Analysis and Action
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Engaging Multiple Stakeholders in Addressing Sustainability of Florida's Water Resources
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Mary Hope Schwoebel
This is an Interdisciplinary Action Research Project carried out by a social scientist and a scientist in partnerships with multiple stakeholders, including activists, advocates, citizen scientists, local government officials and civil servants, and community-based non-profit organizations. The first phase of the project to be implemented in November is a Water Symposium brought together all of the above utilizing a participatory action research process to develop guidelines and checklists for each level and category of stakeholder - state level, county and city governments, businesses, environmental organizations, citizens, and households - with recommendations for how to protect and improve water quality in Florida's oceans, lakes, rivers, springs and aquifers. The second phase of this participatory action research project is to design new, or support ongoing, interventions for different levels.
Intermodality Policies for Public Transport in Mexico and the European Union: Analysis of Their Contribution to Compliance with SDG 11.2 View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Laura Elena Castro Sánchez
This study explores intermodality within public transport policies in urban contexts of the Global South and the European Union as a strategy to achieve access to safe, paid and sustainable transport systems. The applicable free access documents regarding the management of motorized transport routes and active mobility routes in the cities of Madrid and Monterrey were analyzed. Through the mapping of public transport routes, buffer zones without active intermodality are determined. According to the regulatory framework, the disparities between the case studies are mainly analyzed in the urban development model, pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, security and cultural aspects of mobility. The results show that in the case of Madrid the policies show significant progress in achieving intermodality because its urban planning and bioclimatic urbanism are an optimal basis for non-motorized modes of mobility while in the case of Monterrey such The initiatives are at an incipient level since the city faces challenges linked to its urban form, which make the adoption of active modes difficult. Finally, a set of planning and monitoring indicators focused on the Global South at the municipal level is proposed to promote development oriented towards intermodality in order to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 11. 2.
Climate Change Disclosure Differentiation and Firm Financial Performance: A Deep Learning Approach View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Shan Yang
With increasing attention to climate change, governments are mandating firms to disclose GHG emissions for better management. Firms’ climate change disclosure differentiation is becoming crucial to financial performance. We uses the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) as a natural experiment to examine the relationship between GHGRP and financial performance, mediated by the firm’s climate change disclosure differentiation and moderated by competitive intensity. Utilizing a novel deep-learning approach on over 180,000 earnings conference call transcripts from 2001-2023 in the US and Canada, we find that GHGRP positively influences both the climate change disclosure differentiation and financial performance. The differentiation mediates the relationship between GHGRP and financial performance. Interestingly, while the climate change disclosure differentiation can negatively affect financial performance, it exhibits a U-shaped relationship, turning positive beyond a certain level. Additionally, higher competitive intensity flattens the U-shaped curve, thereby weakening the positive impact of the climate change disclosure differentiation on financial performance. Finally, we offer several significant managerial insights for firms, policymakers, and investors.
