scholarly journals A statistical analysis of the social and environmental risks of the international trade in virtual water

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1310416
Author(s):  
Y. Kopnova ◽  
Bernardo Spagnolo
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Virtual Water ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Environmental Risks

scholarly journals The Belt and Road Initiative: Maximizing benefits, managing risks—A computable general equilibrium approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongjoo Hahm ◽  
Selim Raihan
Keyword(s):  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
The Social ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Trade Analysis ◽  
Global Trade Analysis Project ◽  
The Belt And Road ◽  
Social And Environmental Risks

Using a Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model, and China as the base for analytical comparison, this paper shows that there are significant economic benefits to China and the participating countries along all six Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) economic corridors. However, to maximize these benefits, the social and environmental risks need to be well managed. The analysis shows a clear sequencing in terms of priority corridors. Two corridors have minimal investments and immediate returns, two corridors have significant investments with huge returns, and two corridors have high investments with lower returns. Overall, the paper demonstrates that to ensure the sustainability of any BRI corridor development, there is a need to consider its costs and benefits from the economic, social and environmental perspectives.

scholarly journals Management control systems in response to social and environmental risk in large Nordic companies

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Semenova
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Measurement System ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Management Control Systems ◽  
Performance Measurement System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Integrated Performance ◽  
Social And Environmental Risks

AbstractThis empirical study investigates the relationships between management control systems and social and environmental risks. Building on Simons’ Levers of Control conceptual framework, this study proposes that companies facing social and environmental risks will enhance the quality of their management control systems by integrating social and environmental elements into management control systems in order to manage the related risks. The study uses a longitudinal dataset of the 1179 largest listed Nordic companies for the period 2014–2018. The multivariate regression confirms a negative relationship between the social and environmental integration and social and environmental risks. The results indicate that the social and environmental integrated performance measurement system and strategy implementation are not congruent with the social and environmental risks that the companies face. Nordic companies have not adopted the social and environmental integrated measurement system and strategy in response to social and environmental risks. When the number of social and environmental incidents increase and companies meet high levels of social and environmental risks, their management control systems do not match the related risks. Such social and environmental integration should be improved in order to prevent wider negative implications of the incidents on the natural environment and society in large.

Data analysis of social hygiene monitoring in russian regions determining environmental and hygienic safety for population

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
O. Klepikov ◽  
S. Eprintsev ◽  
S. Shekoyan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Priority Pollutants ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Social Hygiene ◽  
Atmospheric Air ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Federal Center

Data of the Federal Information Fund for Social Hygiene Monitoring conducted on the basis of the Federal Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor have been analyzed to assess environmental risks, as well as to develop environmental safety system as a factor for sustainable development of the territory in the regions of the Russian Federation. Atmospheric air pollution in Russian regions was evaluated by content of priority pollutants. Ranking of Russian regions according to the quality of drinking water supply was carried out. The possibility of using Federal Information Fund for Social Hygiene Monitoring as an integral part of the model for optimizing the social and environmental conditions of populated areas is estimated.

scholarly journals The Ecuadorian Amazon: A Data Analysis of Social and Educational Characteristics of the Population

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Valdivieso ◽  
Efstathios Stefos ◽  
Ruth Lalama
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Factorial Analysis ◽  
Place Of Birth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ecuadorian Amazon ◽  
Level Of Instruction ◽  
Descriptive Statistical Analysis

The present study describes the social and educational characteristics of the Ecuadorian Amazon population. For this purpose, the data obtained from the National Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment of 2014 was used in this research. A descriptive statistical analysis presents the frequency, the percentages and the graphs of the variables related to the area in which people live, gender, age, ethnic self-identification, language spoken, marital status and level of instruction. Other variables are the use of computer and internet, place of birth, reason why they live in the Amazon region, type of activity or inactivity, how do they feel in their jobs, and groups of occupation. Also, a factorial analysis was used to show the main and most important criteria of differentiation and the the clusters of people with similar characteristics.

scholarly journals The Social Characteristics of Postgraduate Students in Ecuador: A Multidimensional Statistical Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Andrés Bonilla Marchán ◽  
Ramiro Delgado ◽  
Efstathios Stefos
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Hierarchical Clustering ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Factorial Analysis ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
The Social

The purpose of this study is to investigate social characteristics of postgraduate students in Ecuador. The study was conducted with the use of a descriptive and multidimensional statistical analysis, and data from the National Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment corresponding to 2015. The descriptive analysis has shown the frequencies and percentages of the variables of the research. The multidimensional statistical analysis was used in order to show the main and most important criteria of differentiation and the classification in clusters of people being studied. The methods used are the factorial analysis of multiple correspondences that presents the criteria of differentiation and the hierarchical clustering that defines the groups of people due to their common characteristics.

A System Thinking Approach for Social and Environmental Risks in Supply Chains

2020 ◽  
pp. 417-427
Author(s):  
Fabíola Negreiros de Oliveira ◽  
Luiza Ribeiro Alves Cunha ◽  
Tharcisio Cotta Fontainha ◽  
Adriana Leiras ◽  
Paula Santos Ceryno
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
System Thinking ◽  
Social And Environmental Risks

scholarly journals Políticas Ambientais: uma possibilidade de currículo

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (41) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Luis Abalos Junior
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Ecological Citizenship ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Important Approach ◽  
In Transit ◽  
Belo Monte

Este relato é fruto de reflexões que tive na graduação em Ciências Sociais e no Mestrado Acadêmico em Antropologia Social (PPGAS/UFRGS) nos quais me deparei inúmeras vezes com a reflexão da questão das políticas que envolvem a temática ambiental. Entendendo estas experiências como significativas para o desenvolvimento dos estudos ambientais dentro de perspectivas antropológicas, faço uma síntese sobre os principais conceitos a serem tratados em propostas como a de um currículo de estudo. Entre estes conceitos se inserem o de responsabilidade social e ambiental entrando no debate da conferência da ONU sobre “o futuro que queremos”. Riscos ambientais e contaminação também são categorias de importante discursão num programa desse tipo. O debate sobre políticas e democracia traz a tona a análise de políticas ambientais como a de Belo Monte. A contextualização de novos tipos de cidadania, como a ecológica, desperta atenção para novos conceitos como o de sustentabilidade e desenvolvimento sustentável. Esse modelo de trânsitos na política instiga novos debates como o de Conflitos e Justiça Ambientais. Assim como a política em transito adentra a discursão sobre o que são populações tradicionais. A Educação Ambiental aparece nesse sentido como uma dimensão político-pedagógica importante para o desenvolvimento de novos sujeitos capazes de pensar a “política do eu” e as “políticas da natureza”. Por fim, faço uma breve reflexão sobre a produção de uma antropologia vitalista em Tim Ingold relacionando com o rompimento de uma disciplinaridade, empreitada importante ao dialogarmos sobre políticas ambientais.Palavras-Chaves: Ambientalismo. Natureza. Currículo.Environmental Policies : A chance of curriculumAbstract This report is the result of reflections from the period of my undergraduated studies on Social Sciences to masters on Social Anthropology (PPGAS/UFRGS) during which I deal many times with the issue about policies that involve environmental issues. Understanding these experiences as significant for the development of environmental studies within anthropological perspectives, I make a synthesis of the main concepts would be treated in proposals such as a study curriculum. These concepts include the social and environmental responsibility add in the UN conference debate about "the future we want". Environmental risks and contamination are also important categories to discussion in this kind of program. Debate on policies and democracy brings out the analysis of environmental policies such as Belo Monte. Contextualization of new types of citizenship, such as ecological citizenship, arouses attention to new concepts such as sustainability and sustainable development. This model of transits in politics instigates new debates as Conflicts and Environmental Justice. Likewise, the policies in transit enter the discussion about what are traditional populations. In this sense, environmental education appears as an important political and pedagogical dimension to the development of new subjects able to think the “policy of self” and the "policy of nature”. Finally, I make a brief reflection on the production of a vitalist anthropology at Tim Ingold connected to a break of a disciplinary, important approach to dialogue on environmental policies.Keywords: Environmentalism. Nature. Curriculum. 

scholarly journals Reverse Logistics Network Design of Electric Vehicle Batteries considering Recall Risk

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Hao Hao ◽  
Yichen Sun ◽  
Xueyun Mei ◽  
Yanjun Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Reverse Logistics ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Sales Volume ◽  
Logistics Network ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reverse Logistics Network

In 2018-2019, the recall scale of electric vehicles (EVs) in China reached 168,700 units; recalls account for approximately 6.9% of sales volume. There are imperative reasons for electric vehicle batteries (EVBs) recalls, such as mandatory laws or policies, safety and environmental pollution risks, and the high value of EVB echelon use, and thus, it has become increasingly important to reasonably design a reverse logistics (RL) network for an EVB recall. In this study, a multiobjective and multiperiod recall RL network model is developed to minimize safety and environmental risks, maximize the social responsibility and economic benefits, and consider the characteristics of EVBs, including the configuration of key recall facilities and the control of recall flows. The results of this study will help EVB practitioners, relevant departmental policymakers, and others to comprehensively understand the recall of EVBs, strengthen the safety and environmental protection issues in the EVB recall process, and promote the establishment of a safe, green, and sustainable EVB recall RL network.

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