scholarly journals Sustainable Development Model of EU Cities Compliant with UN Settings

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (22) ◽  
pp. 2888
Author(s):  
Edvins Karnitis ◽  
Janis Bicevskis ◽  
Girts Karnitis ◽  
Maris Pukis
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
General Level ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Developmental Progress ◽  
Mathematical Expressions ◽  
Statics And Dynamics ◽  
Regular Measurement ◽  
Mathematical Computation ◽  
Indicator Systems

Nowadays, the globally accepted UN concept of sustainable development (SD) is gradu®ally transferred to the city level, including small and medium-sized cities. The implementation of SD settings requires regular measurement of developmental progress to monitor the level achieved in statics and dynamics, and to make strategic decisions for the next period. The existing urban SD indicator systems and indices are not well-suited for the monitoring of specific cities. Benchmarking algorithms and mathematical modelling procedures were applied to create a methodology and mathematical model for measuring the achieved urban SD level and to ensure the most objective selection and proportions of key performance indicators (KPIs) to be included in the model. The model (1) complies with the UN concept, (2) is usable for any EU city, (3) reflects the level of quality of life achieved, and (4) includes a limited number of KPIs related to municipal functionality. Mathematical computation of the (1) causality between the KPIs, (2) selection and proportions of KPIs, and (3) the general level of urban SD, as well as the reasonable combination of universality, accuracy, stability, and simplicity are strong advantages of the model. Using the published mathematical expressions of the model, calculation of the SD level does not require specific skills; the performed stability test also confirms that annual calibration of the model is not necessary. The index will help municipalities in planning and managing SD, and in the rational use of their usually limited resources. As a pilot project, SD level values are calculated for several cities.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTING “SUSTAINABILITY-BY-DESIGN” APPROACH IN ORGANIZATIONS BY USING AN EXTENDED RISK INDICATORS SYSTEM FOR MAKING STRATEGIC DECISIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 402-411
Author(s):  
L. A. Sachenko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Risk Indicators ◽  
Risk And Resilience ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Rigid Structure

The purpose of this article is to identify possible approaches to the development of the “sustainability-by-design” process, which consists in synchronizing the organization's strategy with the trends of sustainable development. For this purpose, a process of “sustainability-by-design” is proposed on the basis of the “safety-by-design” process applied in practice. As a key link in the process, it is proposed to use a system of sustainability indicators, supplemented by indicators of risk and resilience. To strengthen the adaptive capacity of companies in the field of sustainable development, the process of building “sustainability-by-design” is complemented by the inclusion of democratic procedures through structured stakeholder participation. As a result, the proposed process combines a rigid structure of values and goals with a “soft setup” in the form of democratic procedures. This will allow companies not only to reduce the uncertainties inherent to the pacing problem, but also to create an environment for the promotion of the most effective alternatives to the development of companies in the field of sustainability.

Perceived contribution of indicator systems to sustainable development in developing countries

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Krank ◽  
Holger Wallbaum ◽  
Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Indicator Systems

scholarly journals Assessing the sustainability development of an organization

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 142-159
Author(s):  
Olga Alexandrovna Latuha ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Mathematical Expression ◽  
Medical Organization ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Individual Assessment ◽  
Statics And Dynamics ◽  
Standard Organization ◽  
Low Sensitivity ◽  
Integral Indicator

Introduction. The article presents a review of scholarly literature and the author's assessment of the potential for sustainable development of a medical organization. The purpose of the article is to describe the author's methodology for assessing the potential for sustainable development, and to evaluate the effectiveness of its application in a medical organization. Materials and Methods. The study used the following research methods: comparative analysis, T.L. Saati, and the author’s methodology for assessing the potential for sustainable development of a medical organization. Results. In the process of analyzing the methodology for self-assessment of the maturity on the way to achieving the sustainable development of the ISO 9004 standard organization, the author revealed a number of problems. They include low sensitivity to individual assessment of processes, the lack of a mathematical expression of the level of development for certain areas of activity, and the absence of an integral indicator sensitive to minimal changes. The author describes in detail process of developing her methodology for assessing the potential for sustainable development of an organization and illustrates the application of this methodology within a medical organization for evaluating sustainable development in statics and dynamics. Conclusions. Finally, conclusions are drawn about the ways of applying the author's assessment methodology by the head of the medical organization.

scholarly journals ARMED BANDITRY AND BORDER MONITORING: CHALLENGES FOR NIGERIA’S SECURITY, PEACE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nsikak Mathias Udosen ◽  
Uko Uwak
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
International Terrorism ◽  
General Level ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
The Government

The greatest challenge facing Nigeria today is international terrorism that is aided by religious extremism, porosity of borderline and cross-border security challenges and crime. Indeed, the existence of porous borders and cross-border and frontier activities in Nigeria has aided crimes and security challenges across Nigerian borders for long without any specific solutions. This paper examines the security challenges and the socio-economic effects of insurgency and armed banditry in Nigeria. The country as a nation state is under a severe internal socio economic and security threat. At a more general level, the threat has social, economic, political and environmental dimensions. Each of these dimensions has greatly affected the nation’s stability, and can be traced to the ethnic militia armies, ethnic and religious conflicts, poverty, terrorism, armed robbery, corruption, economic sabotage and environmental degradation. The efforts of the government to eradicate insurgency, banditry and corruption have been slow and costly in terms of public funds spent, lives and properties lost. This has made the citizenry to question, the efficiency of the menace. Using frustration-aggression theory, the paper then revealed that the major criminal activities in Nigeria borders are smuggling of contraband goods and illegal immigrants, trafficking in weapons and human parts, drug trafficking, vehicle crime, trafficking of illegally exploited natural resources, including the illicit trade in timber, oil and diamond among others. This growth and flourishing entry without proper check or monitoring, has brought about insurgency, armed banditry, kidnapping and corruption, etc. which has become a problem of security as a result of these borderless-borders in Nigeria, with armed banditry becoming one of the most intractable challenges facing the country today. There are many speculations that the groups may have found their way through our porous borders. Therefore, the study probes into the nature of Nigeria borders using Historical/descriptive method of research and analysis in Armed Banditry and Border Monitoring: Challenges for Nigeria’s Security, Peace and Sustainable Development. The study data were collected through documentation of secondary sources, including review of related literature journals and write-ups even as it built on the findings of already existing works about emerging security threats in Nigeria. The study is concluded by recommending among others that the country should evolve a sustainable social security system which will discourage public office holders from engaging in corruption, with good information sharing techniques providing gainful employment opportunities for the citizenry, etc. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0854/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals Conceptual approaches to the formation of regional food security strategy in the context of sustainable development

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-50
Author(s):  
Marianna Stehnei ◽  
Inna Irtyshcheva ◽  
Yevheniia Boiko ◽  
Lida Rogatina ◽  
Ksenya Khaustova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
Regional Food ◽  
The Impact

The food safety of the region is a fundamental foundation of the country’s economic security and one of the most important prerequisites for sustainable development. Unfortunately, the problems of ensuring food security of the regions of Ukraine are not only resolved, but also ultimately aggravated, which negatively affects the quality of life of the population and the development of human potential. An important step in solving the problem of physical and economic food availability to all population is developing a regional food safety strategy. In this regard, the purpose of the article is to develop methodological tools for modeling the region’s food security strategy taking into account the peculiarities of its development and existing production and resource potential. The authors explained the concept of “food security strategy”, “food safety potential of the region” and methods for assessing its main components. The author’s model of the food security strategy creation was developed and implemented on the example of the Ukrainian Black Sea region. This model can be used to monitor the situation with food provision, to model the impact on the state of the food supply of individual strategic decisions and to determine the causes of deviations and growth reserves in any region irrespective of its size or administrative status.

Forming the System of Sustainable Development Indicators for Biosocial Economy Assessment

2020 ◽  
pp. 129-137
Author(s):  
Svitlana M. Fedyna
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Efficiency Index ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Sustainable Development Indicators ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Indicator Systems ◽  
Adaptation Index

The paper compares frequently used methods for sustainable development assessing. We studied the systems of sustainable development indicators for assessing its individual areas (in particular, economic, environmental and social), and also analyzed aggregate indices designed for a comprehensive assessment of development both at the macro level and at the level of specific individual territorial units. For each methodology, the structures of index systems were presented with their breakdown into spheres and blocks / categories, and the main disadvantages of each methodology were determined. Among the methodologies considered are the following: the methodology proposed by the Global Biopact, indicator systems from the OECD Green Growth Strategy and World Bank indicators. The work carried out a structural analysis and explored the content of aggregated indices: Social Progress Index, Environmental Efficiency Index, Global Climate Change Adaptation Index and Human Development Index. The listed systems of indicators and indices are used at the global level, their use for Ukraine needs to be adapted. The adaptation of such techniques to the Ukrainian realities was shown on the example of a system of indicators based on the goals of sustainable development. Each goal has a number of tasks, the implementation of which is necessary to achieve it. For each task, several indicators are proposed for assessing the level of their implementation, an analysis of these indicators showed that for Ukraine, metadata has not been defined for indicators for most of the goals. In the above methods, indicators for assessing the bioeconomic direction (with the exception of biodiversity) are almost not presented, therefore, the development of a model for assessing the biosocial economy requires the inclusion of indicators characterizing bioresources, biotechnologies, and bioenergy. Key words: index, indicator, sustainable development, biosocial economy, bioeconomics, biodiversity, sustainable development goals.

Integrated reporting as a determinant of changing the targets of economic analysis of sustainable development in the face of challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 2210-2232
Author(s):  
Nadezhda E. BABICHEVA ◽  
Sergei A. SEMKIN
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
Corporate Reporting ◽  
Estimated Parameters ◽  
The Face ◽  
Is Integration ◽  
Information Requests

Subject. The article deals with the revision of targets in the economic analysis, enabling timely identification of factors of value creation, and considering the influence of the interests of stakeholders. Objectives. The purpose is to identify targets of economic analysis in connection with changes in information requests of stakeholders and requirements for corporate reporting, concerning the disclosure of opportunities for sustainable development in the context of challenges. Methods. We performed a content analysis of changes in information requests of stakeholders and requirements for the composition and content of types of corporate reporting. The study employs methods of systems, comparative, structural, and logical analysis. Results. The demonstration of excellence by management and investors in understanding the values and the best ways to achieve goals creates threats, and, by definition, is a challenge that should be reflected in integrated reporting. The system of indicators and methods of analysis should be aimed at identifying conflicts and take into account the interests of stakeholders, which will ensure the balance of resources used in creating value. Conclusions. The determinant of the development of corporate reporting is integration, in which a significant amount of information should contain estimated parameters of economic, social and environmental problems and threats specific to major challenges. It will ensure the most effective interaction of stakeholders in managing corporate risks associated with all types of capital. Such disclosure will lead to a synergistic effect in making strategic decisions on sustainable development.

scholarly journals Utilization of mine water of Kryvbas as an imperative for sustainable development of Dnipropetrovsk region

2020 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 01009
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Amosha ◽  
Hanna Shevtsova ◽  
Ziya Memedlyaev
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Mine Water ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Multidimensional Concept ◽  
Human Burden

Sustainable development is a wide area of scientific discourse based on the interdisciplinary approach that integrates research in the natural, technical and social sciences. It is a multidimensional concept that reveals complex interactions between society, economy and environment. This work highlights problems of sustainable development of old industrial regions with the dominance of the mining industry. The latter creates a high human burden on the environment and leads to ecological and social problems. One of the most important tasks of ensuring the long-term environmental sustainability of the Dnipropetrovsk region in Ukraine is utilization of highly mineralized mine water of Kryvbas. From the standpoint of sustainable development, mine water should be considered as a hydro-mineral resource of many valuable components including bromine. In this work we justify the creation of bromine production from mine water of Kryvbas. Potential profitability of the production is largely based on innovative technical and technological solutions. We examine the market and many aspects of the pilot project, including its technological, investment and economic specifics. We highlight the relevance of this project and suggest a possibility for its implementation within the regional strategy framework.

Framework for Construction Industry Sustainable Development Measurement

2011 ◽  
Vol 71-78 ◽  
pp. 3925-3928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Zhang ◽  
Kerry London
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Practical Concern ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Indicator Systems

As a resource-intensive industry, the policy, processes and practices in relation to sustainable development of the construction industry is critical. An important theoretical and practical concern is the creation of indicator systems that assist with the measurement of sustainable urban development. Past research and practice has tended to focus on the measurement of sustainability of the construction projects in relation to the individual projects or at the organizational level. This paper introduces a new measurement of sustainable development for construction industry as a whole so that countries can make comparisons. The model is based on the previous research, the fundamental meaning of sustainable development and the characteristics of the construction industry.

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