scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of the Use of the Concept of Sustainability in the Romanian Top Universities’ Strategic Plans

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10642
Author(s):  
Claudia E. Stoian ◽  
Simona Șimon ◽  
Vasile Gherheș
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Sustainable Future ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
Sustainable Universities

As the effects of climate change on today’s society make the headlines across the globe, urging all stakeholders to join forces to act and to create a sustainable world, universities have started engaging in the process of building a sustainable future for the generations to come. The sustainable university has thus emerged, a pro-active and collaborative university that performs in several domains. Since the university’s strategic plan is an instance of official and public communication on the future institutional development, its investigation reveals the university’s position towards sustainability. This study highlights the explicit use of the concept of sustainability in the strategic plans for 2020–2024 of the twelve Romanian top universities and points to the sustainable domains associated with it. Moreover, to determine the direction towards which the Romanian top universities are heading, in terms of sustainability, the article draws a comparison with previous research conducted on the strategic plans for 2016–2020. The main conclusion reached is that although there is an increasing tendency to use the concept in the latest strategic plans, building sustainable universities in Romania is still a goal to be achieved in the future.

scholarly journals The Concept of Sustainability in the Romanian Top Universities’ Strategic Plans

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Șimon ◽  
Claudia E. Stoian ◽  
Vasile Gherheș
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One ◽  
Sustainable Universities

The concept of sustainability has been given more and more attention lately as the effects of climate change drastically impact society and threaten the wellbeing of future generations. In this context, universities are expected to build bridges between the academic and research communities on the one hand and society on the other, and to further the values associated with this concept in order to care for the generations to come. Thus, the present study describes the causes that have led to the emergence of this concept, defines it, and highlights some of the actions taken by universities and researchers. The question raised regards the position of the top Romanian universities towards the concept of sustainability. The way it is used explicitly in their strategic plans is viewed as proof as to whether the universities give it prominence or not, and as such, act accordingly. In order to achieve the primary objective of the research, a quantitative and a qualitative analysis were carried out. The main conclusion drawn is that the top Romanian universities are still at the beginning in terms of raising awareness about the concept and in terms of implementing sustainable measures in the domains that help them build sustainable universities.

scholarly journals THE FUTURE OF CITIES: THE ROLE OF STRATEGIC PLANNING

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Clark
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Long term strategic plans are enjoying a renaissance in cities across the world. The strategic plans of London, Paris, Auckland, Johannesburg, Sao Paulo, Singapore, New York, and Barcelona are all examples of different ways that cities try to plot their own future. But what are the key ingredients of a strategic plan and how are they developed?

scholarly journals Strategies for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure of Cities: Benefits and Challenges

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Furat ◽  
İsra Karabiber ◽  
Senem Kocaoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Dynamic Pricing ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Distribution Grid ◽  
City Life ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Charging Stations ◽  
The City

The emerging technology, electric vehicles (EVs), has gained more attention due to the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission, climate change, and air pollution in the cities. The rising demand for EVs brings new benefits and challenges to the city life of citizens. Balancing the demand in the electrical energy distribution grid, charging scheduling, dynamic pricing, and different types of charging stations change the priorities of city life. In order to manage the new requirements and perform the permanent transition from gasoline-powered vehicles to EVs, a strategic plan must be prepared by the city authorities. Currently, a number of cities in different countries have published their strategic plans for the sense of perspective about reaching a 30% sales share for EVs by 2030. These plans focus on the solutions to maximize the benefits of EVs and the awareness of the citizens. In the present study, fundamental components of a strategic plan for both EVs and necessary infrastructure are outlined with different aspects.

scholarly journals It’s Corona Calling: Time for Telerehabilitation!

2020 ◽  
Vol 05 (04) ◽  
pp. 86-88
Author(s):  
Marcalee Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Rehabilitation Professionals ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a disproportionate impact on people with disabilities and the elderly. Moreover, the pandemic can be likened to disasters caused by catastrophic weather events which will increase in the future in response to climate change. To forestall these threats, rehabilitation professionals must to come together internationally to prepare and proactively educate their peers and patients. This can be done through observance of such times as Day for Tomorrow. Moreover, rehabilitation professionals need to transition to greener forms of healthcare in order to assure that in the future we all sustain our abilities.

scholarly journals PERENCANAAN STRATEJIK

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Maswar Patuh Priyadi
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Range Planning ◽  
To Come

Most qualified managers spend time thinking of the future development of his company. The results of the managers’ observation could be in the realization of informal comprehension of the guidelines for the future which he should carry out or in the formal planning. The statement of the formal planning is termed as strategic plan, and the process of making up and revision of the statement is called strategic planning; it is also called long-range planning or programming. Strategic planning is the process of determining the program to be carried out by an organization and the estimate of the resources allocated to each program in several years to come.

scholarly journals Can the Earth be Sacred Once Again? Christianity and Climate Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-123
Author(s):  
Sean McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
Climate Crisis

The following paper takes Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Climate Change as an opportunity to re-open the debate, begun in 1967 by Lynn White Jr., on the theological origins of the environmental crisis. I note that the Pope’s critique of consumerist modernity is strong, but his lack of a genealogical account of modernity remains a weakness of the text. I argue, with White, that the technological revolution which has caused climate change would not have been possible without Christian assumptions. The original disenchantment of the world was the Abrahamic revelation which disjoined divinity and nature, and contra to appearances, the disjunction was only exacerbated by the doctrine of the incarnation. With climate change, modernity is returning to this revelation in the form of the sobering experience of the precarity of the planet. Nature is now experienced as finite once again, and it includes us. Modernity, however, cannot be disavowed any more than disenchantment can easily be forgotten. A return to the Christian roots of disenchantment might help us to remember what we have forgotten: the virtue of contemplation, which could qualify modern attitudes of control and domination, and engender a Christian experience of reverence for nature. While this is a Christian response to the climate crisis, other religious traditions will need to come to analogous forms of earth-centered ethics if we are to achieved the integrated ecological pluralism needed for the future of civilization.

scholarly journals Morphological classification and origin of lake depressions in Mongolia

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
Altanbold Enkhbold ◽  
Ulambadrakh Khukhuudei ◽  
Dash Doljin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Morphological Feature ◽  
Tectonic Movement ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Morphological Classification ◽  
The Future

An improved classification of the origin of lake depressions due to geological, geomorphological factors and climate change is a requirement of the day in Mongolia. We present a new holistic classification using comparative analysis method. This study suggests a two-tier classification in terms of origin and morphological feature of the lakes, which replaces the previous one-tier classification. Mongolia has identified 11 main and 26 subtypes of origin, and 8 main types of morphology, based on the features of 32 lake depressions. The result of the study shows that the lakes of Mongolia developed in 3 stages, first, affected by tectonic movement, followed by glacial and finally, owing to other exogenic factors. This morphological classification study will create the basic conditions for preserving and using these lakes more efficiently and ecologically in the future by making the classification of the origin of lake depression.

scholarly journals Staging Climate Security: Resilience and Heterodystopia in the Bangladesh Borderlands

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Cons
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
The Future ◽  
Development Technology ◽  
To Come ◽  
Warming World ◽  
A Site ◽  
Climate Crisis

This essay interrogates an emergent genre of development projects that seek to instill resilience in populations likely to be severely impacted by climate change. These new projects venture a dark vision of life in a warming world—one where portable technologies become necessary for managing a future of climate chaos. I propose, following Michel Foucault, understanding these projects as heterodystopias: spaces managed as and in anticipation of a world of dystopian climate crisis that are at once stages for future interventions and present-day spectacles of climate security. My exploration of these projects is situated in the borderlands of Bangladesh, a space increasingly imagined as a ground zero of climate change. The projects discussed frame the borderlands as a site that reflects forward onto a multiplicity of (other) dystopian spaces to come. Their often puzzling architecture reveals a grim imagining of the future: one in which atomized resilient families remain rooted in place, facing climate chaos alone, assisted by development technology. In this way, these projects seek to mitigate against global anxiety about climate displacement by emplacing people—preventing them from migrating across borders increasingly imagined as the front lines of climate security. Yet at the same time, these projects speak a visual language that suggests they are as much about representing success at managing climate crisis to an audience elsewhere as they are to successfully stemming climate migration in a particular place. Heterodystopia provides an analytic for diagnosing the specific visions of time and space embedded in securitized framings of the future. In doing so, however, it also points toward counterimaginations and possibilities for life in the midst of ecological change. I thus conclude by contrasting climate heterodystopias with other projects that Bangladeshi peasants living in the borderlands are carrying out: projects that offer different ways of imagining the environment and life in the borderlands of Bangladesh.

The World Economic Forum Principles on "Climate Governance on Corporate Boards": can soft law help to face climate change around the world?

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Sabrina Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
Corporate Boards ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Financial Factor ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

Climate change is a financial factor that carries with it risks and opportunities for companies. To support boards of directors of companies belonging to all jurisdictions, the World Economic Forum issued in January 2019 eight Principlescontaining both theoretical and practical provisions on: climate accountability, competence, governance, management, disclosure and dialogue. The paper analyses each Principle to understand scope and managerial consequences for boards and to evaluate whether the legal distinctions, among the various jurisdictions, may undermine the application of the Principles or, by contrast, despite the differences the Principles may be a useful and effective guidance to drive boards' of directors' conduct around the world in handling climate change challenges. Five jurisdictions are taken into consideration for this comparative analysis: Europe (and UK), US, Australia, South Africa and Canada. The conclusion is that the WEF Principles, as soft law, is the best possible instrument to address boards of directors of worldwide companies, harmonise their conduct and effectively help facing such global emergency.

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