scholarly journals Ecological Efficiency” as a Value Criterion of the Sustainable Development Strategy

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Karina Gunzenova

The current legal frameworks of the Russian Federation, which intermediate socio-natural relations, may contradict the course set towards sustainable development due to their dependence on the formerly dominant technocratic view of the world leading to various systemic destructions. Not always do the quantitative indicators contribute to finding the best way of environmental-economic development. In this connection, the issue of a high-quality assessment of the effectiveness of strategies, plans, and other regulatory and legal documents in achieving sustainable development goals is analyzed. This paper considers the “ecological efficiency” assessment of the legislation as a value criterion measuring the relevance of the planning and strategic documents to the essence of sustainable development. The paper aims to expose the essence of the “ecological efficiency” concept and its role in the harmonization mechanism for socio-natural relationships. The dialectical method, which determines interconnections between the values existing earlier and the character of socio-natural development on the one hand, and the emerging environmental ethics-based comprehensive worldview and sustainable development on the other, was used as the primary research instrument. Research results showed the existing potential for the use of “ecological efficiency” as a value criterion to assess the relevance of state plans and strategies to the declared sustainable development goals. “Ecological efficiency” helps to resolve the current contradictions in social development management thus contributing to the formation of the sustainable development legislation relevant to the level of public consciousness and behavior. Keywords: ecological efficiency, strategic development, sustainable development legislation, sociocultural development factor.

2021 ◽  
Vol 250 ◽  
pp. 07008
Author(s):  
Raisa Krayneva ◽  
Aleksandr Rudenko ◽  
Roman Motylev

Our paper aims at assessing the role of education in implementing the strategy for sustainable development. We show how education might be used to promote the provisions set out by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the UNESCO Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We argue that sustainable education might help to give the young people necessary knowledge and skills that are required to understand what the SDGs represent and to take part in implementing the necessary changes and mitigating the climate change and the global warming as well-informed and concerned citizens. Understanding and embracing the concept of sustainability represents one of the main issues of the society and education plays a key role in that process. Thence, we think that the role of education is sustainable development strategy is crucial which requires additional support for education from the governments and private actors.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Joanna Marszałek-Kawa ◽  
Piotr Siemiątkowski

The aim of the paper is to provide the objective assessment of progress in the implementation of the goals of the local sustainable development strategy by the districts of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Province. In order to achieve our aim, we have devised, using methods of taxonomic analysis, the synthetic indicator (taking a lot of different measures of sustainable development into account), which shows the degree of the accomplishment of goals adopted in the sustainable development goals. In the collective of units under study, there is a significant differentiation of the level of indicators analyzed within the framework of the sustainable development strategy. It must be emphasized that there are as many as 12 districts in the lower quartile of the distribution of the synthetic measure, i.e., its level was below 0.25. 11 self-government units were in the second quartile of the distribution, i.e., in range between 0.25 and 0.5 of the synthetic indicator. Relatively big taxonomic distances between synthetic measures for individual districts, with quite a large set of features, show significant differentiation among these parts of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Province in terms of local sustainable development. Despite the fact that the examined objects belong to the same administrative unit, which would appear to be relatively coherent, they do not develop at the same pace. Moreover, given a broad set of indicators, they differ significantly when it comes to the rate of their sustainable development. The findings of this paper highlight the use of multidimensional taxonomic analysis for measuring the progress of local units in the degree of the accomplishment of the sustainable development goals. First of all, it helps to show differences in the implementation of the development strategies across districts. What is more, it shows these differences on the basis of the complete set of diverse features rather than single parameters (e.g., pace of growth). Thus, the multidimensional approach is a lot more precise when it comes to showing differences among the examined objects.


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Статья посвящена рассмотрению особенностей управления общественными финансами в парадигме устойчивого развития и влияния на социальные, экономические и экологические процессы в государстве. Концепция устойчивого развития была впервые рассмотрена в 1987 г., но в большинстве стран мира формирование социально-экономической политики на принципах устойчивости связано с принятием глобального документа «Цели в области устойчивого развития» (англ. Sustainable Development Goals). Швейцария является одной из стран, которая на законодательном уровне закрепила достижение устойчивого развития как национальную цель, реализуемую в рамках деятельности всех субъектов хозяйствования, в том числе в сфере управления общественными финансами. Посредством принятия Стратегии устойчивого развития осуществляется интеграция международных приоритетов развития в систему стратегического управления Швейцарии, которая затрагивает все уровни бюджетной системы. При формировании и изменении данного документа применяются трёхмерная модель устойчивого развития и модель основного капитала, суть которых раскрыта в статье. В ходе исследования было выявлено, что за период 2000–2020 гг. Швейцарии удалось повысить уровень устойчивости общественных финансов, а также социальную ориентированность: существенно снизились доля уровня государственного долга и объема дефицита федерального бюджета по отношению к ВВП, наблюдался рост доли расходов на социальное обеспечение, науку и образование. Применяемые меры контрциклической политики позволяют балансировать сальдо бюджетов бюджетной системы Швейцарии посредством установления бюджетных ограничений на размер расходной части, на которые оказывают влияние совокупность внешних и внутренних факторов. Текущий кризис, вызванный новой волной коронавирусной инфекции, отразился на финансовом результате федерального бюджета по итогам 2020 г. и изменил плановые показатели до 2024 г. В заключительной части проведен сравнительный анализ систем стратегического управления Швейцарии и России, выявлены проблемы отечественной системы. Обоснована возможность применения в российской практике швейцарских моделей с учётом особенностей нашей страны. Ключевые слова: устойчивое развитие, общественные финансы, стратегия развития, цели устойчивого развития, национальные цели, стратегические документы, показатели федерального бюджета, Швейцария, трёхмерная модель, модель основного капитала, социальная политика, государственный долг, инвестиционная активность, расходные обязательства, дефицит бюджета, контрциклическая политика, структурный дефицит, циклический дефицит, государственный внебюджетный фонд, государственные программы. Abstract. The article discusses features of public finance management in the paradigm of sustainable development and impact on social, economic and environmental processes in the state. The Sustainable development concept was first considered in 1987, but the formation of social and economic policies based on the principles of sustainability is associated with the adoption of the global document "Sustainable Development Goals" in most countries of the world. Switzerland is one of the countries that has enshrined the achievement of sustainable development as a national goal at the legislative level. This goal is implemented in all incorporated and unincorporated businesses activities, including in the field of public finance management. Through the adoption of the Sustainable Development Strategy, international development priorities are being integrated into Switzerland's strategic management system, which affects all the budgetary system levels. During forming and changing this document, a three-dimensional model of sustainable development and a model of fixed capital are used, the essence of which is disclosed in the article. The article analyses that Switzerland had to increase the level of public fi-nances stability, as well as social orientation in 2000–2020: the share of the level of public debt and the volume of the federal budget deficit in relation to GDP has decreased significantly, and the share of spending on social security, science and education has grown. The applied countercyclical policy measures allow balancing the budget balance of the Swiss budgetary system by setting budgetary restrictions on the expenditure, which is influenced by a combination of external and internal factors. The current crisis caused by the new coronavirus infection is affecting the federal budget financial results of the current year and changing the planned targets until 2024. As a result of the study, the authors make comparative analysis of the Swiss and Russian strategic management systems, and identify problems of the domestic system. The possibility of implementing Swiss models in Russian practice are demonstrated taking into account the special aspects of our country. Keywords: sustainable development, public finance, development strategy, sustainable development goals, national goals, strategic documents, budget target, Switzerland, three-dimensional model, fixed capital model, social policy, public debt, investment activity, expenditure commitments, budget deficit, anti-cyclical policy, structural deficit, cyclical deficit, state non-budgetary fund, government programs.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 683-692
Author(s):  
Almasdi Syahza ◽  
Djaimi Bakce ◽  
Mitri Irianti ◽  
Brilliant Asmit ◽  
Besri Nasrul

Riau is an Indonesian province known for its large plantations. The plantation business makes the most significant contribution to the fiscal revenues of the province. This paper aims to innovate rural economy through the sustainable development of superior commodities in the plantation sub-sector of agriculture. Specifically, multi-criteria analysis (MCA) was performed to determine the superior commodities in each locality. The results show that the superior commodities include palm oil, rubber, coconut, cocoa, coffee, and sago. The development of these commodities could boost farmers’ income with the added value of planation products. On this basis, the fair use of land for all categories was highlighted from social, economic, and environmental perspectives, and recognized as essential to the development of sustainable plantations, which are integral to rural economy and land sustainability. The proposed development strategy for superior commodities in plantation is in line with the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Riau Province, Indonesia.


2020 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 05006
Author(s):  
Maria Balcerowicz-Szkutnik ◽  
Weronika Szkutnik ◽  
Włodzimierz Szkutnik

In the article, considerations are based on the implementation of two main goals of the sustainable development strategy. The differences observed in practice in the group of countries with low and medium-low incomes in closing the poverty gap measured by income and the number of people remaining in poverty over a relatively long period can be modeled by measuring the routine intensity of tasks in a given profession. This is indirectly related to an important classical factor in the measurement of knowledge capital and may be important in the study of the relationship between the convergence strength of the analyzed group of countries and the intensity of routine work, which are always negatively correlated with each other.


2022 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-122
Author(s):  
Oksana Zhukova ◽  
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Larysa Platash ◽  
Liudmyla Tymchuk ◽  
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The technogenic civilization, despite significant scientific and technical achievements, unfortunately, continues to face problems that entail irreparable consequences. Human activity based on the principle of immeasurable consumption produces an increase in inequality, poverty, hunger, diseases, armed conflicts, and global environmental changes. Weapons of mass destruction pose a global socio-environmental threat. All these trends indicate the need to move to a new level of progress based on sustainability, which in turn requires the formation of a new personality focused on the system of environmental values, and not on the values of the consumer society. Only a society consisting of people with a new worldview will be able to develop sustainably. In this regard, the author’s vision of inclusive education is formed in the study, which is understood as a system with a high integration ability, the role of which is reduced to creating a sustainable society with rational moral foundations. A doctrinal model of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals is proposed, the core of which is the humanization of society, contributing to moral, economic, social, cultural changes and influencing the life of society, while becoming the driving force of the economic, social and environmental aspects of sustainable development. The author’s approach allows us to expand the scientific vision of the essence and content of inclusive education, to determine the role of humanization in ensuring the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. The conceptual provisions of the article can be used as the basic foundations of a sustainable development strategy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 579-590
Author(s):  
Nourhan Aly Fawzy ◽  
Sammy Amin Ammer ◽  
Ebtehal Ahmed Abd Elmouety

Egypt has many new areas, most of which are found outside the boundaries of urbanization in the valley and delta. Such areas contain capabilities and ingredients with special natural and environmental features that differ from the built-up areas. As development areas have been recently created by the development policies and strategies which were put forward by the country to accommodate sustainable development processes. There is an Availability of suitable areas for development according to resources and without limitations, which amount to 24% of the total area. There are, also, suitable areas for development according to resources with the presence of some limitations, which amount to an area of 16% of the total area. Sustainable development captures the world's attention during the past 15 years, at the level of the global economic, social and environmental field. Thus, development sustainability has become a global school of thought that spreads in most of the countries of the world, All UN member states adopted the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 as the main umbrella for balancing social, economic, and environmental sustainability by 2030. And also the plans put forward in Egypt The research discusses what are the Requirements for reaching the sustainable goals of development to plan new areas in Arab Republic of Egypt. By using qualitative methods Because these areas have a shortage of statistical data. To can reach, foundations and indicators for sustainable development, adopting a national sustainable development strategy that includes all entities, institutions, members of society and those affected by its results in the short and long term.


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