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Shunsuke Managi
Urban Institute & Departments of Civil Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-Ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan

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Published: 05 August 2021 in Scientific Reports
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People migrate from rural to urban areas. In the meantime, the benefits of staying in greener areas are also known. People’s preferences might be different by area that is composed of several land types. If so, the effect of particular land cover on human well-being is different spatially. The spatial analysis is required to formulate effective land-use policies. Here we show that urban land, water, and grassland are positively related to human well-being, whereas bare land is negatively associated in Japan. A 1 $${\mathrm{m}}^{2}$$ m 2 increase in the area of urban land per capita in a city is equivalent to an about 346 USD increase in the individual annual income of all the people in the city. Additionally, monetary values of areas of water, crops, and bare land per capita are 102, − 30, and − 268 $$\mathrm{USD}/\mathrm{Capita }{\mathrm{m}}^{2}$$ USD / Capita m 2 . Furthermore, the spatial context matters to the relationship between land cover and human well-being. This paper investigates the monetary values of several land types and their spatial variability, which provides insights to make better usage for land cover.

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Chao Li; Shunsuke Managi. Land cover matters to human well-being. Scientific Reports 2021, 11, 1 -18.

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Chao Li, Shunsuke Managi. Land cover matters to human well-being. Scientific Reports. 2021; 11 (1):1-18.

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Chao Li; Shunsuke Managi. 2021. "Land cover matters to human well-being." Scientific Reports 11, no. 1: 1-18.

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Published: 03 August 2021 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Air pollution is a global issue, but data availability has restricted research on its impact on well-being to primarily individual and developed countries. Owing to this lack of data, there is no consensus on the factors influencing the impact of air pollution on well-being across countries. Thus, this paper aims to provide an inclusive view onto the heterogeneous impact of pollution on well-being with regard to income based on a sample of 30 countries. With monthly nitrogen dioxide changes monitored by satellite data, we estimate how individual and national income influence the impact of air pollution on the well-being of respondents to an international survey. To identify the burden of pollution on well-being, we focus on the impact of monthly changes in pollution induced by monthly changes in planetary boundary layers’ height, via an instrumental variable strategy. Within countries, we find that air pollution reduces the well-being of low-income individuals and people living in highly polluted areas to a greater extent than that of others. Thus, it appears that populations in developing countries and countries with high income inequality suffer the highest burden of air pollution on their well-being than those in developed countries and countries with low income inequality. However, populations in highly polluted countries and highly productive countries are the least affected by pollution. These results show that using an economic index to assess distress associated with pollution is inappropriate for addressing its heterogeneous burden. Furthermore, habituation to pollution by populations in highly polluted countries may threaten international collaboration for pollution reduction.

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Coulibaly Thierry Yerema; Shunsuke Managi. The multinational and heterogeneous burden of air pollution on well-being. Journal of Cleaner Production 2021, 318, 128530 .

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Coulibaly Thierry Yerema, Shunsuke Managi. The multinational and heterogeneous burden of air pollution on well-being. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2021; 318 ():128530.

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Coulibaly Thierry Yerema; Shunsuke Managi. 2021. "The multinational and heterogeneous burden of air pollution on well-being." Journal of Cleaner Production 318, no. : 128530.

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Published: 21 July 2021 in Energy Policy
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Improving energy efficiency is a highly effective policy for protecting the environment and preserving resources. Previous studies have measured energy efficiency in the industrial sector. We further contribute to understanding the factors that affect energy efficiency changes. This study measures energy efficiency based on plant-level data in Japan's paper/pulp and cement industries as representative energy intensive sectors. We analyze the relationship between the industrial agglomeration effect and the energy efficiency of each studied industry. Our results reflect several important findings. First, energy efficiency has improved in the paper and pulp industry as well as the cement industry between 2000 and 2010. However, the factors for improving energy efficiency differ between the industries. Second, industrial agglomeration affects energy efficiency. In the paper and pulp industry, the same industry agglomerations contribute to improvements in energy efficiency. However, the agglomeration effect is negative for energy efficiency in the cement industry. Our results indicate that one must consider regional circumstances more carefully when seeking to improve energy efficiency.

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Kenta Tanaka; Shunsuke Managi. Industrial agglomeration effect for energy efficiency in Japanese production plants. Energy Policy 2021, 156, 112442 .

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Kenta Tanaka, Shunsuke Managi. Industrial agglomeration effect for energy efficiency in Japanese production plants. Energy Policy. 2021; 156 ():112442.

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Kenta Tanaka; Shunsuke Managi. 2021. "Industrial agglomeration effect for energy efficiency in Japanese production plants." Energy Policy 156, no. : 112442.

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Published: 16 July 2021 in Applied Research in Quality of Life
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This study investigates the effect of social capital and negative events in 37 countries across six continents on subjective well-being, to improve the quality of life in creating sustainable cities and communities. Using large-scale, original, individual-level, cross-sectional survey data, we examine the relationships among negative events in social networks, social capital, and individuals’ subjective well-being. The negative impacts of these events on life satisfaction were found in both high-income and non-high-income countries. Moreover, people’s well-being was highly associated with well-organized social networks across all 37 countries, whereas the magnitude of the effects varied, this might be because the benefits realized from social network are variated across countries. Policies aimed at improving life satisfaction should not only focus on increasing the household income but also consider the substantial impact of social capital.

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Xiangdan Piao; Xinxin Ma; Tetsuya Tsurumi; Shunsuke Managi. Social Capital, Negative Event, Life Satisfaction and Sustainable Community: Evidence from 37 Countries. Applied Research in Quality of Life 2021, 1 -20.

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Xiangdan Piao, Xinxin Ma, Tetsuya Tsurumi, Shunsuke Managi. Social Capital, Negative Event, Life Satisfaction and Sustainable Community: Evidence from 37 Countries. Applied Research in Quality of Life. 2021; ():1-20.

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Xiangdan Piao; Xinxin Ma; Tetsuya Tsurumi; Shunsuke Managi. 2021. "Social Capital, Negative Event, Life Satisfaction and Sustainable Community: Evidence from 37 Countries." Applied Research in Quality of Life , no. : 1-20.

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Published: 13 July 2021 in Climatic Change
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Societies adapt to climate variations and develop unique cultures that lead to distinctive economic behaviour across different regions. To estimate the climate-economic link and test the hypothetical role of culture, this paper uses a nationwide survey at the household level in China, together with historical temperature data at the prefectural city level for empirical analysis. The results show the significant role of local climate variations on consumption, savings and investment decisions by households. Harsh weather conditions are associated with lower consumption, lower income and higher savings. Such climate characteristics are also associated with a lower probability of purchasing risky financial assets. Using a sample of migrating families, we find strong evidence that culture is an important channel in the climate-economic relationship. Additional support for this view is found through the “catching up with the Joneses” effect documented in the economics literature. Overall, this research provides an alternative perspective for understanding the long-term behavioural impact of climate change.

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Dayong Zhang; Jun Li; Qiang Ji; Shunsuke Managi. Climate variations, culture and economic behaviour of Chinese households. Climatic Change 2021, 167, 1 -18.

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Dayong Zhang, Jun Li, Qiang Ji, Shunsuke Managi. Climate variations, culture and economic behaviour of Chinese households. Climatic Change. 2021; 167 (1-2):1-18.

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Dayong Zhang; Jun Li; Qiang Ji; Shunsuke Managi. 2021. "Climate variations, culture and economic behaviour of Chinese households." Climatic Change 167, no. 1-2: 1-18.

Journal article
Published: 25 June 2021 in Energy Economics
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Tunisia is experiencing rapid social and economic expectations. The penetration of information and communication technology (ICT) might be useful for green economic development. This paper takes a novel use of the logistic smooth transition regression model in studying the pattern from the link between economic growth and CO2 emissions over the period 1970–2018. The results indicate that the pattern of CO2 emissions follows a nonlinear model with ICT as a transition variable affecting the relationship between total factor productivity (TFP) and CO2 emissions. More ICT use improves carbon efficiency. The results showed that ICT could boost economic growth and mitigate climate change.

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Béchir Ben Lahouel; Lotfi Taleb; Younes Ben Zaied; Shunsuke Managi. Does ICT change the relationship between total factor productivity and CO2 emissions? Evidence based on a nonlinear model. Energy Economics 2021, 101, 105406 .

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Béchir Ben Lahouel, Lotfi Taleb, Younes Ben Zaied, Shunsuke Managi. Does ICT change the relationship between total factor productivity and CO2 emissions? Evidence based on a nonlinear model. Energy Economics. 2021; 101 ():105406.

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Béchir Ben Lahouel; Lotfi Taleb; Younes Ben Zaied; Shunsuke Managi. 2021. "Does ICT change the relationship between total factor productivity and CO2 emissions? Evidence based on a nonlinear model." Energy Economics 101, no. : 105406.

Journal article
Published: 23 June 2021 in Heliyon
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This paper assesses the impact of resource accessibility, seed sources and varietal diversification on the production efficiency of Sri Lankan rice growers using farm and household level survey data. The empirical results show that there are opportunities for average Sri Lankan rice farmers to further improve production efficiency by up to 30%. Among the variables, those related to resource accessibility, age, migration, income sources and agricultural training are all found to affect production efficiency. Furthermore, we find that households relying only on their own saved seeds are less efficient compared to those who had purchased seeds from markets. In addition, this study indicates that varietal diversification significantly reduces production efficiency.

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Kanesh Suresh; Clevo Wilson; Uttam Khanal; Shunsuke Managi; Samithamby Santhirakumar. How productive are rice farmers in Sri Lanka? The impact of resource accessibility, seed sources and varietal diversification. Heliyon 2021, 7, e07398 .

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Kanesh Suresh, Clevo Wilson, Uttam Khanal, Shunsuke Managi, Samithamby Santhirakumar. How productive are rice farmers in Sri Lanka? The impact of resource accessibility, seed sources and varietal diversification. Heliyon. 2021; 7 (6):e07398.

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Kanesh Suresh; Clevo Wilson; Uttam Khanal; Shunsuke Managi; Samithamby Santhirakumar. 2021. "How productive are rice farmers in Sri Lanka? The impact of resource accessibility, seed sources and varietal diversification." Heliyon 7, no. 6: e07398.

Journal article
Published: 15 June 2021 in Land Use Policy
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Climate change and its impact on the agricultural sector in developing economies is a matter of considerable academic and political debate. This paper examines the impact of climate change and variability on Sri Lankan agriculture and identifies the potential adaptation practices and their impacts on rice productivity. More specifically, this study investigates how farming households’ decisions to adapt to climate change affects agricultural productivity in the Batticaloa district of Sri Lanka. The data were collected through a primary survey of 238 farming households. We employ a simultaneous equations model with endogenous switching to investigate the differing effects of adaptation on adapters and non-adapters. The findings show that most farmers perceive there are adverse climate change impacts on their agricultural production. We also find that farmers’ adaptation measures substantially boost rice yields. Moreover, it is shown that such strategies would benefit both adapters and non-adapters. Farmers’ access to climate related information, education, membership in farmer organizations and size of plots are found to play a key role in the adaptation process. Overall, this study provides empirical evidence of the positive impact of adaptations on food productivity and farm income, thus suggesting the need for policy interventions that enhance farmers uptake of strategies against climate change impacts.

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Kanesh Suresh; Uttam Khanal; Clevo Wilson; Shunsuke Managi; Annette Quayle; Samithamby Santhirakumar. An economic analysis of agricultural adaptation to climate change impacts in Sri Lanka: An endogenous switching regression analysis. Land Use Policy 2021, 109, 105601 .

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Kanesh Suresh, Uttam Khanal, Clevo Wilson, Shunsuke Managi, Annette Quayle, Samithamby Santhirakumar. An economic analysis of agricultural adaptation to climate change impacts in Sri Lanka: An endogenous switching regression analysis. Land Use Policy. 2021; 109 ():105601.

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Kanesh Suresh; Uttam Khanal; Clevo Wilson; Shunsuke Managi; Annette Quayle; Samithamby Santhirakumar. 2021. "An economic analysis of agricultural adaptation to climate change impacts in Sri Lanka: An endogenous switching regression analysis." Land Use Policy 109, no. : 105601.

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Published: 02 June 2021 in Economic Analysis and Policy
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The Collective Forest Tenure Reform, as a devolved forest tenure reform, was first launched in Fujian, China, in 2003, issuing forestland-use certificates to and increasing forestland access for rural households, allowing households to collateralize forestland for formal credit. This study aims to identify the impact of forestland-use certificates and household forestland and further explain their channels of impact on formal credit access. The conceptual framework in the literature includes two potential channels of impact: household’s willingness to formal credit access and the institutional constraint in formal credit access. An econometric analysis was conducted using panel data of household level in Fujian province from 2012 to 2016. The econometric results demonstrated that: (1) forestland-use certificates had a significantly positive impact on the households’ formal credit access when it is measured only as formal credit by collateralizing forestland; (2) household forestland had significantly positive impact on households’ formal credit access when it is measured as total formal credit and formal credit by collateralizing forestland; (3) households’ willingness to access credit was significantly and positively affected by forestland-use certificates and household forestland, although the impact of household forestland is more certain and (4) institutional constraint in formal credit access was significantly and positively impacted by forestland use certificates but not by household forestland. Our study contains implications on the appropriate use of formal credit as a financial instrument in devolved forest tenure reform.

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Jiayun Dong; Wenyuan Liang; Yimin Fu; Weiping Liu; Shunsuke Managi. Impact of devolved forest tenure reform on formal credit access for households: Evidence from Fujian, China. Economic Analysis and Policy 2021, 71, 486 -498.

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Jiayun Dong, Wenyuan Liang, Yimin Fu, Weiping Liu, Shunsuke Managi. Impact of devolved forest tenure reform on formal credit access for households: Evidence from Fujian, China. Economic Analysis and Policy. 2021; 71 ():486-498.

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Jiayun Dong; Wenyuan Liang; Yimin Fu; Weiping Liu; Shunsuke Managi. 2021. "Impact of devolved forest tenure reform on formal credit access for households: Evidence from Fujian, China." Economic Analysis and Policy 71, no. : 486-498.

Research article
Published: 01 June 2021 in Tourism Economics
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This study assesses how and in what circumstances tourists’ perceived value of nature-based tourism (NBT) attributes differ among various types of national parks. A novel discrete choice experiment is used employing data collected from 343 international tourists in four national parks in Sri Lanka. We find that the improvements in frequency of large species’ encounters, habitat quality and proximity to encountered wildlife produce greater utility. A surprising finding is that tourists are shown to prefer to spend only a limited amount of time at national parks. They also tend to choose less-visited parks that have large mammals for which they would be willing to pay more compared to those national parks that are more frequently visited. Our article contributes to the empirical evidence that time is a key factor that determines the tourism destination choice and less-visited parks offer considerable potential for future growth of tourism.

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Kanesh Suresh; Clevo Wilson; Annette Quayle; Uttam Khanal; Shunsuke Managi. Which national park attributes attract international tourists? A Sri Lankan case study. Tourism Economics 2021, 1 .

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Kanesh Suresh, Clevo Wilson, Annette Quayle, Uttam Khanal, Shunsuke Managi. Which national park attributes attract international tourists? A Sri Lankan case study. Tourism Economics. 2021; ():1.

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Kanesh Suresh; Clevo Wilson; Annette Quayle; Uttam Khanal; Shunsuke Managi. 2021. "Which national park attributes attract international tourists? A Sri Lankan case study." Tourism Economics , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 25 May 2021 in Energy
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Several studies have investigated the effect of environmental taxes on economic growth and carbon emissions. However, limited studies have quantitatively identified the connection between environmental taxes and technological innovations. The main focus of this study is to investigate the causal relations between environmental taxes and environment-related technological innovation with a holistic, robust model with significant statistical power. This model consists of panel cointegration analysis considering the cross-sectional dependence, applied to quantify the effects of environmental taxes on environment-related technological innovation in high and middle-income 42 countries from 1995 to 2018. The long-run results suggest that environmental taxes stimulate technological innovation; for example, a 1% increase in environmental taxes was found to increase environment-related technological innovation by 0.57 and 0.78% on average for high and middle-income countries using the CCEMG and AMG techniques, respectively. The policy implications of this study suggest that imposing environmental taxes can accelerate the advancement of environmental-related technologies for reducing carbon emission and sustainable development in high and middle-income nations, with possible applications in a broad range of nations, particularly as an evidence base for developing nations to shorten energy transition timelines.

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Shamal Chandra Karmaker; Shahadat Hosan; Andrew J. Chapman; Bidyut Baran Saha. The role of environmental taxes on technological innovation. Energy 2021, 232, 121052 .

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Shamal Chandra Karmaker, Shahadat Hosan, Andrew J. Chapman, Bidyut Baran Saha. The role of environmental taxes on technological innovation. Energy. 2021; 232 ():121052.

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Shamal Chandra Karmaker; Shahadat Hosan; Andrew J. Chapman; Bidyut Baran Saha. 2021. "The role of environmental taxes on technological innovation." Energy 232, no. : 121052.

Journal article
Published: 15 May 2021 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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If the subjective well-being (SWB) of a population has reached saturation in terms of consumption, it becomes difficult to increase SWB through consumption. Previous studies have shown the existence of such saturation in some developed countries. However, little is known about applications for developing countries due to a lack of data. Thus, this study investigates whether a difference in the relationship between consumption and SWB exists between urban and rural areas in Vietnam. We apply the generalized additive models that allow a non-linear functional form to demonstrate the detailed relationship between consumption and SWB. Our results for Vietnam show that saturation, in terms of material consumption, exists for urban areas, while there is a negative relationship between material consumption and SWB in rural areas. In addition, we find a positive relationship between relational consumption and SWB in rural areas and a slightly positive or flat relationship in urban areas. Overall, our estimation results imply that the saturation of the SWB with regard to material consumption can be observed even in developing countries. Furthermore, not only can individuals’ SWB be significantly increased by relational consumption in the presence of a strong social capital, but the same result can be found with material consumption by bartering. Our findings imply that a sharing economy with strong social capital can be a key to sustainable consumption.

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Tetsuya Tsurumi; Rintaro Yamaguchi; Kazuki Kagohashi; Shunsuke Managi. Material and relational consumption to improve subjective well-being: Evidence from rural and urban Vietnam. Journal of Cleaner Production 2021, 310, 127499 .

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Tetsuya Tsurumi, Rintaro Yamaguchi, Kazuki Kagohashi, Shunsuke Managi. Material and relational consumption to improve subjective well-being: Evidence from rural and urban Vietnam. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2021; 310 ():127499.

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Tetsuya Tsurumi; Rintaro Yamaguchi; Kazuki Kagohashi; Shunsuke Managi. 2021. "Material and relational consumption to improve subjective well-being: Evidence from rural and urban Vietnam." Journal of Cleaner Production 310, no. : 127499.

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Published: 12 May 2021 in Sustainability Science
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Qiang Ji; Shunsuke Managi; Dayong Zhang. Managing climate risks for a sustainable future: adaptation strategies and resilience building. Sustainability Science 2021, 16, 1071 -1072.

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Qiang Ji, Shunsuke Managi, Dayong Zhang. Managing climate risks for a sustainable future: adaptation strategies and resilience building. Sustainability Science. 2021; 16 (4):1071-1072.

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Qiang Ji; Shunsuke Managi; Dayong Zhang. 2021. "Managing climate risks for a sustainable future: adaptation strategies and resilience building." Sustainability Science 16, no. 4: 1071-1072.

Journal article
Published: 08 May 2021 in Energy Policy
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As a market for sustainability investing is growing rapidly, understanding the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities on firms’ financial performance is becoming increasingly important. In this study, we examine the effect of ESG performance on stock returns and volatility during the financial crisis resulting from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. To quantify the impact, we use company-level daily ESG score data and United Nations Global Compact (GC) score data. In our dataset, ESG scores indicate ESG performance that is deemed important to financial materiality, and the GC score indicates the firm reputation for following UN rules. Our results indicate that during the pandemic, an increase in the ESG score, especially the E score component, is related to higher returns and lower volatility. Conversely, increasing GC scores is correlated with lower stock returns and higher volatility. In addition, we find that firms in lower return groups benefit more than other firms. Focusing on energy sector impacts, we show that although the non-energy sector benefits more than the energy sector from increasing E scores, energy sector firms can still reduce their stock price volatility by increasing these scores. Our study offers significant implications for ESG investment strategies during financial crises.

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Sunbin Yoo; Alexander Ryota Keeley; Shunsuke Managi. Does sustainability activities performance matter during financial crises? Investigating the case of COVID-19. Energy Policy 2021, 155, 112330 .

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Sunbin Yoo, Alexander Ryota Keeley, Shunsuke Managi. Does sustainability activities performance matter during financial crises? Investigating the case of COVID-19. Energy Policy. 2021; 155 ():112330.

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Sunbin Yoo; Alexander Ryota Keeley; Shunsuke Managi. 2021. "Does sustainability activities performance matter during financial crises? Investigating the case of COVID-19." Energy Policy 155, no. : 112330.

Journal article
Published: 06 May 2021 in Finance Research Letters
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We investigate whether the information disclosure of Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) criteria is more crucial than actions for the financial performance of firms by using two different ratings with more than 1,000,000 samples. Our result shows that disclosure is more important for profits while action is more critical in Tobin’s Q and IVA scores.

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Sunbin Yoo; Shunsuke Managi. Disclosure or action: Evaluating ESG behavior towards financial performance. Finance Research Letters 2021, 102108 .

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Sunbin Yoo, Shunsuke Managi. Disclosure or action: Evaluating ESG behavior towards financial performance. Finance Research Letters. 2021; ():102108.

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Sunbin Yoo; Shunsuke Managi. 2021. "Disclosure or action: Evaluating ESG behavior towards financial performance." Finance Research Letters , no. : 102108.

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Published: 28 April 2021 in Economic Analysis and Policy
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Sustainable development requires a nondeclining growth of the productive base or comprehensive wealth of an economy. We use the concept of inclusive wealth (IW) to assess national wealth and sustainability. IW comprises natural, human, and produced capital. With multisource data and GIS technology, this study created a pixel-level IW database for China and Japan in 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015. Using the high-resolution data, we first conducted a multiscalar analysis of the spatiotemporal pattern of IW and investigated the contributions of component capital to IW change. Then, we employed the decomposition of the Theil and Gini indices to explore the spatial wealth inequality and its driving forces. The multiscalar analysis reveals that sustainability evaluation in terms of IW is sensitive to geographical scales and that the contributions of capital types to IW growth are spatially heterogeneous. Although national IW increases in China and Japan, certain regions lose wealth within the country, and the proportion of those unsustainable areas increases as the analysis unit gets smaller. According to the inequality analysis, the spatial distribution of wealth is highly imbalanced with a substantial urban–rural divide and coastal-inland gap in both countries, and the total wealth inequality and these gaps widen from 2000 to 2015. China is experiencing significant structural changes in wealth composition. In particular, the structural shift to produced capital, for which the distribution is the most uneven, dominates the increasing trend of wealth inequality in China. In Japan, the wealth structure is stable, while depopulation in rural areas and the concentration of human capital in metropolises enhance spatial wealth inequality.

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Bingqi Zhang; Wataru Nozawa; Shunsuke Managi. Spatial inequality of inclusive wealth in China and Japan. Economic Analysis and Policy 2021, 71, 164 -179.

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Bingqi Zhang, Wataru Nozawa, Shunsuke Managi. Spatial inequality of inclusive wealth in China and Japan. Economic Analysis and Policy. 2021; 71 ():164-179.

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Bingqi Zhang; Wataru Nozawa; Shunsuke Managi. 2021. "Spatial inequality of inclusive wealth in China and Japan." Economic Analysis and Policy 71, no. : 164-179.

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Published: 22 April 2021
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) has already caused 1,405,029 deaths worldwide, as of November 25th, 2020. Assessing whether land cover in people’s living environments affects COVID-19 health outcomes is an urgent and crucial public health problem. Here, we examine land cover data associated with the case fatality rate (CFR) of COVID-19 at the county-level, in the United States. A 1% increase in green space in the county is associated with a statistically significant 0.34% (95% confidence interval 0.13%-0.55%) decrease in the county’s COVID-19 CFR, and a 1% increase in emergent herbaceous wetlands are correlated with a 1.65% (0.19%-3.11%) decrease in the CFR. In addition, a 1% increase in high intensity developed area among the total developed area is related to a significant 3.63% (2.14%-5.12%) increase in the CFR, while a 1% increase in medium intensity developed area is associated with a 0.75% (-0.02%-1.51%) decrease. Our research highlights that governments could prevent similar pandemics in the future and even achieve some sustainable development goals by decreasing development intensity and increasing green space in living environments.

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Chao Li; Shunsuke Managi. Land Cover Pattern and Case Fatality Rate of COVID-19. 2021, 1 .

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Chao Li, Shunsuke Managi. Land Cover Pattern and Case Fatality Rate of COVID-19. . 2021; ():1.

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Chao Li; Shunsuke Managi. 2021. "Land Cover Pattern and Case Fatality Rate of COVID-19." , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 08 April 2021 in Ecological Economics
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This paper examines the economic impact of climate induced disasters on Sri Lanka's agricultural, industrial and services sectors and their subsectors. In doing so, it seeks to explain a central paradox – that there are winners and losers in terms of the effect of the disasters on sectoral growth. This poses problems for many developing countries which are seeking to aggressively raise economic growth targets. These targets typically do not adequately take into account the impact of climate change on growth nor that climate change likely is to have a different effect on different economic sectors. Using cross-provincial panel datasets for Sri Lanka for the period, 1997–2018, we show that the agricultural sector is the most affected by climate induced disasters, although not all agricultural sub-sectors are equally vulnerable. Similarly, the industrial sector is shown to suffer a significant negative impact due to strong winds and landslide events. The textiles and garment sub-sectors are negatively impacted while the machinery sub sector shows a positive impact. This indicates the effect of higher demand for new machinery and equipment employed in disaster reconstruction efforts. The study further reveals that the services sector derives a mostly positive impact following disasters, especially public administration and health subsectors. The study also indicates that for Sri Lanka during the current decade, there has been a considerably greater negative impact from climate induced disasters compared to the previous decade.

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Sajeevani Weerasekara; Clevo Wilson; Boon Lee; Viet-Ngu Hoang; Shunsuke Managi; Darshana Rajapaksa. The impacts of climate induced disasters on the economy: Winners and losers in Sri Lanka. Ecological Economics 2021, 185, 107043 .

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Sajeevani Weerasekara, Clevo Wilson, Boon Lee, Viet-Ngu Hoang, Shunsuke Managi, Darshana Rajapaksa. The impacts of climate induced disasters on the economy: Winners and losers in Sri Lanka. Ecological Economics. 2021; 185 ():107043.

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Sajeevani Weerasekara; Clevo Wilson; Boon Lee; Viet-Ngu Hoang; Shunsuke Managi; Darshana Rajapaksa. 2021. "The impacts of climate induced disasters on the economy: Winners and losers in Sri Lanka." Ecological Economics 185, no. : 107043.

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Published: 23 March 2021 in Resources, Conservation and Recycling
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Chu Wei; Chuan-Zhong Li; Andreas Löschel; Shunsuke Managi; Tommy Lundgren. Digital technology and energy sustainability: Impacts and policy needs. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 2021, 170, 105559 .

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Chu Wei, Chuan-Zhong Li, Andreas Löschel, Shunsuke Managi, Tommy Lundgren. Digital technology and energy sustainability: Impacts and policy needs. Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 2021; 170 ():105559.

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Chu Wei; Chuan-Zhong Li; Andreas Löschel; Shunsuke Managi; Tommy Lundgren. 2021. "Digital technology and energy sustainability: Impacts and policy needs." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 170, no. : 105559.

Research article
Published: 03 March 2021 in BMC Public Health
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Background The COVID-19 pandemic has shown a continuously increasing trend with a large variation in the number of COVID-19 deaths across countries. In response, many countries have implemented non pharmaceutical methods of intervention, such as social distancing and lockdowns. This study aims to investigate the relationship of four dimensions of social capital (community attachment, social trust, family bond, and security) and several control variables with COVID-19 deaths. Methods We retrieved data from open access databases and a survey. COVID-19 death-related data were collected from the website “Centre for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University”. Social capital-related data were collected from a large-scale survey that included web-based and face-to-face surveys covering 100,956 respondents across all regions/provinces/states of 37 countries in 2017. Data regarding population density, number of hospital beds, and population aged 65 or older were retrieved from the World Development Indicators (WDIs). Data on country lockdowns were obtained from the website “National responses to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic”. Linear regressions were applied to identify the relationship between social capital and COVID-19 deaths. Results We found that COVID-19 deaths were associated with social capital both positively and negatively. Community attachment and social trust were associated with more COVID-19 deaths, and family bond and security were associated with fewer deaths. COVID-19 deaths were positively associated with population density, ageing population, and interactions between four dimensions of social capital-related factors and the ageing population. Furthermore, the number of hospital beds and early lockdown policy were negatively associated with COVID-19 deaths. Conclusions The results indicate that the role of social capital in dynamically evolving threats, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, is not always negative or positive. Therefore, people’s behaviour should be changed to support countries’ response to the COVID-19 threat.

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Janaki Imbulana Arachchi; Shunsuke Managi. The role of social capital in COVID-19 deaths. BMC Public Health 2021, 21, 1 -9.

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Janaki Imbulana Arachchi, Shunsuke Managi. The role of social capital in COVID-19 deaths. BMC Public Health. 2021; 21 (1):1-9.

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Janaki Imbulana Arachchi; Shunsuke Managi. 2021. "The role of social capital in COVID-19 deaths." BMC Public Health 21, no. 1: 1-9.