Palm oil and its environmental impacts: A big data analytics study

Teng, Shasha; Khong, Kok Wei; Ha, Norbani Che

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122901

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“…The effect of social media on health concerns was proved, but with no further impact on green attitude, for the simple reason that the information on social media regarding green cosmetics focuses on environmental issues rather than health issues. For example, there are highly exposed green issues such as cruelty-free cosmetics [75] or the negative public opinion on massive deforestation for obtaining palm-oil, a basic component for many cosmetic products [96]. Thus, consumers associate their green cosmetics orientation with pro-environmental motivations, and they do not feel that the egoistic motives outcomes (linking and buying green cosmetics) can also converge with environmental benefits.…”

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Social Media Goes Green—The Impact of Social Media on Green Cosmetics Purchase Motivation and Intention

2020

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In the 21st century, green consumption has risen into a global trend, which inclines cosmetic companies to be more environmental-friendly and to have a larger green product portfolio to satisfy these new consumers’ needs. Social media contributed to this trend, shaping consumers’ attitudes into more environmentally conscious behavior. The present study applied the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to explain the impact of Social Media on consumers’ purchase intention and motivation (altruism and egoism). Based on empirical investigation, an online survey was developed to measure the proposed conceptual model. The reliability and validity of the reflective constructs were tested using partial least squares (PLS) modeling technique. The results indicate the importance of social media on consumers’ attitudes, subjective norms, altruistic and egoistic motivations, and the impact of these variables as the antecedents of green cosmetics purchase intention. These results have important theoretical implications. They revealed that external factors such as social media as an information source, have an important role in consumer motivation formation and green cosmetic purchasing intentions. The findings are relevant for marketers to implement better communication strategies on social media to increase consumers’ motivations and purchase intention toward green cosmetics.

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Social Media Goes Green—The Impact of Social Media on Green Cosmetics Purchase Motivation and Intention

2020

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“…Concern for Indonesia's remarkable rain forests and their species-rich communities, including charismatic animals such as orangutans, tigers, and elephants is nothing new 1 but in recent decades this has increasingly focused on the palm oil industry 2 . This multi-billion dollar industry is based on cultivation of the African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)…”

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Slowing deforestation in Indonesia follows declining oil palm expansion and lower oil prices

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Locatelli

Salim³

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Much concern about tropical deforestation focuses on oil palm plantations, but their impacts remain poorly quantified. Using satellites, we estimated annual expansion of large-scale (industrial) and smallholder oil palm plantations and their overlap with forest loss from 2001 to 2019 in Indonesia, the world’s largest palm oil producer.Over nineteen years, the area under oil palm doubled, reaching 16.24 million hectares (Mha) in 2019 (64% industrial; 36% smallholder), more than official estimates of 14.72 Mha. This expansion was responsible for nearly one-third (2.85 Mha) of Indonesia’s loss of old-growth forests (9.79 Mha). Industrial plantations were associated with three times as much forest conversion as smallholder plantings (2.13 Mha vs 0.72 Mha). New plantations peaked in 2009 and 2012 and declined thereafter. Deforestation peaked in 2016 and fell below pre-2004 levels in 2017-2019. Expansion of industrial plantations and forest loss were correlated with palm oil prices. A price decline of 1% was associated with a 1.08% decrease in new industrial plantations and with a 0.68% decrease of forest loss. This slow-down provides an opportunity for the Indonesian government to focus on details of sustainable oil palm management. If prices rise, effective regulations will remain key to minimising deforestation.

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“…For the sustainability of life below water (SDG14), marine life prediction models (Coro et al, 2020) and human coastal activity (Kubo et al, 2020) can be integrated. Of course, the goal of life on land (SDG15) also requires new research, where a satellite-based study of agriculture and forestry (Majidi et al, 2021), deployment of IoT sensors (Lambrinos, 2019), analysis of climatic factors of potato damage (Fenu and Malloci, 2019), studying the morphology of plants (Meineke et al, 2020), or social media based illustration of palm oil consumption (Teng et al, 2020) are promising. Partnerships for the goals (SDG17) is critical in several ways, on the one hand we recommend the grouping of climate services (Howard et al, 2020), which fits the SoS concept we propose, and on the other hand we need to integrate the knowledge and give feedback to society.…”

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The Applicability of Big Data in Climate Change Research: The Importance of System of Systems Thinking

Sebestyén

Czvetkó

Abonyi

2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the interrelationship between data science and climate studies, as well as describes how sustainability climate issues can be managed using the Big Data tools. Climate-related Big Data articles are analyzed and categorized, which revealed the increasing number of applications of data-driven solutions in specific areas, however, broad integrative analyses are gaining less of a focus. Our major objective is to highlight the potential in the System of Systems (SoS) theorem, as the synergies between diverse disciplines and research ideas must be explored to gain a comprehensive overview of the issue. Data and systems science enables a large amount of heterogeneous data to be integrated and simulation models developed, while considering socio-environmental interrelations in parallel. The improved knowledge integration offered by the System of Systems thinking or climate computing has been demonstrated by analysing the possible inter-linkages of the latest Big Data application papers. The analysis highlights how data and models focusing on the specific areas of sustainability can be bridged to study the complex problems of climate change.

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Palm oil and its environmental impacts: A big data analytics study

Cited by 54 publications

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Social Media Goes Green—The Impact of Social Media on Green Cosmetics Purchase Motivation and Intention

Social Media Goes Green—The Impact of Social Media on Green Cosmetics Purchase Motivation and Intention

Slowing deforestation in Indonesia follows declining oil palm expansion and lower oil prices

The Applicability of Big Data in Climate Change Research: The Importance of System of Systems Thinking

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