Pub Date : 2019-08-05DOI: 10.1504/IJGE.2019.10022996
M. Mostafa
Global warming is probably the most serious environmental problem facing the human kind. Understanding public concern regarding global warming is the key to create mitigation and adaptation policies. This paper aims at assessing worldwide concern for global warming. This research is the first to attempt to fit a stochastic cusp catastrophe model to estimate the influence of GDP per capita, CO2 emissions, objective environmental problems, post-materialistic tendencies, religiosity, and demographic factors on global warming concern. Results from 47 nations seem to contradict Inglehart's objective environmental problems hypothesis. Results also confirm the existence of a global warming Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). We also found that concern for global warming is driven by religiosity. The findings of this paper highlight the importance of using sophisticated non-linear dynamic techniques in determining factors influencing concern for global warming across the globe.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-25DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2018.10018624
Margarita Nieves-Zárate
This paper analyses how safety regulation evolved in the UK and Norway from prescriptive regulations to goal-setting regulations in order to manage the risks associated with offshore oil and gas operations. Major accidents in the industry led to reshaping regulatory approaches to rule making, supervising and enforcing safety regulations providing interesting case studies of how law adapts to technological challenges. The allocation of responsibilities between different roles of the regulatory authority, the oil and gas companies and the workforce are important aspects of these new approaches.
{"title":"New approaches to safety regulation for offshore oil and gas exploration and production in the UK and Norway","authors":"Margarita Nieves-Zárate","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2018.10018624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2018.10018624","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses how safety regulation evolved in the UK and Norway from prescriptive regulations to goal-setting regulations in order to manage the risks associated with offshore oil and gas operations. Major accidents in the industry led to reshaping regulatory approaches to rule making, supervising and enforcing safety regulations providing interesting case studies of how law adapts to technological challenges. The allocation of responsibilities between different roles of the regulatory authority, the oil and gas companies and the workforce are important aspects of these new approaches.","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47369633","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 : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2019.10026253
C. Pek, H. Tan, R. Kim, P. M. Ang
This study reports the perception of green banking and willingness to participate in green loans by industries in Malaysia and to share lessons of green banking as an enterprise-knowledge transfer. A qualitative methodology was employed in this study and a positive perception of the industries on green banking was confirmed, setting meaningful criteria for green banking guidelines. Besides, a quantitative model was used to identify the drivers and willingness to accept green loans by the industries. The industries requested more stakeholder consultative meetings to improve the awareness of green loan availabilities and application approval rates. This study reveals the gaps in green banking practices with suggested solutions for knowledge sharing with economies supporting sustainable development. Malaysia has prepared the infrastructures well but the ecosystem can be improved by better matches between the market demand and supply following the guidelines of green banking proposed.
{"title":"Industry lessons for green banking in Malaysia","authors":"C. Pek, H. Tan, R. Kim, P. M. Ang","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2019.10026253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2019.10026253","url":null,"abstract":"This study reports the perception of green banking and willingness to participate in green loans by industries in Malaysia and to share lessons of green banking as an enterprise-knowledge transfer. A qualitative methodology was employed in this study and a positive perception of the industries on green banking was confirmed, setting meaningful criteria for green banking guidelines. Besides, a quantitative model was used to identify the drivers and willingness to accept green loans by the industries. The industries requested more stakeholder consultative meetings to improve the awareness of green loan availabilities and application approval rates. This study reveals the gaps in green banking practices with suggested solutions for knowledge sharing with economies supporting sustainable development. Malaysia has prepared the infrastructures well but the ecosystem can be improved by better matches between the market demand and supply following the guidelines of green banking proposed.","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66808686","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 : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2019.10026255
A. Amini, A. Alinezhad, Vahid Mohammadi
Nowadays companies are enforced to adopt special ecological practices to show a green image and differentiate themselves from their competitors due to the economic, ecological, and social effects of organisational measures. Green supply chain management is a philosophy that aims at improving environmental performance of organisations. Under the pressure of owners of capital, environmental laws and regulations, companies are forced to improve their environmental performance, including operations such as green purchases, green designs, and product recycling. Therefore, the assessment of green supply chain management is important. One of the techniques that can be applied to assess greenhouse gas supply management is data envelopment analysis. The traditional models of data envelopment analysis deal with decision-making units like the black box. The purpose of this study was to develop a multi-objective network data envelopment analysis model to evaluate greenhouse gas supply chain management with undesirable outputs.
{"title":"Evaluation of green supply chain performance using network data envelopment analysis","authors":"A. Amini, A. Alinezhad, Vahid Mohammadi","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2019.10026255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2019.10026255","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays companies are enforced to adopt special ecological practices to show a green image and differentiate themselves from their competitors due to the economic, ecological, and social effects of organisational measures. Green supply chain management is a philosophy that aims at improving environmental performance of organisations. Under the pressure of owners of capital, environmental laws and regulations, companies are forced to improve their environmental performance, including operations such as green purchases, green designs, and product recycling. Therefore, the assessment of green supply chain management is important. One of the techniques that can be applied to assess greenhouse gas supply management is data envelopment analysis. The traditional models of data envelopment analysis deal with decision-making units like the black box. The purpose of this study was to develop a multi-objective network data envelopment analysis model to evaluate greenhouse gas supply chain management with undesirable outputs.","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66808888","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 : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2019.10026259
P. Mhatre, Hosur Srinivasan Srivatsa
In the midst of worldwide environmental concern, many companies have started implementing refurbishing, recycling and reuse strategies. This paper discusses refurbished mobile phones in particular, which have seen a 41% year-on-year growth in Indian markets for 2018. To develop strategies for promotion, advertisement and customer retention, the purchase intention of customers must be understood. This paper focuses on identifying the determinants that influence consumers' intention to buy refurbished mobile phones and further examines the differences in the purchase intention of millennial and Generation X consumers by using Structural Equation Modelling. The results for millennials show that product knowledge, perceived risk, attitude towards refurbishment and subjective norm significantly impact their purchase intention. Attitude towards refurbishment, perceived risk and perceived benefit have a significant impact on the purchase intention of Generation X consumers.
{"title":"Modelling the purchase intention of millennial and Generation X consumers, towards refurbished mobile phones in India","authors":"P. Mhatre, Hosur Srinivasan Srivatsa","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2019.10026259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2019.10026259","url":null,"abstract":"In the midst of worldwide environmental concern, many companies have started implementing refurbishing, recycling and reuse strategies. This paper discusses refurbished mobile phones in particular, which have seen a 41% year-on-year growth in Indian markets for 2018. To develop strategies for promotion, advertisement and customer retention, the purchase intention of customers must be understood. This paper focuses on identifying the determinants that influence consumers' intention to buy refurbished mobile phones and further examines the differences in the purchase intention of millennial and Generation X consumers by using Structural Equation Modelling. The results for millennials show that product knowledge, perceived risk, attitude towards refurbishment and subjective norm significantly impact their purchase intention. Attitude towards refurbishment, perceived risk and perceived benefit have a significant impact on the purchase intention of Generation X consumers.","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66808948","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 : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2019.10026257
C. Ngwakwe
This paper presents an analysis of environmental and economic benefits of compliance to green building. Data were collected from sixty global companies under the World Green Building Council. A logit regression analysis was applied and the statistical findings show a positive and significant relationship between green building code compliance, energy savings, water savings, increase in solar energy usage and corporate revenue growth. This paper indicates that, in addition to environmental benefits, green building code compliance does have economic benefits through improved revenue growth. The paper suggests that future research should expand this research by including more samples of global companies from the World Green Building Council's regional networks and that such future research should adopt time-series analysis to check the extent of these benefits after an extended period of time.
{"title":"Environmental and economic benefits of compliance to green building","authors":"C. Ngwakwe","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2019.10026257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2019.10026257","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an analysis of environmental and economic benefits of compliance to green building. Data were collected from sixty global companies under the World Green Building Council. A logit regression analysis was applied and the statistical findings show a positive and significant relationship between green building code compliance, energy savings, water savings, increase in solar energy usage and corporate revenue growth. This paper indicates that, in addition to environmental benefits, green building code compliance does have economic benefits through improved revenue growth. The paper suggests that future research should expand this research by including more samples of global companies from the World Green Building Council's regional networks and that such future research should adopt time-series analysis to check the extent of these benefits after an extended period of time.","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66808933","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 : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2019.10026260
Santosh Kumar, Mrinalini Pandey
This research was intended to explore and examine the effects of coupon proneness, price consciousness and sale proneness on consumers' buying intentions towards expiration date-based priced perishable food items in the Indian context. In order to collect data, a mall-intercept survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire. Data were analysed using a two-step structural equation modelling. Outcomes of hypothesis testing reveal that coupon proneness and price consciousness have significant positive associations with sale proneness. In addition, coupon proneness, price consciousness, and sale proneness have significant positive effects on Indian consumers' buying intentions towards the expiration date-based priced perishable food items.
{"title":"The effects of coupon proneness, price consciousness and sale proneness on consumers' buying intentions towards expiration date-based priced perishable food items: an Indian perspective","authors":"Santosh Kumar, Mrinalini Pandey","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2019.10026260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2019.10026260","url":null,"abstract":"This research was intended to explore and examine the effects of coupon proneness, price consciousness and sale proneness on consumers' buying intentions towards expiration date-based priced perishable food items in the Indian context. In order to collect data, a mall-intercept survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire. Data were analysed using a two-step structural equation modelling. Outcomes of hypothesis testing reveal that coupon proneness and price consciousness have significant positive associations with sale proneness. In addition, coupon proneness, price consciousness, and sale proneness have significant positive effects on Indian consumers' buying intentions towards the expiration date-based priced perishable food items.","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66808994","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 : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2019.10026258
Varun Chotia, P. Pankaj
Climate change has become the biggest impending source of doom for mankind. It is a common consensus that carbon emissions are one of the main reasons for this catastrophe. The aim of this research is to study the impact of population and economic growth on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. A data set of nine countries, three each from developed (Japan, USA, UK), fast developing (India, China and Brazil) and slow developing categories (Congo, Bangladesh and Malaysia), over 30 years has been considered for this study. For the purpose of analysis, a stochastic model containing CO2 emissions as the dependent variable, and population, affluence which is measured by the GDP per capita and technology which is measured by resources used per unit production as independent variables. We find that population growth and economic growth have been a prime contributor to CO2 emissions globally in the last two decades.
{"title":"Impact of population and economic growth on carbon emissions of developed and developing countries","authors":"Varun Chotia, P. Pankaj","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2019.10026258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2019.10026258","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change has become the biggest impending source of doom for mankind. It is a common consensus that carbon emissions are one of the main reasons for this catastrophe. The aim of this research is to study the impact of population and economic growth on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. A data set of nine countries, three each from developed (Japan, USA, UK), fast developing (India, China and Brazil) and slow developing categories (Congo, Bangladesh and Malaysia), over 30 years has been considered for this study. For the purpose of analysis, a stochastic model containing CO2 emissions as the dependent variable, and population, affluence which is measured by the GDP per capita and technology which is measured by resources used per unit production as independent variables. We find that population growth and economic growth have been a prime contributor to CO2 emissions globally in the last two decades.","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66808942","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 : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2019.10026254
Sargam Bahl Walia, H. Kumar, N. Negi
The present study attempts to understand the ever dynamic consumers' attitude and purchase intention towards green products under category of Fast Moving Consumer Goods. The objective of the study is to assess the consumer attitude and purchase intention towards 'green' products under key elements of marketing mix as well as identify factors that affect consumer purchase intention. A survey was carried on 500 respondents associated with four retail outlets selling green products and conventional products in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. Factor analysis technique was used which led to the extraction of maximum common variance from all variables. Multiple regression analysis was carried out to understand the relationship shared amongst variables. The results revealed that there is a significant effect of green marketing mix variables on the attitude towards green behaviour and purchase intention towards green products.
{"title":"Consumers' attitude and purchase intention towards 'green' products: a study of selected FMCGs","authors":"Sargam Bahl Walia, H. Kumar, N. Negi","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2019.10026254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2019.10026254","url":null,"abstract":"The present study attempts to understand the ever dynamic consumers' attitude and purchase intention towards green products under category of Fast Moving Consumer Goods. The objective of the study is to assess the consumer attitude and purchase intention towards 'green' products under key elements of marketing mix as well as identify factors that affect consumer purchase intention. A survey was carried on 500 respondents associated with four retail outlets selling green products and conventional products in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. Factor analysis technique was used which led to the extraction of maximum common variance from all variables. Multiple regression analysis was carried out to understand the relationship shared amongst variables. The results revealed that there is a significant effect of green marketing mix variables on the attitude towards green behaviour and purchase intention towards green products.","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66808835","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 : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijge.2019.10026256
T. Singh, Utkal Khandelwal, S. K. Yadav
Researchers observed that as Indian customers are price conscious; the high cost associated with green products often curbs their green purchase decisions. Thus, assessing the spending tendency of consumers on green products is a matter of concern from the managerial point of view. This study measures the willingness to pay more for green products among Indian consumers and attempts in establishing a predictive model for the same. Data were collected through a survey in 11 major Indian cities. Discriminant analysis was used to establish predictive modelling. Further, green marketing constructs under study are compared with respect to willingness and unwillingness to pay more. Findings reveal that inconvenience to adopt green practices restricts the consumers to pay more for green products. The study also provides important insights for policy makers and practitioners a predictive model of explaining the willingness to pay more for green product.
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