scholarly journals Promoting information technology for the sustainable development of the phosphate fertilizer industry: a case study of Guizhou Province, China

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 181160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shujie Ma ◽  
Zhibo Luo ◽  
Shanying Hu ◽  
Dingjiang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Phosphate Fertilizer ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Control Treatment ◽  
New Production ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Fertilizer Industry

The information technology revolution has brought unprecedented opportunities to the sustainable development of the traditional phosphate fertilizer industry. In this paper, the changes in characteristic indexes during this technological progress and business innovation are investigated at the industrial level and for different stakeholders using scenario simulation analysis based on system dynamics. The results show that information technology will have a significant impact on the traditional fertilizer industry. The popularity of information technology represents a win–win situation for industries, farmers, enterprises and governments. The sustainable development of the phosphate fertilizer industry promoted by information technology means that agrochemical services are a new growth point for the industry, and farmers will be the largest beneficiaries. Enterprises will adjust their product structures to achieve the relevant phosphate reduction goals before 2020. At the government level, the indirect benefits from energy savings, water conservation and reductions in non-point source pollution control treatment also increase significantly. In the new production and sales model, the development of the phosphate fertilizer industry is completely decoupled from resource consumption. In the future, this technological progress will eventually form a sustainable network of industrial innovation patterns. Our finding suggests that the application of information technology in the phosphate fertilizer industry can stimulate the vitality of each entity in the industry and achieve a win–win situation.

scholarly journals Mechanisms of Environmental Regulation’s Impact on Green Technological Progress—Evidence from China’s Manufacturing Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1600
Author(s):  
Weijiang Liu ◽  
Mingze Du ◽  
Yuxin Bai
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Biased Technological Change ◽  
Chinese Manufacturing Industry

As the world’s largest developing country, and as the home to many of the world’s factories, China plays a crucial role in the sustainable development of the world economy regarding environmental protection, energy conservation, and emission reduction issues. Based on the data from 2003–2015, this paper examined the green total factor productivity and the technological progress in the Chinese manufacturing industry. A slack-based measure (SBM) Malmquist productivity index was used to measure the bias of technological change (BTC), input-biased technological change (IBTC), and output-biased technological change (OBTC) by decomposing the technological progress. It also investigated the mechanism of environmental regulation, property right structure, enterprise-scale, energy consumption structure, and other factors on China’s technological progress bias. The empirical results showed the following: (1) there was a bias of technological progress in the Chinese manufacturing industry during the research period; (2) although China’s manufacturing industry’s output tended to become greener, it was still characterized by a preference for overall CO2 output; and (3) the impact of environmental regulations on the Chinese manufacturing industry’s technological progress had a significant threshold effect. The flexible control of environmental regulatory strength will benefit the Chinese manufacturing industry’s technological development. (4) R&D investment, export delivery value, and structure of energy consumption significantly contributed to promoting technological progress. This study provides further insight into the sustainable development of China’s manufacturing sector to promote green-biased technological progress and to achieve the dual goal of environmental protection and healthy economic growth.

Discussion on the Method and Significance of Afforestation Management of Forestry Engineering

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Ruifen Chen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Level ◽  
Forestry Resources

With the continuous improvement of social and economic level, people’s demand for forestry resources is also increasing, which promotes the development of forestry engineering. This paper mainly studies the methods and significance of afforestation management of forestry engineering, hoping to make full preparations for the sustainable development of forestry resources in Guizhou Province, China.

scholarly journals Technological Bias and Its Influencing Factors in Sustainable Development of China’s Transportation

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5704
Author(s):  
Shuai Zhang ◽  
Xiaoman Zhao ◽  
Changwei Yuan ◽  
Xiu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Transportation Industry ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Biased Technological Change ◽  
Technological Bias

The bias of technological progress, particularly relating to energy saving and carbon emissions reduction, plays a significant role in the sustainable development of transportation, and has not yet received sufficient attention. The objectives of this paper were to examine the bias of technological change (BTC), input-biased technological change (IBTC), and output-biased technological change (OBTC), and their influencing factors in the sustainable development of China’s regional transportation industry from 2005 to 2017. A slack-based measure (SBM) Malmquist productivity index was adopted to measure the BTC, IBTC, and OBTC by decomposing green total factor productivity. The results revealed that: (1) Continuous technological bias progress and input-biased technological progress existed in China’s transportation development from 2005 to 2017, making an important contribution to green total factor productivity. The output-biased technological change was close to 1, indicating a slight impact on the sustainable development of the transportation industry; (2) The bias of technological progress in eastern regions was slightly greater than that in central regions, and obviously greater than that in western regions. Moreover, different provinces experienced different types of technological bias change, with four major types observed during the research period; (3) The input-biased technology of a majority of provinces tended to invest more capital relative to labor, using more capital comparing to energy, and consume more energy relative to labor, while the output-biased technology of most provinces tended to produce desirable outputs (value added in transportation) and reduce the byproduct of CO2 relatively; (4) Average years of education, green patents in transportation, industrial scale, and local government fiscal expenditure in transportation significantly contributed to promoting the bias of technological progress, which was inhibited by the R&D investment. This study provides further insight into the improvement of sustainable development for China’s transportation, thereby helping to guide the government to promote green-biased technological progress and optimize the allocation of resources.

scholarly journals Applying Data Governance Based on COBIT2019 Framework to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
Thabit H. Thabit ◽  
Heba S. Ishhadat ◽  
Omer T. Abdulrahman
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Data Governance ◽  
Technology Infrastructure ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Information Technology Infrastructure ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Petroleum Companies ◽  
Development Goals

Organizations should employ information technology to enhance their market positions; accelerate their activities, and reduce costs which lead to achieving sustainability. The use of information technology can expose the data of organizations to technological risks; may weaken information security in the organization that prevents the organization from achieving its desired goals. So, this research aims to identify the most important concepts of data governance, sustainable development goals, and related information technology. It also aims to clarify the influence of data governance on achieving the sustainable development goals by applying COBIT2019 framework. The researchers have designed a refereed questionnaire to collect data from the main 5 petroleum companies in Kurdistan region of Iraq then analyzed that data to test the hypotheses of this study. The researchers conclude that applying COBIT2019 framework can enhance the data governance in the organizations and help in achieving the sustainable development goals in information technology environment. Moreover, the study recommends that there is a need to strengthen data governance mechanisms essential to achieve the sustainable development goals. This suggested framework can apparently enhance the information technology infrastructure.

scholarly journals The Competitiveness of Manufacturing and Its Driving Factors: A Case Study of G20 Participating Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1143
Author(s):  
Zixin Dou ◽  
BeiBei Wu ◽  
Yanming Sun ◽  
Tao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Driving Factors ◽  
Panel Regression ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Transport Services

With the rapid development of high quality industries, it is particularly important to study the sustainable competitiveness of manufacturing and its driving factors. The aim of this paper is to build the whole competitiveness index to analyze the recent development trends of manufacturing in G20 participating countries from 2008 to 2018. Meanwhile, based on the diamond theory, this paper adopted a panel regression model to conduct an empirical analysis on various factors that affect the sustainable competitiveness of manufacturing. These results showed the following: (1) Transport services have the most significant effect on manufacturing in developing countries. (2) Intellectual property only has a positive and significant effect on manufacturing in developed countries. (3) Information technology plays a significant role in all countries, but it is more effective in developed countries. Finally, this paper puts forward some suggestions for the sustainable development of manufacturing.

scholarly journals The Penetration of New Generation Information Technology and Sustainable Development of Regional Economy in China—Moderation Effect of Institutional Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1163
Author(s):  
Long Cheng ◽  
Shiyuan Zhang ◽  
Xuming Lou ◽  
Yang Yang ◽  
Weifeng Jia
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Generalized Least Squares ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Generation Information

Sustainable economic development is an important force to enhance the comprehensive national strength. It mainly depends on the breakthrough and innovation of science and technology. The new generation of information technology (NGIT) is the most active field in scientific and technological innovation. It is of great significance to deeply consider the relationship between the new generation of information technology and the sustainable development of a regional economy. In this study, 29 provinces and cities in China from 2009 to 2018 were selected and use the feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) method to empirically analyze the impact of the new generation of information technology on the sustainable development of regional economy. Simultaneously, it analyzes the differences between NGIT and economy sustainable development of the regional economy under different institutional environments. According to the research results, there is a positive correlation between new-generation information technology and the sustainable development of a regional economy. There is a positive U-shaped relationship between the penetration depth of NGIT and the sustainable development of a regional economy. Simultaneously, the higher the institutional environment’s level, the stronger the positive relationship between the penetration of NGIT and the sustainable development of a regional economy.

scholarly journals Quantitative Research Methods of Linguistic Niche and Cultural Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9586
Author(s):  
Lan Zhang ◽  
Guowen Huang ◽  
Yongtao Li ◽  
Shitai Bao
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Niche Overlap ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Niche Separation ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Temporal Niche

Building Sustainable Cities and Human Communities is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. And the sustainability of culture plays an important role in the sustainable development of cities and human communities. Language is an important carrier of culture, and the sustainability of language is the key factor in the sustainability of culture. How to measure the sustainability of language and its niche is key to achieving sustainable cities and communities. This paper systematically summarized the concept of niche and the theory of ecolinguistics as a theoretical basis for the quantitative study of the linguistic niche, and at the same time, the methods of niche measurement were summarized to provide mathematical support for the quantitative study of the linguistic niche. The Shannon-Wiener index and Pianka index were used to quantitatively study a particular linguistic niche for the first time, based on the use of Hmong and Mandarin in Jianhe County, Guizhou Province, China. The results showed that in the temporal dimension, the niche overlap indexes of Hmong and Mandarin were all above 0.9 in the sample villages, but in the spatial dimension, the niche overlap indexes of both languages were between 0.5 and 0.6. The spatial niche separation moderated the high temporal niche overlap, which made the two languages’ spatio-temporal niche overlap moderate. The quantitative study of a linguistic niche proved helpful in quantifying the level of sustainable development of language and culture, thus providing timely, accurate, and dynamic reference data to inform macro-control policies on the sustainable development of cities and human communities.

scholarly journals STAKEHOLDERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE INNOVATION TRENDS IN THE SLOVAK FORESTRY AND FOREST-BASED SECTORS

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 1610-1627
Author(s):  
Erika Loučanová ◽  
Hubert Paluš ◽  
Klára Báliková ◽  
Michal Dzian ◽  
Nikola Slašťanová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Q Methodology ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Waste Material ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Wood Processing ◽  
Forest Recreation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Development Goals

Innovations represent the engine of the business and economic. This is particularly relevant to the traditional sectors such as forestry and forest-based industry that are expected to play an important role in the future steps oriented towards meeting the sustainable development goals. The main aim of this study is to analyse the stakeholders’ perceptions of the innovation trends in the forestry and forest-based sectors by using a Q-methodology. This research addressed three groups of respondents in Slovakia, whose task was to subjectively assess innovative trends in the forestry and forest-based sectors. Based on the results it can be concluded that the innovation trend in the forestry and forest-based sectors will be oriented towards the technological progress focused on the increasing efficiency of wood processing and increasing the usability of waste material as well as the trend of increasing development of innovations in the forest recreation services.

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