scholarly journals The Effect of Port Gate Location and Gate Procedures on the Port-City Relation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4884
Author(s):  
Marina Zanne ◽  
Elen Twrdy ◽  
Bojan Beškovnik
Keyword(s):  
External Costs ◽  
Port City ◽  
Green Growth ◽  
Port Management ◽  
Gate Location ◽  
Efficient Performance ◽  
Port Access ◽  
National Governments ◽  
City Relations ◽  
The Impact

Ports are important hubs that have positive impacts on the regions they serve, but they also pose some challenges that need to be addressed. Many ports around the world have aligned their development strategies with the concept of green growth; however, the green and efficient performance of ports does not only depend on the port management itself; some elements need to be negotiated and approved by local and national governments. One of such elements is road port access. We investigated the impact of port gate location and port gate procedures on port’s performance by examining the case of the Adriatic port of Koper, the only Slovenian international cargo port. We found that significant external costs are incurred due to a non-optimized situation caused by the lack of coordination and cooperation on all levels, although the port of Koper is one of European core ports. Further, delayed digitalization of port gate procedures caused by port management adds to degradation of port city relations.

scholarly journals The effects of environmental regulation and technological innovation on green growth: A theoretical analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 04054
Author(s):  
Xuefei Xu ◽  
Lili Wang ◽  
Shang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Causal Chain ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Green Growth ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Causality Chain

As green growth has attracted a great deal of attention due to the growing concern about the degradation of natural resources and environmental pollution in China, the questions of how to achieve it and which factors drive green growth have become hot topics. Environmental regulation and technological innovation are two main fulcrums in the realization of green growth. However, there is lacking a deeper understanding of the impact of environmental regulation and technological innovation on green growth in a methodological framework. Accordingly, this paper attempts to analyze how these factors affect the implementation of green growth in a model. The findings reveal that (1) in the short term, environmental regulation has inhibited green growth, but has a positive impact on green growth in the long run, (2) technological innovation plays a positive role in green growth improvement, and (3) the causality chain among regulation, technological innovation, and green growth is a typical mediation model. Technological innovation plays an important mediation role in the causal chain. This study not only enriches and deepens theories on green growth, but also successfully implements green growth practices and improve their performance.

scholarly journals Valuing environmental health for informed policy-making

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 171-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vojtěch Máca ◽  
Jan Melichar ◽  
Milan Ščasný ◽  
Markéta Braun Kohlová
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
External Costs ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Geographic Coverage ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Health Impact Assessments ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background: Monetized environmental health impact assessments help to better evaluate the environmental burden of a wide range of economic activities. Apart from the limitations and uncertainties in physical and biological science used in such assessments, assumptions taken from economic valuation may also substantially influence subsequent policy-making considerations. Aim: This study attempts to demonstrate the impact of normative policy assumptions on quantified external costs using a case study of recently discussed variants of future coal mining and use of extracted coal in electricity and heat generation in the Czech Republic. Methods: A bottom-up impact-pathway approach is used for quantification of external costs. Several policy perspectives are elaborated for aggregating impacts that differ in geographic coverage and in how valuation of quantified impacts is adjusted in a particular perspective. Results: We find that the fraction of monetized external impacts taken into policy-making considerations may vary according to choice of decision perspective up to a factor of 10. Conclusion: At present there are virtually no hard rules for defining geographical boundaries or adjusting values for a summation of monetized environmental impacts. We, however, stress that any rigorous external cost assessment should, for instance in a separate calculation, take account of impacts occurring beyond country borders.

Altered States or Much to Do About Nothing? A Study of When Cannabis Is Used in Relation to the Impact It Has on Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-478
Author(s):  
Jeremy B. Bernerth ◽  
H. Jack Walker
Keyword(s):  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Counterproductive Work Behaviors ◽  
Work Behaviors ◽  
Altered States ◽  
Workplace Performance ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
Using Data ◽  
National Governments ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

As more local, state, and national governments change laws regarding the legality of cannabis use, it is essential for organizations to understand how the workplace may be influenced by these changes. The current study begins to answer this question by examining the relationship between three temporal-based cannabis measures and five forms of workplace performance. Using data from 281 employees and their direct supervisors, our results indicate that cannabis use before and during work negatively relate to task performance, organization-aimed citizenship behaviors, and two forms of counterproductive work behaviors. At the same time, after-work cannabis use was not related (positively or negatively) to any form of performance as rated by the user’s direct supervisor. We discuss methodological, theoretical, and practical implications for researchers, organizations, and governmental agencies concerned with cannabis use.

Health Consequences of the Asian Currency Crisis: Continuing Imperatives for a Primary Health Care Approach

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Simon Barraclough ◽  
Martha Morrow
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Currency Crisis ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Asian Currency Crisis ◽  
National Governments ◽  
The Impact

The Asian currency crisis and its attendant socio-economic problems in several Asian countries have had serious health consequences, especially for the poor. The scale of these problems has varied between countries due to their differing levels of economic development. Indonesia faces a malor emergency with the threat of widespread malnutrition and rapidly increasing rates of poverty. In this article, some of these health issues are discussed and the response of national governments and international agencies described. To date, the most significant players have been the supra-national financial institutions, which have urged national governments to maintain real levels of expenditure on essential health and education services. These institutions have provided substantial loans to prop up the ailing economies of South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia. Social development programmes, including health, have been an element in each of these loan schemes. It is argued that pressure should be maintained on the IMF, World Bank and Asian Development Bank to support measures to reduce the impact of the crisis on the poor. Such measures must include protection of public expenditure on primary health care. The currency crisis will also provide opportunities to reassert the vital importance of primary health care and to carry out reforms to strengthen it.

scholarly journals Education Policies, Discourse of Ideology and the Construction of National Identity in Pakistan: A Critical Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (III) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Shafiq Qurban ◽  
Husnul Amin
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
The Government ◽  
National Governments ◽  
The Impact

National Governments have controlled education policy to construct national identity according to the agenda of the government of the time. Education policy promotes discourse of ideology to construct national identity. Islam has always influenced formulation of education policies in Pakistan. This article explores the impact of change in governments upon discourse of ideology in education policies in the construction of national identity. It is based on primary data collected from education policies of 1947, 1959, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1979, 1992, 1998 and 2009. Discourse analysis reveals the fact that governments in Pakistan have used divergent discourses of Islamic ideology. The discontinuity in discourse of Islamic ideology has obstructed nation-building resulting in identity crisis. This research suggests that governments should follow identical discourse of ideology in education policies for nation-building with exigencies of time rather than using divergent policies.

scholarly journals The Global Crisis and the Subsidies to Manufacturing Firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaya Halil Dincer ◽  
Balas Ayse Nilgun
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Quality Certification ◽  
The World ◽  
Firm Type ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
National Governments ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The 2008-2009 global crisis has severely affected the world economy. Most national governments utilized fiscal policy measures including subsidies to reinforce and sustain their economies. In this study we examine the impact of the 2008-2009 global crisis on subsidies paid to manufacturing firms either by their governments or the European Union (i.e. EU). Our results indicate that, overall, a significantly larger proportion of firms had received subsidies after the global crisis. When we look into different subgroups, we find that firm size, female ownership, female management, and quality certification did not matter (more firms in all of these subgroups had received subsidies). On the other hand, our results demonstrate that firm type and top manager’s experience level made a difference in terms of subsidies received after the crisis.

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