Why there is no such thing as a painless transition
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Highlighting domestic benefits and enhancing international support are the boost developing countries need to reduce their emissions
Energy, Policy Design
Boosting Southeast Asia’s cross-border electricity trade
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Southeast Asian countries should focus on bilateral power purchase agreements and large-scale investments in solar and wind power to boost regional electricity trade
Rethinking electricity trade in the Greater Mekong Subregion
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Boosting cross-border electricity trade offers an important way for the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries to improve their ability to meet the region’s increasing electricity demand in an economically advantageous, environmentally sustainable, and socially just manner. Regional interconnectivity could also result in more stable and efficient grid systems due to geographical diversification of electricity generation.
Regional trade integration and its relation to income and inequalities among Tanzanian marine dagaa fishers, processors and traders
Addressing plastic bags consumption crises through store monetary and non-monetary interventions in South Africa
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This research analyses the impact of retailer interventions focusing on the promotion of reusable bags to reduce plastic bag consumption. For this purpose, retail outlet data for March 2018–February 2020 was used. The retail outlet data was analyzed using a panel fixed effects model to evaluate the impact of three treatments on plastic and reusable bag consumption in South Africa.
The announcement effect: Early warnings of future thresholds under different framing and risk contexts.
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Book Title: Behavioral Economics and the Environment
Edition:1st Edition
Imprint: Routledge
eBook: ISBN9781003172741
Sanctioned Quotas Versus Information Provisioning for Community Wildlife Conservation in Zimbabwe: A Framed Field Experiment Approach
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AbstractWe investigate the behavioural responses of natural common-pool resource users to three policy interventions—sanctioned quotas, information provisioning, and a combination of both. We focus on situations in which users find utility in multiple resources (pastures and wild animal stocks) that all stem from the same ecosystem with complex dynamics, and management could trigger a regime shift, drastically altering resource regrowth. We performed a framed field experiment with 384 villagers from communities managing common-pool wildlife in Zimbabwe.
Environmental sustainability in South Africa: Understanding the criticality of economic policy uncertainty, fiscal decentralization, and green innovation
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South Africa, like most developing nations, is confronted with choosing between the need to advance their economy and the need to protect the environment. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs-7, 11, 12 & 13) provide a strong foundation for this investigation. To this end, the current research investigates the combined impacts of economic policy uncertainty, fiscal decentralization, and green innovation on environmental sustainability for the instance of South Africa with yearly frequency data from 1960 to 2020.