To What Extent is Business Responding to Climate Change? Evidence from a Global Wine Producer

Galbreath, Jeremy

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“…The literature increasingly seeks to unpack the detailed drivers that motivate economic agents to adapt or prevent them from doing so (Averchenkova et al, 2016;Hertin, Berkhout, Gann, & Barlow, 2003;Agrawala et al, 2011;Galbreath, 2011;Berkhout, 2012;Linnenluecke et al, 2013;Pauw & Pegels, 2013;Pauw, 2015). While the primary motive of firms may be to keep down costs, minimize disruptions or increase sales, the way the relevant decisions are taken is influenced by a range of additional factors.…”

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How do African SMEs respond to climate risks? Evidence from Kenya and Senegal

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a b s t r a c tThis paper investigates to what extent and how micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries are adapting to climate risks. We use a questionnaire survey to collect data from 325 SMEs in the semi-arid regions of Kenya and Senegal and analyze this information to estimate the quality of current adaptation measures, distinguishing between sustainable and unsustainable adaptation. We then study the link between these current adaptation practices and adaptation planning for future climate change. We find that financial barriers are a key reason why firms resort to unsustainable adaptation, while general business support, access to information technology and adaptation assistance encourages sustainable adaptation responses. Engaging in adaptation today also increases the likelihood that a firm is preparing for future climate change. The finding lends support to the strategy of many development agencies who use adaptation to current climate variability as a way of building resilience to future climate change. There is a clear role for public policy in facilitating good adaptation. The ability of firms to respond to climate risks depends in no small measure on factors such as business environment that can be shaped through policy intervention.

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How do African SMEs respond to climate risks? Evidence from Kenya and Senegal

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“…The ABV has recently been used as a theoretical lens in the business sustainability literature-for example, the ABV was leveraged to explain corporate social responsibility and performance (Zhao et al, 2016), climate change adaptation (Pinske and Gasbarro, 2016;Galbreath, 2011), and green information system practices adoption (Hedman and Henningsson, 2016). Pinske and Gasbarro (2016) study on the oil and gas industry indicates that different attention channels (selective, situated, and structural) lead to different climate change adaptation strategies.…”

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Supply chain uncertainty and environmental management

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Hajmohammad

2016

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This manuscript examines the impact of supply chain uncertainty on environmental management spending in manufacturing plants. Building on the attention-based view of the firm (ABV), the basic premise is that with increased uncertainty in the supply chain, managers' attention to environmental management lessens which in turn leads to (i) fewer resources devoted to green issues within the plant and (ii) a bias to use resources toward less disruptive pollution control approaches rather than pollution prevention approaches. Data from a survey of 251 Canadian manufacturing plants was used to test the link between the level of uncertainty in the supply chain and environmental management decisions. The results indicate that supply chain uncertainty does not have a substantial impact on the level of environmental spending in a plant but has a substantial and significant impact on the allocation of the spending between pollution prevention and pollution control. More particularly, as supply chain uncertainty increases, organizations shift their resources away from pollution prevention to favor pollution control approaches.

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“…Galbreath (2011) (Lim-Camacho et al, 2015). This research also found that policy and regulatory frameworks can impede adaptation opportunities in seafood supply chains, highlighting a need for governments to engage in adaptation planning (Lim-Camacho et al, 2015).…”

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“…In Australia, responses to climate change have been studied in the sheep/beef, grains, horticulture, and peanut industries , Marshall et al, 2014, Milne et al, 2008, WIDCORP, 2009, though the wine and seafood sectors have received the most attention , Galbreath, 2011, Galbreath, 2014 most actively pursuing climate adaptations are those that have directly experienced an increase in climate impacts, such as drought or extreme weather events , Galbreath, 2011, Lim-Camacho et al, 2015, Marshall et al, 2014, Park et al, 2012.…”

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“…More significant adaptations involve growing alternative crops, diversifying or restructuring farm businesses, increasing off-farm income, or relocating or expanding production or harvest sites (Galbreath, 2011, LimCamacho et al, 2015, Marshall, 2014, Park et al, 2012, WIDCORP, 2009 pressures to achieve present and future benefits and were more likely to interact with other members of their supply chain to develop management responses (Park et al, 2012).…”

Section: Responses To Emerging Climate Risks In Australian Agri-food mentioning

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Cultivating climate change resilience in agri-food systems: responses to natural disasters and emerging climate risks in Queensland’s fresh produce supply chains

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Over the last decade, Australia has experienced several severe natural disasters which have caused significant disruptions to its agri-food supply chains. Global climate change is driving an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events that can lead to natural disasters. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that climate change -and extreme weather events, in particular -pose significant threats to food security. While much food security research focusses on developing nations, contemporary, supermarket-based food systems have a number of characteristics that make them highly vulnerable to disruptions from extreme weather events. The experience of recent disasters and projections of on-going climate change suggest that Australia's food systems are facing escalating climate risks to which they must adapt.This thesis considers how the agri-food supply chains that underpin Australia's food system are enabled or constrained to cope with emerging climate risks and, in particular, to a more rapid recurrence of damaging weather events. In this thesis, supply chains are The results of the study demonstrate that the impacts of recent natural disasters were unevenly distributed within the supply chain. Upstream segments of the chain (that is, business involved in vegetable production, packing and transport) experienced more significant impacts and longer recovery periods than downstream segments (such as wholesalers and retailers). The study finds that this is strongly linked to an uneven distribution of vulnerability to risks in the chain which, combined with the rapid recurrence of disaster events, has weakened the fresh produce supply system.ii The study provides important insights into perceptions, and social constructions, of recent weather events and climate risks amongst actors within fresh produce supply chainsaddressing a significant gap in the literature. The results suggest that a shared narrative about Australia's highly variable climate strongly influences a collective construction amongst supply chain actors which normalises and attenuates climate risk. The study finds, however, that recent extreme weather events have unsettled this dominant construct. Perceptions of future climate risks amongst supply chain actors were varied.Those strongly influenced by the climate variability narrative did not expect future risks to be much different from those experienced in the past. A smaller number of research participants, however, were concerned that climate risks may be escalating and that this may require changes to how those risks were managed.The study found two strongly contrasting approaches to the governance of climate risk in fresh produce supply chains. The findings demonstrate that, typically, climate risks are governed in highly individualised ways but that the emergence of new supply chain intermediaries is facilitating a more collective approach to climate risk governance in some chains. The research also shows that recent recurrent floods have catalysed...

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To What Extent is Business Responding to Climate Change? Evidence from a Global Wine Producer

Cited by 74 publications

References 64 publications

How do African SMEs respond to climate risks? Evidence from Kenya and Senegal

How do African SMEs respond to climate risks? Evidence from Kenya and Senegal

Supply chain uncertainty and environmental management

Cultivating climate change resilience in agri-food systems: responses to natural disasters and emerging climate risks in Queensland’s fresh produce supply chains

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