The book project on Bio, Circular and Green Growth in Developing Countries that has been co-edited by IEE member Dr. Elkhan Richard Sadik-Zada and Dr. Andrea Gatto from Kean University has been recently published.
Frontiers and Best Practices in Bio, Circular, and Green Growth and Eco-Innovation
This book project accommodates contributions on the novel business models, technology advances and public regulations that are favorable for the development of a circular economy and green economic growth in the developing economies, and in the structurally challenged areas within the industrialized world. The positive examples make clear that the frontiers of circular and bio-economy development, and green growth are by no means confined to economically advanced countries. This means that developing economies do not have to repeat the inverted U-shaped income–environment relationship and enter the carbon-saving sustainable growth and development track commencing from the initial phases of economic modernization. The positive examples in this book project show that the pathways to sustainable development in the Global South are real. There is, however, no guarantee that developing countries would join them. To assure this, advanced countries must rethink their international development cooperation and enhanced development policies in the realm of international climate action.
The publication is available under the following link: https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-0365-7565-0
A new paper has been published by IEE-Member Britta Niklas
-The effect of South African wine certifications on price premiums and marginal costs: A two-stage hedonic approach- Economic Modelling Volume 132, March 2024, 106650, ISSN 0264-9993
This paper analyses whether there are price premiums for certified and black economic empowerment (BEE) South African wines in the domestic market and the major export markets (Germany, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Belgium) and estimates what (marginal) costs are related to supplying these certifications. The results suggest price premiums for BEE wines, while for certified wines price premiums only apply in some markets and especially for those certifications that focus on the environment and organic production, but not for those that focus on fair trade or labor. The results for marginal costs suggest that subsidized BEE wines sell lower quantities but gain access to higher price segments, while the opposite holds true for certified wines. Additionally, for certified wines (except Fairtrade), younger and private producers have a comparative cost advantage.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264999324000063?via%3Dihub
New paper has been published by IEE-Student Evelyn Yohana Tique Calderón
Determinantes de crédito agropecuario entre productores de leche en Colombia
Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales. ISSN: 1578-0732.e-ISSN: 2174-7350. Vol. 23,2. (2023). pp. 61-90
Abstract: Associated milk producers in the Province of Ubaté (Colombia) exclude themselves from agricultural credit mainly because there are too many requirements, paperwork, and fear of not being able to pay the credit or lose the guarantee. Through decision trees, the determinants of the need, request and approval of agricultural credit are analyzed. The results indicate that the sex of the producers is the criterion that best separates the data and determines the other factors related to agricultural credit decisions: land tenure and area, productivity, educational level, and perceived difficulty.
https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/EARN/article/view/17658/16304
Modernization through Solar Off-Grid Electrification?A Mixed Picture for Rural Sierra Leone |
The paper reviews the major risks and opportunities related to the exploitation of mesopelagic fisheries. The authors advocate for the enhancement of sustainable small-sized deep-sea fishery practices on the one hand side and a global moratorium on large-scale mesopelagic fishing on the other hand. Deep seas could provide substantial resources for combating global food insecurity and facilitate a substantial improvement of the nutritional status in the regions plagued by a high incidence of infant mortality and disproportional poverty headcount ratios. For the sake of global and regional food and nutrition security, the exploitation of the biological resources of the mesopelagic zone is a legitimate target, whereby environmental sustainability is the major precondition for the rollout of these kinds of fishing activities.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2023.106907
A book chapter co-authored by IEE-Member Dr. Elkhan Richard Sadik-Zada has been published in a newly published book project - Economic Growth and Environmental Quality in a Post-Pandemic World: New Directions in the Econometrics of the Environmental Kuznets Curve.
Addressing the Nexus between Economic Growth and Environmental Pollution in a Small Petroleum-Exporting Transition Economy
The book chapter addresses the income–environment nexus in a small fossil fuel-abundant transition economy. To address this research question, the authors analyze the case study of Azerbaijan. Besides delving into the reports and official documents on economic development and environmental degradation, the authors investigate also quantitatively the relationship between income and environmental pollution. The study rejects the inverted U-shaped relationship between the level of per capita income and atmospheric pollution. The autoregressive distributed lag model indicates that Azerbaijan experienced a rather carbon-saving economic growth over the last two decades. A 1% increase in gross domestic product (GDP) leads to a 0.01% decrease in the per capita carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the long term perspective. There is no short-term effect of economic growth on the level of average per capita emissions. Furthermore, the study establishes a positive long-term relationship between the level of gross GDP and gross greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Contradicting at first glance, the results could be reconciled as follows: a greater level of income leads to more significant emissions. We make this conclusion because of the positive long-term gross GDP and total GHG nexus. However, an increase in income leads to decreasing marginal increases in emissions. This result emanates from the negative GDP growth and per capita emissions nexus. Hence, the empirical analyses also indicate that the growing Azeri economy has transformed into a more climate-friendly economy.
Sadik-Zada, Elkhan Richard, Gatto, Andrea, Mammadli, Mübariz. 2023. Addressing the Nexus between Economic Growth and Environmental Pollution in a Small Petroleum-Exporting Transition Economy. In: Muhammad Shahbaz, Daniel Balsalobre Lorente, Rajesh Sharma (eds.). Economic Growth and Environmental Quality in a Post-Pandemic World. New Directions in the Econometrics of the Environmental Kuznets Curve. London and New York: Routlege. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003336563-10/addressing-nexus-economic-growth-environmental-pollution-small-petroleum-exporting-transition-economy-elkhan-richard-sadik-zada-andrea-gatto-mubariz-mammadli
A new paper has been published by IEE-Member Ricardo G. Paris - Using geospatial data to identify land grabbing. Detecting spatial reconfigurations during the implementation of the Nacala Development Corridor in Mozambique with remote sensing and land conflicts databases
European Journal of Remote SensingVolume 56, 2023 - Issue 1
The contemporary food system pushes agriculture to a globalized value-chain, affecting landscapes, resource access, and institutional arrangements. Institutions operating in Africa adopt development corridors to integrate multisector investments and induce export-driven primary sector, leading to massive land deals, also known as land-grabbing. Organizations struggle to monitor land deals accurately, lacking spatial precision and contextual information for affected communities. This research examines Mozambique's Nacala Corridor, using geospatial data as a tool to detect spatial (re)configurations due to exported-oriented policies and infrastructure. Data from land conflicts databases (Land Matrix and Environmental Justice) were analyzed with remote sensing Landsat and MODIS imagery using multiple indexes, an EVI time series, and the application of the LandTrendr algorithm. The results show that the temporal and spatial analysis of remote-sensing data is in line with the major political and economic dynamics of the region. Hotspots of land cover changes were detected in the same areas where land grabbing were reported; however, reported and detected land areas did not coincide. Temporal analysis showed that institutional changes played a greater role in triggering land use changes than infrastructure implementation. We conclude that land cover modifications, conflicts, and spatial development initiatives follows policies and institutional arrangements targeting international investments.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22797254.2023.2223751
Biswaranjan Tripura, PhD IDS candidate, just published an article
Decolonizing ethnography and Tribes in India: Toward an alternative methodology
in: Front. Polit. Sci.
available online
This article unravels the many ways of doing ethnography within the area of Tribal studies in India. Historically (methodologically), studies concerning Tribes in India were dominated by colonial ethnographers and explorers. Subsequently, in post-colonial India, such studies became the field of a dominant male caste. From a similar perspective of dominance, these studies on Tribes in India viewed them as either backward or from the point of view that “civilization” could be achieved only through bringing them into the mainstream. Scholars who followed such frames of reference failed to reflect on their own dominant social positions in engaging in research projects with their Tribal subjects. Moreover, some of them even stated to have been inspired by the studies of Malinowski, whose methodology is considered to be uncritical, non-sensitive, and non-reflexive, especially while relating to Tribal studies. The Tribal people in India, therefore, continued to be framed within such a dominant caste perspective, without the slightest effort to treat them as non-caste societies or as equals within caste societies. Methodologically, by positioning myself against such frames of reference while engaging in research within the context of Tribes in India, I draw my research frameworks from those of indigenous methodologies to explore the possibilities of decolonizing ethnography by recognizing many ways of doing. Empirically, I base my engagement with a specific Tribal group (Tripura Tribe) in Tripura, Northeast India. As an indigenous community within the Indian state of Tripura, Tripura people's epistemology/worldviews differ from that of the majoritarian Savarna caste society. With an intent to decolonize ethnography from an indigenous context, in this article, I demonstrate the many ways of doing ethnography by innovatively engaging with three related methods, namely, the conversational method, engaged observation, and sitting around the fire. This article argues that for any researcher, when engaging in research within the context of Tribes, the methods and frame of reference employed must be congruent with indigenous ways of being, knowing, and doing. Furthermore, it also insists that critical reflexivity, responsibility, and sensitivity are keys to Tribal studies in India.
Biswaranjan Tripura, PhD IDS candidate, just published an article
The Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) was established in 1982 and was further upgraded to the Sixth Schedule in 1984 as a constitutional response to historical experiences of tribes since the merger of the Princely state of Tripura with the Indian Union. The authors state that the opportunity offered for empowerment to Indigenous tribal people through the District Council cannot be materialised without addressing the ‘tribal question’. This paper foregrounds context specific historical challenges confronting the District Council. It argues for strengthening the political agency of the TTAADC and enhancing its decision-making and administrative capabilities for tribal areas. The authors suggest a negotiated integrated framework for envisioning the TTAADC within an asymmetrical federal structure.
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Sadik-Zada, E.R. Gatto, A. (2023). Frontiers and Best Practices in Bio, Circular, and Green Growth and Eco-Innovation.
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Sadik-Zada, E.R., Gatto, A., Weißnicht, Y. (2024). Back to the Future: Revisiting the Perspectives on nuclear fusion and juxtaposition to existing energy sources. Energy, Volume 290, 129150.
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Britta Niklas, The effect of South African wine certifications on price premiums and marginal costs: A two-stage hedonic approach, Economic Modelling Volume 132, March 2024
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More information: "Publications / New Publications"
Nov 13.11. - 14.11.2023
Simon Rahn
Development Dialogue Konferenz (DD19), International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, NL
May 28.5. - 31.5.2023
Britta Niklas
Greece, Crete, 2nd annual conference of the European Association of Wine Economists (EUAWE)
Apr 16.4. - 22.4.2023
Irene Among
South Africa, Cape Twon, UWC, Lecture
Apr 3.4. - 7.4.2023
Irene Among
UK, Studies Conference
Mar 18.3. - 4.4.2023:
Britta Niklas
South Africa, Cape Twon, UWC, Lecture
Feb 11.02. - 27.02.2023:
Wilhelm Löwenstein
South Africa, Cape Twon, UWC, Lecture
Jan 07.01. -25.01.2023:
Elkhan Sadik-Zada
South Africa, Cape Town, UWC, Lecture