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{"title":"The support of Multilateral Development Banks to renewable energy projects in developing countries","authors":"Maria Basílio","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2263904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2263904","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractMultilateral Development Banks (MDBs) are extensively involved in the Paris Climate Agreement and play a key role in climate finance. However, the amounts recently channeled to carbon-based projects may raise doubts about this involvement. This empirical approach seeks to explore whether MDB participation actually favors renewable energy projects in developing countries, aligning with their commitment to this Agreement. An empirical analysis is conducted to explore the determinants of MDBs’ participation in energy infrastructure projects developed in 64 countries using data from 2011 to 2018 obtained from the World Bank’s Private Participation in Infrastructure Database. The results reveal that MDBs’ participation is higher in renewable energy projects, confirming their commitment to clean energy; however, this is not confirmed by the amount of financial support provided.Keywords: climate financelimited dependent variable modelsMultilateral Development Banksrenewable energy projectsJEL classification codes: H54Q54F35 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Supplemental dataSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2263904.Notes1 MDBs are international financial institutions that assist developing countries in reducing poverty, fostering economic growth, and tackling global challenges. MDBs operate as cooperative entities owned and funded by member countries. Their development finance activities include concessional and non-concessional loans, leveraging capital, risk mitigation, co-financing, technical assistance and policy advise.2 The MDBs included in this analysis are the World Bank Group, the European Investment Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Islamic Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Bank and the new MDBs established in 2015: the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (initiated by China) and the New Development Bank (BRICS bank).3 We follow the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and classify hydropower as a renewable source. The largest sources of GHG emissions for hydropower are the construction of the facilities, and biomass decomposition from reservoir flooding (Steinhurst, Knight, and Schultz Citation2012) but large hydropower plants produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions when compared with fossil fuel-based plants.4 In the PPI database, government support may be Direct support - capital subsidy, revenue subsidy or in-kind (lands, for instance); Or Indirect support, in the form of guarantees (e.g., payment guarantee, debt guarantee, revenue guarantee, exchange-rate guarantee).5 Because only the percentage of private participation in each project is available on the database, it is not possible to use the financial amounts provided by the private sector.6 Variables such as “control of corruption” and “government effective","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136099278","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":"Regulating eco-innovation in the European Union","authors":"Alberto Quintavalla, Orlin Yalnazov","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2263636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2263636","url":null,"abstract":"This article develops a framework to guide the EU in the choice of legal form for the regulation of eco-innovation. The framework distinguishes between uncertain and risky applications of eco-innovation. An uncertain eco-innovation, which poses an incalculable risk, is more difficult to regulate because the EU legislator needs to accumulate information in order to plug gaps in knowledge. In that context, directives are superior to regulations because they are conducive to experimentation and information accumulation. Risky eco-innovations, conversely, should be covered by regulations; otherwise, the cost of legal heterogeneity would outweigh the benefits of information accumulation. We also show that there are ways of conceptualising the choice between directives and regulations that are more productive than the sovereignty-versus-competition model that predominates in current legal thinking.","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136208781","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":"Challenges in managing public space: insights from public space management practice","authors":"Mozafar Said, Barbara Tempels","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2263635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2263635","url":null,"abstract":"Public spaces face long-term challenges, such as energy transition and climate adaptation, which involve a range of adaptations in the existing public spaces. Simultaneously, managers face short-term everyday challenges. This article explores how Dutch public space managers deal with short- and long-term challenges that affect the effectiveness of public space management. This qualitative study based on exploratory interviews with managers provides insight into the obstacles public space managers face in dealing with these long-term and short-term challenges. The study found four characteristics of the current practice: (1) the sectoral division between design and management, (2) the conflict-and-action approach, (3) the asset-based focus, and (4) the linear approach. Together, these characteristics prevent the current practice from effectively facing both long-term and short-term challenges. The findings provide a starting point to think about how public space management could be reorganized to ensure the quality and functionality of public space in the future.","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136295526","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":"A framework for assessing the sustainable transition potential of municipal climate change mitigation plans","authors":"Carsten Nico Hjortsø, Brigitte Epprecht, Teis Hansen","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2260090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2260090","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractLocal climate change mitigation plans can be essential in enabling sustainability transitions at the municipality level. However, existing frameworks for assessing the quality of climate plans inadequately address their potential to foster sustainability transitions. We develop an assessment framework consisting of indicators and associated questions by integrating elements of the transition management framework with essential quality dimensions of climate plans and planning processes identified through a literature review. We illustrate and validate the assessment framework by applying it to the climate plans of three medium-sized cities in Switzerland. Our findings demonstrate that the local climate change mitigation plans performed well regarding the tactical and operational indicators but were less optimal concerning strategic and reflexive indicators. Nevertheless, the transition management framework provided a useful framework contributing to a comprehensive and systemic assessment highlighting the importance of stakeholder involvement, inter-sectoral coordination, and monitoring and evaluation as a means for social learning.Keywords: Climate change mitigationlocal climate action plansplan qualityassessment frameworktransition management AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions.Disclosure statementThe authors report there are no competing interests to declare.Notes1 Sustainability transitions refer to radical changes towards greater sustainability in central systems of production and consumption, which are needed to address the multiple current environmental crises, including climate change and biodiversity loss. Importantly, such changes necessitate not only new technologies, but also modifications in infrastructures, consumption patterns, rules and regulations, business models, etc. (Köhler et al. Citation2019). ‘Transitions management’ has long been recognized as a useful framework for understanding and influencing these complex long-term changes needed for cities to become sustainable in the future (Loorbach Citation2007; Loorbach, Frantzeskaki, and Avelino Citation2017), including the type of processes that are needed to engage in substantial local mitigation of GHG emissions.2 Due to the, in general, limited literature on LCAP quality, we have in addition to the dedicated mitigation action plans also included relevant studies that assess LCAP covering both mitigation and adaptation. In such cases, we have analysed the study with regard to the mitigation planning related findings.Additional informationFundingTeis Hansen acknowledges funding from the Research Council of Norway through FME NTRANS, grant 296205.","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135591021","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":"How does digital finance accelerate low-carbon development: evidence from the Yellow River Basin, China","authors":"Qingfang Liu, Wei Wu, Jinping Song, Teqi Dai, Huaxiong Jiang, Jianhui Xu, Jianmei Li, Huiran Han, Mengqi Li","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2258449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2258449","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractDigital finance has become one of the most important factors that drives the transformation toward a low-carbon economy. Although some researchers have examined the association between digital finance and low-carbon development, the indirect effect and asymmetric effect of digital finance on low-carbon development still needs to receive more attention. Taking 71 cities in the Yellow River Basin as an empirical area, this study analyzed how digital finance accelerates low-carbon development, proving that digital finance can directly boost low-carbon development. Moreover, technological innovation and industrial upgrading driven by digital finance can also reduce carbon emission intensity and accelerate low-carbon development. Furthermore, the results of the asymmetric test indicate that cities with higher carbon emission intensity have a more substantial positive influence. The recommendations presented in this study are beneficial for accelerating the progress of low-carbon development in the Yellow River Basin.Keywords: digital financelow-carbon developmentthe mediation effectYellow River Basin Disclosure statementThe authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication in this article.Supplemental dataSupplemental data for this article can be accessed here.Additional informationFundingThis study was mainly supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (No. 2019QZKK0406), and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 42271224 and 42171170).","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135536261","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":"Can civilized city construction facilitate green total factor productivity? A quasi-natural experiment based on China’s pilot civilized city","authors":"Lulu Zhao, Jingjing Ye","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2259602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2259602","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis paper uses a double difference method to examine the impact of civilized city policies on urban green total factor productivity and its mechanism of action using Chinese city-level data from 2005 to 2021. The study finds that the civilized city policy promotes urban green development. The mechanism test finds that the civilized city policy achieves urban green development by strengthening government investment in environmental governance, optimizing industrial structure upgrading, and promoting urban innovation. The moderating mechanism finds that economic growth targets and environmental regulations influence the green growth effect of civilized city policy. Heterogeneity analysis found that the green growth effect of civilized cities has an asymmetric relationship in the east-central region, in areas with lower population density, and was more pronounced in cities with high human capital, high local government financial autonomy, and high levels of information technology.Keywords: Civilized cities policygreen total factor productivitygovernment actionquasi-natural experiments Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816757","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":"Structural drivers of sustainability and resilience strategies in small(ish) cities: a text analysis of comprehensive planning in Indiana","authors":"Aaron Deslatte, Juwon Chung, Eric Stokan","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2240951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2240951","url":null,"abstract":"For decades, the world’s largest and most globally significant cities have been pledging to tackle climate change, resilience, sustainable development and social injustices through a proliferating ecology of plans. Far less is understood about what is happening in smaller communities. This study employs an institutional lens and automated text analysis to examine the resilience and sustainability “shared strategies” embedded in local land-use plans, which are used in many countries to guide the spatial distribution of development in metropolitan regions. We find evidence that communities that are more highly educated and less racially diverse focus more on “quality of life” amenities within their plans, such as pedestrian resources and environmental amenities. By contrast, communities that are more racially diverse focus greater attention on green stormwater infrastructure to address flooding. Plan “quality” is negatively associated with an amenities’ focus. Taken together, these findings suggest comprehensive land-use planning is both a means for reflecting exclusivity as well as pursuing community needs or goals related to specific resilience or sustainability themes.","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134913077","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":"Evaluation and comparison of energy tax, resource tax and air pollution tax: an environmental-DSGE model","authors":"Bowen Xiao, Xiaodan Guo, Fangqiu Xu","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2244670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2244670","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46654680","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":"Towards a low-carbon economy: how does green credit affect carbon productivity?","authors":"Tao Lin, Ling Zhang, D. Xia, Dequn Zhou, Jianglong Li","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2245967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2245967","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41685359","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":"How do outsourcing services affect agricultural eco-efficiency? Perspectives from farmland scale and technology substitution","authors":"Peiwen Zhang, Hua Lu, Xianhui Geng, Yijing Chen","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2246170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2246170","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46748191","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}