Since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, the global energy structure has undergone unprecedented adjustment, and renewable energy has ushered in a new period of development opportunities. ...From the perspective of energy stability and sustainable development, this paper uses the generalized autoregression-conditional heteroscedasticity mixed data sampling model (GARCH-MIDAS) to explore the predictive power of climate policy uncertainty (CPU) on the index volatility of renewable energy. At the same time, eight uncertainty indices, including the economic policy uncertainty index and geopolitical risk index variable, are introduced to discuss the impact on the volatility of renewable energy. Furthermore, the out-of-sample prediction accuracy of each model is tested by the out-of-sample ROS2, Model Confidence Set (MCS), direction-of-change (DoC) and other evaluation methods. Climate policy exhibits a superior ability to predict renewable energy volatility, offers a new perspective for the accurate prediction of renewable energy volatility, and provides a reliable guarantee for the sustainable development of the energy market and financial market.
•Climate policy uncertainty (CPU) has a significant negative impact on long-term volatility of Renewable Energy.•CPU has an excellent out of sample prediction effect on Renewable Energy volatility.•The prediction performance of CPU was better than that of the other eight exogenous variables.•The predictability of the CPU is robust by a set of robustness tests
Context: Inspired by the documentary Viva São João, the case presents the engagement of Dona Benta, a community leader in the city of Exu, in three collective moments that constitute the organization ...of the São João festival: (1) the cycle of planting, cultivating and harvesting maize for preparing typical foods; (2) community games; (3) and the religious, sacred and mystical celebrations of Saint Anthony, Saint John the Baptist and Saint Peter.
Dilemma: Dona Benta and her friends are faced with the challenges of organizing the São João festival. The central challenge is the lack of interest and disengagement of people in the community in organizing the festival, especially at a time marked by the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Case Closing: The expectation is that the June festivities can be understood as organizations, based on Studies Based on Practice, highlighting the aesthetic and affective elements that make up this phenomenon.
Abstract For decades, feminism has driven a gender equality agenda in development policies. Decolonial and intersectional feminisms, for example, have played an anti-racist and anti-colonial agenda. ...Women’s demands have found different degrees of incorporation into international plans, such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this scenario, this work compared gender equality in the MDGs and the SDGs to analyze their advances and challenges in the face of the gender mainstreaming agenda and intersectional and decolonial demands. Documental research was carried out on the objectives, targets, and results of the MDGs and the objectives and targets of the SDGs. The results indicate that the SDGs are more ambitious than the MDGs by adopting a broader and more transversal approach to gender equality. However, there are important gaps in operationalizing an approach to gender inequalities that considers the intersections of different forms of discrimination that affect different groups of women.
Resumen Durante décadas, el feminismo ha impulsado una agenda de igualdad de género en las políticas de desarrollo. Los feminismos decoloniales e interseccionales, por ejemplo, han impulsado una agenda antirracista y anticolonial. Las demandas de las mujeres han encontrado diferentes grados de incorporación en los planes internacionales, como los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM) y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS). En este escenario, este trabajo comparó la igualdad de género en los ODM y los ODS para analizar sus avances y desafíos frente a la agenda de transversalización de género y las demandas interseccionales y decoloniales. Para ello se realizó una investigación documental sobre objetivos, metas y resultados de los ODM y objetivos y metas de los ODS. Los resultados indican que los ODS avanzan por ser más ambiciosos que los ODM y por adoptar un enfoque más amplio y transversal de la igualdad de género. Sin embargo, existen vacíos importantes en la operacionalización de un abordaje de las desigualdades de género que considere las intersecciones de las distintas formas de discriminación que afectan a distintos grupos de mujeres.
Resumo Há décadas, o feminismo impulsiona uma agenda de igualdade de gênero nas políticas de desenvolvimento. Os feminismos decolonial e interseccional, por exemplo, têm invocado uma agenda antirracista e anticolonial. As demandas das mulheres têm encontrado diferentes graus de incorporação em planos internacionais, como os Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milênio (ODM) e os Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS). Nesse cenário, este trabalho comparou a igualdade de gênero nos ODM e nos ODS para analisar seus avanços e desafios frente à agenda da transversalidade de gênero e a demandas interseccionais e decoloniais. Para isso, foi realizada pesquisa documental sobre objetivos, metas e resultados dos ODM e objetivos e metas dos ODS. Os resultados indicam que os ODS avançam por serem mais ambiciosos que os ODM e por adotarem abordagem mais abrangente e mais transversal sobre a igualdade de gênero. Entretanto, há importantes lacunas quanto à operacionalização de uma análise das desigualdades de gênero que considere as intersecções das distintas formas de discriminação que afetam os diferentes grupos de mulheres.
With the growing body of literature on governance styles in which nonprofit organizations are involved in creating and implementing public services, there is a need for robust evidence on the effects ...of public funding on nonprofit revenues.This paper systematically reviews previous studies on the crowding-out hypothesis, which holds that private charitable donations are lower in situations of higher government support and vice versa. We find that about two-thirds of previous estimates find a negative correlation (crowding-out), while one-third of the estimates find a positive correlation (crowding-in).The results are strongly shaped by the research methods that are used. In experiments, a $1 increase in government support is associated with an average $0.64 decrease in private donations, while nonexperimental data analyses find an average increase of $0.06. Random-effects regression models show that, contrary to arguments that are prevalent in the literature, studies that take subsidies to organizations as a measure of government support are less likely to estimate crowding-out than studies that use a measure of direct government expenditures. Central government support is associated with higher charitable donations, while measures that include multiple levels of government tend to find negative correlations.The results challenge the consistency of prior research findings and demonstrate the contextual dependence of the validity of the crowding-out hypothesis.
The question of what is "good" or "poor" performance is difficult to answer without applying a reference point—a standard for comparison. Citizens' evaluation of performance information will, ...therefore, tend to be guided by reference points. We test how reference points alter citizens' evaluation of organizational performance. In this article, drawing on Herbert Simon, we test how citizens use historical (internal) and social (external) reference points when making relative comparisons: how important is current performance relative to past performance? And how important is current performance relative to the performance of other organizations? Two experiments are embedded within a large nationally representative sample of citizens (n = 3,443).The experiments assign historical and social reference points for performance data on education and unemployment to citizens. We find that citizens' performance evaluation is fundamentally a relative process. Interestingly, we show that social reference points are almost twice as important in citizens' evaluations as historical reference points. We find some evidence of a negativity bias in citizens' relative evaluations. The strong social reference point effects have implications for studying citizens' response to performance and how managers can frame and manipulate external performance data.
To assess the effectiveness of managing the impact of society on the environment, politicians and researchers use modeling of socio-economic processes with regard to environmental challenges and ...effects. The current paper explores the “pressure-state-response” model (PSR): human activity impacts the natural environment (pressure) and affects its quality and quantity of natural resources (state); society responds to these changes through policies as well as through changes in consciousness and behavior (response). Based on the theories of practice, we considered the element of “pressure” that shows the anthropogenic impact on the natural environment as a set of social practices, by changing the elements of which we can effectively manage the current state and possible responses. As a result, we selected the ideas that may help overcome the limitations of the “pressure-state-response” model. Besides, we described social practices as an element of “pressure”, focusing on the connections of social practices with the elements of “state” and “response” to explain how social meanings, competencies, and infrastructure determine the use of natural resources and how the anthropogenic impact on the natural environment should be reduced. We also identified possible approaches to developing indicators that characterize the components of the “pressure-state-response” model. The article may be of interest to researchers studying the processes of greening, scientists using the “pressure-state-response” model, and authorities developing more effective responses to the degradation of the natural environment.
In the Russian Federation, «general plans» are commonly used as territorial planning tools developed to regulate the prospective development of cities. They determine the functional distribution of ...territorial resources for the purposes of building formation and the establishment of its permissible parameters. However, «general plans» are being increasingly criticized, primarily due to their simplified and standard approach to forecasting the city’s future development, which fails to consider the real long-term socio-economic and technological trends, managerial aspects and changing needs of citizens. This requires a constant alteration of documents designed to last for at least 20 years. The territorial planning system needs a significant transformation. However, questions arise as to whether to keep the usual «general plans» or replace them with master plans that go beyond the urban planning approach, and combine strategic and project forms of long-term planning. Will the replacement of documents help the implementation of urban development plans? Or is the form of the document not so important, provided that proactive proposals are actively taken into account, policies based on long-term forecasting are applied, and digital and other modern tools are used? The article discusses approaches to updating the territorial planning system, the specifics of the formation and conditions for the development of master plans, and the assessment of their success in achieving their goals.
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