EEU Seminar - Ellen Palm

The next speaker in the EEU seminar series is Ellen Palm. Ellen is a PhD student in Environmental and Energy Systems Studies at Lund University. Ellen's research focuses on sustainability issues…

Date: Monday 11 April — Monday 11 April, 2022
Location: Zoom and Malmstensvåningen

From theory to action: Explaining the process of knowledge attitudes and practices regarding the use and disposal of plastic among school children

Submitted by Cristóbal Vásquez on

Environmental education is regarded as a key instrument for promoting pro-environmental behavior in early childhood. In this paper, we analyze the transmission process within a personal value system including knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) regarding the consumption and disposal of plastics among school children, and the extent to which parents play a role in mediating that transmission. The study gathers data from a sample of 1,521 children in southern Chile.

Climate Change, Policy Design, Waste

Inclusive Green Economy in Practice - Policy instruments for an inclusive green economy

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

The Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) in Practice program is a capacity development program to increase the knowledge and application of environmental economic policy instruments, organizational change, and strengthen national systems for inclusive and sustainable economic development.

Agriculture, Energy, Forestry, Policy Design, Urban

New working paper on "Pricing Carbon"

Submitted by Villemo Karnström on

The study concerns the variation of global and unilateral carbon price recommendations and their determinants. To this end, the authors provide survey evidence on carbon pricing from more than 400 experts across almost 40 countries. They quantify the extent of (dis-)agreement and reveal that a majority of experts can agree on some short- and medium-term global carbon price levels, and on unilateral carbon price levels in most countries. They find little evidence for free-riding.

Carbon Pricing, Policy Design

Wood trade responses to ecological rehabilitation program: evidence from China's new logging ban in natural forests

Submitted by Hang Yin on
EfD Authors:

This study examines the wood trade in response to China's new logging ban policy in natural forests (LBNF). Our identification is based on a triple-difference (DDD) strategy, in which the variations in the staggered policy implementation with region and time, together with the different trade responses between forest products, are jointly exploited. Our estimates show that the LBNF simulates an additional solid wood import by 15.2%, while the wood export and trade in other wood-related products were not affected.

Forestry, Policy Design

The effect of export tax rebates on product quality: evidence from China's agricultural product processing industry

Submitted by Hang Yin on
EfD Authors:

This study aims to establish the linkage among export tax rebate (ETR), firm innovation and product quality of Chinese agricultural product processing industry (APPI), so that more targeted policy implications can be discussed.

Using highly disaggregated firm-product-destination-level data through 2001 to 2013 of Chinese APPI, this study employs a two-way fixed effects specification to establish the linkage between ETR and product quality, while the mediational model is adopted to examine potential mechanisms.

Agriculture, Policy Design