scholarly journals Maturity Models and Sustainable Indicators—A New Relationship

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13247
Author(s):  
Márcia Cristina Machado ◽  
Tereza Cristina Melo de Brito Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Global Reporting Initiative ◽  
Maturity Models ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Decision Making Factors ◽  
Information Technology Companies

This study aims to investigate the relationship between maturity models adopted by information technology companies and the sustainability indicators that are currently considered decision-making factors for investors and customers. The research is based on previous studies, Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT), and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards, and indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) defined in 2015 by the United Nations. As a result of the intersection between the GRI and SDG indicators with COBIT requirements, a set of 50 indicators covering four dimensions of sustainability was identified. In the environmental dimension, 11 indicators were identified, in the economic dimension six indicators, in social dimension 14 indicators, and, at last, in the governance dimension, there were 19 convergent indicators between COBIT and GRI. This set of 50 proposed indicators was validated by analyzing the content of the sustainability reports available on the websites of information technology companies, making it possible to relate the sustainable practices and strategies adopted by such companies with the indicators suggested in this study. Furthermore, we identified that the SDGs are incorporated into the strategic objectives of seven of the nine companies analyzed.

scholarly journals Toward Sociocultural Indicators of Sustainable Healthy Diets

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7226
Author(s):  
Jill Nicholls ◽  
Adam Drewnowski
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Sustainable Diets ◽  
The Social ◽  
Healthy Diets ◽  
Development Goals

Balancing the social, economic and environmental priorities for public health is at the core of the United Nations (UN) approaches to sustainable development, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The four dimensions of sustainable diets are often presented as health, society, economics, and the environment. Although sustainable diet research has focused on health and the environment, the social and economic dimensions of sustainable diets and food systems should not be forgotten. Some research priorities and sociocultural indicators for sustainable healthy diets and food systems are outlined in this report. The present goal is to improve integration of the social dimension into research on food and nutrition security.

scholarly journals Four Dimensions of Women’s Empowerment in Tourism: Case Study of Indrayanti Beach, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. Layouting
Author(s):  
Arisanti Ayu Wardhani ◽  
Indah Susilowati
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Four Dimensions

The emergence of sustainable tourism has led to a new tourism concept called ecotourism. Ecotourism has the principle of environmental preservation and the local communities’ welfare produces a significant impact on indigenous people in the area. This is because the local community is involved in managing sustainable tourism. Women who are part of the community have the same opportunities as men in accessing opportunities from ecotourism activities. Based on empirical research results, tourism activities create alternative jobs for women to be more independent economically, including the fact that the participation of women in tourism activities has a positive impact on them socially. Empowering women is an important part of community welfare efforts in the scope of tourism, so that women’s empowerment is important in the tourism development process. This study aims to analyze the ongoing empowerment of women and what factors are the drivers and barriers to empowerment in Indrayanti Beach as one of the leading destinations in Gunungkidul Regency as seen from four dimensions (economic, social, political, and psychological). The mixed-method approach has been used in research. It was found that the level of women’s empowerment in Indrayanti Beach had shown a good enough score with the highest average score in the economic dimension, namely 7.64, where women economically have received a positive impact from Indrayanti Beach. The lowest average score is on the political dimension, with a value of 5.82. Women politically still do not have awareness if their role is important for the sustainability of Indrayanti Beach tourism. For the social dimension, the average is 6.81, and the psychological dimension on average is 7.47, where women feel socially and psychologically empowered quite well. The main driver of women’s empowerment is the opportunity and permission from their families to participate in tourism activities. The main obstacle to women’s empowerment is the low self-confidence due to skills that have not been maximized. 

scholarly journals The Effect of Sustainibility Reporting Disclosure and Its Impact on Companies Financial Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Enny Hardi ◽  
Chairina Chairina
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Global Reporting Initiative ◽  
Organization Performance ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Economic Dimension

<p>The purpose of this research was to examine empirically the effect of sustainability reporting disclosure on company performance. Sustainability reporting is a report that measures, discloses and shows the responsibility of the company to internal and external parties as an accountability form of organization performance in order to gain continuous development purpose. Sustainability reporting becomes trend and need for companies to disclose economic, environmental, and social performance to stakeholders. Samples used as many as 40 observations were derived from companies that consistently become ISRA (Indonesia Sustainability Reporting Award) nomination and listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) during 2016-2017. Sustainability reporting measured by GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) continuous reporting guideline-G4 with 91 indicator items and financial performance measured by Return on Assets (ROA). The analysis method used was Multiple Linear Regression. The results of the research show that Economic Dimension Disclosure (EC) in sustainability reporting has effect on financial performance. Whereas, Environmental Dimension (EN) and Social Dimension (SO) have no effects. The condition indicates that sustainability reporting in short term has not been able to affect companies financial performance.</p>

scholarly journals Coordinated Development of Regional Complex System: A Niche-Based Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Jianling Li ◽  
Xiang Fan ◽  
Yufei Bai ◽  
Jingjing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Niche ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Coordinated Development ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
System A ◽  
International Trends ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
New Perspective

Taking Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei as an example, it analyzes the comprehensive competitiveness of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei. It selects four dimensions: economic dimension, social dimension, environmental dimension, and technological dimension. From a new perspective, it explores the application of niche theory in regional synergy. Based on the analysis of the ecological niche, the coordination degree model of the composite system is further used to calculate the status quo of the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region from 2013 to 2019. The results show that Beijing has the highest ecological niche, followed by Tianjin, and Hebei is the weakest. In 2019, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is at a good level of coordination, with the social subsystem having the highest order and the technological subsystem having the lowest order. Based on this, it is proposed that the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regions should be scientifically positioned, the overall need to be aligned with international trends, and the internal planning should be integrated to further enhance the level of cooperation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

scholarly journals Framework and Key Success Factors of Governance and Sustainability of Very Small Municipal Solid Waste Power Plants

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 1239-1244
Author(s):  
Suwannee Missita ◽  
Wisakha Phoochinda ◽  
Chamlong Poboon
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Key Success Factors ◽  
Increasing Demand

Inordinate municipal solid waste issues and ever increasing demand for electricity, the Thai government formulated the Power Development Plan focusing on supporting the use of renewable energy to generate electricity and using measures to promote the purchase of electricity from very small power producers. This support indubitably leads to the question as to whether Very Small Municipal Solid Waste Power Plants (VSMSWPPs) are sustainable or not. Thus, this study aims to develop a framework and key success factors for evaluating governance and sustainability of VSMSWPPs in Thailand. It consists of documentary research and interviews with professionals, policy makers, practitioners and power plant owners conducted to develop the framework and determine the key success factors. Subsequently, the framework and factors were assessed by 12 experts. The good governance and sustainability concepts were selected as a framework and used to construct key success factors to evaluate the performance of VSMSWPPs. The framework contains four dimensions and each dimension had key success factors as follows: (1) Governance dimension with 7 key success factors; (2) Economic dimension with 8 key success factors; (3) Social dimension with 5 key success factors; and (4) Environmental dimension with 7 key success factors: at total of 27 key success factors.

scholarly journals Sustainablity Analysis of Lombang Beach in Batang-Batang District, Sumenep City, Madura, East Java

2021 ◽  
Vol 008 (02) ◽  
pp. 239-252
Author(s):  
Ivoni Firdausyah ◽  
◽  
Budi Setiawan ◽  
Agus Tjahjono ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Monte Carlo Analysis ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Rapid Appraisal ◽  
Beach Tourism ◽  
Sensitive Attribute ◽  
Index Value

Lombang beach is one of the best tourism places in Sumenep which has Spruce Shrimp trees (Casuarina equisetifolia) and extensive white refined sand as the icon. Lombang beach has potentials and benefits which can be developed, nonetheless, it couldn’t guarantee the sustainability of tourism, so that it needs to be studied for its sustainability extent. This research aimed to analyze the continuity of Lombang beach tourism based on four continuation dimensions such as ecology, economy, social, and infrastructure by using Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) which obtained through Rapid Appraisal for Lombang Beach Tourism (Rap-LBT) approach. The questionnaire was given to 54 tourists as respondents based on a nonprobability sampling (incidental sampling) approach. The sustainability analysis result presented that the sustainability of Lombang beach was quite sustainable. Ecological dimension has an index value of 57.93, economic dimension of 55.04, social dimension of 60.07 and infrastructure dimension of 50.68. The most sensitive attribute were regional arrangement, beach typical, tourism attraction, beach cleanliness, visit willingness, service quality, the cleanliness and quality of tourist facility, and public transportation for travel. Monte Carlo analysis result presented that the four dimensions were quite stable with the minor error extent for 95% of trusted standard.

scholarly journals Analysis of Land-Use Change between 2012–2018 in Europe in Terms of Sustainable Development

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Gibas ◽  
Agnieszka Majorek
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Almost All

This article presents methodology of land use change assessment in the context of sustainable development and the results of its application based on the transformations that occurred in individual areas of Europe in the years 2012–2018. This method is based on data from the CORINE (CO-oRdination of INformation on Environment) Land Cover program) and local government units presenting the degree of urbanization (DEGURBA). The transformations taking place in space were evaluated and reduced to economic, social, and environmental dimensions. We then analyzed the results in terms of space (covering almost all of Europe) and in terms of division (large cities, small towns, suburbs, and rural areas). Results indicate that development of the economic dimension most often takes place at the expense of natural resources. It was also determined that the higher the population density, the greater the sustainable development differentiation level in the analyzed dimensions, of which the social dimension was characterized by the lowest differentiation and the economic dimension was highest. The development of rural areas was found to be less sustainable than large urban centers. Interpretation of the results also leads to the conclusion that areas of Europe are very diverse in terms of sustainable development. However, the method itself, despite the imperfections observed by the authors, may be used in further or similar studies.

scholarly journals SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN BRAZIL: A CONGLOMERATED ANALYSIS FOR FEDERATIVE UNITS

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amarildo Hersen ◽  
Romano Timofeiczyk Junior ◽  
Dimas Agostinho da Silva ◽  
João Carlos Garzel Leodoro Da Silva ◽  
Jandir Ferrera de Lima
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
Institutional Dimension ◽  
Different Dimensions

ABSTRACT This paper develops and analyzes a taxonomy that divides the Federative Units of Brazil into groups with similar characteristics, distributed over the indicators of the four dimensions of sustainable development described by the Dashboard of Sustainability method. The research methodology adopted was multivariate analysis by interdependence technique through cluster analysis. The results suggest that on average, the federal units contribute differently to the different dimensions of sustainable development of the country and form distinct groups. Brazil’s sustainable development index has an environmental dimension with a strong contribution from the grouping of states in the North and Northeast regions. The social dimension is positively influenced by the grouping composed of the federative units of the South and Midwest regions. In contrast, the economic dimension is positively influenced by all federal units, however, in a different way. The institutional dimension was mainly influenced by Ceará and Bahia (Northeast region), all South and Southeast states and the Federal District, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul (Center-West region), all components of a single grouping.

scholarly journals Strategi Prospektif Pengembangan Dalam Ekowisata Waduk Cirata Yang Berkelanjutan

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 620-629
Author(s):  
Purna Hindayani ◽  
Armandha Redo Pratama ◽  
Zuzzy Anna
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Key Variables

Pengembangan ekowisata waduk Cirata memiliki potensi besar dalam penggerak perekomian dan membangun kesejahteraan masyarakat tanpa harus mengorbankan sumber daya alam dan merusak lingkungan bahkan berkelanjutan.Pada studi ini, ini bertujuan untuk menentukan  variabel-variabel yang mempengaruhi pengembangan ekowisata di waduk Cirata serta mengetahui hubungan interdepensi antara variabel-variabel sehingga dapat dijadikan penentuan kebijakan dalam pengembangan ekowisata di waduk Cirata yang berkelanjutan. Metode yang digunakan adalah analisis struktural Matrix of Cross Impact Multiplication Applied to a Classification (MICMAC). Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa satu variabel penggerak yaitu konflik pemanfaatan waduk sedangkan variabel kunci terdapat 21 variabel dari 5 dimensi pembangunan keberlanjutan. Urutan prioritas variabel kunci pada dimensi lingkungan  yaitu kualitas perairan; dimensi ekonomi terdapat tiga variabel yaitu peluang industri wisata, pengembangan ekonomi warga lokal (UMKM) dan  alokasi pendanaan pariwisata; dimensi sosial terdapat dua variabel yaitu keterlibatan masyarakat lokal, peluang lapangan kerja bidang pariwisata; dimensi kelembangaan terdapat kesiapan regulasi dalam pengembangan ekowisata, dukungan pemerintah lokal, kesepakatan komunitas dan aturan lokal, koordinasi dan kolaborasi  antar lembaga, dan dukungan pemerintah pusat; dimensi kepariwisataan tersapat 10 variabel yaitu aktivitas wisata, tata kelola dan manajemen pengelolaan wisata, keunikan dan keindahan di tempat wisata,  sarana dan prasarana pariwisata,  daya tarik wisata budaya dan alam, strategi promosi dan pemasaran, akomodasi wisata, aksebilitas wisata, potensi wisatawan lokal, dan potensi wisatawan asing. variabel-variabel tersebut menjadi pondasi awal dalam menentukan kebijakan oleh para pemangku kewenangan dalam pengelolaan ekowisata yang berkelanjutan di waduk cirata. AbstractThe development ecotourism  of Cirata reservoir has great potential in driving the economy building community welfare without having to sacrifice natural resources and damage the environment and even be sustainable. This study aims to determine the variables that influence the development of Cirata ecotourism and to determine the interdependence relationship between the variables so that it can be used as a policy for  the sustainable development of Cirata ecotourism. The method used  was Matrix Cross Impact Multiplication Applied to a Classification (MICMAC) structure analysis. The results showed that one driving variable is the conflict over the use of reservoirs, while the key variables are 21 of the 5 dimensions of sustainable development. A key variable in the environmental dimension, namely water quality; three key variables in the the economic dimension, namely tourism industry opportunities, economic development of local communities (MSMEs) and tourism funding allocations; two variables in the social dimension, namely the involvement of local communities, job opportunities in the tourism sector; the institutional dimension includes regulatory readiness in ecotourism development, local government support, community agreements and local rules, coordination and collaboration between institutions, and central government support; The dimensions of tourism included 10 variables, namely tourism activities, tourism management, uniqueness and beauty in tourist attractions, tourism facilities and infrastructure, cultural and natural tourist attractions, promotion and marketing strategies, tourism accommodation, tourism accessibility, potential local tourists, and potential foreign tourists. These variables become the initial foundation in determining policies and decisions by authorities in sustainable ecotourism management in the Cirata Reservoir

Global Sustainable Supplier Selection

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Anjali Awasthi ◽  
Stefan Gold
Keyword(s):  
Supplier Selection ◽  
Global Dimension ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Green Product ◽  
Global Risk ◽  
Quality Cost ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sustainable Supplier Selection

Supplier selection is critical for sustainability management in global supply chains. In this chapter, the authors present a content analysis based literature review for global sustainable supplier selection. The supplier selection is investigated along four dimensions, namely economic, environmental, social, and global. The results of the study yield that environmental and social criteria are often used together for supplier selection whereas global risk criteria are rarely used, even less as we move along multiple tiers of the supply chain. From the review, the authors also identified the top criteria along these four dimensions for global sustainable supplier selection. Along the economic dimension, the top three criteria are quality, cost, and general supplier characteristics. The social dimension has employees, transparency and engagement, and local communities' influence as the top criteria. Along the environmental dimension, the top criteria are pollution and hazardous emissions, standards and management systems, green product and design, and green competencies and processes. The top criteria along the global dimension are distance, other risks, and politics and economy.

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