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{"title":"Exploring managerial intentions to implement ESG Activities: The role of facilitating conditions in the UTAUT2 framework","authors":"Edin Hrnjica ,&nbsp;Ljiljan Veselinovic,&nbsp;Merima Cinjarevic","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100126","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100126","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This research investigates the factors influencing managers' willingness to adopt Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) practices in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As these practices are becoming increasingly important, it is crucial to understand what factors can increase managers' acceptance of them for both theory and practice. Our analysis was conducted on a sample of 306 managers from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Anchored in the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2), we tested three models to identify predictors of intention to adopt ESG practices and to explore the moderating role of facilitating conditions (FC) on the relationship between performance expectancy and intention to adopt ESG practices. Our findings indicate that there are consistent factors that predict the managers’ intention of adopt ESG practices, including Performance Expectancy (PE), Social Influence (SI), and Habitual Tendency (HT). We found that the FC negatively moderate the link between PE and intention to adopt social and governance practices within ESG framework. We argue that the nature of each domain within ESG, ceiling effect, and resource constraints and trade-offs might be possible explanations for these results.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"16 10","pages":"Article 100126"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1757780224003378/pdfft?md5=2ba04c17f23ca8bac20b1defbe984a9e&pid=1-s2.0-S1757780224003378-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141985779","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":"Carbon taxation and related vulnerability of Spanish urban and rural households in a regional level","authors":"Marina Sánchez-Serrano ,&nbsp;Jorge Zafrilla ,&nbsp;Mateo Ortiz ,&nbsp;Guadalupe Arce","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100123","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100123","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Consumer decisions are essential in reducing CO₂ emissions released by human activities. Climate policies aimed at reducing consumers' carbon footprint require societal embrace and leaving no one behind; however, they often negatively affect low-income families and rural households with limited access to low-carbon consumption choices. In this paper, we estimate households' carbon footprint in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) by urban-rural location and expenditure attributes and simulate the impacts of a carbon tax on the disposable income of different types of households. A novel multiregional input-output model is proposed to assign global carbon footprints to products (instead of industries), leading us to identify the main driving goods in the carbon footprint of each type of household, evaluating the household's vulnerability after carbon taxation. Our findings suggest that high-spending households would face the taxation strongest effects on car fuels and transport services, as they would have an impact of 2 % of their total expenditure by the taxation on these products, while this effect in lower-income households would be 0,75 %. A tax on basic housing services (electricity and heating) would have a regressive impact, undermining the consumption level of vulnerable households. They would be affected by 2,5 %, while higher income households would spend between 1 and 1,5 % of their total expenditure on paying the carbon tax on this product. This heterogeneity across households leads us to recommend taxes and compensation mechanisms charged on adequate products to reduce the carbon footprint of households while avoiding the regressivity of climate policies and reducing urban-rural inequalities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"16 10","pages":"Article 100123"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1757780224003342/pdfft?md5=b0b97f61decd6d2d4d8fc89c641653fa&pid=1-s2.0-S1757780224003342-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141963043","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":"","authors":"Amitrajeet A. Batabyal","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100116","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100116","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"16 10","pages":"Article 100116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1757780224003184/pdfft?md5=baae1db24755ec8bc7457da2a29dff92&pid=1-s2.0-S1757780224003184-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141961120","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 economic impacts of the rural credit: An analysis of the Brazilian National Family Farming Strengthening Program by biome","authors":"Rafael Faria de Abreu Campos ,&nbsp;Édson Paulo Domingues ,&nbsp;Aline Souza Magalhães ,&nbsp;Tarik Marques do Prado Tanure","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100115","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100115","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study aims to assess the economic impacts of the National Family Farming Strengthening Program (Pronaf) in the various Brazilian biomes. The impacts at the sectoral, regional, and macroeconomic levels, arising from increases in rural credit to farmers in Brazilian territory – family and non-family farmers separately considered –, are carried out using the Computable General Equilibrium model, TERM-Biomas, specially built for analysis of the rural sectors in the Brazilian biomes. The key conclusion is that all regions of the model win, in the most varied magnitudes. Regions with higher participation in family farming production earn more than others. Up to the year 2020, some regions – from the Caatinga biome – show comparative losses. This may be because traditionally family farming regions would have their demands for primary factors more drastically increased, investments and jobs migrate, for example, from those regions of Caatinga. When the results are analyzed in a wider time limit, however, the results suggest general gains. The more vulnerable and specialized in family farming sectors are the regions, the greater the gains.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"16 10","pages":"Article 100115"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1757780224003172/pdfft?md5=a7b13fecc1c7158278e4697c35815ccc&pid=1-s2.0-S1757780224003172-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141961119","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":"Proposing Sustainable Development and Growth Strategies for CIS-7 Countries by Investigating the Persistence of Consumption-Based and Production-Based CO2 Emissions","authors":"İlkay Güler ,&nbsp;Yunus Emre Aydinbaş","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100114","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100114","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The increase in production is of great importance for economic growth. Energy is an irreparable input for economic growth. Besides, the basic routine activities of human beings, such as transportation, cooking, and heating, cannot be managed without energy. However, in countries that produce using fossil energy resources, CO₂ emissions are increasing day by day. Another critical factor that increases economic growth is the increase in exports. The increase in exports of products produced using fossil energy resources leads to increased CO₂ emissions and the environment becomes unsustainable. On the other hand, the future depletion of fossil energy resources will deal a resounding blow to the economies of the countries that export fossil energy and have high energy intensity. Within this scope, renewable energy is an essential and valid option to mitigate the harmful effects of environmental degradation and provide clean energy for sustainable development, economic growth initiatives, and the standard life of humans. Therefore, the study aims to investigate the persistence of consumption-based and production-based CO₂ emissions belonging to CIS countries between 1991 and 2019 by using ADF and FADF unit root tests. The test evidence plays a vital role in determining the sustainable development and renewable energy transition policies of CIS-7 countries with high energy intensity, the dominant role of fossil energy. As a result of the estimations, the production-based CO₂ emissions are applicable to implement the policies in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine. In contrast, the consumption-based CO₂ emissions of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine are persistently influenced by the policies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"16 10","pages":"Article 100114"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1757780224003160/pdfft?md5=37331c6459f4427f3c0655af663309c1&pid=1-s2.0-S1757780224003160-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141954364","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":"Inter-regional graduate migration, subjective expectations, and human capital mobility","authors":"Andrea C Blanco-Moreno","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100110","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100110","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The ability to attract and retain human capital is critical for regional development. In Colombia, in two regions that are the principal mining royalties receptors, 60 % of people are considered poor. One reason is the misallocation of royalties, caused by the poor design of the project funded by royalties. Consequently, a source of misallocation could be that the royalty receptors lack human capital that could design and supervise royalties-funded development projects. Meanwhile, 25 % of Colombian university graduates struggle to find their first job. One solution to this twofold problem is to promote the migration of recent college graduates. But what motivates the migration from big cities to less developed ones? The intention of migration cannot be studied using data of actual migration and requires data on expectations to include uncertainty in the decision-making process. Using a unique survey on subjective expectations, meaning asking about intentions of migration in a probabilistic form. I study the determinants of the probability of migration intention of 747 future college graduates in Colombia,from the capital city to three mining royalties’ receptors cities. I collect probabilistic expectations about migration, availability of amenities in the origin and arrival destinations, and expected income. The results show that the difference between the subjective expectations of expected income and amenities (access to schools, roads and hospitals) at source and at the arrival destination together with a higher level of trust in others, increases the probability of migration to less developed areas in Colombia. In contrast, preference for present returns, being a student with top grades, or from a privileged economic background decreases this probability. Data collection on migration expectations for these groups will contribute to designing public policy interventions to tackle first-graduate employment and promote institutional capabilities in less developed areas.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"16 10","pages":"Article 100110"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1757780224003123/pdfft?md5=8df606e629579fefd6b34ec3c4ee6488&pid=1-s2.0-S1757780224003123-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141638011","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":"Socioeconomic and territorial dynamics of bullfighting in contemporary Spain","authors":"Vicente Royuela ,&nbsp;Carlos M. Belloni","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100077","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100077","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores the territorial, economic, and social factors that affect the evolution of bullfighting festivities in Spain. Using data from the Ministry of Culture and Sports, we employ panel data regression models to analyze bullfighting celebrations from 2011 to 2019 before the COVID pandemic. The main findings include the significant role of public interest and attendance in bullfights, the heterogeneity of regions responses to the decline in festivities, and the influence of rural depopulation on this decline. Additionally, political factors, particularly support for animal welfare parties, negatively affect bullfighting celebrations, while economic indicators show no significant impact during the study period.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"16 7","pages":"Article 100077"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1757780224002063/pdfft?md5=604a0fa8f8a33362bd53d0535883a68b&pid=1-s2.0-S1757780224002063-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141401618","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":"Challenges in urban-rural food supply chains for disaster resilience in Nepal","authors":"Namita Poudel,&nbsp;Rajib Shaw","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100073","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100073","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Urban and rural areas are interconnected in fulfilling the food demands of both sides. However, both unprecedented and predictable disasters are disrupting the food service. To address this issue, this paper discusses the need and significance of urban-rural coordination, which promotes use of local resources, solving direct and indirect problems related to food. A smooth food system chain with adequate storage capacity, transportation, and food quality is essential not only during normal days but also throughout times of disaster. Therefore, this research aims to identify the factors disrupting the food system chain in the mid-hill area of Nepal. It explores the interconnection between urban and rural areas in maintaining the food system chain and investigates ways to improve it from a disaster resilience perspective. Kathmandu and Melamchi, urban and rural areas in Nepal are taken for the study. After completing interviews with disaster victims, focus group discussion was conducted with farmers, municipality government officers, disaster experts, and local people. Additionally, further discussion held with traders who are mainly involved in the food system chain from the disaster resilience perspective. Grains, milk, and vegetables primarily flow from rural areas to Kathmandu, while manufactured goods are predominantly supplied from urban areas. The food supply chain services are generally disrupted every monsoon season due to floods and were severely affected during the 2021 flood in the Melamchi area. The results of the study are clustered into five categories, depending on the city region's food system cycle.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"16 8","pages":"Article 100073"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1757780224001987/pdfft?md5=9dc147c9ce72a1e799a22f59a4ab679e&pid=1-s2.0-S1757780224001987-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141389859","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":"Geographies and determinants of rent burden: A regional economic analysis of the U.S. metropolitan landscape","authors":"Mikhail Samarin ,&nbsp;Madhuri Sharma ,&nbsp;Nicholas N. Nagle","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100072","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100072","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rental housing affordability, a growing topic in interdisciplinary scholarship, remains relatively peripheral to geography and regional science. This article focuses on geographies of rent burden and factors affecting it at the metropolitan level in the conterminous U.S. By conducting cartographic and regression analyses, we examine relationships between rent burden and numerous related aspects derived from scholarly work. Besides offering a new measurement of rent burden, we put a special emphasis on regional economic specializations as potential predictors of rent burden’s intensity. The relationship between these two have not been studied in existing scholarship. Our results indicate that the most consistent determinants of more intense rent burden in numerous models include higher housing values and poverty rates, substantial shares of racial/ethnic minorities, and family structure represented by lower percent married. Regarding economic specializations, we find that manufacturing is a strong predictor of lower rent burden in most models, with its effect demonstrating an opposite direction—higher rent burden occurs in metropolises <em>not</em> specializing in manufacturing. Simultaneously, metropolises with substantial concentrations of employment in (i) education and medicine and (ii) arts, entertainment, and recreation exhibit higher rent burden and most of these metropolises are mid- and small-sized.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"16 7","pages":"Article 100072"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1757780224001975/pdfft?md5=bfebdb058f64830ca459786a27ee917c&pid=1-s2.0-S1757780224001975-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141275271","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":"","authors":"Rody Putra Sartika ,&nbsp;Agus Sugiarto ,&nbsp;Reni Marlina","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"16 6","pages":"Article 100004"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1757780224000325/pdfft?md5=57de2fe45719d4e65108af3ad95cdc13&pid=1-s2.0-S1757780224000325-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141314044","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}