A criteria and indicator prognosis for sustainable forest management assessments: Concepts and optional policy baskets for the high forest zone in Ghana

Nunoo, Edward Kweku; Twum, Eric; Pannin, Anthony

doi:10.1080/10549811.2015.1135066

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“…Content analysis was performed on the annual reports and other secondary information on MOCs to determine their CSR activities and practices. Finally, based on [62,63,64], a sustainability benchmarking framework was adopted to assess CSR activities of the MOCs in 7 core areas; Commitment to CSR, CSR spending, Community, environmental aspects, workplace environment, marketplace and CSR reporting. These areas are summarily tabulated (Table 1) below;…”

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Sustaining the Oil and Gas Industry through corporate social responsibility practices by multinational oil and gas companies in emerging economies.

Gyane

Nunoo

Suleman

2021

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The objective of this study was to provide empirical evidence from the perspective of corporate social responsibility practices by multinational oil and gas companies in emerging economies on how investments in and disclosure of this practice could enhance financial sustainability. Accounting-based measures on investments, financial performance, disclosures of activities and panel data set on company size (total assets) over a 10-year period (t) were analysed. Findings show that oil firms with interest in emerging economies take key aspects of corporate social responsibility practices seriously. There was significant positive relationship (p = 0.0035 < 0.05) between investment in the practice and sustainability in financial performance. No significant relationship (p = 0.4409 > 0.05) was established between disclosure and financial performance. Functional corporate social responsibility practices were envisaged to yield sustained dividend in terms of a stronger financial outlook for oil and gas companies for poverty alleviation and to achieve key sustainable development goals and targets in emerging economies.

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Sustaining the Oil and Gas Industry through corporate social responsibility practices by multinational oil and gas companies in emerging economies.

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Nunoo

Suleman

2021

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“…A value of two means absence of autocorrelation and values less than or greater than two means the presence positive or negative autocorrelation among independent variables. The result for the Durbin-Watson test was 1.9, implying that the speci ed model for the analysis did not violate the independent residuals assumptions [58,66,67,68] and there was no collinearity problem among the predictor variables.…”

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“…The relationship between YP and CSRIV, and YP and TAST are both negative (r = -0.2967 and r= -0.2788 respectively) as depicted by Table 5. Among the independent variables (TAST, CSRIV, CSRDC), however, there was no signi cant correlation, signifying that no multi-collinearity issues exist, and based on [66], the regression estimates are accepted to be accurate.…”

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“…A left tail position is indicative of negatively skewed distribution and a right tail distribution is indicative of a positively skewed distribution. For kurtosis on the other hand, it can either be atter peak or substantial peak distribution [60,62,66]. From the analysis (Table 4), YP has a mean score of 15.51, suggesting a healthy pro tability margin across the sampled multinationals with interests in Africa.…”

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“…Due to extensive use of secondary data from oil and gas multinational companies which are published periodically and available to the public, no severe ethical issues are envisaged. Data for the study was accessed from websites, annual reports and other publicly accessible publishing channels of multinational companies with investments in Africa [61,66]. However, in regard to ethical issues on legal access to books, articles and other documents, cited in-text, all have been duly acknowledged through intext citations and referenced [56,65] respectively in the study.…”

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Sustaining the Oil and Gas Multinationals’ Operations Through Corporate Social Responsibility Practices

Gyane

Nunoo

Suleman

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The objective of this study is to provide empirical evidence from the perspective of prudent corporate social responsibility practices by oil and gas multinationals in emerging economies on how investments in and disclosure of the practices can enhance financial sustainability. Accounting-based measures on investments, financial performance, disclosures of activities and panel data set on company size (total assets) over a 10-year period (t) were analysed. Findings show that multinationals with interests in emerging economies take key aspects of their corporate social responsibility practices seriously. There was a significant positive relationship (p=0.0035<0.05) between investments in corporate social responsibility practices and sustainability of financial performance. No significant relationship (p=0.4409 > 0.05) was established between disclosure and financial performance. The paper concludes, by supporting the preposition with scientific data, that functional corporate social responsibility practices yield sustained dividend by presenting a stronger financial outlook for multinational oil and gas companies who engage in it. This is prudent for poverty alleviation initiatives and key to achieving the sustainable development goals and targets in emerging economies where they operate.

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Validating local drivers influencing land use cover change in Southwestern Ghana: a mixed-method approach

Sarfo

Otchwemah²,

Darko

et al. 2022

Environ Earth Sci

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Addressing undesirable changes associated with the driving forces of land use cover change are critical to sustainable land management, and the future modeling of land use systems in developing countries. The study accentuates local drivers of land use cover change in Southwestern Ghana using a mixed-method approach. The approach aided in identifying key land-use drivers, using different research strategies for comparisons through confidence level analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process. We used expert interviews, existing literature and geostatistical tools to ascertain the driving forces triggering such unprecedented changes. Landsat imagery 5 MSS, 4 and 5 TM, 7 ETM + and 8 OLI/TIRS were acquired from the United States Geological Survey’s website. Land-use analysis revealed a decline in forests (− 82.41%) and areas covered by waterbodies (− 27.39%). A fundamental drift in built-up (+ 1288.36%) and farmlands/shrubs (+ 369.81%) areas were also observed. The contribution rate of change analysis revealed built-environment and increasing population contributed the most to surface temperature and land-use change. A steady increase in surface temperature can be attributed to the undesirable changes associated with land-use systems over the past 50 years. Socio-economic development in Southwestern Ghana is fuelling interest in studies related to land use cover change. Biophysical, cultural and technological factors are considered key drivers despite the “medium-to-very low confidence” in results generated. They could potentially impact climate-sensitive sectors that significantly modify land-use systems from the pessimists’ and optimists’ perspectives. Standpoints established through this study will enrich basic datasets for further studies at the continental level. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12665-022-10481-y.

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A criteria and indicator prognosis for sustainable forest management assessments: Concepts and optional policy baskets for the high forest zone in Ghana

Cited by 9 publications

References 9 publications

Sustaining the Oil and Gas Industry through corporate social responsibility practices by multinational oil and gas companies in emerging economies.

Sustaining the Oil and Gas Industry through corporate social responsibility practices by multinational oil and gas companies in emerging economies.

Sustaining the Oil and Gas Multinationals’ Operations Through Corporate Social Responsibility Practices

Validating local drivers influencing land use cover change in Southwestern Ghana: a mixed-method approach

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