Who will think outside the sink? Farmers’ willingness to invest in technologies for groundwater sustainability in Pakistan

Intelligent Predictive Analytics for Sustainable Business Investment in Renewable Energy Sources

“…This method significantly improves upon the logistic regression methodology that gave as an accuracy of 0.7037. Since the logistic regression [20] and the ordinary least squares regression [17,46] approaches are still widely used in studies for estimation of willingness to pay or willingness to invest, we proposed the use of the Bayesian Network classification for improving prediction accuracy [47][48][49][50], though this finding has to be further validated.…”

“…Next to the environmental and socio-economic criteria, another crucial criterion that determines the willingness to invest in RES is the spatial allocation of renewables. In a joint valuation of willingness to invest in RES, existing limitations were noted, such as the remoteness of renewable sources, for investments in small hydro parks (SHP) [17]. In another RES, that of solar energy, photovoltaics (PV) systems are expected to play a determining role in the energy system, especially among private households [18,19].…”

How Capital Endowment and Ecological Cognition Affect Environment-Friendly Technology Adoption: A Case of Apple Farmers of Shandong Province, China

“…Theoretically, in terms of adopting environment-friendly technology, in most cases, farmers will face a dilemmatic situation of whether they are willing to adopt it or not [ 52 , 53 , 54 ]. Previous studies mainly involved the issue of willingness to adapt [ 55 , 56 , 57 ], but not enough attention was paid to the degree of the farmer’s adoption intentions. From the perspective of subjective adoption intention, the first issue is whether the farmers are willing to adopt environment-friendly technologies, and if the farmers’ subjective willingness is not favorable, they will not fully adopt the three environment-friendly technologies.…”

Climate-water governance: a systematic analysis of the water sector resilience and adaptation to combat climate change in Pakistan

“…Despite the paramount significance of groundwater in Pakistan, only five (N ¼ 5) articles out of 96 reviewed publications analysed this highly critical climate-water governance area. These studies (Qureshi et al, 2010;Basharat & Tariq, 2014;Steenbergen et al, 2015;Aslam et al, 2018;Memon et al, 2019) highlighted the unsustainable exploitation of underground water and its consequences on socio-economic development in different regions of Pakistan. Although groundwater meets almost half of the agricultural water requirement and all domestic needs, it is the least regulated and researched area in Pakistan due to many institutional and operational constraints (Qureshi et al, 2010;Steenbergen et al, 2015).…”

“…Moreover, given the complexity of climate-water issues, the policy frameworks need to consider structural vulnerabilities through building societal, political, economic, institutional or regional collaborations for improving governance rather than just targeting general (mostly infrastructure and technology) development strategies. Moreover, the policymaking process needs to embark upon robust regulatory and legal frameworks, implementation strategies, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) mechanism, with clear roles and responsibilities of governing institutions for sustainable management of climate-water resources, in particular, for groundwater regulation, water pricing, irrigation and municipal water service delivery and local climate adaptation (Qureshi et al, 2010;Qamar et al, 2018;World Bank, 2018;Memon et al, 2019;Young et al, 2019). More specifically, the existing NWP and NCCP require a comprehensive and cohesive implementation framework by underlining concrete actions, institutional arrangements, and M&E mechanism to implement envisaged activities tracked through a robust accountable framework (Mumtaz, 2018;Young et al, 2019).…”