Do You Want Sustainable Olympics? Environment, Disaster, Gender, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Article Economics

Long-term effects of female teachers on pupils' smoking behaviour later in life

Eiji Yamamura

Summary: In Japan, teachers and students are randomly matched in the first year of elementary school. A study found that students who belonged to a female teacher homeroom class were less likely to smoke in adulthood.

APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS (2022)

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Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Connecting Climate and Communicable Disease to Penta Helix Using Hierarchical Likelihood Structural Equation Modelling

Rezzy Eko Caraka et al.

Summary: The article discusses the integration of health issues into the sustainable development goals to ensure a healthy lifestyle and addresses the impacts of climate change on disease transmission patterns, emphasizing the urgent need for action. It calls for collaboration among academia, government, and the private sector to maintain health issues. The author examines the relationship among climate, communicable diseases, and the Penta Helix in Taiwan, using hierarchical likelihood structural equation modeling to interpret the variables.

SYMMETRY-BASEL (2021)

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Article Computer Science, Information Systems

Cluster Around Latent Variable for Vulnerability Towards Natural Hazards, Non-Natural Hazards, Social Hazards in West Papua

Rezzy Eko Caraka et al.

Summary: The study aims to calculate the location-based social vulnerability in West Papua by analyzing and clustering multiple factors, leading to the formation of location clusters that indicate the level of social vulnerability in the region.

IEEE ACCESS (2021)

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Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Collaborating in a penta-helix structure within a community based participatory research programme: 'Wrestling with hierarchies and getting caught in isolated downpipes'

Katarina Sjogren Forss et al.

Summary: This study found that the penta-helix collaboration worked well at the local level, but there were barriers for citizen involvement due to organizational hierarchy. Citizen-driven processes are crucial for the penta-helix collaboration, and system changes take time.

ARCHIVES OF PUBLIC HEALTH (2021)

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Article Environmental Studies

Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up

Bent Flyvbjerg et al.

Summary: The costs and overruns of the Olympic Games follow a power-law distribution, making them difficult to predict and plan for, with the possibility of larger future overruns than ever before. This has severe consequences for host cities and nations.

ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE (2021)

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Article Demography

Working from home and income inequality: risks of a 'new normal' with COVID-19

Luca Bonacini et al.

Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has made working from home a crucial option for many employees, but it may exacerbate inequalities in the labor market. Male, older, highly educated, and high-paid employees are more likely to benefit from remote work, as well as those living in areas more severely affected by the pandemic. Policies should focus on addressing these inequalities and implementing measures to mitigate the consequences.

JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS (2021)

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Article Green & Sustainable Science & Technology