Context Of Sustainable Development Research Articles

Online work adjustment in the sustainable development context during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic literature review

Online work adjustment in the sustainable development context during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic literature review

Online work adjustment in the sustainable development context during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic literature review

Online work adjustment in the sustainable development context during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic literature review

Upgrading of demolition concrete into new construction concrete

In Morocco, buildings, road and urban infrastructure are ageing relatively quickly and often require renovation or demolition work. The large amount of demolition rebus generated is a considerable challenge that will have to be buried or reused. The reuse of these materials is an important aspect of their management, especially as regulations concerning landfill sites are becoming increasingly restrictive. Another challenge facing the construction industry is the reduction of natural aggregate sources due to the high demand for raw materials. The use of demolition concrete as recycled aggregates in new concrete is a promising solution in the current context of sustainable development. However, it should be noted that the properties of recycled aggregate concrete are different from those with natural aggregates, mainly their porosity, density and resistance. These differences are attributed to the cement mortar that adheres to natural aggregate particles, constituting an aggregate in itself.This work aims to study the influence of using a combination of Fine Recycled Aggregates (FRA) and Coarse Recycled Aggregates (CRA), with Natural Aggregates (NA). Since the use of the recycled coarse fraction in the production of new concrete may have revealed good performance in recycled concrete, the use of the recycled fine fraction remains still very limited, due to its absorptive capacity by reference to previous bibliographic studies. In order to improve the quality of Recycled Concrete (RC), this work also seeks to study a new crushing alternative that favours less adhered mortar.

Sustainable Political Leadership Based on System Thinking in Rural Development Practices of Nepal

The sustainable political leadership based on system thinking is a highly qualified skillful political leadership on sustainable development administration on rural development practices of Nepal. This paper analyses the quality of sustainable political leadership based on system thinking in overall sustainable rural development application and process in Nepal and its empiricisms. It also presents the national and international context of leadership, system thinking and sustainable development and their contemporary debates and issues. Methodologically it is an empirical literature review on sustainable development, system thinking and leadership for Rural Development and its practices in Nepal. In conclusion, in Nepal social inclusion, justice, and equity; economic and ecological balance and good governance in a basket of rural development is essential phenomena for sustainable political leadership based on system thinking. The real practices of the ideas of social inclusion, justice, equity; economic and ecological balance and good governance to increase productivity of sustainable political leadership is to be more important. However, these types of practices on sustainable political leadership based on system thinking are insignificant, qualities and practices both are low. The national and international importance and urgency of sustainable political leadership based on system thinking are increasing to maintain sustainability governance from local to global level.

ASSESSMENT OF SURPLUS CROP RESIDUE BIOMASS ENERGY SECTOR: INDIA

This paper deals with three issues related to surplus residues biomass energy: 1. the concept of surplus crop residues biomass energy, 2. institutional setup for residues biomass energy policy and planning, and 3. Its achievement at the national level. The choice of surplus crop residues biomass energy is dependent on the institutional framework that shaped its existence in the renewable energy sector. The current study is shaped by various alternative learning-based approaches used by academics and practitioners in the field of renewable energy. The approaches show similarities with Clean Development Management (CDM) goals and reflect the alternative and sustainable development context within which they were framed toward ecological-based energy capacity building. The institutional framework can encourage surplus crop residual biomass energy, and it is one of the few alternative energy resources in which individuals appear eager to invest. However, the surplus crop residues biomass energy initiative is slowly spreading across the country, wait and watch if the surplus crop residues biomass energy approach can prove its merits.

The Importance of Historical Stages of Construction Within the Context of Sustainable Urban Development of Hadrut City

Preservation of Artsakh's architectural heritage and the issues of use have acquired a special significance today. The historical stages of the construction of the city of Hadrut in Artsakh, and, as a result of their analysis, their impact on the further sustainable development of the city have been revealed. There are 5 main stages: formation, late Middle Ages, from the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, Soviet and independence periods. Suggestions are given on the territorial development of the city.

A Conceptual Framework for Heritage Impact Assessment: A Review and Perspective

Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) has recently emerged as a conflict-solving tool to improve World Heritage (WH) conservation in line with sustainable development policies. The increasing number of requested HIAs for affected WH properties over the last years reveals that more attention is being paid to HIA as a practical tool to adequately support the protection and management of historic monuments and sites against new constructions and development. However, the application of integrated and systematic impact assessment methods within HIA still remains a key challenge in different HIA projects. Therefore, this paper contributes to the further development of a transparent and systematic procedure of HIA in accordance with Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). It also explores different standard methods of impact assessment in EIA and discusses their applicability to cultural World Heritage properties. Finally, the paper emphasizes a need for developing integrated impact assessment methods to address the multiple impacts of development projects. Such methodological enhancement can further contribute to mitigation strategies and decision-making to protect World Heritage properties within the context of sustainable development.

Stimulating Collective Transformative Learning Experiences with an ESD Whole-School Assessment Tool

This exploratory research is a contribution to the overall movement which calls for a transformation of educational systems towards value-based and sustainable education learning paradigms. It is an attempt to offer an alternative perspective on school assessments and certification processes by connecting transformative learning and the whole-school approach in an Education for Sustainable Development context. The results of the research are based on secondary analysis of literature, surveys with students and practitioners and a focus group discussion. By deducing six key elements from the data which should be incorporated in assessment tools to stimulate transformative learning on a school level in K12 education, the study results offer ideas on what to incorporate in future school assessments. To stimulate transformative learning in educational institutions whole-school assessment tools should be based on (1) a clear learning paradigm and value framework, (2) should foster relationships and contribute to a sense of community, (3) encourage reflection and introduce a systems thinking mindset, (4) make learning a meaningful experience relevant also for the personal life outside the school, (5) foster dialogue and collaboration inside the school and across institutions, and (6) require action post-assessment.

Aspects regarding the research in the field of electric vehicles implementation in the context of the sustainable development of the European road transport system

Aspects regarding the research in the field of electric vehicles implementation in the context of the sustainable development of the European road transport system

Consumer Choice for Milk and Dairy in Romania: Does Income Really Have an Influence?

Milk and dairy are basic food products and their importance in healthy human development is well known. However, this does not mean that the consumers’ requests for these products are not evolving and fitting into the new context of sustainable development. By conducting a quantitative analysis on 847 answers regarding milk and dairy consumption offered by Romanian consumers, the objective of this study is to reveal what are the main factors of influence for respondents when choosing a milk or dairy product, and to see if these factors are evolving towards including sustainability-related aspects. The results point out that while price and store availability are still present as choice criteria, new aspects that might be related to a sustainable behavior, such as ecologic certification, country of origin or traditional products, are considered by the respondents when purchasing milk and dairy. However, this depends on the level of income; higher incomes allow respondents to consider new criteria.

New Strategies for Nitrogen Fixation and Pollution Control

AbstractIn the context of sustainable development and carbon neutrality, great efforts have been dedicated to the utilization of green energy such as sunlight and renewable electricity to tackle problems encountered amid energy‐ and emission‐intensive industries like nitrogen fixation. Despite significant progress made in the photocatalytic and electrocatalytic nitrogen fixation, they are still limited by the insufficient activity due to poor N2 activation. Herein, we reviewed our work focusing on the rational design of active sites for the efficient photocatalytic and electrocatalytic activation of molecular N2, including oxygen vacancy of BiOX, plasmonic Ru and Fe on TiO2–xHy, interfacial polarization field of single‐atom Fe and strained core‐shell Ru nanoparticles. Besides, this review also covers our endeavor to deal with environmental pollution based on the iron redox chemistry, including the O2 activation by low‐valent iron species, the acceleration of iron redox cycle to improve Fenton‐like reactivity, and the development of novel zero‐valent iron. What is the most favorite and original chemistry developed in your research group?Environmental chemistry of iron, including Fenton reaction, zero‐valent iron, other iron bearing materials and iron‐based pollutant control methods.How do you get into this specific field? Could you please share some experiences with our readers?I entered the specific field of Environmental chemistry of iron when I started my research career in College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University. Environmental chemistry of iron is a frontier in environmental chemistry and geochemistry. Iron ranks the 4th most abundant element in the Earth's Crust and is ubiquitous in atmospheric aerosols, natural waters and soils as well as animals and plants. Iron could play an important role in the processes of the biogeochemical cycling in the environment and chemical dynamics in organisms because of its abundant existence and redox properties. Iron cycling and its coupling interactions can directly drive the geochemical cycling of some major and trace elements, such as carbon, nitrogen and sulfur, and have strong influence on the fate, transport, transformation and bioavailability of natural contaminants.How do you supervise your students?I always encourage my students to innovate, persist and enjoy their researches.What is the most important personality for scientific research?The most important personality for scientific research is strong interest.What's your hobby? What's your favorite book(s)?My hobby is badminton. My favorite book is World of Plainness.How do you keep balance between research and family?Family is the warm harbor to strongly support my research and sooth pain and anxiety from life. I will stay with family and share my research progress with my family.Who influences you mostly in your life?Professor Jincai Zhao influences me mostly in my life. He guides and supports my research all the time as a godfather.What is your favorite journal(s)?Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Unearthing the Context of Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainable Development and Climate Change: Towards Future Research Direction

Although the social and environmental effects of global business are not fresh, there have been increased concerns in recent years as a result of urgent global issues such as climate change and deprivation. In terms of their regional reach and operations, multinational corporations are perceived as having a particular role, since they address a variety of concerns, stakeholders and societal structures, in both home and host countries. They are regarded continuously as having the capacity to be not only part of the issue but also potentially part of the remedy and have been illustrated in their research interests in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and global business' sustainable development implications. However, there was no formal research and inclusion in the literature. This paper discusses how these topics have been explored in IB work and describe specific knowledge differences and solutions. It often introduces recent experiments that yield insightful findings that lead to exciting areas for more study.

The Relationship between Sustainable Built Environment, Art Therapy and Therapeutic Design in Promoting Health and Well-Being.

At present, a smart city from the perspective of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasizes the importance of providing citizens with promising health and well-being. However, with the continuous impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the increase of city population, the health of citizens is facing new challenges. Therefore, this paper aims to assess the relationship between building, environment, landscape design, art therapy (AT), and therapeutic design (TD) in promoting health within the context of sustainable development. It also summarizes the existing applied research areas and potential value of TD that informs future research. This paper adopts the macro-quantitative and micro-qualitative research methods of bibliometric analysis. The results show that: the built environment and AT are related to sustainable development, and closely associated with health and well-being; the application of TD in the environment, architecture, space, and landscape fields promotes the realization of SDGs and lays the foundation for integrating digital technologies such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) into the design process to potentially solve the challenges of TD; and the principle of TD can consider design elements and characteristics from based on people’s health needs to better promote human health and well-being.

Comparison of weak and strong theories of environmental sustainability in the conceptual context of sustainable development

Ever since the idea of sustainable development was proposed, how to achieve it has always been the focus of researchers and policymakers. At the same time, in the letters of sustainable development, two approaches of weak sustainability and strong sustainability have been mentioned; Two approaches with different assumptions suggest different policies and will have different consequences. On the other hand, with the increase of environmental concerns in recent decades, the concept of natural capital and physical, human, and social capital has been added to the common literature of economics. Recently, with the collection of data related to the natural capital of nations by the World Bank, the possibility of statistical studies in this field has been provided. In the form of several regression models and at the international level, the present study will analyze the most fundamental difference between the two approaches of weak sustainability and strong sustainability, i.e., the possibility or impossibility of replacing physical capital instead of natural capital. The study results show that natural capital has a direct, positive, and independent role in explaining sustainable development indicators. Even the addition of physical, human, and social capital indicators does not threaten the significant coefficient of natural capital. Therefore, it can be concluded that under the assumption of a strong sustainability model, other types of capital can not replace natural capital.

Bioethanol Upgrading to Renewable Monomers Using Hierarchical Zeolites: Catalyst Preparation, Characterization, and Catalytic Studies

Bioethanol is one of the most promising renewable resources for the production of important monomers. To date, there have been various processes proposed for bioethanol conversion to renewable monomers. In this review, the catalytic bioethanol upgrading to various types of monomers using hierarchical zeolites as catalysts is illustrated, including the recent design and preparation of hierarchical zeolites for these catalytic processes. The characterizations of catalysts including textural properties, pore architectures, acidic properties, and active species are also exemplified. Moreover, the catalytic studies with various processes of monomer production from bioethanol including bioethanol dehydration, bioethanol to hydrocarbons, and bioethanol to butadiene are revealed in terms of catalytic activities and mechanistic studies. In addition, the future perspectives of these catalytic circumstances are proposed in both economic and sustainable development contexts.

Sustainable Development Based on Green GDP Accounting and Cloud Computing: A Case Study of Zhejiang Province

Cloud computing is a supercomputing that integrates large-scale and scalable computing, storage, data, applications, and other distributed computing resources for collaborative work in the form of virtualization technology as the basis and the network as the carrier to provide infrastructure, platform, software, and other service’s model. Green GDP (GGDP) is an assessment indicator for regional sustainable development. Hence, the evaluation index on GGDP and greening of the national economic accounting system (SNA) are the hotspots of current ecological and economic studies. In the recent years, Zhejiang’s economy has achieved rapid development, and there are also problems of high input and high consumption of natural resources, thereby restricting its sustainable development. Based on the statistical data of Zhejiang Province during 2000–2017, the GGDP within the sustainable development context is calculated using the system of integrated environmental and economic accounting (SEEA). The results indicated the following: (1) The GGDP accounted for 79.29%–96.78% of Zhejiang's GDP during the study period, which showed volatility upward trend, resulting from the significant environmental protection and conservation of natural resources in the study area. But economic development was heavily dependent on resources, and the local government still strengthened the work of improving resources and environment. (2) The proportion of secondary industry in Zhejiang Province fluctuated downwards during the period of 2000–2017, and the tertiary industry showed a volatility upward trend, which exceeded the proportion of the secondary industry, indicating that Zhejiang Province is from an industry-led economy to a service-oriented economy change. (3) The GGDP of Zhejiang Province accounted for the highest proportion of GDP in 2008, resulting from the result of a combination of relevant national policies and international competitions.

Recognizing, supporting and embracing the urban informal economy in Ghana: A local economic development perspective

ABSTRACT The informal economy has become a vibrant and growing phenomenon across the world. Within the context of sustainable development, connecting local economic development (LED) to the informal economy is imperative. However, the informal economy remains largely neglected within the conventional LED literature. Using key informant interviews and focus group discussions, this paper found that recognizing, embracing and supporting informal economy contributes to a more inclusive form of LED. The study concluded that local government authorities need to be more innovative in recognising the informal economy as part of local governments’ strategies for addressing unemployment, and supporting livelihoods.

Assessing Protected Area Management Effectiveness: the Need for a Wetland-Specific Evaluation Tool

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat was developed in 1971, and has established the world's largest network of protected areas. However, monitoring and reporting have been inadequate to fully achieve the goals of the Convention. We argue that current reporting mechanisms, including the Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT), Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Area Management (RAPPAM), and the R-METT reporting framework adopted at the 12th Conference of the Parties, are not well adapted to wetland systems and the objectives of the Ramsar Convention. This paper outlines one possible structure for a new reporting mechanism, explicitly focused on the Convention's objectives of maintaining ecological character and promoting wise use within the context of sustainable development. Through these lenses, we developed a 15-question framework that would have site managers compile the most pertinent information relating to these two points quickly, including providing operational definitions, identifying allowable uses, quantifying economic benefits, reporting fundamental monitoring data, and assessing stakeholder engagement opportunities. We argue that, if we are to provide an informed outlook for the next half-century of wetland conservation under the Ramsar Convention, we must begin by refining its information-gathering protocols for its system of wetlands of international importance.

“Do they mean what they say?” Measuring greenwash in the sustainable property development sector

PurposeThis study aims to measure the greenwash construct in the sustainable property development (GSPD) context. Property development products such as residential homes, which are generally high-priced, require a long-term financial commitment from the consumers. It makes the property development sector unique. Hence, a specific scale is required to measure greenwash activities in this specific context by the marketers. However, the scale available to measure the greenwash construct is general which is not suitable to use in this particular context. The present study is an attempt to fill this gap in the literature.Design/methodology/approachThree studies were conducted to develop the GSPD measure in different phases. In developing the scale, qualitative interviews (study 1) were conducted to generate the initial pool of items. The preliminary set of questions were then validated (content and face validity) by experts' opinions. Exploratory factor analysis (using SPSS) was conducted to extract the factor structure of the newly developed measure (study 2) which was then again validated to ensure predictive reliability and nomological validity by using the SEM-PLS technique (study 3).FindingsThe exploratory factor analysis result revealed that greenwash in sustainable property development (GSPD) is a multi-dimensional construct. The dimensions are namely, false claims and misleading claims. The confirmatory composite analysis confirmed these two dimensions.Practical implicationsThis newly developed GSPD scale will enable the researchers to measure the greenwash activities practiced by some of the housing developers. Marketers will be conscious to avoid such activities. Moreover, the government agencies may use this scale to monitor measure and deter greenwashing activities by property development companies.Originality/valueThis is a pioneer study that develops and validates a new scale to measure greenwash construct in sustainable property development in a developing context i.e. Malaysia. In addition, this study operationalized the greenwash construct in sustainable property development as a multi-dimensional behavioural construct determined by two dimensions i.e. false claims and misleading claims.

Determining the geographical model and environmental resilience patterns in Iranian provinces.

Considering environmental resources as a context for sustainable development is of paramount importance. Iran has faced a variety of environmental problems over the past few decades due to population development, changing patterns of residence, and urban development. Resilience measures the adaptation to changes occurring after unwanted events. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate environmental resilience (natural and human factors) among the Iranian provinces. Then, the environmental resilience index was categorized through a data mining method, and the required measures for each pattern were presented according to the obtained patterns. Based on the results, Semnan Province had the highest environmental resilience, whereas Tehran, Alborz, Hormozgan, Isfahan, Khorasan Razavi, Khuzestan, and Sistan and Baluchestan had the lowest environmental resilience index (ERI). In addition, the results of data mining indicate that the provinces have five distinct patterns. CO2 emissions and drinking water access indicators have the highest and lowest importance in the formation of patterns, respectively. Furthermore, the environmental resilience of Tehran Province was influenced more by both indicators of energy use and CO2 emissions. Therefore, improvements in energy efficiency, developing public transportation, using standard fuels, and modernizing old industries should be considered as ways to increase productivity. The results of resilience patterns significantly help planners and managers develop policies and programs to increase environmental resilience.