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Sustainable Policies to Reduce the Negative Impact of Globalization on Underdeveloped or Developing Countries

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 5819

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples “Federico II”, Piazzale Vincenzo Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy
Interests: econometric models; mass appraisal; real estate market; risk management; urban and real estate economics; real estate investments; building management; economic valuation of real estate investment projects; environmental economics; transport economics; sustainability; knowledge management; corporate valuation
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Department of Industrial Engineering, University on Naples “Federico II”, 40, 80138 Naples, Italy
Interests: valuation; investment; urban sustainability; real estate; urban development; property valuation; property management; real estate valuation; environmental economics; real estate management
Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry (DICATECh), Polytechnic University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
Interests: public-private partnership risk assessment; indicators-based assessment systems; urban and real estate economics; mass appraisal; building transformations; real estate investments; feasibility analysis of urban regeneration projects; real estate market; sustainable urban development; econometric models
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In the transition to a post-carbon economy and sustainable societies, countries and cities will be faced with new and un predictable challenges. This Special Issue focuses on uncovering how to improve the resilience of cities and regions in order to reduce existing and emerging conflicts over resources and their use in light of globalization aspects, environmental deterioration and climate change.

The development of strategies that simultaneously enhance the quality of life, promote economic prosperity and reduce impacts on the environment is a difficult task and requires approaches encompassing the foresight of long-term trends that influence urban development and the assessment of socio-economic consequences resulting from various prosecutable pathways.

These issues require the evaluation of aspects referring to environmental, social, and economic domains, such as improvement in energy policies, economic benefits for private users, environmental externalities, and so on. In these domains, it is of particular importance to provide the decision makers with evaluation tools capable of considering the complexity of the impacts, thus leading to the most sustainable solutions being chosen.

The SI mainly  aims to collect contributions about possible evaluation methodologies regarding the above issues (but is not limited to this topic), discussing to what extent they can be useful in real-world applications. The SI also favors emerging trends and innovative research lines in the domain of energy and ecological planning and urban management. If the energy and ecological transition is a current and important trend, the evaluation of projects, plans, and policies that aim to reach post-carbon targets are equally relevant. The scale of application for potential papers mainly refers to regional or urban levels.

Prof. Dr. Pierfrancesco De Paola
Dr. Francesco Paolo Del Giudice
Dr. Debora Anelli
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • energy investment and policy
  • decision support systems
  • approaches, methods and tools to evaluate ecological transition
  • post-carbon cities
  • climate change
  • globalization
  • underdeveloped countries
  • new urban governance approaches
  • real estate mangement, assessment and innovations
  • urban development
  • urban economics
  • urban regeneration
  • approaches, methods and tools to promote or evaluate green deals
  • approaches, methods and tools to promote or evaluate green buildings
  • COVID-19
  • new research fields

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Trust in Government and Its Determinants: An Empirical Study of Public Acceptability for Carbon Tax in Malaysia
by Izlawanie Muhammad, Norfakhirah Nazihah Mohd Hasnu, Mohd Adha Ibrahim, Suhaila Abdul Hamid and Mustafa Mohd Hanefah
Sustainability 2022, 14(23), 15684; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su142315684 - 25 Nov 2022
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Trust in government is a significant factor influencing the public acceptability of environmental tax. Without trust, implementing and sustaining a new tax policy is challenging due to public resistance. However, gaining trust from the public is even more challenging in developing countries where [...] Read more.
Trust in government is a significant factor influencing the public acceptability of environmental tax. Without trust, implementing and sustaining a new tax policy is challenging due to public resistance. However, gaining trust from the public is even more challenging in developing countries where corruption is a common issue. Despite the risk of policy rejection, many developing countries, including Malaysia, are adopting the carbon tax as a policy to reduce carbon emissions. This has raised the question of the impact of trust in the government on public acceptability for carbon tax implementation in Malaysia. Another critical concern is identifying the predictors of trust in government, to which researchers have given less attention. Three main features of good governance—accountability, integrity, and competence—were examined as the predictors of trust in government. A nationwide survey in Malaysia was conducted using an online questionnaire, and 566 respondents completed the survey. The data were analysed using the Structural Equation Model (SEM) via Amos. The results show that trust in the government is influenced by the government’s accountability, integrity, and competence. In contrast with many past studies, trust in the government does not influence Malaysian acceptance behaviour. Instead, only the government’s accountability influences the acceptance of carbon tax implementation among the public. The public is concerned about the government’s spending; hence, the government must be transparent in its spending and redistributing the tax revenue to the public must be the top priority to gain public trust in implementing a carbon tax policy. Full article
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An Automatic Tool for the Determination of Housing Rental Prices: An Analysis of the Italian Context
by Francesco Tajani, Felicia Di Liddo, Rossana Ranieri and Debora Anelli
Sustainability 2022, 14(1), 309; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14010309 - 28 Dec 2021
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In the last decades, some global events such as the economic crisis of 2008 and the COVID-19 emergency of 2020, have generated more attention towards the housing rental market and its capacity to meet several social needs. In order to study the existent [...] Read more.
In the last decades, some global events such as the economic crisis of 2008 and the COVID-19 emergency of 2020, have generated more attention towards the housing rental market and its capacity to meet several social needs. In order to study the existent demand for houses, then define the interventions on the residential assets to make them more affordable for the most fragile population groups, adequate evaluation tools are required. With reference to the residential property segment of five metropolitan cities located in the Italian territory, the present research is aimed at analyzing the contribution of the most influencing factors on rental prices. In particular, this research refers to the rented properties of the second half of 2019, with a set of variables that represent the intrinsic and extrinsic factors of the local market. The implementation of an automated valuation model allows the determination of the most significant factors and the functional relationships that they have with housing rental fees. The outputs obtained could support the improvement of equitable public housing policies or could guide private investment decisions, such as refurbishment interventions of certain significant factors that could increase the market rental value. This study is the first step in wider research that is currently in progress, which aims to investigate the effects of the existing COVID-19 pandemic on the residential rental market. Full article
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