scholarly journals Preventing Petrochemical Plastics Pollution: Sustainable Material Alternatives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narendra Singh ◽  
Oladele A. Ogunseitan ◽  
Yuanyuan Tang ◽  
Ming Hung Wong
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Resources ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Work Strategies ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Single Use

Achievement of some of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals will not be possible if global trends in pollution associated with petrochemical-based plastics continue. Alternatives to petrochemical plastics have been researched intensely, but they have not been developed to replace current plastic products in a commercially viable way. The demand for single-use plastic personal protective equipment created by the COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated urgency in developing pollution prevention strategies that transcend reliance on highly variable consumer behavior. Biological material plastics are potentially sustainable because their manufacture utilizes renewable resources, and they are biodegradable. In this paper, challenges facing the sustainable management of discarded single-use petrochemical plastics are discussed, and a material lifecycle perspective is proposed that would be integrated into a circular economy of biological plastics. Preventing petrochemical plastics pollution requires a shift to fossil-free feedstock and energy and the design of biopolymers with desired properties. In this work, strategies for improving the performance and recyclability of biological plastics by designing polymers with diversified functionalities are presented.

Making the Case for Reforms of Forestry Policy and Law: Lessons and Experiences from Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Bola Fajemirokun
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystems ◽  
Forestry Policy ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Forestry Sector ◽  
Development Goals

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development incorporates 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Goal 15 (SDG 15) focuses on terrestrial ecosystems. Regarding forests, it sets targets requiring signatories to promote the implementation of the sustainable management of all types of forests by 2020 and further mobilize significant resources from all sources to achieve sustainable forest management. The United Nations Strategic Plan for Forests 2017 – 2030 advances the vision of SDG 15. Nigeria’s high demographic growth rate has led to the surging demand for land to support settlements and farming. Coupled with extensive illegal or uncontrolled logging, the annual forest net loss of 5% is one of the highest rates globally in percentage terms. This paper is a critical analysis of the policy-law interface of the forestry sector in Nigeria. It examines the country’s trajectory or state of preparedness for sustainable forest management, and it concludes that forestry policy and law in Nigeria must undergo urgent reforms so that the forest commitments such as those under SDG 15 and other regional and global instruments can be ultimately achieved.

scholarly journals Digital Technologies in Ensuring the Protection of the Population and Territories of the Russian Federation from Natural and Man-Made Emergencies: Legal Aspect

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 02022
Author(s):  
Natalia Vedysheva ◽  
Мaria Mukhlynina ◽  
Olga Efimova ◽  
Andrey Nikiforov
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Legal Aspect ◽  
Mass Communications ◽  
Digital Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Development Communications

The problem of sustainable management of digitalization of the environmental and technosphere security system at the legal and organizational levels both in the Russian Federation and in the world is now coming to the fore and requires immediate solutions. After analyzing strategic planning documents and other normative legal acts, the authors of the article attempt to consider current legal problems in the field under study in the aspect of digitalization, which ensures environmental and technosphere security of Russia, and implements the UN sustainable development goals in the environmental direction. The authors suggest that a successful economic policy aimed at achieving the UN sustainable development goals in the field of ensuring the safety of cities and human settlements is impossible without the introduction of science-based methodologies and tools for accounting for losses from disasters, improving modeling, assessment, monitoring of disaster risk, etc. In conclusion, a number of conclusions are drawn about the legal acts adopted in the Russian Federation and the organizational measures being implemented to help solve various problems related to the implementation of interdepartmental integrated systems of RSChS with the participation of the Ministry of digital development, communications and mass communications of Russia, etc.

scholarly journals Technogenic metallic elements in biomass and their effects on biomass product properties

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (8) ◽  
pp. 623-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edita Baltrėnaitė ◽  
Pranas Baltrėnas ◽  
Donald Huisingh
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Metallic Elements ◽  
Early Results ◽  
Physical Composition ◽  
Adsorption Of Water ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Quality Of Products ◽  
Adsorptive Properties

Abstract Availability of clean water and sustainable management of water are among the 17 global ‘Sustainable Development Goals,’ established by the United Nations. The increasing technogenesis-related pollution causes increases the concentrations of many metallic elements (MEs) throughout the biosphere. The syngenetic bio-incorporation of MEs changes the biomass's chemical and physical composition and impacts the quality of products, e.g. biochar (BC). This has impacts upon BCs potential for adsorption of water pollutants. While direct, engineered modification of BC can improve its adsorption characteristics, the more indirect alterations of BC composition, based on syngenetic elements, also modifies BCs adsorption functionality. The objective of this study was to identify the characteristics of syngenetically accumulated MEs in ligneous biomass on the adsorptive properties of the BCs derived from such modified biomasses. The authors of this paper investigated the syngenetic pathway of MEs into the ligneous biomass and provided an overview of the forms and quantities of MEs in the biomass and their transformation to BC. The early results of the effects of syngenetic MEs on the adsorptive properties of BC from ligneous biomass are presented. The results suggest that additional syngenetical MEs result in increases in the adsorptive properties of the resultant biomass-derived BCs.

scholarly journals Goals of sustainable development as a manifestation of globalization: new global and domestic trends

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 06031
Author(s):  
Vladimir Urazgaliev ◽  
Galina Menshikova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Business Associations ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Successful Business

In the list of the most important manifestations of global trends, one cannot but see the UN activity in spreading the Sustainable Development Goals. This publication will discuss, firstly, the theoretical aspects that justify it and secondly - the difficulties and successes of the Russian business in its implementation. In relation to the theoretical part general methodological issues of organizing its monitoring of the SDGs at enterprises are analized. Here the choice of direction (and indicators) by enterprises are described, the structure of goals selected in different countries (SDG industry metrix) is depickted, methods for evaluating the effectiveness of measures are shown. As for russian problems, the publication describes the general directions of state and supranational business promotion, as well as identifies some of the most successful business incentive practices. There are also named companies country leaders. Using the data of a sociological study conducted by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs business associations the specific features of the implementation of tasks in the country‘s business are given. As a result of the publication, authors give the general assessment of Russian business as corresponding to the initial stage.

scholarly journals What SDG6 is about: ‘sustainable management’ or ‘rational use’?

Water Policy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1015-1023
Author(s):  
Andriy Demydenko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Rational Use ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Russian Version ◽  
Development Goals

Abstract The paper describes the Global Water Partnership partner experience in the introduction of risk-based Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) into the Ukrainian water policy. We concluded that some proper ‘expressions’ and concepts have already been introduced into Ukrainian legislation, but not the accepted ‘meanings’ of such concepts as IWRM, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and water security. The concept of ‘sustainable management’, in the Russian version of Water SDG6, is translated as ‘rational use’ but no one can explain why. We suggest that such a misunderstanding happened since Ukrainian decision-makers still perceive themselves only as water users who are not obligated to achieve any development goals. Therefore, they are quite comfortable with the existing normative approach to water management where the objectives are compliance with defined norms and ensuring water security, which is understood as an absence of any water risk solely to humans, rather than the environment at large. Keeping in mind that true science starts with measurable values, and recognizing that you cannot manage if you cannot measure, we propose to change this false understanding of water security and sustainability that is inherent in the outmoded concept of ‘rational use’. Such a shift is only possible by switching to a measurable goal-oriented approach and risk management in water policy.

scholarly journals Sustainable management of municipal solid waste: a systematic approach and legal challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 06007
Author(s):  
Natalia Vedysheva ◽  
Maria Mukhlynina ◽  
Elena Vinogradova ◽  
Andrey Nikiforov ◽  
Olga Efimova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Russian Federation

The problem of sustainable management of municipal solid waste at the legal and organizational levels both in the Russian Federation and in the world is now coming to the fore and requires immediate solutions. After analyzing the documents of strategic planning and other normative legal acts, the authors of the article attempt to consider current legal problems in the field under study in an interesting aspect of the modern state environmental policy of Russia, which implements the UN sustainable development goals in the environmental direction. The authors make judgments that a successful environmental policy aimed at achieving the UN sustainable development goals in the field of waste management and production is possible only if a systematic approach to the implementation of environmental legislation is implemented and should be based on the principles of efficiency, expediency, and others. In conclusion, a number of conclusions are drawn about the legal acts adopted in the Russian Federation and the organizational measures implemented to help solve various problems related to the sustainable development of the most important segment of the economy and the environment – waste disposal and recycling, reducing their volume and the possibility of secondary use.

scholarly journals Stakeholders’ Interests and Perceptions of Bioeconomy Monitoring Using a Sustainable Development Goal Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walther Zeug ◽  
Alberto Bezama ◽  
Urs Moesenfechtel ◽  
Anne Jähkel ◽  
Daniela Thrän
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Resources ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Societal Transformation ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Industrial Metabolism ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Specific Interests

The bioeconomy as an industrial metabolism based on renewable resources is characterized by, not intrinsic, but rather potential benefits for global sustainability, depending on many factors and actors. Hence, an appropriate systematic monitoring of its development is vital and complexly linked to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as diverse stakeholder expectations. To structure a framework of the important aspects of such a monitoring system, we conducted a series of stakeholder workshops to assess the relevance of SDGs for the bioeconomy. Our results show how the complexities of these issues are perceived by 64 stakeholders, indicating significant commonalities and differences among six SDGs, including specific interests, perceptions, and, in some cases, counterintuitive and contradictory issues. Eventually, the idea of a bioeconomy is a question of the perception of ends and means of a societal transformation toward holistic sustainability. Global implications like trade-offs, hunger, poverty, and inequalities are aspects of high relevance for monitoring of bioeconomy regions in which they actually do not seem to be substantial.

scholarly journals Forest Concessions and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Potentials, Challenges and Ways Forward

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yitagesu Tegegne ◽  
Mathias Cramm ◽  
Jo Van Brusselen ◽  
Thais Linhares-Juvenal
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Natural Forests ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Forest Concessions ◽  
Development Goals

The Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have directed increased political attention to forests and their sustainable management globally. Forest concessions are a predominant instrument for the sustainable management of public production natural forests in the tropics, but the relationship between the SDGs and forest concessions is poorly explored. Knowledge of this relationship could facilitate aligning tropical forest concession regimes with the SDGs. This research was conducted by means of an online survey, expert interviews and four regional stakeholder workshops to examine (i) how forest concessions can support the implementation of the SDGs; and (ii) what are the key barriers hindering the potential contributions of forest concessions to the SDG. The findings revealed three broad pathways through which forest concessions can support the implementation of the SDGs: (i) sustainable use and management of ecosystem goods and services as the core business; (ii) provision of public goods for socioeconomic development; and (iii) contribution to (sub) national economies through income, employment and fiscal obligations. The paper identifies region-specific (Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia) technical, legal, governance and institutional barriers limiting the potential contributions. Among these, the key barriers are unclear and conflicting tenure, and the lack of available technical and qualified personnel. The paper concludes that the contributions of forest concessions to the SDGs depend on governance context and the clear use of the instrument to deliver such objectives as better planned and implemented concessions and binding concession contracts. The paper also provides recommendations for aligning forest concessions with the SDGs.

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