Beyond boom and bust: a strategy for sustainable development in the North

Polar Record ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 25 (153) ◽  
pp. 115-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Pretes ◽  
Michael Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Renewable Resources ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Current Income ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern Regions ◽  
Boom And Bust ◽  
The Stability

AbstractMany northern regions of North America have come to rely heavily on extraction of non-renewable resources for their income, at the expense of traditional land-based economies. Such extraction leads to boom and bust income, destructive to long-term planning for sustainable development. Natural resource trust funds, as exemplified in Alberta, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming and New Mexico, would help to provide the stability that is currently lacking in Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Maintained by setting aside part of the current income from non-renewable resources, they yield capital and income that can be used to encourage the mixed, self-sustaining local communities appropriate for the North.

Influence of internal and external risks on sustainability of financial system of Аltai krai

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 133-136
Author(s):  
R. N. Ibragimov
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Risk Management Strategy ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Impact

The article examines the impact of internal and external risks on the stability of the financial system of the Altai Territory. Classification of internal and external risks of decline, affecting the sustainable development of the financial system, is presented. A risk management strategy is proposed that will allow monitoring of risks, thereby these measures will help reduce the loss of financial stability and ensure the long-term development of the economy of the region.

The First Decade of the New Century: A Cooling Trend for Most of Alaska

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Wendler ◽  
L. Chen ◽  
B. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Warming Trend ◽  
Aleutian Low ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
The North ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Northern Regions ◽  
Northern Pacific ◽  
Cooling Trend ◽  
Sea Area

During the first decade of the 21st century most of Alaska experienced a cooling shift, modifying the long-term warming trend, which has been about twice the global change up to this time. All of Alaska cooled with the exception of Northern Regions. This trend was caused by a change in sign of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), which became dominantly negative, weakening the Aleutian Low. This weakening results in less relatively warm air being advected from the Northern Pacific. This transport is especially important in winter when the solar radiation is weak. It is during this period that the strongest cooling was observed. In addition, the cooling was especially pronounced in Western Alaska, closest to the area of the center of the Aleutian Low. The changes seen in the reanalyzed data were confirmed from surface observations, both in the decrease of the North-South atmospheric pressure gradient, as well as the decrease in the mean wind speeds for stations located in the Bering Sea area.

The Risk of Insolvency and its Impact on Romanian Banks

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Elena Violeta Drăgoi ◽  
Larisa Elena Preda
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Capital Adequacy ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The new regulations on capital adequacy aimed to strengthen the stability of financial and banking system because a stable banking system contributes to assure a sustainable development with long term beneficial effects on economy. This article represents a review of the impact on new higher standards for Romanian banks regarding capital adequacy.

scholarly journals The North Norfolk Coastline: A Complex Legacy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth E Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
Natural Evolution ◽  
Current Management ◽  
Shoreline Management ◽  
The North

The North Norfolk coast is a naturally eroding coastline that has been subject to various management strategies over time, many of which have impeded its natural evolution. The Kelling to Lowestoft-Ness Shoreline Management Plan underpins management of the North Norfolk coast, advocating policies of managed realignment and no active intervention for much of this coastline. Implementation of these policies would give rise to significant loss of housing in North Norfolk during the course of this century. This has caused intense conflict between local communities and coastal planners, with the former feeling abandoned to the vagaries of natural coastal processes. Coastal planners need to work closely with local communities to implement a long-term vision for a sustainable coast. The issues of conflicting land-use planning policies and compensation for affected communities must be addressed. The wider implications of current management strategies are not fully understood and may, in some cases, be unsustainable.

scholarly journals THE BALANCE PARADOX OF MANAGEMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Gospodarek
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Long Term Stability ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Derivative Instruments ◽  
Economic Balance ◽  
The Stability ◽  
General Economic Equilibrium

Aim: There exists an inequilibrium between the available quantity of goods and the level of consumption resulting in local economic polarisations and asymmetric capital concentrations. Replacements of real money with derivative instruments cause strong perturbations on capital markets. Consumer preferences change towards the maximization of the utility of the used capital. The above observations are a basis for the hypothesis that managers, in general, prefer to maximize the momentum profit regardless of the risk of losing the stability of macroeconomic systems.Design/Research method: It is heuristic about the objective function of an organization based on observations, that there are two excluding tendencies in formulating goals: to maximize the profit (using all possible opportunities) and simultaneously to achieve stability in the long run (keeping the micro-macro balance).Conclusions/findings: Managements cause deviations from the micro-macro balance, and at the same time trying to keep this balance. This leads to the following paradox of management (the balance dilemma of management): Managers always try to maximize opportune profits, regardless of future benefits that may be derived from keeping the equilibrium. And conversely, rational long-term stability suggests postponing most opportunities and keeping external boundaries (e.g. realizing sustainable development). However, managers’ temporary preferences lead to an increasing number of unbalanced interactions between organizations and their surroundings, up to the critical point when some catastrophic economic processes may take place.Originality/value of the article: Original heuristics based on the observations of some micro-macro economic balance relations in business practice.Implications of the research: One more paradox in the theory of management have been presented. It is important for base statements of the theory of organizational bahaviors consistency and inferring would be more accurate.Key words: General economic equilibrium, rationally bounded decisions, paradox of management, micro/macro balance, management theory.JEL: L2, M21, D5, F41

scholarly journals Assessing the Suffosion Risk for the Final in-Situ Slopes of the North Peşteana Open-Pit

Mining Revue ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-33
Author(s):  
Izabela-Maria Apostu ◽  
Maria Lazăr ◽  
Florin Faur
Keyword(s):  
Fine Particles ◽  
Paper Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Catastrophic Events ◽  
The North ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
The Stability

Abstract With the occasion of complex and detailed studies, conducted especially from the geotechnical point of view (between 2016 and 2019), on the North Pesteana mining perimeter (more precisely on the lignite open-pit with the same name) numerous areas affected by suffosion were highlighted, mainly located on the lower steps (steps III and IV). Starting from these observations, the present paper analysis the risk of suffosion phenomenon to occur in the case of the final slopes of North Pesteana open-pit. In general, as observed, these areas have small and medium sizes, and do not affect significantly the stability of the steps, being immediately remedied with the advancement of the work front. Also, it was observed that, with the advancement of the excavation fronts, the groundwater currents constantly entrain the fine particles from the aquifer formations, and therefore new such suffosion areas occur. Taking into account the fact that the exploitation of lignite in this perimeter is ending soon, it was considered as necessary to assess the risk of suffosion at the final slopes (long term slopes) in order to be able to identify appropriate measures to prevent future potential catastrophic events.

scholarly journals Sustainability: Suspicions Concerning Attainability, with Particular Reference to the Pacific

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Wolfers
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Resources ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Rising Sea Levels

Sustainability and unsustainability are frequently deployed in discussions of intended, predicted and observed changes occurring in or impacting on Pacific islands societies. Local communities often have their own distinctive understanding of the natural environment. Their concern for sustainability frequently extends further afield – to languages, cultures, and other aspects of life. International agreements and the constitutions of a number of Pacific islands countries address relevant issues. Constitutional government in the region has been remarkably sustained. Sustainable development has diverse dimensions and can be controversial. Climate change and rising sea-levels threaten the very survival of low-lying islands. Harvesting of non-renewable resources raises particular issues. Pacific islands studies have made significant contributions to scientific knowledge and human understanding of issues and processes of wider, even global importance.

scholarly journals Environmental problems of sustainable development of oil-producing regions of the North

2021 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 06035
Author(s):  
Aigul Yamaletdinova ◽  
Viktor Barkhatov ◽  
Sergey Gots ◽  
Klara Yamaletdinova ◽  
Azamat Nurutdinov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Gas Storage ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Industrial Emissions ◽  
Underground Gas Storage ◽  
Automated Control ◽  
The North ◽  
Peak Loads ◽  
The Stability

There is a relationship between the economic requirements for the development of oil and gas facilities in the oil-producing regions of the North and the environmental problems of sustainable development. One of the ways to solve this problem is the wider use of underground gas storage facilities both for reducing peak loads in the Unified Gas Supply System by collecting and storing previously flared associated petroleum gas, and for burying a large volume of industrial emissions that are harmful to the environment. We have considered a mathematical model of an automated control system for the creation and operation of underground gas storage in the horizons of a depleted oil and gas condensate field with its subsequent use for disposal of industrial emissions. To ensure the stability of the functioning of objects of accumulation and consumption, it is necessary to calculate the depth of feedback for each component of the component: proportional, integral, differential.

scholarly journals A legjelentősebb hazai fürdővárosok településszerkezeti jellemzőinek vizsgálata

2021 ◽  
Vol 145 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-186
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
System Approach ◽  
Mineral Water ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Health Tourism ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Water Base

In our research we investigate the complex settlement characteristics and specialities of the best-known Hungarian spa cities – Bük, Gyula, Harkány, Hajdúszoboszló, Hévíz, Sárvár and Zalakaros – that attract the most guests and offer the highest standard in accordance with the suprastructure of health tourism. These settlements have outstanding valuable tourism traditions, where the current structure was created over many decades. The spa cities carry out certain improvements continuously in order to maintain their leading role within the health tourism market. However, these developments should be planned in a complex way, with enhanced protection of natural resources, by emphasizing the importance of a system approach. Harmonious and sustainable development can therefore be accomplished in the long run, and can preserve local conditions, primarily ecological unity and the health of the specific mineral water base. In addition, planning based on local conditions and the priority of the interests of the local communities can also lead spa cities toward conscious long-term sustainability. These particularities have an effect on the settlement structure of the spa cities, the research of which ensures new opportunities in the conscious developments of the settlements.

Financial Stability vs. Sustainable Development and Its Financing

2018 ◽  
pp. 88-107
Author(s):  
Magdalena Ziolo ◽  
Marwa Ben Ghoul Ben Ghoul ◽  
Halil İbrahim Aydın
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Stability

Financing of sustainable development is a sophisticated and long-term process determined by a number of economic and non-economic factors. Financial instruments, private and public nature, exist that can be a source of financing of sustainable development. The choice of finance sources and instruments has an impact on the stability of economic systems and the efficiency of public expenditure with respect to sustainable development goals. The choice of financial instruments for financing development impact on financial stability and results in outcomes performed. The goal of the chapter is to examine relationships between financial stability reflected by public debt to gross domestic product (GDP) and sustainable development described by variables represented by three pillars of sustainable development: economic, social, and environmental. The role of environmentally related tax revenue has been identified as crucial for financing sustainable development goals.

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