scholarly journals Sustainable economic development: on the coexistence of resource-dependent and resource-impacting industries

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 687-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAMÓN LÓPEZ
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Renewable Resource ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Closed Economy ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Growing Economy ◽  
Renewable Natural Resource ◽  
Two Sectors

ABSTRACTThis paper studies the interactions between harvesters, whose income depends on a renewable natural resource as a key factor of production (e.g., fisheries) and industries that can have important impacts on the renewable resource, but whose production does not depend on it (e.g., off-shore oil extraction) in the context of a growing economy. We examine these issues for a closed economy focusing on how the co-existence between these two sectors affects sustainable development and the well-being of the poor, i.e., the harvesters. We show that under certain conditions the existence and expansion of a resource-impacting industrial sector may be consistent with sustainable development. However, if these conditions are not met, growth of the resource-impacting sector leads to further resource depletion and may even threaten the feasibility of sustainable development.

Wealth and Sustainability

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirk Hamilton ◽  
John Hartwick ◽  
Kirk Hamilton ◽  
John Hartwick
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Natural Factors ◽  
Rule Set ◽  
Factors Of Production ◽  
Produced Capital

In 1974, it was a live question whether the exhaustion of natural resources, such as oil, would necessarily lead to the decline of economic activity. Solow showed that constant levels of consumption could be sustained if there is sufficient substitutability between produced and natural factors of production. Hartwick then proved that underpinning this result is a saving rule—set investment in produced capital equal to the value of resource depletion at each point in time. A large literature has shown that a comprehensive measure of the change in real wealth—net saving—plays a central role in determining whether current well-being can be sustained. The current composition of wealth serves to define the policy challenges that countries face in achieving sustainable development. If substitution possibilities are limited between natural and other factors of production, as one might expect, then technical progress is a necessary complement to policies for sustainability.

Synthesis of Biocomposite with Different Ratios of Rapeseed Oil Binder/Wood Bark: Mechanical and Hygrothermal Properties

2019 ◽  
Vol 799 ◽  
pp. 142-147
Author(s):  
Agnė Kairytė ◽  
Saulius Vaitkus ◽  
Arūnas Kremensas
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Agricultural Waste ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Thermal Insulating ◽  
Wood Bark ◽  
Growing Economy ◽  
Term Benefit

Growing economy is a basis of public well-being, and its rapid growth is implemented on the expense of environmental quality; therefore, the harmonization of different aims and interests is one of the most important aspects of sustainable development concept. One of the priorities of sustainable development in Lithuania – the reduction of building and building materials industries’ impact on environment by increasing their eco and energy efficiency; consequently, the use of waste from renewable resources for the synthesis of chemical materials and production of building materials may reduce the usage of limited sources and emission of greenhouse gases. Such waste open up the opportunities to partially or fully replace traditional materials such as petroleum based polymers or cements which production emits many pollutants, uses lots of energy and natural resources. Nowadays, wood and agricultural waste are used for the production of biofuel; however, such heat source provides with short-term benefit. The use of the above mentioned waste materials for the production of bio-based thermal insulating composites would provide with long-term benefit and contribute to the improvement of currently targeted energy performance of buildings. During the study, it was obtained that the ratios of wood bark/rapeseed binder changes the main parameters of biocomposites. The obtained products are characterized by the density ranging from 329 kg/m3 to 378 kg/m3 and thermal conductivity – from 0.0665 W/(m·K) to 0.0781 W/(m·K). The compressive strength and short-term water absorption have shown that biocomposites can be used as a self-bearing structural materials due its sufficient strength which is approx. 2 MPa and water uptake varies from 20 vol.% to 40 vol.%.

scholarly journals An Emergy and Decomposition Assessment of China’s Crop Production: Sustainability and Driving Forces

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 3938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuoxi Liu ◽  
Yongyang Wang ◽  
Shanshan Wang ◽  
Huijuan Dong ◽  
Yong Geng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Production System ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Decomposition Analysis ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Renewable Resource ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Local Resources

With a growing demand for crop products in China, a great deal of local resources and industrial inputs are consumed including agricultural machineries, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and energies, which results in many environmental issues such as resource depletion, water pollution, soil erosion and contamination, and CO2 emissions. Thus, this study evaluated the trend of sustainability of China’s crop production from 1997 to 2016 in terms of emergy and further explored the driving forces using decomposition analysis methods. The results showed that the total emergy used (U) increased by 50% from 7.82 × 1023 in 1997 to 1.17 × 1024 solar emergy Joule (sej) in 2016. Meanwhile, the values of the emergy sustainability index (ESI) were all smaller than one with a declining trend year by year, indicating that China’s crop production system is undergoing an unsustainable development pattern. From the results of the ESI decomposition, the renewable resource factor (R/GDP) and land use factor (L/A) are two key factors impeding the sustainable development of the crop production system. Therefore, the increased capacity of renewable resources and enough labor forces engaged in crop production will be the key strategies for its sustainable development.

scholarly journals Integration of Environmental and Economic Aspects in Green GRDP Calculation on the Industrial Sector in West Bandung District, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Faroby Falatehan ◽  
Rizal Bahtiar
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Industrial Waste ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
The Other ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Large Share

West Bandung Regency is a developing district in West Java, Indonesia.  As a developing city, the industrial sector is one sector that has a large share of Regional GDP in this district, which is 39%. On the other hand, based on the concept of sustainable development, the calculation of Regional GDP or Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) has not paid attention to aspects of resources depletion and environmental degradation. Therefore, Regional GDP is difficult to measure the business benefits of the industrial sector in the concept of sustainable development. This paper introduces concept of green Regional GDP and its contribution to regional income. This paper analyzes the value of depleted resources and degraded environments in the region, from 2015 to 2017. Resource depletion is focused on depletion of water resources. Whereas the degradation that occurs is focused on congestion and damage to water resources due to industrial waste. The industrial sector Green Regional GDP has resulted in a reduction in Regional GDP of 1.17% in 2015, 1.12% in 2016 and 1.06% in 2017. Therefore, an appropriate policy is needed in overcoming this problem, especially reducing environmental damage, namely reducing congestion and reducing environmental pollution in order to achieve sustainable development. Keywords: Sustainable development, Depletion, Degradation, Water, Congestion, Damage

scholarly journals Trade and cooperation opportunities for the MERCOSUR countries in the livestock sector and beef meat in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-185
Author(s):  
Sebastian Sterzer ◽  
Siti Azizah
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
The Public ◽  
Beef Meat ◽  
Livestock Sector ◽  
Business Opportunities

Indonesia is the largest economy in the Southeast Asia region, with the largest population in that region as well. Therefore, each productive and industrial sector that helps the growth and development of the country and its population gets attraction. The livestock sector can be a good example of the above. In this sense, the countries that make up the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), that is, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay (Venezuela is suspended) can contribute to develop the livestock sector in Indonesia, looking for further cooperation and business opportunities that can also help to improve the well-being of Indonesians. The objective in this article will be to make a brief approach to the Indonesian livestock sector in general and the beef market, to understand how the MERCOSUR countries could contribute to the development of that. The results of the analysis indicate that Indonesia should develop its livestock sector using best practices that contribute to sustainable development, with support from the public sector. The use of new technologies could contribute to the improvement of the sector, and bovine genetics can contribute to a greater and better supply. It is concluded that the MERCOSUR countries have opportunities to contribute to the growth and development of the livestock sector in Indonesia, through the signing of relevant legal agreements both at the bilateral level and, in the case of MERCOSUR, acting as a bloc.

scholarly journals Quantifying the Economic Effects of Biogas Installations for Organic Waste from Agro-Industrial Sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Cucui ◽  
Constantin Ionescu ◽  
Ioana Goldbach ◽  
Mihaela Coman ◽  
Elena Marin
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Renewable Resource ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Continuous Growth ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Economic Entity

The evolution of the world economy, the continuous growth of human needs and industrial and technological development have led to an increased demand for energy and consumption of fossil fuels. Since fossil resources are limited, there is an urgent need for the evolution of current economies to achieve sustainable development (SD), supported predominantly by waste management, renewable energy production, limiting non-renewable resource consumption, sustainable development, etc. In this research, the management of waste (chicken debris and debris from meat processing/slaughter) resulting from the chicken slaughtering activities using biogas installations (BI) is shown to be a viable alternative that places the economic entity at intercept if waste recycling and the production of electricity, heat and digestate. The purpose of this research was to quantify the economic impact generated using BI, which processes organic wastes resulted from the processing flow of the meat chicken slaughterhouse.

Exact measures of income in a hyperbolic economy

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN C.V. PEZZEY
Keyword(s):  
Discount Rate ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Optimal Path ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Renewable Resource ◽  
National Product ◽  
Closed Economy ◽  
Equivalent Income ◽  
Net National Product ◽  
Sustainable Income

For a closed economy with human-made capital, non-renewable resource depletion and (possibly) exogenous, hyperbolic technical progress as explicit-form inputs to a production function, there is a feasible development path that is ‘as if’ optimal with respect to hyperbolic utility discounting. On this path, typically, welfare-equivalent income > wealth-equivalent income > Sefton-Weale income > net national product, with possibly dramatic differences among these measures; and sustainable income can be greater than, equal to, or less than NNP. For low enough discounting, growing consumption is optimal even when technical progress is zero. A particular discount rate makes all income measures and consumption constant and (except net national product) equal; and zero technical progress then gives the Solow (1974) maximin as a special case. The optimal path is time-consistent because of the way the utility discount rate is chosen to depend on the economy's stocks, and hence on absolute time.

FORGOTTEN EFFECTS IN THE VALUATION OF THE SOCIAL WELL-BEING INDEX IN MEXICO’S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
G.G. Alfaro-Calderon ◽  
N.L. Godinez-Reyes ◽  
R. Gomez-Monge ◽  
V. Alfaro-Garcia ◽  
A.M. Gil-Lafuente
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Social

On Capital Allocation And The Real Cost Of Labour (Notes & Comments)

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-499
Author(s):  
F. E. Banks
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Wage Differential ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Capital Allocation ◽  
Marginal Product ◽  
Developing Economy ◽  
Real Cost ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Industrial Wage ◽  
Two Sectors

This note is an extension of several contributions to the problem of re¬source allocation in a developing economy. In separate papers, I.M.D. Little and F. Seton* have introduced a model in which labour in a developing economy cannot be shifted from the subsistence to the industrial sector at zero opportunity cost, even though this labour displays zero marginal product in its 'traditional' occupations; and in what follows this problem will be attacked via a diagramma¬tic analysis. A short appendix will treat a side issue of the topic. As Little presented the model, there was an initial amount of capital K to be divided between two sectors, the I (industrial) sector, and the C (subsistence, traditional, or agricultural) sector. In the C-sector, there is excess labour or dis¬guised unemployment, in the sense of Professor W. A. Lewis2, in that the marginal product of labour in this sector is taken as equal to zero. As it happens, however, this labour cannot be moved to the I-Sector without an increase in production in the C-sector. The reason for this is because as labour is transferred to the industrial sector, consumption per head increases in the C-sector, thus decreasing the surplus available for workers being transferred to the I-sector. The transfer can only be carried out if a surplus equal to the difference between the industrial wage in C-goods and the amount of C-goods 'released' by the C-sector is forth¬coming, and for this an increased production of C-goods (via the input of capital into the C-sector) must take place. A similar situation would exist if transferring workers required a wage differential; or if C-goods had to be exported to obtain certain types of capital goods for the labour being reallocated, and/or housing, training, etc.

Financial capabilities development: essential discourse in social work

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 1234-1246
Author(s):  
Lambert K. Engelbrecht ◽  
Abigail Ornellas
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Vulnerable Households ◽  
Definition Of

Purpose Within a neoliberal environment, financial vulnerability of households has become an increasing challenge and there is a requirement of financial literacy education, a necessary activity to facilitate sustainable development and well-being. However, this is seldom a mainstream discourse in social work deliberations. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach First, introducing the neoliberal impact on financial well-being and capability for vulnerable households, the authors’ postulation is substantiated on a seven-point argument. The contexts of financially vulnerable households are sketched. Second, a conceptualisation of financial literacy is offered, and third, perspectives on and approaches to financial literacy as a fundamental capability are presented. This is followed by a theoretical foundation of community education as a practice model in social work to develop financial capabilities. In the fifth place, prevailing practices of Financial Capabilities Development (FCD) programmes are offered. Subsequently, the implications of a neoliberal environment for social work practice are examined. Findings The revised global definition of social work encourages the profession to understand and address the structural causes of social problems through collective interventions. As a response, it is argued that community education towards FCD of vulnerable households within a neoliberal environment should be an essential discourse in social development. Originality/value The authors reflect on the significance of FCD, highlighting its contribution towards human security and sustainable development. Although this paper draws on Southern African contexts, the discourse finds resonance in other contexts across the world.

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