Sbeih, Ralph (2022) What role for Green SMEs, Incubator, Accelerator, and microfinance is there in urban climate adaptation in developing countries? A case study from Lebanon. Pre-master thesis.
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Abstract
Climate change and the threat that will be resulted in the future, will leave many urban areas vulnerable, especially the cities in the Sahel, MENA, Central America & South Asia regions (Balsari, Dresser & Leaning, et al.2020; Bailey, et al.2011; Beine, Noy & Parsons, et al.2021). Economies will be directly affected, and countries with economic crises will be the first to feel it. This research, the study will be centered on how Green entrepreneurs in such countries cope with both climate shift events and the socio-economic crisis. Accelerator and incubator programs, providing the right technology, knowledge, and funding programs, structured by developed countries, could aid these green businesses to stay on course, adopting green solutions with a cost/benefit approach. Microfinance could be another way for citizens to cope with the ongoing socioeconomic & environmental crisis(Huybrechs, Bastiaensen & Hecken et.al 2020), the more intense the economic crisis is, the less they will give attention to climate change and its future threat and its products, and this could create further social segregation in the society. Lebanon is currently facing both crises and was studied in an in-depth singular case study for SMEs, accelerator and Incubator programs, and microfinance organizations and interrelation with the ongoing situation. While triangulating from the findings of this research from past academic literature and interviews in the Lebanese case, we have found a positive relationship between green growth and cost/benefit measures. This relationship is caused by the information, knowledge, and expertise exchanged with these SMEs by accelerators and Incubators targeting green growth. As for microfinance organizations’ clients, it is not the case, the targeted group is only focusing on the socio-economic crisis, not giving importance to climate change and its future threats.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Pre-master) |
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| Degree programme: | Environmental & Infrastructure Planning |
| Supervisor: | Turhan, E. |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2023 12:09 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jun 2023 12:09 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4196 |
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