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Asheim, Geir B., and John M. Hartwick. "Anomalies in green national accounting." Ecological Economics 70, no. 12 (October 2011): 2303–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.06.020.
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CAIRNS, ROBERT D. "Sustainability accounting and green accounting." Environment and Development Economics 5, no. 1 (February 2000): 49–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x00000048.
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Theoretical issues arising in maximin and utilitarian programs are considered in order to shed light on the merits of various concepts of income and types of environmental accounting as guides for environmental policy. The accounting prices for sustaining an economy obey Hartwick's rule but are inconsistent with the principles of national accounting. Moreover, they would be formidably difficult to calculate. Green net national product is an approximate index of welfare in a utilitarian economy which maximises future discounted utility flows. These conclusions hold even if underlying conditions are non-autonomous.JEL Codes: Q3, E2
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ASHEIM, GEIR B. "Green national accounting: why and how?" Environment and Development Economics 5, no. 1 (February 2000): 25–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x00000036.
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The present paper gives an overview of the theory of green national accounting. Three purposes of green national accounting (measurement of welfare equivalent income, sustainable income, or net social profit) and two measures (Green NNP and wealth equivalent income) are considered. Under the assumption of no exogenous technological progress, Green NNP is shown to equal wealth equivalent income if there is a constant interest rate or if consumption is constant. It is established as a general result that sustainable income [les ] wealth equivalent income [les ] welfare equivalent income, while Green NNP [les ] welfare equivalent income under no exogenous technological progress and a constant utility discount rate. Green NNP is shown to measure gross social profit rather than net social profit.
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Aronsson, Thomas, and Karl-Gustaf Löfgren. "Pollution tax design and `Green' national accounting." European Economic Review 43, no. 8 (August 1999): 1457–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0014-2921(98)00028-2.
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Asheim, Geir B. "Green national accounting with a changing population." Economic Theory 23, no. 3 (March 1, 2004): 601–1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00199-003-0385-0.
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Wang, Wen Xiu, En Jian He, and Xiao Long Zheng. "Construction of Green GDP Accounting System." Advanced Materials Research 971-973 (June 2014): 2301–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.971-973.2301.
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The traditional national economic accounting system and its main indicators GDP has certain limitations , including not reflect human resources, natural assets , such as real national wealth . Green GDP and real savings can be more realistically reflect a country's national wealth , and to measure the national and regional economic sustainability. This paper describes the system made of green GDP , according to the 2000 Chinese statistics , China's GDP over the correction , calculate green GDP over the country. On this basis , the paper finally the status quo of China's current economic development in a sustainable environment , in-depth analysis .
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Lawn, Philip. "A Stock-Take of Green National Accounting Initiatives." Social Indicators Research 80, no. 2 (August 16, 2006): 427–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-006-0003-1.
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VINCENT, JEFFREY R. "Green accounting: from theory to practice." Environment and Development Economics 5, no. 1 (February 2000): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x00000024.
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A decade has passed since Wasting Assets, a study of Indonesia by Robert Repetto and colleagues at the World Resources Institute, drew widespread attention to the potential divergence between gross and net measures of national income. This was by no means the first ‘green accounting’ study. Martin Weitzman, John Hartwick, and Partha Dasgupta and Geoffrey Heal had all conducted seminal theoretical work in the 1970s. But the World Resources Institute study demonstrated that data were adequate even in a developing country to estimate adjustments for the depletion of some important forms of natural capital and that the adjustments could be large relative to conventional, gross measures of national product and investment. The adjusted, net measures suggested that a substantial portion of Indonesia's rapid economic growth during the 1970s and 1980s was simply the unsustainable ‘cashing in’ of the country's natural wealth.
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Figueroa, Eugenio, Enrique Calfucura, and Javier Nuñez. "Green national accounting: the case of Chile's mining sector." Environment and Development Economics 7, no. 2 (April 25, 2002): 215–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x02000153.
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This article uses the welfare foundations for the usual net domestic product (NDP) income measure of the traditional National Accounts System (NAS) provided by Weitzman (1976, 2000), and the propositions of Hartwick (1993) and Hamilton (1994a) to correct this measure in order to obtain a green (sustainable) measure of economic income. It estimates green measures of the economic income of Chile's mining sector for the period 1977–1996. Different methodologies regarding the valuation of mining resources are employed, and exploration expenditures in the mining sector are included to empirically estimate the green measures of income. The results clearly show that the usual income measures of the traditional NAS overestimated the economic income generated by the Chilean mining sector during the period by 20–40 per cent, and its rate of growth by 3–20 per cent. Moreover, this overestimation has increased in recent years. These empirical results are remarkably similar when different methodologies are used to calculate green measures of the mining sector's economic income. The empirical evidence produced in this work, together with the one provided by other studies, leads to the conclusion that Chile's outstanding recent economic growth has not delivered the amount of economic income recorded by its NAS, since a significant part of it corresponded to depreciation of the country's natural capital.
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Cairns, Robert D. "Green accounting using imperfect, current prices." Environment and Development Economics 7, no. 2 (April 25, 2002): 207–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x02000141.
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Especially in developing countries, natural resources and the environment are not optimally managed. Even so, it is possible for green accounts based on current prices to measure the realized contributions of the environment to net product. The prices for use in the green accounts, however, are not necessarily shadow prices as would be recommended by cost–benefit analysis: in practice, green or comprehensive NNP is an approximation of an index of welfare. The fact that a linearization of generalized national income is used implies that disaggregated, partial-equilibrium models of resources are useful.
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Ying, Zhang, Minxue Gao, Junchang Liu, Yali Wen, and Weimin Song. "Green accounting for forest and green policies in China — A pilot national assessment." Forest Policy and Economics 13, no. 7 (September 2011): 513–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2011.06.005.
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Munshi Samaduzzaman, Munshi Samaduzzaman. "Carbon Accounting, Green Building and Sustainability: Effects on Gross National Product (GDP)." IOSR Journal of Business and Management 6, no. 5 (2013): 41–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.9790/487x-0654145.
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Asheim, Geir B. "Green national accounting for welfare and sustainability:A Taxonomy Of Assumptions And Results." Scottish Journal of Political Economy 50, no. 2 (May 2003): 113–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9485.5002001.
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LINTOTT, JOHN. "ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING AND WELFARE." Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 01, no. 02 (June 1999): 177–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1464333299000144.
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Recent years have seen attempts to design and implement environmental accounts for a number of countries, in response to perceived inadequacies in the existing national income accounts. This has led to much discussion of the feasibility and desirability of different approaches. This paper discusses three key issues: what use is envisaged for environmental accounts? What type of development are they intended to promote? And what view of consumption do they incorporate? The paper concludes that there is a strong case for developing environmental accounts in physical units as a tool of analysis, but that the case for developing accounts in money terms, on the other hand, largely with the aim of arriving at a "Green National Income", is quite weak. If the objective is to monitor progress towards sustainable welfare, the development of a set of social and environmental indicators would be preferable.
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Li, En Zhu, Jia Ming Liao, and Chang Lin Liu. "Research on Accounting System of Economical Assessment for Developing Green Materials in Packaging Enterprises." Key Engineering Materials 460-461 (January 2011): 656–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.460-461.656.
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Sustainable development is a basic national strategy. According to the internal demand of this strategy of sustainable development, this paper illustrates the influences of developing green materials to traditional system of accounting scientifically, these influences include need of green conception, adding the assets of natural resource and introducing the evaluation system with a method of Data Envelopment Analysis based on data of accounting for packaging enterprises. The aim of these researchs will be references for evaluating the economic effectiveness of resources invested in developing green materials for packaging enterprises.
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EKINS, PAUL. "FROM GREEN GNP TO THE SUSTAINABILITY GAP: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIC ACCOUNTING." Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 03, no. 01 (March 2001): 61–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1464333201000558.
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It is now generally accepted that the national accounts which give a comprehensive overview of national economic activity should also account for the way the economy uses, and often has a negative impact on, the environment. However, a number of areas of uncertainty and disagreement remain as to how this should be carried out, involving such issues as whether Net National Product (NNP) is a measure of production or of economic welfare, whether environmental damage can be adequately valued for the purpose of the national accounts, how the macroeconomic aggregates can be adjusted for environmental impacts, and the correct treatment of defensive expenditures. On the basis of a review of these and other issues, the paper's principal conclusion is that there is no methodologically sound and operationally feasible way of deriving a figure for Green GNP by subtracting figures pertaining to environmental degradation or depletion from GNP, but that it is possible to calculate a "sustainability gap" for the economy, in either physical or monetary terms. When expressed as a ratio of GDP, this gives an indicator of the "unsustainability intensity" of economic activity, comparable to the energy intensity indicator that is already in wide use.
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Rounaghi, Mohammad Mahdi. "Economic analysis of using green accounting and environmental accounting to identify environmental costs and sustainability indicators." International Journal of Ethics and Systems 35, no. 4 (November 11, 2019): 504–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijoes-03-2019-0056.
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Purpose Manufacturing and service companies are likely to make a variety of costs possible. Environmental costs are one of those costs. Environmental performance is one of the most important factors in assessing a company’s success. For environmental accounting, companies need to work together as teams of system designers, chemists, engineers, production managers, operators, employees, purchasing circle and accountants (those who may have never worked together before). Design/methodology/approach Nowadays, most of the companies are facing environmental issues and are seeking an appropriate way to report and disclose the information to the public. The environmental pollution issue is among the most important problems of today’s human society. Therefore, this is very important to use environmental accounting as an attempt towards protecting the environment. Findings Green accounting is a type of accounting that attempts to factor environmental costs into the financial results of operations. Apart from answering the question whether the economy has performed sustainably during one or more accounting periods, green accounting indicators [green gross domestic product (GDP)] can be used in policy formulation and evaluation. Green GDP calculations can contribute to raise awareness for sustainability concerns among national governments/policy-makers, who tend to concentrate on their countries’ fast economic development. Practical implications Environmental accounting can be applied to large and small companies in various industries, as well as in manufacturing or service sectors. Environmental accounting can be applied on a large or a smaller scale in a systematic manner for the required bases. Social implications Environmental accounting requires the collection of information from all the groups. People of various groups need to talk to each other to achieve a common vision and understanding of environmental accounting and to realize this vision. Originality/value Undoubtedly, to establish an ideal system of environmental accounting in the country, accountants can become a powerful forearm of the government regarding economical and financial controls. To achieve this goal, environmental accounting objectives and tasks should be identified and defined in detail, and the standards, rules and criteria should be grounded and codified based on reasonable and practical principles.
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Koowattanatianchai, Nattawoot, Michael B. Charles, and Ian Eddie. "Incentivising investment through accelerated depreciation: Wartime use, economic stimulus and encouraging green technologies." Accounting History 24, no. 1 (November 17, 2017): 115–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1032373217739921.
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This study looks at historical evidence of national jurisdictions from the First World War onwards using accelerated depreciation as a means to encourage investment, particularly in new technologies. In particular, it provides an overarching analysis of previous scholarly and technical literature on the implementation of these schemes. Overall, the study finds that approaches to the precise accounting methods used to encourage this innovation were dictated, in the main, by three predominant social discourses. In chronological order, these were national defence, economic growth and environmentalism. The historical evidence reveals a number of potential pitfalls associated with accelerated depreciation’s introduction, together with its more positive effects. Although the emphasis is on the historical application of accelerated depreciation schedules, the study reveals a number of problems associated with accelerated depreciation that should be borne in mind by future policymakers interested in the possibility of using accelerated depreciation to encourage investment.
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Melnyk, Tetiana, Nataliia Reznikova, and Oksana Ivashchenko. "PROBLEMS OF STATISTICAL STUDY OF “GREEN ECONOMICS” AND GREEN GROWTH POTENTIALS IN THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT." Baltic Journal of Economic Studies 6, no. 3 (August 5, 2020): 87–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/2256-0742/2020-6-3-87-98.
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The purpose of the research. The research subject purpose is theoretical and practical aspects of the statistical assessment of the green economy potential in the sustainable development context. The methods. The article is based on the categories of theoretical (hypothesis, concept, theory, problem) and empirical (facts, empirical summarizations, empirical dependences) level of the issue, distinctive features of which are: objectivity; categorical character; rationality; testability; high level of generalization; universality and use of special tools and methods of cognition. General scientific and special methods of research are used to achieve the article’s purpose and solve its problems, namely: methods of analysis, abstraction and synthesis, induction and deduction, and system structuring method; hypothetico-deductive method; method of historical and logical integrity; method of idealization; methods of classification and system generalization; statistical methods. Considering that further “greening” of socio-economic indicators constitutes a vital problem remaining on the agenda of global and national institutes of development, the article’s objective is to develop an integral approach to the revision of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) built by the UN approach, through comparing existing approaches to the statistical assessment of the green economy state and the green growth potential, taking into account the proposed energy indices and indicators. Results. It is demonstrated that because none of the integral indicators of “green economy” development has been widely adopted by now, national and international statistics have no grounds for separating green goods and services as a specific sector of the national economy. Practical implications. The System of Environmental- Economic Accounting (SEEA) has been adopted as a basic tool for the assessment of indicators reflecting the causal links between the economy and the environment. It is substantiated that most part of the data for measuring green growth processes has to be possibly collected by SEEA. Value/originality. The importance of the assessment of the dynamics of national economy greening is demonstrated, because this type of analysis enables one to assess the change in the environmental impact of the new economic model by analyzing the factors and identifying most effective methods for decreasing environmental pressures of economic activities. The advantage of such assessment is that it can be made on the basis of the available statistical data. Considering that energy indices and indicators are widely used in many international reporting systems to assess the state of green economy and the potential of green growth in the sustainable development context, we made an attempt to systematize all the indicators by the two main groups: direct and indirect. It is revealed that international organizations (ОЕСР, UNEP and the World Bank) attempt to unify the existing approaches in constructing their own algorithms for the assessment of “green growth”, in particular with the indicators of Sustainable Development Goals. At the same time, national statistical agencies attempt to build a set of statistical indicators for the assessment of green economy development as indicators of demand for green products. It is demonstrated that harmonized definitions of economic activities concerned with the green industry and green jobs and comparable key indicators, if used internationally, will enable for the statistical assessment of the green economic development in space and time.
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Wang, Hanyu. "Research on the Present Situation and Countermeasures of Environmental Accounting Information Disclosure of Listed Companies in China." Modern Management Forum 3, no. 2 (June 13, 2019): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/mmf.v3i2.1603.
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<p>The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) proposes that building an ecological civilization is the Millennium Plan for the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. After entering the industrial society, people abused unrestricted resources in their production activities and discharged highly polluting substances that seriously exceeded the standards, causing continuous environmental degradation. Environmental accounting is an emerging field of accounting, which balances economic and environmental development through the effective combination of accounting management and environmental economy. This paper discusses that in the specific application of China's environmental accounting, it can start from various aspects such as law, education, society and so on to better promote the healthy development of green economy.</p>
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Gissin, V. I., K. F. Mekhantseva, T. I. Putilina, and M. A. Surzhikov. "«Green Economy»: Emerging National Models, Estimations, Trends in EU and CIS." EUROPEAN RESEARCH STUDIES JOURNAL XXI, Special Issue 1 (November 1, 2018): 156–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.35808/ersj/1168.
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Park, Hi-Chun, and Martin K. Patel. "Naphtha storage fraction and green house gas emissions in the Korean petrochemical industry." Energy & Environment 29, no. 6 (March 29, 2018): 919–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0958305x18762446.
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This paper shows for a Korean case study how the naphtha storage fraction and CO2 emissions from naphtha use in the petrochemical industry can be estimated. We have used the Non-Energy use Emission Accounting Tables model to estimate CO2 emissions by subtracting the carbon stored in products from the total carbon input. We also value the country’s naphtha storage fraction by calculating carbon storage in basic chemicals. The naphtha storage fraction and associated CO2 emissions from non-energy use depend on the production and trade structure of a country. Therefore, it is reasonable for Korea (with its large production and net exports of chemicals) to estimate a county-specific storage fraction. The naphtha storage fraction estimated using the Non-Energy use Emission Accounting Tables model was over 90% in Korea between 2011 and 2015. It is much higher than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change default fraction of 75%. A revision of the naphtha storage fraction from 75 to 90% is proposed for Korea. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change allows countries to apply their own values that more accurately represent their country’s situation. The Korean government is advised to consider this finding in its national emission accounting.
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Schyns, Joep F., Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Martijn J. Booij, Rick J. Hogeboom, and Mesfin M. Mekonnen. "Limits to the world’s green water resources for food, feed, fiber, timber, and bioenergy." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 11 (February 25, 2019): 4893–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817380116.
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Green water––rainfall over land that eventually flows back to the atmosphere as evapotranspiration––is the main source of water to produce food, feed, fiber, timber, and bioenergy. To understand how freshwater scarcity constrains production of these goods, we need to consider limits to the green water footprint (WFg), the green water flow allocated to human society. However, research traditionally focuses on scarcity of blue water––groundwater and surface water. Here we expand the debate on water scarcity by considering green water scarcity (WSg). At 5 × 5 arc-minute spatial resolution, we quantify WFg and the maximum sustainable level to this footprint (WFg,m), while accounting for green water requirements to support biodiversity. We then estimate WSg per country as the ratio of the national aggregate WFg to the national aggregate WFg,m. We find that globally WFg amounts to 56% of WFg,m, and overshoots it in several places, for example in countries in Europe, Central America, the Middle East, and South Asia. The sustainably available green water flows in these countries are mostly or fully allocated to human activities (predominately agriculture and forestry), occasionally at the cost of green water flows earmarked for nature. By ignoring limits to the growing human WFg, we risk further loss of ecosystem values that depend on the remaining untouched green water flows. We emphasize that green water is a critical and limited resource that should explicitly be part of any assessment of water scarcity, food security, or bioenergy potential.
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Papadopoulos, Ioannis, Glykeria Karagouni, Marios Trigkas, and Zoi Beltsiou. "Mainstreaming green product strategies." EuroMed Journal of Business 9, no. 3 (August 26, 2014): 293–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/emjb-12-2013-0058.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the viability of the ecological furniture niche markets in Greece and Cyprus. More specifically, the authors investigate the current demand on ecological furniture, business strategy and planning in introducing eco-furniture products in Greek and Cypriot market. Finally, particular emphasis lays on the analysis of the barriers regarding decision making of Greek and Cypriot enterprises in order to incorporate ecological furniture into their current activities. Design/methodology/approach – Based on three distinguished hypotheses, the study seeks to draw attention to the critical factors which will impact decision making on such products development within the severe crisis. Using a prototype questionnaire, specifically structured for the aim of the research, the authors collected data from 36 Greek furniture enterprises, 25 Cypriot ones and 24 sectoral experts and relevant institutes in Greece and Cyprus. The questionnaires were selected in 2012, which were further elaborated and statistically analyzed with SPSS ver 17.0 after they were tested for their content and construct validity, managing to verify the hypotheses. Findings – The study reveals an increasing sensitivity for environmental issues and an effort to combine it with the emergent green markets. Green strategies can lead to significant competitive advantages for Greek and Cypriot furniture firms, especially after the recovery of the long-lasting recession. Furniture manufacturers believe that environmental issues are tightly related to consumer behaviors and social image, expose a real interest for the environment and consider green strategies as a major way to differentiate. The firms of the sample focus on raw material and processes adapted to suit environmental requirements. On the other hand, these issues constitute major barriers to apply such strategies together with business risk and the lack of knowledge regarding the requirements of environmental sustainability. Research limitations/implications – The research bears certain limitations such as the sample size and the fact that results are based mainly on perceptions of entrepreneurs/managers. Thus, there are certain questions on objectivity and generalizability. Furthermore, the market aspect is examined through the lens of the entrepreneurs and experts and not the consumers themselves. Practical implications – The present research explores the why and how furniture companies turn green constituting a useful basis to encourage close collaborations of companies to academia, design and research centers introducing eco-friendly practices and relevant innovations. It contributes to the field of sustainable entrepreneurship and the micro-level understanding of micro- and small companies’ reaction to this phenomenon focussing on the furniture industry. It can act as a catalyst toward the development of extensive networking among the furniture sector in both countries, which assists the diffusion of information as well as of a pertinent culture on eco-products and the development of new business models in the sector. Social implications – A major contribution is that it can constitute a useful basis for policy makers at governmental and institutional level in both Greece and Cyprus to propose solutions to critical issues such as sector survival, crisis – survival, unemployment, along with environmental care and awareness. It can further encourage close collaborations of companies to academia, design and research centers for the sustainable development of the sector through eco-friendly practices and relevant innovations. Originality/value – The research is the first to question the significance of eco-conscious strategies for furniture firms at national level in Greece and Cyprus. It seems that it has indirectly contributed to eco-furniture culture development, since it has caused a fruitful brainstorming among sectoral entrepreneurs and offers solutions to the existing “cul-de-sac.”
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Qi, Shanzhong, Zhilei Huang, and Lina Ji. "Sustainable Development Based on Green GDP Accounting and Cloud Computing: A Case Study of Zhejiang Province." Scientific Programming 2021 (September 23, 2021): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/7953164.
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Cloud computing is a supercomputing that integrates large-scale and scalable computing, storage, data, applications, and other distributed computing resources for collaborative work in the form of virtualization technology as the basis and the network as the carrier to provide infrastructure, platform, software, and other service’s model. Green GDP (GGDP) is an assessment indicator for regional sustainable development. Hence, the evaluation index on GGDP and greening of the national economic accounting system (SNA) are the hotspots of current ecological and economic studies. In the recent years, Zhejiang’s economy has achieved rapid development, and there are also problems of high input and high consumption of natural resources, thereby restricting its sustainable development. Based on the statistical data of Zhejiang Province during 2000–2017, the GGDP within the sustainable development context is calculated using the system of integrated environmental and economic accounting (SEEA). The results indicated the following: (1) The GGDP accounted for 79.29%–96.78% of Zhejiang's GDP during the study period, which showed volatility upward trend, resulting from the significant environmental protection and conservation of natural resources in the study area. But economic development was heavily dependent on resources, and the local government still strengthened the work of improving resources and environment. (2) The proportion of secondary industry in Zhejiang Province fluctuated downwards during the period of 2000–2017, and the tertiary industry showed a volatility upward trend, which exceeded the proportion of the secondary industry, indicating that Zhejiang Province is from an industry-led economy to a service-oriented economy change. (3) The GGDP of Zhejiang Province accounted for the highest proportion of GDP in 2008, resulting from the result of a combination of relevant national policies and international competitions.
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Oyedokun, Tunbosun, Colin Jones, and Neil Dunse. "The growth of the green office market in the UK." Journal of European Real Estate Research 8, no. 3 (November 2, 2015): 267–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jerer-05-2015-0025.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the experience of the UK office market in embracing green buildings. The empirical analysis considers the spatial pattern and growth of green buildings in cities since 1990. It examines the perceived industry wisdom that the establishment of a green premium for occupation is the key to greening the office stock. Design/methodology/approach – The paper begins by looking at the concept of a green office and then examines the evolving attitudes towards these offices and the issues for local market dynamics. The empirical analysis examines the current spatial pattern of green office buildings in the UK and then their impact on city office markets, where there is a major concentration. The latter part of the paper examines the growth of green offices since 1990. It begins with national trends and then examines the evolution of green development in individual cities. Findings – The initial adoption of green offices was slow. There has been a dramatic rise in green offices at the peak of the past decade’s development boom and in the immediate years that followed. Market acceptance of the importance of greenness appears still to be in the melting pot with limited market transactions since 2008. Green offices represent only 2.7 per cent of office buildings and 12 per cent of total space in the market. Most green offices are in the principal cities with the largest concentration in London. London represents the only potential locality where a green market could have been established so far. Practical implications – The paper provides an empirical assessment of the growth of green offices in the UK. Originality/value – This is the first paper to consider the development and scale of green offices in the context of local markets. It challenges the perceived wisdom that a green premium is central to the green transformation to date.
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Amoako, George Kofi, Robert Kwame Dzogbenuku, and Aidatu Abubakari. "Do green knowledge and attitude influence the youth's green purchasing? Theory of planned behavior." International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management 69, no. 8 (July 29, 2020): 1609–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijppm-12-2019-0595.
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PurposeThe paper examines the role of green knowledge and green attitude in purchasing behavior of the youth in Ghana. This study focuses on investigating how green value and green trust mediates the relationship between green knowledge and green attitude and purchase behavior of the youth in Ghana.Design/methodology/approachA quantitative approach was used. A total of 417 respondents were selected using convenient sampling method. Respondents were selected at leading shopping malls (grocery stores) in Accra the national capital of Ghana. Data was analyzed using the partial least square (PLS). Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to investigate the relationship among the variables.FindingsThe findings indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between green knowledge and purchasing behavior and also that there is a positive and significant relationship between green attitude and purchasing behavior. The findings revealed further that green trust do not mediate the relationship between green knowledge and purchasing behavior but green value does. The findings suggest that green value is more important in purchasing decision of the youth in Ghana than trust.Research limitations/implicationsResearch is essentially cross-sectional and longitudinal studies and can validate findings in the long term. The researchers admit that this research work which is carried out only in Ghana cannot be used to generalize an assumption for the entire youth in Africa and beyond. The sample size could be improved and the study could be conducted in other African countries for the purposes of comparison.Practical implicationsBusiness managers who are interested in sustainability of their firms and society at large can be guided by this insight that green knowledge and attitude influence purchase decisions of the youth. The findings that green trust do not mediate the relationship between green knowledge and purchasing behavior but green value does will guide managers on marketing and communication strategies especially toward the youth.Originality/valueThe model argues that the youth purchasing behavior is influenced by green knowledge and attitude. The model suggests that that green value is more important in purchasing decision of the youth in Ghana than trust. The model further points out that green trust do not mediate the relationship between green knowledge and purchasing behavior.
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Wang, Bing, Xiang Niu, and Wenjun Wei. "National Forest Ecosystem Inventory System of China: Methodology and Applications." Forests 11, no. 7 (July 4, 2020): 732. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f11070732.
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The technical framework of China’s Forest Ecosystem Inventory System (CFEIS) was recently developed based on ecological indicators assessed continuously in the field at forest ecosystem research stations and China’s Forest Resource Inventory (CNFRI) conducted every 5 years. The CFEIS consists of Field Observations (FOs)of ecological indicators and Distributed Valuations (DVs)of forest ecosystem services. The CFEIS can be used with the CNFRI to observe and monitor the ecological status of forests in China. This paper provides a brief review of the CFEIS by introducing its establishment and summarizing its application coupled with the CNFRI. For the FOs, the principles of the monitoring system layout are provided. The Chinese Forest Ecosystem Research Network (CFERN) was set up, which was the largest nationwide network of forest ecological stations in the world. The facilities and equipment were systematically assembled. The national forestry standards were drawn up for describing and measuring the ecological indicators of forest ecosystems, and these standards were used to specify data collection and transmission. For DVs, a distributed measurement method was created, and an indicator system of evaluation was studied and established, with the CNFRI integrated; a series of evaluation formulas and a package of models were also integrated with the DVs. The CFEIS integrated with the CNFRI estimates forest ecosystem services in China and the ecological benefits derived from the Grain for Green program, and a green national economic accounting system will provide an important case for monitoring and inventorying forest ecosystems at a national scale. The CFEIS can provide important experiences for forest ecosystem inventory systems in China and many other parts of the world.
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Pearce, David, Kirk Hamilton, and Giles Atkinson. "Measuring sustainable development: progress on indicators." Environment and Development Economics 1, no. 1 (February 1996): 85–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x00000395.
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ABSTRACTThe search for sustainability indicators should be guided by a theory of sustainable development (SD). In this paper we investigate two such theoretical frameworks and the indicators that they suggest. Indicators associated with weak sustainability are characterized by aggregative indicators such as green national income. We conclude, however, that a more promising offshoot of green accounting is measures of genuine savings (i.e. savings adjusted for loss of assets). To achieve SD, genuine savings rates must not be persistently negative. Strong sustainability indicators accord a more central role to the conservation of critical natural assets within the broader goal of prudently managing a nation's portfolio of assets over time. We discuss two approaches—carrying capacity and resilience—and conclude that, while measures of resilience are potentially attractive, more research is required regarding the resilience–SD link. However, an important conclusion that we can make is that, even in an economy operating under a strong sustainability regime, genuine savings are still key indicators of SD and are complementary to measures of changes in stocks of critical natural assets.
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Pimonenko, Tetiana. "A conceptual framework for development of Ukraine’s green stock market." Herald of Ternopil National Economic University, no. 4(90) (December 12, 2018): 69–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.35774/visnyk2018.04.069.
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The article considers the key drivers for boosting the green stock market in Ukraine. The latest development trends of the world green stock market are highlighted. Based on the analysis of national regulatory framework for stock market and foreign practice of developing the green stock market, essential mechanisms of the green stock market functioning are identitifed. After an in-depth review of contemporary research papers, an assumption is made that the green stock market is a set of specialized institutions which form a platform for the permanent circulation of green securities (issue, purchase and sale). It is emphasized that the green stock market should promote the circulation and efficient allocation of green financial resources, provide an opportunity to independently assess ecological and economic efficiency of entities, create conditions for fair competition in the market. Green finance is viewed as financial resources aimed at implementing green targets (mitigation of climate change, alternative energy use, clean technologies, energy- efficient (green) projects, etc.). The article determines the main goals and functions of the green stock market and systematizes principles of its functioning. It is concluded that the basic principles for boosting the green stock market include: compliance with the goals of sustainable development; social justice; protection of investors; regulation; monitoring; legal regulation; transparency. In order to ensure compliance with the transparency principle of the green stock market, it is necessary to develop a mechanism for identification, classification and accounting of green assets, according to which an appropriate classification of green financial resources can be developed. The article also describes the key players and their role in the development of the green stock market as an integral part of green finance. The findings confirm that the development of green securities (green bonds in particular) and green stock indices are the key drivers for boosting the green stock market.
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Song, Malin, and Shuhong Wang. "Market competition, green technology progress and comparative advantages in China." Management Decision 56, no. 1 (January 8, 2018): 188–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/md-04-2017-0375.
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Purpose Technical progress is an important technique within improving China’s comparative advantages, as new and renewable technologies will be beneficial for energy security. Productive technical progress and green technical innovation are necessary to improve working conditions and productivity of industries. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to study technical progress in China under such harsh competitive circumstances, as well as types of technical progress that can be promoted, productive technical progress or green technology progress, and how technical progress will affect China’s competitive advantages. Design/methodology/approach The authors perform a multi-index multi-factor constitutive model based on a sample of 468 Chinese industries, and divide the industries into four categories. Findings The results indicate that there is a “U”-shape relationship between green technology progress and comparative advantages and an inverted “U”-shape relationship between the intensity of market competition and comparative advantages. Research limitations/implications China has crossed the inflection point of the “U”-shaped curve. This, coupled with the slowing of economic growth, demonstrates the need for advocating green technology in China to decrease the pollutant discharge. Establishing Chinese national brands within overseas markets and earning a profit through the downstream of production chain enhance China’s international competitiveness. Originality/value One of the most original findings of this paper points out that China is faced with a situation in which exports are severely decreased and domestic environment pollution is increased. Vigorous promotion of green technology progress, improvement of the quality and the technical content of exported products, the establishment of national brand within the overseas market, as well as enhancement of China’s international competitiveness, is needed.
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Simonova, M. D. "International Energy Reserves Accounting System: Harmonization of Statistical Information for SNA Purposes." Voprosy statistiki 28, no. 3 (June 29, 2021): 86–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.34023/2313-6383-2021-28-3-86-94.
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The article covers the study of several international and foreign information and methodological standards and documents on energy resources statistics. It also examines the possibilities of harmonizing energy resources statistics with the System of National Accounts (SNA). The relevance of the problems is determined by the need for further development of the Russian system of environmental-economic accounting and, in particular, of statistics on energy reserves, adaptation of international standards and best practices in this area in some foreign countries. International standards and foreign methodological documents are characterized in the context of ensuring international comparability of energy resources assessment and compilation of environmental-economic accounts for the SNA. Since the ongoing adaptation of environmental-economic accounting will be completed shortly, a compilation of Mineral and Energy Resource Accounts is also a vital activity of statistical offices. To adequately integrate them into the SNA, indicators of proven resources should be estimated in value terms. The implementation of these approaches will in turn lead to a statistically correct valuation of natural capital and the inclusion of these data in the SNA. However, prices for capital valuation can be applied, on the basis of the disaggregation of statistical indicators, exogenous extraction factor, as well as analysts' forecasts. The harmonization of statistical information on energy reserves on the conceptual basis of national accounting will ensure international comparability of the indicators under consideration as well as will promote to the ecological orientation of sustainable economic development and green growth both in Russia and abroad.
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Li, Guangdong, and Chuanglin Fang. "Global mapping and estimation of ecosystem services values and gross domestic product: A spatially explicit integration of national ‘green GDP’ accounting." Ecological Indicators 46 (November 2014): 293–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.05.020.
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Ragas, Sheena Fatima Paro, Flora Mae Angub Tantay, Lorraine Joyce Co Chua, and Carolyn Marie Concha Sunio. "Green lifestyle moderates GHRM’s impact on job performance." International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management 66, no. 7 (September 11, 2017): 857–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijppm-04-2016-0076.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the moderating role of green lifestyle to the impact of green human resource management (GHRM) on employee’s job performance from various industries and a possible spillover of GHRM to employee’s lifestyle. Design/methodology/approach Structural equation modeling and exploratory factor analysis were utilized in order to determine the relationship of the variables. A survey questionnaire was distributed to 332 respondents from various private industries who were randomly selected for this study. Findings This study shows that the implementation of GHRM has an effect on an employee’s lifestyle and also on their job performance. It suggests that organizations can contribute to the environment and also maintain employees’ good performance. Research limitations/implications Considering the locus of the study, it was restricted to industries from the National Capital Region in the Philippines. The study was also limited to industries who are ISO14001 certified, aiming for that certification, or implementing green practices. The survey was also not disseminated according to age groups and gender. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to explore further the effects of these variables to other factors. Practical implications This study may encourage human resource practitioners to implement GHRM practices in the workplace to motivate employees to participate in greening the world. Originality/value This study brings great importance to the implementation of GHRM as it is needed by the current status of the world.
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Qi, Yi’ang, Jingjing Yao, and Lindong Liu. "Research on evolutionary game of environmental accounting information disclosure from the perspective of multi-agent." PLOS ONE 16, no. 8 (August 31, 2021): e0256046. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256046.
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In the past, China, like other developing countries in the world, pursued the goal of rapid economic development at the expense of ecology and ignored the issue of environmental protection. But in recent decades, as environmental problems have become increasingly prominent, developing countries have begun to explore ways to coordinate economy and ecological environment. As the largest developing country, China has been actively exploring ecological governance plans, putting forward the concept of green development, setting the goal of building a "beautiful China" and placing the construction of ecological civilization in the ontological status of social systems and national goals. In order to accelerate the green development process of enterprises in developing countries, based on the actual situation in China, this paper constructs a tripartite evolutionary game model of environmental accounting information disclosure with enterprises, investors and media as the research objects, and analyzes the internal mechanism of environmental accounting information disclosure. The model finds that the equilibrium of the three parties is affected by multiple factors. Therefore, this study further uses system dynamics to explore the dynamic process of evolutionary games and the strategic choices among multiple agents, and explore the mechanism of three types of agents to promote environmental accounting information disclosure. The simulation results reveal that government incentives have a greater impact on guiding enterprises and the media to evolve in the direction of legal disclosure and participation in exposure strategies. In addition, the continuous reduction of the cumbersome degree of disclosure procedures and the difficulty of improving environmental performance can fundamentally promote companies to actively choose legal disclosure strategies, which will help improve the quality of environmental accounting information disclosure, boost investor confidence, and enhance government supervision.
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Chen, Cai, Yingli Zhang, Yun Bai, and Wenrui Li. "The impact of green credit on economic growth—The mediating effect of environment on labor supply." PLOS ONE 16, no. 9 (September 21, 2021): e0257612. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257612.
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Background The progress of green credit in China is accelerating, but its development is uneven and insufficient in different regions. And whether the issuance of green credit can effectively promote the improvement of the environment and economy is not well understood. Objective Previous research has found that green credit promotes economic growth through improvement of the industrial structure and green technological innovation. However, these studies have not considered the positive externality of environmental improvement even though environmental improvement and economic growth are requirements of the sustainable development concept. Methods We use the chain-mediated model to estimate the impact of green credit issuance on the economic growth of different provinces since the large-scale implementation of green credit in China with data from 2008 to 2016. Results and conclusion This paper shows that the issuance of green credit can improve labor supply rather than labor productivity through the improvement of air quality to achieve regional economic growth. Such a chain-mediated path is different from the economic growth caused by industrial structural adjustment and green technology innovation. At the national level, every 1% increase in green credit issuance relative to industrial loans will increase the per capita gross domestic product (GDP) by approximately 4.6 yuan, or 0.012%, through air quality and labor supply, accounting for 2.875% of the total effect. Heterogeneity analysis indicates that due to regional industrial structure differences and diminishing marginal effects, the impact of green credit is stronger in the western region than in the eastern and central regions. For every 1% increase in the proportion of green credit issuance relative to industrial loans, the per capita GDP growth achieved through the chain-mediated path is approximately 30.17 yuan in the western region, approximately 6.6 times greater than that at the national level. Within a 95% confidence interval of 5000 bootstrap samples, this path is found to be true, and the chain-mediated effect accounts for approximately 12.96% of the total indirect effect. Limitations The limitation of this paper is the measurement of green credit. Although green credit has a large volume, it remains underdeveloped, and there is a lack of perfect indicators. Most existing studies have adopted only alternative or reverse indicators to measure the issuance of green credit. For example, this paper takes the interest expenditure of six high-energy-consuming enterprises as the reverse indicator, which may to a certain extent lead to the overestimation of the issuance of green credit and its impact on the environment and economy. Future research can accurately explore the performance of green credit on the basis of its mature development.
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Kumar, Pradeep. "Green service production in healthcare and role of value chain flexibility." International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management 69, no. 8 (July 16, 2020): 1721–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijppm-12-2019-0602.
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PurposeThis paper aims to understand the specific role of value chain flexibility (VCF) in the strategies of green service production (GSP) in healthcare. The study explores the key dimensions of VCF and their linkages with the current GSP strategies in healthcare firms.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses an exploratory case study with three representative national-level healthcare firms in India. A multiple case study methodology was utilized to explore the relationships between GSP and VCF.FindingsThe findings of the study suggest that several strategies for GSP require the support of multiple dimensions of VCF. More importantly, the role of each dimension of VCF depends upon the innovativeness of green service design, green procurement and green service practices.Research limitations/implicationsThe study was conducted in the emerging healthcare market of India. Thus, the generalizability of the framework needs to be tested in another context. The study reports the employee's perception, and the patients’ (customers) views were not included.Originality/valueThe study is a first step to understand the theoretical perspectives of the relationships between GSP and VCF by exploring the underlying concepts. Furthermore, the study explicates the dynamics of their interplay in a systematic way and contributes to a framework of GSP and VCF in the healthcare context.
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Ning, X., H. Wang, Y. Liu, M. Hao, Q. Dong, W. Xu, X. Cai, M. Fu, Y. Liu, and W. Dong. "URBAN ECOLOGICAL SPACE CHANGES OF 338 PREFECTURE-LEVEL CITIES IN CHINA FROM 2016 TO 2017 WITH HIGH-PRECISION URBAN BOUNDARY AND LAND COVER DATA." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLIII-B4-2020 (August 24, 2020): 157–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xliii-b4-2020-157-2020.
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Abstract. Urban ecological space is a significant factor for sustainable urban development and ecological civilization construction. Traditional urban ecological space analysis mainly used medium-resolution image data at large scales and used high-resolution images at a typical urban scale. Few studies focused on the high-precision ecological space analysis at a national urban scale. In this study, high-precision urban boundary and land cover data were utilized to analyze the urban ecological space change and its reason from 2016 to 2017. Ecological space was extracted and merged from high-precision land cover data, which came from the National Geoinformation Survey data of China. Results showed that in 2017, the total urban ecological space area of 338 prefecture-level cities in China was 8514.2 square kilometers, accounting for 22.4% of the total urban area, which was far below the threshold of 40% for evaluating the urban green coverage in China. Urban ecological space of 184 cities declined. There were four principal reasons for the decrease of urban ecological space. First, the green space supporting the buildings was occupied. Second, the green landscape space near rivers and lakes was occupied. Third, blocks of woodland were occupied. Fourth, the water area was occupied. The reduced urban ecological space was mainly changed into construction sites, structures, and buildings. Urban ecological space of China was seriously insufficient, and it was heavily occupied. Adequate ecological space should be preserved not only in new urban development areas but also in the old urban areas to ensure people a more comfortable living environment.
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GhaffarianHoseini, Ali, Dat Tien Doan, Nicola Naismith, John Tookey, and Amirhosein GhaffarianHoseini. "Amplifying the practicality of contemporary building information modelling (BIM) implementations for New Zealand green building certification (Green Star)." Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management 24, no. 4 (July 17, 2017): 696–714. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ecam-02-2016-0043.
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Purpose Green Star is becoming a broadly accepted mark of design quality and environmental sustainability. Compared to other green tools, Green Star is considered as one of main streams green assessment tools, which cover almost sustainable criteria. Simultaneously, building information modelling (BIM) has also been introduced into the industry. BIM is expected to aid designers to shift the construction industry towards more environmentally and economically sustainable construction practice. Whilst the aspirations of Green Star rating and BIM implementation are broadly aligned, in the context of New Zealand this has led to some disconnects in design strategy and process. The purpose of this paper is to improve the practicality of BIM implementations for delivering Green Star certification in New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach The extensive literature review is conducted through a series of incremental steps. A conceptual framework focussing on the relationship between benefits and challenges of BIM and Green Star is then developed. Findings BIM supports practitioners to achieve the majority of Green Star criteria (75 per cent). Energy efficiency criterion is the key factor affecting the assessment process of Green Star and National Australian Built Environment Rating System in New Zealand. Research questions about lessening the challenges which can be encountered during the BIM and Green Star implementation are developed. Research limitations/implications This paper is limited to a conceptual research. Further empirical research should be conducted to validate and modify the conceptual framework and the propositions presented in this paper to provide an initial insight into BIM and Green Star connectivity within the context of New Zealand. Originality/value This paper provided a clear picture for investors, developers, practitioners about benefits and challenges of BIM and Green Star implementation. The outcomes are anticipated to deliver visions for shifting the country further towards development of sustainable future cities.
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Al-Qadi, Imad L., Jaime A. Hernandez, Angeli Gamez, Mojtaba Ziyadi, Osman Erman Gungor, and Seunggu Kang. "Impact of Wide-Base Tires on Pavements: A National Study." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2672, no. 40 (April 11, 2018): 186–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198118757969.
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This paper summarizes a multi-year effort comparing the new-generation wide-base tires (NG-WBT) and dual-tire assembly from a holistic point of view. The tires were compared considering not only pavement damage but also environmental impact. Numerical modeling, prediction methods, experimental measurements, and life-cycle assessment were combined to provide recommendations about the use of NG-WBT. A finite element (FE) approach considering variables that are usually omitted in the conventional analysis of flexible pavement was used for modeling pavement structures combining layer thickness, material properties, tire load, tire-inflation pressure, and pavement type (interstate and low volume). A prediction tool, ICT-Wide, was developed based on an artificial neural network to obtain critical pavement responses in cases excluded from the FE analysis matrix. Based on the bottom-up fatigue cracking, permanent deformation, and international roughness index, the life-cycle energy consumption, cost, and green-house gas emissions were estimated. To make this research useful for state departments of transportation and practitioners, a modification to AASHTOware is proposed to account for NG-WBT. The revision is based on two adjustment factors, one accounting for the discrepancy between the AASHTOware approach and the FE model of this study, and the other addressing the impact of NG-WBT. Although greater pavement damage may result from NG-WBT, for the analyzed cases, the extra pavement damage may be outweighed by the environmental benefits when NG-WBT market penetration is considered.
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Newell, Graeme, John MacFarlane, and Roger Walker. "Assessing energy rating premiums in the performance of green office buildings in Australia." Journal of Property Investment & Finance 32, no. 4 (July 1, 2014): 352–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpif-10-2013-0061.
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Purpose – Green office buildings have recently taken on increased significance in institutional property portfolios in Australia and globally. The key issue from an institutional investor perspective is the assessment of whether green office buildings add value. Using an extensive portfolio of green office buildings, the purpose of this paper is to empirically assess the level of energy rating premiums in the property performance of green office buildings in Australia. Design/methodology/approach – Using a portfolio of over 200 green office buildings in Australia benchmarked against a comparable portfolio of non-green office buildings, the level of energy rating premiums in the property performance of green office buildings in Australia is empirically evaluated. Hedonic regression analysis is used to account for differences between specific office buildings and to explicitly identify the “pure” green effect in identifying the level of energy rating premiums in several commercial property performance characteristics (e.g. office value, rent). Findings – The empirical results show the added-value premium of the 5-star National Australian Built Environment Rating Scheme (NABERS) energy rating scheme and the Green Star scheme in the property performance of green office buildings in Australia, including office values and rents. Energy rating premiums for green office buildings are evident at the top energy ratings and energy rating discounts at the lower energy ratings. The added-value “top-end” premium of the 5-star vs 4-star NABERS energy rating category is clearly identified for the various property performance parameters, including office values and rents. Practical implications – This paper empirically determines the presence of energy rating premiums at the top energy ratings in the performance of green office buildings, as well as energy rating discounts at the lower energy ratings. This clearly highlights the added value dimension of energy efficiency in green office buildings and the need for the major office property investors to prioritise the highest energy rating to facilitate additional property performance premiums. This will also see green office buildings become the norm as the market benchmark rather than non-green office buildings. Social implications – This paper highlights energy performance premiums for green office buildings. This fits into the context of sustainability in the property industry and the broader aspects of corporate social responsibility in the property industry. Originality/value – This paper is the first published property research analysis on the detailed determination of energy rating premiums across the energy rating spectrum for green office buildings in Australia. Given the increased focus on energy efficiency and green office buildings, this research enables empirically validated and practical property investment decisions by office property investors regarding the importance of energy efficiency and green office buildings, and the priority to achieve the highest energy rating to maximise property performance premiums in office values and rents.
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Konisky, David M., and Sanya Carley. "WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE GREEN NEW DEAL ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF EQUITY IN NATIONAL CLIMATE POLICY." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 40, no. 3 (June 2021): 996–1002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pam.22314.
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Plevako, Yaroslav. "State support and regulation of rural green tourism enterprises development." University Economic Bulletin, no. 44 (February 12, 2020): 30–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.31470/2306-546x-2020-44-30-35.
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The subject of the research is theoretical, methodical and practical aspects of state support and regulation of rural green tourism enterprises development. The purpose of the work is to substantiate the directions, mechanisms and instruments of state support and regulation of the development of rural green tourism enterprises for the future. The methodological basis of the article was both general scientific and special methods of scientific knowledge. Methods were used: historical, dialectical, system-structural analysis and synthesis, statistical-economic, SWOT-analysis, grouping, problem-targeted approach. Results of work. The article highlights the problems, factors and prospects of state support and regulation of rural green tourism enterprises development. The conditions, resources, mechanisms and instruments of state support and regulation are identified. Reasonable sources of their spread and growth. Forms of monitoring, reporting and accounting are proposed. Functions have been defined to improve state support, regulation and management of rural green tourism enterprises development in the future. The field of application of results. The materials, results and conclusions of the article can be used in the activities of rural territorial communities, local self-government bodies, enterprises and agro-villages, higher education institutions of relevant specialization and faculties of economics and management. Conclusions. Rural green tourism is a relatively new type of rural activity. It is useful for both holidaymakers and owners – rural residents, entrepreneurs, rural communities, regions and the state as a whole. Its businesses and agro-settlements contribute to the development of many related businesses in other industries; preservation of national spirituality, popularization of Ukrainian culture; dissemination of knowledge and information about the historical, natural, ethnographic features of the country. It deserves all the support from the state, public organizations, large agribusiness, rural territorial communities.
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Mélon, Lela. "More Than a Nudge? Arguments and Tools for Mandating Green Public Procurement in the EU." Sustainability 12, no. 3 (January 30, 2020): 988. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12030988.
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The present research paper analyses the EU general and mandatory sectoral legal framework on public procurement, arguing for its inhibiting effect on the EU-wide uptake of green public procurement. It explores de jure and de facto barriers to green public procurement, motivated by the need for a change in the business world towards more sustainable practices through preferably mandatory legal changes of EU corporate law. As the public procurement represents a strong nudge for a qualitative change in private market demand, accounting for a minimum of 12% of the national gross domestic product, it should become environmentally sustainable itself and guide markets through the qualitative and quantitative changes on the demand side. Given the complexity of the current legal framework and the novelty of the approach to public procurement as a strategic tool for the achievement of sustainable production and consumption, a better defined and clear legislative approach is called for, possibly in a mandatory form, clarifying the obligation of public procurers to account for sustainability in their practices, especially as regards incorporating environmental concerns in their purchasing activities. In its current form, the EU legislative public procurement framework entails a seemingly permissive attitude towards green public procurement, hampered in practice by the existing legal institutes in the field, which hamper the strategic use of public procurement and thereby its influence on sustainability on the private markets.
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Marenych, T., M. Krutko, and A. Kravchenko. "THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL SUPPORT OF INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT OF «GREEN» ENERGY IN UKRAINE." Financial and credit activity: problems of theory and practice 2, no. 37 (April 30, 2021): 386–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.18371/fcaptp.v2i37.230320.
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Abstract. The modern world, including highly developed countries, which focus a significant part of their financial flows on increasing environmental capacity with propaganda and a call to stop global warming, quite openly demonstrates its commitment to replenish and restore «green» reserves. Today, in the system of economic relations and financial support of Ukraine’s economic development, the involvement of the environmental component of such development is becoming increasingly important. When studying alternative energy sources as a relatively new way for Ukraine, it was found that the development of such energy affects a number of socio-economic factors, including transport, environment, health and nutrition, agro-industrial management, energy, etc. Government support, support, support and formation of a general strategy for the development of investment in alternative energy should become a priority in increasing the greening process in the country. The only conceptual approach to ensuring the development of «green» energy is a guarantee of establishing a mechanism to ensure the investment potential of the direction. For the effective functioning of renewable energy sources (RES) it is necessary to bring national legislation in line with international requirements, in particular to international acts of the European Union. Creating optimal guarantees and providing quotas for investors. Necessary conditions for development are: development of software and technical and technological support not only for the generation, accumulation and use, but also the accumulation and generalization of information, accounting, analysis, control over the consumption and sale of such energy; innovation and investment support at the level of deepening and expanding research, creating work programs, projects and groups; institutional support for attracting investment in the development of «green» energy, development of a state target program for the development and support of RES. Keywords: investments, «green» energy, renewable energy sources, «green» tariff, development. JEL Classification O13, O40, Q42 Formulas: 0; fig.: 0; tabl.: 1; bibl.: 34.
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Kumar, Sanjeev, Somnath Chattopadhyaya, and Vinay Sharma. "Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Case Study From Indian Automotive Industry." Advanced Materials Research 472-475 (February 2012): 3359–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.472-475.3359.
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This study aims to investigate the sustainable supply chain management practices likely to be adopted by the manufacturing industry of automotive products in India. The approach of the present research includes a literature review, in depth interviews and questionnaire surveys. The relationship between sustainable supply chain management practices and environmental performance is studied. The industries in the automotive products industry in India were sampled for empirical study. The data were then analyzed using statistical package for the social sciences is used as a path analysis model to verify the hypothetical construction of the study. The results indicate that performance of automotive products industry regarding eco procurement, eco accounting, eco logistic design, eco product design, eco manufacturing practices, operational performance, vendor management etc in response to the current wave of national & international green issues and also environmental performance of the respective industries.
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Lawn, Philip A. "On Heyes' IS–LM–EE proposal to establish an environmental macroeconomics." Environment and Development Economics 8, no. 1 (December 23, 2002): 31–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x03000032.
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A decade has now passed since Daly made a plea for an environmental macroeconomics. Despite an expanding literature on ‘green’ national accounting and the efforts of ecological economists to measure the sustainable net benefits of a growing macroeconomy, it is only recently that Daly's plea has been adequately answered. This has been achieved with the incorporation by Heyes of an ‘environmental equilibrium’ or EE curve into the familiar IS–LM model. However, the IS–LM–EE model proposed by Heyes is incomplete. By extending Heyes' model to include the role of technological progress and the sustainable net benefits of economic activity, this paper shows that conclusions regarding the desirability of expansionary fiscal and monetary policies alter quite radically. Moreover, it sends out a clear message that environmental concerns should be incorporated into macroeconomic models. They should not be solely confined to microeconomics.
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Yang, H., L. Wang, K. C. Abbaspour, and A. J. B. Zehnder. "Virtual water highway: water use efficiency in global food trade." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions 3, no. 1 (January 2, 2006): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hessd-3-1-2006.
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Abstract. Amid an increasing water scarcity in many parts of the world, virtual water trade as both a policy instrument and practical means to balance the regional, national and global water budget has received much attention in recent years. Built upon the knowledge of virtual water accounting in the literature, this study examines the efficiency of the resource use embodied in the global virtual water trade from the perspectives of exporting and importing countries. Different characteristics between "green" and "blue" virtual water corresponding to rainfed and irrigated agriculture are elaborated. The investigation reveals that the virtual water flows primarily from countries of high water productivity to countries of low water productivity, generating a global saving of water resources. Meanwhile, the domination of green virtual water in the total virtual water trade constitutes low opportunity costs and environmental impacts as opposed to blue virtual water. The results suggest efficiency gains in the global food trade in terms of water resource utilization. The study raises awareness of negative impacts of increasing reliance on irrigation for food production in many countries, including food exporting countries. The findings of the study call for a greater emphasis on rainfed agriculture to improve global food security and environmental sustainability.
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Cukovic-Ignjatovic, Natasa, Dusan Ignjatovic, and Bojana Zekovic. "Improving energy efficiency of kindergartens in Serbia: Challenges and potentials." Thermal Science 24, no. 6 Part A (2020): 3521–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/tsci200323273c.
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Kindergartens are probably the very first public buildings we actively use in our lives. Therefore, they can be considered as the physical structures that are providing for the very important educational and social function. Additionally, they can also be considered as the specific learning tool for future generations where they can encounter the ideas of green and energy-efficient buildings. One of the results of the research project ?Energy efficiency in public buildings? has been formulated through the development of Serbian National Typology of Kindergartens which was conceived as a specific tool that can be used for improving this portion of building stock. The paper presents the methodology for identification of typical kindergarten buildings, covering various construction periods, building sizes and illustrates the type of analysis performed for model representatives. The potential for energy upgrades covering physical structure, installed technological systems, as well as expected impact on energy performance, has been estimated. The study presents results based on the analysis of the data derived from the National Typology, stressing out that energy retrofits of large and medium-sized kindergartens built during the 1970s and 1980s should be the primary focus of refurbishment activities. Accounting for almost 60% of total buildings and 69.59% of heated area, they are responsible for 75.97% of energy demands. Estimated energy savings of more than 60% indicate the effectiveness of their retrofit. The paper also presents the potential uses of National Typology as a retrofit tool on various scales, from single-building considerations to a strategic approach at the national level.
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Yang, H., L. Wang, K. C. Abbaspour, and A. J. B. Zehnder. "Virtual water trade: an assessment of water use efficiency in the international food trade." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 10, no. 3 (June 30, 2006): 443–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-10-443-2006.
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Abstract. Amid an increasing water scarcity in many parts of the world, virtual water trade as both a policy instrument and practical means to balance the local, national and global water budget has received much attention in recent years. Building upon the knowledge of virtual water accounting in the literature, this study assesses the efficiency of water use embodied in the international food trade from the perspectives of exporting and importing countries and at the global and country levels. The investigation reveals that the virtual water flows primarily from countries of high crop water productivity to countries of low crop water productivity, generating a global saving in water use. Meanwhile, the total virtual water trade is dominated by green virtual water, which constitutes a low opportunity cost of water use as opposed to blue virtual water. A sensitivity analysis, however, suggests high uncertainties in the virtual water accounting and the estimation of the scale of water saving. The study also raises awareness of the limited effect of water scarcity on the global virtual water trade and the negative implications of the global water saving for the water use efficiency and food security in importing countries and the environment in exporting countries. The analysis shows the complexity in evaluating the efficiency gains in the international virtual water trade. The findings of the study, nevertheless, call for a greater emphasis on rainfed agriculture to improve the global food security and environmental sustainability.