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{"title":"A comprehensive framework for assessing spatial conflicts risk: A case study of production-living-ecological spaces based on social-ecological system framework","authors":"An Huang ,&nbsp;Yan Wang ,&nbsp;Ying Xiang ,&nbsp;Yueqing Xu ,&nbsp;Li Tian ,&nbsp;Guiyao Zhou ,&nbsp;Yuan Zhuang ,&nbsp;Ling Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103218","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103218","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Against the backdrop of rapid global urbanization, the expansion of urban-rural spaces has led to conflicts among production-living-ecological spaces, resulting in a progressive decline in global ecological well-being. Coordinating spatial conflicts to minimize the reduction in ecological well-being is a critical scientific issue urgently needing resolution in current national spatial planning. In fact, the existing studies concentrates on the mechanisms, conceptual implications, evolutionary processes, and optimization simulations of historical spatial conflicts, yielding significant achievements. However, spatial conflicts are irreversible. Compared to studying historical spatial conflicts, assessing spatial conflicts risk which refer to potential occurrence of future spatial conflicts can provide more direct and robust support for optimizing territorial spatial planning. Unfortunately, there is a lack of research on the theory and methods of spatial conflicts risk assessment to date. To fill this gap, take the Production-Living-Ecological (PLE) spaces as a case study, social-ecological system framework (advance in deconstructing complex systems) and the land use function theory (advance in spatial quantification) have been combined to systematically construct a comprehensive framework and method for assessing PLE spatial conflicts risk. This newly framework analyzes the formation mechanism of conflicts risk from the dimensions of spatial pattern and governance. Furthermore, a quantitative and refined assessment method for PLE space conflicts risk at the raster scale is developed based on this framework, coupling coordination degree model, and multivariate data. The feasibility of this framework and method is validated through a case study of Zhangbei County, Hebei Province in China, a typical county in an ecologically fragile mountainous area. Moreover, we establish adaptive selection strategy to PLE space optimization under different governance scenarios based on the assessment result of PLE space conflicts risk. Findings of this research contribute new theoretical and methodological insights into addressing spatial conflicts issues while we are facing a more complex regional and urban system and fragmented governance. The case study will serve as a reference for counties in the northern mountainous area of Hebei Province and similar ecologically fragile mountain counties in planning and controlling coordinated and sustainable development of PLE space.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"154 ","pages":"Article 103218"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Decoding the spatial effects of walkability on walking behavior among older adults by integrating big data and small data","authors":"Xuan He,&nbsp;Sylvia Y. He","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105537","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105537","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While a walkable environment promotes older adults' walking, few studies have incorporated big and small data to examine the relationship between walkability and older adults' walking behaviors. Using Shenzhen in China as the study area, this study explores walkability's effects on senior walking behaviors by integrating big and small data. The walkability framework is developed regarding four pedestrian needs: safety, convenience, continuity, and attractiveness. The walkability elements are extracted from street view images and diverse open data sources. We quantify the importance of walkability elements from 459 questionnaires across the city as weights to calculate elderly walkability scores. More than 27 million senior walking trips were identified from 6 months of mobile phone data in 2021. We used a geographically weighted Poisson regression model to examine the spatial effects of walkability on senior walking trips. The results show that the most important pedestrian need for seniors is safety, followed in order by attractiveness, convenience, and continuity. Areas with high elderly walkability scores are largely in urban areas and suburban subcenters. Walkability exerts a strong positive role on senior walking trips in the inner suburbs. Based on the findings, we tailor intervention strategies to foster age-friendly walking environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 105537"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142657585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Malaria in the Republic of Guinea 2022-2023: costs associated with the care pathway from the patient's perspective.","authors":"Elhadj Marouf Diallo, Fatoumata Bintou Traore, Alice Langlet, Letitia A Onyango, Marie Blanquet, Bienvenu Salim Camara, Sidikiba Sidibe, Alioune Camara, Laurent Gerbaud","doi":"10.1186/s13561-024-00570-y","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13561-024-00570-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Access to safe, financial affordable health care is a key factor in reducing health disparities. The malaria is a major public health issue, with significant economic implications in Guinea where the free malaria care services were introduced in 2010. This paper analyzes the costs associated with the care pathway for malaria patients in the Republic of Guinea.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An analysis of the costs associated with malaria disease was conducted using data from a cross-sectional survey on the determinants of malaria care pathway between December 2022 and March 2023. The data were collected in health facilities and at community health workers. According to the patient's perspective, Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) and micro-costing approaches were used to assess the costs associated with care-seeking, cases management, and income loss.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 3300 patients were recruited in 60 health facilities. The majority were in urban areas (64.8%). One third of the patients were children under five years old. Over half of the patients or caregivers were without formal education, and most households were headed by husbands (78.5%). The median monthly income of the head of households was $116.0. Furthermore, after diagnosis, 25.5% of cases were uncomplicated malaria, 19.2% were complicated, and 52.2% were malaria associated with other diseases. Globally 41% of cases were on their first care pathway. The costs of care-seeking varied according to type of malaria, from $3.5 and $13.5 respectively for uncomplicated and complicated cases. The median direct costs of case management at health facilities were $7.3 (IQR: $4.1,13.3) for uncomplicated and $30.5 (IQR: 15.7, 51.4) for complicated cases. The total costs associated with the global care pathway differed across types of malaria and age groups, with median costs estimated at $17.4 (IQR: 6.7, 34.8) for uncomplicated cases and $43.5 (IQR: $ 19.7, 74.0) for complicated malaria. A delay in appropriate care-seeking accounted for 19% of the costs incurred by malaria patients in Guinea (p < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Despite the introduction of free malaria prevention services, malaria patients or their caregivers continue to incur costs and loss of income. An approach to selective, free and affordable flat-rate costs could ensure the financial viability of health facilities and reduce out-of-pocket expenses. The next research will focus on the impact of free selective and flat-rate pricing on out-of-pocket expenses, and the analysis of the perception of the malaria care services by care providers and users.</p>","PeriodicalId":46936,"journal":{"name":"Health Economics Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"91"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11566412/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corporate cash shortfalls and external financing: US vs Japan","authors":"Huan Chen, Xin Liu, Quoc Phan, Steven Xiaofan Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2024.106472","url":null,"abstract":"Consistent with the funding-horizon theory, we find that cash shortfalls are important determinants of external financing in both the US and Japan. Japanese firms seem less likely to raise external financing compared with US firms. However, after we control for cash shortfalls and other factors known to affect external financing decisions, Japanese firms are as likely to issue debt and equity as US firms.","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142673158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digitalization of the financial market and green coal trade","authors":"Ping Wang ,&nbsp;Chengcheng Huang ,&nbsp;Gang Zhou ,&nbsp;Wenjun Wu ,&nbsp;Xinmeng Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2024.105406","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2024.105406","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, fintech advancements have influenced global coal trade patterns. This study analyzes the impact of fintech on coal trade across 80 countries from 2012 to 2019. Findings from the MGARDL model reveal that increased fintech activity reduces coal imports while boosting exports, suggesting enhanced trade efficiency and access to capital. Income inequality and private infrastructure investment negatively impact coal trade, likely due to restricted financial access and infrastructure limitations. Meanwhile, ICT development supports coal trade by streamlining logistics and finance. The study confirms a bidirectional relationship between fintech and coal trade, emphasizing mutual influence. Policy recommendations include promoting fintech adoption, encouraging sustainable investments, improving financial access, and expanding ICT infrastructure to foster a more sustainable coal trade.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 105406"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142658053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The entrepreneurial creative city and its discontents: The politics of art-led urban regeneration in Incheon, South Korea","authors":"Se Hoon Park, HaeRan Shin","doi":"10.1177/00420980241285856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241285856","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing occurrence of discontent and conflict regarding making creative cities across the globe has led scholars to pay significant attention to the political dimension of creative-city policies. This study, by exploring the controversy over the Incheon Art Platform, a warehouse-turned art space in Incheon, South Korea, offers a situated understanding of how the city government’s entrepreneurial approach to the creative city was resisted and reinterpreted by local civil society groups. Against the backdrop of enhanced urban entrepreneurialism and the rise of civil activism in Incheon, the arrival of the creative city concept has generated opposing interpretations of the role of art and culture between the city government and civil society groups. Given the state’s expansionist policy toward the cultural sector in the nation, the entrepreneurial version of a creative city was first resisted by local cultural actors along with government-sponsored artists and subsequently sparked an artist-inspired anti-entrepreneurism protest in the city. This paper demonstrated how the creative city became a subject of political struggle within the unique relationship between the state and the cultural sector in South Korea, thereby contributing to enriching global urban knowledge on making and remaking creative cities beyond the Global North.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142637503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Carbon pricing and the commodity risk premium","authors":"Qiao Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomm.2024.100447","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomm.2024.100447","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines whether the carbon pricing risk factor is priced in the cross-section of commodity futures. By analyzing unexpected pricing shocks in carbon emission allowances, carbon pricing risk is indeed priced in commodity futures, with a significant positive risk premium. The analysis of carbon pricing risk loadings reveals that individual commodities' sensitivities to carbon pricing risk vary. Additionally, commodity-specific characteristics, such as basis and hedging pressure, impact these risk loadings. Finally, I demonstrate that a portfolio of commodity futures constructed based on carbon pricing beta provides superior out-of-sample hedging performance for climate change risk compared to alternative hedge portfolios using equities or ETFs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45111,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Commodity Markets","volume":"36 ","pages":"Article 100447"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking climate conflicts: The role of climate action and inaction","authors":"Tobias Ide","doi":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106845","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106845","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The climate-conflict nexus has attracted significant academic and policy interest, but such discussions are often based on a narrow conception of the phenomenon. This article proposes a broader understanding of climate conflicts, which can be related to (1) the direct impacts of climate inaction (e.g., activism for ambitious climate change mitigation), (2) the direct impacts of climate action (e.g., resistance against fossil fuel subsidy cuts), (3) the indirect impacts of climate inaction (e.g., communal tensions over water in vulnerable locations), and (4) the indirect impacts of climate action (e.g., opposition against mining for renewable energies). After assessing existing evidence on these four types of climate conflicts, I outline the benefits of such a broader understanding: It reveals that climate conflicts are widespread and inevitable, including in the Global North. Such a rethinking enables an integrative analysis of the manifold teleconnections and trade-offs in the climate-conflict nexus, hence highlighting the relevance of conflict sensitivity in climate policy and environmental governance. Finally, this broader understanding of climate conflicts enables productive exchanges across different streams of research, including securitisation, political ecology, and decolonial approaches.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48463,"journal":{"name":"World Development","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 106845"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Off-farm employment, farmland transfer and agricultural investment behavior: A study of joint decision-making among North China Plain farmers","authors":"Mingjun Xu ,&nbsp;Changling Chen ,&nbsp;Jinhua Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.asieco.2024.101839","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asieco.2024.101839","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Improving farmers’ ability to make joint decisions on multi-factors is crucial for efficient resource allocation in agriculture, promoting sustainable land use, and fostering rural revitalization. Using survey data from 1780 households in the North China Plain, this study used the Conditional Mixed Process (CMP) joint estimation to address potential endogeneity issues and investigate the interaction of off-farm employment, farmland transfer, and agricultural capital investment. First, the results reveal a significant relationship between the three factors in farmers’ decision-making. Particular, there is a positive relationship between off-farm employment and farmland outflow (ρ = 0.163, P &lt; 0.05), while a negative correlation is observed between farmland outflow and capital investment (ρ = − 0.476, P &lt; 0.01). Secondly, there is heterogeneity in the correlation of joint decision-making regarding off-farm employment types and agricultural capital input types. For risk-averse farmers and farmers with low capital liquidity, off-farm employment is not significantly correlated with farmland outflow, while farmers with land-poor farmers have the strongest positive correlation between farmland inflow and capital input. Third, even if increasing farmland outflow can facilitate the expansion of large-scale land operations, the investment effect of off-farm employment remains unrealized. Finally, the lag of the farmland transfer market relative to the labor transfer market and the rural capital market hinders the growth of optimal-scale agricultural management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Economics","volume":"95 ","pages":"Article 101839"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does family culture hamper corporate deceptive green behavior decision-making?","authors":"Dongyang Zhang ,&nbsp;Yichen Guo ,&nbsp;Samuel A. Vigne","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106812","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106812","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Different categories of cultural traits have acknowledged that culture matters for a multiplicity of decisions made regarding economic outcomes. In response to the increasing awareness of cultural traits and their relationship to corporate sustainable behavior, this paper focused on one specific aspect of the relevance of culture: the association of family culture to green behaviors. This paper explored the nexus between family culture, the deceptive behavior of greenwashing, and firm performance in China, which provided original evidence that family culture firms have a significantly lower likelihood in participating in deceptive green behaviors as measured by greenwashing. By collecting the listed Chinese firms during 2011 to 2021, we estimated empirical models and drew a variety of conclusions accordingly. First, family culture firms have a negative and significant impact on greenwashing behaviors, leading to a decline in deceptive green production decision-making. Second, we further provided mechanisms which hamper family firms’ greenwashing behaviors into two perspectives: financial constraint and agency cost between shareholders and family managers. We recognized that financial constraints motivate family culture firms to greenwash, whereas the low agency cost related to family culture discourages family firms from greenwashing decision-making. Third, we provide very rich dimensions in discussion of heterogeneous effects. Specifically, within the internal family culture structure heterogeneities, family managers without overseas backgrounds, no generational or descendant involvement, and high family-controlled firms are even less involved in greenwashing decision-making. Moreover, with respect to external heterogeneities, family culture in pollution-intensive industries, highly regulated environmental firms, and Confucian social culture intensive regions, can significantly reduce greenwashing behaviors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"228 ","pages":"Article 106812"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}