scholarly journals On the Assessment of e-Banking Websites Supporting Sustainable Development Goals

Energies ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 378
Author(s):  
Witold Chmielarz ◽  
Marek Zborowski
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Promethee Ii ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Conversion Method ◽  
Development Goals

The main aim of this article was to test the authors’ proprietary method (i.e., the conversion method applied to evaluate e-banking services that support sustainable development goals in households, communities, and society). The authors’ conversion method can be applied with the aim of maintaining a balance between households, producers, and public administration services in line with the principles of sustainable development of the information society in Poland. To achieve this goal, the authors identified the differences between the results obtained using the conversion method and the results produced by other methods such as TOPSIS, Promethee II, and PROSA involving the same group of respondents. A hypothesis was made about the existence of significant differences in the results obtained as part of the studies. The research was carried out on a sample of nearly 830 ratings concerning the 27 most popular electronic banks in Poland. As part of the survey, the respondents assessed 18 characteristics (attributes) of the selected banks using a simplified Likert scale. The study was conducted during the pandemic in Poland in 2020. The authors compared the results achieved in the case of the TOPSIS, Promethee II, and PROSA methods and the ones obtained with the application of the conversion method. Then, the ratings of the e-banking websites were arranged in descending order, and the distances between the positions in the rankings obtained by the conversion method and other methods were calculated. In addition, the R2 correlation coefficients were calculated for all combinations of the results received using individual methods. The results showed the greatest differences both in the absolute distances between the positions obtained in the ranking and the lowest value of the R2 correlation coefficient in the case of the conversion method in relation to the other methods. The limitation of the present research resulted from the fact that the study sample included respondents who were all members of the academic environment. The students analyzed in the study were part of a group supporting globalization processes where e-business solutions are widely used. However, the purchases of goods and services both local and foreign made by this group were often limited in scope and value due to a lack of funds. The research results indicate a potential need for improvement of the conversion method.

scholarly journals Sustainable Public Administration

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6382
Author(s):  
Harald Heinrichs ◽  
Norman Laws
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Member States ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), was agreed upon by 193 member states of the United Nations in September 2015 [...]

Sustainable city and effects on it of natural hazard: Design by gamification

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-161
Author(s):  
Paz Fernández ◽  
Matías Ceacero
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
The Face ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
A Current

With this study we want to go deeper into the design and management of cities, as well as their sustainability. Similarly, we want to check the effects of different natural hazards in cities by carrying out simulations, using gamification. In order to do this, we start from the hypothesis that the material used, Cities: Skylines, could have potential both as a tool for territorial planning and in the Analysis and Management of Natural Hazards. To confirm this hypothesis, a series of variables will be handled, such as the sustainable city that we are going to build and the measures that will be established to prevent or minimize the impacts produced by natural damage. In this sense, in order for our city to achieve sustainability, these measures must be effective in comparison with another city that does not contemplate them, in which we assume that the losses will be greater in the face of the same catastrophe. To justify this study, we start from the evidence that the current human population settlements present an unsustainable model, to a greater or lesser extent. Due to this, numerous authors have studied the impacts produced by these settlements on the environment, as well as new models that mitigate, as far as possible, these impacts, thus paving the way for the current unsustainability. This is a current issue, which is demonstrated by the approval in 2015 of the Agenda 2030 on sustainable development by the United Nations Organization, which has 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Of these, we have focused on the eleventh because it is more relevant to our work, as it aims to make urban agglomerations inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. In the goals of this ODS we can see that one of its purposes is to make cities resilient and resistant to natural hazards. This can be justified by the approximately 90,000 deaths per year that they cause, in addition to direct losses of property and indirect losses of goods and services and some intangible losses. Bearing this in mind, the need for actions to prevent, minimize or repair these damages caused by natural hazards is more than notable, as is the importance of our study. Keywords: Urban sustainability, Natural hazards, Gamification.

scholarly journals Public administration in the Republic of Belarus: principles for sustainable development

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
E. V. Pilgun ◽  
O. N. Leshenyuk
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Common Criteria ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Eurasian Economic Union ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Basic Infrastructure

Introduction. The article describes the principles of building state policy for the implementation of sustainable development goals in the Republic of Belarus. The authors analyse the compliance of the Belarusian national legislation with the principles of effective public administration in the interests of sustainable development.Material and methods. The study is based on general scientific and special methods. In view of the nature of the researched issues, the comparative research of the legal base of the Republic of Belarus, as well as analogy were of particular importance. Much attention was paid to the analysis of the National Concept of Sustainable Development of the Republic of Bela­rus until 2035 and the Roadmap for the implementation of the SDGs in the Republic of Belarus.Results. The effectiveness of public administration should be assessed by the fol­lowing parameters: security, international recognition, the ability of the state to pro­vide access to quality education and health care, the ability to involve the regions, the ability to provide basic infrastructure (transport capabilities, registration, statistics), the ability to replenish the treasury – taxation, the ability to organize management: the structure of public administration, procedures and selection of management person­nel, rational consumption of goods and services, maximum conservation of ecosystems in the process of natural resource management, cooperation with international part­ners and international organizations, development of integration processes with the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union.Discussion and Conclusions. Today it is necessary to take into consideration that both Belarus and Russia are involved in the implementation of the UN SDGs as part of the implementation of the Union State project. So, it is extremely important to harmonize our approaches, including in matters of effective public administration. And it is necessary to introduce common criteria for evaluating efficiency, which can have a positive effect through the synergy of both systems, to coordinate public admin­istration in both countries. In addition, joint implementation, and preparation of joint projects in terms of improving public administration should be carried out.

scholarly journals Population, Ecological Footprint and the Sustainable Development Goals

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Partha Dasgupta ◽  
Aisha Dasgupta ◽  
Scott Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
World Population ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
High Level

AbstractThe Anthropocene can be read as being the era when the demand humanity makes on the biosphere’s goods and services—humanity’s ‘ecological footprint’—vastly exceeds its ability to supply it on a sustainable basis. Because the ‘ecological’ gap is met by a diminution of the biosphere, the inequality is increasing. We deploy estimates of the ecological gap, global GDP and its growth rates in recent years, and the rate at which natural capital has declined, to study three questions: (1) at what rate must efficiency at which Nature’s services are converted into GDP rise if the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for year 2030 are to be sustainable; (2) what would a sustainable figure for world population be if global living standard is to be maintained at an acceptably high level? (3) What living standard could we aspire to if world population was to attain the UN’s near lower-end projection for 2100 of 9 billion? While we take a global perspective, the reasoning we deploy may also be applied on a smaller scale. The base year we adopt for our computations is the pre-pandemic 2019.

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