scholarly journals Thinking Deep. Acting on Top. Underground Built Heritage and Its Fringe as a Community Catalyst for Local Sustainable Development: Exploratory Cases from Poland and Greece

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 14031
Author(s):  
Gabriela Maksymiuk ◽  
Montserrat Pallares-Barbera ◽  
Paschalis Arvanitidis ◽  
Beata J. Gawryszewska
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
General Context ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
Local Sustainable Development

Underground Built Heritage (UBH) is a distinct class of cultural heritage providing a focal point for community pride and engagement to become a springboard for local sustainable development (LSD). This research aims to articulate how local UBH and its fringe serve as a facilitator of communal identity to mobilize community care towards social and economic development with less involvement from the state and the market actors. For this purpose, local (and less-conspicuous) cases of UBH are employed in Warsaw, Poland, and Volos, Greece, indicating the power of UBH to connect and engage local communities with places, triggering a momentum for a truly bottom-up action that pays less attention to market considerations and state support. The studied UBH sites have been discussed according to an established common framework, dealing with five main issues: (a) general context and status, (b) history, (c) users and management, (d) ecosystem services, and (e) introduction of the paradigm of living labs. The analysis was based on a thorough literature review and complemented by field observations and interviews. The results provide evidence for UBH as a potential facilitator of social and economic development. The case studies in Poland and Greece showed that local actors were involved in activities and social networks of tacit knowledge, generating community building to reinforce bottom-up activities in contact with UBH.

The Relationship between Ecosystem Health and Ecological Safety

2012 ◽  
Vol 260-261 ◽  
pp. 781-785
Author(s):  
Ying Song ◽  
Rui Ying Chang ◽  
Zheng Da Yu ◽  
Ren Qing Wang ◽  
Jian Liu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Ecosystem Health ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Ecological Safety ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Environment Friendly ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
The Relationship

With the rapid economic development and the highlighting environmental issues, more attention has been paid to ecosystem health and ecological safety. Along with the development of the concept of sustainable development, people gradually realized the importance of natural ecosystems. Ecological safety is the basis of sustainable development. It is a necessary condition to build a harmonious and environment friendly society. A healthy ecosystem is the basic guarantee of the realization of human social and economic development. This paper analyzes the relationship between ecosystem health and ecological safety, and finds that there are many connections and differences between them.According to the comparison of indices in the same evaluation model, the differences are analyzed. The paper helps to avoid the confusion between this two terms, and aims to make the goal of environmental management clear.

scholarly journals Analyzing the economic impact of sustainable development programs in the Brazilian Amazon

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-321
Author(s):  
DREW NELSON
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Economic Impact Analysis ◽  
Economic Development Model ◽  
Local Sustainable Development

ABSTRACT Over the last forty years, the Brazilian Amazon has been the object of many development and industrialization programs. The vast majority of those programs have been “mega-projects” implemented by the Brazilian federal government. Recently, several states have implemented their own style of economic development programs in the Amazon. These smaller scale “local” sustainable development programs offer policy makers an alternative to the “mega-projects”. This paper seeks to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each economic development model. Additionally, this paper provides an economic impact analysis of one “local” sustainable development project, Projeto Castanha-do-Brasil.

Gender and ICT Policy for Development and Empowerment

2012 ◽  
pp. 1005-1027
Author(s):  
Kutoma Jacqueline Wakunuma-Zojer
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Gender Development ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Development Agendas ◽  
Ict Policy

This chapter pays attention to the role that ICT policy and gender play in the drive for development and empowerment. Particular focus is on Zambia and its National ICT Policy. The chapter analyses how notions of ‘gender’, development and empowerment are routinely incorporated into the ICT policy rhetoric and the strategies put in place. It assesses whether the goals of the National ICT Policy encourage social and economic development as well as empowerment for women. The chapter makes the case that as much as ICT policies are being developed and adopted in order to be incorporated into the development agendas of countries like Zambia, mere adoption without adequately addressing gender concerns within the policies themselves may not necessarily achieve the desired development and empowerment. The analysis subsequently brings to the fore some short comings within the policy that have not been addressed with the adequacy they deserve and which as a result, can potentially impact negatively on women’s overall development and subsequent empowerment. The chapter particularly focuses on Government claims which suggest that women are important actors in ICT use for sustainable development without whom the successful diffusion and use of ICTs in the country cannot be a reality.

scholarly journals Improving the management of sustainable development of municipalities in the Kaliningrad region

2018 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 01039
Author(s):  
Andrey Gorokhov ◽  
Alexey Ignatyev ◽  
Vitaly Smirnov ◽  
Grigory Yazev
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Development Agency ◽  
Internal Policy ◽  
Kaliningrad Region ◽  
Municipal Development ◽  
Local Sustainable Development

The paper describes the study of the process of managing the development of municipalities in the Kaliningrad region that were conducted by the Ministry for Municipal Development and Internal Policy of the Kaliningrad region, the Association “Council of Municipalities of the Kaliningrad region”, and the Regional Economic Development Agency of the Kaliningrad region, as well as proposals based on them to improve the process of local sustainable development of the municipalities of the region.

scholarly journals THE IMPORTANCE OF PEACE AND STABILITY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

2017 ◽  
pp. 173-190
Author(s):  
Filip Kaczmarek
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
The Social ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Stable Development

This analysis of the situation of Sub-Saharan Africa states shows that it is impossible to achieve permanent, sustainable development in the conditions of war or other military conflicts. External aid for such countries is first and foremost humanitarian aid. Although such aid is necessary and helps save human lives, it does not eliminate the reasons for conflicts and is unable to ensure stable development. In the states with the worst situation, humanitarian aid does not have a significant influence on reducing migration trends. Before permanent development occurs, conflicts have to be efficiently resolved and their reasons eliminated or radically limited. The social and economic development of SSA states, which are currently suffering from armed conflicts and instability, is therefore primarily dependent on political rather than economic solutions.

scholarly journals MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMY

2019 ◽  
pp. 108-115
Author(s):  
S. A. Bakhodurova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic System ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Gross Regional Product ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Regional Product

The essence and indicators of a concept of sustainable development of economy have been considered. Dynamics of an indicator of social and economic development of the region (gross regional product) has been analyzed and the stability indicator has been сalculated. Macroeconomic aspects of unstable development of economy have been revealed through imbalances of inflows and outflows in the two-sector, closed and opened economic systems. The reasons and consequences of disproportions of an economic system have been identified. Measures and directions of state policy in the field of stimulating the development of small and medium-sized businesses, creating a favorable business environment, stimulating export-oriented production, improving migration policies, which will reduce these imbalances, have been proposed. Accounting of regularity of macroeconomic interrelations will allow you to assess a situation of economic systems, and studying of the existing imbalances will promote creation of the mechanism of their regulation.

Ecological and economic priorities for the development of the oil and gas producing region

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-25
Author(s):  
T. N. Bessonova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Industrial Impact ◽  
Social And Economic Development

The article proposes to determine ecological and economic priorities for the development of the oil and gas producing region based on the concept of sustainable development. The current industrial impact on the environment in the oil and gas producing region affects its social and economic development. As a criterion for classifying the directions of ecological and economic development as priority-oriented, it is proposed to use the compliance with the indicators of the best world standards.

Devolution, Sustainability and Local Economic Development: Impacts on Local Autonomy, Policymaking and Economic Development Outcomes

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Benneworth ◽  
Peter Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Local Sustainability ◽  
Additional Level ◽  
Development Outcomes ◽  
Local Sustainable Development

In this paper, we examine how devolution has affected local sustainable development. We focus on attempting to gauge how devolution will affect the promotion of sustainable development in the English regions through an analysis of the changes to date in Scotland, Wales and London. This evaluation is made more difficult because of the range of changes which devolution involves - political, institutional, organizational and cultural, and it is hard to ascribe particular outcomes to particular changes. The focus of the paper is examining how local sustainability regimes have been affected by devolution in the three case study regions. We then conclude that devolution can only add value to existing arrangements if it creates an additional level of legitimacy which supports local coalitions deepening their commitment to the principles of local sustainable development.

The Theoretical Study of Urban-Rural Integration of Nowaday China

2011 ◽  
Vol 368-373 ◽  
pp. 1759-1762
Author(s):  
Xiao Wu ◽  
Pei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Urban Rural

Urban-rural integration is not only the focus of chinese social and economic development currently, but also hot in academic research. It is under such background; this paper examined and summarized urban-rural integration bottom-up in the view of systematic and multidisciplinary, and summarized the relevant research in and abroad.

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