scholarly journals Bio-Economy at the Crossroads of Sustainable Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-48
Author(s):  
José G. Vargas-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Scientific Paradigm ◽  
The Core ◽  
Neoclassical Economy

This study aims to review, analyze, and systematize the knowledge created on bio-economy to develop a conceptual and theoretical framework based on the transdisciplinary study of biology and socioeconomy to be used in further research. It begins from the questioning of the benefits that bio-economy has compared to the neoclassical economy. The methods employed are critical analytic, descriptive, deductive-inductive, and it suggests holistic and transdisciplinary approaches. As a result, the core of the study presents the principles under which this new scientific paradigm in sustainable development can continue creating more scientific knowledge to be used in the formulation and implementation of strategic choices for the bio-production, bio-distribution, and bio-consumption processes.

Sustainable Development is a Dead-End: The Logic of Modernity and Ecological Crisis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Lumsden
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
Planetary Boundaries ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Conceptual Frame ◽  
The Core ◽  
Dead End ◽  
Core Idea

This paper examines the theory of sustainable development presented by Jeffrey Sachs in The Age of Sustainable Development. While Sustainable Development ostensibly seeks to harmonise the conflict between ecological sustainability and human development, the paper argues this is impossible because of the conceptual frame it employs. Rather than allowing for a re-conceptualisation of the human–nature relation, Sustainable Development is simply the latest and possibly last attempt to advance the core idea of western modernity — the notion of self-determination. Drawing upon Hegel’s account of historical development it is argued that Sustainable Development and the notion of planetary boundaries cannot break out of a dualism of nature and self-determining agents.

The impact of applying good governance standards in reducing corruption and achieving sustainable development in Yemen

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 769-791
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Significant Decline ◽  
The Core ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to highlight the role of applying good governance standards in reducing corruption and achieving sustainable development in Yemen, since good governance represents the core of the development process of countries and societies. Good governance is based on the principle of transparency, accountability, efficiency and effectiveness in order to raise the capacity and efficiency of the state and make it more capable and effective to achieve sustainable development. Corruption in all its forms is one of the biggest obstacles to sustainable development in Yemen, and a major reason for wasting state resources and limiting foreign investment, and thus the expansion of poverty, the poor, and other effects related to the failure to achieve sustainable development. Yemen is one of the most Arab countries facing major challenges in the field of implementing good governance and combating corruption in order to achieve sustainable development and achieve its goals at all political, economic, social and environment. This paper concluded that Yemen suffers from a lack of implementation and enforcement of good governance standards, as well as a rampant corruption, which has led to an expansion of poverty and a significant decline in development rates. Key words: Good Governance, Corruption, Sustainable development.

scholarly journals Mapping built environment professionals’ educational needs to international policy frameworks for disaster risk reduction – community stakeholder perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4/5) ◽  
pp. 368-384
Author(s):  
Srinath Perera ◽  
Onaopepo Adeniyi ◽  
Solomon Olusola Babatunde ◽  
Kanchana Ginige
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Core ◽  
Policy Frameworks

Purpose Disaster risk reduction is prominent in the international policy agenda, and the year 2015 brought together three international policy frameworks that contribute to disaster risk reduction (i.e. the Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction, the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Change Agreement – COP21). However, there is a dearth of effort at identifying and aligning the specific educational needs of built environment professionals with the three policy frameworks. This is needed to facilitate the incorporation of the contents of the policy frameworks into built environment professionals’ training. Therefore, this study aims to map the educational needs of built environment professionals with the core areas of the three international policy frameworks. Design/methodology/approach This study utilized CADRE (Collaborative Action towards Disaster Resilience Education) research project outcomes alongside the earlier mentioned three international policy frameworks. A comprehensive desk review was done to map the educational needs identified in the CADRE project with the core priority areas of the three policy frameworks. Findings The study revealed the educational needs that are significant towards an effective implementation of the core priority areas of the three international policy frameworks. Practical implications This study would be beneficial to the built environment professionals involved in disaster risk reduction. They will be aware of the specific knowledge areas that would aid the successful implementation of the aforementioned three international policy frameworks. Originality/value The outcomes of the study would be beneficial to higher education providers in disaster risk reduction and sustainable development. It has identified the knowledge and competency gaps needed to be bridged in the curricula to meet the demands created by the international policy frameworks.

scholarly journals Operation of industrial parks in the conditions of sustainable development and the paradigm of circular economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3C) ◽  
pp. 238-247
Author(s):  
Svitlana Tulchynska ◽  
Nataliia Shevchuk ◽  
Olha Popelo ◽  
Anna Pohrebniak ◽  
Yurii Kravchyk
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Industrial Parks

In this study, the authors examine the functioning of eco-industrial parks in terms of sustainable development and the paradigm of the circular economy. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the principles of functioning of eco-industrial parks in terms of sustainable development and the paradigm of the circular economy. The methodological basis of the study is a systematic approach to the functioning of eco-industrial parks in terms of sustainable development and the paradigm of circular economy and the use of general economic and specific methods of scientific knowledge, including the method of analysis, synthesis, deduction, monograph and others. The conclusions of the study are the justification of the vision of development policy in terms of sustainable development and the formation of a circular economy in the direction of creation and operation of eco-industrial parks. The tools of ensuring the formation and functioning of eco-industrial parks in the conditions of sustainable development and the paradigm of the circular economy are proposed and the consequences of its introduction are substantiated.

scholarly journals REORIENTASI KAJIAN USHULUDDIN DALAM MERESPONS TANTANGAN ZAMAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Muhyar Fanani
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Islamic Theology ◽  
Scientific Paradigm ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Times

This paper attempts to discuss the various issues on the Islamic theology sciences. As implied in its name, ushuluddinsciences should be the core and kernel of Islamic sciences. In fact, the muslim community were far a way from theushuluddin sciences. It is caused that the theories in ushuluddin sciences are always referring to a past era and wasrarely associated with contemporary social problems. The efforts to develop the Islamic sciences are supposed to leave inadvance of the ushuluddin sciences. This paper intends to study the direction of the study sciences ushuluddin inresponse to the challenges of the times. If the ushuluddin sciences want to continue to exist, then the first thing that musttobe done is to change the scientific paradigm shift from which only oriented itself into a community-oriented.

Analogism at Chavín de Huántar

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-98
Author(s):  
Nicco La Mattina
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Core Beliefs ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
The Core ◽  
Chavin De Huantar ◽  
Chavín De Huántar ◽  
A Site ◽  
Material Record

Approaches to understanding the core beliefs and worldviews of ancient peoples are not superficially facilitated by the archaeological record. Sometimes, pre-Columbian people are described by analogy to presumably similar contemporary people; that is, a theoretical framework applicable to certain modern peoples is applied a priori in the investigation of a site. This chapter argues that at Chavín de Huántar, interpretations centred around animism and shamanism employ these concepts a priori as ways of understanding the material record. Many of the references to shamanism make specific analogies to Amazonian practices and import these ideas to Chavín de Huántar. Furthermore, the chapter authors argue that, if the iconographic and material record at Chavín de Huánta are carefully evaluated, interpretations centred around animism and shamanism will not follow. The authors demonstrate that the analogist ontology formulated by Descola finds a firmer grounding in the iconographic and material record when these are considered together.

Trade and Environment Nexus

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debashis Mazumdar ◽  
Mainak Bhattacharjee ◽  
Jayeeta Roy Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
International Inequality ◽  
Productive Activities ◽  
Steep Decline

One major concern that has emerged in the post-globalization period is climate change. Given that pollution and environmental degradation is a public bad, the adverse change in the climate of one region will have ubiquitous effect and therefore will hamper the process of sustainable development across the globe. There are substantial links between international trade and environmental issues – one being that of the perverted comparative advantage which evolves mainly out of the neglect of environmental damage caused by productive activities. In this chapter, an attempt has been made to build a theoretical framework related to intra-industry trade with production differentiation based on the environmental quality of the goods and price to address how liberalization of trade happens to affect the environment of the trading nations. The study shows a steep decline in the environmental quality of the good that was relatively cleaner under autarky while a meagre improvement in the environmental quality of the relatively dirtier good. Hence, it is revealed hereby how trade alters the nature of international inequality in the environmental quality of the productive activities.

Forage diversity, conservation and use.

2020 ◽  
pp. 423-449
Author(s):  
Jean Hanson ◽  
Rainer Schultze-Kraft ◽  
Michael Peters ◽  
Peter Wenzl ◽  
Ahmed Amri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Genetic Resources ◽  
Plant Genetic Resources ◽  
Gene Bank ◽  
International Network ◽  
Global System ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Core ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Forage Diversity

Abstract This chapter outlines the scientific and development impacts of forage diversity conservation, characterization and distribution work under the international network of forage collections in CGIAR. The focus for the future will continue to be on the core operations that are essential to conserve and manage the diversity with increased emphasis on those that will ensure efficiency and value for money in gene bank operations. In addition to these essential activities, there are opportunities to be more forward and outward looking and to link with activities in the Livestock CRP and the Excellence in Breeding Platform, as well as to contribute to the global system of plant genetic resources, support the FAO Global Plan of Action and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Core UN Human Rights Treaty Systems

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-128
Author(s):  
Steven Wheatley
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Core ◽  
Ordinary Meaning ◽  
System P ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Work First

Chapter 4 examines the core United Nations human rights treaties. It shows how we can think of these as complex systems, the result of the interactions of the states parties and the treaty bodies. The work first explains the regime on opposability and denunciation, which establishes the binding nature of the conventions, before considering the law on reservations, noting how this differs from the scheme under general international law. The chapter then turns to the interpretation of convention rights, detailing the distinctive pro homine (‘in favour of the individual’) approach applied to human rights treaties. The law on interpretation also requires that we examine the subsequent practice of states parties, as well as the pronouncements of the treaty bodies. The doctrine of evolutionary interpretation explains how the ‘ordinary meaning’ of treaty terms can evolve with developments in technical and scientific knowledge, changes in societal understandings, and wider modifications in regulatory approaches outside of the human rights treaty system.

1. Introduction to Africa and its politics

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Ian Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Political History ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Core ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Core Questions ◽  
The Impact

Africa is a continent of over a billion people, yet questions of underdevelopment, malgovernance, and a form of political life based upon patronage are characteristic of many African states. ‘Introduction to Africa and its politics’ explains that the core questions underpinning this VSI centre on how politics is typically practised on the continent; the nature of the state in Africa; and what accounts for Africa’s underdevelopment. This VSI aims to appraise sub-Saharan Africa’s recent political history, examining post-colonial political structures, the impact of colonialism, and the form and nature of post-colonial states. The type of politics practised in many African states continues to be hostile to genuine nation building and broad-based, sustainable development.

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