Agarwal, Manisha, Chong, Thomas, Eijdenberg, Emiel L., Mukherjee, Malobi, and Wood, Jacob (2023) Putting the Tropics on the academic map: The Raison d’Être of the SEIGOP Conference. In: Innovation-Driven Business and Sustainability in the Tropics: Proceedings of the Sustainability, Economics, Innovation, Globalisation and Organisational Psychology Conference 2023. From: SEIGOP 2023: Sustainability, Economics, Innovation, Globalisation and Organisational Psychology Conference, 1-3 March 2023, Singapore.

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Abstract

The Tropics is the region located between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Apart from its distinctive climate, tropical regions share many other characteristics, including exotic but vulnerable bio-diversity and natural ecosystems such as rain forests and coral reefs. More than 20 years before publication of this edited volume, Sachs et al. (2001) defined three factors that contribute to the economic successes enjoyed across the Tropics. These include, coastal proximity, prevalence (or rather: absence) of infectious diseases, and agricultural productivity. Accordingly, northern Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and the southern part of Taiwan could be considered as the only successful, high-income and socio-economically advanced places in the Tropics. Notwithstanding these three factors, the Tropics have witnessed tremendous transitions which, in turn, have triggered varied levels of socio-economic development in the region. These changes call for a renewed focus into the socio-economic potential of the Tropics. The proceedings of the SEIGOP Conference are an endeavor to provide a collection of research and practice papers that shed some nuanced insights into the contemporary socio-economic state of the Tropics.

Item ID:	79988
Item Type:	Conference Item (Scholarly Work)
ISBN:	978-981-99-2908-5
Copyright Information:	© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Date Deposited:	23 Aug 2023 03:13
FoR Codes:	41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 4101 Climate change impacts and adaptation > 410103 Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation @ 50% 35 COMMERCE, MANAGEMENT, TOURISM AND SERVICES > 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour > 350702 Corporate social responsibility @ 25% 35 COMMERCE, MANAGEMENT, TOURISM AND SERVICES > 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour > 350710 Organisational behaviour @ 25%
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