scholarly journals Criminal law policy on environmental crimes in context of sustainable development in Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 14004
Author(s):  
Thi Mai Dinh ◽  
Dinh Luan Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
The Core ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Scope Of Application ◽  
Resource Shortage ◽  
Environmental Crimes

Balancing between economic growth and environmental protection is the core of sustainable development. However, both developed and developing countries are facing many difficulties in dealing with global challenges such as climate change, pollution and resource shortage. In an effort to promote environmental protection and legislate punishment, environmental crimes have been included in criminal law. In order to increase its effectiveness, criminal law on environmental crimes need to be further specified, such as identification of environmental offences, inclusion of new offences, expansion of scope of application, increase on fine, and supplement existing sanctions for environmental offences. These changes can bring tremendous impacts on Vietnam’s sustainable development in the nearfuture.

Unearthing Under-Governed Territory

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stoett
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Environmental Crime ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
Mitigating Factor ◽  
Environmental Crimes

This chapter looks at whether and how international organizations and criminal law can help us deal effectively with transnational environmental crimes and, more broadly, with environmental insecurity and injustice. It explores the question of whether the climate change justice agenda can benefit from the expanded pursuit of transnational environmental crime. The chapter asks whether international environmental law, refurbished, act as a mitigating factor in climate change. It concludes that while current international legal instruments can help spur additional action, by themselves, they will prove inadequate. Consequently, one idea proposed is a new international environmental court to deter all forms of ecocide.

scholarly journals How Does the Arctic Council Support Conservation of Arctic Biodiversity?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 5042
Author(s):  
Tom Barry ◽  
Brynhildur Daviðsdóttir ◽  
Níels Einarsson ◽  
Oran R. Young
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Council ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Conflicting Demands ◽  
Agent Of Change ◽  
Insight Into

The Arctic Council is an intergovernmental forum promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among Arctic states, indigenous communities, and peoples on issues of common importance. The rising geo-political importance of the Arctic and the onset of climate change has resulted in the Council becoming a focus of increasing interest from both inside and beyond the Arctic. This has resulted in new demands placed on the Council, attracting an increasing number of participants, and instigating a period of transformation as Arctic states work to find a way to balance conflicting demands to improve the Council’s effectiveness and take care of national interests. This paper considers whether, during this time of change, the Council is having an impact on the issues it was formed to address, i.e., environmental protection and sustainable development. To provide answers, it looks at how the Council reports on and evaluates progress towards the implementation of recommendations it makes regarding biodiversity, how it identifies where activities have had impacts and uncovers the mechanisms through which they were successful, to provide an insight into how the Arctic Council can be an agent of change.

The role of digital economy in China's sustainable development in a post-pandemic environment

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Malin Song ◽  
Chenbin Zheng ◽  
Jiangquan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe COVID-19 pandemic is still raging, which calls for an exploration of how to prevent and control pandemics to promote sustainable development. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of the digital economy in sustainable development, the relationship between the two, the impacts of the outbreak on economic and social development, and changes in China's digital economy.Design/methodology/approachThe study used the time-series data from 2002 to 2019 and an unconstrained VAR model to examine the relationship between the digital economy and sustainable development before the pandemic.FindingsChina's digital economy has promoted the country's sustainable economic and social development; it has advanced rapid economic growth, improved people's living standards, increased efficient utilization of resources, and strengthened environmental protection.Research limitations/implicationsAmid the pandemic, China's digital economy developed effectively; it showed strong resilience because of its unique advantages. The digital economy in China has helped the country to control the pandemic in a short period, reduced the risk of supply chain disruption, promoted China's economic growth, and ensured the orderly operation of society. Therefore, countries worldwide are encouraged to prioritize their digital economies.Originality/valueCompared with the extant literature, this study explores the sustainable supply chain in a broader sense in the context of a pandemic, and how the supply chain is influenced by the digital economy. It not only includes the stability, resilience, and viability of the supply chain in economic development but also involves aspects of people's life, resource utilization, and environmental protection.

scholarly journals Land Use Change, Spatial Interaction, and Sustainable Development in the Metropolitan Urban Areas, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Batara Surya ◽  
Despry Nur Annisa Ahmad ◽  
Harry Hardian Sakti ◽  
Hernita Sahban
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Spatial Interaction ◽  
Spatial Integration ◽  
Activity Systems ◽  
The Core ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Urban Activity

Metropolitan Urban Mamminasata South Sulawesi, Indonesia as the object of study is explored in the core-peripheral spatial interaction towards the formation of suburban service centers. The problems raised in this study are (i) is there a relationship/correlation between spatial integration, spatial interaction, and urban agglomeration to the formation of urban activity systems and (ii) how the formation of urban activity systems works as a determinant of economic growth, land use change and environmental quality degradation towards sustainable development in the metropolitan city of Mamminasata. Comparative studies of suburban areas have been carried out over three time periods (2001, 2015 and 2019). Data elaboration on observations, surveys and documentation is done to describe urban dynamics in terms of economic, social and environmental aspects. Path analysis is used to address direct effects, indirect effects, differences, and dependencies between urban elements. The gravity model is used to analyze the spatial interactions of the core city with the periphery. The study results show that spatial integration, spatial interaction and urban agglomeration have a positive effect on the system of urban activity and economic growth in the outskirts of the Mamminasata Metropolitan area. The results of this study recommend policy makers and urban planners that land use change, spatial integration and urban spatial interactions on the spatial scale of metropolitan cities to require the implementation of sustainable development concepts oriented towards saving the environment, ensuring fairness in economic access and creating social cohesion, in line with meeting national Metropolitan city development targets by 2030.

scholarly journals Tackling Environmental Crimes in Russia: Problems and Prospects from the Viewpoint of Building an Environmental and Legal Culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-124
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Legal Liability ◽  
Environmental Legislation ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
The Public ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Environmental Crimes

The author presents a brief historical overview of the institute of environmental-legal liability in Russian and foreign legislation and examines the relevance of introducing the concept of environmental-legal liability; the author also analyzes the discussion on including in Russian and foreign legislation a system of criminal law liability measures for crimes connected with the use of natural resources and environmental protection. The author examines views of Russian and foreign authors on the process of building environmental legislation and notes that it faces various problems. The greatest problem is that the public conscience is not ready for criminal law prohibitions in the environmental sphere, which leads to a high number of offences, the inability of law enforcement bodies to effectively use criminal law measures against people who have violated the nature protection legislation, the latent character of this group of crimes, the absence of unity and consistency in the actions of lawmakers, especially regarding the adoption of environmental normative legal acts at different levels. The author suggests replacing some concepts and norms used in Russian criminal legislation and changing the classification of environmental crimes. He uses the methods of comparative law to analyze the experience of creating a codified normative legal act in the sphere of nature protection. The author concludes that it is too early now to adopt an environmental code in Russia, that the legal system is not ready to build the institute of environmental legal liability and that it is necessary to develop environmental legislation through the traditional method – by including the corresponding rules in the acts of different branches of law. He examines the correlation between the existing administrative and criminal legal prohibitions and concludes that in some cases such prohibitions merge in public consciousness. The author states that the object of crime in the sphere of environmental protection is often multifaceted and complex. He presents the results of a sociological study and concludes that it is necessary to build a system of criminal law prohibitions that corresponds to the public needs and the existing level of legal culture of the people.

scholarly journals To the question about the definition of «environmental crime»

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-247
Author(s):  
Elena V Frolova
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Environmental Crime ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Criminal Legislation ◽  
Environmental Crimes

In this article, on the basis of the analysis of scientific approaches in the theory of criminal law and criminal legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of environmental protection describes some of the problems of the definition of "environmental crimes". It seems the author's definition of "environmental crime".

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Countries' Performance According to SDG Indicators based on Machine Learning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Souza ◽  
Julian Santos ◽  
Gabriel SantClair ◽  
Janaina Gomide ◽  
Luan Santos
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are part of a global effort to reduce the impacts of climate change, promoting social justice and economic growth. The United Nations provides a database with hundreds of indicators to track the SDGs since 2016 for a total of 302 regions. This work aims to assess which countries are in a similar situation regarding sustainable development. Principal Component Analysis was used to reduce the dimension of the dataset and k-means algorithm was used to cluster countries according to their SDGs indicators. For the years of 2016, 2017 and 2018 were obtained 11, 13 and 11 groups, respectively. This paper also analyses clusters changes throughout the years.

scholarly journals A literature review on forest bioeconomy with a bibliometric network analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (No. 7) ◽  
pp. 265-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Paletto ◽  
Ilaria Biancolillo ◽  
Jacques Bersier ◽  
Michael Keller ◽  
Manuela Romagnoli
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Ecosystem Degradation ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Change Mitigation

Over the last couple of decades, many peer-reviewed publications focused on the bioeconomy, which it is frequently argued to be a key part of the solution to global challenges (climate change, ecosystem degradation). This study investigates the scientific literature on forest bioeconomy by applying a social network analysis to the bibliometric science. The bibliometric network analysis was performed over the time-frame of 2003–2020 to provide an overview on the main aspects characterising the forest bioeconomy issue. The results show that 225 documents on forest bioeconomy were published by 567 organisations from 44 countries. Finland and Canada are the two most productive countries with 32.8% and 12.7% of forest bioeconomy documents respectively. The co-occurrence network map of the keywords shows that the forest bioeconomy is related to three main concepts: sustainable development, bioenergy production, climate change mitigation.

scholarly journals A systems model of SDG target influence on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl C. Anderson ◽  
Manfred Denich ◽  
Anne Warchold ◽  
Jürgen P. Kropp ◽  
Prajal Pradhan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Indicator Data

AbstractThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” and aim to address issues ranging from poverty and economic growth to climate change. Efforts to tackle one issue can support or hinder progress towards others, often with complex systemic interactions. Thus, each of the SDGs and their corresponding targets may contribute as levers or hurdles towards achieving other SDGs and targets. Based on SDG indicator data, we create a systems model considering influence among the SDGs and their targets. Once assessed within a system, we find that more SDGs and their corresponding targets act as levers towards achieving other goals and targets rather than as hurdles. In particular, efforts towards SDGs 5 (Gender Equality) and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals) may accelerate progress, while SDGs 10 (Reduced Inequalities) and 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions) are shown to create potential hurdles. The model results can be used to help promote supportive interactions and overcome hindering ones in the long term.

scholarly journals Water challenges and Urban Sustainable Development in Changing Climate: Economic Growth Agenda for Global South

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 421
Author(s):  
Tabassam Raza ◽  
Frederika C. Rentoy ◽  
Nisar Ahmed ◽  
Andrea Valentine L. Andres Thess Khas S. Raza ◽  
Karl Michael E. Marasigan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Global South ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Water Insecurity ◽  
Sanitation And Hygiene ◽  
Water Problems

Access to safe clean water and sanitation were pressing concerns for survivors after super Typhoon Haiyan devastated central Philippines in November 2013. Essentially, water problems in the cities of Global South especially in Southeast Asian Archipelagos (Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia) plus Myanmar and Thailand are viewed as the consequence of uncontrolled rapid urban development and Climate Change (CC) variations. These facts emphasized the link between water insecurity and its negative economic impact. Thus, an equal and inclusive agenda is developed without which universal access to drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene is not possible. It comprises of conducting gender-sensitive strategic planning workshops and strategic spatial analysis using Geographic Information Systems. It was implemented to Quezon City (QC), Philippines as pilot. The output is an action plan defining 15 Programs, Projects and Activities (PPAs) as solutions for water challenges across five development sectors (Social, Economic, Environmental, Land Use/Infrastructure, and Institutional) in the Philippines context. The appropriate implementation of these PPAs will ensure QC‟s sustainable development, CC-resiliency, and its contribution to the country‟s economic growth. The framework used is flexible and can be fashioned for the other cities in Global South countries and other regions.Keywords: Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Inclusive, Economic, Action Plan

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