The Sustainable Development Path of the Gold Exploration and Mining of the Sanshan Island-Jiaojia Belt in Laizhou Bay: A DID-SVAR Approach

Gold is a vital strategic resource, and it plays an irreplaceable role in maintaining national financial security, enhancing currency guarantee capabilities, and serving as a country's last means of payment. Gold plays an essential role in several fields that are vital to sustainable development. In 2020, an ultra-large-scale gold deposit spanning land and sea was discovered in Sanshan Island-Jiaojia Belt, Laizhou Bay, China. Its owner, Shandong Gold Group, also established Sanshan Island as a new ecological mine model. Applying a difference in differences-structural vector autoregression (DID-SVAR) approach, our research found that the whole biodiversity of Laizhou Bay decreased by 0.27% purely due to gold exploration in Sanshan Island-Jiaojia. In the long run, gold mining will have an apparent 2.9% adverse effect on marine products, and fishing for marine products will have a 2.1% adverse effect on marine products themselves.

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Industry 4.0 and Sustainability Implications: A Scenario-Based Analysis of the Impacts and Challenges

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10103740 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (10) ◽

pp. 3740 ◽

Cited By ~ 101

Author(s):

Silvia Bonilla ◽

Helton Silva ◽

Marcia Terra da Silva ◽

Rodrigo Franco Gonçalves ◽

José Sacomano

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Industry 4.0 ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Big Data Analytics ◽

Industrial Process ◽

Raw Material ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Long Run ◽

Development Goals ◽

Negative Impacts

The new evolution of the production and industrial process called Industry 4.0, and its related technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data analytics, and cyber–physical systems, among others, still have an unknown potential impact on sustainability and the environment. In this paper, we conduct a literature-based analysis to discuss the sustainability impact and challenges of Industry 4.0 from four different scenarios: deployment, operation and technologies, integration and compliance with the sustainable development goals, and long-run scenarios. From these scenarios, our analysis resulted in positive or negative impacts related to the basic production inputs and outputs flows: raw material, energy and information consumption and product and waste disposal. As the main results, we identified both positive and negative expected impacts, with some predominance of positives that can be considered positive secondary effects derived from Industry 4.0 activities. However, only through integrating Industry 4.0 with the sustainable development goals in an eco-innovation platform, can it really ensure environmental performance. It is expected that this work can contribute to helping stakeholders, practitioners and governments to advance solutions to deal with the outcomes emerging through the massive adoption of those technologies, as well as supporting the expected positive impacts through policies and financial initiatives.

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DYNAMIC STATE OF ECOSYSTEM CARRYING CAPACITY UNDER ISLAND URBANIZATION: A CASE STUDY OF PINGTAN ISLAND IN THE SOUTHEASTERN COAST OF CHINA

Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management ◽

10.3846/jeelm.2020.9798 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 1-8 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sheng Gao ◽

Huihui Sun ◽

Guangxi Cao ◽

Lin Zhao ◽

Runjie Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Carrying Capacity ◽

Large Scale ◽

Assessment Method ◽

Dynamic State ◽

Ecological Environment ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Rational Development ◽

Pingtan Island

The assessment of ecological environment during the large-scale development of islands is a major topic in the study of current coastal islands. Choosing the appropriate assessment method to evaluate the suitability of carrying capacity of islands and making relevant suggestions are significant to the sustainable development of islands. Ecological footprint method is used to analyze the ecological carrying capacity of Pingtan Island (PI) from 2005 to 2016 for promoting the coordinated rational development and construction and ecological environment of the island. Although PI is in rapid urban development and construction, the island maintains secure and stable ecological conditions. PI is used as a research case to analyze the sustainable development of the ecological environment through the carrying capacity of the island ecosystem.

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Health inequality as a large-scale outcome of complex social systems: Lessons for action on the sustainable development goals

10.26686/wgtn.13489782 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Anna Matheson

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Health Inequality ◽

Large Scale ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Social Systems ◽

Power Relationships ◽

Past Century ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Development Goals ◽

Complex Social Systems

© 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) needs to become real and impactful, taking a “whole systems” perspective on levers for systems change. This article reviews what we have learned over the past century about the large-scale outcome of health inequality, and what we know about the behaviour of complex social systems. This combined knowledge provides lessons on the nature of inequality and what effective action on our big goals, like the SDGs, might look like. It argues that economic theories and positivist social theories which have dominated the last 150 years have largely excluded the nature of human connections to each other, and the environment. This exclusion of intimacy has legitimatised arguments that only value-free economic processes matter for macro human systems, and only abstract measurement constitutes valuable social science. Theories of complex systems provide an alternative perspective. One where health inequality is viewed as emergent, and causes are systemic and compounding. Action therefore needs to be intensely local, with power relationships key to transformation. This requires conscious and difficult intervention on the intolerable accumulation of resources; improved reciprocity between social groups; and reversal of system flows, which at present ebb away from the local and those already disadvantaged.

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Sustainable Development in The Academic Community as an Opportunity to Develop The Awareness of Urban and Rural Residents

Journal of Sustainability Perspectives ◽

10.14710/jsp.2021.12031 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

Author(s):

Krzysztof Marecki ◽

Agnieszka Wójcik-Czerniawska ◽

Zbigniew Grzymała

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Local Government ◽

Research And Development ◽

Large Scale ◽

Academic Community ◽

Strict Sense ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Postgraduate Studies ◽

Local Government Level ◽

Development Goals

The purpose of the article is to present the activities carried out by the Warsaw School of Economics, including the Department of Economics and Finance of the Local Government, aimed at both activities aimed at the diversified development of the broader sense - the activities of the Universities in this respect and in the strict sense, i.e. the activities of one of the departments, i.e. the Department of Economics and Finance of the Local Government within research and development at the local government level. The activities in the area of sustainable development include the membership to the Sustainable Development Goals Accord, the seat of the Polish branch of OIKOS International . On the other hand, activities in the field of sustainable development strictly mean activities in the field of research and development as well as conducting lectures and postgraduate studies in the field of sustainable development in the broad sense of the word. These activities are carried out by the mentioned department. The activities are therefore implemented on a large scale in order to increase the promotion of the idea of sustainable development in order to support the idea of sustainable development at every possible level, from national to local.

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Could Mergers Become More Sustainable? A Study of the Stock Exchange Mergers of NASDAQ and OMX

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12208581 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (20) ◽

pp. 8581

Author(s):

Wenjing Xie ◽

João Paulo Vieito ◽

Ephraim Clark ◽

Wing-Keung Wong

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Stock Market ◽

Financial Markets ◽

Stock Markets ◽

Stock Exchange ◽

International Treaties ◽

National Policies ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Long Run ◽

Stock Market Investors

This study investigates whether the merger of NASDAQ and OMX could reduce the portfolio diversification possibilities for stock market investors and whether it is necessary to implement national policies and international treaties for the sustainable development of financial markets. Our study is very important because some players in the stock markets have not yet realized that stock exchanges, during the last decades, have moved from government-owned or mutually-owned organizations to private companies, and, with several mergers having occurred, the market is tending gradually to behave like a monopoly. From our analysis, we conclude that increased volatility and reduced diversification opportunities are the results of an increase in the long-run comovement between each pair of indices in Nordic and Baltic stock markets (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) and NASDAQ after the merger. We also find that the merger tends to improve the error-correction mechanism for NASDAQ so that it Granger-causes OMX, but OMX loses predictive power on NASDAQ after the merger. We conclude that the merger of NASDAQ and OMX reduces the diversification possibilities for stock market investors and our findings provide evidence to support the argument that it is important to implement national policies and international treaties for the sustainable development of financial markets.

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Measures for the Village Construction and Sustainable Development of Environment: Take the Planning of Beiwu Village Shanhaiguan District as an Example

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.663.265 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 663 ◽

pp. 265-269

Author(s):

Ling Shu Yang ◽

Ning Wang ◽

Jing Zhao

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Economic Development ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Large Scale ◽

Planning Process ◽

Environment Protection ◽

Local Conditions ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Rural Industries ◽

The Village

In the current large-scale construction of village planning process, village construction provides better productive, living, ecological conditions for rural areas. However, whether we can balance economic development and sustainable development of environment means whether the benefit of village development can be permanent. This paper clarified how to protect the environment during the process of strengthening village economics and to balance village construction and environment protection so as to achieve the goal of sustainable development. Taking the Beiwu Village planning of Shihe Town Shanhaiguan District Qinhuangdao City as an example, this paper explored the possibility and underlying dynamism of village construction and the sustainable development of environment. Combined with the characters of the natural and economic development of villages and adjusting measures to local conditions, this project optimized the combination of construction and environment as well as rural industries and village landscape, making Beiwu Village into “a paradise for tourists, the homes of farmers, the garden of Shanhaiguan District, the ecological garden of Qinhuangdao city”, which provided a reference for the village construction and the sustainable development of environment.

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The use tensor method of dual networks for analysis of the transport and tourist components of sustainable development of territories

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202020805012 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 208 ◽

pp. 05012

Author(s):

Aleksandra Volosova ◽

Ekaterina Matiukhina ◽

Dmitry Akimov

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Transport System ◽

Large Scale ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Tensor Method ◽

Large Scale System ◽

Intelligence System ◽

The Impact ◽

Double Networks

The article explores the possibility of applying tensor method of dual networks for analysis of transport and tourism components in sustainable development of territories. The tensor method of dual networks, in contrast to other methods allows to consider the structure of the large-scale intelligence system and the processes occurring in it as one whole. Thus, we have the possible to complex analyze all the components of a large-scale system even when its structure, the number of its elements and the connections between them will be changed. Tensor equations make it possible to accurately calculate the parameters of a system when simulating various ways of connecting its elements. On the example of the analysis of the tourist transport system, the advantages of using the method of double networks to assess the impact of the system on the sustainable development of the territory are shown.

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Smart City as a Model for Sustainable Development of Territories

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/202111005003 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 110 ◽

pp. 05003

Author(s):

Konstantin Semyachkov

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Urban Environment ◽

Smart City ◽

Large Scale ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Economic Systems ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

City Model ◽

The Impact

The article examines the impact of digital technologies on the sustainable development of ecological and economic systems. The main aspects that make the development of digital technologies especially relevant for environmental modernization and sustainable development are analyzed. It is shown that the large-scale use of digital technologies contributes to the development of new tools, models and methods of urban management. One of the promising areas for the development of the urban environment in these conditions is the concept of a smart city. Based on the analysis of research on the topic of smart cities, the effects of the use of the smart city model for the formation of the foundations of sustainable development of territories are noted.

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Place-making in the Pacific: Can Geographical Indications Support the Sustainable Development of the Nonu Industry in Samoa?

10.26686/wgtn.17006032 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

◽

Michelle Denise Grace Plant

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Large Scale ◽

Local Area ◽

Geographical Indications ◽

Commodity Chain ◽

Scale Production ◽

Pacific Region ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

The Pacific ◽

Local Actors

<p>Geographical Indications (GIs) are place-based names that convey the unique environmental, geographical and cultural origins of agricultural products. A GI is designed to protect products by highlighting exclusive features that differentiate tailored and often more 'localised' produce from those which are homogenous and mass produced. GIs are governed by local actors, thus providing a means of control to ensure that production stays in the local area. Yet they also operate within the interface of global to local spheres, providing a 'glocalised' link between people, product and place. GIs can signal messages to extra-local consumers, providing information on the specifics of product production, as well as reflecting quality and standards for ethical consideration. Therefore, GIs and their market labels, are essentially 'markers of origin'; offering a form of certification which virtually guarantees the origin of the product. The degree to which GIs can protect local, environmental and cultural resources arguably depends on the structure of the GI legislation. In the Pacific region, GI is in its infancy. In Samoa, the Intellectual Property Act of 2012 is in force and contains the foundations of a US influenced GI. Using a commodity chain approach, I compare these two systems; (1) the current US/WTO system and (2) a European (EU) based GI. Developing a theory of factors that contributes to the more sustainable development of the Nonu Industry in Samoa, I argue that the Samoan Nonu product cannot compete in the Pacific region due to the large-scale production of its main competitor, Tahitian Noni. I therefore recommend that the industry may be more sustainably served by adopting a collaborative 'bottom-up' approach, in the form of a European GI, which promotes the niche qualities of local products, by utilising a rigorous narrative codex/certification system, to reduce inter-island and even international competition.</p>

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STEM Education in Ukraine in the Context of Sustainable Development

European Journal of Sustainable Development ◽

10.14207/ejsd.2021.v10n1p323 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 323

Author(s):

Oksana Buturlina ◽

Serhii Dovhal ◽

Heorhii Hryhorov ◽

Tetiana Lysokolenko ◽

Vadym Palahuta

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Public Space ◽

Stem Education ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Educational Innovations ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Global Issues ◽

Long Run ◽

Educational Trend ◽

Development Goals

The conceptual and generalizing experience of STEM education implementation presented in Ukraine reflects the realization of the sustainable development goals through educational innovations. The study is based on the premise that STEM is a component of education for sustainable development. This educational trend focuses on the goals of Education for All (EFA), conforms to the ideas of the education-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and relates to solving societal challenges in the long run. It is argued that the concept of STEM seeks to offer non-standard solutions to global issues in the field of sustainable development, and STEM education should be seen as a mechanism to accelerate the achievement of all sustainable development goals (SDG) and a strategy to obtain each of them. The specifics of STEM key ideas as global educational trends in the national Ukrainian public space are demonstrated. The consideration of STEM education as a component of the strategy for sustainable development through the detailing of the structure and implementation principles as well as STEM competencies, which are defined as the expected result and key for the person of the XXI century, is proved. The experience of Ukrainian research initiatives in the field of STEM education in the context of sustainable development is summarized. A full-fledged programme complex for comprehensive, equitable and high-quality education is presented, which combines the following links: research and experimental work of different levels, teacher’s professional development, museums and science centres work, implementation of various educational programmes, festivals and projects to attract young people to STEM, ensuring equal access for girls and boys.

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