The Evaluation of Landscape Services: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Development and City Planning

Author(s):  
Roberta Mele ◽  
Giuliano Poli
Urban History ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Erika Szívós

Abstract In recent years, the permeability of the Iron Curtain seems to have become a new paradigm in the field of post-war history – urban history included. It is clear, however, that significant differences existed among Eastern Bloc countries in terms of how open they were to Western influences, and to what extent their governments allowed those countries’ citizens – professionals among them – to gain experiences abroad. This article investigates the ways city planning and heritage policy in state socialist Hungary were influenced by international trends; it explores the roles Hungarian architects, urban planners and other experts played after 1956 in knowledge transfers, i.e. the transmission of novel ideas in the field of architecture and urban planning, with special regard to the renewal of inner-city areas and historic town centres. Besides reflecting critically on concepts of the strict East–West divide, the article also calls attention to the limits of freedom inherent even in a relatively liberal Eastern Bloc regime: various forms of state control – including state security surveillance – continued to characterize the system until its collapse in 1989, affecting the mobility of urbanists and architects as well as all other professional groups.


Author(s):  
Roberto Ballini

The late 20th and early 21st centuries have seen a phenomenal growth of the global economy and a continuous improvement of the standard of living in industrialized countries. Sustainable development has consequently become an ideal goal and, in the early 1990s, the concept of Green Chemistry was launched in the USA as a new paradigm.


Author(s):  
V. P. Vasiliev

Sustainable development is revealed in the direction of a new paradigm of social dynamics analysis. The transformation of the thinking and actions of governments and businesses in the blathe state — the fight against poverty — the protection of the environment calls into question the well-known formula for economic growth. The article examines the shortcomings of GDP as an indicator of socio-economic dynamics. The system of international ratings and their indicators including along with economic parameters a number of socio-environmental indicators is shown. However, it is shown that the value of GDP is not exhausted for socio-economic research. New international coordinate system for sustainable development applied on the study of forms of strategic planning of Russia Studied the problem of instability of development of Russian business, among which shows the deformation of the labor market and outdated material-technical base. These problems are factors of negative social and environmental changes. Practice is characterized by public companies in the field of sustainable development, based on the principles of the Global compact and includes the use of international standards, covering activities in environment, analysis and adjust working practices, quality management, socially responsible business.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9619
Author(s):  
Natasa Djalic ◽  
Milan Nikolic ◽  
Mihalj Bakator ◽  
Zivko Erceg

The necessity for sustainable development, the coronavirus pandemic, and conducting business within the frameworks of the fourth industrial revolution—Industry 4.0 create a challenging environment where enterprises have difficulties to achieve and maintain competitiveness. Information is becoming a core construct when it comes to conducting business in the modern, globalized business environment. In this paper, the influence of information systems (IS) on sustainable business performance and competitiveness is analyzed. Additionally, the influence of human resource management (HRM) and decision making (DM) on sustainable business performance and competitiveness, as two crucial constructs in the new paradigm of conducting business, are addressed. The relations are discussed from the aspect of sustainable development and future post-pandemic business trends. The main goal is to determine the relations between the noted constructs in a transitional setting. In sum, 184 manufacturing enterprises from Republika Srpska were surveyed via a structured survey, where the focus was on quantifying and modeling the influence of IS, HRM, and DM on sustainable business performance. The results indicate that IS, HRM, DM can affect business performance in a transitional economic setting. This approach is novel, as the existing body of literature does not address all the noted influencing factors on sustainable business performance and competitiveness in a transition economy. Hence, this paper significantly contributes to the existing body of literature and provides a solid basis for future research in this domain.


2012 ◽  
Vol 476-478 ◽  
pp. 1635-1638
Author(s):  
Jian Feng Xu ◽  
Bing Li

Green city planning theory is the renovation and development of modern urban planning theory. It bases firmly on the ecologic philosophy and emphasize the dynamic harmony and organic unification of different factors. explore how to implement the Central Business District in urban planning for sustainable development.


Author(s):  
Ilze Dubava

Sustainable development is currently acknowledged as a new paradigm in international investment protection law—to be taken into account when planning domestic investment policies and drafting future investment agreements. This chapter aims to provide a recontextualization of the current investment regime, integrating emphasis on protection of interests that go beyond sheer economic value in the application of investment law. To achieve this aim, this chapter incorporates two conceptual parts. The first provides an analysis of the term ‘economic development’ as the object and purpose of the existing international investment regime. The analysis suggests that economic development is a generic term whose meaning today must be contextualized by sustainable development, a concept that essentially seeks an equitable balance of economic development, social development, and environmental protection. Thus, sustainable development—being the recognized object and purpose of investment protection law today—requires equilibrium between the state’s regulatory responsibilities and the foreign investor’s interests. In the second part, the author suggests that, in pursuit of balance, sustainable development—again, the inherent objective of investment protection—may alter perceptions of applicable law and guide contextual and effective interpretations of investment protection standards towards a focus on wider interests than those of foreign investors alone. As a result, it may influence the methodologies that are used in order to establish violations of investment guarantees.


2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (4/5) ◽  
pp. 279-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Fedorowicz-Kruszewska

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explain the concepts related to environmental education in the context of sustainable development, to indicate the links between them as well as to identify and organize elements of library activities that have the potential to implement environmental education.Design/methodology/approachThe method of analysis and criticism of scientific and professional literature and research reports was used. The multiple case study method was also used.FindingsAn analysis of literature and multiple case studies confirms the assumption that sustainable development is now a new paradigm of librarianship. Among the goals of sustainable development are environmental goals, which in libraries can be achieved through environmental education. A broad approach to environmental education has been proposed, which is implemented not only by using library services but also by building green collections, contacts with environmentally involved librarians, using ecological library infrastructure, observing sustainable management methods in libraries, cooperation between the library and the external environment in terms of the natural environment.Research limitations/implicationsAn analysis of 20 case studies was carried out regarding the implementation of pro-environmental measures in libraries. Examination of a larger number of case studies would probably give a more complete picture of this area of activity in libraries. The next stage of research should be the development of standards/guidelines in the field of environmental education in libraries, and then the development of methods and techniques for assessing the quality of library activities in this area and methods for assessing the impact of libraries on society and the environment in the field of environmental education.Practical implicationsThe paper indicates – based on case study analyses – those library elements that have potential in the field of environmental education. They were ordered in categories that were assigned to the three main components of a library: people, artefacts and processes.Social implicationsSustainable development is a new library paradigm. The paper focuses on the environmental area, specifically environmental education. It has been recognized that libraries have considerable potential for environmental education and should be seen as socially responsible organizations that take responsibility for the impact of their decisions and actions on society and the environment.Originality/valueThe paper explains the basic concepts of environmental education and the relationships between them. It defines the area of environmental education in libraries in terms of library activity elements that can be used to organize them according to the three main components of a library, which are people, artefacts and processes. The paper also indicates that sustainable development should be treated as a new paradigm of librarianship, and environmental education as a new research field of library and information science.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-263
Author(s):  
Николай Тюкавкин ◽  
Nikolay Tyukavkin

In the paper it is emphasized that in the course of the last three decades became stronger the dynamics of the development of all economic processes in society and under conditions of current economic changes realization come the first place not the tools of development, but new economic concepts. A generation of economic concepts of the present is presented. A current stage of society development raises new conditions and problems the solution of which requires conceptual breaks for the formation and realization of a new mechanism for a economy sustainable development and also new tools in a global integrated market which could embrace all variety of indices on the basis of their optimization of correspondence to market relations. The authors have moved a regulation of a necessity and possibility to develop a new concept and new tools on a global level within the bounds of a “unified theory of market correspondence”.


Author(s):  
Alvaro Cerezo Ibarrondo

ResumenLa actuación sobre el medio urbano de regeneración y renovación integrada (aMU-RRi) configura el nuevo paradigma de la intervención urbana, la preservación urbana con carácter conjunto e integrado. Para ello redefine la viabilidad económica, afecta el deber de conservación del derecho de propiedad a la actuación y articula un modelo de equidistribución de reparto de costes que supera las pautas del urbanismo que hemos conocido.El presente artículo constituye un breve recorrido histórico por los instrumentos y técnicas que ha dispuesto el urbanismo español para la preservación urbana: desde inviable e insostenible modelo clásico del urbanismo, pasando por el modelo de la sostenibilidad que incorporó la sostenibilidad plena y el régimen estatutario del derecho de propiedad, pero que estableció un régimen general de intervención sobre el suelo urbanizado inviable y dejó un hueco falto de regulación para la preservación de la ciudad; para alcanzar la definición de la aMU-RRi con la legislación del modelo por la ciudad y sus adaptaciones autonómicas de medio urbano y que ayudará a la formación del nuevo paradigma urbanístico, basado en la función social del derecho de propiedad que nos hemos dado para la preservación urbana conjunta e integrada de eso que llamamos, la ciudad.AbstractThe integrated urban regeneration and renewal intervention (aMU-RRi) configures the new paradigm of urban intervention, with its joint and integrated character for urban preservation. To this end, it redefines the economic viability, affects the duty of preservation of the right of property and articulates a model of equistribution of distribution of costs that surpasses the urban planning guidelines that we have known.This paper constitutes a brief historical journey through the instruments and techniques that Spanish urban planning has provided for urban preservation: from an unviable and unsustainable classic urban planning model, through the sustainability model that it incorporated full sustainability and the statutory property rights regime, but that established an unviable general intervention regime in the existing city areas and also left a gap due to the lack of regulation for the preservation of the city; and finally up to the definition of the aMU-RRi with city preserving legislation and its regional adaptations and that will help the formation of the new urban paradigm, based on the social function of property rights that we have been given for the joint and integrated urban preservation of what we call, the city.


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