Intergovernmental Negotiations on Criteria and Indicators for the Management, Conservation, and Sustainable Development of Forests: What Role for Soil Scientists?

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kilaparti Ramakrishna ◽  
Eric A. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Criteria And Indicators ◽  
Intergovernmental Negotiations

Sustainable Development of the Arctic

2019 ◽  
pp. 396-415
Author(s):  
Liudmila Lapochkina ◽  
Elena Vetrova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Criteria And Indicators ◽  
The North

Circumpolar territories and the regions related to the Arctic are those rich with natural resources. They have a high potential for the development of mining and extractive industries. The abundance with resources makes the North increasingly attractive for investments. However, circumpolar territories are characterized by peculiar socio-economic, natural, and climatic conditions which taken together frequently pose a negative impact on people and hinder the exploration opportunities of the Arctic resources. In global, regional, and sub-regional levels, the development of the Arctic is heavily regulated by multilateral international treaties. However, the issues of monitoring and assessment of the sustainable development of the Arctic remain open, which stems from the absence of agreed criteria and indicators for assessing sustainability in the context of national, regional, and scientific approaches. It necessitates the development of a specific methodological approach to the establishment of a system to monitor and assess the sustainable development of the Arctic.

scholarly journals Assessment of the Environmental Quality through Users' Perception in Guelma city, Algeria

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bouthaina SAYAD ◽  
◽  
Djamel ALKAMA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Criteria And Indicators ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Outdoor Spaces ◽  
Public Garden ◽  
Valid Assessment

Since the early 1960s, an interdisciplinary field of environmental perception has been developed, withal earlier urban researches have focused on how people perceive their urban environment. Our study aims to assess the environmental quality through user’s perception, so to explore the way people perceive the outdoor spaces in Guelma we have conducted a survey questionnaire in three outdoor spaces, Martyr’s square, El Horia public garden, and Bou El mokh square. The assessment is based on a set of scientifically valid assessment criteria and indicators linked to the principles of sustainable development. The results of this study indicate that the outdoor spaces must play several roles in cities dynamics and functioning, depending on the local context and on the neighbourhood. The intensity of use and the frequency of outdoor spaces differs from one place to another, so it is necessary to avoid generic assumptions and to encourage local perceptual assessments.

Criteria and Indicators for regional Sustainable Development

2000 ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
Olga Kontostanou-Karalivanou ◽  
Peter A. Maxson ◽  
Klaus Sauerborn ◽  
Michael J. Scoullos ◽  
Martin Tischer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Criteria And Indicators ◽  
Regional Sustainable Development

Methodological Approaches to the Continuity of an Environmental Culture Forming as a Platform of Sustainable Development Culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-15
Author(s):  
Dzyatkovskaya Elena N. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
General Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Comparative Characteristic ◽  
Ecological Education ◽  
Criteria And Indicators ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Ecological Culture

The article describes the changes taking place in culture and education of the 21st century in connection with the civilization search for ways of sustainable development. The role of environmental culture as a platform for the formation of a sustainable development culture is considered. The problem of developing methodological approaches to ensuring the continuity of the formation in general education of the foundations of a culture of sustainable development based on ecological culture is actualized. The conclusion is made about the new mission of environmental education as education for sustainable development, which forms the prerequisites for the development of the foundations of sustainable development culture. A comparative characteristic of environmental culture in its classical understanding as a result of natural-scientific ecological education of schoolchildren, and ecological culture for sustainable development, as the integration of cultural results of all general education, is given. The essence of culturological, cultural-creative, value-worldview, integrative, semiotic-hermeneutic and institutional approaches to ensuring the continuity of the formation of ecological culture and culture of sustainable development is revealed. The development degree of these approaches and the pedagogical means of their implementation in the general educational process are analyzed. It is concluded that the application of the identified methodological approaches requires a rethinking of the theory of constructing the environmental education content, its sources, criteria and indicators of its results, primarily personal

scholarly journals Institutional vacuums in Canadian forest policy: Can criteria and indicators and certification of sustainable forest management fill the void?

2009 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-284
Author(s):  
M.K. (Marty) Luckert ◽  
Peter C Boxall
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Criteria And Indicators ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Forest Lands

This paper discusses the potential of certification and criteria and indicators (C&I) of sustainable forest management (SFM) for filling voids in forest policy in Canada. These processes have promised advances towards SFM that the current property rights conveyed on the forest industry, through existing systems of tenures, may simply not allow. In general, the broad social welfare approach that current thinking in sustainable development supports, and that certification and criteria and indicators appear to employ, is not consistent with the incentives, rights, and responsibilities that private forestry firms currently hold. There is a fundamental mismatch between the property rights that have been conveyed to private firms operating on public forest lands and what the policy frameworks of certification and C&I are expected to deliver. The conclusion is that if the voids in forest policy are to be successfully filled by certification and C&I, the underlying property rights currently held by firms will need revision. Key words: sustainable forest management, criteria and indicators, certification, Canadian forest policy, forest tenures

scholarly journals Features of socio-geographical methodology to the study of regional tourism market

2015 ◽  
pp. 20-22
Author(s):  
I. Dudnik ◽  
О. Borisyuk ◽  
I. Zarya
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
Criteria And Indicators ◽  
Diagnosis And Prognosis ◽  
Regional Tourism ◽  
Definition Of

Grounded directions of methodological provisions of social geography in the study of regional tourist markets (define the essence of the term “regional tourism market,” the use of specific geographic methods to study regional tourist markets, the definition of geographical criteria and indicators for assessment, diagnosis and prognosis of regional tourist markets) to create geographical concept of sustainable development. On the basis of geographical areas when analyzing studies regional tourist markets are the concept of regional marketing. The expediency of development of the theory of social and geographic marketing.

The FAO definition of sustainable development and the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries: an analysis of the related principles, criteria and indicators

2000 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge M. Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Criteria And Indicators ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Comprehensive Framework ◽  
Sustainability Framework

In 1988, FAO adopted its definition of sustainable development. In 1995 it adopted a Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, which offers an integrated comprehensive framework for the sustainable development of fisheries and aquaculture. The paper analyses briefly the correspondence between the principles contained in the definition and the provisions contained in the Code. It shows that both texts represent a sustainability framework (with different degree of detail) and identifies the main criteria and indicators implicitly or explicitly called for in both the FAO definition and Code of Conduct.

scholarly journals Sustainability and the Canadian forest sector

2001 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sten Nilsson ◽  
Michael Gluck
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Current System ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Forest Sector ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Criteria And Indicators ◽  
The People ◽  
Legislative Framework

The present paper examines the efficiency of the current established criteria and indicators for sustainable development of the forest sector. The current system of criteria and indicators concentrates on the management aspects instead of objective setting. The current system is too complicated to be implemented and neglects the fact that sustainability cannot be achieved by a top-down approach but only by the people working on the ground at the local level. This paper presents a number of guidelines on the necessary steps to be taken in order to move towards what we call "a forest sector for sustainable development." Key words: sustainable forest management, criteria and indicators, institutional/legislative framework, planning, data availability

scholarly journals EMPLOYMENT AND ADDED VALUE IN EUROPEN UNION BIOECONOMY – A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE

2020 ◽  
Vol XXII (4) ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
Jarosław Gołębiewski
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Socioeconomic Indicators ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Criteria And Indicators ◽  
Development Perspective ◽  
The Eu

The purpose of this paper is to assess the development of bioeconomy taking two basic socioeconomic indicators into account, namely the contribution to employment and increase in prosperity. In 2018, the European Union adopted an updated strategy regarding bioeconomy. The purpose of this strategy is to substitute fossil fuel (coal) with biomass-based materials in industry and energy production, at the same time preserving the natural environment. As a result of this, the need arises to analyse the development of bioeconomy with regard to sustainable development principles. For this purpose, it is required to define the criteria and indicators allowing to evaluate the direction and rate of changes. However, monitoring the importance of bioeconomy is impeded due to a lack of statistics that covering the just evolving sectors partially based on biomass. Available statistical data provided the grounds for analysing changes in employment and added value in bioeconomy in the EU, in total and in its individual sectors. The obtained results indicate a dropping share of bioeconomy in employment and an increasing level of added value of bioeconomy in the years 2008-2017. individual sectors showed a different share in employment and added value of bioeconomy, as well as diverse dynamics of changes.

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