Is Environmental Sustainability Taking a Backseat in China after COVID-19? The Perspective of Business Managers

China’s quick economic recovery from COVID-19 has presented a narrow but vast opportunity to build an economy that is cleaner, fairer, and safer. Will China grab this opportunity? The answer rests with both business managers and the government. Based on a questionnaire survey of 1160 owners and managers of companies headquartered in 32 regions of China and covering 30 industries, this paper explores how COVID-19 has impacted Chinese business, especially with regard to the three dimensions of sustainability (economic, social, and environmental). The results suggest that Chinese companies’ sustainability priorities have been shifted towards the social dimension both during COVID-19 and into the post-pandemic phase, regardless of the type of ownership, company size, or market focus (domestic, overseas, or mixture of the two). However, all types of company prioritize the need for economic sustainability in the post-pandemic phase and in relative terms the importance of the environmental dimension has been diminished. Hence the potential for a post-pandemic environmental rebound effect in China is clear. But it does not have to be the case if Chinese businesses and the government take actions to change its recovery plans to embrace the environmental dimension of sustainability. The paper puts forward some suggestions and recommendations for businesses and the government.

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The Influences of Travel Expenses on the Indicator Factors of Sustainability in GMS Member Countries

Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism ◽

10.14505/jemt.v12.1(49).20 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 233

Author(s):

Chaturaporn SIHABUTR ◽

Sakkarin NONTHAPOT

Keyword(s):

Granger Causality ◽

National Development ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Causality Test ◽

Good Opportunity ◽

Economic Dimension ◽

Environmental Dimension ◽

The Social

The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) member countries contain tourism resources that can attract foreign tourists to visit. This is also a good opportunity for national development under the concept of sustainability in three dimensions, i.e., environmental, economic, and social. Data from 1990 to 2019 was used, which were brought for the unit root test. Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) was used for finding the cointegration, and the vector error correction model (VECM) and Vector autoregression (VAR) were utilized for finding the short-term relationship. The Granger causality test was based on the travel expenses on the factors of sustainability. The results revealed that the data had different stationarity levels. Similarly, the influences of travel expenses on the dimensions of sustainability of each country were different, too. The long-term relationship was found from the travel expenses on the environmental dimension in Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand. The travel expenses were the Granger causality for the environmental dimension in those countries, and had a long-term relationship on the social dimension in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. However, this factor only showed the Granger causality on the social dimension in Myanmar. For the economic dimension, travel expenses had a long-term relationship only in Cambodia, and the Granger causality for the economic dimension in Cambodia and Thailand. However, travel expenses did not affect the sustainability in any dimensions in Vietnam, which possibly implied that the influences of travel expenses on sustainability in different indicators depended on the structure, readiness, and the context of each country.

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Model Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Perspektif Islam

FALAH Jurnal Ekonomi Syariah ◽

10.22219/jes.v1i2.3681 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Adib Susilo

Keyword(s):

Community Empowerment ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Muslim Community ◽

Library Research ◽

The People ◽

The Social ◽

Helping Others ◽

The Government ◽

First Time

Welfare become the trending topic of the economy from the country. One of the reasons why the country exist is to ensure welfare, just and equality for its citizens. To achieve welfare, required a symbiotic mutalisme between the government as a society and the state. Hence, direct assistance shaped material from the government to public is not a solution. Thus community empowerment is required. Islam as komperhensif teaching which implemented community empowerment since the first time. Where the messenger united between supporters and emigrants and empower them in order to achieve prosperity. The type of this research is library research with the normative descriptive methods. The result shows that the people in community empowerment evenly distributed in some principle which has been implemented by the messenger in an effort to da’wah Islamiyyah. Those principle are: justice, equality, participation, award, and helping others (ta’awun). The model of empowerment, used approach parsial-kontinu and a structural approach so as to achieve three dimensions the Muslim community, which is: faith dimensions, science dimensions and the social dimension.

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Sustainability in Participatory Sports Events: The Development of a Research Instrument and Empirical Insights

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13116034 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (11) ◽

pp. 6034

Author(s):

Ine Hugaerts ◽

Jeroen Scheerder ◽

Kobe Helsen ◽

Joris Corthouts ◽

Erik Thibaut ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Online Survey ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Future Research ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Research Instrument ◽

Sports Events ◽

The Social ◽

Development Goals

The United Nations (UN) considers sports as an important enabler of sustainable development. The popular and fast-growing Participatory Sports Event (PSE) sector can play an important role in this regard, however, research that measures and reports sustainability in PSEs is scarce. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to construct and validate a research instrument based on the UN’s sustainable development goals, and to examine sustainability in PSEs. To this end, an online survey was administered among a representative sample of 303 PSE organisers, located in Flanders, Belgium. A confirmatory factor analysis affirmed the social, economic and environmental dimensions of the instrument and provided evidence for its validity and reliability. The results reveal significant discrepancies between the three dimensions, with a noticeable lower score for environmental sustainability compared to social and economic sustainability. Furthermore, challenges are highlighted in the field of the civil society sector and in walking sports events. The findings also indicate that large-sized events are more likely to be sustainable. The current study can act as a foundation for future research on sustainability in PSEs and can assist PSE organisers and policymakers to increase the sustainability-related performance of the sector.

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DIMENSI SOSIAL DALAM TEKS AL-MU’TAZILAH

Jurnal CMES ◽

10.20961/cmes.13.1.44559 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 21

Author(s):

Eva Farhah

Keyword(s):

Social Life ◽

Academic Community ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Primary Data ◽

Social Dimensions ◽

Modern Times ◽

Scientific Analysis ◽

The Social ◽

The Government ◽

Literature Theory

Al-Mu'tazilah is a portrait of the Egyptian society which lived at some point in time. As described by Thaha Husain in order to show the disparity in the social life of people who need assistance and attention from the government or the authorities. Although the society lived in modern times at that time, not few other inhabitants still remained in underdeveloped education and social life. Through his work Al-Mu'tazilah, Thaha Husain highlights a range of social dimensions of society. This is the central issue to be addressed in this study. To reveal this social dimension, the sociology of literature theory is used, which focuses on the discussion of the sociology of both the author and the literary works. Primary data relevant to the topic were examined using a qualitative method in order to obtain an objective and scientific analysis. After all course, this study is of interest to the academic community in particular, and to other communities. The benefits are to mimic the social attitudes that can be enforced in today's life. In addition, people may refrain from doing things which might harm the social environment, such as isolating someone from another society.

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How Green Is the Green Banking Investment in Bangladesh?

Global Approaches to Sustainability Through Learning and Education - Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-0062-0.ch018 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 270-280

Author(s):

Md Hafij Ullah ◽

Parvez Mia

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Banking Sector ◽

Critical Role ◽

Annual Reports ◽

Careful Examination ◽

Environmental Damage ◽

The Social ◽

The Government ◽

Human Rights Violation

The banking sector plays a critical role in economic development while its activities are also equally responsible for social and environmental damage such as violation of human rights, loss of biodiversity, and climate change in Bangladesh. A careful examination of investing and financing activities disclosed in annual reports of 35 selected banks suggest that, while banks are taking several in-house and external green initiatives, many of them are also actively investing and funding projects like shipbreaking that threaten environmental sustainability and are prone to human rights violation. This chapter urges the government, policymakers, and central bank in developing policies and regulating banks; stakeholders in understanding banks' commitment and actions to safeguard the environment and human rights; and managers in measuring, reporting, and mitigating the social and environmental impact through their current and future lending policies.

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An Intellectual Capital Approach to Citizens’ Quality of Life in Sustainable Cities: A Focus on Europe

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11216025 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (21) ◽

pp. 6025 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Víctor-Raúl López-Ruiz ◽

José-Luis Alfaro-Navarro ◽

Domingo Nevado-Peña

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Intellectual Capital ◽

Principal Component ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Production Model ◽

Subjective Quality Of Life ◽

European Cities ◽

Environmental Dimension

The quality of life of citizens in a city is related to the sustainable decisions made by their leaders. By using principal component analysis (PCA) and taking an intellectual capital perspective (all sources of knowledge in human, relational and structural areas), we explore which of the three dimensions used to measure the sustainability of a city—economic, social or environmental—has the greatest effect on a subjective measurement of quality of life. We propose an econometric model based on a tangible production model to study the relationship between the quality of life and sustainability. To that end, we perform an in-depth examination of the different effects on the four dimensions that comprise the measure of the subjective quality of life: satisfaction, mobility, integration and public service. The results of the estimated model of citizens’ quality of life confirm the existence of a direct relationship for the 52 European cities under study; however, the least relevant role is played by the environmental dimension, which is still unappreciated by citizens. Conversely, the economic and social dimension are found to be determinants in all cases, except for social integration. Therefore, a key requirement of the management aimed at achieving sustainable development in European cities is to activate the environmental dimension.

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Miedo ante la muerte y calidad de vida en adultos mayores

Enfermería Global ◽

10.6018/eglobal.364291 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 287-304

Author(s):

Tirso Duran-Badillo ◽

Maria Aurelia Maldonado Vidales ◽

Ma de la Luz Martínez Aguilar ◽

Gustavo Gutierrez Sánchez ◽

Hermelinda Ávila Alpirez

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Older Adults ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

Global Scale ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Environmental Dimension ◽

Calidad De Vida ◽

The Social ◽

The Relationship

Objetivo: Conocer la relación entre el miedo a la muerte y calidad de vida de los adultos mayores. Material y Método: Estudio correlacional en adultos mayores. La muestra fue de 99 adultos mayores, se utilizó la Escala original de Collet-Lester de Miedo a la Muerte y al Proceso de Morir y el Cuestionario WHOQOL-BREF. Resultados: No se encontró relación en la escala global del miedo ante la muerte y el proceso de morir con la calidad de vida. Se observó relación negativa entre el miedo a la propia muerte y la dimensión física de la calidad de vida (p<.05) y en el miedo al propio proceso de morir con la dimensión ambiental de la calidad de vida (p<.05). Se encontró relación positiva entre el miedo a la muerte de los otros y la dimensión social de la calidad de vida (p<.05). Conclusiones: A menor miedo a la propia muerte mayor calidad de vida en la dimensión física, a menor miedo al propio proceso de morir mayor calidad de vida en la dimensión ambiental y a mayor miedo a la muerte de otras personas mayor calidad de vida en la dimensión social. Objective: Know the relationship between the fear of death and the quality of life ofolder adults.Materials and Method: Correlational study in older adults. The sample was 99 older adults. The original Collet-Lester Scale of Death Fear and the Dying Process and the WHOQOL-BREF Questionnaire were used.Results: No relationship found on the global scale of Death Fear and the Dying Process with the quality of life. A negative relationship was observed between the fear of own death and the physical dimension of the quality of life (p<.05), and the fear of the process of dying with the environmental dimension of quality of life (p<.05). Positive relationship was found between the fear of the death of others and the social dimension of quality of life (p <.05).Conclusions: A lesser fear of one's own death higher quality of life in the physical dimension, a lesser fear of the process of dying, greater quality of life in the environmental dimension and the greater the fear of the death of other people, the greater the quality of life in the social dimension.

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Perilaku Kekerasaan Dalam Rumah Tangga Sebagai Pelanggaran Hak Asasi Manusia

JOURNAL OF LEGAL RESEARCH ◽

10.15408/jlr.v1i6.14418 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (6) ◽

Author(s):

Ahmad Mukri Aji

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Human Rights ◽

Research Method ◽

Legal Protection ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Criminal Code ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Literature Study ◽

The Social ◽

The Government

Abstract:Domestic violence is a behavior that can be categorized as a violation of human rights. Because this behavior results in disruption of the social dimension of humanity, due to actions that do not humanize humans in general. Even in the context of domestic violence, the perpetrators who are supposed to protect even commit acts of violence, mistreatment, intimidation and even the loss of the victim's life. The research method uses the normative juridical method, using secondary data obtained through literature study and analyzed qualitatively. The results and discussion of this study are that there are aspects of human rights violations that occur in domestic violence behavior. So the government is obliged to take action in the form of legal protection for victims by ensnaring the perpetrators with laws and regulations. Both the Criminal Code and the Law on the Elimination of Domestic Violence.Keywords: Domestic Violence Behavior, Human Rights, Violence.

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The Amount of Sustainable Development Dimensions in the Developed Content of Fifth Grade Science Curriculum in the Sultanate of Oman

International Journal of research in Educational Sciences ◽

10.29009/ijres.4.3.7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 227

Author(s):

Amal Rabia Saleh Al Kahali ◽

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Mohamed Ali Ahmed Shahat ◽

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Science Curriculum ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Fifth Grade ◽

Sultanate Of Oman ◽

Economic Dimension ◽

First Semester ◽

Environmental Dimension ◽

The Social

The current study aimed at identifying the amount of sustainable development dimensions were included in the developed science curriculum for the fifth grade in the Sultanate of Oman. The sample of this study consisted of analyzing the content of the students’ textbook and activity book for the fifth grade for the first semester of the academic year 2020-2021. A descriptive content analysis was adopted to achieve the purpose of the study. A content analysis card was further designed that included the dimensions of sustainable development (the environmental dimension, the social dimension, and the economic dimension) and the reliability was checked by some academic referees. The results of the study revealed that the content of the analyzed textbooks included all dimensions of sustainable development, to varying degrees. The availability of social dimension was the highest with (80.07%) percent, followed by the environmental dimension with a percentage of (13.41%), and the lowest dimension was economic with (6.52%) percent. Increasing the availability of sub-issues in the content of the analyzed science curriculum that did not appear sufficiently compared to others was recommended due to its relevance to achieve sustainability.

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Sustainability Awareness of In-Service Physical Education Teachers

Education Sciences ◽

10.3390/educsci11120798 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (12) ◽

pp. 798

Author(s):

Salvador Baena-Morales ◽

Alberto Ferriz-Valero ◽

Javier Campillo-Sánchez ◽

Sixto González-Víllora

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Physical Education ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Future Research ◽

Physical Education Teachers ◽

Economic Dimension ◽

The Social ◽

Development Goals

Physical Education has been described as a subject with unique characteristics that can contribute to achieving Sustainable Development Goals. However, an analysis of PE teachers’ (PETs) sustainability consciousness has not yet been conducted. For this purpose, a total of 203 PETs completed the validated SCQ-S instrument to measure the three dimensions of sustainable development in three components of consciousness (attitudes, knowledge and behaviours). The results obtained show that the PETs have a high consciousness for sustainable development (SD), except for attitudes within the economic dimension. Sex has been identified as a variable that determines awareness in sustainability with significantly higher scores for women in all the variables evaluated, except for knowledge and behaviour in the social dimension. These findings provide new knowledge within the Physical Education and SD paradigm, serving as a link for future research that aims to harness the benefits of Physical Education for the sustainability of the planet.

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