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Zhao Y, Dong L, Li J, Yang K, Zhang N. High temperatures and urban entrepreneurship levels: Evidence from China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 903:166636. [PMID: 37643711 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2023] [Revised: 08/14/2023] [Accepted: 08/26/2023] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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This paper performed as a frontier try to investigate the effect of high temperatures on entrepreneurship, assessed from an urban perspective. This paper estimated the impact of high temperatures on urban entrepreneurship levels using data from 281 prefecture cities in China, during the period 2000-2017. This paper found that a single day with a temperature of above 30 °C led to a decrease of 0.47 % in urban entrepreneurship levels, compared with a single day recording comfortable temperatures. Following a series of robustness tests, the results were found to be significant. Next, this paper conducted a series of heterogeneity analyses and discovered that cities with advanced industrial structures, larger sizes and more essential hierarchies were less affected by high temperatures. Finally, this paper further analyzed the potential influence mechanisms of high temperatures on entrepreneurship. This paper found that high temperature affects urban entrepreneurship levels by worsening the entrepreneurial environment, especially by reducing human capital, hindering innovation, decreasing the financial support available to enterprises, and hindering economic development. The results of our study have thus enriched the literature on entrepreneurship by exploring the impact of climate change on entrepreneurship.
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- Yuanshuang Zhao
- Institute of Blue and Green Development, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, China; School of Energy and Environment (SEE), City University of Hong Kong, 999077, Hong Kong; Department of Public and International Affairs (PIA), City University of Hong Kong, 999077, Hong Kong
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- School of Energy and Environment (SEE), City University of Hong Kong, 999077, Hong Kong; Department of Public and International Affairs (PIA), City University of Hong Kong, 999077, Hong Kong; Centre for Public Affairs and Law, City University of Hong Kong, 999077, Hong Kong
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- Department of Public and International Affairs (PIA), City University of Hong Kong, 999077, Hong Kong
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- Department of Public and International Affairs (PIA), City University of Hong Kong, 999077, Hong Kong
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- Institute of Blue and Green Development, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, China; Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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Varyvoda Y, Cederstrom T, Borberg J, Taren D. Enabling Food Safety Entrepreneurship: Exploratory Case Studies From Nepal, Senegal, and Ethiopia. FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS 2021. [DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2021.742908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Today, formal and informal enterprises are increasingly contributing to the safety and nutritional ramifications of their food business activities. Enabling entrepreneurship in a sustainable manner means making profits, striving to prevent ingress of harmful substances, and increasing the efficiency of using local natural resources and thus mitigating food hazardous footprints. Using examples from Nepal, Senegal and Ethiopia, this review provides information on microbial and chemical contamination and food adulteration that lead to having unsafe food in the market and on factors that are limiting growing food businesses. Four examples for how to accelerate food safety entrepreneurship are presented that include safely diversifying markets with animal sourced foods, sustainably using neglected and underutilized animal sources, expanding, and integrating innovative technologies with traditional practice and using digital technology to improving monitoring and safety along the food supply chain.
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McBean GA. Integrating science to address food and health within Global Agenda 2030. NPJ Sci Food 2021; 5:8. [PMID: 33828106 PMCID: PMC8027427 DOI: 10.1038/s41538-021-00088-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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When recovering from the pandemic, it is important for Planet Earth to address the Global Agenda 2030, including food and water crises, and to bounce forward sustainably. The World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report and Global Agenda 2030 provide a framework for action and an integrated global science agenda response, involving food and health, is essential. The UN 2021 Summit on Food Systems provides an opportunity for the global science community to come together to address the Summit's Action Tracks, including building resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks and stresses. There would be major global benefits to have an international scientific network working with the UN to address the mandates of the UN Food Summit and Global Agenda 2030.
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- Gordon A McBean
- Department of Geography and Environment and Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
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Bioeconomy Transformation Strategies Worldwide Require Stronger Focus on Entrepreneurship. SUSTAINABILITY 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/su12072911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The number of governments worldwide embracing the vision of a sustainable bioeconomy is constantly rising. One factor facilitating the transformation of economies to such sustainable bioeconomies will be entrepreneurial activity. Hence, I analyze how available bioeconomy strategies account for the role of entrepreneurship in driving the bioeconomy transformation. That analysis indicates that the majority of existing bioeconomy strategies account for the transformative potential of entrepreneurship but remain ineffective with respect to achieving their goals. I consequently suggest devising entrepreneurship substrategies of bioeconomy strategies that are holistic, dedicated, and based on a clear causal rationale.
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