scholarly journals Fair payments for effective environmental conservation

2020 ◽  
pp. 201919783
Author(s):  
Lasse Loft ◽  
Stefan Gehrig ◽  
Carl Salk ◽  
Jens Rommel
Keyword(s):  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation ◽  
Monetary Incentives ◽  
Equal Distribution ◽  
Conservation Effort ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Equity Effects

Global efforts for biodiversity protection and land use-based greenhouse gas mitigation call for increases in the effectiveness and efficiency of environmental conservation. Incentive-based policy instruments are key tools for meeting these goals, yet their effectiveness might be undermined by such factors as social norms regarding whether payments are considered fair. We investigated the causal link between equity and conservation effort with a randomized real-effort experiment in forest conservation with 443 land users near a tropical forest national park in the Vietnamese Central Annamites, a global biodiversity hotspot. The experiment introduced unjustified payment inequality based on luck, in contradiction of local fairness norms that were measured through responses to vignettes. Payment inequality was perceived as less fair than payment equality. In agreement with our preregistered hypotheses, participants who were disadvantaged by unequal payments exerted significantly less conservation effort than other participants receiving the same payment under an equal distribution. No effect was observed for participants advantaged by inequality. Thus, equity effects on effort can have consequences for the effectiveness and efficiency of incentive-based conservation instruments. Furthermore, we show that women exerted substantially more conservation effort than men, and that increasing payment size unexpectedly reduced effort. This emphasizes the need to consider social comparisons, local equity norms, and gender in environmental policies using monetary incentives to motivate behavioral change.

Abstract 3104: Heart Failure: Is there an Epidemic? A 17-Year Longitudinal Study on the Incidence, Prevalence and Survival Outcomes

Circulation ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 118 (suppl_18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiew-Hwa K Teng ◽  
Judith Finn ◽  
Michael Hobbs ◽  
Elizabeth Geelhoed ◽  
Joseph Hung
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Survival Outcomes ◽  
Major Public Health Problem ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Base Period ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Equal Distribution ◽  
Significant Downward Trend ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Incidence Prevalence

Background Despite concerns of a heart failure ‘epidemic’, long term population trends on the incidence, prevalence and survival outcomes of heart failure (HF) are not well characterized. Methods The Western Australian Hospital Morbidity Database was used to identify index patients with first-time admissions for HF from 1990 to 2006, with no prior admission for HF since 1 January 1980. Age and gender adjusted temporal trends in HF incidence were examined and Cox-proportional hazards model used to analyse 5-year survival following index admissions, adjusted for significant covariates. Prevalence was calculated at end of each calendar year. Base period used was 1990–1993. Results There were 70,967 index heart failure (HF) patients identified during 1990–2006, with almost equal distribution between genders. There was a significant downward trend for age and gender-adjusted incidence of HF with average decline of 1.73% (95% CI 1.5%, 1.9%, p=0.001) per year over the 17-year period. Incidence rate reached a peak in 1993 and thereafter there was a steady decline. Compared to the base period, age and gender-adjusted survival at 5-year after index HF admission improved with an absolute survival gain of 6.9% (95% CI 4.3%, 9.4% p=0.001) for 1994–97 period, 9.3% (95% CI 6.7%, 11.9%, p=0.001) for 1998–2001 period and 7.0% (95% CI 4.1%, 9.8%, p=0.001) for 2002– 05 period respectively. Prevalence of HF increased significantly over the different time periods, with a 2.26 fold higher prevalence in 2002–2006 compared to base period. The increase in prevalence was greatest in the 70–79 year age group, with an increase from 200.3 per 10,000 in the base period to 606.0 per 10,000 in 2002–2006. Conclusions In the last 17 years, incidence of hospitalized HF patients has declined steadily in both genders. However, there has been a marked increase in prevalence of HF due in part to an ageing population and improved HF survival. Management of these chronic elderly HF patients remains a major public health problem.

scholarly journals Hemorrhoidectomy in Patients with Grade III and IV Disease: Harmonic Scalpel compared with Conventional technique.

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (05) ◽  
pp. 929-934
Author(s):  
Safia Zahir Ahmed ◽  
Noor ul Mobeen ◽  
Bilal Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Operative Time ◽  
Harmonic Scalpel ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Length Of Hospital Stay ◽  
Conventional Technique ◽  
Equal Distribution ◽  
Conventional Hemorrhoidectomy ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Group B

Objectives: To compare conventional hemorrhoidectomy with harmonic scalped hemorhoidectomy for Ferguson hemorrhoidectomy is traditional closed procedure for 3rd and 4th degree hemorrhoids that is being practiced since centuries. With new innovations and technology, harmonic scalpel is an ultrasonic device which has shown to have promising results. With these two techniques a comparison study variables of pain outcome as a patient perceives, time taken for operation and length of stay in hospital. Study Design: Randomized controlled trial. Setting: Services hospital Lahore. Period: From August 2015 to February, 2016. Material & Methods: Patients were divided into two equal groups: Group A: conventional hemorrhoidectomy and Group B: Harmonic Scalpel. The study was performed by a single surgical operating team. Patient’s selection criteria were male and female between 20 to 80 ages with III and IV degree hemorrhoids. The outcomes were operative time, post-operative pain and duration of stay in the hospital. Results: One hundred patients with mean age 40.86+10.26 were included and randomly assigned. This came out significant difference in operative time 28.4+11.004, postoperative pain 3.73+1.96, and length of hospital stay 2.43+1.795. There were equal distribution in age and gender in both groups. Conclusions: It is concluded that harmonic scalpel technique in hemorrhoidectomy is better than conventional closed hemorrhoidectomy in 3rd and 4th degree hemorrhoids.

Evaluation of policy instruments for supporting greenhouse gas mitigation efforts in agricultural and urban land use

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 104991
Author(s):  
Leena Kärkkäinen ◽  
Heikki Lehtonen ◽  
Janne Helin ◽  
Jussi Lintunen ◽  
Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

scholarly journals Consumption-oriented policy instruments for fostering greenhouse gas mitigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (sup1) ◽  
pp. S58-S73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Grubb ◽  
Doug Crawford-Brown ◽  
Karsten Neuhoff ◽  
Karin Schanes ◽  
Sonja Hawkins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

Part I International Refugee Law— Reflections on the Scholarly Field, Ch.4 Queering International Refugee Law

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferreira Nuno ◽  
Danisi Carmelo
Keyword(s):  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Refugee Law ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Asylum Law ◽  
International Refugee Law ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Relations Of Power

This chapter investigates the links between asylum law and policy and sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). Although human rights have been increasingly recognized irrespective of one’s SOGI at international, regional, and domestic levels, legal frameworks do not yet tackle violations of such rights effectively. As a result, members of SOGI minorities may be forced to flee their countries of origin, often making SOGI-based asylum claims in host countries. Since the inception of the Refugee Convention, there has been a continuous battle for recognition of SOGI claims within a system that was not designed with SOGI minorities in mind. The chapter thus explores key aspects of SOGI asylum that ultimately question the heteronormative relations of power in asylum law and highlights how legal and policy frameworks may be reformed. It considers how refugee law has been progressively queered, looking at the range of legal and policy instruments that play a role in this queering process. Finally, the chapter identifies the key actors that have contributed to the development of SOGI refugee law and assesses the specific needs of SOGI asylum claimants and refugees.

Do politics matter? Women in Swedish local elected assemblies 1970–2010 and gender equality in outcomes

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Wängnerud ◽  
Anders Sundell
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
National Level ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Equal Distribution ◽  
Input Side ◽  
Part Time ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Elected Representatives

A substantial number of studies support the notion that having a high number of women in elected office helps strengthen the position of women in society. However, some of the most cited studies rely on questionnaires asking elected representatives about their attitudes and priorities, thus focusing on the input side of the political system. The closer one gets to outcomes in citizens’ everyday lives, the fewer empirical findings there are to report. In this study, we attempt to explain contemporary variations in gender equality at the sub-national level in Sweden. We use six indicators to capture a broad spectrum of everyday life situations. The overall finding is that having a high number of women elected does affect conditions for women citizens, making them more equal to men in terms of factors such as income levels, full-time vs. part-time employment, and distribution of parental leave between mothers and fathers, even when controlling for party ideology and modernization at the municipal level. No effect was found, however, on factors such as unemployment, poor health, and poverty among women. Thus, the politics of presence theory (Phillips, 1995), which emphasizes the importance of having a high number of women elected, does exert an effect, but the effect needs to be specified. For some dimensions of gender equality, the driving forces of change have more to do with general transformations of society than the equal distribution of women and men in elected assemblies. We thoroughly discuss measurement challenges since there is no accepted or straightforward way of testing the politics of presence theory. We challenge the conventional wisdom of using indexes to capture the network of circumstances that determines the relationship between women and men in society; aggregating several factors undermines the possibility of building fine-tuned understandings of the operative mechanisms.

scholarly journals The role of coalitions at international tariff negotiations: a CGE perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Freund
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Least Developed Countries ◽  
Equal Distribution ◽  
The World ◽  
Equity Effects ◽  
Empirical Implications

AbstractDeveloping countries coalitions form an integral part of tariff negotiations that take place under the aegis of the World Trade Organization. While there was only a single coalition in the 70s, their number increased to 31 in the year 2005. Despite the apparent proliferation of coalitions in tariff negotiations, little research on their theoretical and empirical implications has been produced. In particular, we lack an understanding of efficiency and equity effects of coalitions. By exploring this equity-efficiency nexus, the study finds that developing countries coalitions like the G-90 and the Least Developed Countries Group – while benefiting member countries – lead to less efficiency and less equity overall. Forming the Cairns Group, however, leads to a more efficient and equal distribution of the gains from trade.

scholarly journals Emissions trading as a policy option for greenhouse gas mitigation in South Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Tyler ◽  
Michelle Du Toit ◽  
Zelda Burchell
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Emissions Trading ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Policy Option ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Scheme Design ◽  
Lack Of Information

Emissions trading is fast becoming one of the most popular policy instruments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions internationally. This hybrid instrument combines the certainty of mitigation volume delivered by regulation, whilst also harnessing the power of the market through an economic approach to deliver migitation price discovery and least cost mitigation opportunities. Theoretically, this is a powerful combination.However, the realities of uncertainty and lack of information result in international emissions trading experience deviating substantially from the instrument’s theoretical potential. This is of particular relevance in a developing country context. Scheme design is therefore very important to counter these market failures, and policymakers are required to strike a balance between this and introducing distortions. Given that the instrument is in its infancy, performance of the various schemes up and running internationally is inconclusive. Emissions trading proponents argue that the benefits will be realised over time, once the initial teething problems are overcome. The paper is the result of research conducted in 2008 and presented at the South African Climate Policy Summit in 2009. It considers theory and international experience in application to the potential establishment of an emissions trading scheme in South Africa. Lack of data, capacity and experience with markets in the energy sector present complications in the use of the instrument as a central part of the nation’s mitigation policy suite, as do market concentration issues. Should an emissions trading be proposed, the paper argues for ways in which its design could address these complications, and align with the current energy security imperative resulting from the electricity crisis in the country, the twin political objectives of poverty reduction and employment creation of the recently elected government, and the timeframes proposed by the Long Term Mitigation Scenarios.

Islands, the Humanities and environmental conservation

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
GARRY W. TROMPF
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Island Conservation ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
The Social ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
And Gender

SUMMARYThis paper concerns itself with the contributions that the Humanities make to the understanding of islands and their bettered environmental conservation. Most distinctively, the Humanities comprise Literary Studies, Studies in Art and Culture (including Indigenous and Gender Studies) and Philosophy (with Aesthetics and the History of Ideas), but they also encompass Archaeology, History, Linguistics, Studies in Religion and, of late, Media and Communication Studies, even though members of this latter cluster frequently deploy methods from the social sciences. The goal here is to explore many of the implications such Human Studies and their sub-branches may have for island conservation, above all informed by the History of Ideas, in order to introduce the relevant key issues and inter-relationships and offer the most judicious illustrative materials. Variances in the reach and special attention of all these branches of knowledge are vast and intricate, while complex relativities apply both in the types of island situations and in expectations about what can or should be conserved. Since the mass of apposite discussions in the literature cannot possibly be summarized here, this article circumvents the difficulties by means of a special double-edged review. It ranges over the history of human consciousness of insular worlds, as reflected in mythic, legendary and historical materials, yet en route it uncovers how Humanities research can elucidate the human responses to islands through known time and shows how developing meaning-making has generally enhanced the appeal of sea-locked environments as worth conserving.

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