A Preliminary Study on Saving Parking Lot

2011 ◽  
Vol 368-373 ◽  
pp. 3628-3631
Author(s):  
Jun Liu ◽  
Wei Xian Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Large Area ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Parking Lots ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
Preliminary Study

Along with the development of society and the popularity of private cars, more and more parking lots are to be needed. Consequently, large sized parking lots will be built in many cities. But the traditional parking lots were paved by a large area of concrete. So much concrete will be bound to create heat pollution. Meanwhile, a large area of parking lot occupies mass openspace. The existing parking lots lead to a waste of resources. This paper introduces a new term of saving parking lot and presents some key principles that stem from a wide range of contributions. The newfashioned parking lot may also give rise to the sustainable development.

scholarly journals Using citizen science data to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals: a bottom-up analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Ballerini ◽  
Sylvia I. Bergh
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Science Data ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Development Goals

AbstractOfficial data are not sufficient for monitoring the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): they do not reach remote locations or marginalized populations and can be manipulated by governments. Citizen science data (CSD), defined as data that citizens voluntarily gather by employing a wide range of technologies and methodologies, could help to tackle these problems and ultimately improve SDG monitoring. However, the link between CSD and the SDGs is still understudied. This article aims to develop an empirical understanding of the CSD-SDG link by focusing on the perspective of projects which employ CSD. Specifically, the article presents primary and secondary qualitative data collected on 30 of these projects and an explorative comparative case study analysis. It finds that projects which use CSD recognize that the SDGs can provide a valuable framework and legitimacy, as well as attract funding, visibility, and partnerships. But, at the same time, the article reveals that these projects also encounter several barriers with respect to the SDGs: a widespread lack of knowledge of the goals, combined with frustration and political resistance towards the UN, may deter these projects from contributing their data to the SDG monitoring apparatus.

scholarly journals Sustainable Development Strategies of the Port Authority: The Network Approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 87-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcella De Martino
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Port Authority ◽  
Cargo Handling ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Changing Patterns

Recent years have witnessed a profound evolution of ports, induced by a wide range of factors, such as: (a) technological developments in shipping, cargo-handling and storage equipment, and information and communication systems; (b) changing patterns of international trade; (c) a broadening complexity of global supply chains; and (d) a changing governance models of the port as a consequence of the process of privatization in Europe. The growing size and complexity of port functions have inspired an ever more interesting and useful scientific debates on the social, economic and environmental effects of these transformations, and, more specifically, on the relationship between the port and the city. The paper addresses, to this end, an emerging managerial perspective in the decision making process of Port Authority: the network. This perspective allows to understand the nature of relationship networks shaping the competitive and cooperative dynamics of the port and to identify the boundaries for an active role of the Port Authority in defining the sustainable development of port within its own territory.

scholarly journals Share repurchases, coronaeconomy and stakeholders’ interests

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 02001
Author(s):  
Irina Tkachenko ◽  
Bela Bataeva
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Share Repurchases ◽  
Share Repurchase ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Stakeholder Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Repurchase Programs

The purpose of the paper is to consider the mechanism of share repurchases in the context of the coronaeconomy and the COVID-19 pandemic. The English- and Russian-language publications discussing share repurchases from the perspective of the stakeholder approach in corporate governance are reviewed. The practice of the Russian firms implementing share repurchase programs is analyzed, with the focus on the companies included in the Sustainable Development Ranking-100. It is concluded that share repurchases should be studied with regard to the impact they have on the interests of a wide range of company’s financial and non-financial stakeholders, and to the mutual influence of buybacks and parameters of sustainable economic development.

scholarly journals Global energy trilemma

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-462
Author(s):  
Leonid M. Grigoryev ◽  
Dzhanneta D. Medzhidova
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Global Energy ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Recession ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Change Mitigation

The international community has become increasingly concerned with sustainable development and particularly with preventing climate change. The COVID-19 pandemic and global recession of 2020 will exacerbate the situation not just for 2020–2021, but for many years to come. Sadly, it is a game-changer. The necessity to solve problems of poverty (energy poverty) and inequality, as well as growth and climate change mitigation, now haunts intellectuals, forecasters, and politicians. These three problems constitute the global energy trilemma (GET). There is a wide range of forecasts, scenarios, and political plans emerging after the Paris Agreement in 2015. They demonstrate concerns about the slow progress on the matter; however, they still increase the goals for 2030–2050. The global capital formation is a key tool for changes while also representing the hard-budget investment constraints. This article examines practical features of recent trends in energy, poverty, and climate change mitigation, arguing that allocation and coordinated management of sufficient financial resources are vital for a simultaneous solution of GET. No group of countries can hope to solve each of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) separately. The global economy has reached the point where it has an urgent need for cooperation.

Developments in Financial Technologies for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Thinh Gia Hoang ◽  
Giang Ngo Tinh Nguyen ◽  
Dat Anh Le
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Private Capital ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Global Financial System

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be seen as the critical goal for every country in the world. In this vein, a stable global financial system is needed these days to satisfy its duty to boost the private capital mobilisation to achieve sustainable development and steady economic growth. Nevertheless, several obstacles limiting such financial mobilisation have been identified by scholars, practitioners, and standard setters. Recently, digital transformation and advancement, specifically in the finance sector, include a wide range of technological developments, and applications such as blockchain, internet of things, big data, artificial intelligence are promised to enhance performance in the financial sector. The potential of digital applications in the finance sector to resolve critical obstacles in financing for inclusive and sustainable growth becomes evident. This chapter aims to provide a summary and a detailed discussion of the latest developments in financial technologies that both facilitate the SDGs and also contribute to future sustainable international business.

Sustainable Development and International Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 141-143
Author(s):  
Robert McCorquodale ◽  
Siobhan McInerney-Lankford
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Law ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Frequent Failure

Public international law norms are relevant to a wide range of the sustainable development goals. Yet there is a frequent failure to connect the two spheres and there is very limited literature on the interaction between public international law, and the policy and political frameworks that underpin development.

scholarly journals Remediation of the Serbian soils contaminated by radionuclides in the function of the sustainable development

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Stojanovic ◽  
M. Grubisic ◽  
D. Stevanovic ◽  
J. Milojkovic ◽  
D. Iles
Keyword(s):  
Contaminated Soils ◽  
Water Solution ◽  
Solution Concentration ◽  
Large Area ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Uranium Phosphate ◽  
Natural Apatite

Phosphate-induced metal stabilization (PIMS) using apatite stabilizes uranium in situ, by chemically binding it into the new low-solubility (Ksp=10-49) phase. Uranium-phosphate-autunite is stable across a wide range of geological conditions for millions of years. A large area of contaminated soil is suitable for in situ remediation that involves minimizing the mobility of the uranium. Laboratory study was conducted to quantify different forms of apatite sequestration of uranium contaminant. The experiment was done with natural phosphate from Lisina deposit (14.43 % P2O5), with non-treated samples, phosphate concentrate samples with 34.95 % P2O5 and mechanochemically activated of natural apatite. Different concentration of P2O5 in apatite, pH, reaction time, solid/liquid ratio was investigated. The concentrate at pH 5.5 for 7 days sorbed around 93,64 % and nature apatite, with 14,43 % P2O5, for 30 days sorbed 94.54 % of the uranium from the water solution, concentration 100 ?g U/ml. The results show that mineral apatite 'Lisina' is very effective for the treatment of contaminated soils in situ immobilization of U. Mechanochemical activation of natural apatite in vibration mill immobilized 85.37 % of uranium in the 7-day period of acting. This research on natural apatite from the deposit 'Lisina' for immobilization of uranium was the first one of this type in our country.

scholarly journals FACTORS AND POTENTIAL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF A MEGAREGION

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-100
Author(s):  
О. Дробкова ◽  
O. Drobkova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Synergistic Effect ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Expected Effect ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Industrial Complexes ◽  
Current Stage

The current stage of economic development is characterized by the manifestation of «mega-regionalism» and «inter-regionalism», which shifts the emphasis in the direction of a balanced interaction between the participants who integrate their capacities in the interests of their own sustainable development. Megaregions represent the «locomotives» of the economic development of their countries. The potential for the development of the «megaregion» system represents its ability, which is determined by a wide range of factors. The expected effect of its use is sustainable development achieved by effective management solutions. Integration and balanced interaction is especially important for the sustainable development of megaregional economy. The author suggests integrating all elements of the system in terms of ensuring a synergistic effect, taking into account the interests of geographically localized spaces within the region, industrial complexes and economic entities. The current research defines the factors that shape the potential for sustainable development of a megaregion in terms of the «globalism – regionalism – the national economy – local education» interaction.

scholarly journals General Problem-Solving Ability in Natural Systems as a Model for Solving Problems from Sustainable and Self-Financing Development in Africa to Artificial General Intelligence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy E Williams
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
General Problem ◽  
Tree Seedlings ◽  
General Intelligence ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Artificial General Intelligence ◽  
Single Leaf ◽  
Wide Range

Natural systems have demonstrated the ability to solve a wide range of adaptive problems as well as the ability to self-assemble in a self-sustaining way that enables them to exponentially increase impact on outcomes related to those problems. In the case of photosynthesis nature solved the problem of harnessing the energy in sunlight and then leveraged self-assembling and self-sustaining processes so that exponentially increasing impact on that problem is reliably achievable. Rather than having to budget a given amount of resources to create a mature tree, where those resources might not be reliably available, tree seedlings self-assemble in a self-sustaining way from very few resources to grow from having the capability of photosynthesis accompanying a single leaf, to the capability of photosynthesis accompanying what might be millions of leaves. If the patterns underlying this adaptive problem-solving could be abstracted so that they are generally applicable, they might be applied to social and other problems occurring at scales that currently are not reliably solvable. One is the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) funding gap. The funding believed to be required to address the SDGs is difficult to estimate, and may be anywhere between $2 trillion and $6 trillion USD per year. However, bridging the gap between the funding required to meet these goals and the funding available to do so is universally acknowledged to be a difficult and unsolved problem. This paper explores how abstracting the pattern for general problem-solving ability that nature has used to solve the problem of exponentially increasing impact on collective problems, and that nature has proven to be effective for billions of years, might be reused to solve “wicked problems” from implementing an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to funding sustainable development at the scale required to transform Africa and the world.

scholarly journals COMPLEX SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF DEGRADED LANDS OF THE KHERSON REGION

2021 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-56
Author(s):  
Margaryta Radomska ◽  
Lesia Pavliukh ◽  
Natalia Lyalyuk ◽  
Veronika Petroschuk
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Resource Potential ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Complex Solutions ◽  
Agricultural Areas

The sustainable development is the prevailing approach to the use of natural resource potential. The degraded agricultural areas loose their economic value and raise a wide range of environmental concerns. The Kherson region is one of the most overexploited territories in Ukraine, which is characterized by diverse soil-climatic conditions. It was offered to use these lands for cultivation of energy crops. The comparative analysis demonstrated that algae and rapeseed are the most efficient alternatives which are able to complement each other and form a perspective energy mix.

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