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A statistical approach to evaluate the effect of obstacles on green building development in Northeast India 评估印度东北部绿色建筑发展障碍影响的统计方法

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2023.100119

Mayur Shirish Jain , Jubaraj Kakati

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Energy poverty and mental distress in South Africa: Assessing linkages and potential pathways 南非的能源贫困和精神痛苦：评估联系和潜在途径

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2023.100116

Isaac Koomson

{"title":"Energy poverty and mental distress in South Africa: Assessing linkages and potential pathways","authors":"Isaac Koomson","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2023.100116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2023.100116","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite the increasing attention on energy poverty due to its health implications, the South African story is yet to be told, while pathways of influence have received little empirical investigation in the extant literature. This study examines how energy poverty affects mental distress in post-apartheid South Africa and explores gender and locational heterogeneities in outcomes as well as potential pathways. We use five years of longitudinal data extracted from the National Income Dynamics Survey (NIDS). We employ the Lewbel instrumental variable method to resolve endogeneity and apply causal mediation analysis to identify potential channels of effect. The findings suggest that energy poverty is associated with an increase in mental distress. This outcome is consistent across different estimation methods and conceptualisations of energy poverty. The deteriorating effect of energy poverty on mental distress is more pronounced among females and rural residents. We further establish that experiences of persistent cough and chest pains/tightness serve as potential pathways in the link between energy poverty and mental distress. We encourage the South African government to increase budgetary allocations to the free basic electricity policy and provide connection subsidies to poor households, which have the potential to alleviate energy poverty and reduce mental distress as a result.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X2300071X/pdfft?md5=0aef54fe31f563836cf138f332afee55&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X2300071X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138548988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Geospatial investigation of site suitability for ecotourism development using AHP and GIS techniques in Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka state, India 利用 AHP 和 GIS 技术对印度卡纳塔克邦 Uttara Kannada 地区生态旅游开发的地点适宜性进行地理空间调查

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2023.100114

Harishnaika N, Arpitha M, S.A. Ahmed, Ashwini KS

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Development of policy measures for diffusing human pro-environmental behavior in social networks—Computer simulation of a dynamic model of mutual learning 制定在社会网络中推广人类环保行为的政策措施--相互学习动态模型的计算机模拟

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2023.100118

Shinsuke Kyoi , Koichiro Mori

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Participation, development and tensions in New Zealand donor engagement with non-secular recipients: A case for recognising post-secularity in practice 新西兰捐助者与非世俗受援国接触中的参与、发展和紧张关系：在实践中承认后世俗性的理由

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2023.100117

Walter Lewthwaite , David Fisher , Hamish Rennie

{"title":"Participation, development and tensions in New Zealand donor engagement with non-secular recipients: A case for recognising post-secularity in practice","authors":"Walter Lewthwaite , David Fisher , Hamish Rennie","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2023.100117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2023.100117","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Many authors argue that we live in a post-secular world where religion persists, and where, in public affairs, religious views should have an equal voice with secularity. This article examines participation in international development through that post-secular lens: To what extent do the differing worldviews of the partners affect their relationships when designing and implementing development projects? Fieldwork for the research was conducted mainly through interviews with global donor and practitioner organisations working from New Zealand and with recipients on one project in Bangladesh. We used a typology of three different parties: recipients; secular donor and practitioner organisations; and faith-based donor and practitioner organisations (FBOs). In that triangle of relationships we found the three parties’ beliefs are intensely important to them. But we also found participation tends to be transactional in that the topic of religion is generally avoided, leading to unexplored assumptions and adverse consequences to development of trust between the parties. However, we observed that FBOs and recipients can, through religion, and regardless of what that religion is, have a natural rapport. This is important as less-developed countries are generally profoundly religious. Further, in an extension to some concepts of post-secularity, our research indicated there is value in not just listening but also in debating views in-depth as a pathway to creating common ground. This may be challenging for secular organisations, but facilitators who are accepted by the three parties as understanding and respecting their views could help achieve productive relationships.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X23000721/pdfft?md5=252e843e505ba6f599296f6ae29f318f&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X23000721-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138549167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Improving the adoption of stress tolerant maize varieties using social ties, awareness or incentives: Insights from Northern Benin (West-Africa) 利用社会关系、意识或激励措施改善耐压玉米品种的采用:来自贝宁北部(西非)的见解

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2023.100112

Soulé Akinhola Adéchian , Mohamed Nasser Baco , Abdoulaye Tahirou

{"title":"Improving the adoption of stress tolerant maize varieties using social ties, awareness or incentives: Insights from Northern Benin (West-Africa)","authors":"Soulé Akinhola Adéchian , Mohamed Nasser Baco , Abdoulaye Tahirou","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2023.100112","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2023.100112","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Maize is the staple food of most households in sub-Saharan Africa. The adoption of stress-tolerant maize varieties (STMV) is being promoted due to climate change. There are various methods applied to disseminate these varieties. Unfortunately, the adoption at the household level is still unsatisfactory. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the dissemination methods used in Benin. We identified dissemination methods from key informants involved in STMV seed dissemination projects. The performance of the identified methods was assessed through the perceptions of 150 maize-farming households using the Likert scale. We assessed the extent to which each method leads to the knowledge, use, and continued use (appropriation) of STMV seeds. Friedman and Wilcoxon rank tests were used for data analysis. Nine dissemination methods were identified and categorized into four groups according to their theoretical driven: strengthening social ties, capacity building, incentive, and awareness raising. Our results revealed that dissemination methods that focus on strengthening social ties, raising awareness, and providing incentives are more effective in promoting STMV adoption. Depending on the intended adoption (awareness, use, and appropriation), extension services and STMV promotional projects could focus on strengthening social ties, raising awareness, and providing incentives. However, future research must identify which of the methods leads to a higher rate of adoption of STMV.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X23000678/pdfft?md5=20d14baaa3bbf9daf124276f02efa8d5&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X23000678-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135565137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Financial inclusion's impact on energy poverty: Evidence from Indonesia 普惠金融对能源贫困的影响:来自印度尼西亚的证据

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2023.100113

Aprilina Tri Widyastuti , Djoni Hartono , Danar Sutopo Sidig , Estiana Rusmawati

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Power in environmental peacebuilding 环境和平建设中的力量

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-11-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2023.100110

Katy Davis , Laura E.R. Peters , Jamon Van Den Hoek , Ken Conca

{"title":"Power in environmental peacebuilding","authors":"Katy Davis , Laura E.R. Peters , Jamon Van Den Hoek , Ken Conca","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2023.100110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2023.100110","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Environmental peacebuilding investigates mutually reinforcing relationships between environmental sustainability and peacebuilding. However, environmental peacebuilding research and practice frequently neglect to explicitly take account of power relations and inequities. This is despite other fields of research highlighting the centrality of power relations in the environment and in conflict. We reviewed the environmental peacebuilding literature for i) descriptions of contextual power dynamics and ii) explicit discussion of addressing power in environmental peacebuilding interventions. Just over half of included articles contained at least one of these, meaning that nearly half of articles did not discuss or engage with power or inequity in either the environmental/conflict context or the intervention process. Where articles did engage with power, there was a tendency to draw from narrow conceptualisations of power as control over others and over natural resources. We discuss these results in the context of broader debates around conceptualising power, and highlight the value of a relational approach to power for environmental peacebuilding. Finally, we propose a framework to recentre power in environmental peacebuilding interventions. We illustrate the ways that all interventions engage with power to some extent, regardless of whether they explicitly set out to do so. We argue that reaching the ‘virtuous cycle’ of mutually reinforcing positive peace and environmental sustainability requires active transformation of power relations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X23000654/pdfft?md5=129bb9e97ea308cac981e57e24d2082f&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X23000654-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91987532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Understanding the challenge of decoupling transport-related CO2 emissions from economic growth in developing countries 了解发展中国家与交通相关的二氧化碳排放与经济增长脱钩的挑战

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-10-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2023.100111

Vivien Foster , Jennifer Uju Dim , Sebastian Vollmer , Fan Zhang

{"title":"Understanding the challenge of decoupling transport-related CO2 emissions from economic growth in developing countries","authors":"Vivien Foster , Jennifer Uju Dim , Sebastian Vollmer , Fan Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2023.100111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2023.100111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The transition to net zero requires full decarbonization of the transport sector, currently one of the leading sources of emissions globally. Transport-related carbon emissions are growing fastest in the developing world. This makes it particularly critical to understand whether low- and middle-income countries are making progress towards decoupling transport sector emissions from economic growth, as well as the extent to which their current emissions trajectory is being shaped by structural factors versus more amenable policy choices. This paper assembles and analyzes a comprehensive dataset on transport-related emissions with a uniquely broad coverage of developing countries. The paper employs the Tapio decoupling model over the period 1990–2018 to demonstrate that high-income countries are almost twice as likely to have reached relative decoupling as low and middle-income countries (70 vs 36 percent, while the latter are almost twice as likely to be in a state of negative decoupling as the former (17 versus 41 percent). This paper conducts index-decomposition and econometric analysis to shed light on the factors driving transport-related carbon emissions. Index decomposition reveals that there have been only relatively modest reductions in the transport emissions intensity of GDP since 1990 and that these have not been large enough to offset economic growth in middle-income countries and demographic growth in low-income countries. Regression analysis further shows that urbanization and industrialization are important correlates of transport-related emissions, while the correlation of policy choices with reduced emissions is rather weak.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X23000666/pdfft?md5=8880cea17fe3f373b30553dfcfeb419a&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X23000666-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91987003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Energy Poverty and Alcohol Consumption 能源贫困和酒精消费

World Development Sustainability Pub Date : 2023-10-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2023.100109

Dillys A.D. Amega , Rejoice E.A. Churchill , Janet E.Y. Ocloo , Sefa Awaworyi Churchill

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