Sustainable Development and Water:

A decadal outlook for global aquaculture

This study investigates the impact of community participation in sustainable learning resource development through the mediating effect of awareness in Bangkok, Thailand. The determinants of community participation comprise three levels: top-level participation, middle-level participation, and bottom-level participation. The mediator is awareness, and the outcome is sustainable learning resource development. This study employed convenience sampling, drawing on 478 participants responsible for promoting knowledge and engaging resources. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) v. 29 was used for descriptive analysis, and ADANCO v. 2.3.2 was used to test the hypotheses. The partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) reveals that bottom-level participation has the most significant influence on sustainable development, followed by middle-level and top-level participation by adopting awareness serving as a mediating factor. The conclusion of this study is to focus on community sustainable learning resource development, particularly through bottom-level participation. A strategic planner should utilize technology to enhance public relations and develop community learning resources, thereby improving sustainable development. Moreover, it is suggested that the community members, schools, and educational institutions hold meetings to find ways to build community sustainable learning resource development that could improve sustainability in social, economic, and environmental settings. The recommendation for further studies should be to conduct qualitative interviews for in-depth insights.

Sustainable development requires that human economic growth does not come at the price of environmental destruction. The connotation of sustainability has two fundamental aspects, development and sustainability. Without development, there can be no sustainability. If we focus on development without considering sustainability, long-term development will be groundless. Sustainable development mainly involves two aspects, sustainable economic development, and sustainable resource and ecological development. Sustainable development is based on sustainable resource utilization and a good ecological environment, and on sustainable economic development. Since 1992, when the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development adopted it as a common development strategy in the twenty-first century, sustainable development has become a global action plan.

In an attempt to ensure sustainable water resource development, this paper constructs a comprehensive scientific index evaluation system focused on the macro socio-economic-ecological environment. Inspired by the theory of dissipative structure, the sustainable development system of water resources is regarded as a complex and huge dissipative system. In order to effectively measure the coordinated development status and orderly evolution trend of the system, this paper uses the information entropy method to construct the measurement model of the water resources system and analyze its internal entropy flow changes. The empirical analysis of the water resources in China from 2007 to 2016 found that coordinated water resource subsystem development could achieve sustainable development, and that over the examined period, the sustainable water resource development system in China became more orderly and coordinated; therefore, the sustainable development aim is gradually being achieved.

Green growth has become an increasingly important paradigm for sustainable economic growth, resource development, and environmental protection. As the main focus in energy led green growth is a move away from fossil energy to clean energy, sustainable green growth resource development needs to measure both energy and environmental efficiencies. As the largest global energy consumer and carbon emitter, China has had to deal with serious energy and environmental issues in recent years, with its regional green growth performances being poorly assessed. Therefore, green growth clean energy-environmental efficiency assessments were examined in this paper, for which an integrated principal component analysis-data envelopment analysis based analysis approach was developed. It was found that while China's green growth has had a significant increasing trend in recent years, overall it was still at a low level, with the imbalances in China's regional economic development being reflected in its green growth. However, the excellent development and utilization of clean energy in most regions have significantly promoted a continuous improvement in China's green growth and the move toward sustainable resource development and utilization is contributing to long-term green growth. Green growth has also placed new demands on sustainable resource development in China. Therefore, underdeveloped regions that have sustainable resource endowments need to develop industrial systems that have clean energy as the main axis, and developed regions need to develop high-end industries that have low energy consumption and encourage mutual support systems between regions to ensure optimal sustainable resource, green growth development patterns.

This study examines indices of sustainable rural development in Bulgaria, Germany, Poland, Romania and the Netherlands. The European Union has consistently supported its policy on sustainable rural development and allocated budgetary funds to provide financial assistance. The energy crisis that followed the outbreak of the Russia–Ukraine conflict prompted the European Union to adopt stricter measures regarding sustainable development and energy. To achieve these objectives, it is crucial to accurately identify regional issues and ensure that the established goals are practical and achievable. Some European Union countries have made significant progress in this direction, while others have yet to do so. Therefore, this study is aimed to examine the differences and difficulties of rural development in selected countries of the European Union through data and literature review methods. In the study, the data on population, GDP per capita, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the economic impact of agriculture, and renewable energy are compared for the countries selected at the rural areas and the data on employment, poverty levels, education and rural digitization are compared. Netherlands and Germany exhibit adherence to the goals of sustainable rural development, while Poland has made progress in several areas towards sustainable rural development. In contrast, according to the study, Bulgaria and Romania require more significant measures to achieve sustainable rural development. Although both countries have some strengths, it is imperative that all relevant parties participate in the process to ensure sustainability. Education is a crucial prerequisite for rural development. However, the percentage of educated individuals in these countries has decreased. Furthermore, it is crucial to provide rural areas with information about digitization and establish the required infrastructure. Moreover, the adoption of smart villages should be considered as a solution, in which all stakeholders can efficiently benefit from education and digitization, and sustainable resources can be developed.

With the socioe-conomic development of Shanshan region, water demand is rapidly growing. To make adjustments to the water resources carrying capacity, socioe-conomic and ecological environment, this study performed an index system for the water sustainability of Shanshan region. Based on the method of membership degree of fuzzy set theory, sustainable degree and the ability of sustainable development of Shanshan are measured. Take the simulation results of optimal water allocation as actual index value. According to a multi-level fuzzy comprehensive evaluation, the result shows that the sustainable degree of Shanshan region is increased gradually with the increase of planning level years (2015, 2020, 2030). In 2030 the sustainable degree reached 0.74, which is in the higher level of sustainable development. The plan suggests that the policy of rapid socio-economic development and better environmental protection may achieve the most sustainable development of Shanshan region in the future. Introduction Water is the most essential resource for the sustainable development of human society and for basic support of all human and natural systems [1]. However, the problem of coordinating the relationship among socio-economic, ecological environment and water resources is the most serious issue for sustainable development. Water Resources Optimal Allocation (WROA) (which includes the connotation of sustainable development, and sustainable degree evaluation as well as optimized allocation of water resources) may provide a solution to the above problems to achieve the goal of sustainable development in a region. Furthermore, the information of WROA is likely to be a helpful tool for policy makers at all levels (locally, regionally, and nationally). In general, the connotation of sustainable development has its origins in United Nations human environment conference. IUPN (1980) proposed that we must study the natural, social, ecological and economic basic relationship, in order to ensure the sustainable development of the world. Lester R. Brown (1981) put forward to control the population growth, protect the resource and develop renewable energy to achieve the sustainable development. WCED (world commission on environment and development) in 1987 came up with the definition of sustainable development that is not only to meet the needs of contemporary people, but also not against the ability of the development for future generations to meet their own needs. Subsequently, China firstly brings into sustainable development strategy in the long-term planning of China's economy and society. The current study is commonly believed that sustainable development mainly includes the sustainable social development, sustainable ecological development, and sustainable economic development. This paper considering the regional water resources carrying capacity and the diversity of its International Conference on Mechanics and Civil Engineering (ICMCE 2014) © 2014. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 1038 influence factors sets up a regional index system of sustainable development, which coordinates the development of resources, socio-economic and ecological environment. [2] The research of Water Resources Optimal Allocation (WROA) originated in the 1950s.With the development of mathematical programming and computer simulation technology, the research method and application system of Water Resources Optimal Allocation has made great progress. Wang et al. (2003) presented a Water resources optimal allocation theory and method for the sustainable development of socio-economic and water resources [3]. Zhao et al. (2011) developed the multi-objective model for optimal allocation of water resources based on sustainable development, which comprehensively considered the social,economic and environmental benefits and applied the genetic algorithm [4]. The development of water exploitation and utilization is increasing sophistication, the way of using water changed from consuming to saving and ecological environment development. Current research in water resource allocation is not comprehensive combined with the connotation of sustainable development and the simulation results of optimal water allocation do not performed sustainable evaluation.

Mineral resource drivers in the global south: A case study of Australia

Critiquing Economic Frameworks in Sustainable Development: Health Equity, Resource Management and Materialism Anisa Khadem Nwachuku This collection examines mainstream economics discourse as it relates to three topics in sustainable development: health equity, sustainable non-renewable resource management and development approaches. The themes of the three papers are as follows: Political Dimensions of Health Equity in Mozambique In order to promote equity in health, analysis should look beyond the standard economic definitions used to identify underserved and vulnerable populations. Human and Social Capital, Compensation or Cost? Reexamining the Hartwick Rule In order to achieve sustainable non-renewable resource management, planners must go beyond the current economic theoretical framework and consider the direct impacts of extraction on human and social capital. The Materialism Paradigm – Neither Sustainable, nor Development The way economists have understood prosperity is materialistic and development is exporting this welfarereducing paradigm. The synthesis of the series The frameworks used in economics to address a variety of issues in sustainable development have limited efficacy and would benefit from insights originating outside the discipline.

Limited water resources have become a serious problem in recent decades. Based on previous research results, this article develops an index system to evaluate sustainable water resource development that includes a water resource condition system, a water resource development and utilization system, a water resource protection and management system, and a socio-economic system. A measurement model is then constructed based on a principal component analysis (PCA) -entropy weights-weighted average method to optimize the evaluation index system for dimensionality reduction, to assign weights to the principal component factors, and allow for a comprehensive evaluation of water resource sustainability. The measurement model is applied to an empirical analysis of sustainable water resource development in Sichuan Province from 2008 to 2017, from which it is found that coordinated sustainable regional water resource and social economic development can be achieved through rational exploitation, efficient utilization, and environmental water pollution control. This research could provide a reference for regional sustainable development of water resources and policy developments.

This study explains that environmental democracy is an aspect of Public Participation (PP), of which community participation is also an aspect. On this note, the study examines PP, simply known as ‘participation’, as a concept, principle, as well as a developmental practice, backed by law, in countries around the globe. It demonstrates that PP, particularly, environmental democracy, generates good, sound and long-lasting decisions. It establishes that such decisions protect public interest, enhance social equity, improve the quality of the environment, and promote environmental justice, good environmental governance (GEG), overall good public sector governance (GG) as well as sustainable development (SD), in the course of major natural resources (MNRs) extractive industrial operations (EIOs). EIOs, such as oil and gas, and other mining and mineral resources EIOs in resources-rich communities of developing countries, are exemplified by petroleum resources development operations (PRDOs) in the oil-rich Niger Delta region. Distinguished by its dominant PRDOs, the study features Nigeria as a typical example of a developing country plagued by the resource curse, and that the country is far from achieving SD, particularly sustainable petroleum resources development operations (SPRDOs) and sustainable community development (SCD) in its oil-rich Delta region. The study establishes that genuine environmental democracy, which is globally acknowledged and widely accepted, is that which is stipulated in Principle 10 of Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1992, elaborated in the Aarhus Convention, 1998, cemented in the UN Brisbane Declaration on Community Engagement, 2005, and being profoundly canvassed by the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA: the leading global network on environmental democracy in the realm of Impact Assessment [IA]) and the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2: the worldwide organisation exceptionally advancing and extending the practice of PP). The study recommends that the worldwide landmark degree of environmental democracy, which is regarded as genuine, should be practised in Nigeria to promote SPRDOs and SCD in the oil-rich communities of the Delta region, as well as stimulate greater human wellbeing, and environmentally-sound, ecologically-centred and socio-economically equitable SD in the country, towards the wellbeing of overall nature within the Planet Earth. Keywords: Environmental Democracy, Public Participation (PP), Public Involvement Participation (PI), Community Involvement (CI), Major Natural Resources (MNRs) Extractive Industrial Operations (EIOs), Resource Curse, Sustainable Petroleum Resources Development Operations (SPRDOs), Sustainable Community Development (SCD), Good Environmental Governance (GEG) and Good Public Sector Governance (Good Governance [GG]). DOI: 10.7176/JLPG/94-07 Publication date: February 29 th 2020

PDF HTML阅读 XML下载 导出引用 引用提醒 城市可持续发展新型定量研究方法进展 DOI: 10.5846/stxb202111253331 作者: 作者单位: 作者简介: 通讯作者: 中图分类号: 基金项目: 国家自然科学基金项目(42171287, 41590840); 科技部第二次青藏高原综合科学考察专题项目(2019QZKK1005) Advances in the innovatively quantitative research approach for urban sustainable development Author: Affiliation: Fund Project: 摘要 | 图/表 | 访问统计 | 参考文献 | 相似文献 | 引证文献 | 资源附件 | 文章评论 摘要:城市体现了集约化的发展方式,以仅占陆地3%的面积承载了世界一多半的人口,因此城市是人类社会可持续发展的主阵地,城市可持续发展是区域可持续发展的重要实践。研究试图从可持续发展的基本内涵着手,聚焦于城市尺度的研究,梳理了相关理论和概念演变历程,着重对新型定量方法--评价指标体系法、复杂系统建模、资源环境可持续性探索等进行综述。研究发现指标体系法常用于传统的城市可持续发展评估,大多是针对表象的分析,隔离了系统内部的组织关联,对系统机理探索不够。资源环境对人类社会的发展起到基础支撑作用,从资源环境可持续性出发研究可持续发展诞生了一些较为创新的方法,但研究集中在描述人类对自然的压力和影响,而对于自然对人类的反馈以及人对自然的积极改造探索不足,也很难直接表达系统整体的可持续性。弹性思维和复杂系统科学近年来被多次用于解释城市运行的灰箱模型,但研究稍浅。研究提出可将弹性思维和复杂系统科学结合起来,借助数据科学和计算科学的新兴方法,分析城市的可持续发展,深入探索可持续性的科学表达和深层机理,为解决复杂的城市问题提供科学指导,为城市可持续发展提供理论依据。 Abstract:Cities embody the intensive development mode, with only 3% of the land area to carry more than half of the world's population, so cities are the main front of sustainable development of human society. Urban sustainable development is an important practice of regional sustainable development. Starting from the basic connotation of sustainable development, this study focuses on urban sustainable development research, sorts out the evolution process of related theories and concepts, and reviews the research methods, especially new quantitative methods including evaluation index system method, complex system modeling, resource and environment sustainability exploration, etc. It is found that the index system method is often used in previous urban sustainable development assessments, but most assessments stay only on appearance and isolate the systemically internally organizational association, and the exploration of the system mechanism is not enough. The resources and environment play a fundamental role in supporting the development of human society, so some relatively innovative methods have been developed to study sustainable development from the perspective of resource and environmental sustainability. Human pressure and influence on nature were studied more, and the feedback of nature to human beings and the positive transformation of human beings to nature were not explored enough, also it is difficult to directly express the sustainability of the whole system. In recent years, resilience thinking and complex system science have been used many times to explain the grey box model of urban operation, but the research is slightly superficial. This study proposes research prospects which can combine resilience thinking and complex system science to analyze the sustainable urban development with new approaches in data science and computing science, and explore the scientific expression and deep mechanism of sustainability. Our study could provide scientific guidance for solving the complicated urban problems, and provide a theoretical basis for urban sustainable development. 参考文献 相似文献 引证文献

This article explores the level of women's understanding of sustainable development in Gqebera Township, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. It further examines the challenges and opportunities for sustainable human resource development (HRD) in the Sub-Saharan region. Sub-Saharan Africa is facing numerous challenges, including poverty, inequality, HIV and AIDS and high unemployment. All these factors are important to consider when planning HRD policies and strategies in the region. Sustainable development is a worldwide aim and on the agenda of many countries on the African continent. The conditions under which women in Sub-Saharan Africa have been trying to participate in the development process in the past have often prevented them from fully developing their capacity to take part in the work towards sustainable development.

Will Rio+20 find a way to more sustainable development?

The achievement of water sustainability necessitates the development and application of comprehensive assessment tools to monitor and evaluate the impact of water resource management. This article presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of various water sustainability indices, emphasizing their underlying principles, methodologies, and potential applications. Our study reveals the diverse landscape of existing indices, illustrating that even indices with similar names can vary significantly in scope and methodology. Via a systematic review of 124 publications, this study provides insights into existing composite indices related to water sustainability, highlighting their specific applications and potential contributions to water resource management and sustainability. The information gathered from the selected papers was synthesized and analyzed thematically to identify common patterns through keyword co-occurrence mapping, SDG mapping, standard review protocols, and cluster analyses. Through a cluster analysis, we identified six distinct clusters of indices, highlighting the need for careful consideration in selecting appropriate ones. Moreover, our analysis of co-occurring keywords underscores the close relationship between sustainable development, water resources, water supply, and water conservation within the context of water-related indices. Notably, these indices address not only sustainable development goal six but also a number of other interconnected goals. It was also found that “sustainability index” is a common name for different nature water indices. This review also identifies research gaps in the existing literature. However, significant limitations exist, including a lack of historical application and future projections for many current water sustainability indicators. Without the ability to track changes over time and project the future, identifying areas of improvement and measuring progress toward long-term water sustainability goals becomes challenging. Furthermore, many indices are complex and designed for watershed or regional levels, limiting their adaptability to different contexts. Despite these challenges, indices remain valuable tools for assessing and managing water resources sustainably, addressing various dimensions of sustainability, and supporting decision-making processes across different sectors and contexts.