Education Reform through a Systems Approach for Sustainable Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Bruno Borsari ◽  
Cristhian Mora
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Systems Approach

Considerations on national interests in financial flows of global social and economic entities

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 1017-1038
Author(s):  
V.V. Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
National Development ◽  
World Order ◽  
Fund Raising ◽  
Skewed Distribution ◽  
Managerial Decision ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Average Growth ◽  
Financial Flows

Subject. The article investigates financial flows. Objectives. The study is to determine directions of financial flows in global social and economic entities. Methods. I rely upon the systems approach and methods of descriptive statistics. Results. The article illustrates the importance of national interests in financial flows of global social and economic entities. I emphasize that finance is a factor determining the importance of national interests. Finance mirrors the national development and opportunities of a social and economic entity to protect its sovereignty. Sustainable development seems to be the ground for solving any issues of national interests as part of financial flows of social and economic entities. This may be feasible through fund raising. I determined directions of financial flows streaming to socialist and capitalist social and economic entities. In Russia capitalist social and economic entities emerge due to a positively-skewed distribution of values around the average growth rate of direct investment in non-financial assets and portfolio investment, and a negatively-skewed distribution, i.e. military spending, inflation, fiscal revenue and general reserves net of gold. The article highlights that Russia and China have similar economic views on poverty and equality. Conclusions and Relevance. As global economic ties transform and controversies concerning the world order escalate, capitalist economies disregard the specifics of the social and economic paradigm and national interests of other countries. Such controversies can be eliminated if multiple economic interests are simplified. Sustainable development and respective goals seem to offer a solution to national interests as part of financial flows of social and economic entities. The findings unveil opportunities for exercising national interests in global social and economic entities by regulating a source of financial flows, generating new competencies for managerial decision-making on sustainable development goals.

Analyzing the current effectiveness of the Russian economy's design

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1476-1496
Author(s):  
V.V. Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Moscow Oblast ◽  
Structural Balance ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The Stability

Subject. The article discusses Russia’s economy and analyzes its effectiveness. Objectives. The study attempts to determine to what extent Russia’s economy is effective. Methods. The study is based on the systems approach and the statistical analysis. Results. I discovered significant fluctuations of the structural balance due to changing growth rates of the total gross national debt denominated in the national currency, and the stability of growth rates of governmental revenue. Changes in the RUB exchange rate and an additional growth in GDP are the main stabilizers of the structural balance, as they depend on hydrocarbon export. As a result of the analysis of cash flows, I found that the exports slowed down. Financial resources are strongly centralized, since Moscow and the Moscow Oblast are incrementing their share in the export of mineral resources, oil and refining products and import of electrical machines and equipment. Conclusions and Relevance. The fact that the Russian economy has been effectively organized is proved with the centralization of the economic power and the limits through the cross-regional corporation, such as Moscow and the Moscow Oblast, which is resilient to any regional difficulties ensuring the economic growth and sustainable development. The findings would be valuable for the political and economic community to outline and substantiate actions to keep rates of the economic growth and sustainable development of the Russian economy.

Enterprise Architecture of Sustainable Development

2014 ◽  
pp. 256-300
Author(s):  
Roberto Villarreal
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Policy Dialogue ◽  
Policy Coherence ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

The Outcome Document of the recent international diplomatic conference on sustainable development, Rio+20, portrays it as a multi-stakeholder process aimed at increasing the wellbeing of present and future generations in a dynamic, inclusive, equitable, safe, lasting, and environmentally balanced fashion, emphasizing that it should lead to poverty eradication, social development, the protection of all human rights and the elimination of human-provoked damage to the natural environment and resource-base. This reflects a highly complex process. Whereas the wording of its features and purposes exhibits considerable progress in the international policy dialogue, it appears that, among analysts, policy-makers, and practitioners around the world, there could be still large dispersion in the precise understanding of many underlying notions, the main issues, and their interrelationships. Consequently, there is not yet enough clarity among all stakeholders as to how to proceed on the implementation of coherent and coordinated strategies and policies for sustainable development. This chapter presents an analytical framework to look at these matters from a systemic perspective, with the intention of inspiring non-specialists to consider the advantages of the Enterprise Architecture approach to generate more clarity, facilitate communication, enhance policy coherence, and foster cooperation and partnerships for improving sustainable development. Some practical uses of the systems approach to enhance strategy, organization, and management for sustainable development are suggested.

Enterprise Architecture of Sustainable Development

2015 ◽  
pp. 440-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Villarreal
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Policy Dialogue ◽  
Policy Coherence ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

The Outcome Document of the recent international diplomatic conference on sustainable development, Rio+20, portrays it as a multi-stakeholder process aimed at increasing the wellbeing of present and future generations in a dynamic, inclusive, equitable, safe, lasting, and environmentally balanced fashion, emphasizing that it should lead to poverty eradication, social development, the protection of all human rights and the elimination of human-provoked damage to the natural environment and resource-base. This reflects a highly complex process. Whereas the wording of its features and purposes exhibits considerable progress in the international policy dialogue, it appears that, among analysts, policy-makers, and practitioners around the world, there could be still large dispersion in the precise understanding of many underlying notions, the main issues, and their interrelationships. Consequently, there is not yet enough clarity among all stakeholders as to how to proceed on the implementation of coherent and coordinated strategies and policies for sustainable development. This chapter presents an analytical framework to look at these matters from a systemic perspective, with the intention of inspiring non-specialists to consider the advantages of the Enterprise Architecture approach to generate more clarity, facilitate communication, enhance policy coherence, and foster cooperation and partnerships for improving sustainable development. Some practical uses of the systems approach to enhance strategy, organization, and management for sustainable development are suggested.

scholarly journals Classification–coordination–collaboration: a systems approach for advancing Sustainable Development Goals

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 838-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bojie Fu ◽  
Junze Zhang ◽  
Shuai Wang ◽  
Wenwu Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals

Summary It is an urgent task to advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on different scales in the world. We propose a systems approach to combat this issue, namely `classification–coordination–collaboration'. This approach allows SDGs to realize key breakthroughs over the short-term while achieving sweeping progress over the long run.

Group Decision-Making Oriented Civil Engineering Undergraduate Education Reform in China

2012 ◽  
Vol 591-593 ◽  
pp. 2180-2185
Author(s):  
Chun Ying Huang ◽  
Xiao Ming Wang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Group Decision Making ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Education In China

This paper studies civil engineering undergraduate education reform in China in the context of sustainable development. At first, from the perspective of sustainable development and symbiosis, group decision-making for the construction project aiming at the sustainability and the harmony of development is very necessary for ensuring the common and long-term interests of all the stakeholders and their successors, which should be performed based on the consensus and cooperation of all the decision-makers. Secondly, some present problems of civil engineering undergraduate education in China, which can do harm to group decision-making, are discussed. In the end, this paper gives some suggestions for civil engineering undergraduate education reform in China, to help the undergraduates establish the concepts of sustainable development, harmonious symbiosis and group decision-making in their minds consciously, so as to make them achieve sustainable development and harmonious relationship between the construction project and the environment actively during their future work.

scholarly journals More than Target 6.3: A Systems Approach to Rethinking Sustainable Development Goals in a Resource-Scarce World

Engineering ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiong Zhang ◽  
Christine Prouty ◽  
Julie B. Zimmerman ◽  
James R. Mihelcic
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Development Goals

A Systems Approach for Modeling Interactions Among the Sustainable Development Goals Part 2

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Zelinka ◽  
Bernard Amadei
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Soft Systems ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

This article presents a methodology using system dynamics to model the time-dependent progress of each one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as their mutual interactions. The hard-systems approach presented herein complements a soft-systems, cross-impact analysis approach presented in part 1. To accomplish this, a modified logistic innovation-diffusion model is used to represent the progress of individual SDGs over time. Then, matrix transposition is used to model the SDGs' interactions. Combining these two techniques into one system dynamics model, the authors propose an analytical, quantifiable, and easily learned tool to understand the complex interplay among the SDGs as a system. The new web-based tool can be used to analyze several scenarios of the SDGs over time to understand the impact of a certain policy or economic intervention. This article is the second of a sequence of two papers analyzing the interactions between the SDGs in a systemic manner.

Fiscal subsidies and their impact on the efficiency of agricultural enterprises of Trans-Urals Region

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
T.N. Medvedeva ◽  
V.M. Sharapova ◽  
E.A. Farvazova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
State Support ◽  
Agricultural Industry ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Rural Producers ◽  
The Impact

Subject. State-sponsored activities to the agro-industrial complex have a significant impact on the performance of rural producers and contribute to their sustainable development. The targeted State support, including the direct budget financing, is not allocated to all economic entities. This leads to large differences in profitability of enterprises, and has a negative effect on the functioning of the entire agricultural industry of the region. It is the improvement of the mechanism of fair distribution of budget funds, both at the federal and regional levels, that may affect the efficiency of agricultural production. Objectives. The study aims to assess the system of State support to rural producers of the Kurgan Oblast, and its impact on sustainable development of the agricultural sector of regional economy, to determine the role of individual factors in calculating an integrated measure of budget efficiency. Methods. The study employs the principle of systems approach, as well as a set of such methods as abstract-logical, grouping, comparison, economic-statistical, and graphic. Results. We analyze the impact of investments on the development of the entire agricultural industry, as well as budget financing of agricultural farms. Agricultural enterprises have been grouped by budget subsidy, including by legal corporate form. Conclusions. We improved the methodology for assessing the effectiveness of government support, based on the calculation of integral indicator, through the inclusion of additional coefficients that reflect the social, insurance and credit efficiency of budget financing.

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