The role of China in the Arctic: challenges and opportunities for a sustainable development of the region

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Amatulli
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

scholarly journals Artists Residencies, Challenges and Opportunities for Communities’ Empowerment and Heritage Regeneration

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9651
Author(s):  
Maria Rita Pinto ◽  
Serena Viola ◽  
Anna Onesti ◽  
Francesca Ciampa
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
New Form ◽  
The University

The paper debates the results of a research carried out by the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples “Federico II” (DiARC), as part of the Creative Europe 2018 Artists in Architecture, Re-activating modern European houses program (entitled EACEA 32/2017 and EACEA 35/2017; scientific coordinator: Maria Rita Pinto; project manager: Serena Viola). The research investigates the relationships between creativity and sharing as tools of a new form of social sustainability. These elements can induce positive effects on the settlement qualities of the places, acting as engines of the custody of the settlement values and the collaborative regeneration of the built environment. The methodology is based on participatory approaches able to restore the levels of cohesion, care, and creativity that the experimentation typology of the Artists Residencies is able to trigger on the territory and on the communities who inhabit it. The results return in the form of the complex process of the artist exhibition reception a significant strategy of sustainable development, capable of influencing the community by entrusting it with the role of custodian of the existing heritage and of renewing local entrepreneurship with innovative productions.

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-73
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Role Of Information

The aim of writing this chapter is to describe the nexus between emerging technology in terms of fourth industrial revolution and corporate social responsibility in the presence of driven challenges and opportunities. This chapter also explains the current implications of the fourth industrial revolution to understand the current challenges, to address and find out opportunities. Similarly, this chapter also analyses that role of information technology overall as a factor of globalization. Furthermore, in term of the emerging issues, which are significant challenges of the world, such sustainable development consists of economic, social, and environmental factors. The discussion reveals that, to achieve sustainable development in the presence of fourth industrial revolution, it is the responsibility of the corporate sector to use all technologies in a socially and economically friendly manner; therefore, the maximum advantages could be derived from its use.

Citizen Science and Its Role in Sustainable Development

2017 ◽  
pp. 1088-1108
Author(s):  
Hai-Ying Liu ◽  
Mike Kobernus
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Core Components ◽  
Future Research Directions

The chapter aims to analyse the role of citizen science in sustainable development, including case studies implementation, with specific focus on its suitability of citizen science in environmental sustainability. The authors structured this chapter in five sections: Background; Main focus; Solutions and recommendations for designing and executing citizen science initiatives; Future research directions with thoughts on the future role of citizen science; and Conclusion. In section of main focus, first, the authors reviewed the state of citizen science in sustainable development and explored the potential of citizen science for environmental research and governance. Second, authors identified and elaborated the core components that support the role of citizen science and demonstrated the practical approach to realize its objective. Third, using several citizens' observatories studies from various regions in Europe and within diverse environmental fields, authors highlighted the lessons learned, and reflected on major outcomes, challenges and opportunities.

scholarly journals Sustainable Development of Oil and Gas Potential of the Arctic and Its Shelf Zone: The Role of Innovations

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1003
Author(s):  
Diana Dmitrieva ◽  
Natalia Romasheva
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Shelf Zone ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Gas Potential

Currently, the Russian oil and gas industry is characterized by significant reserves depletion and the late stage of development of most fields. At the same time, new fields that are brought into industrial development, in the majority of cases, have hard-to-recover reserves. Furthermore, most prospective oil and gas deposits are located in the Arctic and its offshore territories and their development is much more complicated due to regional peculiarities. This substantiates the necessity of a special approach to the development of the oil and gas potential of the Arctic, based on innovation. The goal of the paper is to reveal the role of innovation activity in the sustainable development of the oil and gas potential in the Arctic and its offshore zone. The paper briefly presents the main urgent factors of Arctic development, which highlight the necessity of innovation for its sustainability. Then, it introduces the methods used for the research: the Innovation Policy Road mapping (IPRM) method in accordance with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) concept for clarifying how innovations will lead to sustainable development. In terms of results, this paper presents an innovation policy roadmap for the sustainable development of oil and gas resources of the Russian Arctic and its shelf zone and identifies the role of innovation within this development.

scholarly journals Earth Scientists and Sustainable Development: Geocomputing, New Technologies, and the Humanities

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 294
Author(s):  
Sebastiano Trevisani ◽  
Pietro Daniel Omodeo
Keyword(s):  
Earth Sciences ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
Environmental Evolution ◽  
Data Imbalance ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

This opinion paper discusses some of the challenges and opportunities that earth scientists face today in connection with environmental problems. It focuses on aspects that are related to the role of geocomputational approaches and new technologies for geoenvironmental analysis in the context of sustainable development. The paper also points out a “data imbalance” effect, a key issue in the analysis of environmental evolution and of geosphere-anthroposphere interactions in the long-term. In connection with this, it stresses the importance of geoenvironmental information which can be derived from environmental humanities and related disciplines, such as history and archeology. In this context, the complexities and potentialities of a dialogue between earth sciences and the humanities are outlined.

Citizen Science and Its Role in Sustainable Development

2017 ◽  
pp. 147-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai-Ying Liu ◽  
Mike Kobernus
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Core Components ◽  
Future Research Directions

The chapter aims to analyse the role of citizen science in sustainable development, including case studies implementation, with specific focus on its suitability of citizen science in environmental sustainability. The authors structured this chapter in five sections: Background; Main focus; Solutions and recommendations for designing and executing citizen science initiatives; Future research directions with thoughts on the future role of citizen science; and Conclusion. In section of main focus, first, the authors reviewed the state of citizen science in sustainable development and explored the potential of citizen science for environmental research and governance. Second, authors identified and elaborated the core components that support the role of citizen science and demonstrated the practical approach to realize its objective. Third, using several citizens' observatories studies from various regions in Europe and within diverse environmental fields, authors highlighted the lessons learned, and reflected on major outcomes, challenges and opportunities.

Soft law instruments on Arctic investment and sustainable development

Polar Record ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kong Soon Lim
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Responsible Investment ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Global Agenda

Abstract In recent years, two soft law instruments have emerged to promote sustainable development in the Arctic, namely the Arctic Investment Protocol by the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Arctic and the Arctic Economic Council’s Code of Ethics. These instruments seek to foster sustainable development through responsible investment and good business practices. The emergence of these soft law instruments by non-State actors demonstrates an interest from the business sector and Arctic stakeholders to develop business norms and standards of sustainable development that are specific to the region. In understanding the potential and scope of these instruments, this paper considers the role of both instruments in driving sustainable development in the Arctic.

SDG 4 in higher education: challenges and opportunities

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 959-975
Author(s):  
Therese Ferguson ◽  
Carmel Geneva Roofe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Illustrative Case Study ◽  
The University

Purpose The purpose of this case study is to focus on the role of higher education in the realisation of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, discussing both challenges and opportunities. Drawing on the example of The University of the West Indies (UWI) School of Education (SOE) (Mona Campus in Jamaica), this paper illustrates how higher education can move SDG 4 forward in a realistic and significant way. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the literature and case study experiences implementing education for sustainable development-related activities within a SOE, opportunities and challenges regarding SDG 4 and higher education institutions (HEIs) are identified and outlined. The SOE at the UWI campus is used as an illustrative case study to highlight the ways in which HEIs can drive SDG 4 through teaching, programme and course development, research and outreach activities. Findings Based on the literature examined, along with the case study, the paper argues that HEIs must help to shape and lead the SDG 4 agenda by being integrally involved and no longer watching from the side lines. A framework to aid HEIs in achieving outcomes associated with SDG 4 is then proffered. The intent is that this will not only help shape discourse but also shape actions, as the demand for higher education increases across the globe. Originality/value This paper uses a Caribbean regional HEI as the basis for the framework proposed to aid HEIs in achieving SDG 4 outcomes. This brings to the fore discourse from the global south, as space that is often missing from the discussion.

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