Exploring a Novel Agricultural Subsidy Model with Sustainable Development: A Chinese Agribusiness in Liaoning Province

Ice, snow, and rime are wonders of the cold season in an alpine climate zone and climate landscape. With its pure, spectacular, and magical features, these regions attract numerous tourists. Ice and snow landscapes can provide not only visually-stimulating experiences for people, but also opportunities for outdoor play and movement. In China, ice and snow tourism is a new type of recreation; however, the establishment of snow and ice in relation to the suitability of the surrounding has not been clearly expressed. Based on multi-source data, such as tourism, weather, and traffic data, this paper employs the Delphi-analytic hierarchy process (AHP) evaluation method and a spatial analysis method to study the spatial differences of snow and ice tourism suitability in China. China's ice and snow tourism is located in the latitude from 35 • N to 53.33 • N and latitude 41.5 • N to 45 • N and longitude 82 • E to 90 • E, with the main focus on latitude and terrain factors. A poor fit is concentrated at latitude 20.45 • N to 35 • N and longitude 100 • E to 122 • E; the difference is that the latitude is low and affected by the Japanese warm current. The analysis of the suitability of ice and snow tourism can be employed as a reference for the development of ice and snow tourism.

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confidence: 99%

The Spatial Differentiation of the Suitability of Ice-Snow Tourist Destinations Based on a Comprehensive Evaluation Model in China

Yang

Sun

et al. 2017

“…These findings allow agribusinesses and the food industry to invest their resources into several focal stakeholder groups to search for a balance for practicing sustainable food production. Moreover, the current studies indicate that the government plays a key role in sustainable development, regardless of industry [3,75]. In other words, the practices of agribusinesses are influenced by the attitudes and motivations of the government.…”

Section: Theoretical Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the results show that the government has a direct effect on the relationship between agribusinesses and their customers under stakeholder theory. In addition, China's government has adopted a planned economy, thus several agribusinesses also play the role of "Gong Xiao She" in northern China and act as a bridge to link farmers, the market and the government [3]. For this reason, in northern China, customers and agribusiness expect the government to improve the related policies and regulations to certify sustainable food and guarantee quality and health.…”

Section: Theoretical Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To ensure that agribusinesses fully conform to the regulations, they have reconnected with their points of origin-farmers and agricultural products-for monitoring and assessment. Thus, Chinese agribusinesses have played an important role by taking responsibility for distributing knowledge, environmental awareness and methods to ensure that the points of origin can fulfil regulations and prevent negative impacts on the environment [3]. In addition, agribusinesses are also responsible for preventing environmental impacts through their own operational management [4,5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Constructing a Hierarchical Agribusiness Framework in Chinese Belt and Road Initiatives under Uncertainty

Cui

Zhang

et al. 2018

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Abstract:As a result of China launching its belt and road initiatives, an increasing number of firms are searching for an approach to developing sustainability. In particular, agribusinesses are encountering difficulties exploring decisive practices for sustainable food in a context involving diverse stakeholders. To clarify these differences in expectations between agribusinesses and their stakeholders, this study employs vague sets associated with interpretive structural modelling to develop a framework for agribusinesses and their customers. A comparison of these two frameworks reveals that the government still plays a key role in motivating sustainable food development in terms of establishing the relevant regulations and processes. Moreover, the customer is the final stakeholder that must be taken into account by agribusiness. Both agribusinesses and customers are concerned about health and safety considerations in sustainable food. Further details related to this context are addressed in the present study.

“…As a result of the United Nation announcing the 2030 sustainable development (SD) goals, an increasing number of countries are striving to accomplish these goals. Thus, the Chinese government declared the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" to lead enterprises in developing sustainability [1]. Although large-scale enterprises have abundant resources for adhering to the sustainability policies, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) encounter difficulty in pursuing such policies due to resource constraints.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Development Performance for Small and Medium Enterprises Using a Fuzzy Synthetic Method-DEMATEL

Chen

et al. 2019

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are forced to adhere to sustainable development (SD) regulations and standards. However, SMEs encounter difficulty in assessing their performance due to the lack of an efficient and effective approach to deal with the uncertainties in hierarchical relationships and interrelationships. Moreover, interrelations exist among the proposed attributes that increase the difficulty of the assessment. To overcome these issues, exploratory factor analysis is used to screen out the less important attributes and build a hierarchal structure. The fuzzy synthetic method addresses the hierarchical structure and decision-making, and a trial evaluation laboratory assesses the interrelationships among the attributes by providing a visual interrelationship map. The results indicate that strategic and financial management are the major problems for SMEs. SD relies on enhancing sustainable supply chain performance, sustainable human resources and environmental management. This study contributes by not only filling the information gap for SD for SMEs but also providing a guideline for improvement. The theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.Sustainability 2019, 11, 4119 2 of 25 extended the concept to balance economic, environmental and social aspects. Wu et al. [4] argued that SD cannot take only economy, environment and society into account but also must consider operations, resilience, the long term and stakeholders. Witjes [5] found that enterprises are impacted by diverse SD aspects, and these impacts are not limited to only environmental or social aspects. Launching SD not only promotes the reputation of an enterprise and fulfills the expectations of the public but also becomes a core competence in competing with rivals. Although prior studies have extensively discussed SD, a discussion from the perspective of SMEs and a guideline for improvement is lacking.SMEs exist in diverse industries and often face resource constraints in developing SD. Thus, 70% of all industrial pollutants are generated by SMEs [6]. A previous study has demonstrated that approaches to launching SD must be formulated with SME features rather than simply shifting SD practices from large enterprises to SMEs, as the latter approach has been indicated to be unsuitable [7]. Although large enterprises and governments have attempted to increase SME engagement in sustainability initiatives, a framework allowing SMEs to clarify and launch the requested SD arrangements is lacking [8][9][10]. In addition, ways to assess performance and expressively engage SMEs in real SD management and practices are absent in previous studies [11].Prior studies have not proposed valid and reliable hierarchical structures or dealt with the interrelationships among the attributes. For instance, Udo and Jansson [12] noted that SD is a multidimensional, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary problem of significant complexity and uncertainty. To deal with SD assessment, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is employed to screen the attribu...