Does Deliberation Promote Ecological Citizenship? The Convergence Hypothesis and the Reality of Polarization

2018 ◽  
pp. 189-212
Author(s):  
Jozef Keulartz
Keyword(s):  
Convergence Hypothesis ◽  
Ecological Citizenship

Convergence in per capita carbon footprint and ecological footprint for G7 countries: Evidence from panel Fourier threshold unit root test

2021 ◽  
pp. 0958305X2110114
Author(s):  
Veli Yilanci ◽  
Muhammed Sehid Gorus ◽  
Sakiru Adebola Solarin
Keyword(s):  
Unit Root ◽  
Structural Breaks ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Unit Root Test ◽  
G7 Countries ◽  
Convergence Hypothesis ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Nonlinear Behaviors ◽  
Nonlinear Unit Root Tests

This paper aims to explore the convergence of per capita carbon and ecological footprints in G7 countries during 1961–2016. For this purpose, we propose a new unit root test in the panel setting–the panel Fourier threshold unit root test. This test takes into consideration both multiple smooth structural changes and nonlinearity. According to the literature, the power of the nonlinear unit root tests is reduced in the case of ignoring structural breaks. Therefore, we expect to get more reliable empirical findings by utilizing this methodology. The empirical results of this paper show that these series have nonlinear behaviors for the period 1961–2016. Furthermore, they demonstrate that the absolute convergence hypothesis is valid in G7 countries for both regimes. Thus, governments can conduct common environmental policies, including international climate summits and agreements, instead of national-based policies to mitigate environmental deterioration in their countries.

Lecturers’ perspectives on how introductory economic courses address sustainability

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom L. Green
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Literacy ◽  
External Pressure ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Ecological Literacy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
American University ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Ecological Citizenship ◽  
Economics Courses ◽  
Introductory Economics

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explore sustainability commitments’ potential implications for the curriculum of introductory economics courses. Universities have signed the Talloires Declaration, committing themselves to promoting students’ environmental literacy and ecological citizenship, thereby creating pressure to integrate sustainability across the curriculum. Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach involving qualitative research methods and the three largest public universities in British Columbia, Canada, was used. As one component of a larger study, 11 of the 19 economists who delivered the course over the study period were interviewed. The theoretical framework was informed by ecological economics scholarship on how mainstream economic thought represents environment-economy linkages. Findings – Findings suggest that universities’ sustainability commitments have not influenced principles of economics curriculum. Sustainability is not salient to lecturers; prospects that mainstream economics departments will integrate sustainability into curriculum in a timely manner without external pressure appear limited. Practical implications – While institutions often enthusiastically report on courses that contribute to students’ ecological literacy, identifying curriculum that may confound student understanding of sustainability receives less emphasis. Introductory economics courses appear to merit scrutiny from this perspective. Originality/value – About 40 per cent of North American university students take an introductory economics course, relatively few take more advanced economics courses. This course, thus, teaches many students economic theory and the economics profession’s approach to evaluating public policy, and has potential to contribute to knowledge of sustainability. Few studies examine how undergraduate economics curriculum addresses sustainability.

Industrialization and the Convergence Hypothesis: Some Aspects of Contemporary Japan

1968 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Karsh ◽  
Robert E. Cole
Keyword(s):  
Convergence Hypothesis

scholarly journals Ecological Citizenship and Social Representation of Water

SAGE Open ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824401141789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Biagi ◽  
Mariano Ferro
Keyword(s):  
Social Representation ◽  
Ecological Citizenship

A PANEL ASSESSMENT OF REAL COVERGENCE IN CEMAC

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Gbetnkom
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
Convergence Hypothesis ◽  
Income Levels ◽  
Underdeveloped Countries ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Convergence Club ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Rich Countries

Some authors support that regionalism among underdeveloped countries will tend to cause divergence of their income levels, and regional integration among rich countries will tend to cause convergence. This paper tests this convergence hypothesis in CEMAC between 1990-2002. Our findings lend support to the “convergence club” defined according to policy choices rather than initial levels of human capital. They show that unilateral and preferential suppression of tariff and non-tariff barriers favor the convergence of per capita incomes and reduce the dispersion of real per capita income levels of partners in the sub-region. These results make the idea of convergence club based on the initial levels of productive technology and GDP per capita relative.

scholarly journals What is Safe? Cultural Citizenship, Visual Culture and Risk

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Cultural Citizenship ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Commercial Culture ◽  
Ecological Citizenship ◽  
Contemporary Media

Questions of cultural citizenship and risk have become central to contemporary sociological debates. This paper seeks to relate these concerns to a discussion of ecological citizenship and questions of visual and commercial culture. In the first section, I argue that ecological citizenship needs to avoid a moralistic rejection of the pleasures of contemporary visual and consumer culture. Such a possibility I argue has become evident in recent debates on the risk society. However, I argue despite Beck's realisation that questions of risk become defined through contemporary media his analysis remains overly distant from more everyday understandings. In order to address this question, I seek to demonstrate how an interpretative understanding of visual culture (in this case the 1995 film Safe) might help us develop more complex understandings of the competing cultures of risk and citizenship.

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