Sustainable Development, Poverty, and Risk of Exclusion for Young People in the European Union: The Case of NEETs

Benito, Santos Miguel Ruesga; Laxe, Fernando González; Picatoste, Xose

doi:10.3390/su10124708

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“…Many related applications of the structural equation modelling reveal determinants of social exclusion without having to investigate financial dimensions. For example, Hajdu (2009) studied a Hungarian sample, while Ruesga-Benito et al (2018) examined socially excluded young adults in the EU. However, to our best knowledge, there is no empirical data revealing a direct or indirect relationship between formal financial exclusion and their determining factors.…”

Section: Literature and Contextmentioning

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Highways to Hell? Paths Towards the Formal Financial Exclusion: Empirical Lessons of the Households from Northern Hungary

Gosztonyi

Havran

2021

Eur J Dev Res

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Whenever a household faces lack of banking payment services and access to funding, it often constraints their everyday activities and the chance to avail the financial services again. Our study explores the possible explanations of why a household becomes financially excluded in an underdeveloped area of Northern Hungary. By using a questionnaire (n = 502) in the spring of 2019, we conducted a covariance-based SEM analysis for detecting the key reasons. We find that the low level of income, high ratio of financial problems and high intensity of short-term borrowings equally and directly contribute to the financial exclusion of the households. Furthermore, we could not confirm any direct effects of the banking service availability, although bank services significantly influence an intermediary factor, which is the increasing repayment problem in the social environment. Our results verify the responsibility of the regulation in lending and debt collection to achieve a better social policy.

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Section: Literature and Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Highways to Hell? Paths Towards the Formal Financial Exclusion: Empirical Lessons of the Households from Northern Hungary

Gosztonyi

Havran

2021

Eur J Dev Res

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“…Firstly, if we are to understand the effects of sustainability-related policy implementation and guarantee evidence-based decision making, research agendas and policy frameworks must go hand in hand. Therefore, research should help facilitate a fuller understanding of the impacts of global change and sustainable development "wicked problems" on youth specifically [7][8][9]. Secondly, research into sustainability challenges requires reflexivity, and as researchers we must constantly examine the relationship between our research and the broader society [10].…”

Section: We Need To Set Youth Sensitive and Youth Inclusive Research mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A Web of Science search of the terms sustain* and youth (or young*) yields 0 hits in leading journals such as Nature or Science. Although pockets of literature exist within the environmental social science literature which address the vulnerability of younger generations to specific global sustainability challenges [4,7,9,13,14], a collective recognition of the need to explicitly put youth on the research agenda is lacking.…”

Section: We Need To Set Youth Sensitive and Youth Inclusive Research mentioning

confidence: 99%

“Stewards of the future: accompanying the rising tide of young voices by setting youth-inclusive research agendas in sustainability research”

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Background From the worldwide youth-led climate strikes of 2018–2019 to the student-initiated austerity protests in Chile in 2019, it is undeniable that young people have been protagonists in pressuring for social change towards greater sustainability in recent years. This piece reflects on youth as agents of social-ecological change, and what researchers can learn from the rise in youth-led social movements demanding action in the face of global sustainability challenges. The study of sustainability problems like climate change and biodiversity loss, intrinsically requires consideration of inter-generational equity. However, despite 50% of the global population being under 30 years old, youth are often not included explicitly as actors in environmental social sciences and sustainability-related research. Here we discuss why explicitly considering young people as distinct actors during the research process is important, as it allows researchers to engage in just and inclusive work whilst at the same time accounting for important agents of change in complex social-ecological systems. Results As a framework for our inquiry we present the themes which emerged during a series of international meetings and forums on sustainability challenges and youth in 2019, a year characterized by world-wide youth mobilization. Our briefing spans the United Nations Youth 2019 Climate Action Summit, the post-2020 meetings organized by the youth branch of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), the UNESCO Man and Biosphere Youth forums and the results from the Global Shapers Survey of the World Economic Forum. Conclusions We argue that if researchers wish to facilitate youth-inclusive evidence-based decision making, research agendas must address knowledge gaps highlighted by institutional efforts to incorporate youth concerns within global sustainability policy, a recommendation that is even more relevant in the light of the COVID-19 crisis. We draw on the themes which emerged in our analysis of international youth meetings to provide recommendations for research agendas which account both for young actors as both passive and active components of social-ecological change and we propose a more inclusive and holistic study of coupled natural-human systems.

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“…Sustainable development covers various spheres of socioeconomic activityfrom households (Sheng, et al, 2018;Ropuszyńska-Surma and Węglarz, 2018) through the labor market (Ruesga-Benito et al, 2018) to business (Ruiz-Real et al, 2019) and from agriculture (Snyder et al, 2014, Campbell et al, 2014 and forestry (Johansson, 2018) in rural areas through industry (Fritzsche et al, 2018) to services in urban areas (Cohen, 2011).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Consumption Versus Greenhouse Gas Emissions in EU

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Janiszewska²,

Bartkowiak-Bakun³

et al. 2020

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Purpose:The article aims to trace out the interplay of the share of individual energy sources in the total consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from the European Union countries. Approach/Methodology/Design: By taking into account the share of individual energy sources in consumption in 2015, the EU countries were divided into 5 clusters. For each cluster, the values of the indicators for 2005 were determined to assess the changes. Additionally, energy dependence and greenhouse gas emissions factors were included. Findings: During the 2005-2015 period, the consumption of renewable energy increased, while the carbon dioxide emissions felt. It is difficult to say unequivocally whether limiting CO2 emissions through increased renewable energy sources consumption can be considered sufficient. It should also be pointed out that there was no clear link between the increase in the share of renewable energy sources and the decrease in energy dependence in EU countries. Practical Implications: The study directly refer to ongoing political debate on CO2 emissions at both the community and national levels in EU countries. Originality/Value: The study offers the first of its kind examination of the the interplay of the share of individual energy sources in the total consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from the European Union countries.

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Sustainable Development, Poverty, and Risk of Exclusion for Young People in the European Union: The Case of NEETs

Cited by 35 publications

References 32 publications

Highways to Hell? Paths Towards the Formal Financial Exclusion: Empirical Lessons of the Households from Northern Hungary

Highways to Hell? Paths Towards the Formal Financial Exclusion: Empirical Lessons of the Households from Northern Hungary

“Stewards of the future: accompanying the rising tide of young voices by setting youth-inclusive research agendas in sustainability research”

Energy Consumption Versus Greenhouse Gas Emissions in EU

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