World Development Sustainability最新文献

{"title":"How the GATT agreement on agriculture shifted pollution from its richer to poorer members: Implications for sustainability mandates of trade agreements","authors":"Nikolay Anguelov ,&nbsp;William Ash","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100151","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper evaluates the impact of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade's Agreement on Agriculture (GATT AA) on outcomes outlined as its sustainability goals. They include adopting and sustaining agricultural practices to lower fertilizer pollution from nitrogen and phosphate, as well as to lower CO₂ levels from vegetal and animal production. This study evaluates if these goals were met for those nations that joined the GATT AA. Applying an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) framework, we examine the change in levels of the specific pollutants specified in the GATT AA's Application of Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) provision for 101 countries for the time frame pre- and post- joining the GATT AA. The results suggest that wealthy GATT AA member nations were able to lower their integrated agrarian toxicity relatively more and mainly through increasing the imports of foodstuffs. The implication is that trade liberalization may have allowed richer nations to lower their pollution levels by importing rather than producing certain crops associated with relatively more toxic fertilization. Further investigation can analyze such findings in the context of changing assumptions of EKC and Ecologically Unequal Exchange theories.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000296/pdfft?md5=6f1a303b0acc2e4eb0343d689e709505&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000296-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140950156","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}

{"title":"Assessing long run asymmetric effect of urbanization, fossil energy consumption and regulatory quality on environmental degradation in the Black Sea Region: A dynamic analysis","authors":"Kwaku Addai ,&nbsp;Dervis Kirikkaleli ,&nbsp;George Oppong Appiagyei Ampong ,&nbsp;Mohamed Yufenyuy","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100153","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sustainable development policies of the Black Sea Region is vital to European Union given increasing environmental disturbances by dynamic and heterogenous factors across the enclave beginning from 1990s. This study assesses long run asymmetric effect of urbanization, energy consumption and regulatory quality on environmental degradation, with data from 1998Q1 to 2017Q4. First pooled mean group (PMG) estimates suggest short-run nonlinear and asymmetric effects of the independent variables on carbons emissions. Second, (i) long-run PMG estimates indicate improvements in regulatory quality reduces carbon dioxide emissions; (ii) increases in both urbanization and fossil energy consumption lead to corresponding rise in carbon dioxide emissions. Third, outcomes of Dumitrescu Hurlin causality estimates indicate (i) both fossil energy consumption and urbanization have unidirectional causal effects on carbon dioxide emissions; and (ii) increases in both urbanization and carbon dioxide emissions cause changes in regulations quality. These findings provide environmental regulatory insights for the Black Sea regions, especially to the European Union. Towards the future, the EU could ensure increased funding, research and policy inter-linking. Cooperation and formal exchanges among the economies in implementation of Danube River and Black Sea Conventions could be strengthened to preserve commercial marine resources; biodiversity and Habitat resources and reduce eutrophication. Additionally, fossil energy-guzzling industries could be regulated by the EU to use efficient technologies toward saving energy. To address urban-driven carbons emission across the region, economies across the region could invest in natural gas; while heavy investments are made in energy productivity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000314/pdfft?md5=2cb8acf7e62209c12446efab6154a0ab&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000314-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140950155","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}

{"title":"Quality of urban infrastructural service accessibility and human well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Isaiah Maket ,&nbsp;Izabella Szakálné Kanó ,&nbsp;Zsófia Vas","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100155","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100155","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Urban infrastructure critically influences how urban people carry their lives and mediates how services central to human well-being are accessed. Therefore, the main of this study is twofold: One, the study interrogates how the quality of urban infrastructural service accessibility influences human well-being, and two, how governance interactively with urban infrastructural services affects human well-being using balanced panel data from 2000 to 2020 from 22 Sub-Saharan African countries. Applying the Driscoll-Kraay and Two-Step Instrumental Variable Generalized Method of Moments (2SIV-GMM) in panel dynamic model setup, we uncover that increasing the quality of accessing urban infrastructural services results in enhanced human well-being. Interrogating the role of governance on human well-being, the findings depict a significant detrimental interactive effect between governance and urban infrastructural services on human well-being. Accounting for rapid urbanization in the Sub-Saharan African region, the results illustrate significant negative control effects of urbanization rate and aftermath urban agglomeration on human well-being. Conclusively, effective government policies that influence higher levels of human well-being in regions with large urban agglomerations are paramount. Thus, effective government investments in urban infrastructural services in Sub-Saharan Africa remain a vital sustainability policy agenda.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000338/pdfft?md5=603620b746b9049217bfc42171547f13&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000338-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141057293","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}

{"title":"Rainfall reliability and maize production in the Bamenda Highlands of Cameroon","authors":"Suiven John Paul Tume ,&nbsp;Wirngo Harry Mairomi ,&nbsp;Nyong Princely Awazi","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100156","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The long-term average rainfall for a given period (month, season or year) scarcely indicates reliability because rainfall in low latitudes varies significantly from one year to the other. The less variable rainfall is, the more reliable it is, as the index of variability measures the likelihood of repetition in the mean amount of rainfall. This study bridges some gaps in related studies in the Bamenda Highlands, such as a study assessing climate change impacts on food security, where the Rainfall Anomaly Index was used and another study on the impact of rainfall on maize production using the Standardized Precipitation Index. The objectives of this study are to assess rainfall reliability and establish the impact of rainfall reliability on maize production. Rainfall data were collected from 15 stations, while maize output was collected for four localities. Results revealed that rainfall is still reliable for 13 stations, with a coefficient of variations of 9.62 to 18.54 %, while Ndop and Ndawara recorded unreliable rainfall of 23.14 % and 30.97 % respectively. Rainfall reliability was complemented by the Standardized Precipitation Index, which showed that only 53.45 % of rainfall episodes were normal to sustain maize production, while 46.55 % were events of rainfall deficits. Maize production has been decreasing in Ndu, Oku and Nkum while increasing in Ndop. These findings reflect the realities of other tropical mountainous regions in the world. Faced with future climatic uncertainties, farmers should embrace agroecological practices, climate-smart agriculture, conservation agriculture, Nature-based Solutions, Ecosystem-based Adaptation and diversification of production systems and livelihood sources to ensure food security.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X2400034X/pdfft?md5=a5c0c2c55d9fc08d5620eb72728f2891&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X2400034X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140902259","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}

{"title":"Livelihood vulnerability of coastal communities in context of the climate change: A index-based assessment","authors":"Milton Kumar Saha ,&nbsp;AKM Abdul Ahad Biswas ,&nbsp;Md. Faisal","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100152","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The livelihoods of coastal communities in Bangladesh are being significantly impacted by climate change and natural hazards, primarily due to their heavy reliance on climate-sensitive natural resources. This study assesses the vulnerability of coastal communities in Bangladesh using two approaches: the Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI) and the LVI-IPCC approach. Primary data obtained from household surveys were used to calculate the vulnerability indices, avoiding reliance on secondary data and climate models. The results show that Dhulasar and Dalbuganj unions are extremely vulnerable, with livelihood strategies, water, natural hazards and climate variability, and health being the major contributing factors. The exposure to natural hazards and climate variability is highest in Dhulasar and Dalbuganj, while Lata Chapli union exhibits the lowest adaptive capacity. Interestingly, the LVI and LVI-IPCC approaches yield opposite results, with Dalbuganj being extremely vulnerable and Lata Chapli being the least vulnerable. Exposure to natural hazards and climate variability, sensitivity to health, food and nutrition, water, and land, and adaptive capacity in terms of socio-demographic factors and livelihood strategies were found to influence vulnerability. The study suggests that policy measures should focus on reducing sensitivity, improving adaptive capacity, and addressing the specific needs of marginalized groups in coastal communities. Enhancing socio-demographic profiles, social networks, and diversification of livelihood activities are recommended for reducing vulnerability. Further research is needed to better understand and address the impacts of climate variability and change on coastal livelihood systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000302/pdfft?md5=00428b5eca728c9bdcbd6308847eb348&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000302-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140824839","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}

{"title":"Energy poverty in EU: Using regional climatic conditions and incidence of electricity prices to map vulnerability areas across 214 NUTS2 European regions","authors":"Andreoni Valeria","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100146","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100146","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The rising political instabilities and the associated variations in energy prices have recently amplified the existing debate on energy poverty. Generally defined as the inability to afford enough energy services to live a comfortable life, energy poverty represents a serious issue affecting multidimensional elements of life. To address disparities and to achieve the 7th goal of the 2030 Agenda, EU Member States have been requested to track energy poverty within the National Energy and Climate Plans. The lack of a commonly adopted methodological approach makes however difficult to compare the energy poverty risks. To address this gap, this paper proposes, for the first time, an energy poverty vulnerability indicator that can be used to investigate the differences across NUTS2 European regions. By combining data on regional income, electricity prices and local climatic conditions, the proposed methodology uses a threshold approach to maps vulnerability risks for the years 2010 and 2020. Results show that in 2010 15% of the considered households classified into the highest vulnerability risk and by 2020, 40 additional regions moved to a higher category of risk. Mediterranean countries have been the most affected with extensive climatic and price incidence changes. The proposed indicator can support the definition of policies aiming to reduce regional disparities and improve the average European trends.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000247/pdfft?md5=dce44050c54aa65ff3a23e271c95c77b&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000247-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140765736","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}

{"title":"Japanese investment for skills development program in attaining sustainable employability: The case of Bangladesh","authors":"Md. Jahangir Alam ,&nbsp;Keiichi Ogawa ,&nbsp;Abu Hossain Muhammad Ahsan","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100150","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Bangladesh lacks many trained workers. The existing technical training curriculums are not advanced enough to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target for human capital development. Therefore, it is a time demand to address the need for skilled human resources. Japan prioritizes Bangladesh's skills development sector to assist the nation in achieving SDGs and importing skilled labor forces into Japan's already declined labor market. This research focuses on the prospects and challenges of Japanese investments in skills development projects in Bangladesh. To this end, this research adopts a need-based approach to prepare a uniform framework for skills development in Bangladesh and finds several challenges in the process of skills development programs that influence the development partners. This study employs a mixed-method research approach. This study finds that the trainees consider the skills development programs significant for their future careers and sustainable employability, although they face various challenges, such as a lack of qualified instructors and training programs and lack of training equipment apart from their lower socio-economic backgrounds. This study especially highlights the significance of Japanese investment in skills development programs in Bangladesh to meet human capital development requirements and develop a framework for sustainable accomplishment of those programs to achieve the SDGs. Finally, this research makes some policy recommendations for relevant stakeholders, including development partners engaged in skills development programs in Bangladesh.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000284/pdfft?md5=5612fac33f2d4100b3259fe335767b51&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000284-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140651007","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}

{"title":"What can nudging offer to reduce workplace sexual harassment? A conceptual review","authors":"Yassin Denis Bouzzine ,&nbsp;Ion Tabiica ,&nbsp;Nadine Galandi ,&nbsp;Rainer Lueg","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100149","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100149","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines workplace sexual harassment and looks into why workplace sexual harassment remains a pervasive, underappreciated problem in the United States and outlines the limitations of existing controls of sexual harassment at work, namely sexual harassment policies, awareness training, and grievance procedures. Based on these limitations, it reflects on the current definitions of sexual harassment and introduces the concept of nudging to support the preventive and corrective measures already adopted to reduce workplace sexual harassment. It provides a conceptual framework of nudges that might be effective in reducing incidents of sexual harassment. The eight types of nudges that form the framework are grouped into five overall categories depending on who a nudge is for: top, middle, and line management, harassers, observers, victims, and society. This paper is first to conceptualize nudging as a supportive mechanism to traditional management control systems in the context of workplace sexual harassment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000272/pdfft?md5=f90524b56f77404f1c8974df167cbdd5&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000272-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140794059","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}

{"title":"The development, changes and responses of the European Union carbon border adjustment mechanism in the context of global energy transition","authors":"Xiaobin Pan,&nbsp;Shangwen Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100148","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Energy production and consumption is the primary source of global carbon emissions. In order to achieve the goal of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) in the Paris Agreement, countries around the world have set off an upsurge of energy transition. The EU has ambitious INDCs. The Energy crisis has made it accelerate the energy transition, thus promoting the development of its circular economy. However, the EU focuses on carbon leakage during this process. To address this issue and maintain the competitiveness of EU industries during the transition, the EU proposed the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). The EU proposed the background and development process of the CBAM, and organized the core content of the tripartite plan and final bill of the European Commission, European Parliament, and European Council. What's more, the framework system of the CBAM is clarified, and further analysis is conducted on the future development of CBAM of the EU based on various factors. In response to the new development of the CBAM, it is suggested that developing countries should adhere to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities on the international front and attempt to build and improve a carbon market system to partially offset carbon tariffs. Finally, we should strengthen the research on the response plan of the EU CBAM and establish an effective communication mechanism with the EU, in order to better cope with the impact of the CBAM on the trade of developing countries in the future.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000260/pdfft?md5=61bc5b72b65559656f66795e2589321e&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000260-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140646911","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}

{"title":"The mitigating role of financial development on renewable energy in Ghana","authors":"Samuel Amoako","doi":"10.1016/j.wds.2024.100145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100145","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The generation of electricity in Ghana has seen an unimpressive decline in the component of renewable energy (hydro) in favor of the use of thermal plants powered by hydrocarbon fuels. Given the importance of renewable energy and its daily discussion on the global scale in relation to achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 by 2030, it is important to understand how a key influencing factor like financial development among others can shed light on the current situation and guide in policy implications. Using annual series data from 1972 to 2021, results from the fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) and the canonical cointegration (CCR) methods reveal that, a robust financial system seems to be counterproductive for renewable energy generation due to perceived risks. The study recommends a specialized green financing scheme designed to handle renewable energy generation's risks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101285,"journal":{"name":"World Development Sustainability","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000235/pdfft?md5=4e77311d6df2fdbe85b77f38cc5ae827&pid=1-s2.0-S2772655X24000235-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140551206","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}