The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the social environmental aspects of the urban poor in Medan City, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia

Tourism object is one of the important sectors for the country because it contributes quite a lot of foreign exchange. Tourism objects require management in periodic and sustainable development. The development of regional things cannot be separated from the participation of the community and the government. This study aims to analyze community participation in the development of Srambang Park tourism objects, including community participation in the participation stages, supporting and inhibiting factors of development, motivation to participate, and developing the impact of tourism objects on economic, social environmental aspects. The research method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The research was conducted on 20-25 May 2021 with seven informants. The research location is in Srambang Park, Girimulyo Village, Paron District, Ngawi Regency. The results of the study indicate that community participation is very active in the development of tourism objects. This activity can be reflected in the community's involvement in the tourist attraction by becoming a motorcycle taxi driver, parking attendant, trader, and employee. Supporting factors include tourist attraction, marketing, infrastructure, and stakeholders. The inhibiting factor for the development of tourism objects is the existence of a pandemic that occurred in early 2020. The motivation of the community to participate in the development of tourism objects is because of the opportunities, desires, and needs. The impact arising from the existence of a tourist attraction is an average positive economic, social and environmental impact.

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How the global economy reflected the year of the pandemic

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/202112901014 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 129 ◽

pp. 01014

Author(s):

Vladislav Kaputa ◽

Frederik Kvočák ◽

Miroslava Triznová ◽

Andrej Tomić ◽

Hana Maťová

Keyword(s):

Global Economy ◽

Value Added ◽

Point Of View ◽

Environmental Aspects ◽

Data Comparison ◽

The Social ◽

Macroeconomic Indicators ◽

The Individual ◽

Reduced Mobility ◽

The Impact

Research background: The coronavirus pandemic in 2020 had a significant impact on all aspects of life, from the point of view of the individual by forcing social isolation, moving work and study to the home, enormous pressure on the social and health system, but also by forcing closures of services and direct contact with customers. These, as well as other factors, have also had an impact on the performance of economies around the world. Purpose of the article: The paper aims to evaluate the development of the world's major economies in terms of macroeconomic indicators and foreign trade in the pandemic period and previous periods. The social and environmental aspects of the impact of the pandemic on selected economies are also reflected. Methods: Analysis of the main macroeconomic data, comparison and synthesis of findings. Findings & Value added: The interdependence of economies and interconnectedness of markets on transport routes associated with reduced mobility, forced isolation of people and death of economic activity had a significant impact on all the observed indicators, where a significant decline in GDP could be observed in all countries except China. This country was the only one that managed to keep GDP growth in positive numbers. Unemployment development was not equal in the observed economies due to different labour market environment. On the contrary, the environment has benefited in some way.

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Avances en la exposición contable de CoPs y memorias GRI = Advances in CoPs and GRI reports as accounting statements

Pecvnia Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales Universidad de León ◽

10.18002/pec.v0i15.806 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 109 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Liliana Fernández Lorenzo ◽

Elsa Larramendy ◽

Pamela Tellechea

Keyword(s):

Accounting Information ◽

Global Reporting Initiative ◽

Environmental Responsibility ◽

United Nations Global Compact ◽

Development Organizations ◽

Accounting Principles ◽

The Social ◽

Minimum Requirements ◽

Social Environmental ◽

The Impact

Actualmente para lograr un desarrollo sustentable, la sociedad requiere que las organizaciones asuman su responsabilidad socio-ambiental y emitan información acerca de los impactos que su actividad genera en el medioambiente. Dicha información mayormente se presenta a través de las denominadas Memorias o Reportes de Sostenibilidad, que responden a distintas formas y contenidos. Cada vez son más los informes que se elaboran siguiendo los lineamientos del Pacto Mundial (PM) y del Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Consideramos que la información sobre la responsabilidad socio-ambiental debería reunir los requisitos que hacen a toda buena información contable, para incrementar su utilidad. Para comprobarlo, se realiza un estudio de casos a los fines de determinar las características generales de estos informes elaborados bajo pautas del PM y del GRI conjuntamente, concluyendo que la información presentada en las memorias analizadas no reúne los requisitos de una buena información contable. A fin de que la exposición de las CoPs y memorias de sostenibilidad GRI, pueda calificarse de contable, se expresan sintéticamente los indicadores analizados agregando su relación porcentual y se incorporan al Estado Contable Socio-ambiental realizado de acuerdo al modelo base de la FCE-UNLP, considerado como un estado contable (Fernández Lorenzo y Geba, 2008).Nowadays in order to achieve sustainable development, organizations are required to take on their social and environmental responsibility and give information about the impact of their activities in the environment. This information is usually presented through sustainability reports, which widely differ in content and layout. Many organizations worldwide have assumed their responsibility by implementing Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and United Nations Global Compact (GC) guidelines. We consider that the information regarding socio-environmental responsibility, should meet the characteristics of the good accounting information, and be based on the accounting principles in order to increase its utility. To know it, we carried out an empirical research in order to determinate the general characteristics of the reports made under both GRI and GC guidance. We concluded that in most cases the information as presented in the analyzed reports does not meet the minimum requirements of good accounting information. Consequently, we decided to make a proposal and show the analyzed indicators in the Social Environmental Report developed according to the FCE-UNLP model (Fernández Lorenzo and Geba, 2008), which we consider as a true accounting statement.

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Analysis of Sustainability in Hospital Laundry: The Social, Environmental, and Economic (Cost) Risks

Resources ◽

10.3390/resources8010037 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 37

Author(s):

Catia Lopes ◽

Annibal Scavarda ◽

Mauricio de Carvalho ◽

Guilherme Vaccaro ◽

André Korzenowski

Keyword(s):

Economic Cost ◽

Environmental Aspects ◽

Design Data ◽

Sustainable Operations ◽

Chemical Hazards ◽

Physical Injuries ◽

The Social ◽

Multiple Case ◽

Social Environmental

Personal and physical injuries are two of the most relevant costs to hospitals. Hospital laundries are sources of these costs due to the physical and health risks present in the clothes and the activities performed. Energy and environmental risk and infrastructure issues also incur operational costs to these organizations and to the health system. This research analyzes the social, environmental, and economic risk in the hospital laundry process, through a multiple-case-study design. Data collection methods include interviews regarding three hospital laundry services in Brazil. The processes of these laundry services have a high consumption of resources (water and energy) and a substantial generation of solid and liquid wastes. Cost reduction actions include pooled laundry services and material substitution. There are also social and environmental risks, the most frequent being ergonomic, biological, and chemical hazards, and injures from sharp devices inadequately disposed. Hospital laundries need more sustainable operations, not only in the infrastructure, but also mostly in the awareness of leaders and teams about the importance of their engagements to resource management and waste reduction in laundry. It is opportune to convince professionals and users about changing habits that do not prioritize sustainability, especially its social and environmental aspects.

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INDICADORES ENERGÉTICOS NO SEGMENTO INDUSTRIAL: UMA CONTRIBUIÇÃO PRELIMINAR PARA A DISCUSSÃO DOS ASPECTOS SOCIOAMBIENTAIS NO PARÁ

REVISTA FUNEC CIENTÍFICA - MULTIDISCIPLINAR - ISSN 2318-5287 ◽

10.24980/ucm.v10i12.5173 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (12) ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Fabricio Quadros BORGES

Keyword(s):

Pearson Correlation ◽

Industrial Sector ◽

Sustainability Indicators ◽

Investment Behavior ◽

Environmental Aspects ◽

Energy Sustainability ◽

The Public ◽

The Social ◽

The Impact ◽

Public Environment

O objetivo deste artigo é o de apresentar uma contribuição preliminar para a discussão dos principais aspectos socioambientais a serem considerados na construção de indicadores de sustentabilidade energética. A importância do estudo reside na possibilidade de levantamento de subsídios à tomada de decisão no ambiente público do segmento de energia. A metodologia possui natureza teórica e realiza uma visitação na literatura especializada, de modo a criar condições de exame dos meandros sociais e ambientais para a composição de indicadores de sustentabilidade energética. Os aspectos sociais e ambientais, a partir de variáveis pertinentes à energia elétrica e ao desenvolvimento, foram mensurados por Borges (2007), por meio do coeficiente de Pearson. O estudo concluiu que a elaboração de indicadores de sustentabilidade energética para o setor industrial no Pará recomenda a observância do perfil de consumo energético das indústrias, que apresentou evoluções proporcionais quando associado à emissão de gases poluentes e atenção quanto ao perfil do saldo de empregos, que não indica estar associado diretamente ao comportamento dos investimentos em eletricidade no setor analisado. ENERGY INDICATORS FOR THE INDUSTRY SECTOR: A PRELIMINARY CONTRIBUTION TO THE DISCUSSION OF SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS IN PARÁ ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to present a preliminary contribution to the discussion of the main socio-environmental aspects to be considered in the construction of energy sustainability indicators. The importance of the study lies in the possibility of raising subsidies for decision-making in the public environment of the energy sector. The methodology comprises theoretical nature and carries out a visit to the specialized literature, aiming at creating conditions for examining the social and environmental intricacies for the composition of energy sustainability indicators. The social and environmental aspects, based on relevant electricity and development variables, were measured by Borges (2007), using the Pearson correlation coefficient. The study concluded that the elaboration of energy sustainability indicators for the industrial sector in Pará suggests the observance of the energy consumption profile of the industries, which presented proportional evolution when associated with polluting gases emission, and attention to the impact on employment, which does not suggest being associated with the electricity investment behavior in the analyzed sector. Keywords: Industry. Socioenvironmental. Electricity.

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Do Cohorts Matter? Cohort Analysis and Value-Difference Impressions of a Rising China

Political Studies Review ◽

10.1177/1478929919864781 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 391-415

Author(s):

Chung-li Wu ◽

Alex Min-Wei Lin

Keyword(s):

Party Identification ◽

Cohort Analysis ◽

Asia Pacific ◽

Birth Cohorts ◽

Aging Effects ◽

Cohort Differences ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

Social Environmental ◽

The Impact

As an emerging first-tier world power, China is exerting an important influence on countries in the Asia-Pacific region, especially Taiwan, with which it has a long history of often contentious relations. This study investigates the impact of “intergenerational value change” on impressions of China in 2017 among three political birth cohorts of Taiwanese. Based on a representative survey of Taiwanese citizens, the study finds that cohort impressions can be classified according to the extent to which they relate to the economic–political and the social–environmental dimensions, suggesting that Taiwanese perceptions of China are not unidimensional and are more nuanced than they first appear. The data by and large confirm the validity of cohort differences; members of the first and oldest cohort hold more positive impressions of China with respect to social and environmental issues than members of the second and middle cohort, while the third and youngest cohort would regard China in a more positive light if their economic and political concerns were addressed. A few variables remain statistically significant, including party identification and unification versus independence preference, even after controlling for aging effects.

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Ensuring Environmental Sustainability through Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-1923-2.ch013 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 299-314

Author(s):

Isaac Oluwajoba Abereijo

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Economic Effects ◽

Environmental Aspects ◽

Sustainable Entrepreneurship ◽

The Social ◽

Sustainability Issue ◽

Social Environmental ◽

Sustainability Problems ◽

Entrepreneurial Activities

Sustainability has become an important issue worldwide because of great concerns about the unintended social, environmental, and economic effects of increasing population and economic growth, as well as consumption of natural resources. One recent concept arising from sustainability issue is sustainable entrepreneurship which integrates both the social and environmental aspects, and linking them with entrepreneurial activities. This chapter therefore suggests that efforts of developing countries at promoting entrepreneurship should go beyond engaging in business enterprises but include encouraging the use of entrepreneurial values and approaches to solve sustainability problems. Hence, this chapter is an effort at developing a framework that can be used to influence sustainable entrepreneurship behaviour of the students in developing countries.

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Reviews

Practicing Anthropology ◽

10.17730/praa.1.4.u2340n68712736x2 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

pp. 13-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Public Awareness ◽

The United States ◽

Environmental Aspects ◽

Non Profit ◽

Resource Center ◽

The Social ◽

Wide Range ◽

Rural Revitalization ◽

The Impact ◽

Political Decision Making

These two works are the first major publications of the Anthropology Resource Center, a Cambridge based non-profit educational corporation calling itself a public interest anthropology research group. The organization's objectives are to increase public awareness and participation in political decision-making related to a wide range of contemporary problems. The first of these publications, The Geological Imperative, is a collection of four essays devoted primarily to the impact of multi-national corporations on Indian peoples in the Amazon region. The second paper, Rural Revitalization, is concerned with the social and environmental aspects of agricultural policy in the United States. Together these works are addressed to anthropologists as models for policy relevant research.

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CONTROL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE HOMELESS CHILDREN AS THE IMPACT OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN LAW PERSPECTIVE (A Study in Samarinda)

Jurnal Pembaharuan Hukum ◽

10.26532/jph.v5i1.2997 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 83

Author(s):

Isnawati Isnawati

Keyword(s):

Municipal Government ◽

Primary Data ◽

Homeless Children ◽

Community Culture ◽

The Social ◽

Research Problems ◽

Social Environmental ◽

Social Environmental Factors ◽

The Impact ◽

The City

Homeless children as a social issue, especially in urban society, in the view of experts and related the organization and departments do not have a uniform similarity of opinion or definition for that matter. In this context, home less children are seen as a social Clearly a social problem that requires an Appropriate methods of settlement in accordance with the expectations of all stakeholders. The research method used a sociological Juridical approach by solving research problems using the data consisting of legal secondary materials or legal regulations used to implement the data to primary data. The results of the research are: 1) Factors that can influence the municipal government in tackling the problems of children who are abo ve the social environmental factors, the Community Culture, the Migration Factor The three factors are the reality that can not be avoided by the city g o v e r n m e n t t h a t will c a u s e t h e c hild homeless children in Samarinda City. 2) The legal Efforts undertaken by the municipality in a different context from the development undertaken by the Samarinda City Regulation No. 16 of 2002 are not yet applicable, with the improvement of the Samarinda City Regulation No. 7 of 2017 the which is implemented a development w ith the current realities

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Positive and Negative Aspects of ETICS

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/201927903011 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 279 ◽

pp. 03011

Author(s):

Jaroslav Žák

Keyword(s):

Thermal Insulation ◽

Energy Savings ◽

High Standard ◽

Point Of View ◽

Quality Data ◽

Environmental Aspects ◽

The Public ◽

The Social ◽

Negative Impacts ◽

The Impact

Thermal insulation of buildings brings the social benefits mainly through energy savings. However, the risk of producing undesirable negative impacts on the environment and the health of the population is not negligible. Proper selection of the appropriate variant and product should include an assessment not only of the thermal, technical, operational, economic but also health and environmental aspects. In assessing the environmental and health impacts, only CO and sulfur emissions are often evaluated. The impact of other very dangerous chemicals released during the production of ETICS components and subsequently during the operation of the building is investigated only marginally. This aspect will be given the utmost attention and individual variants will be carefully examined also in this point of view. The public does not usually have enough quality data on the various available ETICS variants. The chosen method of thermal insulation should also be felt by the user in a positive way, which will contribute to the comfort and high standard of living.

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