Collaborative Economy, Sustainability, and Retail Cooperatives

Sustainable Development ◽

Structural Transformation ◽

Environmental Harm ◽

Social Ecological ◽

Management Of Resources ◽

The City

Guayaquil is the most industrial city of Ecuador and is currently in the process of structural transformation. The combination of solidarity, co-responsibility, cooperation, and coordination among all the inhabitants bases the environmental management in Ecuador, are aimed at guaranteeing sustainable development and is based on the balance and harmony between different social, ecological, economic, and social aspects of the country. The creation of cooperatives can transform Ecuador to benefit its citizens and consumers. Similar criteria guides Ecuador in its relations with other countries to avoid environmental harm on other nations through the use of rational and sustainable management of resources. The objective of this book chapter is to define, propose, and analyze how retail cooperatives located in the city of Guayaquil (Ecuador), following public-private schemes, can contribute to creating sustainable economic growth.

PENGARUH DANA BAGI HASIL DAN INFRASTRUKTUR TERHADAP PERTUMBUHAN EKONOMI KOTA MANADO

JURNAL PEMBANGUNAN EKONOMI DAN KEUANGAN DAERAH ◽

10.35794/jpekd.23445.19.10.2019 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (10) ◽

Author(s):

Franklien Senduk ◽

Daisy S.M. Engka ◽

George M.V. Kawung

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Financial Management ◽

Local Governments ◽

Revenue Sharing ◽

Regional Government ◽

Development Programs ◽

Regional Finance ◽

Development Paradigm ◽

The City

ABSTRAK Keuangan Daerah adalah semua hak dan kewajiban Daerah yang dapat dinilai dengan uang serta segala sesuatu berupa uang dan barang yang berhubungan dengan pelaksanaan hak dan kewajiban Daerah. Semangat desentralisasi yang melimpahkan kewenangan pengelolaan keuangan kepada pemerintah daerah, khususnya tingkat kota atau kabupaten membuat daerah mencari cara mendapatkan pendapatan daerah yang sah untuk mendukung program pembangunan dalam bentuk Infrastruktur untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat, di tengah gencarnya program pembangunan perekonomian di berbagai sektor, sehingga berimplikasi kepada pembangunan yang berkelanjutan dan berdampak luas pada penambahan pendapatan masyarakat sehingga pertumbuhan ekonomi meningkat secara positif . Perangkat Daerah yang terkait di dalam proses penerimaan daerah di pacu untuk meningkatkan peluang penerimaan daerah dari semua sektor pendapatan daerah. dengan paradigma pembangunan berkelanjutan (sustainable development) yang harus diimplementasikan oleh pemerintah daerah. Fakta empiris (empirical evidents) menunjukkan penerapan otonomi daerah memberi keleluasaan kepada daerah untuk mendapatkan sumber sumber pendapatan yang sah seperti pajak dalam bentuk Dana Bagi Hasil baik dari Pemerintah Pusat maupun Pemerintah Provinsi dan retribusi daerah dengan luasnya kewenangan pemerintah daerah. Kata kunci : Dana Bagi Hasil, Infrastruktur dan Pertumbuhan Ekonomi ABSTRACT Regional Finance is all Regional rights and obligations that can be valued with money and everything in the form of money and goods related to the implementation of the rights and obligations of the Region. The spirit of decentralization that delegated financial management authority to local governments, especially at the city or district level, made the regions look for ways to obtain legitimate regional revenues to support development programs in the form of infrastructure to improve community welfare amid the intense economic development programs in various sectors, thus implicating development sustainable and have a broad impact on increasing community income so that economic growth increases positively. Regional Apparatus that is related to the process of regional revenue is encouraged to increase the opportunities for regional revenues from all regional income sectors. with a sustainable development paradigm that must be implemented by the regional government. Empirical evidence shows the application of regional autonomy which gives freedom to the regions to obtain legitimate sources of income such as taxes in the form of Revenue Sharing Funds from both the Central and Provincial Governments and regional retributions with the broad authority of the regional government. Keywords: Revenue Sharing Funds, Infrastructure and Economic Growth

Visions for the Future

Resource and Environmental Management ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190885816.003.0002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 31-62

Author(s):

Bruce Mitchell

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Ecological Systems ◽

Social Ecological Systems ◽

Social Ecological ◽

Strong Sustainability ◽

The Future

In this chapter, the characteristics of a vision for a region, organization, or group are discussed, and then attention turns to examining the roles of forecasting and backcasting, and scenarios to anticipate the future. Subsequently, the characteristics of both sustainable development and resilience as possible visions to guide resource and environmental management are examined. In the context of sustainable development, the distinction between weak and strong sustainability is reviewed. Next, attention turns to the implications of the Anthropocene for achieving sustainable development and resilience. The concept of the rule of hand is explored, which suggests that normally not more than three to five variables are significant when trying to understand complex social-ecological systems, followed by consideration of how both adaptation and transformation can become strategies to address complexity and uncertainty. Kathryn Bellette provides a guest statement focused on implementing a strategy for sustainable development in metropolitan Adelaide, Australia.

Can Higher Education, Economic Growth and Innovation Ability Improve Each Other?

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12062515 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

pp. 2515 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Haiying Xu ◽

Wei-Ling Hsu ◽

Teen-Hang Meen ◽

Ju Hua Zhu

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Economic Growth ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Regional Cooperation ◽

Evaluation Index System ◽

Coordination Model ◽

Quality Of Higher Education ◽

Innovation Ability ◽

Regional Sustainable Development ◽

Sustainable Economic Growth

This study argues that the coupling between higher education, economic growth, and innovation ability is of great significance for regional sustainable development. Through the experience of Jiangsu Province in China, this study establishes a coupling coordination evaluation index system and applies the coupling coordination model to evaluate interactive relationships among the three. It finds that during 2007–2017, the level of coupling of 13 prefecture-level cities in Jiangsu was increasing over time, which fully verified the previous scholars’ view that the three can improve each other over a long period. However, this study finds that there are obvious differences within Jiangsu. Inadequate investment in higher education has become a crucial constraint on sustainable economic growth in northern and central Jiangsu, which are backward regions of Jiangsu. By contrast, in southern Jiangsu, which is the advanced region of Jiangsu, although the resources of higher education are abundant the growth of innovation ability cannot support sustained economic growth well. Thus, the quality of higher education should be improved to meet the needs of the innovation-based economy. Accordingly, cross-regional cooperation and balanced investment in higher education are the keys to practicing a balanced and sustained regional development. The results of this study’s coupling coordination analysis and evaluation can serve as a reference for governments in enhancing regional sustainable development.

The future Scotland wants – is it really all about Sustainable Economic Growth?

Edinburgh Law Review ◽

10.3366/elr.2015.0251 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 66-100 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Andrea Ross

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Regulatory Reform ◽

Sustainable Living ◽

Policy Objectives ◽

Scottish Government ◽

Definition Of ◽

Oral Evidence ◽

The Relationship

This article analyses the legal and practical implications of the Scottish Government's overall stated objective of increasing sustainable economic growth and the further implications that arise now that the term is formalised in legislation. It draws on the author's previous research into use of legal duties to deliver government objectives and the meaning and delivery of sustainable development and economic development. It is based on a critical review of Scottish Government policy, the provisions of the Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, as well as the written and oral evidence submitted to parliamentary committees scrutinising Bills, their reports, and the subsequent Government responses. More broadly, the article examines the relationship between sustainable economic growth and the more widely accepted and used objective of sustainable development as complementary or contrasting policy objectives and legal duties. In doing so, it also aims to demonstrate the difficulties governments face in trying to put flesh on the bones of the Brundtland definition of sustainable development and accelerate progress towards sustainable living.

Sustainable Development in a U.S. Context: Analysis and Implications

Bulletin of Science Technology & Society ◽

10.1177/027046769801800507 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 18 (5) ◽

pp. 352-364

Author(s):

Raymond P. Scattone

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

The United States ◽

Context Analysis ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Empowerment Zones ◽

The Subject ◽

Development Paradigm ◽

Primary Measure

Since the introduction of the concept of “sustainable development” by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987, a number of programs and policies have been offered, enacted, and pursued that profess to those ideals. The extent to which they actually accord with them, however, is the subject of a growing body of debate and literature. Some critics have argued that despite its promise, the concept of sustainable development has merely been reformulated and used to continue promoting the goal of economic growth as the primary measure of progress. This viewpoint argues that sustainable development can never be more than sustainable economic growth under the current growth development paradigm. This article examines these arguments through an analysis of sustainable development as pursued in the United States. It focuses on the sustainable development component of the U.S. government's comprehensive approach to solving urban problems through the creation of empowerment zones.

Greening as a Factor of Transition to Sustainable Development in Coal-Mining Regions

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/201910504020 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 105 ◽

pp. 04020

Author(s):

Irina Kudryashova ◽

Kirill Korsakov

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Coal Mining ◽

Russian Federation ◽

Regional Economy ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

Multi Level ◽

Negative Factors ◽

Mining Regions

The article is devoted to solving the problem of environmental pollution, which is one of the main negative factors of economic development in the coal-mining regions of the Russian Federation. The study of theoretical and practical approaches to the formation and implementation of the mechanism of greening at the level of subjects of the Russian Federation and their municipalities, the comparison of the definitions of “greening of the economy” and “greening of the regional economy”, “greening of production (enterprise)” in a multi-level context, taking into account the differentiation of the scale and instruments of environmental policy. A multi-level and multi-criteria approach to the study of the process of greening, the formation of ecological and economic mechanism of functioning of coal-mining regions, taking into account the processes of localization and globalization. It is proved that greening is the most important factor in ensuring the transition to sustainable development of coal-mining regions, and economic growth involves an inextricable combination of economic and environmental management.

Problems of evaluating the effectiveness of innovative development institutions in the context of sustainable development of the national economy

KANT ◽

10.24923/2222-243x.2020-37.38 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 177-182

Author(s):

Ekaterina Milovanova

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Economic Development ◽

National Economy ◽

Assessment Methods ◽

Innovative Development ◽

Socio Economic Development ◽

Development Institutions ◽

Multi Criteria Analysis ◽

Sustainable Economic Growth

The article considers the main trends in the development of innovative development institutions in the context of their compliance with the priorities of socio-economic development of industries and territories, as well as strategies for ensuring sustainable economic growth through diversification of the GDP structure. A methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of innovative development institutions is proposed based on the integration of traditional investment assessment methods with multi-factor and multi-criteria analysis tools.

Development of robotic circular reproduction in ensuring sustainable economic growth

Economic Annals-ХХI ◽

10.21003/ea.v186-02 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 186 (11-12) ◽

pp. 12-20

Author(s):

Tatyana Kolmykova ◽

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Ekaterina Merzlyakova ◽

Lyudmila Kilimova ◽

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Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Industrial Development ◽

Production Systems ◽

Calculated Data ◽

Green Economy ◽

Empirical Generalization ◽

New Type ◽

Physical Spaces

To confront global challenges in the field of environmental security, humanity needs reproduction chains of a new type that correspond to the models of the green economy and the principles of sustainable development. The most relevant concept that meets these conditions is a circular economy. A new round of industrial development provides additional opportunities to introduce principles of circular reproduction. The proliferation of robots and the introduction of artificial intelligence systems will facilitate the implementation of circular innovations. The purpose of the paper is a study of current trends in the transformation of global value chains based on the symbiosis of virtual and physical production systems which form new operating models and contribute to sustainable economic growth. The research methodology includes general scientific methods of cognition, systemic and situational approaches, methods of structural and functional analysis, empirical generalization and comparison, as well as tabular and graphical methods of visualization of statistical and calculated data. The main results of the study are to gain new knowledge about the role of interaction between digital and physical spaces in ensuring the achievement of goals of sustainable development and the implementation of principles of circular reproduction. Studying robotic circular reproduction will increase the relevance of the concepts of a green economy and circular reproduction, which will promote effective implementation of the above concepts in the Russian Federation.

Conscience Ecologique Et Developpement Durable: Constat Et Défis

European Scientific Journal ESJ ◽

10.19044/esj.2016.v12n29p232 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (29) ◽

pp. 232

Author(s):

EHOUMA Koffi Ludovic ◽

N’GUESSAN Kouamé Hendersonn

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Environmental Health ◽

Real Problem ◽

Ecological Education ◽

Développement Durable

The efficient environmental management is a real problem for sustainable development in our countries. From observations, it appears that the destruction of environmental cover is linked to economic growth and a backward thinking that harm the environmental health. To remedy this, an awareness and a profound reform based on an ecological education is needed. This reflection aims at making a contribution to the understanding and promotion of a real policy on environmental health following the development by Edgar Morin.

Performances of the Least Developed Countries under Neo-liberal Regimes: Implications for the implementation of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development

IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267) ◽

10.21013/jmss.v6.n3.p12 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 467

Author(s):

Melake Tewolde

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Structural Transformation ◽

External Debt ◽

Private Investment ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Least Developed Countries ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Agenda 2030 ◽

Neoliberal Policies

The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have implemented neoliberal policies such as trade liberalization, privatization of public enterprises, and currency devaluation with the expectation to promote their economic growth and development by capturing the gains from international trade through a more efficient allocation of resources and increased private investment. Twenty one countries (constituting 44%) have been designated LDCs since 1971, the introduction of the category for the first time by the United Nations (UN). Development experiences of the LDCs indicate that neoliberal policies are not adequately addressing their development challenges. The LDCs are still locked into a low equilibrium trap characterized by fragile economic growths, distorted structural transformation, low domestic resource, high dependence on external financing , high dependence on primary commodity exports, high external debt burden and debt services and low human development. The LDCs must thus shift to a developmental state approach to strategically integrate into the world economy and to build their productive capacities and to enhance their structural transformation which could lead the countries along the path of sustained economic growth to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The implications for the implementation of Agenda 2030 for sustainable development are that: (i) The LDCs have to extensively tap their domestic savings potentials and investments to reach 25% or more of their Gross Domestic Product(GDP) to sustain 7% -8% growth rates per annum that will have a great impact on poverty reduction in line with the sustainable development goal 1 (SDG1) . (ii) The LDCs have to select a few SDGs which are of high national priorities and synchronize them with their respective national development plans and determine the financing needs for the implementation of the selected SDGs. (iii) cancellation of external debt of the LDCs by the creditors in order to release resources needed for their investments to achieve the SDGs (iv) replacement of foreign aid by market access for the LDCs products to increase their foreign exchange earnings needed for building their productive capacities. (v) Maintaining peace and stability and resolving conflicts to release resources needed for their productive investment.