2024-03-28T09:05:08Z
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oai:researchonline.jcu.edu.au:45579
2024-03-03T14:16:57Z
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Participation in devolved commons management: multiscale socioeconomic factors related to individuals' participation in community-based management of marine protected areas in Indonesia
Gurney, G.G.
Cinner, J.E.
Sartin, J.
Pressey, R.L.
Ban, N.C.
Marshall, N.A.
Prabuning, D.
Management of common-pool natural resources is commonly implemented under institutional models promoting devolved decision-making, such as co-management and community-based management. Although participation of local people is critical to the success of devolved commons management, few studies have empirically investigated how individuals' participation is related to socioeconomic factors that operate at multiple scales. Here, we evaluated how individual- and community-scale factors were related to levels of individual participation in management of community-based marine protected areas in Indonesia. In addressing this aim, we drew on multiple bodies of literature on human behaviour from economics and social science, including the social-ecological systems framework from the literature on common-pool resources, the theory of planned behaviour from social psychology, and public goods games from behavioural economics. We found three key factors related to level of participation of local people: subjective norms, structural elements of social capital, and nested institutions. There was also suggestive evidence that participation was related to people's cooperative behavioural disposition, which we elicited using a public goods game. These results point to the importance of considering socioeconomic factors that operate at multiple scales when examining individual behaviour. Further, our study highlights the need to consider multiscale mechanisms other than those designed to appeal to self interested concerns, such as regulations and material incentives, which are typically employed in devolved commons management to encourage participation. Increased understanding of the factors related to participation could facilitate better targeting of investments aimed at encouraging cooperative management.
Elsevier
2016
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2016.04.015
Gurney, G.G., Cinner, J.E., Sartin, J., Pressey, R.L., Ban, N.C., Marshall, N.A., and Prabuning, D. (2016) Participation in devolved commons management: multiscale socioeconomic factors related to individuals' participation in community-based management of marine protected areas in Indonesia. Environmental Science & Policy, 61. pp. 212-220.
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oai:researchonline.jcu.edu.au:60634
2024-03-03T14:46:58Z
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A circular economy approach to green energy: wind turbine, waste, and material recovery
Hao, Siqi
Kuah, Adrian T. H.
Rudd, Christopher D.
Wong, Kok Hoong
Lai, Nai Yeen Gavin
Mao, Jianan
Liu, Xiaoling
Wind energy has been considered as one of the greenest renewable energy sources over the last two decades. However, attention is turning to reducing the possible environmental impacts from this sector. We argue that wind energy would not be effectively “green” if anthropogenic materials are not given attention in a responsible manner. Using the concept of the circular economy, this paper considers how anthropogenic materials in the form of carbon fibers can reenter the circular economy system at the highest possible quality. This paper first investigates the viability of a carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer extraction process using thermal pyrolysis to recalibrate the maximum carbon fiber value by examining the effect of (a) heating rate, (b) temperature, and (c) inert gas flow rate on char yield. With cleaner and higher quality recovered carbon fibers, this paper discusses the economic preconditions for the takeoff and growth of the industry and recommends the reuse of extracted carbon fibers to close the circular economy loop.
Elsevier
2020
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135054
Hao, Siqi, Kuah, Adrian T. H., Rudd, Christopher D., Wong, Kok Hoong, Lai, Nai Yeen Gavin, Mao, Jianan, and Liu, Xiaoling (2020) A circular economy approach to green energy: wind turbine, waste, and material recovery. Science of the Total Environment, 702. 135054.
https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/60634/
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oai:researchonline.jcu.edu.au:63486
2024-03-02T15:03:19Z
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Do market and trust contexts spillover into public goods contributions? Evidence from experimental games in Papua New Guinea
Rojas, Cristian
Cinner, Joshua
The provision of public goods, such as voluntary enforcement efforts, can be critical to the management of natural resources. However, the degree to which context can influence people's contributions to the public good is poorly understood. Here, we used sequential games in a 'lab in the field' experimental setting with a fishing community in Papua New Guinea to explore whether behavior in two particular contexts-market and trust-spill over public goods' contributions. Behavioral spillovers occur when behavior in one context influences-or is transferred to-behavior in another context. Our results indicate that there is spillover, but surprisingly this occurs from specific roles assumed within the context rather than the broader context itself. The existence of behavioral spillovers into public goods can render conservation initiatives that rely on contributions ineffective, or even damaging if they crowd out intrinsic behavior. Understanding the potential biases different context-e.g. markets created by market-based instruments or trust relied upon by community-based mechanism-can create, is necessary for the implementation of effective and efficient conservation initiatives.
Elsevier
2020
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https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/63486/1/Rojas%20and%20Cinner%202020.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106661
Rojas, Cristian, and Cinner, Joshua (2020) Do market and trust contexts spillover into public goods contributions? Evidence from experimental games in Papua New Guinea. Ecological Economics, 174. 106661.
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oai:researchonline.jcu.edu.au:65942
2021-02-24T03:17:07Z
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Ambiguous text
Tham, Eric
Text is inherently ambiguous. Yet investors read textual news as the primary source of financial information from the financial news and social media. I used Natural Language Processing on social and financial media text to construct a natural event and Big Data ambiguity measurement. The ambiguity measurement is derived from a mixture of distributions model that distinguishes from disagreement between the two sources. A binomial model based on smooth ambiguity preferences is then proposed that explains salient points of ambiguity on asset pricing in empirical testsin this paper and in Brenner and Izhakian (2018). The paper finds that the financial news media have a bigger influence on asset prices than social media except duringthe last recession from Jun 2009 to Nov 2016. The paper provides a market-wide and natural event evidence of agents' maxmin utility optimisation behavior in Gilboa and Schmeidler (1989)
Miami Behavioral Finance Conference
2019
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Tham, Eric (2019) Ambiguous text. In: [Presented at the Miami Behavioral Finance Conference]. From: 10th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference, 13-14 December 2019, Miami, FL, USA.
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oai:researchonline.jcu.edu.au:74732
2024-02-28T19:30:05Z
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The Impact of Recentralisation on FDI: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Luu, Hiep Ngoc
Minh Nguyen, Ngoc
Nguyen, Hieu Thanh
Although decentralised governance has been one of the most salient political regimes worldwide over the past few decades, many countries have started to realise various shortcomings associated with their decentralisation process. As a consequence, a number of central governments have attempted to pursue recentralisation reforms in order to reclaim authority from the localities. This government reform can lead to significant changes in institutional arrangements, and subsequently, may influence various aspects of socio-economic activities. However, the real impact of recentralisation reform still remains ambiguous. In this paper, we examine how recentralisation may affect foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. We exploit the pilot recentralisation reform that temporarily abolished the intermediate legislative branches in some provinces in Vietnam as a quasi-natural experiment. The result shows that recentralisation leads to a significant reduction in FDI inflows. Our results are robust to a number of sensitivity analyses and falsification tests. Overall, our findings contribute to the literature on the determinants of FDI and provide new evidence on the real effect of recentralisation reform.
Routledge
2022
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https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/74732/1/74732.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1080/14631377.2022.2029252
Luu, Hiep Ngoc, Minh Nguyen, Ngoc, and Nguyen, Hieu Thanh (2022) The Impact of Recentralisation on FDI: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment. Post-Communist Economies, 34 (4). pp. 543-563.
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oai:researchonline.jcu.edu.au:80872
2024-02-29T15:11:18Z
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The impact of recentralization reform on corruption: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment
Luu, Hiep Ngoc
Nguyen, Tram Anh
Nguyen, Ngoc Minh
Le, Dam Duc
Dao, Khoi Trong
How does government recentralization reform affect corruption? We utilize the pilot recentralization reform that transforms the legislative function, power, and responsibility of the district-level authorities to the higher level of the government organ in Vietnam as a quasi-natural experiment to address the aforementioned question. We find strong evidence that recentralization reform leads to lower corruption. The result illustrates that, among the firms which have the highest probability of making a bribe payment, those incorporated in jurisdictions experiencing the recentralization reform are 4.3% less likely to pay a bribe. In addition, the perception that bribery is a common and necessary practice is also significantly lowered in the post-recentralization period. We further show that the impact of recentralization is stronger for firms which lack a political connection. Overall, these results shed light on the real impact of the government recentralization reform and also the determinants of corruption, thereby providing important policy implications for policymakers to create a more conducive business environment.
Wiley-Blackwell
2024
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https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12361
Luu, Hiep Ngoc, Nguyen, Tram Anh, Nguyen, Ngoc Minh, Le, Dam Duc, and Dao, Khoi Trong (2024) The impact of recentralization reform on corruption: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment. Kyklos, 77 (1). pp. 118-148.
https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/80872/
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