Renuka Mahadevan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 186828 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Renuka Mahadevan |
| PRENOMES | Renuka |
| SOBRENOME | Mahadevan |
| ASSINATURA | MAHADEVAN R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4105-2993 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Globalisation, tourism and environmental Kuznets curve
This paper investigates the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) in developed and developing countries, examining the nonlinear impact of tourism on carbon emissions and ecological footprint from 1990 to 2019. Using a panel fixed effects model, results show a tourism-extended EKC for developed countries but a U-shaped relationship for developing countries. The study uniquely distinguishes between trade and financial globalization, de jure and de fac…
Older age cognition in Indonesia
This paper explores the multidimensionality of individual social capital by distinguishing between the effects of social support, social engagement, and societal trust on cognitive decline. The study focuses on Indonesian individuals aged 50 years and above, using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey. Ordinary Least Squares regression is employed to determine vulnerable groups, while a moderating effect model is used to examine the role of …
To what extent do patents and digital finance shape the green pathway for domestic and international tourism
Are Factors Associated with Adult Refugees' Settlement different from Well-Being? A Longitudinal Study focusing on Gender and Age in Australia
Using three waves of data and tracing the same refugees over time, this paper shows that some factors associated with settlement experience are different from life satisfaction. Evidence shows that although settlement experience has not improved over time, life satisfaction of both male and female refugees has. The non-linear effect of age on life satisfaction disappears over time while that of settlement experience lingers on. Discrimination aff…
Is there an urban-rural divide in the demand for peer-to-peer accommodation sharing
This research note sheds light on the regional dimension underlying peer-to-peer accommodation (P2PA) in urban and rural areas. Using a survey on Australian residents’ use of P2PA, empirical results show that economic benefits and local experience are not strong motives in urban areas unlike the rural areas. Unlike previous studies, locational benefits were a deterrent in urban areas and more so in rural areas, while social experience, home benef…
Inside out or outside in? Sustaining a national performing arts centre in an emerging cultural city
This paper adapts a ‘sense of place’ framework to investigate varying preferences for the physical and cultural offerings of arts centres using a choice experiment. An on-site survey was conducted of local residents and tourists about the Esplanade-Theatres-on-the-Bay, Singapore’s national performing arts centre. Results indicate that sustainability requires an ‘inside out’ strategy – arts content over supporting structures such as amenities and …
Optimistic income expectations and meeting those expectations
This paper examines the impact of income expectations and the extent to which these expectations are met, on subjective well‐being. For the Indonesian sample, expectations had asymmetric effects on well‐being, with pessimistic expectations having a strong adverse effect compared with a weak positive effect of optimism. Optimism improves only females' and not males' well‐being while pessimism has the reverse effect on both genders' well‐being. Alt…
Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia
Despite evidence of sub-standard working conditions and low rates of pay, drivers working on the Uber platform report varying levels of job-satisfaction. In order to better understand driver experience most research conducted to date differentiates driver experience by driver investment (time) on the platform. While this approach offers insight into driver motivations, it obfuscates key socio-political aspects of the globalised labour market; nam…
Is urbanization the link in the tourism–poverty nexus? Case study of China
This study examines the role of urbanization in explaining the effect of tourism on poverty which is proxied by the Engel coefficient for China’s 31 provinces over the period of 1999–2016. For urban poverty, both domestic and inbound tourism affect poverty indirectly via urbanization as the link. For rural areas, poverty falls by more in response to domestic tourism increase compared to inbound tourism but urbanization fails to serve as a conduit…
Tourism in Unesco World Heritage Site
This paper uses a mixed methods approach to understand local and foreign tourists’ views of the World heritage (WH) site of Lijiang in China. A good majority of both foreign and local tourists knew of Lijiang’s WH status before their visit. But the WH status appeared to be a strong brand to initially only attract first-time foreign tourists but this was however not the main reason in the final decision to visit Lijiang. Importantly, there was a d…
Differential Effects of Parents’ Education on Adolescent Well-being Outcomes
Home Away from Home
This article examines the correlation of post-migration factors and in particular parental mental health with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and happiness levels of adolescent refugee migrants in Australia, with a special emphasis on associated age and gender differences. Data were sourced from the child module in the 2015–2016 Building a New Life in Australia data set. Results indicate that factors associated with happiness are quite diff…
Examining Multidimensional Poverty in Sri Lanka
The Role of Social Capital and Remote Chinese Villagers' Well-Being
Bring the numbers and stories together”
We are the Arctic
In this article, we explore the 2016 Arctic Winter Games (AWG) as a site for arctic, Indigenous, and national identity building, drawing on fieldwork from the planning and execution of AWG 2016 and surveys conducted with participant and stakeholder groups. We show that although the AWG 2016 event is seemingly a contranational sports competition in the Olympic modality, and thus a vehicle for traditional national identity manifestations, it also c…
Challenges for agricultural development in a resource-rich developing country
Many resource-rich developing countries are often faced with the challenge of generating sufficient employment for poverty alleviation due to factors such as the capital-intensive nature of resource extraction, the lack of (or weak) linkages between the resource sector and the wider economy, and potential Dutch disease effects. Using Papua New Guinea as a case study, this paper uses a dynamic computable general equilibrium model to analyse some o…
The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Income Inequality of Target States
In this paper, we draw on established theoretical work to analyze empirically which segments of the population in the target states bear the most cost when economic sanctions are imposed. Using a cross-country analysis of 68 target states from 1960 to 2008, we find robust empirical evidence that the imposition of sanctions has a deleterious effect on income inequality. Focusing on various sanction instruments, financial and trade sanctions were f…
Is There a Link Between Poverty and Food Security
The poverty burden
The commonly used poverty gap measure is extended to derive and analyse the properties of a poverty burden measure to address the question of whether the elimination of poverty is a feasible objective, given sufficient political commitment. The resources potentially available to address poverty may be measured by the total amount by which the incomes of the non-poor exceed the same poverty line. The ratio of the poverty gap to the resources poten…
Fad, fetish or fixture
This paper analyses how much culture is valued in a newly-developed economy with a distinct dichotomy of an arts-appreciating population segment and a less-culturally aware mass. An analytical framework weaving together the intrinsic, business and societal benefits of arts and culture is applied to explore whether arts festivals – a popular tourism event in many countries – are a temporary fad, an expensive governmental fetish or a naturally-evol…
A note on soil erosion and the loss in crop production
This study focuses on soil erosion and incorporates this in a stochastic production framework using Fijian ginger farmers as a case study. Empirical estimates using cross sectional data showed that these farmers on average were producing at 61% of the maximum potential output. They faced a 17% loss of output due to low soil erosion and about 27% output loss if soil erosion was moderate to high. In addition, profit, land ownership, ethnicity of fa…
Regional Differences Pose Challenges for Food Security Policy
Mahadevan R. and Suardi S. Regional differences pose challenges for food security policy: a case study of India, Regional Studies. This paper examines factors affecting the calorie gap by considering the risk of calorie inadequacy or excess at the tails of food intakes. Non-linear estimations accounting for rural/urban differences in more and less developed states allow for policy-making on two levels. First, the calorie gap was found to respond …
Intra-household income inequality and poverty in a small developing economy
Ignoring consumption inequality between individuals within a household is shown to not only underestimate the Gini coefficient and poverty measures but these vary considerably over different income groups even in a small island state like Fiji. Interestingly, the Kuznets curve for intra-household inequality is absent and to our knowledge the paper provides the first attempt in determining the factors that influence intra-household inequality. It …
The high price of sweetness
The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Income Inequality of Target States
In this paper, we draw on established theoretical work to analyze empirically which segments of the population in the target states bear the most cost when economic sanctions are imposed. Using a cross-country analysis of 68 target states from 1960 to 2008, we find robust empirical evidence that the imposition of sanctions has a deleterious effect on income inequality. Focusing on various sanction instruments, financial and trade sanctions were f…
Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia
Despite evidence of sub-standard working conditions and low rates of pay, drivers working on the Uber platform report varying levels of job-satisfaction. In order to better understand driver experience most research conducted to date differentiates driver experience by driver investment (time) on the platform. While this approach offers insight into driver motivations, it obfuscates key socio-political aspects of the globalised labour market; nam…
Is There a Link Between Poverty and Food Security
Examining Multidimensional Poverty in Sri Lanka
Bring the numbers and stories together”
Regional Differences Pose Challenges for Food Security Policy
Mahadevan R. and Suardi S. Regional differences pose challenges for food security policy: a case study of India, Regional Studies. This paper examines factors affecting the calorie gap by considering the risk of calorie inadequacy or excess at the tails of food intakes. Non-linear estimations accounting for rural/urban differences in more and less developed states allow for policy-making on two levels. First, the calorie gap was found to respond …
We are the Arctic
In this article, we explore the 2016 Arctic Winter Games (AWG) as a site for arctic, Indigenous, and national identity building, drawing on fieldwork from the planning and execution of AWG 2016 and surveys conducted with participant and stakeholder groups. We show that although the AWG 2016 event is seemingly a contranational sports competition in the Olympic modality, and thus a vehicle for traditional national identity manifestations, it also c…
Fad, fetish or fixture
This paper analyses how much culture is valued in a newly-developed economy with a distinct dichotomy of an arts-appreciating population segment and a less-culturally aware mass. An analytical framework weaving together the intrinsic, business and societal benefits of arts and culture is applied to explore whether arts festivals – a popular tourism event in many countries – are a temporary fad, an expensive governmental fetish or a naturally-evol…
To what extent do patents and digital finance shape the green pathway for domestic and international tourism
Differential Effects of Parents’ Education on Adolescent Well-being Outcomes
The Role of Social Capital and Remote Chinese Villagers' Well-Being
The poverty burden
The commonly used poverty gap measure is extended to derive and analyse the properties of a poverty burden measure to address the question of whether the elimination of poverty is a feasible objective, given sufficient political commitment. The resources potentially available to address poverty may be measured by the total amount by which the incomes of the non-poor exceed the same poverty line. The ratio of the poverty gap to the resources poten…
The high price of sweetness
Intra-household income inequality and poverty in a small developing economy
Ignoring consumption inequality between individuals within a household is shown to not only underestimate the Gini coefficient and poverty measures but these vary considerably over different income groups even in a small island state like Fiji. Interestingly, the Kuznets curve for intra-household inequality is absent and to our knowledge the paper provides the first attempt in determining the factors that influence intra-household inequality. It …
A note on soil erosion and the loss in crop production
This study focuses on soil erosion and incorporates this in a stochastic production framework using Fijian ginger farmers as a case study. Empirical estimates using cross sectional data showed that these farmers on average were producing at 61% of the maximum potential output. They faced a 17% loss of output due to low soil erosion and about 27% output loss if soil erosion was moderate to high. In addition, profit, land ownership, ethnicity of fa…
Regional Differences Pose Challenges for Food Security Policy
Mahadevan R. and Suardi S. Regional differences pose challenges for food security policy: a case study of India, Regional Studies. This paper examines factors affecting the calorie gap by considering the risk of calorie inadequacy or excess at the tails of food intakes. Non-linear estimations accounting for rural/urban differences in more and less developed states allow for policy-making on two levels. First, the calorie gap was found to respond …
Fad, fetish or fixture
This paper analyses how much culture is valued in a newly-developed economy with a distinct dichotomy of an arts-appreciating population segment and a less-culturally aware mass. An analytical framework weaving together the intrinsic, business and societal benefits of arts and culture is applied to explore whether arts festivals – a popular tourism event in many countries – are a temporary fad, an expensive governmental fetish or a naturally-evol…
The poverty burden
The commonly used poverty gap measure is extended to derive and analyse the properties of a poverty burden measure to address the question of whether the elimination of poverty is a feasible objective, given sufficient political commitment. The resources potentially available to address poverty may be measured by the total amount by which the incomes of the non-poor exceed the same poverty line. The ratio of the poverty gap to the resources poten…
Challenges for agricultural development in a resource-rich developing country
Many resource-rich developing countries are often faced with the challenge of generating sufficient employment for poverty alleviation due to factors such as the capital-intensive nature of resource extraction, the lack of (or weak) linkages between the resource sector and the wider economy, and potential Dutch disease effects. Using Papua New Guinea as a case study, this paper uses a dynamic computable general equilibrium model to analyse some o…
The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Income Inequality of Target States
In this paper, we draw on established theoretical work to analyze empirically which segments of the population in the target states bear the most cost when economic sanctions are imposed. Using a cross-country analysis of 68 target states from 1960 to 2008, we find robust empirical evidence that the imposition of sanctions has a deleterious effect on income inequality. Focusing on various sanction instruments, financial and trade sanctions were f…
Is There a Link Between Poverty and Food Security
Bring the numbers and stories together”
We are the Arctic
In this article, we explore the 2016 Arctic Winter Games (AWG) as a site for arctic, Indigenous, and national identity building, drawing on fieldwork from the planning and execution of AWG 2016 and surveys conducted with participant and stakeholder groups. We show that although the AWG 2016 event is seemingly a contranational sports competition in the Olympic modality, and thus a vehicle for traditional national identity manifestations, it also c…
The Role of Social Capital and Remote Chinese Villagers' Well-Being
Examining Multidimensional Poverty in Sri Lanka
Is urbanization the link in the tourism–poverty nexus? Case study of China
This study examines the role of urbanization in explaining the effect of tourism on poverty which is proxied by the Engel coefficient for China’s 31 provinces over the period of 1999–2016. For urban poverty, both domestic and inbound tourism affect poverty indirectly via urbanization as the link. For rural areas, poverty falls by more in response to domestic tourism increase compared to inbound tourism but urbanization fails to serve as a conduit…
Tourism in Unesco World Heritage Site
This paper uses a mixed methods approach to understand local and foreign tourists’ views of the World heritage (WH) site of Lijiang in China. A good majority of both foreign and local tourists knew of Lijiang’s WH status before their visit. But the WH status appeared to be a strong brand to initially only attract first-time foreign tourists but this was however not the main reason in the final decision to visit Lijiang. Importantly, there was a d…
Differential Effects of Parents’ Education on Adolescent Well-being Outcomes
Home Away from Home
This article examines the correlation of post-migration factors and in particular parental mental health with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and happiness levels of adolescent refugee migrants in Australia, with a special emphasis on associated age and gender differences. Data were sourced from the child module in the 2015–2016 Building a New Life in Australia data set. Results indicate that factors associated with happiness are quite diff…
Is there an urban-rural divide in the demand for peer-to-peer accommodation sharing
This research note sheds light on the regional dimension underlying peer-to-peer accommodation (P2PA) in urban and rural areas. Using a survey on Australian residents’ use of P2PA, empirical results show that economic benefits and local experience are not strong motives in urban areas unlike the rural areas. Unlike previous studies, locational benefits were a deterrent in urban areas and more so in rural areas, while social experience, home benef…
Inside out or outside in? Sustaining a national performing arts centre in an emerging cultural city
This paper adapts a ‘sense of place’ framework to investigate varying preferences for the physical and cultural offerings of arts centres using a choice experiment. An on-site survey was conducted of local residents and tourists about the Esplanade-Theatres-on-the-Bay, Singapore’s national performing arts centre. Results indicate that sustainability requires an ‘inside out’ strategy – arts content over supporting structures such as amenities and …
Optimistic income expectations and meeting those expectations
This paper examines the impact of income expectations and the extent to which these expectations are met, on subjective well‐being. For the Indonesian sample, expectations had asymmetric effects on well‐being, with pessimistic expectations having a strong adverse effect compared with a weak positive effect of optimism. Optimism improves only females' and not males' well‐being while pessimism has the reverse effect on both genders' well‐being. Alt…
Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia
Despite evidence of sub-standard working conditions and low rates of pay, drivers working on the Uber platform report varying levels of job-satisfaction. In order to better understand driver experience most research conducted to date differentiates driver experience by driver investment (time) on the platform. While this approach offers insight into driver motivations, it obfuscates key socio-political aspects of the globalised labour market; nam…
Are Factors Associated with Adult Refugees' Settlement different from Well-Being? A Longitudinal Study focusing on Gender and Age in Australia
Using three waves of data and tracing the same refugees over time, this paper shows that some factors associated with settlement experience are different from life satisfaction. Evidence shows that although settlement experience has not improved over time, life satisfaction of both male and female refugees has. The non-linear effect of age on life satisfaction disappears over time while that of settlement experience lingers on. Discrimination aff…
Globalisation, tourism and environmental Kuznets curve
This paper investigates the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) in developed and developing countries, examining the nonlinear impact of tourism on carbon emissions and ecological footprint from 1990 to 2019. Using a panel fixed effects model, results show a tourism-extended EKC for developed countries but a U-shaped relationship for developing countries. The study uniquely distinguishes between trade and financial globalization, de jure and de fac…
Older age cognition in Indonesia
This paper explores the multidimensionality of individual social capital by distinguishing between the effects of social support, social engagement, and societal trust on cognitive decline. The study focuses on Indonesian individuals aged 50 years and above, using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey. Ordinary Least Squares regression is employed to determine vulnerable groups, while a moderating effect model is used to examine the role of …
To what extent do patents and digital finance shape the green pathway for domestic and international tourism
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