scholarly journals Study on the Sustainability Evaluation Method of Logistics Parks Based on Emergy

Processes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1247
Author(s):  
Cui Wang ◽  
Hongjun Liu ◽  
Li’e Yu ◽  
Hongyan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Ecological Efficiency ◽  
Sustainability Evaluation ◽  
Environmental Friendliness ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Internal Relationship

To improve the sustainable development ability of logistics parks, this study constructs a sustainability evaluation method of logistics parks based on emergy; analyzes the input (energy, land, investment, equipment, information technology, and human resources) and output (income and waste) of logistics parks from the perspective of emergy; studies the characteristics of the emergy flow of logistics parks; and constructs the function, structure, ecological efficiency, and sustainable development indexes of logistics parks. The basic situation, resource efficiency, and environmental friendliness of the logistics parks are comprehensively evaluated from the emergy point of view. On this basis, targeted decision suggestions are provided for the sustainable development of logistics parks. Finally, the feasibility and effectiveness of the method are verified by an example. This study reveals the internal relationship among economic, environmental, and social benefits of logistics parks through emergy and provides theoretical and methodological support for the sustainable development of logistics parks.

scholarly journals Emergy-Based Assessment and Suggestions for Sustainable Development of Regional Ecological Economy: A Case Study of Anhui Province, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2988
Author(s):  
Cui Wang ◽  
Yingyan Zhang ◽  
Conghu Liu ◽  
Fagang Hu ◽  
Shuling Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Anhui Province ◽  
Evaluation Index System ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Environmental Friendliness ◽  
The Sustainable Development

In view of the coordination of economy, society, and environment in the process of the rapid development of the regional economy, this study proposes the evaluation method of sustainable development of a regional economy on the basis of emergy. The study also constructed an evaluation index system of sustainable development of regional ecological economy from four aspects, namely, structural, functional, and ecological efficiency, and sustainable development index. The objective was to comprehensively evaluate the quality and environmental friendliness of regional economic development. On this basis, this study measured and evaluated the sustainable development of the ecological economy in Anhui Province by using emergy to analyze the statistical data of the economic development of Anhui Province, China, from 2010 to 2018. The study also provides targeted decision-making suggestions for the sustainable and high-quality development of the Anhui economy. Furthermore, this study provides a measure and evaluation method for the sustainable development of the regional economy and effective policy recommendations, which have important theoretical and practical significance.

scholarly journals The Impact of Ad-Blocking on the Sustainable Development of the Digital Advertising Ecosystem

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janusz Wielki ◽  
Janusz Grabara
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Advertising Industry ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Excessive Number

Despite the rapidly growing expenditure on digital advertising, the effectiveness of the functioning of the digital advertising ecosystem is becoming less and less visible. This is related to the fact that only a small part of the expenditure incurred by organizations on various forms of digital advertising brings the expected results. For several years now, a phenomenon that stifles the effectiveness of the digital advertising ecosystem and deteriorates the ROI (return on investment) of advertisers has been the widespread practice of blocking advertising, known as ad-blocking. In this context, the aim of this article is to analyze the scale of the phenomenon of ad-blocking and its causes in terms of its impact on the effectiveness of the functioning of the digital advertising ecosystem and its sustainable development, which is extremely important from the point of view of the development of electronic commerce. In order to carry out this study, a literature analysis was conducted on the genesis of this phenomenon, its scale, causes, and economic effects. After this stage of research, in order to obtain primary data, a questionnaire survey was conducted on a group of individual Internet users. The results of the research indicated three main reasons for the development of ad-blocking. These are: excessive number of advertisements, their excessive invasiveness, and the mismatch between the advertisements displayed to the user and the user’s interests. In the context of these results and of the continued sustainable functioning of the digital advertising ecosystem, it is essential that the advertising industry be able to offer users alternatives to ad-blocking that they consider valuable from their own point of view and that take the users’ expectations into account.

HUMAN RESOURCES POTENTIAL OF GOVERNMENT AND MANAGEMENT BODIES: SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECT

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
Alexander G. Tyurikov ◽  
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Irina E. Nadutkina ◽  
Margarita S. Veselova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Advanced Education ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Sociological Aspect

The article deals with topical issues related to the further development of the human resources potential of government and management bodies. It is emphasized that the mechanism implementations strategies for ensuring the sustainable development of regions and municipalities are largely determined by systematic work with the managerial personnel reserve, which must necessarily bear the signs of continuity and continuity, as well as stimulate the improvement of the professional level and advanced education of senior personnel.

scholarly journals Conservation for Sustainable Development: The Sustainability Evaluation of the Xijie Historic District, Dujiangyan City, China

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huaiyun Kou ◽  
Jian Zhou ◽  
Jie Chen ◽  
Sichu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Historic District ◽  
Sustainability Evaluation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Historic Districts ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
Using Data

Historic districts have become a significant aspect of urban diversity and sustainable development, due to their dual attributes of cultural heritage and living community. This study aims to assess the influence of conservation efforts on the sustainable development of historic districts. Based on a literature review, this study designed a sustainability evaluation model that included twelve indicators and twenty-seven sub-indicators, in reference to heritage conservation, stakeholder participation, economic development, and planning and governance. The case study of the Xijie Historic District in Dujiangyan City, China, was selected to apply the model. Using data collected via questionnaire surveys and in-depth interviews, and using qualitative and quantitative combined methods and weighted averages, the model produced the sustainability index of the Xijie Historic District. Further examinations were performed and findings were explored, regarding the conservation efforts for the Xijie Historic District. Despite the research limitation of a lack of multi-sample verification, the results of the assessment are consistent with what is found in practice, demonstrating the validity of the model. The sustainability evaluation model can be applied to various historic districts and regions, by reassigning indicator weights to the different cases; the indicators system also provides references for research and practical applications for the conservation and sustainable development of other heritage types.

scholarly journals Creative Food Cycles: A Cultural Approach to the Food Life-Cycles in Cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6487
Author(s):  
Manuel Navarro Gausa ◽  
Silvia Pericu ◽  
Nicola Canessa ◽  
Giorgia Tucci
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food System ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Open Platform ◽  
Design Culture ◽  
Eu Project

The new contemporary multi-city needs the landscape as a proactive eco-systemic infrastructure in order to rethink the whole food system, from the design of public spaces to domestic spaces. In this direction, Creative Food Cycles (CFC) is an EU project that, according to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), addresses the topic of food as a cross-cutting factor and powerful accelerator toward the co-design of sustainability in cities. Design culture today has begun to question and innovate production, distribution, and recycling models of food cycles. In the post-consumption and disposal phase illustrated herein, making the most of food means conceiving waste as a resource for the creation of new sustainable materials or prototypes. The concept of food waste and food losses has been shown to be not only a topic at the center of the debate but also a powerful tool for raising awareness of sustainable development at the community level. The CFC actions shown here were developed with the objective of persuading consumers to change their behaviors, while at the same time exploring cultural and social perceptions. With the aim of making cities more sustainable, this paper describes tools to engage different stakeholders, such as architects, product designers, and citizens, from a cultural point of view. The ongoing research has turned in the end into an educational campaign and an open platform where prototypes, new materials, and products are developed as inspiration for change.

scholarly journals Reproduction Forms of Sustainable Development Policy in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 04020
Author(s):  
Sergey Zhironkin ◽  
Juraj Janocko ◽  
Svetlana Demchenko ◽  
Yulia Suslova ◽  
Olga Zhironkina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Production Complex

The objective meaning of the sustainable development process in relation to the neo-industrialization of the economy is to create conditions for the restoration of the ecological identity of the national economy as a multi-industry production complex. We consider the neo-industrial development of the economy as the re-establishment of a competitive manufacturing complex in it, capable of saturating the domestic market avoiding increasing the burden on the environment with the innovative development of raw materials production, creating the material basis of national competitiveness in the environmental plan. From sustainable development point of view, neo-industrialization means conducting a comprehensive structural policy, the object of which should be national reproduction, and the subject is deep transformations of the processes that form the complex of human impact on nature, its institutional and technological structure, increasing the reproductive role of the green economy based on the potential of the internal market. At the same time, the history of greening industry, which dates back to the 1990s, testifies to the positive experience of replacing global production chains of raw materials, in particular, energy carriers, with the benefits of a fundamentally new type – alternative energy sources, biomaterials. Therefore, the development of technologically advanced manufacturing industry based on technologies of the green economy is possible as a result of the formation of production of goods and services that are maximally focused on meeting the environmental needs of society.

scholarly journals Teaching for a Better World. Sustainability and Sustainable Development Goals in the Construction of a Change-Maker University

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Zamora-Polo ◽  
Jesús Sánchez-Martín
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Primary Teacher ◽  
Practical Consideration ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Development Goals

Sustainability, as a key concept in the education field, has submitted a relevant change during the last years. Thus, there is a growing debate about its meaning. It has undergone a crucial merging of significances from many fields: Ecology, environmental awareness, but also from politics, ethics or even spiritual approaches. All these fields have been co-involved in the building of such subject concept. In this sense, this article addresses the different ways of understanding sustainability as a polyhedral concept and how sustainability can be understood under the umbrella of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Furthermore, it is proposed a conceptual framework to teach this UN Program at Higher Education, contributing to the training of undergraduate and postgraduate students from both a professional and a personal point of view. This framework is applied in a case study—in particular, in a course of Primary Teacher Degree called Didactics of Matter and Energy. This article finishes with practical consideration to build a change-maker University.

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