scholarly journals Environmental Analysis and the Dual Grand Challenge of COVID-19 and Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elefteria Psillakis
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Analysis ◽  
Grand Challenge

scholarly journals Implementation of sustainable development goals: The role for business academics

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 571-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Leanne Christ ◽  
Roger Leonard Burritt
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
Modern Slavery ◽  
Development Goals

Achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 is a Grand Challenge, especially for business academics who have a responsibility to work with businesses regarding their management and contributions. Two main challenges are examined in the article: the need for academics to work together towards holistic solutions to SDG problems, and the need for stronger engagement to reduce the distance between academics and practitioners/ practice. It then develops a framework that considers the knowledge-generation and application roles business academics face in addressing groups of insiders and outsiders. Finally, the use of the framework is demonstrated via a case study of modern slavery in corporate supply chains. JEL Classification: M14, Q01

scholarly journals An environmental analysis of the acaraú river basin, Brazilian northeastern region

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-123
Author(s):  
Vanda Claudino-Sales
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Analysis ◽  
Arid Region ◽  
Hydrographic Basin ◽  
Semi Arid Region ◽  
Regional Authorities ◽  
Semi Arid

The rivers and their watersheds are fundamental elements of socioeconomic activities. In this article, we analyze the hydrographic basin of the Acaraú River, situated in the northeast of Brazil, from its geoenvironmental aspects, based on the perspective of the geosystem. In this perspective, a geoenvironmental picture of the hydrographic basin in question is presented, as well as the environmental problems that characterize it, postulating the need to carry out this type of survey to define the basin as a fundamental planning unit. The Acaraú River basin has particular characteristics, since it is located in a poor and extremely populous semi-arid region, which results in socio-environmental stress, whose main consequence is the environmental degradation of the fluvial course. The regional authorities need to be aware of the geoenvironmental elements raised in order to reverse this framework of socio-environmental degradation of water resources and to allow territorial growth based on sustainable development.

The economic analysis of the impact of grand challenges on sustainability and continuity of business entities’ activities

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 1994-2020
Author(s):  
Nikolai P. LYUBUSHIN ◽  
Nadezhda E. BABICHEVA ◽  
Ol'ga M. KUPRYUSHINA ◽  
Dmitrii G. KHANIN
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
Grand Challenges ◽  
The Face ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
The Impact

Subject. The article addresses the need to develop new methodological tools for assessing threats to and opportunities of sustainable development of business entities, enabling to adequately reflect their activities in the analysis of their interaction in rapidly changing economic conditions. Objectives. The aim is to underpin a methodological approach to the formation of indicators for assessing the sustainable development of business entities in the face of grand challenges, which rests on the grouping of indicators according to the type of economic development. Methods. The study draws on resource-oriented approach, which we developed and tested in the economic analysis of sustainable development of business entities, and statistical methods. Results. Based on the methods of cognitive and resource-oriented analysis, we defined a set of basic indicators, characterizing the intellectual capital. The implementation of the methodological approach enabled to identify two baseline indicators of intellectual capital involved in the formation of a Grand Challenge, i.e. the number of computers with access to global information networks and the cost of patents and licenses for inventions, industrial designs, utility models. We developed and evaluated integrated indicators of intellectual capital to determine the possibilities of sustainable development of economic entities of the Russian Federation. Conclusions. The offered approach helps define a set of indicators of different types of capital to be included in the integrated reporting and analysis of possibilities of economic entities’ sustainable development in the face of grand challenges. The produced set of indicators is basic and may change.

Food security, inclusive growth, sustainability and the sustainable development agenda1

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Hanson ◽  
Tim Searchinger ◽  
Richard Waite ◽  
Betsy Otto ◽  
Brian Lipinski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Security Challenge ◽  
Water Intensity ◽  
Global Population

This chapter considers the food security challenge to 2030 and its implications for the sustainable development agenda. It first outlines three proposed food security targets that integrate sustainability and must be achieved by 2030: reduce the rate of food loss and waste by 50 per cent; reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from food production by 25 per cent; reduce the water-intensity of agricultural production by 30 per cent. It then discusses the grand challenge as well as opportunity at the nexus of food security, economic development and the environment and proceeds by introducing six core propositions aimed at meeting the food security challenge and how this challenge affects the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Finally, it explains how proposed food security targets would help feed the growing global population in a manner that results in poverty alleviation and economic development while reducing pressure on natural resources.

scholarly journals Setting up a methodology for evaluating, analyzing and predicting the sustainable development of economic agents amid Grand Challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-386
Author(s):  
N.P. Lyubushin ◽  
N.E. Babicheva ◽  
O.M. Kupryushina ◽  
D.I. Khanin
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
National Development ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Grand Challenges ◽  
The Impact

Subject. Mentioned in the Strategy for Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation, Grand Challenges entail difficulties, threats and opportunities for the national development. The complicated nature, scale of problems and threats cannot be addressed, eliminated or resolved by multiplying resources consumed. This aspect should be taken into consideration in evaluating, analyzing and predicting the sustainable development of economic agents operating amid grand challenges. Objectives. We outline a methodology for a set of methods used to evaluate, analyze and predict the sustainable development of economic agents operating amid grand challenges. Methods. The methodological framework comprises the resource-based approach, which we set up and tested when conducting the economic analysis of the sustainable development of economic agents. Results. The article produced an algorithm for evaluating, analyzing and predicting the sustainable development of economic agents operating amid grand challenges. We determined sustainable development indicators throughout hierarchical levels and thresholds based on the Fibonacci numbers, which satisfy the sustainable development amid grand challenges. Conclusions. There should be a set of subjective, industrial and technological indicators to monitor the performance of national programs and strategies and governance of economic operations, since such indicators could help gauge the impact of the grand challenge throughout its phases. The proposed algorithm will amplify the economic analysis methodology and highlight partial and integrated indicators measuring reserves and new operational environment of economic agents in the time of grand challenges.

scholarly journals Spatial Modelling in Environmental Analysis and Civil Engineering

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 3945
Author(s):  
Artur Janowski ◽  
Jakub Szulwic ◽  
Paweł Tysiąc
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Analysis ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Spatial Modelling

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