Trade and Environment Nexus

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debashis Mazumdar ◽  
Mainak Bhattacharjee ◽  
Jayeeta Roy Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
International Inequality ◽  
Productive Activities ◽  
Steep Decline

One major concern that has emerged in the post-globalization period is climate change. Given that pollution and environmental degradation is a public bad, the adverse change in the climate of one region will have ubiquitous effect and therefore will hamper the process of sustainable development across the globe. There are substantial links between international trade and environmental issues – one being that of the perverted comparative advantage which evolves mainly out of the neglect of environmental damage caused by productive activities. In this chapter, an attempt has been made to build a theoretical framework related to intra-industry trade with production differentiation based on the environmental quality of the goods and price to address how liberalization of trade happens to affect the environment of the trading nations. The study shows a steep decline in the environmental quality of the good that was relatively cleaner under autarky while a meagre improvement in the environmental quality of the relatively dirtier good. Hence, it is revealed hereby how trade alters the nature of international inequality in the environmental quality of the productive activities.

scholarly journals Economic Development and Environmental Degradation in Indonesia: Panel Data Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. Layouting
Author(s):  
M Irsyad Ilham
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Environmental Damage

This study analyzed the relationship of economic development, population density, and the number of vehicles on environmental degradation from 31 provinces in Indonesia for the period 2011-2019. Panel data analysis, which is widely used to examine issues that could not be studied in either cross-section or time-series alone, is used herein. The empirical results support the hypothesis on the direction of causality from those three factors of environmental damage in the country. The results concluded that economic development, population density, and the number of vehicles impacted on environmental degradation in Indonesia. The smallest cross-section random effect indicates the lowest environmental quality when all factors are fixed. The empirical findings provide important policy implications for Indonesia and it will direct its economic development model towards a green economic one. On the other hand, the growth of the population should be equalized with growth in human development. The distribution of population should be equalized among provinces by opening a new economic cluster to supply new work-fields. In addition, it should be for the country to create a more-educated population in order to protect environmental quality. Despite the unstoppable growth of vehicles, the government should implement the development of eco-friendly combustion technology besides reducing fuel consumption. Moreover, the road-making by plastic-based material can be considered to prevent land damage from plastic waste and might also recycle plastics which has caused pollution in Indonesia.

Slum Upgrading Spatial Model Based on Level of Vulnerability to Climate Change in Coastal Area of Semarang City

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Khristiana Dwi Astuti ◽  
P Pangi ◽  
Reny Yesiana ◽  
Intan Muning Harjanti
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
National Development ◽  
Urban Slum ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Slum Upgrading ◽  
Slum Settlements

Slum settlement is one of the significant global problems which requires special concern in the discussion agenda of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of 2016-2030. The Sustainable Development Summit held in New York in September 2015 formulated that one of SDGs goals is to build inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities and settlements. In Indonesia, the achievement of this goal is stated in National Medium-Term Development Plan 2015-2019, i.e. creating 0% urban slum settlement which is supported by policies expected to accommodate the achievement of national development targets. Semarang Mayor Decree No. 050/801/2014 concerning the Determination of the Location of Housing Environment and Slum Settlements in Semarang City has been issued as the basis to identify slum settlements scattered throughout Semarang city, in terms of location, physical condition, and social conditions. This study was conducted by case studies on slum settlements in Trimulyo Village and Mangkang Wetan Village, Semarang city, Central Java Province, Indonesia, to formulate a slum upgrading model based on the resilience level of coastal communities towards climate change. The analysis included identifying the characteristics of slum settlements, scoring analysis to determine the resilience level possessed by coastal communities, and analysis of pentagon assets used to formulate slum upgrading models. The results of the study showed that these two research areas had a moderate level of vulnerability, with several different characteristics of asset ownership, particularly those related to human and social assets. Increasing the quality of human resources and social relations in the community was more intensified in the environment and community in Trimulyo, while improving the physical quality of the environment through housing improvements was carried out in Mangkang Wetan.

scholarly journals Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis: A Perspective of Sustainable Development in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 09021
Author(s):  
Citrasmara Galuh Nuansa ◽  
Wahyu Widodo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Ekc Hypothesis ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The Relationship

Sustainable development with three main pillars, namely environmental, economic, and social, is the concept of country’s development to achieve inclusive economic growth, good environmental quality, and improvement of people's welfare. However, the dominance of economic factors cause various environmental problem. This phenomenon occurs in most of developing countries, including in Indonesia. The relationship between economic activity and environmental quality has been widely discussed and empirically tested by scholars. This descriptive research analysed the hypothesis called Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) from a perspective of sustainable development in Indonesia. EKC hypothesis illustrates the relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation forming an inverted U-curve, indicating that at the beginning of development, environmental quality will decrease along with increasing economic growth, and then reached a certain point the environmental quality will gradually improve. In this paper will be discussed how the relationship between environmental quality and economic growth in Indonesia was investigated. The preliminary results show that most of the empirical studies use the conventional approach, in which the CO2 emission used as the proxy of environmental degradation. The existence of inverted U-curve is also inconclusive. Therefore, the extension research on the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality in Indonesia using the EKC hypothesis is required.

The Economized Design of Modern Indoor House

2013 ◽  
Vol 368-370 ◽  
pp. 558-561
Author(s):  
Lin Sen Guo ◽  
Jing Xu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Economic Benefit ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Modern House

This thesis precisely points out the current situation of our country and the existing problems in the design of indoor house and focuses on the illustration that the consciousness of ecology, energy saving and economic benefit must be carried when dealing with the indoor design of modern house and the strategy of economized design should be adopted, which thus can improve the environmental quality of housing and keep identical with the strategic demand of our countrys sustainable development.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Spatiotemporal Variations in the Eco-environmental Quality in China Based on the Remote Sensing Ecological Index

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 2462
Author(s):  
Weihua Liao ◽  
Weiguo Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Western China ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Ecological Index ◽  
Computing Platform ◽  
The Status

The eco-environment is dynamic and shows a continuous process of long-term change. It is helpful for policymakers to know the status of the regional eco-environment through accurate evaluations of the history and current situation of the regional eco-environment. The remote sensing ecological index (RSEI) model of China was established in this study by using four indexes: wetness, greenness, dryness, and heat. Knowledge granulation of the RSEIs were carried out, and a method to determine the weights of the knowledge granulation entropy of the indexes based on their characteristics was proposed. This study used Moderate Resolution Image Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data from the Google Cloud Computing Platform to study and calculate the eco-environmental quality of China from 2000–2017. The overall eco-environmental quality in China tended to improve from 2000–2017, although there were large areas of ecological degradation from 2009–2014. The eco-environment of eastern China was better than that of western China. Most of the national ecological areas were third-level ecological areas, which had moderate environmental quality. Dryness was the most important factor affecting the quality of the eco-environment, followed by greenness, which reflected the increasing environmental damage caused by human activities in China in recent years.

scholarly journals Ecolabel: Is more information better?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hend Ghazzai ◽  
Rim Lahmandi-Ayed
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Partial Information ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Type I ◽  
Cost Of Quality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Firm Profit

Abstract We study in this paper the effect of the type of information provided by an ecolabel. For this purpose, in the framework of a model of vertical differentiation, we compare the effects of a partial information label (Type I) and a complete information label (Type III) on firms' profits, industry profit, consumers' surplus, environmental damage and social welfare. A partial information label indicates that the environmental quality of a good exceeds some given threshold. The authority issuing a partial information label chooses its labeling criteria while maximizing the social welfare. A complete information label indicates the exact environmental quality chosen by firms. We prove that while a partial information label always improves the social welfare and deteriorates the green firm profit compared to a complete information label, the comparison between the two types of ecolabel in terms of the brown firm's profit, the industry's profit, the consumers surplus and the environment depend in a non-obvious way on the marginal cost of quality and on the environmental sensitivity to quality.

scholarly journals Digital Teaching: In Search Of An Effective Paperless Platform For Classroom Activities

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Flory Anette Dieck-Assad
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Purpose Of Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Innovative Tool ◽  
Technological Platform ◽  
Classroom Time

Sydney J. Harris advises us, “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows”. Never like today, are we in the need to help teachers and professors to guide their students to open windows and get involved with the geopolitical and economic needs of the world. This paper tests the hypothesis that Microsoft OneNote Class Notebook (MONCN), used in undergraduate Finance courses as a tool for digital teaching, can both promote sustainable development and make the students become leaders, using this innovative tool of learning as part of their own activities and lives in the future. The test of the hypothesis also demonstrates that students manage to make the classroom time more effective and efficient for learning when using MONCN as a paperless technological platform. Thus, without impacting the effectiveness and quality of education, MONCN surges as a tool for inspiring the students to become committed citizens that can change the world and collaborate in the fight of climate change.

scholarly journals Ekologi dan Kerusakan Lingkungan dalam Persepektif Al-Qur’an

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-134
Author(s):  
L. Sholehuddin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Seasonal Changes ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Data Collection Technique

Ecosystem is an overall unified arrangement of elements of the environment that influence each other in creating balance, order and sustainability. The discourse on environmental conservation has become an actual issue in the midst of the threat of a global crisis as a consequence of disasters, climate change, global warming, erratic seasonal changes, decreased quality of life and the threat of destruction of the earth. This condition triggers the anxiety and worry of mankind about the extinction of the earth. This study will answer how the Koran talks about the environment and its impact on human life. The design of this research is a qualitative type of literature. The data collection technique is the documentation of collecting environmental damage verses. The analysis uses a comparative interpretive, namely examining verses on environmental damage, comparing them, then concluding them through inductive thinking. The results of the study prove that environmental damage is caused by polytheists, hypocrites, greedy and selfish people. Solutions for strengthening monotheism, awareness of environmental law, and moral natural resource management.

scholarly journals The promotion of both decent and green jobs through cooperatives

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josune López Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Green Jobs ◽  
Starting Point

Nowadays, it is undeniable that continuous environmental degradation and climate change threaten the sustainability of the planet. As a consequence, there is an urgent need to face these menaces and to promote sustainable development. From this starting point, this paper aims to show how cooperatives can be a useful channel to promote green and decent jobs. In order to achieve this objective, first of all, we will analyse the conceptual scope of green and decent jobs. Secondly, we will highlight the meaning of cooperatives, paying special attention to cooperative values and principles. Thirdly, we will proceed to explain how cooperatives can contribute to encourage green and decent jobs. And, lastly, we will enumerate the main conclusions.Received: 29 November 2018Accepted: 07 March 2019Published online: 22 July 2019

Investigation on Present Status of Environmental Quality of Mt. Longhushan Scenic Area and Analysis on Optimization Measures

2013 ◽  
Vol 779-780 ◽  
pp. 1505-1508
Author(s):  
Fu Jun Liu ◽  
Fu Sheng Guo ◽  
Hua Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Present Status ◽  
Management System ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
National Standards ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Quality Of Water ◽  
Negative Effect

this article has analyzed the quality of water, air and soil in Mt. Longhushan Scenic Area in recent three years. It turns out that although the environmental quality is good and complies with the national standards, various indexes are increasing year by year. And meanwhile, the disordered development has affected the environment, hence, the cultural pollution cannot be neglected. According to the investigation results, the tourism development for scenic area has brought negative effect to the environment. Therefore, we must take the active actions, quicken the pace on completing the management system, make a reasonable plan so as to promote the sustainable development to the scenic area.

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