ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY OF RURAL AREAS VITEBSK REGION

The article presents a methodology for assessing the environmental sustainability of rural areas. The study was conducted in twenty-one administrative districts of the Vitebsk region. The indicators for the assessment were combined into two sets of indicators that characterize the ecological subsystem of rural areas: the anthropogenic impact on the environment and the degree of use of natural resources. As a result of the environmental sustainability assessment, rural areas were divided into three groups: sustainable development, approximate and unstable sustainable development. The practical significance of the study is to determine the trends and prospects of environmental development of rural areas of the Vitebsk region.

Strategic Communication for Sustainable Environmental Development in the Northern Nigerian Arid Zone

Nigeria is one of the world's most vulnerable countries to extreme weather conditions and natural disasters linked to climate change, the impacts of which are exacerbated by rapid population growth, a fragile economy, high dependence on rain-fed agribusiness, and the country's weak adaptive capacity. The lack of or poor application of environmental communication in a strategic approach is critical to all of these. Using a thematic conceptual review of existing literature, this chapter shows that strategic environmental communication can be applied more easily to mitigate the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation through the use of well-established communication strategies and instruments to save the environment for socio-economic development.

Sustainable Socio-Intercultural Development

This chapter has the objective to explain and analyze the issues, problems, concerns, and tendencies related to the sustainable socio-intercultural development. The analysis departs from the assumption that the nature of a sustainable socio-intercultural development system should be based on the common socio-cultural values and public understanding to strengthen the sustaining practices of governance. The method employed is the reflective approach based on an analytical review of the theoretical literature and empirically derived current practices in communities, governments, and organizations. The analysis concludes that the implementation of a sustainable socio-intercultural socioeconomic and environmental development needs to be supported by a well-designed institutional governance. To achieve this, a commitment on the practice of effective community economic growth and socio-environmental sustainable development is required.

Local Community Satisfaction toward Tourism Development in Pushkar Region of Rajasthan, India

Satisfaction of local residents is one of the key factors in responsible and sustainable tourism development. It helps tourism planners and policymakers in effective and strategic utilization of tourism resources. The present study investigates local residents’ satisfaction level toward sustainable tourism development through economic, socio-cultural, and environmental development. In order to achieve the goal of the study, one-sample t-test, regression analysis, and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) were performed. The findings of the study have suggested that local residents have a different level of satisfaction towards overall sustainable development and economic, socio-cultural, and environmental development in the study area. It was also observed that there is a high positive correlation among economic, socio-cultural, and environmental developments, and these developments significantly impact sustainable tourism development.

Sustainable Countermeasures for the Development of Ecological Compensation in the Watershed

As the state and society pays more attention to watershed environment and water ecological environment in recent years, watershed ecological compensation has increasingly become an indispensable part of promoting watershed environmental development and protecting the ecological environment of watersheds. It is not optimistic to look at the current situation of Chinese water ecological environment. In order to practice the concept of green development and protect the environment of the water resources, it is urgent to study the ecological compensation system of the water resources. Here, the connotation and significance of ecological compensation in the river basin are pointed out, and the sustainable suggestions and countermeasures for the development of ecological compensation in the water resources are accordingly put forward.

The Relationship Between Urban Renewal and the Built Environment: A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Urban renewal and the built environment have become two of the hottest topics in urban planning studies. Although existing literature has started to examine both of them from different perspectives, a comprehensive review with a bibliometric analysis is necessary to fully reveal the association between them. To overcome these gaps, this paper critically reviews the literature on urban renewal and the built environment and proposes a novel research framework to systematically understand the relationship between them. Based on 155 articles which were published between 2001 and 2020 collected from the Web of Science Core Collection Database, a bibliometric analysis offers the overall development and trajectory of the existing research, and a critical review fully analyzes the relationship between the two topics from three perspectives: main categories of urban renewal, multiple stakeholders, and economic, social and environmental development needs. To better clarify the interaction mechanism between urban renewal and the built environment and guide further research in this area, a future research agenda is also provided.