Enjoy it by Giving it up — Toward Sustainable Development Patterns

2001 ◽  
pp. 271-290
Author(s):  
Kirit S. Parikh
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Patterns

scholarly journals Ethical Finance in Britain: A Neglected Prerequisite for Sustainability

2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Capital Allocation ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Financial Services Sector ◽  
Ethical Finance

Financial institutions play a central role in capital and debt markets, providing the finance that shapes development patterns, and thus environmental pressures. Environmental law has traditionally focused on development itself, but not the capital allocation function. Consequently, the underlying market dynamics and growth imperatives are not adequately addressed. To achieve sustainable development in Britain, new legal tools and policies to promote ethical financing in the financial services sector are necessary. This article explains why ethical financing is important to sustainability, surveys the range of financial institutions in Britain relevant to ethical finance, and makes recommendations to improve the regulatory and institutional context for financing sustainable development.

The Holistic Urban Planning Approach of Urban Sustainable Development

2011 ◽  
Vol 280 ◽  
pp. 58-61
Author(s):  
Hong Xu
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Harmonious Society ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
Urban Sustainable Development ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Holistic Analysis ◽  
The City

The lacking of holistic analysis in urban planning is urgent in China. This paper start from complexity theory to analyze and study the urban development patterns in urban planning of China cities. This paper analyzes the need of holistic analysis in the process of urban planning. This need is very important for the current process of urban modernization and the building of harmonious society in China. As discussed in this paper, we must make an effort to improve urban planning by virtue of choosing a very clear direction according to the nature of urban planning. From the perspective of different disciplines to understand the city and urban planning, we can able to make a complex system of our city and complex understanding of things deviation reduced, and finally effectively promote the development of the city.

The Impact of Investment on Sustainable Competitiveness Aspects

2022 ◽  
pp. 333-354
Author(s):  
Sanela Arsić ◽  
Aleksandra Fedajev
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Global Market ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
Demographic Dynamics ◽  
Financial Investments ◽  
The Impact

The European Union (EU) consists of 27 economies characterized by different economic structures, living standards, demographic dynamics, technology development, and other factors shaping their sustainable development patterns. This chapter aims to examine the impact of total investments and R&D investments on the sustainable development of EU economies and determine how these financial investments impact sustainable competitiveness in the global market. The assessment of the sustainable development performances was performed for the period from 2008 to 2019 using the linear regression model. The key findings pointed out that total investments and R&D investments had different impacts on sustainable competitiveness aspects in old member states (OMS) and new member states (NMS). The results could help policymakers understand, adjust, and optimize sustainable competitiveness to secure economic growth in all regions and reduce the differences between OMS and NMS.

DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSMENT OF PROGRESS TOWARDS ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN COUNTRIES IN TRANSITION

2005 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. 457-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
DARIUSZ KOBUS
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
The Core ◽  
Countries In Transition ◽  
Operational Criteria ◽  
Policy Failures

The insufficient operationalisation of the sustainable development (SD)concept hinders development of widely recognised standards for assessment of SD progress. This paper reports on development and testing of a conceptual framework for assessment of progress towards achieving sustainable development (APASD) of (primarily) countries in transition from central planning to market economy. The framework departs from the core principles of sustainable development and develops them into a set of operational criteria, which in turn are developed into sets of performance indicators. Benchmarking is applied for indicators, and an approach to aggregation of assessment results is described. Application of the framework allows identification of sustainable and unsustainable development patterns, as well as policy failures that lead to unsustainable development. The assessment is concluded with recommendations for policy reforms that address policy failures and unsustainable development patterns. The overview of the results obtained in testing the APASD framework in Estonia is presented to illustrate its application.

Smart Growth

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerrit-Jan Knaap ◽  
Rebecca Lewis ◽  
Arnab Chakraborty ◽  
Katy June-Friesen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Growth Management ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Building Design ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Dominant Form ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
Wide Range

In market economies such as the United States and most western nations, land-use and development patterns are influenced by government regulations and investments in infrastructure but determined largely by market forces. Under these conditions, post–World War II development patterns—when the automobile became the dominant form of transportation—became highly dispersed, haphazard, and dominated by low-density development. Scholars and planners have pejoratively characterized this as urban sprawl, to which they attribute adverse social and environmental consequences, such as high rates of farm and forest land consumption, excessive driving and resultant air pollution, costly public infrastructure, and social segmentation. For many years, efforts to combat sprawl were called “growth control” or “growth management” and primarily focused on slowing the rate of urban growth. But in the 1990s in the United States, a new term and set of ideas entered the lexicon of planners, developers, and policy makers: smart growth. Proponents of smart growth aimed to change the focus from stopping or slowing growth to assuring that growth was “smarter” in location, intensity, and form. Although the precise meaning of the term remains ambiguous, the Smart Growth Network—a national alliance of more than thirty private sector, public sector, and nongovernmental organizations—continues to advance the following ten principles: (1) mix land uses; (2) taking advantage of compact building design; (3) creating a wide range of housing opportunities and choices; (4) creating walkable neighborhoods; (5) fostering distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of place; (6) preserving open space, farmland, natural beauty, and critical environmental areas; (7) strengthening and directing development toward existing communities; (8) providing a variety of transportation choices; (9) making development decisions predictable, fair, and cost-effective; and (10) encouraging community and stakeholder collaboration in development decisions. Over the past twenty years, scholars have undertaken considerable research to confirm or dispute the virtues of these principles and to understand how best to implement them. Recently, smart growth advocates have begun to address more contemporary challenges, such as climate change, social equity, public health, and more. Smart growth’s underlying principles are now also represented in the popular terminologies of “sustainable development” and “urban resilience” and in broader efforts such as the United Nations 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. This article, however limited in scope to the original set of smart growth principles, traces the history of the concept and presents research that explores the validity of the principles, the challenges of implementation, and the extent of success.

Research on the Islands Sustainable Development Appraisement

2014 ◽  
Vol 962-965 ◽  
pp. 2206-2209
Author(s):  
Yu Mei Wang ◽  
Yu Jie Sun ◽  
Han Chuan Lin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
Important Principle ◽  
Connection Method ◽  
And Control

This article established indicators system and Gray-connection method of Islands stainable development appraisement basing on the domestic and abroad studied results of stainable development and combining the practice of the Islands and data obtained. Which are the bases of further discussion of the stainable development patterns of Island and important principle for the decision-making,management and control of littoral stainable development.

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