scholarly journals Smart Specialisation Strategies for Elevating Integration of Cultural Heritage into Circular Economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jermina Stanojev ◽  
Christer Gustafsson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Regional Competitiveness ◽  
Member States ◽  
Smart Specialisation

The smart specialisation approach is becoming a strategic instrument for identifying regions’ opportunities for growth and sustainable development. It is a place-based approach and plays an important role in benchmarking regional competitiveness. To have a smart specialisation strategy has been thought of as a key factor in making a choice for investment. Smart specialisation strategies represent a policy measure to overcome disorganised and weak parallel activities in developed EU countries and offer support to those areas that have research, technological and production capacity to carry out particular activities. Smart specialisation strategies, therefore, follow the socio-economic situation in countries and their integrated technological, institutional and business processes. The EU Member States and regions recognised that supporting a limited number of well-identified priorities for knowledge-based investments and/or clusters could advance, focusing on competitive assets and realistic growth capabilities reinforced by a critical mass of action and entrepreneurial resources. However, the role of culture and cultural heritage has not been significant in these processes. As the policy review revealed that circular economy should be considered as a broader sustainable development strategy, which should also “support Member States and regions to strengthen innovation for the circular economy through smart specialisations”, the purpose of this paper is to lay a basis for a new, stronger complementarity between culture, cultural heritage and adaptive reuse practices, and circular economy concepts through smart specialisation strategies.

scholarly journals International Dimension of Scientific and Technological Integration of the EAEU in the Context of Sustainable Development Strategy: Political and Legal Framework

Lex Russica ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 148-163
Author(s):  
M. V. Shugurov
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Regional Competitiveness ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
Transfer Of Technology ◽  
Technological Modernization

The focus of the paper is the process of development of international innovative and scientifictechnological cooperation of the EAEU in the context of transition to sustainable development. The study is aimed at the formation of a conceptual model of external cooperation for international innovation, science and technology (MINTS) of the EAEU in the light of the tasks set by the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development in relation to the direction of development and transfer of technology, knowledge and innovation, as well as the emerging strategy for sustainable development of the EAEU. The result of the study is identification of the objectives of this cooperation; disclosure of the specifics of its political and legal framework; establishment of its subject composition; priority areas clarification. The conclusion of the study is the conceptual position that the EAEU’s external cooperation on innovation, science and technology in modern conditions ensures not only the technological modernization of the economy of the Member States as the basis of global competitiveness, but also regional competitiveness in achieving the sustainable development goals. In accordance with this, the author identifies a number of tasks that need to be solved by the Union, namely: the formation of a regional strategy for sustainable development, increasing the importance of environmental issues in the framework of the Eurasian integration project, the development of a strategy for international scientific and technological cooperation of the Member States, taking into account their membership in the EAEU and further — the transition to a coordinated and then unified policy in the field of the MINTS with international organizations, other regional associations of the states and foreign countries.

scholarly journals Enhancing the Cultural Heritage through Adaptive Reuse. A Multicriteria Approach to Evaluate the Castello Visconteo in Cusago (Italy)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4440
Author(s):  
Marta Dell’Ovo ◽  
Federico Dell’Anna ◽  
Raffaella Simonelli ◽  
Leopoldo Sdino
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Adaptive Reuse ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Lombardy Region ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Alternative Scenarios

Cultural heritage can play a strategic role in developing a sustainable built environment, contributing to the improvement of the economic, social, and environmental productivity of a city. Human activities are constantly affecting the quality of the environment and altering the ecosystems, which produce negative consequences also on human wellbeing. Within this context, it has been much discussed how cities and the built environment can counteract this process by supporting more sustainable development. Adaptive reuse is defined as “a process that changes a disused or ineffective item into a new item that can be used for a different purpose”, which strongly triggers the sustainable development of cities. It can be recognized as a promoter of economic growth, social wellbeing, and environmental preservation, given its capability of both preserving past values and creating new ones. The adaptive reuse matches the main points of the circular economy, seen as the sustainable economy, which is aimed at the reduction of natural resource extraction and environmental impact by extending the useful life of materials and promoting recovery, reuse, and regeneration processes. Given these premises, the current contribution aimed to evaluate alternative scenarios for reuse in Castello Visconteo in Cusago, located in the Lombardy region (Italy), and understanding how adaptive reuse could contribute to generating new values within a circular economy perspective. In detail, four alternative scenarios were proposed to face the new needs born during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Since both intangible and tangible values must be considered, a multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) has been applied by combining economic and qualitative indicators to define the most suitable function for its adaptive reuse. In detail, the Novel Approach to Imprecise Assessment and Decision Environments (NAIADE) was used to identify the best alternative solution based on the opinions of conflicting stakeholders. The innovativeness of the contribution is given by the combination of different methodologies, the preservation of the memory and the generation of new values, and the consideration of adaptive reuse as a strategy for the achievement of sustainable development within a circular economy perspective.

scholarly journals ARCTIC SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DURING RUSSIAN CHAIRMANSHIP AT THE ARCTIC COUNCIL

2021 ◽  
Vol 228 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-235
Author(s):  
JULIA V. ZVORYKINA ◽  
◽  
KIRILL S. TETERYATNIKOV ◽  
DANEK А. PAVLOVSKY ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Law ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Arctic Council ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article is meant to analyze new opportunities of the forthcoming presidency of the Russian Federation in the Arctic Council designed to implement the Arctic Development Strategy of the Russian Federation, strengthen international cooperation and give a new impetus to largescale national and international sustainable development projects in the Arctic, focused on improving the resilience of the environment and population of the Council member states. The authors considered the approaches to formulation of sustainable development priorities in international law and Russian legislation, peculiarities of sustainable development projects in the Arctic, prospective directions of Russian chairmanship in the Arctic Council taking into account postpandemic development of the world economy. Relevant proposals and recommendations on specific areas of cooperation and major projects that could be implemented in the interests of all member states of the Arctic Council are given. A proposal for Arctic Development Bank foundation has been put forward and substantiated.

scholarly journals Modeling the System of Economic Security of AgroHoldings as the Basis for their Sustainable Development in the Context of Global Crisis Management

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 64-72
Author(s):  
A. V. Gluschchenko ◽  
E. P. Kucherova ◽  
M. V. Denisov
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

The global economic system is at the stage of its active formation and development. Its borders and conditions of existence are constantly changing, which is accompanied by crises, which affect the economic systems of all countries participating in the world economy. The current global fnancial crisis, which is global and systemic, revealed a lack of effective theoretical approaches to the development of practical methods for overcoming the crisis phenomena used in the management of integrated agro-formations. This predetermines the need to improve the system of global crisis management that contributes to an adequate response to crises and is based on innovative approaches and the application of modern concepts of sustainable development in order to ensure economic security. The globalization of the fnancial and food markets, on the one hand, allows the agro-holdings to compare and evaluate the effciency of investment simultaneously within the entire international economy; expand and strengthen the fnancing capacity of various economic projects. On the other hand, qualitative changes in the global economy are of a deep and risky nature, due to the rapid development of fnancial innovations, which leads to an insuffcient degree of development of the system of ensuring economic security of international activities of economic entities. As a result of the analysis of the activities of integrated agro-formations, the current trends in the development and functioning of agricultural holdings in the context of the global fnancial crisis have been revealed. The specifcs of ensuring sustainable development of agrostructures in the context of global crisis management are defned: soil-climatic, biological, ecological, technological, and organization of agricultural territories. A model for ensuring the economic security of the agricultural holding through a sustainable development strategy was developed and justifed, including the following elements: a mission, a goal and a system of balanced indicators. The decomposition of the activities of integrated agro-formation into groups of balanced indicators has been made: fnance, customers, internal business processes, training and development, competitors and on-farm decomposition system. The internal and external threats to economic security, which are the basis for the selected groups of the BSS (balanced scorecard system) for integrated agro-formations, are singled out. Fields of economic security of the agro-structure (critical, low, normal and high) are defned, as well as sustainable development strategies for each feld, allowing to move from a critical level of economic security to the high one.

Study on the Future Development of Green Design Technology in Product Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 694-697 ◽  
pp. 3199-3203
Author(s):  
Hu Rui ◽  
Wang Xuan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Recycling Industry ◽  
The World ◽  
Survival And Development ◽  
Circular Economy System ◽  
Economy System

Through the analysis of the interaction between the development of the world economy as well as the economic system and the resources and environment system, this paper describes the concept of the green circular economy. Green circular economy is the basis of sustainable human survival and development, while design manufacturing of green products and green recycling industry is the two most important aspects of a green circular economy system. Only the two aspects develop coordinated can maximize the achievement of sustainable development strategy.

scholarly journals Agri-Environmental Issues in the National Sustainable Development Strategy of the Member States of the Enlarged EU

2005 ◽  
pp. 346-353
Author(s):  
Andrea Gáthy
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Accession Countries ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Eu

In preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg), almost all EU member-states and some accession countries presented their national strategies for sustainable development (NSSD) during the summer of 2002. Along with other countries, Hungary is only now setting up this important document. Everywhere during the last decade, as in the EU countries, the intention was to involve the environmental problems into other political questions (agricultural, energy and transport policy, etc.). Today the strategy-builders have given up the sectoral view because of difficulties and setbacks, and use a view aiming the problem.Agri-environmental issues appear as the elements of sustainability in the national strategies. For example, in accordance with the danger of global warming, the emission of green-house gasses of agriculture; in line with eco-efficiency, the production of renewable raw materials and energy sources originating from agriculture, and, in relation to changing lifestyle, food-safety and the future of biological agriculture will be disputed. With this study, I investigate the main characteristics of sustainable development strategies at both the EU level and at the level of the different member states from an agri-environmental point of view.

scholarly journals ACHIEVEMENTS OF LITHUANIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DURING THE INTEGRATION PROCESS INTO THE EUROPEAN UNION

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genovaitė Liobikienė ◽  
Justina Mandravickaitė
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Price Level ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Trade Patterns ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Eu

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Lithuania rapidly started turning towards European trade patterns averting from those of the former communist regime. However, European integration has had an effect not only on convergence of gross domestic product (GDP) but also on convergence of prices as well as on alteration of living standards. The goals of Lithuanian integration to the EU were noted in the National Lithuanian Sustainable Development Strategy. The key objective of sustainable development in Lithuania was to achieve the present developmental level of the EU countries according to indicators of economic and social development. Therefore, the paper compares the convergence across the old and newer member-states of the EU in terms of GDP, household final consumption expenditure and comparative price level indices. In addition, it is revealed that Lithuanian expenditure patterns rapidly approach those of the old member-states of the EU. Consequently, Lithuanian integration to the EU contributes to approaching the EU-15 level what means the successful achievements of Sustainable Development Strategy as well. So, the aim of this paper is to show how successful are Lithuanian sustainable development achievements in terms of GDP, comparative price level and household expenditure within framework of integration to the EU.

scholarly journals Importance of Sustainable Mineral Resource Management in Implementing the Circular Economy (CE) Model and the European Green Deal Strategy

Resources ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marzena Smol ◽  
Paulina Marcinek ◽  
Joanna Duda ◽  
Dominika Szołdrowska
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Individual Member ◽  
Member States ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Circular Model ◽  
Strong Emphasis

The European Green Deal is the new strategy for economic growth adopted by the European Commission (EC) in late 2019. One of the most important tasks in the realisation of this strategy is the mobilisation of the industry for a clean and circular economy (CE). Currently, the European Union (EU) is in the process of transformation towards a CE model, which was announced in 2014. The CE assumes a transition from a linear model based on take–make–dispose to a circular model, in which waste, if it arises, becomes a valuable resource. At the same time, it is recommended to use raw materials (RMs) more efficiently and to recycle them. The EC underlines that both changes in the management of mineral resources in individual member states and their effects should be monitored. Therefore, in 2018, the EC pointed out issues related to RM management as important elements of the monitoring framework in transformation process towards CE. The paper presents strategic directions aimed at sustainable and circular RM management in the EU, with a strong emphasis on the key elements of sustainable development—environmental, economic and social. Moreover, the importance of mineral resources management in the EC in the context of transformation towards the European Green Deal and CE is presented, and the results of selected CE indicators related to the RMs, and indicators that present sustainable RMs management are discussed. The core of the paper is presentation of a set of recommended actions which should be taken in coming years with strong emphasis on the implementation of the sustainable development (SD) principles. RM management faces a number of challenges, primarily in achieving increased levels of critical raw materials (CRMs) recycling, as well as the greater involvement of stakeholders themselves and awareness raising in the field of SD and CE among enterprises operating in the RMs sector. Currently, all member states are working together to accelerate the transformation process in the area of CE and the European Green Deal, e.g., by implementing national CE programs. A great opportunity to accelerate the transformation process is the new financial perspective for projects under the balanced and circular management of RMs—Horizon Europe, which plans to finance the new projects on RMs management and recycling.

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