scholarly journals An evaluation of the economic and green market utility in a circular economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 255 ◽  
pp. 01038
Author(s):  
Iryna Reshetnikova ◽  
Viktoriia Apalkova ◽  
Iryna Lytovchenko ◽  
Jan W. Wiktor
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Matrix Analysis ◽  
Automotive Sector ◽  
Managerial Decisions ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Green Market ◽  
Market Capacity

The article focuses on the problem of evaluation of new markets in a circular economy, substantiating the need to assess not only economic performance, but also green utility in the process of making managerial decisions. The article proposes an algorithm for calculating the complex Index of Economic and Green Market Utility (IEGMU) for the region in the field of car sharing. It covers such indicators as market capacity and dynamics, the level of impact on the traditional automotive sector, as well as the green effect, which includes the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, product (vehicle) consumption, and pressure on transport infrastructure. The advantage of the proposed algorithm is the possibility of using matrix analysis to determine the stage of development of each market. As an approbation, the article presents the calculation of the index for such regions as North America, Europe and Asia.

scholarly journals Empirical Evidence from EU-28 Countries on Resilient Transport Infrastructure Systems and Sustainable Economic Growth

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ştefan Gherghina ◽  
Mihaela Onofrei ◽  
Georgeta Vintilă ◽  
Daniel Armeanu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Railway Transport ◽  
Inland Waterways ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth

This paper examines the nexus between the main forms of transport, related investments, specific air pollutants, and sustainable economic growth. The research is important since transport may act as a facilitator of social, economic, and environmental development. Based on data retrieved from Eurostat, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and World Bank, the output of fixed-effects regressions for EU-28 countries over 1990–2016 reveals that road, inland waterways, maritime, and air transport infrastructure positively influence gross domestic product per capita (GDPC), though a negative link occurred in the case of railway transport. As concerning investments in transport infrastructure, the empirical results exhibit a positive impact on economic growth for every type of transport, except inland waterways. Besides, emissions of CO2 from all kind of transport, alongside other specific air pollutants, negatively influence GDPC. The fully modified and dynamic ordinary least squares panel estimation results reinforce the findings. Further, in the short-run, Granger causality based on panel vector error correction model pointed out a unidirectional causal link running from sustainable economic growth to inland waterways and maritime transport of goods, albeit a one-way causal link running from the volume of goods transported by air to GDPC. As well, the empirical results provide support one-way short-run links running from GDPC to investments in road and inland waterway transport infrastructure. In addition, a bidirectional short-run link occurred between carbon dioxide emissions from railway transport and GDPC, whereas unidirectional relations with economic growth were identified in the case of carbon dioxide emissions from road and domestic aviation. In the long-run, a bidirectional causal relation was noticed between the length of the railways lines, investments in railway transport infrastructure, and GDPC, as well as a two-way causal link between the gross weight of seaborne goods handled in ports and GDPC.

scholarly journals CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TRANSPORT COMPLEX OF RUSSIA AT THE PRESENT STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY

2018 ◽  
pp. 25-27
Author(s):  
V. I. Belov ◽  
V. Baklanov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Transport Complex

In this article, the authors consider the main problems of the transport complex of Russia, which do not allow the country to fully realize its competitive advantages, prevent the realization of the export potential of the country, the increase in trade and passenger traffic both within the country and with foreign partners. To solve these problems, the authors propose to pay special attention to the development of transport infrastructure as an important component of the transport complex of the Russian Federation.

6. Such quantities of sand

2014 ◽  
pp. 102-117
Author(s):  
Christopher Hall
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
Open Systems ◽  
Human History ◽  
Material Flows ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
World Energy ◽  
Closed Systems

‘Such quantities of sand’ looks at sustainability and considers three features of the global materials system that need fixing: carbon dioxide emissions, world energy supply, and finite material resources. All societies, however diverse, are comprehensively and universally dependent on material artefacts. The scale of global material flows is enormous, and now greater than for all of human history. In a finite world, there are limits and so it is wise, on some timescale, to favour a circular economy of closed systems (repair, re-use, recycle) over open systems (extract, make, use, discard). Whatever else we do, it helps if we reduce the rate of flow of materials through the economy (use less, use longer).

scholarly journals Creating a Circular Economy in the Automotive Industry: The Contribution of Combining Crowdsourcing and Delphi Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6762
Author(s):  
Simone Wurster
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Delphi Method ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Product Configuration ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Managerial Decisions ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Delphi Research ◽  
Innovation Processes ◽  
The Eu

The circular economy (CE) is an essential societal topic of the 21st century. Although various scientific disciplines address it, many research gaps exist. The Delphi is a proven instrument for managerial decisions, which also gained importance in sustainability-oriented innovation research. Likewise, innovation processes using the input of crowds are emerging phenomena. Nevertheless, the Web of Science publication record includes a few articles applying crowdsourcing or the Delphi method to support CE-oriented management decisions only, and their further application has limitations. Addressing these gaps, this article presents an advanced concept integrating both methods to support the development of CE products and software responding to the worldwide need for more sustainable automotive products and CE solutions for tyres specifically. A combination of two-stage crowdsourcing and Delphi approaches was used, involving 509 participants from the EU member state Germany in total. This article provides, in particular, five contributions: First, it identified specific benefits of combining crowdsourcing and the Delphi method. Second, the attractiveness of a CE software system with product configuration tools is shown. Third, the interest in a quality label for sustainable tyres is unveiled. As the fourth contribution, the analyses show the importance of the CE software’s and labels’ consideration of social aspects in the tyre value chain and certain substances influencing appropriate recycling. Fifth, it represents consumers’ suggestions for products made of tyre recyclates and their interest in additional CE automotive products. The article finishes with recommendations for developing a tyre CE and applying the method combination in research and management.

scholarly journals Life cycle assessment of the environmental impacts of transport infrastructure and individual modes of transport

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristína Kováčiková ◽  
◽  
Antonín Kazda
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Transport Infrastructure

The paper is focused on the assessment of the environmental impacts of transport infrastructure and individual types of transport using the life cycle assessment method. The paper contains a description of the basic terminology of the problem related to transport, the environment and methods of environmental impact assessment. The paper contains analysis on monitoring carbon dioxide emissions from a global perspective as well as from a regional perspective focused on Slovakia. The aim of the paper is to create a proposal for the assessment of environmental impacts of transport infrastructure, in the form of specification of areas of assessment for selected types of transport with a focus on carbon dioxide emissions. Using the knowledge and principles of the life cycle method, a proposal for relevant indicators and a proposal for a comprehensive assessment of the impacts of selected types of transport, focused on carbon dioxide emissions, is created in the paper

scholarly journals Scientific Research in the European Part of the Arctic Territories in the Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Century as a Part of the North of European Russia Modernization Program

2020 ◽  
pp. 774-785
Author(s):  
Anna K. Gagieva ◽  
◽  
Nikolay N. Gagiev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
European Part ◽  
European Russia ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
The North ◽  
Stage Of Development

The article discusses main stages of scientific research of the arctic territories of the European North in the second half of the 19th – early 20th century. Drawing on historical sources and published literature, it concludes that the nature of research changed due to requirements of the time. It is known that the second half of the 19th – early 20th century was a time when society faced the task of expanding its reproduction base, which stimulated development of new spaces, introduction of new means of transport, and active inclusion of population and regions in production relations. The speed and efficiency of the developing commercial interactions between the territories came to the fore. Overcoming institutional and technical backwardness of the country and its territories involved a consistent expansion of the “effective national territory” by means of market development, spatial mobility of the main factors of production, capital, labor, and transport infrastructure improvement. The spatial expansion played a special part. The arctic zone of the North of European Russia presented great opportunities due its unique natural resources, and also prospects of solving geopolitical problems. This should have contributed to a new qualitative growth of production and transition to a new stage of development. Scientific research of the European part of the arctic territories, which was carried out at the time, was a part of the program of modernization of the North of European Russia, which unfolded on the pan-European scale. It was supported by the reorganization of administrative-territorial structure based on traditional structures of grass-roots management and prompted growing interest in the periphery as a source of resources for the growing economy; scientific research of the arctic territories intensified, as it became practical. Thanks to scientific research, the development of the Arctic territories became dynamic, which speeded up the integration of the region (in our case, the Komi krai) into the national space.

scholarly journals Synthesis of Sustainable Carbon Negative Eco-Industrial Parks

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth J. Abraham ◽  
Farah Ramadan ◽  
Dhabia M. Al-Mohannadi
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Mixed Integer ◽  
Industrial Parks ◽  
And Storage

Growing climate change concerns in recent years have led to an increased need for carbon dioxide emission reduction. This can be achieved by implementing the concept of circular economy, which promotes the practice of resource conservation, emission minimization, and the maintenance of sustainable revenue streams. A considerable amount of carbon dioxide emissions is a consequence of stationary sources from industrial processes. These emissions can be reduced using carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) or reduced at source by using emission free renewable resources. The method developed within this work uses mixed integer linear programming (MILP) to design sustainable clusters that convert seawater (including waste brine), air, and waste carbon dioxide emissions to value-added products with sunlight as the main energy source. In this way, circular economy is employed to minimize fresh resource consumption and maximize material reuse. The potential of this work is demonstrated through a case study, which shows that an industrial park may be profitable while adhering to strict emission and material constraints.

scholarly journals FACTORS AFFECTING THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MULTIMODALINE TRANSPORT SYSTEM OF UKRAINE IN MODERN CONDITIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (46) ◽  
pp. 446-454
Author(s):  
Shyriaieva S ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Transport System ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Rolling Stock ◽  
Multimodal Transportation ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Multimodal Transport ◽  
Main Factors

The article deals with the main factors influencing the formation and development of the multimodal transport system of Ukraine in modern conditions. The object of the research is the process of formation of the domestic multimodal transport system. The purpose of the work is to determine the necessary measures for the formation of the multimodal transport system of Ukraine. In Ukraine, multimodal transportation is at the initial stage of development. Among the main factors hindering the formation and development of multimodal transport systems in Ukraine, is the imperfection of regulatory legal regulation of multimodal transport issues; absence of own environmentally friendly rolling stock of different types of transport, especially on road transport, which carries out transportation on long distances; imbalance between levels of capacity of objects of multimodal transport infrastructure and volumes of cargo flows; high risks of multimodal carriers at significant distances with two or more modes of transport; political situation in Ukraine; information provision of all parts of the multimodal logistics chain, etc. To solve these problems, measures have been proposed that will allow the formation and development of the multimodal transport system of Ukraine. The results of the work can be applied for the formation of a national multimodal transport system. Foreseeable assumptions about the development of the research object - the study of the components of the multimodal transport system. KEYWORDS: MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION, MULTIMODALINE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

scholarly journals Circular Economy Competencies for Design

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Sumter ◽  
Jotte de Koning ◽  
Conny Bakker ◽  
Ruud Balkenende
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Multiple Use ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Independent Field ◽  
And Training

This study addresses what competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) designers need in order to successfully design products and services for a circular economy. Existing literature, though sparse, has identified a number of circular economy competencies for design. Yet, a coherent overview is lacking. To complement the competencies found in the literature with insights from practice, we conducted 18 semi-structured interviews with design professionals. Our study identifies seven circular economy competencies for design: (1) Circular Impact Assessment, (2) Design for Recovery, (3) Design for Multiple Use Cycles, (4) Circular Business Models, (5) Circular User Engagement, (6) Circular Economy Collaboration, and (7) Circular Economy Communication. We used a general sustainability competencies framework to categorize our findings. Interestingly, we did not find evidence of the Systems Thinking competency in practice, although in the literature it is mentioned as a relevant competency for design for a circular economy. In addition, we found that methods and tools are still largely lacking or in a premature stage of development. We conclude that design for a circular economy can be seen as an upcoming, independent field within the sustainability domain, and that requires a specific set of competencies, methods, and tools. Our overview of circular economy competencies for design can guide the development of relevant methods and tools, circular economy-based design curricula, and training programs in the future.

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