Shinji Kaneko

Hiroshima University | HU · Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation

This introductory chapter explores the intricate relationship between peace and sustainability in an increasingly complex world. It highlights the escalating challenges of global conflicts, climate change, and socio-economic instabilities that threaten both peace and sustainable development. The chapter emphasizes the interconnectedness of these co...

The adoption of renewable energy technology and the resolution of sustainability challenges hinge on public acceptance. This study explored the public's acceptance of power generation utilizing recycled oil palm waste, a nascent and innovative technology, to discern the impact of increased public awareness on the approval of potentially contentious...

Climate and other forms of global environmental change are transforming the security landscape where peace and conflict manifest. Given that most studies on the relationship between peace and the environment focus on (the absence of) violent conflicts or negative peace, this study seeks to identify environmental security issues at the local or comm...

This paper reports the results of an experiment conducted before the 2021 regime change in Afghanistan that examined how different types of information strategies affected private sector support for a hypothetical peace agreement with the Taliban. We compared the impact of historical, pecuniary, and religious information on the stated preferences o...

This paper examines the intergenerational effect of child marriage on education. While most of the literature focuses on child marriage generations, the spillover effects on offspring require close attention to terminate the endless loop of child marriage-related issues. By employing coarsened exact matching (CEM), the authors analyse how child mar...

Peace and sustainability are already widely recognized in academic discourses as intrinsically related. Despite this, there is still a lack of integrated approaches to peace and sustainability in policy and practice. This could undermine efforts aimed at developing peaceful and sustainable communities. In this chapter, we first explore how approach...

A public transport system is the most efficient and equitable solution to the challenges of urban mobility and climate change. To improve public transport, technological innovations, policy interventions, and behavioral changes should all be applied appropriately; however, there is a lack of information about the demand for public transport service...

The aim of this study is to identify which components of peace are most associated with environmental sustainability. Drawing on the Global Peace Index, Positive Peace Index, and Environmental Performance Index, our study shows that environmental performance (especially regarding air quality, safe sanitation, and safe drinking water) is more closel...

In many South Asian contexts, specific dates are auspicious and inauspicious for health-related behaviours and outcomes. This study analysed the effect of lunar date-related auspicious beliefs in Nepal on childbirths and neonatal health outcomes. Using the daily birth records from a tertiary maternity hospital, we empirically examined whether birth...

Purpose-This purpose of this paper is to understand residents' choice of preferred measures and their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for the measures to improve the air quality of Hanoi city. Design/methodology/approach-Questionnaire surveys were conducted to collect the opinions of 212 household representatives living in Hanoi City. The survey tools we...

Tokyo is the capital of Japan and the hub of the country's economic and administrative activities. To maintain the momentum of sustained economic growth, Tokyo is transforming the structure of its economic activities, production efficiency, and consumption patterns. Consequently, the supply and demand structure of energy and material in the city ha...

This study reveals that strong feelings of altruism were found to be statistically significant in explaining prosocial and pro-environmental behaviors. However, this was not the case for the latent trait biosphere in explaining pro-environmental behavior (e.g., past volunteering in clean-up activities). Regardless of whether they are overseas gradu...

The dataset concerning the Japan Household Panel Survey on Sustainable Development Goals (JHPSDGs) was collected through online surveys conducted in March 2019 and March 2020. The dataset consists of 12,098 observations, including two-period panel datasets of 3,227 individuals. The JHPSDGs include a wide range of individual survey responses, which...

A public transport system is the most efficient and equitable solution to the challenges of urban mobility and climate change. To improve public transport, technological innovations, policy interventions, and behavioral changes should all be applied appropriately; however, there is a lack of information about the demand for public transport service...

We conduct two separate experiments to study the social acceptance of AI ethical decision making. In the first experiment, we test whether there is an “unfounded” fear of technology. We contrast two methods to measure this fear: an indirect method that measures preferences implicitly and a direct method that measures preferences explicitly. Direct...

Cooperation beyond the borders of sovereign states and investment in global public goods (GPGs) are essential for tackling transboundary challenges, such as climate change, marine pollution, and health security. However, little is known about how regional tension or isolationism might affect cooperation with neighboring countries on transboundary i...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 to work towards a sustainable society in which economic prosperity is achieved and social and environmental concerns are met. Under the SDGs, businesses are expected to assume increasingly active roles. However, little is known about the relationship be...

Fiscal illusion refers to taxpayers’ perceptions of the gap between their burden and their expectations regarding the provision of public services. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive picture of the preferences of central government officials with respect to a hypothetical interministerial anti-child labor policy program. In our randomized co...

Information-based interventions are increasingly used to influence preferences or behaviour. Although information does not directly influence behaviour, it is still commonly used because it is inexpensive and provides immediate impacts. The objective of this study is to compare the impacts of information provision on households’ stated preferences...

Despite broad recognition that peace and sustainability are interrelated, the pathways of their relationship remain ambiguous or nascent at best. We synthesized the literature relevant to the linkages between the two by framing our analysis around the pillars of positive peace and the dimensions of sustainability. Our review reveals that while the...

The dataset concerning the Japan Household Panel Survey on Sustainable Development Goals (JHPSDGs) was collected through online surveys conducted in March 2019 and March 2020. The dataset consists of 12,098 observations, including two-period panel datasets of 3,227 individuals. The JHPSDGs includes a wide range of individual survey responses, which...

Replication materials for "Sustainable Development Goals as New Business Norms: A Survey Experiment on Stakeholder Preferences" Yamane, T., Kaneko, S., 2021. Sustainable Development Goals as New Business Norms: A Survey Experiment on Stakeholder Preferences. Ecol. Econ. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107236. In press.

This contain row data of Japan Household Panel Survey on Sustainable Development Goals (JHPSDGs) and other materials (questionnaire and descriptive statistics report).

This study examines the effect of household water accessibility on children’s educational attainment in villages situated in the remote hilly and mountainous areas of Nepal. Educational attainment was measured based on school attendance, grade repetition, and completion of primary and lower-secondary schooling. The estimation results show that a on...

Replication materials for Yamane, T.; Kaneko, S. What Motivates Stakeholders to Demand Corporate Social Responsibility: A Survey Experiment. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8313.

Over the past 3 decades, a vast body of research has been published on the interactions between climate change and events that undermine negative peace. Consequently, several review papers have been published in the last few years on this nexus. However, there is still a lack of a comprehensive bibliometrics analysis of the field. Accordingly, the...

Climate change is increasingly recognized as a threat to global peace and security. This paper intends to provide a better understanding of the nature of interactions between climate change and events that undermine peace, through a systematic review of recent literature. It highlights major methodological approaches adopted in the literature, elab...

The interlinkages between peace and sustainability are embedded in several international agreements and declarations and recognized by various research studies. However, the characteristics of their bidirectional relationship remain underexamined. Here we scope the complex and multifaceted relationship between peace and sustainability based on an e...

Businesses are facing consistent pressures from stakeholders to be socially responsible although the economic benefits of corporate social responsibility (CSR) have been found to be mixed. We aim to reveal stakeholders’ motivations for demanding CSR by studying stakeholders’ stated preferences on companies’ contribution to the United Nations’ Susta...

Sustainability and peace have long been recognized within academic and policy circles as intrinsically interrelated. Although there are some studies that examine impacts of sustainability on peace and vice versa, a specific focus on the sustainability–peace nexus remains marginal in academic and policy discourses, and pathways where sustainability...

Is the younger generation, including millennials and Generation Z, a driving force toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? The younger generation is often described as more socially conscious and promotors of the SDGs than the older generation; however, little scientific evidence supports these assumptions and expectations. To fi...

Raising stakeholder awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) may enhance pro-sustainable behavior. However, little is known regarding the extent to which SDG-related information affects stakeholder preferences in supporting the realization of the SDGs. The aim of this study is to determine whether raising awareness of the SDGs affects...

The objective of this research was to investigate the current status of water-collection behaviours and their determinants, which are associated with the burden of collecting water. This research was focused on the remote hinterlands of Nepal, and little is known about the residents’ livelihoods; therefore, particular attention was paid to the hous...

Academics, policymakers, and practitioners have long considered peace and sustainability to be fundamentally linked. However, despite the increased attention paid toward the intersection of peace and sustainability, there is still limited knowledge on the nature of their linkages. To advance the current understanding on the peace-sustainability nex...

By using the methodologies of Grinols (1984 , Journal of International Economics, 16[3–4], 271–293) and Grinols and Wong (1991 , Canadian Journal of Economics, 24[2], 428–449), we estimate the magnitudes of the welfare changes of China during the global financial crisis from 2007 to 2010. The results show that China’s welfare decreased in 2007, and...

This study examines the innovation and changes of the solar home system (SHS) in rural Bangladesh based on qualitative and descriptive statistics information. The solar home system is till now becoming more popular in rural areas in Bangladesh. SHS program is one of the most successful off-grid programs with highest install rates. Grameen Shakti (G...

Air conditioning is one of the growing sources of electricity consumption in developing countries with tropical and sub-tropical climates. Vernacular design and the use of natural building materials are considered effective measures for mitigating the rapid growth in electricity demand, but such arguments and analyses have only been performed at sm...

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This paper investigates the economic impact of an energy efficiency improvement policy on electricity-intensive firms in Ghana. The policy imposed a penalty on these electricity-intensive firms, which are referred to as special load tariff (SLT) customers, when their power factor was below 90%. This paper applies the regression discontinuity design...

Cities can play a critical role in mitigating climate change. Although several carbon accounting methods have been proposed to identify mitigation responsibility of cities, there is still no single common and widely accepted method. In this study, we have adopted a method that is based on four system boundaries to identify and compare per capita CO...

The gender wage gap has long been a critical aspect of gender inequality. The issue is even more crucial for countries such as Nepal, where there are significant differences between men and women in educational attainment levels. This study investigates how educational attainment affects occupational choice for men and women in urban and rural area...

In this paper, we attempt to identify the reasons behind the differences in environmental policy between Japan and other developed countries, particularly the US. Japan’s environmental policy is unique in that voluntary approaches have been taken to reduce total emissions. This strategy is quite different from the traditional approach of heavy-hand...

This paper reports on an investigation into changes in wage inequality in Bangladesh between 2000 and 2010, based on gender, marital status, education, job industry, job sector, location, etc. The 2000 and 2010 Labour Force Surveys conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) provided the data used. Oaxaca–Blinder’s (1973) decomposition a...

Information strategies are increasingly used to promote pro-environmental behavior through changing perceptions, knowledge, awareness and norms. While some studies have argued that information strategies are ineffective, others have reported, that information strategies can have immediate impacts. Information strategies are particularly relevant in...

This paper aims to show the impact of access to electricity on school enrollment in Bangladesh. It offers an empirical investigation of the relationship between access to electricity and school enrollment statuses, such as grade progression, repetition, and non-attendance. The data were taken from Bangladesh's Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MIC...

Introduction In Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), community-based health insurance (CBHI) is the only voluntary insurance scheme; it typically targets self-employed people, most of whom reside in rural areas and are dependent on agricultural activities for subsistence. However, until very recently, the enrollment rate has fallen short and fai...

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The study explores the introduction of ICT into the classroom by conducting a randomised controlled experiment (RCT) among secondary schools in urban Myanmar. Using a lecture on climate change awareness, 942 students in five schools in Yangon and Mandalay participated in the experiment. For treatment groups, the lecture was video-based, with the te...

In this study, we analyze the factors that affecting purchasing decision time for solar photovoltaic (PV) s in Japan. Based on our survey, consumers spend about 4 months to make purchase decision. Also, our estimation results show that information and knowledge that consumers obtained from the neighborhood and elsewhere make consumers more careful...

This paper, using data derived from a questionnaire survey of Indonesian firms, analyzes whether a firm’s environmental performance enhances its financial performance and why this happens. Due to the fact that the breakeven point of improving environmental performance will decrease in theory by implementing environmental management voluntarily rath...

Technological modernization is crucial for productivity and environmental management and has profound implications for China, where both overproduction and industrial pollution are serious issues. This study reports empirical results for existing cement plants in Sichuan Province in China, capturing changes in productivity and environmental perform...

This paper utilizes household level earnings data from LFS2010 to examine the earnings inequality across the entire earning distribution based on two groups electricity as a source of lighting & kerosene and other as a source of lighting users. The important covariates of this study are gender, education, job industry, job sector, location and so o...

In conventional social productive efficiency measurements that consider the production of undesirable outputs such as CO2, a DEA-based non-parametric method of production possibility frontier (PPF) identification coupled with the directional distance-function approach a-la Luenberger (1992) is typically employed. This paper shows that the discrepan...

The mountainous hinterland in rural Nepal lacks a fundamental social infrastructure. For example, the lack of electricity causes water provision difficulties, especially in mountainous areas where villagers, especially women and children, often spend a considerable amount of time just conveying water to their homes. To overcome this challenge, a su...

The manufacturing sector is one of the most important sectors in Indonesia due to its enormous potential for creating job opportunities and its contribution to development. When the roles of manufacturing sector are expected to increase continuously, some considerable obstructions should be confronted, in particular the increasing pollution and the...

Since the transportation sector is one of the main contributors of GHG emissions in Indonesia, having a clear direction of climate policy is very important. Developing mass rapid transit (MRT) as the climate policy in urban transportation is urgently needed since it can encourage people to use public transport. However, some policies seem conflicti...

Rapid development of voluntary and mandatory ecolabeling has occurred since the government enacted national standardization in 2000, including mandatory energy-saving labeling schemes (public labels) for compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) and air conditioning (AC). Some top AC producers attached their own energy-saving label (private label) to attract...

Due to its accelerating economy and growing population, Indonesia consumed more and more energy. It has become an oil-importing country since 2003. Furthermore, Indonesia’s energy policy has changed drastically since the Asian crisis by giving more funds to fuel subsidy than development fund. These facts made scholars and international institutions...

The introductory chapter provides a historical overview on the nexus of economic development, energy use, and energy-related CO2 emissions over the past 40 years in Indonesia. A logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition analysis was employed to examine determinants for the changes in energy-related CO2 emissions. The 40-year period was di...

The concept of sustainable development was first used in the report prepared by the World Commission on Environment and Development (commonly known as the Brundtland Commission), which was established by the United Nations in 1984. It is defined as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generatio...

In order to have future direction for promoting international contributions of hydrological science in Japan from practical perspectives, the past achievements of social science relating to water resources management are reviewed with preliminary evaluation of paper publications in the Web of Science. It found that absolute number and relative cont...

Traffic congestion in Jakarta is an emerging challenge. Although the policies have been implemented both discouraging private vehicles and improving public transport, the traffic jam is getting worse as conflicting fuel subsidy policy is implemented. This study reports empirical evidence on the trade-off effect between improvements in public transp...

The paper provides overview of the commuters' behaviors and attitudes towards current transport modes used and what are the factors influences of the motorization trends within the last six years. By using the National Socioeconomic Survey (NSS) and National Labor Force Survey (NLFS) as well as the primary data collected to know the private vehicle...

This paper provides empirical evidence of changes in the productivities of manufacturing firms in Indonesia over time, in the form of total factor productivity (TFP), from 1990 to 2010 with and without considering carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Employing cleaned and balanced panel datasets for four periods, 1990–1995, 1998–2000, 2003–2006, and 200...

In a discrete choice experiment (DCE), some respondents might not attend to all presented attributes when evaluating and choosing their preferred options. Utilizing data from a DCE survey in Vietnam, this paper contributes to the literature on attribute non-attendance (ANA) with an investigation of the ANA in a developing country context. Based on...

Agricultural land of Bangladesh has decreased on an average sixty six thousand acres each year which is 0.29 percent of the total agricultural land in Bangladesh. On the contrary, several times cultivation of agriculture land is increasing continuously. We have also found that cultivable waste land has decreased over the sample period, which indica...

Deforestation is the most critical issue of climate change in Indonesia, as well as in other tropical countries, meanwhile major forests is managed under concession or permit system. This paper investigates the effect of forest permits on deforestation in Indonesia. Two major forest permits are taken into analysis, resulting that logging permit is...

The order of a series of choice tasks presented to respondents in a discrete choice experiment (DCE) could affect the choice outcomes. This study explores the ordering effects in a DCE surveying preferences for improvements in cyclone warning services in Vietnam. Respondents' choices are analysed non-parametrically and parametrically to investigate...

This study proposes an alternative conceptual and analytical framework to identify the environmental impacts of urbanization, where urbanization is treated as a background/contextual factor. This study especially focuses on the issue of “in what conditions of urbanization, human activities can be more environmentally efficient” rather than “whether...

This paper investigates household preferences regarding an improved supply of electricity in rural Bangladesh, where the expansion of stable electricity is an urgent policy issue. The paper examines household preferences regarding reductions in the frequency and duration of power outages. It also examines prior notification mechanisms that do not n...

This paper analyzes how a firm’s management of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions affects its economic performance. The theoretical model we derive from Cobb–Douglas production and inverse demand functions predict that in conducting GHG emissions management, a firm will enhance its economic performance because it promotes an increase in demand for its...

Problem of water scarcity has been increasingly severe in China. Though industrial sectors play important role for the rapid economic growth, and they consumes water and discharge wastewater. The purpose of this study is to examine the efficiency of water use and wastewater discharge in comparison with those of other inputs and production output in...

The objective of this research is to estimate the potential effects of migration on residential energy use and CO2 emissions in Hanoi, Vietnam, a location in which urbanization and migration are occurring simultaneously. This article estimates the effects of migration on residential energy use and CO2 emissions quantitatively, basing the probabilit...

This study analyzes the management of air pollutant substance in Chinese industrial sectors from 1998 to 2009. Decomposition analysis applying the logarithmic mean divisia index is used to analyze changes in emissions of air pollutants with a focus on the following five factors: coal pollution intensity (CPI), end-of-pipe treatment (EOP), the energ...

Packaging products, in particular those made from plastic, are playing an increasingly significant role in our everyday life. Because of the environmental issues associated with packaging, European countries, in particular EU member states, have long applied various policies to deal with this issue. One policy option that is rarely applied to packa...

Spatial relationships are known phenomena in ecological studies that refer to the relationships between certain variables observed in different localities. Different mechanisms have been suggested to explain this phenomenon, such as the pollution displacement hypothesis, foreign direct investment, international trade, and strategic response of coun...

This study examines the relationships between environmental performance and economic performance in Japanese manufacturing firms. The environmental performance indicators include CO2 emissions and the aggregate toxic risk associated with chemical emissions relative to sales. Return on assets (ROA) is used as an indicator of economic performance. We...

Linking tropical cyclone activity with anthropogenic climate change is subject to on-going debate. However, mode