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Environmental Studies
Kuei-Feng Chang, Jin-Xu Lin, Shih-Mo Lin
Summary: Soaring global resource prices have reignited interest in the Dutch disease hypothesis, particularly among resource-exporting countries. The rise in intermediate trades in recent decades has led to a double-counting issue, rendering conventional trade statistics inadequate in measuring the value of goods traded and distorting the effects of the Dutch disease.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Shukuan Bai, Yadong Ning, Boya Zhang
Summary: This study evaluates the environmental and employment impacts of China's value-added trade and finds that overall, China's trade increases global emissions and employment, with characteristics of exports having a significant influence. However, China's imports indirectly contribute to global emissions reductions and drive foreign employment. Trade through one-fold value chains plays a dominant role in determining these impacts. Simple global value chain-related trade contributes most to reducing global emissions but decreases global employment. Complex GVC-related trade increases both global employment and emissions. At the bilateral level, impacts vary, and some complex GVC-related bilateral trade contributes to global emission mitigation. China can achieve a win-win situation for the environment and employment through specific value chain routes in bilateral trade with certain countries.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Yihan Wang, Siqin Xiong, Xiaoming Ma
Summary: Global trade results in the transfer of carbon emissions, causing global carbon inequality. Carbon-exporting countries are at a disadvantage in trade, while the EU, Japan, and the USA benefit economically and environmentally. China and ASEAN10 have improved their situations, but the inequality in the RoW148 region has worsened. Adjusting export structures can mitigate global carbon inequality.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yunjun Xiong, Sanmang Wu
Summary: The critical reason for trade friction between China and the United States lies in China's huge trade surplus, which is based on official statistics and does not reflect the real economic benefits and environmental costs. China mainly imports intermediate products and exports final products to the United States, while the United States does the opposite. China's environmental costs per unit value-added in trade with the United States are 3.02 times that of the United States.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Rudi Purwono, Unggul Heriqbaldi, Miguel Angel Esquivias, M. Khoerul Mubin
Summary: This paper examines the impact of special tariffs between China and the US on their indirect trade partners through spillover effects.Using a Value-Added Real Effective Exchange Rate (VA-REER) index, the study finds that demand is doubly more responsive to prices (tariffs) when using the VA-REER index instead of the conventional REER index.Results show that US tariffs on Chinese goods have a negative spillover impact on Indonesia's exports, while Chinese tariffs on American goods lead to a slight increase in demand for Indonesian exports.The study also concludes that the US and China are equally crucial for Indonesia under the VA-REER scheme, suggesting that the conventional REER approach may have underestimated the impact of US tariffs on Chinese goods.Finally, it is found that Indonesia would be at risk of trade shocks if the US applies tariffs on China, Asian partners (Japan and South Korea), and the European Union (EU).
Article
Environmental Sciences
Guangyao Deng, Yunjiang Liu
Summary: From the perspective of value-added trade, this paper divides the virtual water consumption and trade in different provinces of China into five major paths according to the input-output relationship. In 2012 and 2015, most provinces' water resources were implicitly used in the final products to meet the local demand. In addition, the volume of virtual water trade in the complex domestic value chain is greater than that in the traditional domestic trade value chain and the simple domestic trade value chain.
POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Xueliu Xu, Qian Wang, Chenyang Ran, Mingjie Mu
Summary: This study considers both value-added trade and trade-induced CO2 emission reduction responsibility, constructing a unified conceptual framework to recalculate CO2 emission reduction responsibility from the perspective of value-added trade. It utilizes gross export decomposition methodology and the World Input-Output Database to analyze global CO2 emissions in trade, production, consumption, and shared principles. Through measuring embedded emissions in value-added trade, the study identifies China, the USA, Russia, and the EU as the top four largest emitters and suggests that shared responsibility offers a compromise between producer and consumer principles.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Qiuping Li, Sanmang Wu, Shantong Li
Summary: With the expansion of global value chains, China's role in the global production division system has become increasingly important. However, participating in global value chains also leads to an economic-environmental imbalance for China. This study finds that activities related to value chains require higher carbon emissions costs compared to traditional trade. The electricity, metals, and non-metallic mineral industries bear heavy emissions pressure while obtaining limited value added. China's CO2 trade and value-added trade with developing countries through global value chains are increasing, while trade with developed countries shows a downward trend. The characteristics of China's industrial paths vary considerably under different trade routes.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Mathematics
Rodrigo Morales-Lopez, Luis Quintana-Romero, Nam Kwon Mun, Inhye Oh
Summary: This article examines the trade relationship between Mexico and South Korea by analyzing the value-added perspective. Using the global input-output model, the study investigates the sectors that benefit the most from value-added generation in both countries. The results show a growing bilateral relationship, with South Korea generating a larger share of value-added linked to the bilateral relationship. The findings indicate that a free trade agreement between Mexico and South Korea has the potential to further enhance value-added generation.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Xia Li, Fengying Lu, Guangyao Deng
Summary: This study reveals a mismatch between embodied carbon trade and value-added trade among different regions and provinces in China in 2012 and 2015. At the regional level, there is a discrepancy between the two trades, such as the northwest region exporting embodied carbon to the north coast but importing value-added trades from the same region. At the provincial level, Beijing had a net shift of embodied carbon from Xinjiang in 2015, while Xinjiang had a net transfer of added value from Beijing. The Chinese government needs to establish an ecological compensation mechanism to address this mismatch.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Yikun Zheng, Haishan Yu, Yuquan Zhang
Summary: A social science perspective is crucial for carbon accounting to allocate reduction responsibility effectively and address the climate crisis. Bibliometric analysis of 897 relevant publications in the field from 1997 to 2020 found that international trade has driven interest in responsibility allocation from a consumption standpoint, with IO analysis being a popular method. Despite this, there is a lack of research quantifying emissions at the organizational level, highlighting the need for future studies to prioritize this area.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Economics
Enrique Feas
Summary: This article evaluates for the first time the impact of the 2016 Brexit referendum on the United Kingdom's value-added exports using inter-country input-output data and a structural decomposition method. The study finds that less than 30% of the decline in the UK's value-added exports in 2016 can be attributed to final demand, while more than 70% was due to significant changes in input sourcing decisions of other countries. This suggests that the structural effects of providing inputs to the rest of the world, especially the EU, have weakened the UK's value-added exports. The article sets the stage for further analysis of the structural effects of Brexit and other trade and industrial policies that influence the international allocation of inputs.
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Xuechun Yang, Qiumeng Zhong, Sai Liang, Yumeng Li, Yafei Wang, Xiaobiao Zhu, Yu Liu
Summary: Antibiotic pollution is a serious issue causing environmental and social problems. China, as the largest producer and user of antibiotics, has a significant amount of antibiotics used in agriculture. This study quantified the agricultural antibiotic emissions in mainland China in 2014 and identified the critical drivers in global supply chains. The findings reveal the unique supply chain drivers for antibiotic emissions and provide insights for policy decisions and international cooperation in controlling China's agricultural antibiotic emissions.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Fisheries
Chang K. Seung
Summary: This study decomposes the gross domestic exports of seafood by each of eight regions in the Republic of Korea, and finds that some regions earn an enormous amount of value added through their active participation in the domestic value chains, despite producing and exporting a small quantity of seafood and therefore not earning much value added from their seafood exports.
FISHERIES RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sotaro Sada, Yuichi Ikeda
Summary: Global value chains are formed through value-added trade, regional trade agreements play a role in promoting economic integration involving various sectors in multiple countries. This study utilized the World Input-Output Database to create a cross-border sector-wise network and evaluated them using network science methods. Findings suggest that the degree of economic integration in Europe declined sharply after 2009 economic crisis, while the Pacific Rim maintained stable integration.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kailan Tian, Yu Zhang, Yuze Li, Xi Ming, Shangrong Jiang, Hongbo Duan, Cuihong Yang, Shouyang Wang
Summary: Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are widely used to promote international trade, but their environmental effects have not been well studied. This study evaluates the economic effects of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and estimates that it will lead to increased CO2 emissions. However, deeper trade liberalization can help mitigate the burdens.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Kailan Tian, Erik Dietzenbacher, Richard Jong-A-Pin
Summary: The study found that backward participation in global value chains is more beneficial for industrial upgrading in developing countries, as it enables the import of sophisticated inputs and activates knowledge learning, while forward participation has a more pronounced upgrading effect on developed countries.
Article
Economics
Kailan Tian, Zhuoying Zhang, Lingxiu Zhu, Cuihong Yang, Jianwu He, Shantong Li
Summary: This article proposes a methodological framework to measure the economic exposure to regional value chain disruptions caused by city lockdown during Covid-19. It provides a tool for quick assessment of economic risks and policy responses.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Zhuoying Zhang, Xiang Gao, Kailan Tian, Cuihong Yang, Shouyang Wang
Summary: In this study, the authors use a counterfactual approach in a multi-regional input-output framework to calculate the CO2 emission changes induced by China's domestic inter-provincial industry redistribution during 2002-2017. The results show that China's domestic industry redistribution has decreased CO2 emissions during this period and has the potential for further emission mitigation in the future. The authors emphasize that effective policies, such as stringent access thresholds and regional industry structural upgrading, can weaken the pollution haven effect and provide policy recommendations for strengthening regional coordination to achieve China's transformation to carbon neutrality.
Article
Environmental Studies
Hunter T. Snyder, Simon Stone, Mary Albert, Chris Polashenski
Summary: Fisheries policy plays a crucial role in democratic and inclusive governance of marine resources. Understanding fishers' knowledge, inclination, and vulnerability to proposed changes can help design inclusive and forward-thinking fishery management plans. A survey of Greenland's inshore halibut fishers revealed their lack of knowledge and unclear inclination towards proposed changes, as well as differences in vulnerability levels. Increasing the exchange of technical knowledge and involving fishers in the decision-making process is essential for achieving sustainability outcomes and protecting small-scale fisheries livelihoods.
Article
Environmental Studies
Martina Bocci, Marina Markovic, Ales Mlakar, Margarita Stancheva, Michelle Borg, Fabio Carella, Andrea Barbanti, Emiliano Ramieri
Summary: Land-sea interactions are crucial for marine spatial planning, but face challenges in practical application. This paper applies the guidelines proposed by UNEP/MAP PAP/RAC in four case studies in Bulgaria, Italy, Malta and Montenegro. The guidelines have been proven to be flexible and adaptable to different countries' needs.
Article
Environmental Studies
Carmen Pedroza-Gutierrez, Neyra Solano, Francisco Fernandez-Rivera-Melo, Isis Hernandez-Herrera
Summary: Women in Mexico have been increasingly participating in the fishing sector, although gender inequality remains a barrier to their representation and involvement in decision-making. Gender dynamics vary by region, education level, and age group. Access to fisheries and economic resources depends on these dynamics and the availability of resources. Women in communities with more resources are more involved in fishing-related activities, while those in communities with fewer resources seek out different economic activities. Increased female labor market participation is also related to increasing household incomes and alleviating poverty. Power dynamics and gender roles differ in different household management models and cooperative structures.
Article
Environmental Studies
Sika Abrokwah, Ivy Serwaa Gyimah Akuoko, Margaret Fafa Awushie Akwetey, Mike Izava Olendo, Peter Kershaw, Denis Worlanyo Aheto
Summary: Source reduction of marine litter is the most preferred approach to addressing the global problem of plastic pollution. This study in West Africa, specifically Liberia, explores the influence of socio-demographic factors and environmental awareness on the use of single-use plastics. The findings highlight the need to consider these factors when developing policies and infrastructure to reduce plastic waste.
Article
Environmental Studies
Eon Kyung Park, Seokwoo Lee
Summary: The Korea-Fishery Products Importation Restriction case highlights the importance of considering qualitative criteria in addition to quantitative criteria when assessing risk control measures.
Article
Environmental Studies
Rasmus Parsmo, Erik Ytreberg, Maarten Verdaasdonk, Erik Fridell
Summary: Sweden has implemented environmental discounts for ships to encourage investment in reducing the impact of shipping on climate change, air quality, and marine environment. However, these discounts alone are not enough to incentivize ship-owners to invest in abatement technologies for older ships.
Article
Environmental Studies
Thomaz Bosquetto Matoso, Gustavo Goulart Moreira Moura, Thiago Zagonel Serafini
Summary: This article explores the wave knowledge of surfers in Pontal do Sul surf break in southern Brazil from an ethno-oceanographic perspective, highlighting the importance of this knowledge for understanding local dynamics and predicting future changes.
Article
Environmental Studies
Asiya Maskaeva, Pierre Failler, Honita Cowaloosur, Philippe Lallemand, Jerry Mang'ena
Summary: This paper presents the economic, social, and ecosystem values generated by the blue economy resources in mainland Tanzania, using the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Blue Economy Valuation Toolkit (BEVTK). In 2020, the major blue economy industries in Tanzania contributed $7.2 billion to the gross value added (GVA) and employed over 2 million individuals. The value of ecosystem services was approximately $104.24 billion in 2020, with large permanent freshwater lakes contributing significantly (74.87%).
Article
Environmental Studies
Joanna Kizielewicz
Summary: Cruise line owners and insurance companies failed to predict the global pandemic, leading to a significant drop in demand for sea voyages and causing huge losses. Despite the implementation of sanitary restrictions and protocols, potential passengers still hesitate to travel by sea. This study examines the economic effects in the Baltic Sea Region and provides solutions for seaport authorities and cruise operators to cope with potential threats in the future, as well as recommendations for policy makers to ensure financial security and insurance cover.
Article
Environmental Studies
Zhengkai Mao, Zhijun Zhang
Summary: A deep heritage of cooperation and growing convergence of interests have driven relations between China and Pacific Island countries forward. China should seize the opportunities brought by the UN Ocean Decade to promote science and technology diplomacy with Pacific Island countries, and help build a closer Community with a Shared Future between the two sides.
Article
Environmental Studies
Cynthia Mendez, Danilo E. Bustamante, Martha S. Calderon, Cecilia Gauna, Leila Hayashi, Daniel Robledo, Claudia Tapia-Larios, Iona Campbell, Renato Westermeier, Pedro Murua
Summary: Latin America has great potential in seaweed farming but lacks adequate biosecurity policies and practices.
Article
Environmental Studies
Nwamaka Okeke-Ogbuafor, Tim Gray, Sheku Kamara, Edward Sesay, Abdulai Dauda, Selina M. Stead, Danielle Robinson, Kelechi Johnmary Ani
Summary: This study examines the contrasting interpretations of climate-smart fisheries (CSF) policies in global north and global south, focusing on the case of Sierra Leone. The findings suggest that small-scale coastal fishers in Sierra Leone prioritize mitigating the impact of climate change on their food and income security over reducing CO2 emissions. However, the study argues that prioritizing food and income security can also contribute to CO2 emission reductions, and the two objectives are complementary rather than contradictory.
Article
Environmental Studies
Henry A. Bartelet, Michele L. Barnes, Graeme S. Cumming
Summary: Coral reefs in the Asia-Pacific region make a significant direct economic contribution to the economy, mainly through reef tourism. The economic productivity of coral reefs varies between countries. Non-consumptive direct use of reef resources provides greater economic benefits than consumptive uses.
Article
Environmental Studies
Arie Afriansyah, Leonardo Bernard, Christou Imanuel
Summary: This article analyzes whether Indonesia needs specific legislation to regulate foreign military activities in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). It argues that it is difficult to justify regulating such activities under international law and suggests that Indonesia should maintain the current status quo of not regulating them.
Article
Environmental Studies
Shane Orchard, Shawn Gerrity, David R. Schiel
Summary: This study focuses on the paua (abalone) fishery in the Kaiko Over Bar Ura district in New Zealand, which is an important component of the local economy. The fishery was closed for 5 years due to mortality caused by an earthquake, and reopened in 2021. The study finds that the catch target was severely exceeded, highlighting the need to focus on fishing effort for sustainable management. Adjusting daily bag limits and temporal controls on the open season can help achieve a balance.
