Export market participation and environmental actions of enterprises in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Uchenna Efobi
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Export Market ◽  
Total Expenditure ◽  
Market Participation ◽  
Environmental Actions ◽  
National Certification ◽  
International Standardization

Abstract The outcome of environmental actions from participation in the export market are examined by unpacking some mechanisms that explain the estimated relationship. The empirical strategy utilizes the variation in the distance between the location of the sampled enterprises and the top 25 destinations of Vietnamese exports across sectors, and the weight of each sampled export to total exports in each period, to obtain exogenous variation in the enterprise's export market participation. The result shows a positive relationship between the enterprise's export participation and its overall engagement in environmental actions (such as the sum of its environmental actions, the sum of actions in the investments in equipment towards environmental issues, and total expenditure for the purchase of equipment for environmental actions). Possible mechanisms are international standardization, national certification, and strong enforcement of environmental regulations from export market engagement.

Integrating Environmental Requirements into Vietnamese Sectoral Laws – Roles and Recommendations

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Mai Thanh Dung ◽  
Nguyen Minh Khoa ◽  
Phan Thi Thu Huong
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Environmental Requirements ◽  
Environmental Considerations

The need for sustainable development underscores the role and importance of integrating environmental concerns in non-environmental policies because it is evident that environmental regulations only are insufficient to manage all environmental issues. Law enforcement on environmental protection in Vietnam clearly demonstrates this situation. Vietnam’s legal system of environmental protection is incompatible or overlapped with other sectoral laws and in fact many environmental matters have been implemented in accordance with sectoral laws while disregarding environmental considerations due to the lack of specific and explicit environmental provisions or requirements in sectoral laws and regulations. From that situation, the paper emphasizes the need to integrate environmental protection requirements into the sectoral laws of Vietnam and proposes some fundamental criteria and procedures to integrate environmental requirements into sectoral laws.

Sociology and the Environment: An Analysis of Coverage in Introductory Sociology Textbooks

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tammy L. Lewis ◽  
Craig R. Humphrey
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Sociology ◽  
Introductory Sociology ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
By Products

Using content analysis, this research examines the impact of the first 25 years of environmental sociology research on current introductory sociology textbooks. The investigators searched the texts for 40 key concepts in environmental sociology and for the inclusion of works by 20 award-winning environmental sociologists. On average, the texts cited 7 of the 40 key concepts. Eliminating multiple citations to a page, the total number of pages cited averaged just under three percent per book. On average, the texts cite four works by influential environmental sociologists. The texts, however, omitted some of the most central, unique concepts in the field. The texts typically treated environmental issues as social problems rather than as the by-products of institutionalized behaviors or practices. There tends to be a positive relationship between the sales of a text and the discussion of the environment.

Modelling Environmental Actions of Corporate Sustainable Activity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolandas Drejeris ◽  
Danguole Ozeliene
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Structural Basis ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Environmental Actions ◽  
Literature Synthesis ◽  
Many Sources

Many sources have been noted that environmental protection measures are economically beneficial as their application allows to increase the efficiency of resource use, reduce operating costs and increase company‘s profit. The aim of the article is to analyze the relevance of the environmental protection component of sustainable development in terms of its expression in the corporate activities. The possibilities to integrate this component into the company‘s developmental strategy are analyzed alongside creation of a model with a set of actions directed towards increasing environmental sustainability. The elements of this model would define not only the environmental actions to be taken, but would also provide structural basis for implementation of these processes. Assessment of actions under the criteria selected will determine and justify the sequence of processes to achieve the best results in the field of sustainability. The application of this model in the company's daily activities would allow to gradually approaching environmental sustainability and successfully manage environmental issues in any corporation. Research was based on the systematic analysis of scientific literature, synthesis of information, modelling actions according to their practical possibilities.

scholarly journals Environmental Regulations (its Identification and Downstream Implementation in Bangka Belitung)

2021 ◽  
Vol 241 ◽  
pp. 05002
Author(s):  
Dwi Haryadi ◽  
Ibrahim Ibrahim ◽  
Darwance Darwance
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Government Regulations ◽  
Strategic Issues ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right

Article 28H and section (4) of Article 33 in the Indonesian Constitution guarantee every citizen the right to a good and healthy environment with green economy. In order to implement it, the government issued Law No. 32 of 2009 on Environmental Protection and Management. The environmental regulations that became the umbrella act are facing challenges both in substance and implementation. Substantially, questions remain whether the green constitution has been incarnated in this regulation, and how it positions itself as the umbrella act for a number of regulations. In implementation, the challenges include the availability of legislations, from government regulations to technical policy, and its implementation in regional level, both at the provincial and regency levels in Bangka Belitung Islands. In each regime, the environmental issues have always been a part of strategic issues. This research focused on identifying environmental regulations from upstream to downstream, and how they are implemented in the context of environmental issues due to tin mining in Bangka Belitung. Data were obtained through literature review using statute and conceptual approaches.

scholarly journals Maltese Youth and the Environment: A Qualitative Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Mifsud
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Graphical Display ◽  
Maltese Islands ◽  
Environmental Actions ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Contextual Study

Maltese Youth and the Environment: A Qualitative StudyThe present study attempted to highlight the main processes of the acquisition and development of various environmental perspectives and puts forward suggestions on how youth can be better addressed in the light of the research findings. The present paper involved the use of a number of focus groups and a contextual study that examined the development of environmental education on the Maltese islands, considered the main local environmental issues and subsequently analysed the main causes and mechanisms that have shaped the development of the local environment and the Maltese people. The present research identifies a number of geographic and socio economic trends which have a strong impact on young people's knowledge. The results indicate relatively low positive behaviour towards the environment, and the main issue appears to be what is seen as the ‘costs’ involved in performing such pro-environmental actions. A pervasive sense of futility in environmental actions emerged with issues relating to the Maltese government and politics being the main reasons for this feeling. An environmental perspectives model was designed employing the technique of graphical display. The model illustrates how young people perceive the future of the Maltese environment through three Cartesian axes.

Bad debt and green issues

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-150
Author(s):  
Lloyd A. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Due Diligence ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Contaminated Land ◽  
Judicial Decisions ◽  
Insolvency Proceedings ◽  
Bad Debt ◽  
Unique Relationship

This article uses interview data, collected from ‘elite’ banking respondents, to examine how secured lenders use insolvency practitioners as a form of post-loan due diligence. It is concerned with how effective insolvency practitioners are at obviating the risks that may be incurred where insolvency proceedings are caused or impeded by environment-related issues. It shows how the unique relationship between lenders and insolvency practitioners greatly reduces the likelihood of direct liability from environmental regulations transferring to the lender during the liquidation process. Two regimes are analysed in this article: the contaminated land regime, and the waste licensing system. Statutory provisions and judicial decisions have limited the power of environmental regulators. At the same time, however, this is good for secured lenders who are principally concerned with repaying the debt that is owed to them by a defaulting borrower. A more significant concern for lenders during borrowers’ insolvencies are the indirect risks (that is, credit and security risks). Environmental issues arising during a borrower’s insolvency may reduce the likelihood of the lender being repaid and, in the case of contaminated land, could severely limit the lender’s ability to exercise its security.

Transaction costs and participation in avocado export marketing in Murang’a County, Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelvin Njuguna Karing'u ◽  
Hezron Nyarindo Isaboke ◽  
Samuel Njiri Ndirangu
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Search Costs ◽  
Export Market ◽  
Market Participation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Export Marketing ◽  
Transactional Costs ◽  
Harvesting Costs

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of transactional costs on smallholder avocado farmers’ participation in the export market and the extent of participation in Murang’a County, Kenya.Design/methodology/approachData was collected from 384 avocado farmers in Murang’a County, following stratified sampling. The Heckman two-stage model was used for analysis.FindingsResults showed that the cost of information search was an important variable that impedes smallholders’ participation in export marketing while harvesting costs inhibits the extent of participation in export marketing.Research limitations/implicationsThis study used data at the farm level. Therefore, insights on transaction costs among other marketing agents in the export market value chain would be an issue for future studies.Originality/valueFollowing the debate on transaction costs and market participation among farmers in Sub-Sahara Africa, this paper models transactional costs and export market participation among avocado smallholders and measures the extent of participation with the inclusion of harvesting costs, negotiation costs, monitoring costs and information search costs that are not common in previous studies, thus contributing to the development of literature.

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