scholarly journals Modern management tools for sustainable development of mining enterprises

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 01017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alla Kasych ◽  
Zuzana Rowland ◽  
Yaroslava Yakovenko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Pollutant Emissions ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Dpsir Framework ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Mining Companies ◽  
Production Growth ◽  
Production Technologies

The production growth rates, the generated volumes of waste by classes of hazard, an extent of fuel and energy resources and fresh water used for coal mining, as well as the volumes of pollutant emissions into the atmosphere of Ukrainian mining enterprises have been analyzed. It has been found that achieving the decoupling (reduction of anthropogenic load) is only possible under the condition of introducing the cleaner production technologies, non-waste technologies, innovations, replacement of obsolete capital funds, and the like. Mere changes in points will not significantly affect the situation, thus, companies should develop their own approach to the sustainable development by using the frameworks as templates. The calculations have been made of the decoupling phenomenon based on the volumes of emission, the volumes of generated waste by classes of hazard and used fuel and water resources, which showed an increased anthropogenic environmental impact and economic imbalance of the mining sector. The research has been made into the use of frameworks as an auxiliary tool for the implementation by mining companies of sustainable development principles. The developed DPSIR framework, illustrated with examples from foreign experience, is conceptual in character and makes it possible to understand the cause and effect relationships of the enterprise activities impact, including mining companies, on the environment and the mechanisms of better response to the resulting consequences.

The Resource Development of Yulin Energy and Heavy Chemical Industry Base and Re-Thinking Sustainable City Development

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 3264-3268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Feng Lei ◽  
Bang Yan Li ◽  
Xu Li Lei ◽  
Lun He
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
City Development ◽  
Development Mode ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Yulin City

Yulin City, which is rich in energy, is one of the national energy and chemical bases. But with the process of exploitation of resources, it causes serious ecological damage and has grim living environment situation in the local environment. It is in long-term about the sustainable development of city very urgent. This paper analyzes the reputation, ruin and its treatment of the development of energy resources in Yulin City, trying to explore the sustainable development mode which is suit in resource-dependent of area.

scholarly journals Ecological and Economic Benefits of the “Medium” Level of the Building Thermo-Modernization: A Case Study in Poland

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 4509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janusz Adamczyk ◽  
Robert Dylewski
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Heat Source ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Pollutant Emissions ◽  
Energy Devices

Energy saving is at the heart of sustainable development in the context of climate change. Saving energy is not only the amount of energy that we save, but also reducing emissions of pollutants to the atmosphere, as well as reducing the consumption of energy resources that are used to produce energy. Reducing pollutant emissions and the use of energy resources can be achieved by increasing the use of renewable energy sources, but at present, this method of obtaining energy in the world is not representative. It should be noted that renewable energy devices throughout the life cycle generate environmental impact. Similar to this situation, the building’s thermo-modernization, which is focused on reducing the pressure on the environment of the building’s user, also has an impact on the environment throughout the building’s life cycle. Determining this environmental impact and ecological or economic benefits or costs is the purpose of the following article. Thermo-modernization of the building, for the purposes of the article, is understood as thermal insulation of walls and replacement of the heat source for heating the building and preparation of hot utility water. The need to replace the heat source with a much more ecological one results in Poland from provincial legal regulations announced by virtue of a resolution. In the study, data from the Ecoinvent data library included in the SimaPro computer program was used for the LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) analysis. As a result of thermo-modernization of the representative buildings, large ecological benefits were obtained, while economic costs remain at a high level.

Green Manufacturing is the only Way to the Sustainable Development

2011 ◽  
Vol 230-232 ◽  
pp. 1332-1334
Author(s):  
Bao Jun Zhi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Green Manufacturing ◽  
Manufacturing Technology ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Green Manufacturing Technology ◽  
Technology Trends

This paper presents the environmental impact of manufacturing in several important aspects. Resume green manufacturing is the only way to sustainable development and green manufacturing technology trends and prospects.

Towards a New Generation of Special Economic Zones

2020 ◽  
pp. 490-519
Author(s):  
James X. Zhan ◽  
Bruno Casella ◽  
Richard Bolwijn
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Special Economic Zones ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Economic Zones ◽  
The Universe

Special economic zones (SEZs) are widely used across most developing and many developed economies. According to UNCTAD’s new SEZ database, there are nearly 5,400 zones across 147 economies as of 2019, up from about 4,000 five years ago. Although the performance of many zones remains below expectations, the rate of establishment of new zones is accelerating, and more than 500 new SEZs are already in the pipeline. In building new zones and revitalizing existing ones, policymakers and zone developers face new challenges in the context of a rapidly evolving global competitive landscape and the sustainable development imperative. This chapter provides an overview of the universe of SEZs and discusses their economic, social, and environmental impact—proposing an SEZ Sustainable Development Profit and Loss Statement. It highlights three key emerging challenges, points to five routes to modernizing SEZs, and outlines a pioneering idea of SDG model zones.

scholarly journals Toward a Holistic Rating System: An Attempt to Expand the Boundaries of Building Sustainability Using SDGs

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierluca Vitale ◽  
Vincenzo Alfano ◽  
Tommaso Pastore ◽  
Costantino Menna ◽  
Pietro Maffettone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Rating System ◽  
Mathematical Framework ◽  
Rating Systems ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Evaluation Systems ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Development Goals

Several frameworks have been developed for mitigating the environmental impact of human activities. Among them, possibly the most forward-thinking are the Sustainable Development Goals set out in UN Agenda 2030, which are often cited by stakeholders at various levels. Nevertheless, when it comes to policy tools, defining goals relating to sustainability is not straightforward. In this contribution, we use a mathematical framework to compare the goals of Agenda 2030 with the assessments possible with three different building-rating systems, BREEAM, LEED and ITACA. Our results show that these tools address sustainability very differently to the intentions of the SDGs. However, a number of minor changes could easily make the assessments produced by these evaluation systems on this issue more complete.

scholarly journals USING FUZZY SETS IN THE ESTIMATION SYSTEM OF THE EFFICIENCY OF URBAN ENVIRONMENT METABOLISM (ON THE EXAMPLE OF CITIES OF UKRAINE)

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 102-109
Author(s):  
Igor Patrakeyev ◽  
Victor Ziborov
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Metabolic Efficiency ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Estimation System ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Matter Energy

The urban environment is a networked metabolic organism. The urban environment includes networks that feed it with energy, resources, people, goods and information. The urban environment carries out a permanent transformation of matter, energy and produces waste, which together change the urban environment. We have proposed to use an indicator for assessing the efficiency of the metabolism of the urban environment, which allows to take into account the relationship between the urban structure, energy consumption, emissions of pollutants and the intensity of consumption of natural resources. We use this indicator as a tool for forecasting sustainable urban development. Using the example of Poltava city, we have shown that the indicator for assessing the metabolic efficiency of the urban environment can be used as one of the decision-making tools for the sustainable development of Ukrainian cities. The improvement of existing and development of new indicators is an important task towards the implementation of the concept of sustainable development, which is a logical continuation of the teachings of V. I. Vernadsky on the noosphere.

scholarly journals Methodology of allocation of costs for the introduction of new and modernization of existing technologies for the production cost of products in the conditions of sustainable development of an industrial enterprise

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Igor' Mizikovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Production Cost ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Indirect Costs ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Real Sector ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Real ◽  
Production Technologies

One of the important tools for incorporating the paradigm of sustainable development into the complex fabric of economic activity of an enterprise in the real sector of the economy is the permanent process of introducing new and updating existing production technologies. Managing this difficult process requires fundamental changes in the traditional approach to structuring the information and tool space of the accounting and calculation process of forming the production cost of products. The solution of this difficult task involves the decomposition of the pool of indirect costs in order to allocate from its composition the costs of introducing new and upgrading used technologies and then assigning them to the production cost. It should be noted that these costs are distributed in proportion to the quantitative characteristics of material cost savings. The choice of this indicator as a distribution base is justified by the fact that it is one of the key components of the economic benefits coming to the enterprise. In the course of the study, various methods were used comprehensively, including: observation, systematization, formalization, modeling and visualization, decomposition and aggregation of data. The results obtained in the course of the study will improve the quality of the information and instrumental space for making managerial decisions aimed at ensuring the sustainable development of economic entities in the real sector of the economy by updating existing and introducing new, advanced production technologies.

scholarly journals Optimal usage of biomass for energy purposes toward sustainable development - a case of Macedonia

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (suppl. 1) ◽  
pp. 77-91
Author(s):  
Gligor Kanevce ◽  
Aleksandar Dedinec ◽  
Aleksandra Dedinec
Keyword(s):  
Energy Source ◽  
Renewable Energy Source ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
The Sustainable Development

One of the main goals for sustainable development of a country is providing sustainable energy resources, which means satisfying the current needs for energy without compromising the future generations. Moreover, sustainable energy resources primarily involve greater inclusion of renewable energy sources. The biomass is the most widely used renewable energy source, mainly because of its relatively low price and its availability. However, in order for the biomass to stay a renewable energy source, it must be used rationally and with a plan, which primarily requires a detailed analysis of the current situation and resources. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to calculate the optimal utilization of biomass in energy purposes, taking into account the sustainable development of a country. As an example, in this paper Macedonia is considered. A detailed analysis of the data sources related to biomass is made and several different indicators that describe the current situation in Macedonia are presented. Furthermore, several scenarios are defined in this paper in order to calculate the optimal share of biomass in the overall energy mix in Macedonia for the next 20 years, using the MARKAL model.

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