Sustainable Development Of Global Economy Research Articles

Fresh insights for sustainable development: Collaborative governance of carbon emissions based on social network analysis

AbstractGlobal climate change caused by carbon emissions has brought severe challenges to the sustainable development of global economy. In this context, this study constructs a weighted and directed carbon emission network for the European Union (EU). We use social network analysis to measure the indicators of the structural characteristics of the EU carbon emission network, and employ cluster analysis to investigate the role of countries in the carbon emission network. Furthermore, we use linear regression to explore the impacts of structural characteristics of carbon emission network on carbon emissions. The results show that, first the carbon emissions ties among the EU countries show a typical network structure during the sample period. Countries such as Germany, France, and Belgium are at the center of the carbon emission network, while Malta, Cyprus, and Croatia are at the edge. Second, different countries play the roles of “net spillover,” “broker,” “two‐way spillover,” and “net receiver” in the EU carbon emission network. Last, the increase of network density, the decrease of network hierarchy and the decrease of network efficiency all significantly reduce the carbon emission intensity of the EU, and narrow the spatial difference of carbon emissions among countries. Improving the weighted centrality indicators of nodes in the carbon emission network is helpful to reduce the carbon emission intensity of the EU countries. Based on the findings, this article puts forward policy suggestions for the collaborative governance of EU carbon emission abatement.

Achieving Sustainable Occupational Safety: Bridging Up Terminological Gaps

The article is devoted to the study of gaps in terminology in the language pair English- Russian thematically belonging to the sphere of occupational safety and health which derive from the differences in understanding the key concepts in two linguocultures. The authors believe that slow development of international cooperation in the sphere of occupational safety prevents the sustainable development of global economy as it hampers the exchange of experience and working out a common policy in dealing with occupational safety-related issues. On the material of thematic glossaries, standards of occupational safety and health in two languages the authors develop concept fields spotting terminological gaps and substantiating the causes of their existence, among which linguocultural factors are of primary importance. Further analysis aimed at the development of a bilingual occupational safety and health glossary will allow finding the most productive ways of interpreting the key terms in the languages under study, which will be beneficial both for the promotion of international cooperation in the sphere of occupational safety and health and sustainable development of global economy.

How can export improve firms’ energy efficiency? The role of innovation investment

With the continuous development of the global economy, global energy resources have been severely consumed in the past few decades. Under this situation, can trade play a positive role in optimizing the allocation of resources and help to solve the global energy problem? This topic is extremely important for promoting the sustainable development of global economy. However, up to now, little is known about the relationship between trade and energy consumption in production. This paper establishes a trade model at the firm-level to analyze the impacts of export on firms’ energy efficiency in production. Our model shows that export can lead to the increase of firms’ energy efficiency. We also propose a novel mechanism of innovation investment to explain why export affects firms’ environmental performance. Export can stimulate firms to invest more in innovation, and thereby improving firms’ energy efficiency, which implies that trade liberalization is beneficial to the improvement of firms’ environmental performance. These findings in our theoretical model can be applied to different industries and different countries. Altogether, this paper is the first theoretical analysis to study the impacts of export on firms’ energy efficiency, having important policy implications on promoting sustainable development of the global economy.

Is Emotional Intelligence an essential element in global learning environment to become socially responsible innovators?

Emotional intelligence in its basic sense is defined as the term representing the ability of an individual to understand his/her own emotions as well as others. 21st century is considered globally as knowledge-based society by eminent scholars, policy makers, stake holders etc, the question still remains unanswered is 1. Have we achieved 100% literacy rate globally? 2. Is there a sustainable development in global Economy? 3. Is there an Economic and Social narrow down between developed and developing nations of the world in terms of Education, Health, Industrialization? The inventions in 20th century contributed to a large extent providing material comfort to both developed and developing nations without addressing the emotional well-being of its citizens the core constituents of human capital. Therefore, the present-day global learning environment is expected to refine the emotional intelligence trait of teachers, the key players in shaping the society to a well-equipped emotionally successful global innovator.

Recent Advances of Pharmaceutical Process Chemistry and Its Innovation in China: Part 1

AbstractThis review article summarizes recent developments and innovations in China's pharmaceutical process chemistry over the last several decades. Case studies of dozens of blockbuster drug processes are presented, including bulk drugs, such as the over-the-counter medicine biotin, demonstrating China's substantial effort to green its pharmaceutical processes. Owing to the increasing stringent environmental regulations, Chinese chemists have invented several cutting-edge and eco-friendly synthetic methods that are beneficial to environmental protection. Applied to large-scale industrial production, these processes have a greatly reduced environmental footprint, promoting the sustainable development of global economy and health.

Soil treatment engineering

Abstract Soil is loose skin of the Earth, located between the lithosphere and atmosphere, which originated from parent material under the influence of pedogenetic processes. As a conditionally renewable natural resource, soil has a decisive influence on sustainable development of global economy, especially on sustainable agriculture and environmental protection. In recent decades, a growing interest prevails for non-production soil functions, primarily those relating to environmental protection. It especially refers to protection of natural resources whose quality depends directly on soil and soil management. Soil contamination is one of the most dangerous forms of soil degradation with the consequences that are reflected in virtually the entire biosphere, primarily at heterotrophic organisms, and also at mankind as a food consumer. Contamination is correlated with the degree of industrialization and intensity of agrochemical usage. It is typically caused by industrial activity, agricultural chemicals or improper disposal of waste. The negative effects caused by pollution are undeniable: reduced agricultural productivity, polluted water sources and raw materials for food are only a few of the effects of soil degradation, while almost all human diseases (excluding AIDS) may be partly related to the transport of contaminants, in the food chain or the air, to the final recipients - people, plants and animals. The remediation of contaminated soil is a relatively new scientific field which is strongly developing in the last 30 years and becoming a more important subject. In order to achieve quality remediation of contaminated soil it is very important to conduct an inventory as accurately as possible, that is, to determine the current state of soil contamination.

Alternative Futures of Global Economy: A Challenge to Co-Operation Against Global Syndromes

In the 21st century it is expected that global syndromes will be appeared in the human society. The global issues seem likely to confront with every country around the world co-existing on the planet Earth. Development policy in the globalized world should be modified in coping with such historical trends toward sustainable global economy. Integrated progress of science & technology and human mind will be desirable in the human society where consists of a globally interdependent complex system.In the globalized world, globally interdependent system structures are getting more and more complex so that no body might easily precept cause and effect relationships at a first glance. Therefore, policy makers should largely depend on scientific computer simulations of policy exercises.The FUGI (Futures of Global Interdependence) global modeling system has been developed as a policy modeling and future simulation tools of providing global information and finding out possibilities of policy co-ordinations.to achieve sustainable development of the global economy coexisting on the planet Earth in the ever changing universe. The FUGI model classified the world into 200 countries/regions where each country/regional model is global interdependent.Each national/regional model has nine subsystems as population, foods, energy, environment, economic development, peace and security, human right, healthcare and quality of life. This is a super complex dynamic system model using integrated multidisciplinary systems analysis where number of structural equations is over 170,000. Economic model as a core includes major economic variables such as production of GDP employment, expenditure of GDP, income distribution, prices, money, interest rates and financial assets, government finance, international balance of payments, international finance, foreign exchange rates and development indicators.The purpose of this e-book is twofold, namely to provide information on a new frontier of economic science: global model simulation as well as appropriate policy exercise for sustainable development of the interdependent global economy. The world economy is facing green energy revolution to change from fossil to create alternative energy and energy saving technology against sky rocketing higher oil prices. Japan not only closely involved in the Asian community but also in the global community should take a lead in the field of technology innovation. Under such circumstances, Japan should take an initiative to create a new peaceful world as a sole nation suffered from nuclear weapons during the World War II. Through not only harmonized adjustments of the Japanese policy but also wise cosmic mind to promote human solidarity with ever changing nature will be desirable to adjust orbit of fluctuated global economy. Japan should challenge to alternative futures of global economy inducing a new strategy for accelerating technology innovations to induce higher economic growth rates by CO2 reducing investment improving unemployment and quality of life reducing labor hours against global syndromes.

A new challenge to economic science: Global model simulation

The FUGI ( Futures of Global Interdependence) global modeling system has been developed as a scientific policy modeling and future simulation tool of providing global information to the human society and finding out possibilities of policy co-ordination among countries in order to achieve sustainable development of the global economy co-existing on the planet Earth in the ever changing universe. The FUGI global model M200 classifies the world into 200 countries/regions where each national/regional model is globally interdependent. Each national/regional model has nine subsystems as population, foods, energy, environment, economic development, peace and security, human right, healthcare and quality of life (IT revolution). This is a super complex dynamic system model using integrated multidisciplinary systems analysis where number of structural equations is over 170,000. Economic model as a core includes major economic variables such as production of GDP, employment, expenditures of GDP, income distribution, prices, money, interest rates and financial assets, government finance, international balance of payments, international finance, foreign exchange rates and development indicators. The purpose of this article is twofold, namely to provide information on a new frontier science of economics: global model simulation as well as appropriate policy exercise for sustainable development of the interdependent global economy. The world economy is facing “green” energy revolution to change from fossil to create alternative energy and energy saving technology against sky rocketing higher oil prices. Japan takes a lead in this field of technology innovation. Under such circumstances, Japan should take an initiative to create a new peaceful world through not only harmonized adjustments of Japanese economic policy but also wise cosmic mind to promote human solidarity with the ever changing nature will be desirable to adjust orbit of the fluctuated global economy. Japan should challenge for a new strategy to accelerate economic growth rates by “ CO 2 reducing environment investment” based on technology innovations.

A New Frontier Science of Economics: Global Model Simulation

The 21st century seems likely an age of globalization, technology innovation and human awakens on cosmic mind. It is expected that syndromes or global disparities will be appeared in the human society. The global issues seem likely to confront with every country around the world co-existing on the planet Earth in a Solar system of a Galaxy in the Cosmos. As a matter of fact, national/regional economic development policy in the globalizing world should be modified in accordance with such historical trends toward ever changing sustainable global economy. The appearance of complex and interrelated global issues such as economic development, environment, energy, peace and security, human rights and displaced persons, and so on, has posed problems whose solution is quite impossible within the traditional frameworks of economics. It is worth noting that such historical trend toward fusion of science and technology should bring about integrated multidisciplinary systems analysis beyond the traditional framework of academic disciplines. The FUGI (Futures of Global Interdependence) global modeling system originally designed by Akira Onishi (who has an intellectual property right) has been developed as a scientific policy modeling and simulation tool of providing global information to the human society and finding out possibilities of policy coordination among countries in order to achieve sustainable development of the global economy under the constraints of rapidly changing global environment. The FUGI global model M200 classifies the world into 200 countries/regions where each national/regional model is globally interdependent through international trade, oil prices, export/import prices, financial flows, ODA, private foreign direct investment, exchange rates, stock market prices and global policy coordination etc. As a major core of the model, economic development, each national/regional model consists of integrated nine major sub-systems: (I) population, (II) foods, (III) energy, (IV) environment, (V) economic development, (VI) peace and security, (VII) human rights, (VIII) health care and (IX) digital divide. At a first glance, human brain could not perceive cause and effect relationships of such dynamic complex system so that we might largely depend upon advanced computer simulation technology. The UNCTAD Secretariat has officially adopted the FUGI global model project since 2000. The purpose of this paper is twofold, namely to introduce information on Futures of Global Interdependence (FUGI) modeling system but also provide with alternative futures of sustainable development of the interdependent global economy under the constraints of energy requirement and CO2 emissions up to 2020. It is worth noting that not only appropriate strategy for sustainable development but wise cosmic mind to promote human solidarity with the ever changing nature will be desirable to adjust orbit of the fluctuated global economy. On contrary to zero growth proposal in Limits to Growth, this article confirms that there is a possibility of achieving rather higher economic growth rates of the world economy by enhancement of technology innovations to induce a large scale environment protection investment through national and global co-ordination of policies. For business community, it is worth noting that new business opportunities should be expected from technology innovations in the coming age of post oil industrial society.

The impact of CO 2 emissions on the world economy : Policy simulations of FUGI global model

In the 21st century it is expected that global syndrome will be appeared in the human society. The global issues seem likely to confront with every country around the world co-existing on the planet Earth. Green house gas will induce global warming effects that might bring about serious influences on changes in climates and ecological system. The Futures of Global Interdependence (FUGI) global modeling system has been developed as a scientific policy simulation tool of providing global information to the human society and finding out possibilities of policy coordination among countries in order to achieve sustainable development of the global economy under the constraints of rapidly changing global environment. The FUGI global model M200 classifies the world into 200 countries/regions where each national/regional model is globally interdependent through oil prices, energy requirements, international trade, export/import prices, financial flows, ODA, private foreign direct investment, exchange rates, stock market prices and global policy coordination, etc. The purpose of this article is twofold, namely to provide information on the futures of global economy under the constraints of energy requirements and CO 2 emissions up to 2020 as well as strategy for sustainable development of the interdependent global economy.

Nuclear energy–An essential option for sustainable development of global economy: Keynote Speech at Opening Session of ICONE-13

Nuclear energy–An essential option for sustainable development of global economy: Keynote Speech at Opening Session of ICONE-13