Pub Date : 2020-07-06DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2020.10030410
J. Pillarisetti, R. Lawrey
The Kyoto Protocol, the Copenhagen Summit and other World Forums have focused on policies to address global warming, biodiversity and other sustainability issues. A variety of composite indexes has been proposed to examine the sustainability status and environmental stewardship in many different nations. This paper examines a broad spectrum of these composite indexes: Inclusive Wealth Index, Environmental Performance Index, Sustainability Adjusted Global Competitiveness Index (World Economic Forum), Global Sustainability Competitiveness Index (SolAbility), Climate Change Performance Index, Social Progress Index and Global Green Economy Index to investigate their contribution to achieving sustainable development. This analysis enables us to identify appropriate policy directions based on these indexes and current technologies.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-06DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2020.10030417
Dagmawe Tenaw
With an increasing amount of FDI flows to Africa, much concern about the potential effects of FDI on the environment has been raised. Accordingly, this study investigates the environmental effect of FDI and checks the validity of pollution haven and/or halo hypotheses in 20 largest FDI recipient African countries over the period 1990-2017 using Cross-Sectionally Augmented Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (CS-ARDL) estimator in a Dynamic Common Correlated Effects (DCCE) approach. Coming to the main estimation results, FDI is found to have no significant environmental effects, indicating neither pollution-haven nor pollution-halo hypothesis is valid in Africa. However, the estimates across individual countries confirm mixed evidence regarding the two hypotheses. Further, livestock production is found as the major driving force of environmental degradation in the region. Finally, the study suggests that environmental concerns should not be overlooked while pursuing pro-growth FDI-related policies given that FDI is perceived as a good channel for positive environmental spillovers to host countries.
{"title":"Is Africa a pollution haven or halo Evidence from 20 largest FDI recipient countries in Africa","authors":"Dagmawe Tenaw","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2020.10030417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2020.10030417","url":null,"abstract":"With an increasing amount of FDI flows to Africa, much concern about the potential effects of FDI on the environment has been raised. Accordingly, this study investigates the environmental effect of FDI and checks the validity of pollution haven and/or halo hypotheses in 20 largest FDI recipient African countries over the period 1990-2017 using Cross-Sectionally Augmented Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (CS-ARDL) estimator in a Dynamic Common Correlated Effects (DCCE) approach. Coming to the main estimation results, FDI is found to have no significant environmental effects, indicating neither pollution-haven nor pollution-halo hypothesis is valid in Africa. However, the estimates across individual countries confirm mixed evidence regarding the two hypotheses. Further, livestock production is found as the major driving force of environmental degradation in the region. Finally, the study suggests that environmental concerns should not be overlooked while pursuing pro-growth FDI-related policies given that FDI is perceived as a good channel for positive environmental spillovers to host countries.","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44045950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2020.10030414
Salihu Abdulwaheed Adelabu, Nwoye May Ifeoma, T. Emmanuel
{"title":"Application of triple-helix model to address the issue of unemployment challenge in Nigeria","authors":"Salihu Abdulwaheed Adelabu, Nwoye May Ifeoma, T. Emmanuel","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2020.10030414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2020.10030414","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66809051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJGE.2020.10034785
N. Frolenkova, A. Rokochinskiy, P. Volk, Andrii Shatkovskyі, N. Prykhodko, R. Tykhenko, I. Openko
The article focuses on a topical subject - the evaluation of cost-effectiveness of investments in drip irrigation projects. Drip irrigation is a modern, advanced, high-tech and environmental technology, which providing right scientific support, enables to get high yields and economic benefits with minimum consequences for the environment. The proposed methodological approaches to calculating the cost-effectiveness of investments were tested at various sites of the irrigation zone of Ukraine. The results of the calculations showed that the cultivation of high-productivity hybrids of vegetables and fruit when using modern technology of drip irrigation provides high yields and standard quality of production, that is the crop production is transformed into a stable profitable business. At the same time, applying modern methods of evaluation of the feasibility of investment will increase the validity of management decisions as to the selection of crops and their combinations and will facilitate investment attraction.
{"title":"Cost-effectiveness of investments in drip irrigation projects in Ukraine","authors":"N. Frolenkova, A. Rokochinskiy, P. Volk, Andrii Shatkovskyі, N. Prykhodko, R. Tykhenko, I. Openko","doi":"10.1504/IJGE.2020.10034785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGE.2020.10034785","url":null,"abstract":"The article focuses on a topical subject - the evaluation of cost-effectiveness of investments in drip irrigation projects. Drip irrigation is a modern, advanced, high-tech and environmental technology, which providing right scientific support, enables to get high yields and economic benefits with minimum consequences for the environment. The proposed methodological approaches to calculating the cost-effectiveness of investments were tested at various sites of the irrigation zone of Ukraine. The results of the calculations showed that the cultivation of high-productivity hybrids of vegetables and fruit when using modern technology of drip irrigation provides high yields and standard quality of production, that is the crop production is transformed into a stable profitable business. At the same time, applying modern methods of evaluation of the feasibility of investment will increase the validity of management decisions as to the selection of crops and their combinations and will facilitate investment attraction.","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66809561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1504/IJGE.2020.10034784
Sher Jahan Khan, Chetna Chauhan, Manzoor Ul Akram
This study, empirically examines the green consumption behaviours of young consumers in India by employing Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) as core theoretical framework. In addition to examining the tenets of TPB, we also investigate the cognitive and external contingencies that may influence the green consumption behaviours of young consumers such as environmental campaigns, green stigma, pro-environment self-identity and environmental concern. Data, collected from 347 young consumers, was utilised to test the hypotheses using structural equation modelling technique. The results show that environmental campaigns strengthen the positive relationship between consumers' attitudes towards green brands and their purchase intentions. We also found that pro-environmental self-identity strengthens the relationship between consumers' green purchase intentions and purchase behaviour, while green stigma had a dampening impact on this relationship. The study contributes to the broader literature by highlighting the role of environmental campaigns, pro-environmental self-identity and green stigma can play in addressing discrepancies in the green purchase behaviour research. Further, we discuss managerial implications.
本研究以计划行为理论(Theory of Planned behavior, TPB)为核心理论框架，对印度年轻消费者的绿色消费行为进行实证研究。除了研究绿色消费的原则外，我们还研究了可能影响年轻消费者绿色消费行为的认知和外部突发事件，如环保运动、绿色污名、亲环境自我认同和环境关注。从347名年轻消费者中收集的数据被用于使用结构方程建模技术来检验假设。结果表明，环保运动强化了消费者对绿色品牌的态度与购买意愿之间的正相关关系。我们还发现，亲环境自我认同强化了消费者绿色购买意愿与购买行为之间的关系，而绿色污名对这种关系有抑制作用。该研究通过强调环境运动、亲环境自我认同和绿色污名在解决绿色购买行为研究中的差异方面的作用，为更广泛的文献做出了贡献。进一步，我们讨论了管理意义。
{"title":"Cognitive factors influencing green consumption behaviour of young millennials: an empirical check on Indian consumers","authors":"Sher Jahan Khan, Chetna Chauhan, Manzoor Ul Akram","doi":"10.1504/IJGE.2020.10034784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGE.2020.10034784","url":null,"abstract":"This study, empirically examines the green consumption behaviours of young consumers in India by employing Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) as core theoretical framework. In addition to examining the tenets of TPB, we also investigate the cognitive and external contingencies that may influence the green consumption behaviours of young consumers such as environmental campaigns, green stigma, pro-environment self-identity and environmental concern. Data, collected from 347 young consumers, was utilised to test the hypotheses using structural equation modelling technique. The results show that environmental campaigns strengthen the positive relationship between consumers' attitudes towards green brands and their purchase intentions. We also found that pro-environmental self-identity strengthens the relationship between consumers' green purchase intentions and purchase behaviour, while green stigma had a dampening impact on this relationship. The study contributes to the broader literature by highlighting the role of environmental campaigns, pro-environmental self-identity and green stigma can play in addressing discrepancies in the green purchase behaviour research. Further, we discuss managerial implications.","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66809460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2020.10032077
Joel Alejandro Rosado Anastacio
{"title":"Testing the pollution haven hypothesis for CO2 emissions: a common correlated effects (CCE) approach","authors":"Joel Alejandro Rosado Anastacio","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2020.10032077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2020.10032077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66809147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2020.10034621
Farzan Yahya, H. Pham, M. Waqas
This study investigates the effect of environmental quality on stock market performance in the parliamentary and presidential system with the interactive effects of democracy and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 80 countries from 2006 and 2016 using a two-step GMM model. First, we test the direct effect of environmental quality, democracy and FDI on stock market performance after instrumenting and controlling for several macro-economic variables. Second, we examine the moderating effect of democracy and FDI on the relationship between environmental quality and stock market performance. Our results show that (1) environmental performance leads to an increase in stock market performance regardless of the constitutional system, (2) the level of democracy can mitigate the detrimental effect of environmental degradation and improve the stock market performance sub-sequentially in a parliamentary system and (3) FDI facilitates the link between environmental performance and the stock market in a presidential system. The results slightly vary across sub-panels.
{"title":"A global perspective of market reaction to environmental quality: evidence from dynamic panel approach","authors":"Farzan Yahya, H. Pham, M. Waqas","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2020.10034621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2020.10034621","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the effect of environmental quality on stock market performance in the parliamentary and presidential system with the interactive effects of democracy and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 80 countries from 2006 and 2016 using a two-step GMM model. First, we test the direct effect of environmental quality, democracy and FDI on stock market performance after instrumenting and controlling for several macro-economic variables. Second, we examine the moderating effect of democracy and FDI on the relationship between environmental quality and stock market performance. Our results show that (1) environmental performance leads to an increase in stock market performance regardless of the constitutional system, (2) the level of democracy can mitigate the detrimental effect of environmental degradation and improve the stock market performance sub-sequentially in a parliamentary system and (3) FDI facilitates the link between environmental performance and the stock market in a presidential system. The results slightly vary across sub-panels.","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66809376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2020.10032074
G. Antonopoulos, Constantina Skanavis
{"title":"Promoting an environmental awareness centre to enhance educational activities in Linaria port, Skyros","authors":"G. Antonopoulos, Constantina Skanavis","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2020.10032074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2020.10032074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66809126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2020.10034342
Ahmed Malumfashi Halliru, Nanthakumar Loganathan, N. Sethi, A. G. Hassan
This study examined the pollution haven hypothesis for CO2 emissions and ecological footprint with the role of sustainable economic growth, energy consumption, human capital and bio-capacity in six ECOWAS countries using data spanning over 1970 until 2017. Employing a Pooled Mean Group (PMG) technique, the empirical results support the pollution halo hypothesis for CO2 emissions and Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH) for ecological footprint. Furthermore, we found evidence of inverted U-shaped pattern of CO2 emissions, which validate the EKC hypothesis, but a U-shaped relationship was found for ecological footprint as indicators of environmental degradation. A unidirectional causal link exists between FDI and CO2 emissions, but a feedback hypothesis is validated between FDI and ecological footprint. The policy implications are that environmentally friendly FDI should be prioritised to achieve a sustainable environment via developing renewable energy.
本研究利用1970年至2017年的数据，检验了六个西非经共体国家的二氧化碳排放和生态足迹的污染避风港假说，以及可持续经济增长、能源消耗、人力资本和生物容量的作用。采用PMG (Pooled Mean Group)方法，实证结果支持CO2排放的污染晕假说和生态足迹的污染避风港假说。此外，我们还发现了二氧化碳排放呈倒u型分布的证据，这证实了EKC假设，但生态足迹作为环境退化指标呈u型关系。FDI与CO2排放之间存在单向因果关系，但FDI与生态足迹之间存在反馈假说。其政策含义是，应优先考虑环境友好型外国直接投资，以便通过发展可再生能源实现可持续的环境。
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2020.10034418
T. Wang, Y. Huang
There are several evaluation criteria when consumers decide on buying products. However, being compelled by the presence of conflicting factors, consumers usually make decisions based on a single criteria or benefit. The decision might result to the lack of consideration and not meeting practical needs. The purpose of this study is to understand how consumers decide on their purchases among numerous evaluation standards and complicated contradictory situations. This study, based on fuzzy VIKOR and aiming at green appliances, explored the systematic procedure for making the best decision under multiple criteria. It is also hoped that the study may provide valuable information about fuzzy multi-criteria decision making and marketing communications strategy towards consumers in durable goods market in the future.
{"title":"Application of fuzzy VIKOR on consumers purchasing the green home appliances","authors":"T. Wang, Y. Huang","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2020.10034418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2020.10034418","url":null,"abstract":"There are several evaluation criteria when consumers decide on buying products. However, being compelled by the presence of conflicting factors, consumers usually make decisions based on a single criteria or benefit. The decision might result to the lack of consideration and not meeting practical needs. The purpose of this study is to understand how consumers decide on their purchases among numerous evaluation standards and complicated contradictory situations. This study, based on fuzzy VIKOR and aiming at green appliances, explored the systematic procedure for making the best decision under multiple criteria. It is also hoped that the study may provide valuable information about fuzzy multi-criteria decision making and marketing communications strategy towards consumers in durable goods market in the future.","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66809271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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