{"title":"Sustainable consumption and production: a conceptual framework and agenda for research","authors":"T. Moyo, C. Ngwakwe","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2020.10030416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2020.10030416","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel multidimensional conceptual framework for achieving sustainable consumption and production. The paper adopts a qualitative approach through literature and theoretical reviews. The paper argues that while current research on SCP is dominated by a market-oriented philosophical configuration, the quest for sustainability has to integrate non-market considerations, which drives consumerism. After exploring the theoretical dimensions and the literature review, the paper leans on these to develop a new framework, which this paper refers to as 'multidimensional framework for sustainable consumption and production'; this is followed by a proposal of five new research models for further researching of sustainable sourcing of materials, sustainable production, sustainable consumption, sustainable distribution and sustainable waste management. The suggested framework and the five models provide new insight for improved policy and practice. This paper contributes new framework and models, which is absent in the literature.","PeriodicalId":35060,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Green Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41352437","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}
{"title":"Sustainability and environmental stewardship: empirical analysis of selected composite indexes","authors":"J. Pillarisetti, R. Lawrey","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2020.10030410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2020.10030410","url":null,"abstract":"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.","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":"43183897","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}
{"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}
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}
N. Frolenkova, A. Rokochinskiy, P. Volk, Andrii Shatkovskyі, N. Prykhodko, R. Tykhenko, I. Openko
{"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}
{"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}
{"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}
{"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}
{"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}
Ahmed Malumfashi Halliru, Nanthakumar Loganathan, N. Sethi, A. G. Hassan
{"title":"FDI inflows, energy consumption and sustainable economic growth for ECOWAS countries: the pollution haven hypothesis approach","authors":"Ahmed Malumfashi Halliru, Nanthakumar Loganathan, N. Sethi, A. G. Hassan","doi":"10.1504/ijge.2020.10034342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijge.2020.10034342","url":null,"abstract":"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.","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":"66808713","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}