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GOLIKOVA, O. S. "SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF NATURAL RECREATIONAL RESOURCES CLASSIFICATION." Economic innovations 23, no. 1(78) (March 20, 2021): 41–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.31520/ei.2021.23.1(78).41-50.
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Topicality. The current state of socio-economic development demonstrates awareness of the need harmonious solving economic and environmental issues that arise as a result of recreational nature-use management; necessitates the search for scientific approaches to the classification of natural recreational resources, as well as the transformation and diversification of the recreational and tourist sphere functioning. Aim and tasks. Aim: deepening and analysis of scientific approaches to the classification of natural recreational resources in the context of rational nature use and the recreational and tourist activities development. Tasks: to classify natural recreational resources on the grounds of exhaustibility, renewability, reproduction, setting restrictions on forms and property rights and their possible diversification in recreational and tourist activities. Research results. The state of socio-economic and ecological interaction, the increase of society's needs in recreational resources and facilities cause the need for targeted use of natural resource capital to meet the needs of the population - in recreational nature-use management. Three functions of recreational nature-use management (social, economic and nature protection) are defined, their maintenance is opened. The distribution of environmental elements on natural resources and natural conditions, which is quite conditional, has been studied. According to the review and analysis of classification criteria and characteristics, approaches to classification are systematized, namely: physical-geographical aspect, economic effect, economic-legal, environmental and social factors. The classification of natural recreational resources is given in context of ownership relations and economic interests between the subjects of recreational and tourist sphere and from the possible diversification side of natural recreational resources use. Conclusion. Thus, since the classification of natural recreational resources and conditions allows to identify patterns of different resources combination, determine the economic benefits of their use, opportunities for alternative, including recreational, use, as well as draw conclusions about the rational use, conservation and prospects of diversification, prospects for territory development priorities and communities located on them.
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Khvesyk, M. A. "Management of natural resources in a decentralized." Interdepartmental thematic scientific collection "Agriculture" 1, no. 92 (April 19, 2017): 8–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.31073/zem.92.8-15.
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This article explores the concept and essence of power decentralization and subsidiarity in the provision of public ser-vices. Grounded economic aspects of natural resource management under decentralization as essential factors of social rights of citizens at the local level. Ways to strengthen local government institution and empower local communities and regions in the whole of the financial system by improving tax and budget legislation in the field of environmental management.
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Zelepugin, Anatoly D., and Andrey V. Belousov. "Socio-economic aspects of the rational use of natural resources." Economic Consultant 35, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 30–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.46224/ecoc.2021.3.4.
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Introduction. The socio-economic development of states is largely determined by the degree of rational use of natural resources. The current stage of development objectively requires effective scientific and practical approaches to solving the problems of harmonizing the economy and human-nature interaction. The purpose of the research is to analyze the socio-economic aspects of the rational use of natural resources. Materials and methods. A theoretical analysis of research materials (publications in periodicals, conference and analytical proceedings) was used. Results. Economic interest, with the help of which the harmonization of the economic and ecological subsystems is carried out, is the driving factor in the economic system development. At the same time, state regulation is the main element in the market mechanism system, which ensures the combination of personal and public interests in the social production system. Conclusion. Currently, the development of the ecological system is inseparable from the economic one. This implies a unified ecological and economic system with ecological and economic complexes as the subsystems.
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BURKYNSKYI, B. V., N. I. KHUMAROVA, and H. M. SHEVCHENKO. "SOME ASPECTS OF STATE GOVERNANCE OF NATURAL ASSETS IN UKRAINE." Economic innovations 22, no. 1(74) (March 20, 2020): 8–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.31520/ei.2020.22.1(74).8-19.
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Topicality. The state of ecological-economic development in Ukraine demonstrates the exhausted disposition of its natural-resource potential due to exorbitant and consumer use, as well as the unbalance of the government functions of use and reproduction of natural capital. Aim and tasks. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the state governance of natural assets, taking into account the factor of environmental conflict in the framework of sustainable development. Research results. Natural assets are considered as resources as a result of their involvement in economic activity a benefit is received due to increased net cash flows, both from their direct use and from the provision of ecosystem services. Within a certain territory, the total volume of natural resources differs from the volume of natural assets by the amount of the passive part of natural capital. State regulation of natural assets is defined as a type of state activity on forming the policy of organizing the practical activity of state bodies, provision technological process of preparation, adoption and execution of managerial decisions regarding economic entities - users of natural assets. Conclusion. Asset management effectiveness depends on the type of the policy that is chosen � traditional, integrated or transformational and, consequently, the level of application alongside regulatory instruments � technological and social innovation and, above all, economic incentive instruments, in particular, the consideration of natural resources in price terms, the establishment of a time-differentiated system of penalties on what is directly harm the environment, new development strategies that ensure the relationship between the objectives of economy's social sphere and environmental security. In resolving environmental conflicts that arise in the field of natural assets management the method of ecological consensus was proposed that is inclusive in nature and is as close as possible to comply with the principle of Pareto optimality.
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Kovalenko, Vitalii, Nataliya Kovalenko, Oleksandr Labenko, Oleksandr Faichuk, and Olha Faichuk. "Bioenergy sustainable development: achieving the balance between social and economic aspects." E3S Web of Conferences 154 (2020): 07008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202015407008.
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At the beginning of the third Millennium, humanity is forced to face a new surge of tensions and contradictions between different countries and peoples, between different parties and faiths, as well as the growth of environmental, economic and social problems both in different regions of the world and on a global scale. These phenomena are the result of the exhaustion of socio-economic forms of development of society within the existing natural resource and environmental conditions. An increasing number of people and states are experiencing an acute shortage not only in quality food, but also in quality water, clean air, energy, land, biological and other resources. After all, according to some scientists over the past hundred years, the consumption of natural resources by mankind has increased almost 100 times. For the first time in the history of mankind, resource and environmental crises have reached the biosphere borders and there is a danger to the existence of civilization. Humanity faces a global challenge, the correct solution of which will result on the lives of our descendants in the future. The common task for all is to preserve the biosphere as the habitat of mankind. Further increase of material and energy flows becomes impossible, as well as further satisfaction of the needs of new billions of people who will be added to the total population. Humanity is on the threshold of a new socio-economic formation, as neither a centrally managed economy nor a market economy has been able to solve the global environmental problems of our planet.
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Amril, Rofi, and Maryono Maryono. "Assessing Method to Identifying Water Resilience Against Natural and Climate Change Hazards." E3S Web of Conferences 31 (2018): 07009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20183107009.
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A geographic region may become vulnerable toward water resources in a variety of ways. Common issues arise when man-made infrastructure such as housing, industrial, agriculture and other spatial land use policy implementation exceeds more than desired level. Vulnerability of a region due to water resources could be interpreted as the inability of the region to sustaining economic and social activity associated to socio-economic water availability. This study assess four aspects of water resilience: water quantity, water distribution, water quality, and water requirements. Literature review then followed by interview with academic expert used as method of study. This study found that four aspect of water vulnerability mostly have been applied to asses water resource vulnerability. Each aspect have a specific characteristic and could be define more specific and detail indicator according to the local content.
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Suhaila, Kharirotul, and Suherman Suherman. "Community Dynamics of Tanjung Obit Village, the Bacan Island, South Halmahera: a Social Resilience Perspective." Jurnal Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (Indonesian Journal of Community Engagement) 7, no. 3 (September 30, 2021): 195. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jpkm.49267.
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Tanjung Obit Village is one of the villages in Bacan Island, South Halmahera. Recently, Tanjung Obit has socially and economically is developing rapidly because its main economic activities are driven by gold and bacan stone mines. Besides this, Tanjung Obit Village has the potential of natural resources in the form of plantations and fisheries which are very abundant. Mining activities and natural resource management activities affect people’s lives there, especially in terms of the economic aspect. The study aimed to understand and analyze the social resilience of the community. The data collection was conducted through interviewing community leaders, asking the village residents to complete a questionnaire and field observations of the village. The findings of the study showed that in their daily life, people had maintained their social and social resiliencies. In terms of the economic aspect, the optimization of natural resources potentials was very important to improve their social welfare. In addition, by implementing the four aspects of social resiliencies comprising mimicking, adaptive, and transformative capacities as well as local wisdom, Tanjung Obit’s people had survived and been capable of developing themselves further in the future.
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Yurak, V. V., M. N. Ignatyeva, and I. G. Polyanskaya. "Evaluation Theory in Environmental Economics: Territorial Aspect." Economy of Region 17, no. 4 (2021): 1059–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.17059/ekon.reg.2021-4-2.
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The desire to assess the value of natural resources led to the emergence of the evaluation theory in environmental economics. However, the lack of a systematic approach to the natural resources evaluation, as well as undefined assessment boundaries hinder the development of the such a theory, including the concepts of ecosystem services and total economic value. Based on the review of relevant scientific publications, the paper aims to analyse the evolution of the evaluation theory in environmental economics, as well as to reveal its general trends and phenomena. The methods of systematisation and content analysis were applied along with evolutionary and regional approaches. The example of the natural resources development in the northern regions was used to trace the evolution of the evaluation theory in Russia. A number of basic trends and phenomena in the development of the examined theory were identified. An axiological (subjective) value has been converging with an objective value of natural resources due to the integration of various assessment factors: 1) utilitarian (early 19th — mid-20th centuries); 2) utilitarian and social, utilitarian and ecological (mid-20th century — the turn of the 20th-21st centuries); 3) utilitarian, social and ecological in aggregate (early 21st century — present day). The evaluation object (territorial aspect) has also been expanded from local assessment to the assessment of the natural resource potential of regions and the world. The paper demonstrates that the evaluation theory in environmental economics, which now considers utilitarian, social and ecological aspects, will continue to develop by creating new paradigms, approaches, methods and techniques for assessing the value of nature resources in order to converge the axiological and objective values.
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Witkowska, Janina. "Social Aspects of Transnational Corporations’ Activities in the New EU Member States." Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 15, no. 3 (December 28, 2012): 143–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10103-012-0021-y.
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Water resources are among the most valuable resources of the natural environment. The sustainable and integrated management of these resources is the basis of European water policy. Pursuant to the Water Framework Directive, all waters in the European Union should achieve a state considered at least good by the year 2015. Just how this objective can be met continues to be a topic of discussions in some of the Member States. There exist serious problems and delays in performing and implementing the provisions of the Directive in most EU countries. What is more, the state of the water economy in several countries, including Poland, has been criticized by the European Commission. Many challenges stand before European water policy. They require solutions on a global and local level. This article presents current key problems and planned directions for EU water policy development, subjected to analysis and assessment. Note is taken on the newest initiative of the European Commission in the area of water policy, especially the plan for protecting Europe’s water resources—the Blueprint to Safeguard Europe’s Water Resources
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Nedelko, Zlatko, Valentina Peleckiene, Kęstutis Peleckis, Kestutis K. Peleckis, Giedre Lapinskiene, and Vojko Potocan. "The Impact of Economic Attitudes on Natural and Social Corporate Responsibility – A Comparative Study of Lithuania and Slovenia." Engineering Economics 30, no. 3 (June 27, 2019): 362–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.30.3.21119.
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This paper reports on research that examines the state of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the impact of economic attitudes on natural and social CSR in Lithuania and Slovenia. The study exposes CSR and organizational behavior theories and analyzes answers from 159 Lithuanian and 183 Slovenian business students considered as future employees. The authors established a model to examine the impact of economic CSR – considered through a “primary concern for economic results” and “devoting resources for CSR” to “natural CSR” and “social CSR.” In Lithuania interest in social CSR prevails, while in Slovenia interest is focused on natural CSR. The economic aspect of CSR is poorly appreciated in both countries. Associations between CSR aspects reveal that favoring economic results has no significant influence on natural and social CSR in the Lithuanian sample. In the Slovenian sample there is a significant and negative association between the concern for economic results and natural and social CSR. A positive and significant impact of devoting resources to natural and social CSR in both countries exists, but the impact is stronger for Slovenia than Lithuania. Devoting resources contributes more to a concern for social rather than natural CSR in both samples. Economic CSR explains significantly more variance in social CSR than in natural CSR. The findings could help improve and develop CSR behavior in organizations and among their future employees. They could also benefit higher education organizations and society.
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Mosiej, Józef. "Sustainable Rural Development Policy in Poland – Environmental Aspects." Acta Regionalia et Environmentalica 11, no. 2 (December 1, 2014): 41–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aree-2014-0008.
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Abstract The author discusses issues of sustainable development in rural areas in Poland from the perspective of natural resources management. Sustainable development of rural areas is the way of managing which links economic, social and ethical principles with ecological safety. This may be reached by proper management, directed on cautious usage of ecosystems’ self-controlling mechanisms, with the progress of science and technology. Agriculture in Poland is one of the most important sectors from an economic perspective and its importance is greater in Poland than in other countries in the EU. It has an influence not only on the social and economic situation of the rural population, but also on the natural environment, structure of landscape and biodiversity. From ecological point of view, functions of rural areas are not only being a place for production of food, resources for industry and green energy, but also supplying environmental goods such as protection of biodiversity and influencing air and water quality as well as landscape. The author presents ways to reduce the pressure of agricultural activities on water resources in the region, catchment and farm scale
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Gorman, Julian T., Melissa Bentivoglio, Chris Brady, Penelope Wurm, Sivaram Vemuri, and Yasmina Sultanbawa. "Complexities in developing Australian Aboriginal enterprises based on natural resources." Rangeland Journal 42, no. 2 (2020): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj20010.
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Across the world’s rangelands, livelihoods of millions of people are dependent on customary and commercial use of wildlife. Many Australian Aboriginal communities also aspire towards developing natural resource-based enterprises but there is a unique combination of historical, legislative and cultural factors that make this process complex. Typically, government support for Indigenous enterprise development has focussed largely on development of ‘social enterprise’, with subsidies coming from various government community development programs. This has resulted in some increase in participation and employment, but often inadequate attention to economic aspects of enterprise development leading to low levels of business success. This paper will examine historical, legislative and institutional dimensions in business development in Aboriginal communities. It does this through a case study of business enterprise development of the Kakadu Plum products by the Indigenous people of the Thamarrurr Region of the Northern Territory, Australia, using a participant observation research method. We found that attention on important economic criteria was subsumed by a focus on social enterprise priorities during the development of this natural resource-based enterprise. This resulted in a very slow transition of the ‘social enterprise’ to the ‘financial enterprise’, due largely to fragmented business decisions and inefficient value chains. We call for a refocus of natural resource-based enterprise development programs in remote Australian Aboriginal townships to incorporate greater emphasis on business acumen within the complex social, cultural and political fabric.
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Komilova, Nargizakhon. "Socio-Geographical Aspects Of The Culture Of Nature Use Of The Population Of The Fergana Valley." American Journal of Interdisciplinary Innovations and Research 02, no. 11 (November 30, 2020): 91–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/tajiir/volume02issue11-18.
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The growth of the world's population and the accelerated development of economic sectors are causing the expansion of the use of natural resources and an increase in anthropogenic pressure on them. This situation causes social and environmental problems in regions with intensively developed sectors of the economy and high population density.
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Koval, Kristina, and Nataliia Ivanova. "PECULIARITIES OF RESOURCE PROVISION OF SOCIAL PROTECTION OF THE POPULATION OF UKRAINE." Economic Synergy 1, no. 1 (June 2021): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.53920/es-2021-1-1.
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On the way to decentralization in order to achieve the goals of territorial development and local needs, local authorities can not do without having complete and comprehensive information on the full range of local resources and their effective management. Considering the resource potential of the region as a set of the whole range of resources that are formed in a given area and can be used in the process of socio-economic development and characterized by saturation of factors of production (natural resources, labor, fixed assets, infrastructure, etc.) and intangible factors, it is clear that it is a prerequisite for the implementation of development programs in the region. For the most part, the resource provision of the process of implementation of socio-economic development programs of the region is reduced to financial support, but in order to achieve the goals of such development, the use of non-monetary resources is no less important.The article identifies the components of resource provision of social protection at the local level, including: economic resources (financial and logistical); regulatory resources (regulatory framework, methodology); administrative resource; innovation resource; information resource. Problematic aspects of resource provision are outlined, among which: insufficient financing and low efficiency of budget funds use; lack of interest in finding additional sources of income; too extensive system of social benefits and privileges; disunity of institutions providing social services; insufficient integration and decentralization of services; low innovation of the sphere; insufficient use of information resources. Tools for improving the management of social protection resources are proposed.
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Novanda, Ridha rizki. "Analysis Of Village Potential In Flood-Prone Areas (Study Case in Bengkulu Tengah District)." Adpebi International Journal of Multidisciplinary Sciences 1, no. 1 (July 28, 2022): 11–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.54099/aijms.v1i1.151.
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Purpose – This paper aims to analyze the potential for economic revival of the three villages
Methodology/approach – The research conducted in the villages of Susup, Rajak Besi, and Komering, which were selected purposively. The research location was chosen purposively because it has the most severe economic damage in Central Bengkulu Regency. The first method is the Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) technique which requires extensive and informal speaking communication with rural people and observing the local conditions of the community. The second method is the seven-span method. The seven-span method is widely used to classify village potentials based on seven criteria to realize the sustainability of businesses established in rural areas and analyzed descriptively.
Findings – It was found that Susup and Komerig villages have great potential in the aspects of Economic, Social, and Natural Resource. However, it is very weak in aspects of Environment, Human Resources, Market and Technology. Unlike Rajak Besi Village, this village has the potential to be developed after the disaster because it has strengths in the aspects of Economic, Social, and Natural Resources, Human Resources, Market and Technology..
Novelty/value – The importance of village potential to develop regional strategies in the development of post-disaster village areas
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Akash Deep. "Development Interventions: A Factor of Social Structural and Cultural Change in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh." Social Science Journal for Advanced Research 2, no. 6 (November 30, 2022): 5–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.54741/ssjar.2.6.2.
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Development is a binary process which brings both positive and negative results. Gradually, the process of development results in the emergence of complexity in all aspects of society. Change in one single aspect holds the potential to bring change in all other aspects of a society. The changes brought about by various development agencies have led to changes in the system of production. The availability, utilization, and accessibility of natural resources as well as the technology required to fully utilise them have a significant impact on the decisions that determine a society's livelihood opportunities. Additionally, it affects social behaviour and social structure. Earlier, when people solely relied on traditional livelihood resources, the socio-structural context of the village was distinct, and this context underwent a transformation as a result of changes in livelihood resources and methods brought on by development initiatives. This paper intends to draw attention to the changes in the village's social, political, and economic structures in Amrai Village of Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, brought about by modifications in the production systems driven by development interventions
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Yang, Sai Ming. "Evaluation on Ecological Security of Land Resources." Advanced Materials Research 664 (February 2013): 129–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.664.129.
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Ecological security is the basis of sustainable development.Ecological security assessment of land resources is a forefront research topic of sustainable utilization of land resources. A index system of twenty indicators on ecological security of land resources,including natural, economic and social aspects, is established. Using AHP method to determine the index weights and mathematical models to calculate ecological security values of land resources, Ecological security values of land resources are devided into five grades.
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Bashkirova, N. N., and S. N. Lessovaia. "Sustainable Natural Resources Use: Financial and Tax Issues." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 988, no. 2 (February 1, 2022): 022012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/988/2/022012.
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Abstract The ecological stability and environmental security are becoming relevant issues being the elements of the national security. The development and the improvement of the financial (including tax), legal, educational, social and cultural components of the environmental regulation system is now a worldwide trend. The publication aims to analyze the financial and fiscal aspects of sustainable use of natural resources. Based on the consideration of advantages and disadvantages of the current system of ecological taxation in Russia, the critical analyses of implementing the “polluters pay” principle was provided and the key disadvantages of the energy and transport tax system were disclosed. The main challenges that arise from the implementation of the traditional objectives of ecological taxes and charges were examined in the paper. As a result of the summarized data the recommendations are suggested to improve the ecological taxation system. The alternative to the fiscal regulation, which aims to develop the mechanisms to solve the problem of sustainable natural resources use was justified in the paper. One of such mechanisms is creation of joint infrastructure that involves both state and business institutions, and enables companies to pursue environmental protection activities.
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Chi, Chang, and V. M. Zaernyuk. "Theoretical aspects of sustainable development and green economy." National Interests: Priorities and Security 16, no. 9 (September 15, 2020): 1749–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.24891/ni.16.9.1749.
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Subject. The article focuses on the need to coordinate efforts stimulating the economic growth and environmental protection so as to drive the economic development without any losses and difficulties. Objectives. In the study, we examine the mechanism for the mutual impact of the economic growth in industries and the environmental protections so as to build the empirical basis for the reasonable natural protection policy. Methods. Theoretical projects are based on the analysis of economic literature and empirical studies on resources, environment and sustainable economic development in the existing theories of economic growth. Results. We substantiate and corroborate the assumption that the gist of green development implies the sustainable economic and social development driven by a concerted and sustainable economic and environmental growth. The understanding of natural environment should be totally revised so as to convey that the natural environment is not a resource that can be consumed eternally, but does have its own limits. Conclusions and Relevance. In the future, Russia’s economy should rely upon the sustainable development model, where the green constituent will dictate a new strategy underlying the national economic growth and advancement.
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Dickens, Christopher, Matthew McCartney, David Tickner, Ian J. Harrison, Pablo Pacheco, and Brown Ndhlovu. "Evaluating the Global State of Ecosystems and Natural Resources: Within and Beyond the SDGs." Sustainability 12, no. 18 (September 9, 2020): 7381. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12187381.
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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) purport to report holistically on progress towards sustainability and do so using more than 231 discrete indicators, with a primary objective to achieve a balance between the environment, social and economic aspects of development. The research question underpinning the analyses presented in this paper is: are the indicators in the SDGs sufficient and fit for purpose to assess the trajectory of natural resources towards sustainability? We extracted the SDG indicators that monitor the state of natural resources, or alternately support policy or governance for their protection, and determined whether these are adequate to provide the essential data on natural resources to achieve the aims of the SDGs. The indicators are clustered into four natural resource categories—land, water (both marine and freshwater), air and biodiversity. Indicators for monitoring land resources show that the most comprehensive land resource indicator for degraded land is not fully implemented and that missing from land monitoring is an evaluation of vegetation health outside of forests and mountains, the condition of soils, and most importantly the overall health of terrestrial ecosystems. Indicators for monitoring water resources have substantial gaps, unable to properly monitor water quality, water stress, many aspects of marine resources and, most significantly, the health of fresh and salt water ecosystems. Indicators for monitoring of air have recently become more comprehensive, but linkage to IPCC results would benefit both programs. Monitoring of biodiversity is perhaps the greatest weakness of the SDG Agenda, having no comprehensive assessment even though narrow aspects are monitored. Again, deliberate linkages to other global biodiversity programs (e.g., CBD and the Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework, IPBES, and Living Planet) are recommended on condition that data can be defined at a country level. While the SDG list of indicators in support of natural resource is moderately comprehensive, it lacks holistic monitoring in relation to evaluation of ecosystems and biodiversity to the extent that these missing but vital measures of sustainability threaten the entire SDG Agenda. In addition, an emerging issue is that even where there are appropriate indicators, the amount of country-level data remains inadequate to fully evaluate sustainability. This signals the delicate balance between the extent and complexity of the SDG Agenda and uptake at a country level.
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Cerutti, Nicola. "Social Dilemmas in Environmental Economics and Policy Considerations: A Review." ETHICS IN PROGRESS 8, no. 1 (May 1, 2017): 156–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/eip.2017.1.10.
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Many crucial environmental issues lead to social dilemmas, in which the personally optimal solution, and the socially optimal solution diverge. Finding a solution to this dilemma is extremely important to allow a good and sustainable management of many exhaustible natural resources. This is especially true when the resource users need to develop collectively a set of rules or practices, and the institutions are unable to provide, or enforce, effective regulations. A few examples are forests, and fisheries, but also carbon emissions. This review presents a selected number of results coming from field observations, laboratory experiments, and theoretical work, which pinpoint some of the more crucial aspects of these decision environments. Knowing which incentives and situational aspects may motivate resource users to adopt a more or less cooperative behavior can potentially be of pivotal importance to develop effective policies and regulations. At the same time, the research we present is also of great interestfor any diagnostic or explorative study that aims to study direct resource users, and their development of cooperative attitudes and practices.
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Mikhaylyuk, Inna. "Environmental aspects of the development of tourism." Development of Management and Entrepreneurship Methods on Transport (ONMU) 81, no. 4 (2022): 124–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.31375/2226-1915-2022-4-124-131.
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At the present stage, considerable attention is paid to the problems of harming the environment, which arises as a result of uncontrolled or unreasonably burdensome tourism and recreational activities for natural landscapes. The article highlights certain ecological aspects of the development of the tourism and recreation sphere. It is determined what impact the growth of mass tourism has on the natural and recreational potential and the natural environment.As you know, the policy of intensifying the use of tourist-recreation potential leads to an increase in the load on the ecosystem. Therefore, first of all, it is necessary to form a policy and develop a strategy for the development of tourism not separately, but as an integral part of a unified regional policy based on the principles of sustainable ecologic economic development.An important factor in the development of tourism is maintaining a balance between ecological, economic and social components. First of all, environmental factors of development should be taken into account: optimal anthropogenic load on the natural resources of the territory, diversification of types of tourism: the formation of ecolo-gically oriented directions, which will make it possible to achieve a balanced develop-ment of tourism.The policy of the development of the tourist and recreational sphere, taking into account the environmental impact, is becoming more and more urgent and relevant. The protection and transformation of recreational areas includes the determination of load standards for natural complexes, the allocation of green zones and resort forests, the protection of recreational lands, forest management measures, the protection of underground water and mineral resources and sources, and the preservation of the purity of the air basin.The rapid development of tourist and recreational activities is reflected in the massive, sharp increase in the number of tourists, includingmotorists. Issues of protection of natural resources should be resolved long before the start of exploitation of the recreational area, i.e. at the design stage.Keywords:ecological aspects, tourist and recreational activities, impact and consequences, balance.
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Michel-Mata, Sebastián, Mónica Gómez-Salazar, Víctor Castaño, and Iván Santamaría-Holek. "Towards a Social-Ecological-Entropy Perspective of Sustainable Exploitation of Natural Resources." Foundations 2, no. 4 (October 31, 2022): 999–1021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foundations2040067.
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An innovative and integrative modeling strategy for assessing the sustainability and resilience of social-ecological systems (SES) is presented by introducing a social-ecological entropy production (SEEP) method. In analogy to the thermodynamic entropy production of irreversible processes, we discuss a theoretical model that relates energy and information flow with the cultural and epistemological peculiarities of different communities that exploit the same natural resource. One of the innovative aspects of our approach comes from the fact that sustainability is assessed by a single parameter (SEEP) incorporating the simulation outcomes of all the populations participating in the dynamics, and not only on the fate of the resource. This is significant as far as the non-linearities introduced by the coupling of the different dynamics considered may lead to high sensitivity to small perturbations. Specifically, by assuming two possible types of technical and environmental knowledge-transfer methods [direct (D) and phase-in (P)] within each one of the two communities that exploit and restore a resource, we generate four mathematical models to explore the long-term sustainability scenario due to the intervention, by a new epistemological community, of an initially sustainable resource-community SES. By exploring the space of four key parameters characterizing the degree of technical and environmental knowledge, as well as the rates of social inclusion and knowledge transfer, our simulations show that, from 400 scenarios studied in each case, the P-P model predicts 100% sustainable cases in the use of the resource after the intervention by the second community. The mixed scenarios P-D and D-P predict about 29%, and the D-D scenario only predicts 23% of sustainable cases. Catastrophic outcomes are predicted at about 71% in P-D and D-P scenarios, and about 77% of extinction of the system by exhaustion of the resource and community populations in the D-D scenario. In this form, our theoretical strategy and the knowledge-transfer scenarios studied may help policymakers to find a priori science-based criteria to solve possible controversies arising from social-ecological interventions.
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Ilie, Filip. "Life cycle assessment in choosing alternatives for energy sector development." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 8, no. 2 (January 31, 2014): 1278–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/ijmit.v8i2.679.
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Development of industrial activities have negative effect on natural resources and environment therefore, production systems must respect the principles of sustainable development by minimize natural resource consumption and pollutant emissions. Life cycle assessment (LCA) of a industrial activities is a technical tool, a method that allows evaluation of the socio-economic activities in relation with the environment, from birth to death. The aim of this paper is analysis of resource and energy consumption in Romania, using LCA, that can identify environmental and socio-economic aspects of analyzed sector, for taking effective measures, to ensure quality requirements, social, economic, protect environment and improving energy.
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Dewi, Sandra. "The Legal Aspects in the Implementation of CSR Private Corporate Towards Improvement of Community Welfare." International Journal of Law and Public Policy 2, no. 1 (March 23, 2020): 21–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.36079/lamintang.ijlapp-0201.88.
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There are 33 private companies with large investment value in Pelalawan Regency, Riau Province. Article 74 of Law Number 40 of 2007 affirms that companies that carry out their business activities in the field of natural resources and / or fields related to natural resources must implement Corporate Social Responsibility. However, the implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility of these private companies is very minimal felt by the community because Pelalawan Regency is the second most populous region in Riau Province. This research aims to explain the legal issues in the implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility of private companies to improve community welfare in Pelalawan Regency, Riau Province. The method used in this research is socio-legal research. The results of this research explain that there are several legal issues that cause the implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility of private companies in Pelalawan Regency not running optimally, namely the absence of local regulations that specifically regulate Corporate Social Responsibility in Pelalawan Regency, the lack of supervision from the government regions, the lack of legal knowledge of the Pelalawan Regency community regarding Corporate Social Responsibility, and the absence of strict criminal sanctions for companies that do not implement Corporate Social Responsibility in Regional Regulation No. 6 of 2012 concerning Corporate Social Responsibility in Riau Province
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Vo, Sen Van, Hai Quang Truong, and Tuan Van Bui. "Household livelihood resources in Thoai Son District, An Giang Province." Science and Technology Development Journal 17, no. 4 (December 31, 2014): 36–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.32508/stdj.v17i4.1563.
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The paper provides analysis on livelihood resources applied to the case of Thoai Son District. Sociological investigation together with annual socio-economic statistics has been employed in order to assess the underlying state and role of livelihood resources to Thoai Son households, particularly focusing on resource characteristics (human resources, social capital, natural capital, physical capital and financial capital), resource approaches and livelihood strategies. The people’s life quality was assessed on key aspects such as income, residential house, living facilities, improvement in living standards and spiritual life. Favorable factors as well as constraints to household livelihood development were determined, entailing solutions on livelihood enhancement and sustainability for Thoai Son community given the current context of integration and development. Main solutions proposed cover areas such as human resources, diversification of income-generating activities and financial matters.
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Youkhana, Eva, Claudia Leifkes, and Tomás Enrique León-Sicard. "Epistemic Marginality, Higher and Environmental Education in Colombia." Gestión y Ambiente 21, no. 2Supl (December 31, 2018): 15–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/ga.v21n2supl.77752.
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Due to their ecological and cultural wealth and diversity many Latin American countries suffer from the exploitation of natural resources and environmental conflicts. These are furthered by many interconnected factors: divergent world views on land and territory and the competitive interests that stem from them (land and nature as livelihood with symbolic meaning vs. land and its resources as commodity), multiple legal systems (legal pluralism), different social relations and equally divergent strategies and technologies to transform nature. In Colombia among other countries, these factors are largely responsible for the emergence and intensification of the unsustainable resource use and the exploitation of natural resources, for example through an increase of extractive activities such as mining and agricultural practices in the style of the green revolution. Both are privileged in the current conventional and neoliberal model of development, with serious destructive consequences for the natural and cultural environment (symbolic, social, economic, political and technological). Strategies to solve the mentioned problems need a critical reflection on the epistemic foundations that represent diverse perspectives on ecology, development and the environment. We assume that higher and environmental education are important aspects, political agents and protagonists for the enforcement of ideologies and interests, and should therefore be diversified to increase political participation and decrease social inequalities.
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Yang, Wu, Zhang Min, Mingxing Yang, and Jun Yan. "Exploration of the Implementation of Carbon Neutralization in the Field of Natural Resources under the Background of Sustainable Development—An Overview." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 21 (October 28, 2022): 14109. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114109.
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On 15 March 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping pointed out that “achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality is a broad and profound economic and social systemic change” and called for “putting energy and resources conservation in the first place”. Natural resources are the material basis, space carrier and energy source of high-quality development. The source of carbon emissions is resource utilization, and carbon reduction and removal also depend on resources. The improvement of carbon sink capacity is inseparable from natural resources. To achieve the goal of “double carbon”, it is necessary to consolidate the carbon sink capacity of the ecosystem, as well as enhancing its carbon sink increment. Among natural resources, forest carbon sinks, soil carbon sinks and karst carbon sinks have significant emission reduction potential and cost advantages, representing important means to deal with climate change. This paper reviews the relevant research results at home and abroad, summarizes the carbon sink estimation, carbon sink potential, carbon sink influencing factors, ecological compensation mechanism and other aspects, analyzes the path selection of establishing carbon sink green development, and puts forward corresponding policies and suggestions, providing a theoretical reference for the achievement of the carbon neutrality goal in the field of natural resources in China.
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MARTIENKO, A. I., and H. O. TIUTIUNNYK. "INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF PROPERTY RELATIONS ON NATURAL RECREATIONAL AND TOURIST RESOURCES OF COASTAL AREAS." Economic innovations 20, no. 1(66) (March 20, 2018): 120–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.31520/ei.2018.20.1(66).120-127.
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Topicality . On the territory of Ukraine in the coastal areas various spheres and types of economic activity are developing, representing a complex of seafarers, and polyfunctional natural resources of these territories are not always used rationally in the directions of activity; their recreational value and uniqueness are not taken into account; their socioeconomic and ecological damage, in fact, property rights are violated. Natural coastal areas resources are used by subjects of economic activity of various forms and ownership rights to man-made production factors. Lack of economic substantiation of the property rights specification, their blurriness, lead to a conflict of interests of various users with natural recreational resources and the need to transform the state regulation processes in this area. Aim and tasks. The purpose of the article is the substantiation of requirements in the transformation processes concerning the regulation of property relations on the natural recreational and tourist resources of the coastal areas as a basis for rational and environmentally safe use of them. Research results. The article deals with the institutional aspects of the state regulation development in the field of property relations on recreational and tourist resources. The imperfection of the regulatory and legislative framework concerning the legal status and economic relations with regard to the ownership of beach areas located in coastal zones. The coastal beach areas of southern Ukraine are highlighted and described. The necessity of transformation of institutes and institutions of property management on natural recreational and tourist resources at the state and regional levels is substantiated. The lease relations regarding the use of beach areas are described. The institutional directions of property relations improvement on the natural recreational and tourist resources of the coastal areas are substantiated. Conclusions. There are many potential recreational beach areas in our country, which can be mastered and used with the maximum social, ecological and economic effect, but the lack of state and local budget funds causes the need for the tenants to use beach resources, with the obligatory carrying out of protective, restorative and other measures for the arrangement of the territories. The process of state regulation of economic relations of recreational coastal resources ownership is not sufficiently effective as a result of the imperfection of the existing legislative and regulatory framework, the mechanisms of control by the state on the state of resources. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the institutional mechanisms of development of property relations on the recreational and tourist resources of the coastal areas.
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Peluso, Nancy Lee, Peter Vandergeest, and Lesley Potter. "Social Aspects of Forestry in Southeast Asia: A Review of Postwar Trends in the Scholarly Literature." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 26, no. 1 (March 1995): 196–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463400010584.
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This paper examines the major trends since the 1950s in social science writing on forest management in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is simultaneously rich in and dependent on natural resources, both for local and national use or sale. Among renewable resources, forest products have played critical roles in the region's national, provincial, and local economies before, during, and after colonialism — for as long as two millennia. Their importance in international trade illustrates that Southeast Asia's forests linked the region to other parts of the world for quite some time, dispelling myths that parts of the region such as Borneo were “remote”, “primitive”, or “pristine”.
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Murad, Dr Abbas Gulmurad Beg. "Strategic policy-making for natural resources management in Iraq and control the related constraints to achieve sustainable development between reality and ambition." Journal of Petroleum Research and Studies 10, no. 4 (December 21, 2020): 270–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.52716/jprs.v10i4.382.
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Natural resources can provide transformational opportunities to support development but ultimately are depleted resources. How can Iraq optimize these limited resources while managing a complex sector while minimizing affect at the local level In the long run, natural resources can transform Countries in the area of development or other forms of income in the case of good governance. Wealth of natural resources can also have a significant affect on the country's sustainable development efforts, as well as many other direct and indirect benefits of the Iraqi economy. But these benefits do not happen spontaneously Indeed, in many cases wealth from natural resources does not turn into long-term sustainable development because of the many real challenges associated with resource-based development. Many of these deposits are located in places with governance-related constraints and significant development-related challenges.
There are also economic challenges in managing the volatile revenues of natural resources and technical complexities associated with the management of these large-scale projects. There are real risks of environmental and social imbalances and impacts. The interests have different and different interests. In many cases, these agreements are surrounded by secrecy, in addition to other reasons. In this paper we highlight the challenges faced by rich countries in natural resources in trying to contain Resources to sustainable development and management of investments in the extractive industries in a sustainable manner and to clarify the complex and overlapping governance of natural resources aspects, as well as in some of the strategies that help some countries, including Iraq, to achieve success and the optimal use of these resources to achieve long-term development.
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Эррера, Лариса, Larisa Errera, Ирина Седова, Irene Sedova, Нина Троицкая, and Nina Troitskaia. "SOCIAL-ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY OF RUSSIA'S DEVELOPMENT - MODERN STAGE." Russian Journal of Management 6, no. 4 (December 25, 2018): 36–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.29039/article_5c7fec6d0fbd56.59268546.
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The article deals with topical issues of socio-economic stability of Russian regions. The importance of ecological component of the problem of consumption and exploitation of natural resources of the country is determined. Program documents of legislative and Executive power of the Russian Federation in connection with ecological aspects of the concept of stability are analyzed. Modern priority directions of investment support and financing of subjects of the Federation as a part of Federal districts of the Russian Federation are defined.
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Waller, Tom. "Expertise, Elites, and Resource Management Reform: Resisting Agricultural Water Conservation in California's Imperial Valley." Journal of Political Ecology 1, no. 1 (December 1, 1994): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v1i1.21155.
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An explanation of why the management of natural resources sometimes benefits an elite few, how the exercise of expertise contributes to this, and how traditional and inefficient resource use can continue. Water scarcity in Southern California forces the nation's largest irrigation district to conserve and transfer water to urban areas. Elites resist reform with expert help, and when overcome by events, use the authority of expertise to legitimize reforms which benefit their interests.Keywords:Water politics, scarcity and conservation; Expertise and power; Resource management/ reform; Irrigation - Social Aspects
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Apolloni, Bruno, Luca Marconi, Francesco Epifania, Marco Mesiti, Stefano Valtolina, Serena Di Gaetano, Alberto Schiaffino, and Roberto Pellegrini. "Social Appliances for Sustainable Smart Homes." Journal of Business and Economics 10, no. 4 (April 20, 2019): 287–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.15341/jbe(2155-7950)/04.10.2019/003.
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We discuss a Cloud-based Collective Intelligence model and its in-progress implementation to direct users toward an optimal usage of their home appliances as a way of getting both personal advantage and an overall reduction of pollution and energy consumption. In this model sustainability is considered with respect to two types of resources: natural ones, to be mostly preserved, as indicated above, and brain resources, in terms of intention and knowledge, to be convoyed to a common target. Having the first aspect for a given, in this paper we focus on the secondby examining three distinct factors: user experience, knowledge achievement and business model. Our service paradigm is rooted on a Social Networks of Facts that requires experts’ know, like that owned by the appliance manufacturer, but exploits it in an autonomous way so as to comply with the specific intentions of the individual users. While cloud architectural and communication aspects are solved in a standard, though advanced, way, the interplay between user and expertsisconsidered variously within a range of business models. As the success of these models is related to the network population, here we discuss some preliminary simulations based on an effectively implemented infrastructure and on the extrapolation of early collected data.
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Martienko, A. I., and N. I. Khymarova. "INSTITUTIONAL BASIS OF STATE MANAGEMENT IMPROVING TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN CONN�CTION WITH PROPERTY REALIZATION ON NATURAL RESOURCES." Economic innovations 19, no. 1(63) (April 24, 2017): 174–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.31520/ei.2017.19.1(63).174-182.
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This publication is defined institutional framework for development of tourism state management and recreational activities on the basis of property relations on natural resources. Public administration institutions of tourist activities and recreational natural resources are analyzed. Positive and negative aspects in state management of natural resources and tourist activities are defined. The institutional principles of public administration development of recreation and tourism activity and ownership relations on the natural resources, that provide it, are offered. State structures authorized on behalf of the people in the disposal of recreation and tourist natural resources does not define effective forms and ownership of recreational and tourist natural resources and the appropriateness of changing the forms required socio-economic and ecological restrictions on property forms. For developing institutional foundations of property relations on recreation and tourist natural resources offered to refer follows: - formation special state policy according to the development ownership forms on natural recreation resources, with the definition of the resources that can only be in state ownership and those that may be in the different forms of appropriation and used by different business entities; - implementation by public authorities acceptable forms and ownership on recreation and tourist natural resources with taking into consideration their social significance, uniqueness and determination of the basis of natural recreational resources; - improvement of the legal framework concerning the implementation of different forms of ownership on recreation and tourist natural resources that occur between the state, owners, users and third parties; - contract relations development between the state and the owner of the natural resources on any right of ownership on natural resources.
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Chipriyanova, Galina, Radosveta Krasteva-Hristova, and Aiman Kussainova. "Contemporary Higher Accounting Education for Social Responsibility." Economics. Ecology. Socium 6, no. 4 (December 31, 2022): 27–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.31520/2616-7107/2022.6.4-3.
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Introduction. Nowadays participants in the business and social life face challenges in the context of the sustainability and the social responsibility. The only way to successfully overcome them is by all of them working together in one direction at all levels and in all fields. All efforts to harmoniously achieve the goals of sustainable development by the various communities of the planet are extremely relevant today and will continue in the future. Higher accounting and economic education are in support of sustainability, management of natural resources and social responsibility.
Aim and tasks. The aim of the research is to analyze the possibilities for further development of economic solutions in the context of application integration approaches with care for our unique planet and its riches for the future. The tasks of the research find expression in: 1) to prove the need to pay attention to the issues of sustainable development when making decisions about the economy; 2) to analyze the essence and principles of an up-to-date concept for a sustainable way of doing business and management of natural resources; 3) to indicate the path that business and society shall take in order to develop responsibly; 4) to prove the importance of developing an international and national strategy for corporate social responsibility.
Results. The data shows that today it is required that the specialist with a higher economic and accounting degree possess knowledge and competences for the quality realization of reporting, controlling, and other activities in the private and public sectors. Specifically, the investments in new knowledge and competences of such specialists in the context of sustainability, management of natural resources, and social responsibility create prerequisites for a more competitive and resilient business. At the same time, the data shows that the degree of balance between the three aspects (social, economic, and environmental) and the whole direction of higher education towards the problems of sustainable development as of this moment is not satisfactory.
Conclusions. The dominant idea is that successful implementation of flexible educational schemes, accelerated digital transformation, and full adaptation to relevant business challenges (the practice) will result in the establishment of a new model of educational policy that will contribute to the successful realization of sustainability, natural resource management, and social responsibility.
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Wysokińska, Zofia. "Sustainable Development in the European Union and World Economy-Main Selected Aspects." Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 14, no. 3 (January 13, 2012): 25–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10103-011-0017-z.
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The aim of the paper is to present key theoretical and empirical issues of sustainable development and environmental protection issues from the global and European perspective, with special reference to the implication of this concept for Central and Eastern European members of the EU. Main aspects are discussed in the paper from the EU and global perspective, with special reference to: the global partnership for sustainable development; fighting poverty and promoting social development; sustainable management of natural and environmental resources; trading in greenhouse gas emission allowances; main global and European challenges; goals and challenges facing the European Union member states as stemming from major strategic European Union renewed documents promoting sustainable development; especially promoting consumption and production that is sustainable and environmentally-friendly and green labeling system; a detailed look at "new" environmental policies; with special reference to sustainable transportation; a strategy for the sustainable use of natural resources; preventive strategy (preventing the creation of wastes) and waste recycling; sustainable and competitive tourism.
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Drebot, O., K. Babikova, and H. Oliinyk. "Fundamentals of development of tourist and recreational potential of regions." Balanced nature using, no. 1 (February 23, 2022): 5–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.33730/2310-4678.1.2022.255219.
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The article considers the main aspects of the development of recreational tourism in the context of European integration. The study showed that the formation of competitive in the international market through the rational use of natural and cultural-historical potential and reconstruction of the existing material and technical base of recreational and tourist infrastructure, ensuring on this basis the implementation of environmental, economic and social interests in environmental protection. including the preservation of ecological balance and rational use of natural resources. It is proved that the use and implementation of the above tasks of regional policy to develop the balance of ecological and economic aspects of recreational tourism in the context of European integration, which will comprehensively combine environmental and economic feasibility and social efficiency and should become a quality regulatory mechanism and their functioning. This will increase the level of balance of the ecological and economic region, promote the rational use of recreational and tourist resources.
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Strelnikov, Viktor. "DEVELOPMENT OF ECOLOGICAL COMPETENCE OF SOCIAL WORK SPECIALISTS IN CONTINUING EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS." Scientific Journal of Khortytsia National Academy, no. 2022-6 (June 29, 2022): 52–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.51706/2707-3076-2022-6-7.
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The problems of professional development of social work specialists on the basis of the competence approach are considered. The main operational goals of environmental training in a continuing education institution are identified, which are to master the knowledge that natural resources are interconnected and limited; natural resources affect the standard of living in society, they are unevenly distributed on Earth; man is actively changing the processes that occur in nature; urgent measures must be taken in this regard to preserve the relevant values of nature resources for future generations; proper use of natural resources requires a significant amount of knowledge from various fields of science and technology; the development of society and technology is causing changes in the way natural resources are used, and so on. The article presents the formulation of the purpose and means of development of ecological competence of social work specialists in continuing education institutions. The essence of the necessary changes in the content-procedural aspects of professional development of a specialist in social work in ecology has been clarified. In particular, it is necessary to supplement the content of environmental training with information on environmentally balanced consumption, opportunities and the need to regulate needs, positive examples of solving environmental problems at regional and local levels, including everyday life examples. The importance of encouraging, organizing and supporting activities aimed at the collection and processing of secondary raw materials, economical use of heat, electricity and water in everyday life was emphasized. It is concluded that only by understanding and realizing from personal experience the content of advanced training in ecology, social workers can be psychologically ready to carry out environmental activities. Social workers should not only teach others the principles of environmental thinking, but also be an example of environmental activity on these principles. This task is difficult and controversial, because it requires a change in their views and behavior, conscious limitation of needs and the education of new resource-saving habits. The actual tasks that need further solution are outlined: updating the content and process of professional development of social work specialists; development of appropriate integrated training courses, which would not be limited to the transfer of information, but involve a change of position, patterns of behavior, stereotypes; development of various necessary educational and methodological literature sources for specialists in social work devoted to ecological thinking.
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Kulish, Inna M. "Social entrepreneurship in tourism: a chance for rural communities." Socio-Economic Problems of the Modern Period of Ukraine, no. 3(155) (2022): 10–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.36818/2071-4653-2022-3-2.
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The article argues that enterprises that develop the tourism sector in rural territorial communities have the characteristics of social enterprises and meet the threefold criterion – they ensure the well-being of residents of rural settlements. Ukrainian legislation gives local governments broad powers to plan and finance tourism activities, but their capacities are very limited as most rural budgets are subsidized. It is possible to promote tourism in rural communities only if the majority of residents are aware of all the benefits and responsibilities associated with this activity. The article confirms that uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources can lead to their irreversible depletion. The example of ski resorts shows that the practice of a single economic activity for the whole area poses a threat to local communities, as the well-being of residents becomes very dependent on natural and climatic conditions. The article emphasizes that the maximum use of available local resources is an important factor in the success of social entrepreneurship in tourism at the level of rural communities. In order to avoid conflicts when planning business, it is necessary to take into account the natural and anthropic resources of each community and compare the forms of their use with local values and traditions. Differences in the results of the impact on the local community as a result of the activities of the classic and social tourism enterprise on its territory are analyzed. The main vectors of the impact of social entrepreneurship in tourism on the social aspects of rural areas are highlighted.
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Kondur, Oksana, Yuriy Kopchak, and Liliya Kopchak. "Role of the Tourism Sector in Sustainable Development of the Carpathian Region: Social, Educational and Economic Aspects." Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University 1, no. 2-3 (December 22, 2014): 119–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.15330/jpnu.1.2-3.119-122.
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Natural resources in the Carpathian region, favorable natural and geographicalconditions give preference to the development of recreational industry over other types ofindustrial activity that provides: employment of people in recreational region, development ofUkraine and the recognition of its economy internationally, positive impact on the formation ofindividual. This necessitates a systematic study of a wide range of organizational problems,recreational planning and creation of new management models for tourist activities.Modern development of the tourism industry is associated with such socio-economic factors: thegrowth of social welfare and the effective demand for tourist services; increasing demand forvacation and recreation; urbanization and globalization; communicational and humanitarianfactors; transformation of traditions, cultures and social consciousness; changes in the structure ofspiritual values; increased leisure time etc .
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Ramadhan, Iwan, and Daniel Daniel. "Social Development in Sungai Kakap Village (Study on Social Change and Development)." Jurnal Ilmu Sosial Mamangan 10, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.22202/mamangan.v10i1.4843.
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The problems that often arise in village development are the low of welfare and quality of people’s life in the village; lack of desire of the stakeholders to accelerate the development itself; as well as village governance that requires adjustment to the mandate of Law Number 14 of 2014 concerning Villages. Therefore, village development needs to have proper planning and management, so the village can be developed properly. In this case, there is a need for sustainable planning and development that fit of planning and programs that have been prepared in order to optimize the potential of natural resources, human resources, and science and technology. By matching and combining the three components, it is hoped that these three aspects can run well. and can be sustainable. The method used in this research was descriptive qualitative research method. The expected objectives of this research were to find out the existing development programs in Sungai Kakap village, investigate what facilities are available there, and community empowerment programs implemented. It was also to find out the social changes that have occurred in Sungai Kakap village due to the development that occurred there.
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Yavor, Kim Maya, Vanessa Bach, and Matthias Finkbeiner. "Adapting the ESSENZ Method to Assess Company-Specific Criticality Aspects." Resources 10, no. 6 (May 31, 2021): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/resources10060056.
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In times of increasing awareness of limited resources, companies are becoming especially interested in criticality assessments. Based on the existing approaches of ESSENZ (integrated method to assess resource efficiency) and SCARCE (approach is to enhance the assessment of critical resource use at the country level), a method called CS-ESSENZ (company-specific ESSENZ) has been developed to measure the company-specific aspects of criticality and social impact in supply chains for abiotic resources. These comprise 20 categories and corresponding indicators, based on 19 ESSENZ and 25 SCARCE categories. Eleven of these indicators were modified, four were newly developed (e.g., economic importance), and the last five were applied as they are in ESSENZ or SCARCE. CS-ESSENZ was tested using the case study of a smartphone, demonstrating the method’s applicability as well as generating additional information on company-specific improvement potential. The results for supply risk showed that 29 out of 58 ESSENZ hotspots showed high, and 12 showed medium, improvement potential from the company perspective. CS-ESSENZ enables companies to obtain specific information on criticality and social aspects in their supply chains and points out areas for improvement, e.g., with respect to purchasing strategies for cobalt.
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Jelev, Viorica. "NATURAL RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN A MOUNTAIN ECONOMY." Annals of Spiru Haret University. Economic Series 18, no. 4 (December 18, 2018): 75–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.26458/1845.
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This paper presents the existing situation at national and world level considering the available water resources, their vulnerability especially in the mountains areas, the impact of climate changes, the possible conflicts regarding the intensification of water shortage in some regions of the world. I also present a case study on forests in Romania. Beginning with the general data mentioned above, we point out the specific peculiarities of the mountain area hydrology for identifying some aspects which are specific to the mountain water relationship. The analysis is necessary as no specifications regarding the mountain hilly or plain areas are done in the activity regarding waters management. Waters are managed unitary on river basins considering some general principles, unanimously recognized, well reflected into the national and international regulations. As a first stage, traditional economic activities are identified in the relationship of the mountain areas inhabitants with water but also some present approaches. The way the mountain areas inhabitants knew how to live together and capitalize water resources represents a model and impulse for coming back to such sustainable solutions but capitalizing the advantages of modern technologies. Each of these activities referring to waters which take place in the mountains area can represent ways for the research activity and future thorough studies from the technical, economic, social, cultural-traditional point of view and also for environment protection. A main preoccupation might have connection with the evolution of agricultural activities in the mountains area considering the climate changes and a possible “migration” towards higher areas of some agricultural practices specific to lower areas. The paper also shows a small example of the regaining by the locals of a community of an important resource for their lives in the hands of corporations: the forests defaced by HOLZINDUSTRIE SCHWEIGHOFER and stop flooding villages.
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Popadynets, Nazariy, and Iryna Leshchukh. "Current problems of utilization of natural resource potential of territorial communities in Ukraine in the conditions of decentralization." Socio-Economic Problems of the Modern Period of Ukraine, no. 3(137) (2019): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.36818/2071-4653-2019-3-1.
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Under the current processes of consolidation of territorial communities, the policy of their social, economic and ecological stability based on efficient nature management is related to the condition and nature of the use of natural resources by people in their activity to maintain their existence. Conducting economic activity, people use various natural resources. Therefore, objective and distinct assessment of natural resources is of particular importance. The development of a territory and entities located there depend on this assessment. Natural resources capacity is considered in modern science as the most important factors of economic development of both the regions and the country in general. The paper aims to research the problems of the use of natural resources capacity of a territorial community and to define the ways of their efficient use. Scientific approaches to classification of natural resources capacity of a territorial community are systematized and its nature is outlined. The structure of natural resources capacity of territorial communities is formed. Main problems of the use of natural resources capacity of territorial communities are defined. Conceptual and structural model of natural resources capacity of a territorial community is characterized. Major aspects of forming of modern financial-economic mechanism of capitalization of a community’s natural resources are examined. The paper reveals that natural resources capacity of territorial communities provides an opportunity to improve the level of financial capacity of a community by filling local budgets through the development of relevant territories. The approaches to the improvement of the efficiency of the use of natural resources by territorial communities in conditions of authorities’ decentralization in Ukraine are suggested.
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Marshall, Graham R., and D. Mark Stafford Smith. "Natural resources governance for the drylands of the Murray–Darling Basin." Rangeland Journal 32, no. 3 (2010): 267. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj10020.
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Critiques of governance arrangements for natural resource management in Australia have expanded rapidly in recent years. Meanwhile, arguments have strengthened internationally that drylands share characteristics that justify a specific ‘drylands syndrome’ understanding of their management. These issues converge in the drylands of the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB). We explore in this paper the insights that this convergence offers for designing governance arrangements for the natural resources of the MDB. We argue that the characteristics of the MDB drylands justify transformation of these arrangements to those of adaptive governance; and more specifically that this model of governance should be founded on the related concepts of polycentricity and subsidiarity. We explain how three aspects of polycentric governance contribute to the robustness of social-ecological systems and identify the particular relevance of each to the MDB drylands. Even so, transformation to polycentric governance would face formidable obstacles from vested interests and mental models that have adapted to the status quo. Acknowledging the reality that hurdling such obstacles requires strategic preparation to exploit windows of opportunity, we propose several pragmatic steps to be followed in strategically pre-adapting the MDB drylands for this transformation. Although transforming to adaptive governance is not without risk, we argue that the risks of inaction for the MDB drylands are greater.
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Middleton, Wilfrid, Amin Habibi, Sanjeev Shankar, and Ferdinand Ludwig. "Characterizing Regenerative Aspects of Living Root Bridges." Sustainability 12, no. 8 (April 17, 2020): 3267. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12083267.
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Living root bridges (LRBs) are functional load-bearing structures grown from Ficus elastica by rural Khasi and Jaintia communities in Meghalaya (India). Formed without contemporary engineering design tools, they are a unique example of vernacular living architecture. The main objective of this study is to investigate to what extent LRBs can be seen as an example of regenerative design. The term "regenerative" describes processes that renew the resources necessary for their function. Whole systems thinking underpins regenerative design, in which the integration of human and non-human systems improves resilience. We adapted the living environments in natural, social, and economic systems (LENSES) framework (living environments in natural, social, and economic systems) to reflect the holistic, integrated systems present in LRBs. The regenerative / sustainable / degenerative scale provided by LENSES Rubrics is applied to 27 focal points in nine flow groups. Twenty-two of these points come from LENSES directly, while five were created by the authors, as advised by the LENSES framework. Our results show 10 focal points in which LRBs are unambiguously regenerative. One focal point is unambiguously sustainable, while 16 are ambiguous, showing regenerative, sustainable, and degenerative aspects. User perspective determines how some focal points are evaluated. The contrast between a local, indigenous perspective and a global, tourism-focused perspective is demonstrated by the results.
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Ulfah, Irma Fitriana, Andi Setiawan, and Alfiyatur Rahmawati. "Pembangunan Desa Berbasis Potensi Lokal Agrowisata di Desa Bumiaji, Kota Batu, Jawa Timur." Politik Indonesia: Indonesian Political Science Review 2, no. 1 (January 15, 2017): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/jpi.v2i1.8486.
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<p>Rural development one of them to do with the development of local potential. Bumiaji village is a village with a variety of potential agrotourism, ranging from travel picking apples, oranges, pink crystals, flower travel, etawa breeding, and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises result from the production of agro stretcher. This study examined the theory of sustainable development according to Von Stoker which includes three aspects: ecological, social and economic. The results showed that the process of development in the village Bumiaji has fulfilled the aspects of sustainable development, but in the process is still not able to walk up. Agriowisata potential is the main resource in conducting ecological development. From the social aspect, the potential for ecotourism has provided benefits and impacts to the land owner, the village government and local residents. Bumiaji economic development relies on natural resources and the production of paddy fields. This agro-tourism development can increase people's income and the expansion of the labor force, so that the welfare of the citizens can be increased. Rural development based on local potential agro-tourism should be developed. This can be done through human resource development, promotion and improvement of facilities and infrastructure.</p>
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Zhang, Chunxiang, You-Yu Dai, Xiaowei Jin, and Yiwan Yang. "Land Reclamation Tourism Resources in China: Connotation, Classification, and Evaluation." SAGE Open 12, no. 1 (January 2022): 215824402210821. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440221082143.
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Distinctive characteristics of land reclamation have formed strong attractions, which inspired people’s curiosity and tourist motives. As a unique and essential resource of tourism activities, land reclamation with its highly patriotic spirit and eclectic heritages presents tremendous value in the Chinese tourism industry. However, there is no comprehensive evaluation system of land reclamation tourism (LRT). To solve this research problem, in this study, we delimit the connotation of land reclamation and propose the classification and resources evaluation system of LRT based on the combination of resource characteristics and tourism mode. The classification, balancing the concerns of unit tourist resources, and comprehensively integrated resources while highlighting the principles of universality and practicality, can be classified into two main types, 10 sub-types, and 46 base types. On this basis, the tourism resource evaluation indicator system of land reclamation resources has been built from the aspects of the value of land reclamation culture and tourism resources, natural and social environment, regional development conditions by the methods of Delphi, and analytical hierarchy process (AHP). The empirical research results of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) provide us with a specific weight distribution prospect of the classification and evaluation system. The conclusions proposed a new way and method to evaluate LRT resources and provided a necessary reference basis for LRT development.
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Upton, Caroline. "Communities, Culture and Commodification." Inner Asia 16, no. 2 (December 10, 2014): 252–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22105018-12340018.
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Mongolia’s new resource politics, central to the country’s geopolitical considerations and ambitions in the twenty-first century, must be understood in relation to their complex, multi-scalar socio-cultural, historical and environmental dimensions. This paper draws on the author’s participatory research activities with key informants in Ulaanbaatar and amongst rural herding communities to illuminate key aspects, contexts and implications of the new resource politics. Specifically, the paper presents an empirically informed analysis of pertinent social and institutional forms, environmental and cultural values and aspects of resource governance, with particular reference to land issues, pastoralism, mining and resistance. Conceptually, it draws on recent work, especially in geography and political ecology, on activism, conservation and particularly on emerging discourses and framings of natural resources as ‘ecosystem services’. Through attention to these concepts, it highlights contested dimensions of environmental values and valuation, of critical contemporary importance in Mongolia’s new resource politics.