Workshop 2 (synthesis): driving forces and incentives for change towards sustainable water development

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 141-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Takahashi ◽  
M. de los Angeles ◽  
J. Kuylenstierna
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Social And Economic Development

Water is a key resource in attaining sustainability – in social and economic development as well as in the long-term carrying capacity of the planet's life support systems, but consensus on the meaning and priority of these terms is still needed. Amongst the key points identified for water professionals: it is necessary to challenge compartmentalisation in water policy and management; water management strategies must focus clearly on the interdependence of the environment and socio-economic development; water professionals have a key role but must package the information and insight they can provide in a way that is attractive to intended recipients such as policy makers.

scholarly journals Prirodna obilježja hrvatskog litoralnog prostora kao komparativna prednost za razvoj nautičkog turizma

Geoadria ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srećko Favro ◽  
Iva Saganić
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Comparative Advantages ◽  
The Right ◽  
Littoral Area

Having in mind Croatian littoral area with its unique attractive coast and islands, it can be said that nautical tourism is absolutely authentic and distinctly recognizable Croatian "tourist product". In spite of numerous comparative advantages, Croatian nautical tourism still has not taken the right place on the market of Mediterranean nautical tourism. Future development of nautical tourism with its complementary activities – nautical economy, should be considered as the driving force for social and economic development of Croatian coastal area and islands, and it should be correctly dimensioned in accordance with carrying capacity of the geographical basis and sustainable development principles. Adequate valorization of Croatia’s most important resources, coast and islands, based on sustainable development principles and long-term systematic actions would improve social and economic position of Croatian Adriatic area. 

Russian Federalism at the Critical Stage of Development

2008 ◽  
pp. 70-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Bukhvald
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations ◽  
Critical Stage ◽  
Municipal Reform ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Basic Course

Transformations in the sphere of federal relations concern the most important directions of the reforming processes in the country. However, not all proposed and actually developing components of the federal reform seem well-argued and corresponding to long-term, strategic interests of the Russian statehood. The basic course of reform should meet the objective requirements of further decentralization of governing economic and social processes and the need to ensure strengthening the responsibility of RF subjects’ executive bodies and local self-management for steady social and economic development of their territories. The solution of these problems calls for a new model of federal policy of regional development, specification of some important components of the municipal reform as well as inserting certain amendments into the system of intergovernmental fiscal relations in order to stir up their stimulating function.

Do Targeted Business Subsidies Improve Income and Reduce Poverty? A Synthetic Control Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-375
Author(s):  
Jacob Bundrick ◽  
Weici Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
County Level ◽  
Synthetic Control ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Control Approach ◽  
Incentive Programs ◽  
Subsidy Program ◽  
Capita Personal Income

Interstate competition for economic development has led many states to adopt targeted economic development incentive programs known as deal-closing funds. Deal-closing funds allow state officials to provide discretionary cash grants to select businesses to attract and retain economic development projects. However, whether these targeted business subsidies increase prosperity in the local economy remains unclear. The authors use evidence from Arkansas’s Quick Action Closing Fund to analyze how effective deal-closing funds are at increasing incomes and decreasing poverty. Specifically, the causal effects of the Quick Action Closing Fund on Arkansas’s county-level per capita personal income and poverty rates are estimated using a synthetic control approach. The results largely suggest that the business subsidy program fails to increase incomes and lower poverty rates over the long term, at least at the county level. These findings should serve as a caution to policy makers who wish to improve incomes and poverty rates with targeted business subsidies.

scholarly journals ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY, ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT / EKONOMINIS EFEKTYVUMAS, ENERGIJOS VARTOJIMAS IR SUBALANSUOTA PLĖTRA

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Štefan Bojnec ◽  
Drago Papler
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Energy Intensity ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Sustainable Economic Development ◽  
Technological Intensity

This paper analyzes structural indicators of economic efficiency and energy intensity consumption as determinants of sustainable economic development for the selected 33 European countries. The correlation, regression and multivariate factor analyses are applied to test the associations between the selected structural variables of energy intensity consumption, economic efficiency, and the main driving forces behind these developments. Economic efficiency is positively associated with expenditures on research and development (R&D) and a greater technological intensity of exports, while at the same time the economic efficiency of R&D expenditures and technological intensity of exports reduce the energy intensity consumption of the economy. The results suggest that management strategies and policies directed towards R&D expenditures, human capital investments, and technologically intensive export oriented products are improving economic efficiency performance and contributing to energy saving sustainable economic development. The technological intensity of products reduces energy consumption, which is related to restructuring of energy intensive industries into more advanced and energy saving ones with higher value added per unit of product, but with lower energy consumption per unit of product. Santrauka Autoriai analizuoja struktūrinius ekonominio efektyvumo ir energijos vartojimo intensyvumo, kaip vienų iš pagrindinių subalansuotos plėtros kintamųjų, rodiklius. Tirti buvo pasirinktos 33 Europos valstybės. Autoriai, siekdami pagrįsti iškeltus teiginius, naudojo koreliacinę, regresinę analizę bei daugiakriterinius metodus galimoms ekonominio efektyvumo bei energijos vartojimo laipsnio (ir kitų, ne mažiau svarbių elementų) variacijoms nustatyti. Ekonominis efektyvumas labai dažnai asocijuojasi su tyrimais ir plėtra (R&D), eksportuojamomis aukštosiomis technologijomis. Remdamiesi atliktų tyrimų rezultatais autoriai siūlo nukreipti tiek politinius sprendimus, tiek valdymo strategijas į tyrimų ir plėtros (R&D) veiklas, investicijas į žmogiškuosius išteklius, technologinius sprendimus, nes visa tai galima susieti su subalansuotos plėtros koncepcija.

scholarly journals PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP AS INSTRUMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE ASTRAKHAN REGION)

2018 ◽  
pp. 62-69
Author(s):  
Vladimir Yuryevich Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Capital Intensity ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
The Russian Federation

The ability of regions to the competition in the international market to use of modern approaches to social and economic development, defines a vector of intensive advance of the Russian economy. Existence of worthy infrastructure and its full functioning become a guarantee of successful development of economy and social sphere of the country and particular regions. Therefore, for its updating and full functioning implementation of infrastructure projects is necessary. The specificity of implementation of infrastructure projects has been designated: excessive capital intensity, long payback periods, increased complexity and large scales (including territorial scales). Conditions of limited budgetary financing of infrastructure predetermine the need of attracting private investments. So, the mechanism of public-private partnership in the concept of long-term social and economic development of the Russian Federation up to 2020 is designated as one of priority tools, which emphasizes the importance of a problem. The potential of expansion of opportunities for implementation of infrastructure projects at the expense of mechanisms of public-private partnership has been studied. Special attention is paid to the practice of implementing infrastructure projects in the territory of the Astrakhan region. There have been presented practices of such projects, mainly in the form of concessions, strategic priorities of development of public-private partnership on the territory of the Astrakhan region for implementation of infrastructure projects. The Astrakhan shipbuilding production association is taken as an example of successful realization of public-private partnership mechanism. The leading shipbuilding and ship repairing plants of the region make its basis. There has been given the rating of the Russian regions in terms of the development of public-private partnership during 2017. Since 2015 there has been stated positive dynamics of development parameters of public-private partnership in the region. As of 2017, in the region there are realized eighteen projects, among which one project is of a regional level, and seventeen projects are the municipal events.

scholarly journals The Spatiotemporal Distribution of Flash Floods and Analysis of Partition Driving Forces in Yunnan Province

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junnan Xiong ◽  
Chongchong Ye ◽  
Weiming Cheng ◽  
Liang Guo ◽  
Chenghu Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Return Period ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Flash Flood ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
Heavy Precipitation ◽  
Spatiotemporal Analysis ◽  
Flash Floods

Flash floods are one of the most serious natural disasters, and have a significant impact on economic development. In this study, we employed the spatiotemporal analysis method to measure the spatial–temporal distribution of flash floods and examined the relationship between flash floods and driving factors in different subregions of landcover. Furthermore, we analyzed the response of flash floods on the economic development by sensitivity analysis. The results indicated that the number of flash floods occurring annually increased gradually from 1949 to 2015, and regions with a high quantity of flash floods were concentrated in Zhaotong, Qujing, Kunming, Yuxi, Chuxiong, Dali, and Baoshan. Specifically, precipitation and elevation had a more significant effect on flash floods in the settlement than in other subregions, with a high r (Pearson’s correlation coefficient) value of 0.675, 0.674, 0.593, 0.519, and 0.395 for the 10 min precipitation in 20-year return period, elevation, 60 min precipitation in 20-year return period, 24 h precipitation in 20-year return period, and 6 h precipitation in 20-year return period, respectively. The sensitivity analysis showed that the Kunming had the highest sensitivity (S = 21.86) during 2000–2005. Based on the research results, we should focus on heavy precipitation events for flash flood prevention and forecasting in the short term; but human activities and ecosystem vulnerability should be controlled over the long term.

The Changing Nature of Information Behavior and the Information Environment

2016 ◽  
pp. 2187-2201
Author(s):  
Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Nature Of Information ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
Future Viability

This chapter examines the changing nature of the information environment and its implications for Library and Information Science (LIS), with a focus on developing countries in general and the Arab Gulf states in particular. Drawing on key findings from previous LIS literature, it explores what is needed to ensure the future viability of the profession in the GCC region so that it can help underpin social and economic development in these states. Examples of successful practice in LIS innovation from other parts of the developing world are included to demonstrate some possible approaches and the chapter concludes by summarizing some key points for consideration by LIS education specialists, library managers, and policymakers in the Gulf States.

System of Region Management: a Framework Concept

Servis plus ◽  
10.12737/3891 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-45
Author(s):  
Лев Сульповар ◽  
Lev Sulpovar ◽  
Татьяна Богачева ◽  
Tatyana Bogacheva
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Investment Policy ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Investment Activity ◽  
Implementation Planning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Investment Process ◽  
Vital Element

The article covers the issues concerning the development of a framework concept for the system of management. The authors prove that the problem of socio-economic development of a region is to be considered from the perspective of a systemic approach principles and methods, viewing regions as an integral socio-economic system, whose subsystems include the state subsystem (with regions regarded as constituent entities of the federation), municipal formations, and a range of private and legal entities. The authors identify the major objectives of region management and consider ways of aligning the social and economic development of regions by overcoming the existing inter-regional disproportions. The framework concept, as proposed by the authors, is to recognize the economic development of a region, the development of the major constituents of the regional complex, and the region´s social development. Special attention is paid to the issues of implementing the investment policy and substantiating the staged of its implementation. Planning the investment activity, involving the rationale for long-term and medium-term goals of the investment process, as well as ways to achieve the goals, is seen as a vital element of investment policy.

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