Study on Sustainable Development of the Transnational Power Grid Interconnection Projects under Diversified Risks Based on Variable Weight Theory and Bayesian Network

Transnational power grid interconnection is an important measure to promote the construction of energy Internet. It can meet the global power demand in a clean and green way, promote the UN’s concept of “sustainable energy,” and tackle climate changes. But, transnational power grid projects face many complex and variable risks due to their complex background and lacking experience. According to the characteristics of transnational power grid interconnection projects, a risk assessment index system including 10 indexes such as national relation, public participation, and available transmission capacity is constructed. Then, in order to overcome the shortcomings of traditional risk assessment methods, this paper proposes a risk assessment method combined with risk theory and probabilistic model, which can not only consider the uncertainties but also integrate the probability of accidents with consequences. Therefore, it can effectively assess the transnational power grid interconnection projects under diversified risks. In addition, in order to further magnify the impact of higher risks on such projects, a method combining traditional weighting method with the variable weight theory is proposed. The study in this paper provides certain guidance and decision-making support for different participants such as the government power sector, construction enterprises, and investment enterprises when they launch on sustainable development of the transnational project business, which have obvious practical significance.

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Construction Risk Evaluation of Poor Geological Channels Based on Cloud Model-Improved AHP–Matter–Element Theory

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13179632 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (17) ◽

pp. 9632

Author(s):

Qingfu Li ◽

Zhipeng Wang ◽

Linfang Lu ◽

Qiang Ma

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Cloud Model ◽

Relevant Literature ◽

Assessment Method ◽

Assessment System ◽

Geological Conditions ◽

Process Risk ◽

The Impact ◽

Element Theory

In the process of economic development, the exploitation and utilization of resources has played an important role, but the subsequent post-mining collapse and the shortage of land resources have affected future reconstruction to a certain extent. Currently, there is a firm belief in sustainable development and its goals to be achieved in the future. Based on the concept of sustainable development, this paper examines the feasibility of rebuilding channels under adverse geological conditions, and studies whether there are risks and the degree of risk. According to the characteristics of the experts’ judgment language and the ambiguity and randomness between various factors, it is proposed that a cloud model is used to improve the AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) risk assessment method. At the same time, the traditional matter–element theory is improved through the cloud model, so that the impact of uncertainty and randomness can be comprehensively considered in the evaluation; finally, forming the risk assessment system of the cloud-based AHP and cloud-based matter–elements. The application of examples shows that, compared with the methods in the relevant literature, the evaluation results of this article are more objective, more accurate, have better applicability, and play an important guiding role in channel construction under adverse geological conditions.

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The Impact of Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) on Sustainable Development Projects in Katsina Metropolis

Journal of Economics Management and Trade ◽

10.9734/jemt/2019/v24i630183 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Naseer Babangida Muazu ◽

Abubakar Abdullahi

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Health Care Services ◽

Development Projects ◽

Skills Acquisition ◽

Chi Square ◽

Grass Root Level ◽

The Government ◽

Chi Square Analysis ◽

The Impact ◽

Structured Questionnaire

Nigeria is facing profound social, economic and environmental impact of population growth, development and environmental constraints. It is apparent that government alone has limited capacity to deal with all these problems. NGOs being one of the most effective partners have been playing supportive roles with the government, in some cases, they are considered more effective to get attached with the grass root level developmental initiatives. However, despite the role NGOs played, their presence and impact is not fully evaluated, recognized and appreciated by many governments and community members. It is for this reason this article attempts to examine whether projects executed by NGOs have any impact on sustainable development in Katsina Metropolis, given special emphasis on projects that dealt with environmental protection, poverty alleviation and health care services. The study further look at whether efficiency of NGOs officials has any impact on success of sustainable development projects execution. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 150 NGOs beneficiaries in five (5) selected political wards of twelve (12) in Katsina metropolis. Interviews was used to collect relevant data using a structured questionnaire from NGOs officials which include; development officers and facilitators in five (5) selected NGO offices operating in Katsina Metropolis namely; Save the Children, Service to Humanity Foundation, Murna Foundation, Katsina Friends of Environment and Makudawa Skills Acquisition. Frequency and chi-square analysis was used to present the results. The findings revealed that NGOs are complementing government efforts towards achieving sustainable development through their projects, and efficiency of NGOs officials has significant impact on success of sustainable development projects executed in the area. The findings of the study can benefit government and NGOs in creating more areas of collaboration in order to achieve sustainable development.

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Institutional Investors’ Corporate Site Visits and Firms’ Sustainable Development

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12177036 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (17) ◽

pp. 7036

Author(s):

Yize Hu ◽

Jun Shan ◽

Peixun Zhan

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Institutional Investors ◽

Information Acquisition ◽

Stock Exchange ◽

Manufacturing Firms ◽

Econometric Analysis ◽

Environmental Investment ◽

The Government ◽

The Impact

Institutional investors are essential stakeholders of the firm, and they care about firms’ sustainable development. In this study, we focused on a prevalent and essential type of information acquisition activity of institutional investors: corporate site visits, which refers to their trip to the firms’ headquarters and factories. We investigated the impact of institutional investors’ corporate site visits on firms’ likelihood of environmental violation. Using Chinese listed manufacturing firms in the Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2009 to 2017, the econometric analysis shows that institutional investors’ corporate site visits significantly decrease firms’ likelihood of environmental violation. Moreover, this effect is more pronounced for firms in heavily polluting industries, firms not owned by the government, and firms with less institutional shareholding. Furthermore, we show that institutional investors’ corporate site visits prevent environmental violations by increasing firms’ environmental investment. Our study highlights the importance of institutional investors’ corporate site visits by showing that they are beneficial to the firms visited.

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Evaluating the Power Grid Investment Behavior in China: From the Perspective of Government Supervision

Energies ◽

10.3390/en12214192 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (21) ◽

pp. 4192

Author(s):

Yanbin Li ◽

Feng Zhang ◽

Yun Li ◽

Bingkang Li ◽

Zhen Li

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Power System ◽

Power Grid ◽

Power Industry ◽

Evaluation Index System ◽

Investment Behavior ◽

System Reform ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Government Supervision ◽

The Government

Power grid investment behavior (PGIB) is a necessary prerequisite to ensure safe and reliable power supply. The supervision of PGIB is an important measure to reduce electricity price. It helps to release the dividends of the new power system reform and promote the sustainable development of the power industry. However, for a long time, China’s regulation of PGIB was relatively weak, lacking clear supervision awareness and effective supervision methods. On the basis of clarifying the contents of PGIB supervision, this paper establishes an evaluation index system for the compliance of PGIB from the government supervision perspective, involving four dimensions and 14 secondary indicators. Furthermore, a hybrid evaluation model based on the combined decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory method (DEMATEL-ANP), analytical network process method, and vague set is proposed. The results reveal that the control over cost and efficiency of the PGIB in China is not enough. According to the results, this paper puts forward the indicators that close attention should be paid to and the work priorities in China’s supervision of PGIB, which has certain practical value for the implementation of new power system reform and the sustainable development of Chinese power industry.

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Stranded Assets as a Key Concept to Guide Investment Strategies for Sustainable Development Goal 6

Water ◽

10.3390/w11040702 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 702 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Robert Kalin ◽

Joseph Mwanamveka ◽

Andrea Coulson ◽

Donald Robertson ◽

Holly Clark ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Water Supply ◽

International Development ◽

Limiting Factor ◽

Investment Strategies ◽

Rural Water Supply ◽

Rural Water ◽

Development Goals ◽

The Government ◽

The Impact

The concept of Stranded Assets has been used for nearly 50 years across many sectors, most recently it has been a focus of investment portfolios in light of the possible impacts of climate change. However, to date there has been no in-depth determination of the impact of Stranded Assets for rural water supply, despite international development targets from Rio, through Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and now the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The limiting factor for carrying out such an assessment is the requirement of a full and detailed asset register recording all rural water supplies in a country. The Scottish Government Climate Justice Fund Water Futures Programme, in collaboration with the Government of Malawi, is undertaking a comprehensive asset audit across Malawi, and this paper introduces the concept of Stranded Assets for the rural water supply sector using Malawi as an exemplar. Here, we demonstrate how significant change in the implementation strategy for SDGs compared to the MDGs is needed to reduce the potential for Stranded Assets and meet its ultimate aim.

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DIGITAL ECONOMY AND RECRUITMENT POTENTIAL: STRATEGICAL INTERCONNECTION AND PROSPECTS

The Education and science journal ◽

10.17853/1994-5639-2018-10-50-75 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (10) ◽

pp. 50-75 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

G. Yu. Peshkova ◽

А. Yu. Samarina

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

High Schools ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Structural Changes ◽

New Technologies ◽

Digital Economy ◽

Practical Significance ◽

Structural Unemployment ◽

The Government ◽

The Impact

Introduction.Nowadays, information technologies are developing rapidly. This process affects practically all spheres of life and causes the need of system technological revolutions and modern methods of data processing. A process of digitalisation inevitably changes the structure of population employment and the educational environment as being provider of new HR-recourses.Theaimsof the research were to identify the problems of the digitalization policy in Russia and to formulate possible solutions.Methodology and research methods.The methods of theoretical investigation were used: abstraction, synthesis, analysis and generalisation.Results.The interaction of education systems and science in the field of preparation of HR-recourses at the stage of digital modernisation of the Russian economy is considered. The impact of digitalisation on vacancies and competences needed and the level of preparedness of Russia for the new technological mode are analysed. The perspective directions of higher education and recruitment policy of enterprise and the whole state are identified. The authors have come to the conclusion that rational recruitment policy is an essential part of Russian economy’s digitalisation. The efficiency of realisation of this strategy requires systembased approach to the organisation of staff training for the enterprises in actively changing economic conditions. HR management has become an extremely important element of this system. It is impossible to manage with such digitalization risks as structural unemployment and – at the same time – deficit of highly-qualified specialists without paying attention to what HR-market requires.Scientific novelty. The originality of digital economy is in its optimising effect on production and consumption possible because of operativeness and consolidation of information and computing systems. There has appeared an opportunity to manage socio-economic processes systematically. The necessity of structural changes in HR-market is proved. Moreover, high schools should head the process of overcoming the expected structural unemployment caused by new technologies appearing, i.e. they provide high-quality education of specialised competencies necessary for workers, in particular. Universities must not wait for the government to work out and present new standards and recommendations. On the contrary, high schools ought to independently and urgently initiate the organisation of competitive experts training and to form innovative methods of education of new specialists by cooperating with business sphere and taking examples of digital leaders. To sum up, sensible approach to educational policy can solve the problem of balancing the HК-market and prevent social disturbance.Practical significance.On the example of activity of separate higher education institutions, the ways and models of functioning of the higher school are shown according to economic tendencies.

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TEKNOLOGI HIJAU: SOLUSI UNTUK PELESTARIAN SUMBER AIR

Jurnal Spasial ◽

10.22202/js.v1i2.1578 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Nefilinda Nefilinda

Keyword(s):

Waste Water ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Global Warming ◽

Water Resources ◽

Waste Water Treatment ◽

Green Technology ◽

Green Technologies ◽

Treatment Technology ◽

The Government ◽

The Impact

This study aims to determine how these green technologies is a solution to preserve water resources. The research method is literature. The results obtained are: climate change caused by global warming are already being felt its impact in people's lives. If no preventive efforts, the impact of global warming in the future is a very serious threat to the lives of all the creatures on earth. In the face of the impact of Global Warming necessary mitigation efforts and adaptation that involves the community, such as water resource conservation technology with plant biology (bio-park), domestic waste water treatment technology with ecological sanitation (Ecosan), flower garden waste water (waste water garden), sanitation garden (sanita) and the concept of green technology (green tecnology). Green technology is one of adaptation and mitigation of the impact of Global Warming which is in line with the principle of sustainable development (sustainable development). Various Green Technology in the field of preservation of water resources and wastewater treatment has been available to be applied in the construction. Suggestions in this study are: for the government to attempt to campaign for the use of green technology and for the community also can use green technology in order to minimize global warming ranging from the household.Keywords: green technology and conservation of water resources

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Research on Objective Environmental Factors of Sustainable Development of Enterprises in Qaidam Circular Economy Pilot Area

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202016501005 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 165 ◽

pp. 01005

Author(s):

Wenjiao Cai ◽

Jianjun Wang

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Environmental Factors ◽

Regional Development ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Practical Significance ◽

Regional Security ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Industrial Enterprises ◽

Experimental Area ◽

The Impact

The sustainable development of the industrial enterprises in the Qaidam Circular Economy Pilot Zone must meet both the current needs and the future development, as well as the economic and ecological development, as well as the dual development of industrial enterprises and regions. For the industrial enterprises in the experimental area, in order to ensure sustainable development, their own strategies and efforts are very important, but in a policy-dependent area like Haixi Prefecture, the influencing factors of the objective environment are more important. The impact of sustainable development of HaiXi industrial enterprises is of great practical significance. Therefore, according to the subjectivity of Haixi Prefecture and the experimental area and the nature of industrial enterprises, the objective environmental factors are divided into four categories: regional development, regional material resources, regional greening, and regional security. In the end, it was concluded that industrial enterprises in the test area not only need to pay attention to the restraint of their sustainable development in terms of brain drain, energy consumption and environmental greening, but also continue to maintain the role of regional development and regional security in promoting their sustainable development.

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Effects of Land Urbanization on Smog Pollution in China: Estimation of Spatial Autoregressive Panel Data Models

Land ◽

10.3390/land9090337 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (9) ◽

pp. 337

Author(s):

Xuan Yu ◽

Manhong Shen ◽

Weiteng Shen ◽

Xiao Zhang

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Panel Data ◽

Environmental Governance ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

The Public ◽

Spatial Autoregressive ◽

The Government ◽

Urbanization Rate ◽

The Impact ◽

Land Urbanization

Studying the impact of land urbanization on smog pollution has important guiding significance for the sustainable development of cities. This study adds the spatial effect between regions into the research framework of smog pollution control in China. On the basis of a panel dataset of 31 province-level administrative regions in China from 2000 to 2017, we investigate the impact of land urbanization on smog pollution. We construct a spatial weight matrix and use Moran’s I statistic and the spatial autoregressive panel data model. The research results show that land urbanization and smog pollution have an inverted U-shaped relationship. With the advancement of land urbanization, the area’s smog pollution first increases and then decreases. However, in general, China has not passed the inflection point and is still at a stage where increasing land urbanization rate aggravates smog pollution. Moreover, the country’s smog pollution has a significant spatial positive correlation that shows agglomeration. In that context, multiple environmental governance entities, including the government, enterprises, and the public, need to collaborate on measures to reduce smog pollution. Future urban construction in China will need to integrate solutions that address the current nexus between urbanization and smog pollution to achieve green and sustainable development.

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Risk Assessment for Engagement in Sharing Economy of Manufacturing Enterprises: A Matter–Element Extension Based Approach

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11174774 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (17) ◽

pp. 4774 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Quan Xiao ◽

Shanshan Wan ◽

Fucai Lu ◽

Shun Li

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Sensitivity Analysis ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Sharing Economy ◽

Indicator System ◽

Assessment Method ◽

Risk Indicators ◽

Manufacturing Enterprises ◽

Risk Management Strategies ◽

The Government

At present, manufacturing enterprises in China and across the world are undergoing a critical period of transformation and upgrading for sustainable development, with various obstacles such as financing difficulties and imperfect production facilities. The emergence of the sharing economy may provide a feasible solution for manufacturing enterprises, but meanwhile, unpredictable risks are bound to arise in the process of Engagement in the Sharing Economy of Manufacturing Enterprises (ESEME), and the assessment for the risk of ESEME is an important issue that requires special attention. Based on the characteristics of ESEME, a risk assessment indicator system is constructed, and a matter–element extension based approach is proposed to assess the risk of ESEME. The comprehensive risk value of ESEME can be calculated, and by means of sensitivity analysis and combinatory analysis, sensitive risk indicators and the risk type of indicators are identified. The innovation is embodied in three aspects: the sharing economy is studied by the matter–element extension method, the minimum deviation weight is adopted, and the risk is identified by sensitivity analysis and combinatory analysis. This assessment method is applied to enterprise E, and good results are obtained. This work is conducive to promoting manufacturing enterprises to engage in the sharing economy, which provides an effective vision for enterprises to implement risk management strategies, and also offers references for the government to formulate relevant policies for ESEME.

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