Eduarda Figueiredo (p), Daniel Uhr, André Chagas, Júlia Uhr

In recent years, the presence of a distinction in environmental behavior between genders has been documented, in which women exhibit a “friendlier” behavior towards the environment in relation to the opposite sex (Hunter et al., 2004 and Agarwal, 2009 ). Even the ONU itself at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 documents the importance of women for sustainable development. It is also observed that women inside the meeting room increase the number of solutions to environmental problems (Glass et al., 2016) in which, when directors, request specialized advice (Liu, 2018) and are more likely to invest sustainably (Joecks et al., 2013).
The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that the presence of the female gender in the composition of the board of directors of companies affects the environmental behavior of Brazilian firms. To carry out the research, data identified from the Annual List of Social Information (RAIS) are used, which are cross-checked with data from environmental infraction notices of the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA) for the period 2011 to 2015.
This allows the creation of two dependent variables, one of which is the variable for counting the number of environmental infraction and the other is a binary variable that identifies whether the company has already obtained an environmental infraction. To calculate a possible effect, the Poisson and Probit models will be used. In addition to the main analysis of the relationship between female management and environmental infractions, secondary analyzes will be carried out through subsamples, thus providing a greater understanding of this association between gender, firm and environment.
Thus, intending to fill a gap in the discussion on environmental behavior in Brazil, a country that is home to a greater biodiversity on the planet.

Matthias Wrede (p)

In this paper, we analyze several local referendums on land development and land-use regulation in the City of Erlangen (Germany) in the period between 2011 and 2018. To identify the positive influence of the travel distance on approval for the development of land, we employ a two-way fixed-effects model and use spatial instruments. Also, we analyze the heterogeneity of city dwellers' preferences for the development of residential and commercial areas. In particular, we examine the homeownership and expenditure-crowding-out hypotheses.

Bianca Radu (p)

Communities all over the world have to respond to unexpected events, such as environmental emergencies (flooding, fire, hurricane), major accidents (accidents involving large number of victims) or terrorist attacks. Even though there is a high probability for some events to occur, some communities are still unprepared or have an unorganized and delayed response. The traditional models of public administration do not match the rapid and unexpected changes that happen at the community level, neither the diversity of needs and demands of the citizens. The paper aims to investigate how citizens’ trust in public institutions influence regional resilience of EU member states to shocks. In particular we will analyze how citizens’ general trust in public institutions, and in particular trust in political parties and Parliament affects regional resilience at the level of EU member states. The previous studies have shown that higher levels of trust in public institutions would increase the probability of citizens to comply with regulations, therefore would make them more responsive to mandatory behavior in case of emergency situations, which would contribute toward an increased regional resilience. We will test this hypothesis using quantitative data collected by EUROSTAT and Quality of Government EU Regional Data.