W, Chen L, He S. The effect of enterprise financialization on green innovation: evidence from Chinese A-share non-financial listed enterprises. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:56802-56817. [PMID: 36929262 PMCID: PMC10019390 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-26377-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The financialization of entity enterprises brings both benefits and risks for economic development. In the context of green economy transformation, exploring the impact of enterprise financialization on green innovation deserves more focus. This paper takes the A-share non-financial listed companies from 2007 to 2021 as the research sample to examine how corporate financialization affects green innovation. The results reveal that the enterprise financialization is negatively associated with green innovation, which is more significant for the short-term financialization. Further analysis shows that external supervision governance (institutional investors and analysts' attention) can alleviate the hindering effect of corporate financialization on green innovation. The mechanism tests confirm that enterprise financialization prevents enterprise green innovation by increasing enterprise risk-taking level and reducing R&D investment (capital input and labor input). Heterogeneity analysis reports that higher consumer eco-friendly preference and consumption level can ease the hindering effect of corporate financialization on corporate green innovation. This paper can provide inspiration for enterprises to reasonably arrange asset investment and how to stimulate enterprises' enthusiasm for green innovation, thus powering the green development of the real economy.
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- Wan Li
- School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, No. 2 Southeast University Road, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211189, Jiangsu Province, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, No. 2 Southeast University Road, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211189, Jiangsu Province, China.
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- School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, No. 2 Southeast University Road, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211189, Jiangsu Province, China
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Tang S, Qi S, Zhou C. Impact of dual control system of energy consumption and intensity on cost of debt financing: micro-evidence from Chinese listed companies. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:56969-56983. [PMID: 36930306 PMCID: PMC10020763 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-26408-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Capital providers have placed increasing importance on risks associated with transitioning to a low-carbon economy. This study investigates the causal link between energy regulation and cost of debt financing by exploiting regional variations in stringency of the dual control system of total energy consumption and energy intensity (dual controls) to construct a continuous difference-in-difference model. We use a sample of A-share listed firms in 2010-2020 and find that tighter energy regulation leads to higher cost of debt financing. We find that the underlying mechanism is risk premium brought by compliance cost and uncertainties. Further analysis indicates that the impact of dual controls is mainly driven by non-state-owned firms. Lastly, capital providers did not differentiate the interest rates they charge companies based on their level of green transition.
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- Siyan Tang
- International School of Business Finance, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China
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- Climate Change and Energy Economics Study Center, Economics and Management School of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- College of International Economics and Trade, Ningbo University of Finance and Economics, Ningbo, 315175, China.
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Sayuti M, Sukeri S. Assessing progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.8.2 and determinants of catastrophic health expenditures in Malaysia. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0264422. [PMID: 35213626 PMCID: PMC8880746 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2021] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The Sustainable Development Goal 3.8.2 is an indicator to track a country’s progress toward universal health coverage on the financial protection against catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). The purpose of this study is to determine the proportion of households with catastrophic health expenditure, and its associated factors among Malaysian households. A secondary data analysis was performed using the Household Expenditure Survey 2015/2016. The inclusion criterion was Malaysian households with some health spending in the past 12 months before the date of the survey. Catastrophic health expenditure was defined as out-of-pocket health expenditures exceeding 10% of the total household consumption. The study included a total of 13015 households. The proportion of households with CHE in the sample was 2.8%. Female-led households (AdjOR 1.6; CI 1.25, 2.03; p-value <0.001), households in rural areas (AdjOR 1.29; 95% CI 1.04, 1.61; p-value = 0.022), small household size (AdjOR 2.4; 95% CI 1.81, 3.18; p-value <0.001) and heads of household under 60 years old (AdjOR2.34; 95% CI 1.81, 3.18; p-value <0.001) were significantly associated with CHE. Although the proportion of Malaysian households affected by CHE is small, it is increasing in comparison to previous findings. This is concerning because it may jeopardise efforts to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. To ensure financial protection and access to care, a health financing policy that includes safety net measures for households at risk of CHE is required.
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- Muaz Sayuti
- Department of Community Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia
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- Department of Community Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia
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Zhang C, Tang M, Gao X, Ling Q, Wu P. Sloping land use affects the complexity of soil moisture and temperature changes in the loess hilly region of China. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0262445. [PMID: 35030231 PMCID: PMC8759656 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Accepted: 12/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Various land use types have been implemented by the government in the loess hilly region of China to facilitate sustainable land use. Understanding the variability in soil moisture and temperature under various sloping land use types can aid the ecological restoration and sustainable utilization of sloping land resources. The objective of this study was to use approximate entropy (ApEn) to reveal the variations in soil moisture and temperature under different land use types, because ApEn only requires a short data series to obtain robust estimates, with a strong anti-interference ability. An experiment was conducted with four typical land use scenarios (i.e., soybean sloping field, maize terraced field, jujube orchard, and grassland) over two consecutive plant growing seasons (2014 and 2015), and the time series of soil moisture and temperature within different soil depth layers of each land use type were measured in both seasons. The results showed that the changing amplitude, degree of variation, and active layer of soil moisture in the 0–160 cm soil depth layer, as well as the changing amplitude and degree of variation of soil temperature in the 0–100 cm soil layer increased in the jujube orchard over the two growing seasons. The changing amplitude, degree of variation, and active layer of soil moisture all decreased in the maize terraced field, as did the changing amplitude and degree of variation of soil temperature. The ApEn of the soil moisture series was the lowest in the 0–160 cm soil layer in the maize terraced field, and the ApEn of the soil temperature series was the highest in the 0–100 cm layer in the jujube orchard in the two growing seasons. Finally, the jujube orchard soil moisture and temperature change process were more variable, whereas the changes in the maize terraced field were more stable, with a stable soil moisture and temperature. This work highlights the usefulness of ApEn for revealing soil moisture and temperature changes and to guide the management and development of sloping fields.
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- Chao Zhang
- College of Hydraulic Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- College of Hydraulic Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Institute of Water-Saving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- * E-mail:
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- Institute of Water-Saving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- College of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Hangzhou, Zhejiang China
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- Institute of Water-Saving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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Brassesco ME, Pintado M, Coscueta ER. Food system resilience thinking: from digital to integral. J Sci Food Agric 2022; 102:887-891. [PMID: 34519048 DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.11533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2021] [Revised: 08/23/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The current food system is directly influenced by the increase in environmental problems and nutritional inequality globally. Financial and political collapses, health crises, excessive urbanization, and rapid industrialization are some of the principal factors threatening the food supply's security. The food system needs a profound transformation to avoid ecosystem destabilization and a global food crisis. Concerning this transformation, we are certain that the first step for a successful food system change is global resilience thinking. To reach an integrated food system, we proposed introducing the resilient concept linked with other known concepts, such as circular economy and sustainability. A resilient food system can recover over time, ensuring the supply of sustainable and quality food and access to all. This would mean redesigning the value chains in the food system, re-educating consumers to implement a healthier diet, and introducing technology such as digital innovation. Re-evaluating these relevant points, redesigning the focus of the food system, not only for economic efficiency but also including significant trade-offs, or valuing other services in the food system, are essential to reaching the desired resilience. © 2021 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- María Emilia Brassesco
- Universidade Católica Portuguesa, CBQF - Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina, Laboratório Associado, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Porto, Portugal
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- Universidade Católica Portuguesa, CBQF - Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina, Laboratório Associado, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Porto, Portugal
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- Universidade Católica Portuguesa, CBQF - Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina, Laboratório Associado, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Porto, Portugal
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A return to a business as usual economy would be a fatal mistake argues Ronald Labonté
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- Ronald Labonté
- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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ZHANG T, WANG Y, ZHANG S, Wang Y. An estimation and development model of tourism resource values at the township scale on Hainan Island, China. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0262837. [PMID: 35073362 PMCID: PMC8786194 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 01/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The scientific evaluation of tourism resources provides the basic conditions for the rational development and utilization of tourism resources, which is significant for the sustainable development of tourism. On the basis of obtaining a large sample of tourism resource data, this study constructed an evaluation index system of regional tourism resources from four aspects: quantity, type, grade, and a combination of regional tourism resources, taking the township scale as the spatial evaluation unit. The combination weighting method was used to evaluate the grade of tourism resources in each township, and the hierarchical clustering method and spatial autocorrelation method were used to analyze the spatial patterns of the tourism resource values. On the basis of the evaluation’s results and spatial pattern analysis, this paper analyzed the influencing factors of tourism resource patterns and puts forward a tourism development model suitable for Hainan tourism development. The results showed that the overall value of tourism resources on Hainan Island was low, and the spatial pattern was obviously different, showing that the northern piedmont plain area was higher than the southern hilly area, and the east coast area was higher than the west coast area. Based on the analysis of quantity density, type abundance, grade advantage, and spatial combination, the tourism resource values of Hainan Island was divided into four combination areas: the first area was diversity and good combination, the second area was large quantity and good combination, the third area was diversity and high-quality resources, and the fourth area was large quantity. In addition, from the analysis of the spatial agglomeration effect, the phenomena of high and low agglomerations of tourism resource values were obvious. Finally, this paper puts forward a tourism development model for Hainan Island by grading, classification, and zoning. The results of this study can determine the time sequence and mode of regional tourism resources development and provide spatial implications and suggestions for regional tourism planning and management.
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- Tongyan ZHANG
- College of Management, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- College of Management, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China
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Arshad MU, Ahmed Z, Ramzan A, Shabbir MN, Bashir Z, Khan FN. Financial inclusion and monetary policy effectiveness: A sustainable development approach of developed and under-developed countries. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0261337. [PMID: 34936670 PMCID: PMC8694445 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2021] [Accepted: 11/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The study explores the causal relationship between monetary policy effectiveness and financial inclusion in developed and under-developed countries. Structural Vector Auto-regressive techniques have been inducted to explore the relationship between monetary policy effectiveness and financial inclusion. The study covers the secondary data of 10 developed and 30 underdeveloped countries throughout 2004–2018. It is concluded that monetary policy effectiveness and financial inclusion do not have a contemporaneous impact on each other. Nevertheless, the reduced-form Vector Auto-regressive witness the reverse causality between financial inclusion and monetary policy effectiveness in developed countries. Thus, effective monetary policy enhances financial inclusion in a country, and a higher degree of financial inclusion lowers the inflation rate and makes monetary policy effective. One way causality from monetary policy effectiveness to financial inclusion can be observed in under-developed countries. Using the Structural Vector auto-regressive technique and financial inclusion index composed of three-dimension to examine the relationship of monetary policy effectiveness and financial inclusion in developed and developing countries is considered the study’s significant contribution.
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- Muhammad Usman Arshad
- Department of Commerce, University of Gujrat- Hafiz Hayat Campus, Gujrat, Pakistan
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- Department of Management Sciences, University of Lahore, Gujrat, Pakistan
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- Department of Economics and Finance, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- School of International Trade and Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
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- Department of Commerce, University of Gujrat- Hafiz Hayat Campus, Gujrat, Pakistan
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Guo Y, Xi S, Zhang M. Provincial division of economic zones based on the improved urban gravity model: A case study of Hunan Province, China. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0261205. [PMID: 34936664 PMCID: PMC8694459 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 11/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Regional collaboration and the division of economic zones have been widely discussed for sustainable development. This paper aims at building a framework for analyzing the provincial division of economic zone (DEZ) via considering spatial interaction among regions based on the improved gravity model and clustering approaches. The proposed framework of province DEZ is applied in the case study of Hunan Province, China. The results reveal that Chenzhou city in the south of Hunan Province is always excluded from the DEZ due to its larger external gravity from other cities in neighboring provinces. It also shows that the city components of economic zones (EZs) have experienced a fluctuation at a higher degree from 2002 to 2006 to 2009 while it reached to a stable phase in 2013. Furthermore, cross-provincial regional integration and the highway construction have a significant impact on the change of city components of EZ. The findings are of great potential in regional planning that should be incorporated to the toolkit of regional policy and sustainable development for local governments.
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- Yuanyuan Guo
- Department of Urban and Rural Planning, School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Economics, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, China
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- School of Economics, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, China
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Smith TB, Vacca R, Mantegazza L, Capua I. Natural language processing and network analysis provide novel insights on policy and scientific discourse around Sustainable Development Goals. Sci Rep 2021; 11:22427. [PMID: 34789820 PMCID: PMC8599416 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-01801-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2021] [Accepted: 10/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The United Nations' (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are heterogeneous and interdependent, comprising 169 targets and 231 indicators of sustainable development in such diverse areas as health, the environment, and human rights. Existing efforts to map relationships among SDGs are either theoretical investigations of sustainability concepts, or empirical analyses of development indicators and policy simulations. We present an alternative approach, which describes and quantifies the complex network of SDG interdependencies by applying computational methods to policy and scientific documents. Methods of Natural Language Processing are used to measure overlaps in international policy discourse around SDGs, as represented by the corpus of all existing UN progress reports about each goal (N = 85 reports). We then examine if SDG interdependencies emerging from UN discourse are reflected in patterns of integration and collaboration in SDG-related science, by analyzing data on all scientific articles addressing relevant SDGs in the past two decades (N = 779,901 articles). Results identify a strong discursive divide between environmental goals and all other SDGs, and unexpected interdependencies between SDGs in different areas. While UN discourse partially aligns with integration patterns in SDG-related science, important differences are also observed between priorities emerging in UN and global scientific discourse. We discuss implications and insights for scientific research and policy on sustainable development after COVID-19.
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- Thomas Bryan Smith
- Bureau of Economic and Business Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.
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- Department of Sociology and Criminology and Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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- One Health Center of Excellence, IFAS, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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- One Health Center of Excellence, IFAS, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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Commissioners of the Lancet Commission on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, and Health. The Lancet Commission on water, sanitation and hygiene, and health. Lancet 2021; 398:1469-70. [PMID: 34487681 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02005-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Hossain FS, Rahman T, Mamun AA, Mannan OB, Altaf-Ul-Amin M. An approach to increase the power output of Karnafuli Hydroelectric Power Station: A step to sustainable development in Bangladesh's energy sector. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0257645. [PMID: 34634073 PMCID: PMC8504746 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2021] [Accepted: 09/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Renewable energy has become the most prominent source of energy to reduce carbon emissions around the globe. Undoubtedly, hydro energy is very much clean energy among other sources. In Bangladesh, hydro energy is available only in a specific southern area contributing several hundred megawatts to the national grid. This paper devotes to assessing the capacity and practicability of a hydropower plant to boost the power output by implementing the combined cycle hydropower system. The proposed method has been developed by 1) studying the existing plant based on surveyed data, 2) selecting the site for installing the hydrokinetic turbine, 3) designing with consideration of numerous constraints of inter dependability, and 4) creating a prototype model to ensure the practicability. Preliminary results show that a significant amount of additional electric energy can be generated from the plant with higher efficiency.
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- Fakir Sharif Hossain
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh Army International University of Science and Technology (BAIUST), Cumilla, BD
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- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh Army International University of Science and Technology (BAIUST), Cumilla, BD
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- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh Army International University of Science and Technology (BAIUST), Cumilla, BD
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- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh Army International University of Science and Technology (BAIUST), Cumilla, BD
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- School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Ikoma, Nara, Japan
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Liu W, Wang X, Guo Q. Impact of the collaboration mechanism of PPP projects based on consumer participation: A system dynamics model of tripartite evolutionary game. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0256304. [PMID: 34495990 PMCID: PMC8425542 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Developing countries need a large number of social infrastructure projects (e.g. schools, medical care, nursing homes). But the government’s finance to invest in these projects is limited. By using the public–private partnership (PPP) mode to attract social capital to invest in PPP projects, it can relieve the financial pressure and improve the operation efficiency. The cooperation between government and consumer can ensure the sustainable development of the project operation. A system dynamics model of tripartite evolutionary game is developed to analyze the interaction of participant’s strategies and simulate the corresponding evolution process. We employ the scenario analysis method to investigate the impact of the key parameters in relation with PPP projects based on realistic scenario assumptions. The results reveal the effect of some policies including reverse effect, blocking effect and over-reliance effect. Specifically, the results show that high penalty can prevent social capital from providing low-quality services, the low cost of government regulation can promote social capital to provide high-quality services, compensation to consumer can increase the enthusiasm of consumer participating in supervision, appropriate difference between price and cost of high-quality service as social capital’s profit can encourage social capital to provide high-quality service. These policy suggestions will contribute to the sustainable development of social infrastructures in PPP mode.
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- Wei Liu
- School of economics and management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- School of economics and management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China
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Abeysekera I, Li F, Lu Y. Financial disclosure quality and sustainability disclosure quality. A case in China. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0250884. [PMID: 34048431 PMCID: PMC8162600 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 04/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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This paper empirically examines whether there is an association between financial reporting disclosure quality and sustainability disclosure quality of the top 100 socially reputed Chinese listed firms. The paper computed financial disclosure quality by empirically combining earning qualities of accrual, persistence, predictability, and smoothness. Using content analysis and survey questionnaire research methods, it calculated sustainability quality by combining disclosure quantity (through quantitative weightings), disclosure type (through qualitative weightings), and disclosure item importance (through qualitative weightings) of economic, social, and environmental disclosures made in annual and sustainability reports, ascertained using the Global Reporting Initiative sustainability framework. The study finds that sustainability disclosure in the current period is sufficiently associated with financial disclosure quality of the current period and future period. Consistent with stakeholder theory, firms with a social reputation are perceived as trustworthy by stakeholders and shareholders. The findings lead to a cultural stakeholder theory where underlying values of societal culture create a condition supporting mutual stakeholder relationships between firm and various stakeholders. Demonstrating trustworthiness through disclosures can help boost consumer confidence and foreign trade relations for Chinese firms. The Chinese government can design innovative schemes to reward and promote trustworthiness in firms, such as regulating base-point reductions in interest rates on borrowing or raising funds.
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- Indra Abeysekera
- Discipline of Accounting and Finance, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
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- Discipline of Accounting, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
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- School of Accounting, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai, China
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Gebreyes M, Mekonnen K, Thorne P, Derseh M, Adie A, Mulema A, Kemal SA, Tamene L, Amede T, Haileslassie A, Gebrekirstos A, Mupangwa WT, Ebrahim M, Alene T, Asfaw A, Dubale W, Yasabu S. Overcoming constraints of scaling: Critical and empirical perspectives on agricultural innovation scaling. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0251958. [PMID: 34043663 PMCID: PMC8158990 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2020] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Scaling is a ubiquitous concept in agricultural research in the global south as donors require their research grantees to prove that their results can be scaled to impact upon the livelihoods of a large number of beneficiaries. Recent studies on scaling have brought critical perspectives to the rather technocratic tendencies in the agricultural innovations scaling literature. Drawing on theoretical debates on spatial strategies and practical experience of agricultural innovation scaling in Ethiopia, this paper adds to the current debate on what constitutes scaling and how to overcome critical scaling constraints. The data for the paper came from a qualitative assessment using focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and document analysis on scaling work done in Ethiopia by a USAID-funded research for development project. The paper concludes with four broad lessons for the current understating of agricultural innovation scaling. First, scaling of agricultural innovations requires a balanced focus on technical requirements and associated social dynamics surrounding scaling targets, actors involved and their social relations. Second, appreciating the social dynamics of scaling emphasizes the fact that scaling is more complex than a linear rolling out of innovations towards diffusion. Third, scaling may not be strictly planned; instead, it might be an extension of the innovation generation process that relies heavily on both new and long-term relationships with key partners, trust, and continuous reflection and learning. Fourth, the overall implication of the above three conclusions is that scaling strategies need to be flexible, stepwise, and reflective. Despite the promises of flourishing scaling frameworks, scaling strategies it would appear from the Africa RISING experience that, if real impact is to be achieved, approaches will be required to be flexible enough to manage the social, processual and emergent nature of the practice of scaling.
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- Million Gebreyes
- International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Rabat, Morocco
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- Alliance for Bioversity International and CIAT (ABC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRSAT), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Located in the Eurasian continent’s hinterland, Xinjiang is a typical arid and resource-developing region in China’s northwest. Problems such as excessive resource consumption, environmental pollution, and ecological imbalance are becoming severe, which have become the bottleneck that further restricts Xinjiang’s sustainable development. Due to its outstanding quantitative advantages, ecological efficiency has become a significant indicator and analytical tool for measuring the green economy and sustainable development. In this study, we analyzed ecological efficiency variation for Xinjiang’s 14 prefectures between 2001 and 2015 using a super-efficient data envelopment model (DEA), Malmquist Index, and Tobit model. These analyses indicated that: (1) The overall ecological efficiency level of Xinjiang is low, and development among regions is unbalanced, out of sync, lacks sustainability. (2) From 2001 to 2015, Xinjiang’s ecological efficiency showed a W-shaped rising trend and finally increased by 5.7%. It is due to the substantial improvement in environmental efficiency. (3) By analyzing the environmental efficiency and resource efficiency, 14 prefectures in Xinjiang consist of four development modes: low energy consumption and low emission, high energy consumption and low emission, low energy consumption and high emission, and high energy consumption and high emission. (4) Water resources are restricting factors of arid regions. In most prefectures, there exist excessive water resource investment, excessive COD, and NH3-N emissions. (5) By analyzing the Malmquist index, it shows that the technical progress index(TC) restricted ecological efficiency. In contrast, the technical efficiency index (EC) promoted ecological efficiency.(6)The ecological efficiency was positively correlated with the utilization of foreign capital, urbanization rate, and average education degree but negatively correlated with the marketization degree. The study has guidance and reference function for the sustainable development of Xinjiang—a vital corridor of the Silk Road Economic Belt, and also provides a reference to the research work of other arid resource-based regions.
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- Xudong Zhou
- Luzhou Vocational and Technical College, Luzhou, Sichuan Province, China
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Chen Y, Zhao L, Fan Y, Xie B. Does the New Rural Pension Scheme improve residents' livelihoods? Empirical evidence from Northwestern China. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0250130. [PMID: 33861771 PMCID: PMC8051794 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 03/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The sustainable development of pension systems has been investigated from a financial perspective worldwide. However, the pension adequacy and its effect on the sustainability of a national pension system are still understudied. Using actual replacement rate and modified living standards replacement rate, this study empirically evaluates whether China’s New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) grants enough livelihood protection for the rural residents in the Northwestern China. The results show that the NRPS fails to meet the basic needs of the elderly people (i.e., age of sixty years or older) or the middle-aged people (forty-five to fifty-nine years old), while it only provides limited protection for the young people (sixteen to forty-four years old). These findings suggest that the current NRPS benefits are very low in the Northwestern China and policy reforms should be further implemented to improve the sustainable development of the New Rural Pension Scheme.
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- Yan Chen
- Center of Minority Studies in Northwest China, College of History and Culture, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Center of Minority Studies in Northwest China, College of History and Culture, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Vernon, Texas, United States of America
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- Center of Minority Studies in Northwest China, College of History and Culture, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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