The issues of sustainable development of regional public utility market

WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN DECISION - MAKING PROCESSES REGARDING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

10.7562/se2014.4.01.07 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Vesna Nikolic ◽

Sanja Stojanovic

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Waste Management ◽

Environmental Protection ◽

Management Plan ◽

Public Utility ◽

Source Analysis ◽

Secondary Source ◽

Women's Participation ◽

Starting Point

According to the European Commission, environment protection is an area in which Serbia will have to make maximum efforts to fully meet European standards and requirements of sustainable development in the future. Problems of waste management is especially serious, and in the environmental protection system, it requires immediate attention of wider scientific circles and experts, but also participation and partnership of all members of our community. Starting from the guidelines and recommendations of a number of policy documents that promote partnership and gender equality as a prerequisite for future-oriented development and broader participation of women in decision-making regarding environmental protection, research interests of the authors of this paper are directed towards the problems of women's participation in waste management. The starting point of the study is a hypothesis that women are not sufficiently involved in the decision-making process relating to waste management issues. Within the descriptive research method, methods of primary and secondary source analysis, a comparative analysis and a non-standardized interview were used. The research sample consisted of employees of Public Utility Companies in the Region of Nis, which is included in the Regional Waste Management Plan. The research results indicate a need for women to organize themselves more effectively and efficiently in order to get access to positions that will allow them more power, and therefore become more influential in decision-making in all spheres of social and public life as well as in the field of waste management and environmental protection. Key words:environmental protection, waste management, women, decision-making, sustainable development

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The importance of wastewater treatment plants for sustainable development

Economics of Sustainable Development ◽

10.5937/esd2102049m ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 49-60

Author(s):

Lazar Milenković ◽

Tamara Rađenović ◽

Anđelija Baljošević

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Wastewater Treatment ◽

Structural Changes ◽

Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽

Living Environment ◽

Public Utility ◽

Utility Companies ◽

Quality Of Living ◽

The Republic

The concept of sustainable development has gained in its importance with the attempt to align the goals of economic development with the goals of preserving the quality of living environment. This paper explains the concept of sustainable development and its dimensions, emphasizing its connection with the communal activity of purification and drainage of atmospheric and wastewater. The evidence from the Republic of Serbia regarding wastewater treatment plants and environmental protection costs raises concerns about sustainability issues. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to point out the importance of increasing wastewater treatment plants' capacity and improving their operability, as well as to emphasize the necessity for structural changes of public utility companies to address the identified problems.

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The Nisava river water quality as the indicator of the sustainable development of the city of Nis

Spatium ◽

10.2298/spat0716080b ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 80-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sasa Brankovic ◽

Slavisa Trajkovic

Keyword(s):

Water Quality ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

River Water ◽

Great Majority ◽

Quality Parameters ◽

Public Utility ◽

Water Quality Parameters ◽

Limiting Factor ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

The City

The Nisava river has a great importance for the sustainable development of the city of Nis. From the Mediana spring, which is on the bank of the Nisava, the city of Nis satisfies around 30% of its water demand. The aim of this paper is to, on the basis of the analysis of several tens of parameters of water quality; determine whether the Nisava river is a limiting factor to the sustainable development of the city of Nis. For this purpose the data of Public Utility Company Naissus have been used, as it collects daily samples of the Nisava river water. The number of conducted analyses, depending on the water quality parameters, varies from 1 to 1,240. The obtained results, which have been presented in detail in the paper, indicate that a great majority of analyses, of almost all the water quality parameters, is within predicted range. At the end of the paper, certain measures have been proposed, which should contribute to the sustainable development of Nis in this field. .

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Subject of audit: improvement of cognition methodology

Herald of Ternopil National Economic University ◽

10.35774/visnyk2020.04.150 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 150

Author(s):

Valerii Zhuk ◽

Kateryna Melnyk

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Development Strategy ◽

A Priori ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Public Utility ◽

Theoretical Research ◽

Philosophical Foundations ◽

The Status ◽

General Scientific ◽

The Subject

Introduction. Scientists generate many conflicting interpretations of the subject of the audit; this indicates the weakness of the current version of audit theory. But in practice, audit from a professional-closed system is increasingly acquiring the status of a socio-economic institute. Therefore, there is a need for a clear identification of the public utility of the audit institute – its mission. The formation of the mission is a priori based on the potential of the subject of the audit, the cognition of which is the primary task of academic science.The purpose of the article is to develop theoretical ideas about the subject of the audit and formulate its new essence on general scientific philosophical foundations and doctrines and the concept of sustainable development.Research methods. In the article has been used general scientific and specific research methods, in particular: abstraction, induction and deduction, comparison – to study of theoretical research of the conceptual and categorical apparatus of audit theory; graphic – to study the models and development strategies of the audit institute; analysis and synthesis – to identify the institutional trend of semantic growth of the substantive functionality of the audit.Results. The research results form the basis for the further development of theoretical ideas about the subject of the audit. The methodology of cognition of the essence of the subject of the audit, based only on the connection to its objects, was critically assessed. It has been proven that such scientific approach solves the problem of cognizing the subject situationally, but does not form a stable idea about the subject in the theory and practice of audit. The methodology for understanding the subject of the audit institute was proposed taking into account the development of its functionality. The institutional trend of the substantial increase in audit objects and functions was revealed. The model of the subject-functional growth of audit and the development strategy of the audit institute has been built on the basis of modern institutional scientific doctrines and the concept of sustainable development. According to the authors, the subject of the audit is the study of the nature of audit functionality, aimed at reducing uncertainty in economic and sustainable development. Steps have been taken towards the formation of a stable version of the audit theory in terms of the sustainability of its audit subject and mission.Discussion. Further research into the essence of the subject of the audit should be combined with modern economic and social theories, doctrines and the concept of sustainable development, challenges from audit practice. The improvement of the methodology of cognition of the subject of the audit should be based on the application of techniques and methods of practical integrity and axiological methodology, especially in the concept of “audit functionality”.

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Hydropower, Encroachment and the Re-patterning of Hydrosocial Territory: The Case of Hidrosogamoso in Colombia

Human Organization ◽

10.17730/0018-7259-74.3.243 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 74 (3) ◽

pp. 243-254 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Bibiana Duarte-Abadía ◽

Rutgerd Boelens ◽

Tatiana Roa-Avendaño

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Social Groups ◽

Water Rights ◽

Clean Energy ◽

Public Utility ◽

Development Discourse ◽

Water Users ◽

Political Network ◽

Subsistence Activities ◽

Social And Environmental Impacts

Mega-hydraulic projects tend to produce severe social and environmental impacts, with burdens and benefits unevenly distributed among different social groups, regions, and scales. This triggers socioenvironmental conflicts, since “territory” has incommensurable functions and values for the diverse parties. This article examines the dominant human-nature interactions that underlie recent hydropower developments and the reconfiguration of the hydrosocial network in Colombia's Sogamoso basin. We use the Echelon of Rights Analysis (ERA) to examine conflicts over hydrosocial patterning, involving struggles over resources, norms, authority, and discourses. The Sogamoso mega-project highlights how modernist policies discursively frame clean energy, sustainable development, and public utility, while breaking up existing socioecological relationships and aligning water users, rights, and uses in new hydro-political network hierarchies. In Sogamoso, hydropower development discourse ends up declaring local subsistence activities illegal while denying existing rights frameworks. Therefore, crucial questions about water rights, legitimacy, and justice remain unasked and unanswered within political arenas.

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