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Burdock, Robert P., and Peter Ampt. "The Characteristics of Five Food Production Systems and Their Implications for Sustainable Landscapes." Journal of Agricultural Science 10, no. 2 (January 12, 2018): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jas.v10n2p23.
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This paper presents a classification of agricultural production systems that we believe characterises the complex interface between agriculture and the landscapes in which they are managed. Farmers have a choice about how they will manage their land, either to exclude inherent environmental complexity or to engage with it, mindful of risks associated with their approach. Adding to this complexity is the interplay between key natural, social, human, physical and financial resources in agricultural systems, highlighting the importance of extending sustainability principles to aspects of ecology, economics and culture. Decisions about agricultural systems hinge on a balance of productive outcomes, on sensitivity to the issues of environmental complexity, on economic grounds including the access to resources, and the socio-cultural needs of the community in which the farmer participates. Further, farm managers will make a choice that both satisfies and suffices (satisfices) against production, ecological efficiencies and resilience outcomes when choosing which food production system to adopt. In this paper, these complexities are analysed against five different agricultural systems on an ecological continuum; from biologically simple industrial systems that minimise interaction with the natural environment, to ecologically complex systems that are closely engaged with their environment. Production viability is a necessary consideration to maintain farming operations but is not sufficient if operational capacity is to be achieved in the long term. This analysis finds that it is also necessary to work with ecological, economic and social complexities, satisficing against productivity, ecological efficiency and inherit system resilience. No one particular farming systems is appropriate in all cases. The farmer’s choice may apply a mix of the five different agricultural systems described, allowing for the blending of these attributes in order to sustain rural landscapes.
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Kanga, Shruti, Suraj Kumar Singh, Gowhar Meraj, Anup Kumar, Ruby Parveen, Nikola Kranjčić, and Bojan Đurin. "Assessment of the Impact of Urbanization on Geoenvironmental Settings Using Geospatial Techniques: A Study of Panchkula District, Haryana." Geographies 2, no. 1 (January 6, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geographies2010001.
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Urbanization is an unavoidable process of social and economic growth in modern times. However, the speed with which urbanization is taking place produces complex environmental changes. It has affected the surface albedo and roughness of the soil, thereby modulating hydrological and ecological systems, which in turn has affected regional and local climate systems. In developing countries of South Asia, rampant and unplanned urbanization has created a complex system of adverse environmental scenarios. Similar is the case in India. The state of the urban environment across India is degrading so quickly that the long-term sustainability of its cities is endangered. Many metropolitan cities in India are witnessing the harmful impacts of urbanization on their land ecology. In this context, remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) based assessments provide a comprehensive and effective analysis of the rate and the impact of urbanization. The present study focuses on understanding the spatiotemporal characteristics of urban growth and its implications on the geomorphology of the Panchkula District, Haryana, one of the fastest-growing urban centers in India. The study links the changes in land use/land cover (LULC) with the changing geomorphology of the study area using satellite remote sensing and GIS. The results showed that between 1980 and 2020, agricultural (+73.71%), built-up (+84.66%), and forest (+4.07%) classes of land increased in contrast to that of the fallow land (−76.80%) and riverbed (−50.86%) classes that have decreased in spatial extents. It has been observed that the hill geomorphological class had decreased in the area owing to conversion to industrial and built-up activities. Assessment of the environmental quality of cities involves multiple disciplines that call for a significant amount of scientific evaluation and strong decision making, and the present study shall lay down the baseline analysis of the impact of changing LULC on the geomorphological setup of the selected urban center.
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Soe Htet, Maw Ni, Honglu Wang, Lixin Tian, Vivek Yadav, Hamz Ali Samoon, and Baili Feng. "Integrated Starches and Physicochemical Characterization of Sorghum Cultivars for an Efficient and Sustainable Intercropping Model." Plants 11, no. 12 (June 15, 2022): 1574. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11121574.
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Sorghum has good adaptation to drought tolerance and can be successfully cultivated on marginal lands with low input cost. Starch is used in many foods and nonfood industrial applications and as a renewable energy resource. Sorghum starches with different amylose contents affect the different physicochemical properties. In this study, we isolated starches from six sorghum varieties (i.e., Jinza 34, Liaoza 19, Jinnuo 3, Jiza 127, Jiniang 2, and Jiaxian) and investigated them in terms of their chemical compositions and physicochemical properties. All the starch granules had regular polygonal round shapes and showed the characteristic “Maltese cross”. These six sorghum starches showed an A-type diffraction pattern. The highest amylose content of starch in Jinza 127 was 26.90%. Jiaxian had a higher water solubility at 30, 70, and 90 °C. From the flow cytometry analysis based on six sorghum starch granules, Liaoza 19 had a larger and more complex granules (particle percentage (P1) = 66.5%). The Jinza 34 starch had higher peak (4994.00 mPa∙s) and breakdown viscosity (4013.50 mPa∙s) and lower trough viscosity (973.50 mPa∙s). Jinnuo 3 had higher onset temperature, peak temperature, conclusion temperature, gelatinization enthalpy, and gelatinization range. The principal component analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis based on classification of different sorghum starches showed that Jiniang 2 and Jinnuo 3 had similar physicochemical properties and most divergent starches, respectively. Our result provides useful information not only on the use of sorghum starches in food and non-food industries but for the great potential of sorghum-based intercropping systems in maintaining agricultural sustainability.
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Bettencourt, Luís M. A., and Christa Brelsford. "Industrial Ecology: The View From Complex Systems." Journal of Industrial Ecology 19, no. 2 (March 11, 2015): 195–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12243.
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Ahram, Tareq Z. "ENGINEERING SUSTAINABLE COMPLEX SYSTEMS." Management and Production Engineering Review 4, no. 4 (December 1, 2013): 4–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mper-2013-0032.
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Abstract Given the most competitive nature of global business environment, effective engineering innovation is a critical requirement for all levels of system lifecycle development. The society and community expectations have increased beyond environmental short term impacts to global long term sustainability approach. Sustainability and engineering competence skills are extremely important due to a general shortage of engineering talent and the need for mobility of highly trained professionals [1]. Engineering sustainable complex systems is extremely important in view of the general shortage of resources and talents. Engineers implement new technologies and processes to avoid the negative environmental, societal and economic impacts. Systems thinking help engineers and designers address sustainable development issues with a global focus using leadership and excellence. This paper introduces the Systems Engineering (SE) methodology for designing complex and more sustainable business and industrial solutions, with emphasis on engineering excellence and leadership as key drivers for business sustainability. The considerable advancements achieved in complex systems engineering indicate that the adaptation of sustainable SE to business needs can lead to highly sophisticated yet widely useable collaborative applications, which will ensure the sustainability of limited resources such as energy and clean water. The SE design approach proves critical in maintaining skills needed in future capable workforce. Two factors emerged to have the greatest impact on the competitiveness and sustainability of complex systems and these were: improving skills and performance in engineering and design, and adopting SE and human systems integration (HSI) methodology to support sustainability in systems development. Additionally, this paper provides a case study for the application of SE and HSI methodology for engineering sustainable and complex systems.
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Diwekar, Urmila. "Green process design, industrial ecology, and sustainability: A systems analysis perspective." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 44, no. 3 (June 2005): 215–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2005.01.007.
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Zhao, Qing Jian, and Zuo Min Wen. "Complex Social-Ecological Systems Network：New Perspective on the Sustainability." Advanced Materials Research 361-363 (October 2011): 1467–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.361-363.1467.
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The complex social-ecological systems network is an integrative platform of ecology, economy, management and complex networks which providing a new perspective on the comprehensive management of ecological and socio economical processes. Through research of the structures, functions and processes, one four-dimensional conceptual model of the complex social-ecological system for sustainable development was set up. The complex social-ecological systems comprise of natural subsystem, social subsystem, economic subsystem and integrative decision subsystem. The complex social-ecological systems network was defined as one six-element tuple which denotes the comprehensive spatial structure with different kinds of nodes of ecosystem, social system and economic system. The complex social-ecological systems network has some important characteristics including hierarchies, power-low, vulnerabilities, resilience, dynamics, co-evolution of flow and structure, et al. At last, based on the Multimedia Environment Pollutant Assessment System (MEPAS) of US EPA, the relationship between POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants) exposure and lifetime fatal cancer risk was studied, and comprehensive risk network of the Taihu basin water pollution and human body health was established.
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Pan, Mingmin, and Mee Kam Ng. "Implementing industrial ecology in regeneration activities: A possible pathway for transforming China's local-regional industrial systems towards sustainability?" Journal of Cleaner Production 338 (March 2022): 130601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.130601.
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Ildus Rafikov and Riaz Ansary. "Industrial Revolution 4.0: Risks, Sustainability, and Implications for OIC States." ICR Journal 11, no. 2 (December 30, 2020): 298–324. http://dx.doi.org/10.52282/icr.v11i2.787.
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This paper reviews the potential risks of the fourth industrial revolution and how sustainable development goals align with those risks and any benefits. This paper adopts a qualitative research method using content analysis of video and textual materials. This research finds that the increased complexity of IR4.0 carries greater risks but offers greater benefits to humanity. Sustainability is going to be positively affected by the greater use of smart interconnected technologies. However, the fabric of human society will undergo a tremendous change that will often lead to unwanted consequences. Many risks can be anticipated and addressed by designing systems, including financial and economic, that are inherently robust and adaptable. States must acknowledge the risks associated with new technologies and complex systems, such as artificial intelligence, and devise strategies to help deal with and anticipate those risks. This paper identifies the risks and benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, implications for sustainability, and proposes a maqasid-based approach to IR4.0 related policy in OIC countries. This paper is intended for researchers in the area of public policy, OIC, Islamic economics and for policymakers interested in adopting the maqasid framework.
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Bezuidenhout, Carel Nicolaas, Muhammad Kadwa, and Milindi S. Sibomana. "Using Theme and Domain Networking Approaches to Understand Complex Agri-Industrial Systems." Outlook on Agriculture 42, no. 1 (March 2013): 9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/oa.2013.0119.
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Liu, Chunting, and Guozhu Jia. "Industrial Big Data and Computational Sustainability: Multi-Method Comparison Driven by High-Dimensional Data for Improving Reliability and Sustainability of Complex Systems." Sustainability 11, no. 17 (August 22, 2019): 4557. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11174557.
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Sustainable development is of great significance. The emerging research on data-driven computational sustainability has become an effective way to solve this problem. This paper presents a fault diagnosis and prediction framework for complex systems based on multi-dimensional data and multi-method comparison, aimed at improving the reliability and sustainability of the system by selecting methods with relatively superior performance. This study took the avionics system in the industrial field as an example. Based on the literature research on typical fault modes and fault diagnosis requirements of avionics systems, three popular high-dimensional data-driven fault diagnosis methods—support vector machine, convolutional neural network, and long- and short-term memory neural network—were comprehensively analyzed and compared. Finally, the actual bearing failure data were used for programming in order to verify and compare various methods and the process of selecting the superior method driven by high-dimensional data was fully demonstrated. We attempt to provide a sustainable development idea that continuously explores multi-method integration and comparison, aimed at improving the calculation efficiency and accuracy of reliability assessments, optimizing system performance, and ultimately achieving the goal of long-term improvement of system reliability and sustainability.
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Tolstykh, Tatyana, Nadezhda Shmeleva, Yulia Vertakova, and Vladimir Plotnikov. "The Entropy Model for Sustainability Assessment in Industrial Ecosystems." Inventions 5, no. 4 (November 7, 2020): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/inventions5040054.
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The aim of this paper is to address the gap in the academic literature towards the development of methodological approaches to the industrial ecosystem sustainability assessment. This study was focused on the industrial ecosystems formed based on an entropy model and implementing the principles of complex systems. This article systematizes the problem of applying the ecosystem approach to cross-industry interaction. A contribution to the literature was achieved by providing a systemic perspective on the sustainable industrial process. In this paper, we develop the methodological foundations to improve the understanding of integration processes’ influence on the industrial ecosystem potential. For a relevant analysis of industrial ecosystem potential, the existing patterns of system functioning were taken into account, including entropy equilibrium and the Harrington model. We illustrate our assumptions with an empirical case study of the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) “MISIS” ecosystem—“Green technologies for resource conservation” (Russia), with an assessment of ecosystem sustainability through the actors’ collaboration level. The propositions arising from this analysis provide information to help academics, policymakers, government, and individual enterprises with a more adequate understanding of the practical mechanisms and tools that help trigger the self-organization and sustainability of the industrial ecosystems.
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Priyadarshini, Priya, and Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil Abhilash. "Rethinking of higher education institutions as complex adaptive systems for enabling sustainability governance." Journal of Cleaner Production 359 (July 2022): 132083. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132083.
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Akberdina, V. V., O. P. Smirnova, and L. M. Averina. "Sustainability and adaptability of spatial development of industrial complexes in networked economy environment." Economic Analysis: Theory and Practice 19, no. 12 (December 25, 2020): 2186–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.24891/ea.19.12.2186.
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Subject. Industry largely determines the economic growth of Russia. Industrial regions are the basis for developing the network technological structure of the economy, changing the technological modes, modernizing the production and consumption. Objectives. The study aims to consider the spatial distribution of resource-deficient regions and risks inherent in spatial distribution of the defense industry complex; to develop a methodological approach to comprehensive assessment of regional industrial complex stability, considering its adaptation to turbulent environment; to highlight and analyze threats to industrial complex functioning. Methods. The study employs methods of systems, network, structural and functional, comparative, economic statistics, and integrated approach to the analysis of stability of industrial complexes in regions. Results. We covered issues related to inter-regional management system for sustainable development of industrial complexes, analyzed risks and threats to sustainable development, considered spatial aspects of development and location of defense industry enterprises. It was found that the regions are critically dependent on strategic raw materials that are not produced in the Russian Federation. Conclusions. The market is smoothing down the local inefficiency of industrial production during peacetime. However, in the context of mobilization and war, this problem can become a serious limitation for deployment of continuous multi-shift production. High dependence on foreign partners amid the rising tide of aggression on the part of investor countries will not allow the implementation of strategic investment projects in a number of cases.
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Morales, Manuel, and Arnaud Diemer. "Industrial Symbiosis Dynamics, a Strategy to Accomplish Complex Analysis: The Dunkirk Case Study." Sustainability 11, no. 7 (April 3, 2019): 1971. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11071971.
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Industrial symbiosis (IS) is presented as an inter-firm organizational strategy with the aim of social innovation that targets material and energy flow optimization but also structural sustainability. In this paper, we present geographical proximity as the theoretical framework used to analyse industrial symbiosis through a methodology based on System Dynamics and the underpinning use of Causal Loop Diagrams, aiming to identify the main drivers and hindrances that reinforce or regulate the industrial symbiosis’s sustainability. The understanding of industrial symbiosis is embedded in a theoretical framework that conceptualizes industry as a complex ecosystem in which proximity analysis and stakeholder theory are determinant, giving this methodology a comparative advantage over descriptive statistical forecasting, because it is able to integrate social causal rationality when forecasting attractiveness in a region or individual firm’s potential. A successful industrial symbiosis lasts only if it is able to address collective action problems. The stakeholders’ influence then becomes essential to the complex understanding of this institution, because by shaping individual behaviour in a social context, industrial symbiosis provides a degree of coordination and cooperation in order to overcome social dilemmas for actors who cannot achieve their own goals alone. The proposed narrative encourages us to draw up scenarios, integrating variables from different motivational value dimensions: efficiency, resilience, cooperation and proximity in the industrial symbiosis. We use the Dunkirk case study to explain the role of geographical systems analysis, identifying loops that reinforce or regulate the sustainability of industrial symbiosis and identifying three leverage points: “Training, workshop and education programs for managers and directors,” “Industrial symbiosis governance” and “Agreements in waste regulation conflicts.” The social dynamics aims for the consolidation of the network, through stakeholder interaction and explains the local success and failure of every industrial symbiosis through a system dynamics analysis.
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Adams, Muriel, Sonja Klinsky, and Nalini Chhetri. "Barriers to Sustainability in Poor Marginalized Communities in the United States: The Criminal Justice, the Prison-Industrial Complex and Foster Care Systems." Sustainability 12, no. 1 (December 26, 2019): 220. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12010220.
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In the United States of America, 2.2 million people are incarcerated in public and private facilities and over 700,000 are released yearly back to their home communities. Almost half are rearrested within a year. These problems have been excluded from mainstream sustainability narratives, despite their serious implications for sustainability. This paper addresses how the criminal justice, prison-industrial complex and foster care systems negatively impact these communities and families. To comprehend the system links, a sustainability lens is used to examine and address interlinking system impacts obstructing achievement of sustainability and the necessary community characteristics for building sustainable communities. Communities characterized by environmental degradation, economic despair and social dysfunction are trapped in unsustainability. Therefore, a system-of-communities framework is proposed which examines the circumstances that bring about prison cycling which devastates family and community cohesion and social networking, also negatively affecting the ability of other communities to become truly sustainable. We contend that a fully integrated social, economic and environmental approach to a major, complex, persistent problem as it relates to poor, marginalized communities faced with mass incarceration and recidivism can begin creating sustainable conditions. Further, we articulate ways sustainability narratives could be changed to engage with core challenges impeding these communities.
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Carpanzano, Emanuele, and Daniel Knüttel. "Advances in Artificial Intelligence Methods Applications in Industrial Control Systems: Towards Cognitive Self-Optimizing Manufacturing Systems." Applied Sciences 12, no. 21 (October 29, 2022): 10962. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app122110962.
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Industrial control systems play a central role in today’s manufacturing systems. Ongoing trends towards more flexibility and sustainability, while maintaining and improving production capacities and productivity, increase the complexity of production systems drastically. To cope with these challenges, advanced control algorithms and further developments are required. In recent years, developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based methods have gained significantly attention and relevance in research and the industry for future industrial control systems. AI-based approaches are increasingly explored at various industrial control systems levels ranging from single automation devices to the real-time control of complex machines, production processes and overall factories supervision and optimization. Thereby, AI solutions are exploited with reference to different industrial control applications from sensor fusion methods to novel model predictive control techniques, from self-optimizing machines to collaborative robots, from factory adaptive automation systems to production supervisory control systems. The aim of the present perspective paper is to provide an overview of novel applications of AI methods to industrial control systems on different levels, so as to improve the production systems’ self-learning capacities, their overall performance, the related process and product quality, the optimal use of resources and the industrial systems safety, and resilience to varying boundary conditions and production requests. Finally, major open challenges and future perspectives are addressed.
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Galli, Brian J. "Continuous Technological Improvement Using Systems Engineering Principles to Achieve Sustainability." International Journal of System Dynamics Applications 9, no. 3 (July 2020): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsda.2020070101.
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The design of a continuous plan would benefit society, as seen in systems engineering. To understand complex systems and to uphold the principles of stability, systems engineering has shown that it is a discipline of great importance. The principle of continuous technological improvement has augmented this idea, as the quality improvement of the design to meet inherent objectives would be the focus. This study aims to present the necessity of continuous technological improvement through systems engineering principles for socioeconomic and community-oriented growth. Thus, the context that would tackle global concerns and facilitate humanity's growth toward knowledge would be the application of technology. The context at hand, the design of systems thinking, and the overall approach taken to promote deeper perspectives has been illustrated in various literature. Healthcare, chemical production and organizational development are various fields of distinction that have shown evidence from the investigation into related literature. To streamline quality, as well as to maintain high quantities of production, all employed systems engineering have focused on technological improvements. In the field of industrial engineering, for a stable industry in which the system operates, this line of thinking is crucial.
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Rajala, Risto, Esko Hakanen, Juri Mattila, Timo Seppälä, and Mika Westerlund. "How Do Intelligent Goods Shape Closed-Loop Systems?" California Management Review 60, no. 3 (March 5, 2018): 20–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0008125618759685.
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Disruptive technologies can increase the intelligence of goods and revitalize business models in the circular economy. Applying an industrial ecology perspective, this article discusses how intelligent goods can boost the sustainability of industrial ecosystems. North American and European cases highlight how business model innovators can utilize goods-related information to develop more competitive closed-loop systems. The authors identify three archetypes of closed-loop systems—inner circles, decentralized systems, and open systems—and delineate how they leverage information resources for collaboration. This study advances the understanding of closed-loop systems in the circular economy, which is more dependent than ever on digital platforms.
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Boschetti, Fabio, Karine Prunera, Mathew A. Vanderklift, Damian P. Thomson, Russell C. Babcock, Christopher Doropoulos, Anna Cresswell, and Hector Lozano-Montes. "Information-theoretic measures of ecosystem change, sustainability, and resilience." ICES Journal of Marine Science 77, no. 4 (June 19, 2019): 1532–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz105.
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Abstract We introduce five measures describing the system-wide behaviour of complex ecological systems. Within an information-theoretic framework, these measures account for changes in both species diversity and total biomass to describe (i) overall system change, (ii) sustainability to external pressure, (iii) shift from a baseline state and two types of resilience: (iv) ability to recover from local pressures and (v) overall potential to return to a baseline state. We apply these measures to study the behaviour of three computer models: a large 59-functional groups complex ecological model (Ecopath with Ecosim) of north Western Australia undergoing internal dynamics, a smaller 6-group coral reef model subjected to various combinations of single and multiple stressors and a prey–predator model displaying limit cycles. We demonstrate the state-dependency of properties like resilience and sustainability by showing how these measures change in time as a function of internal dynamics and external forcing. Furthermore, we show how our proposed measures can simplify system analysis and monitoring by providing indicators of changes in system behaviour, sustainability, and resilience.
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de Bremond, Ariane. "The emergence of land systems as the nexus for sustainability transformations." Ambio 50, no. 7 (March 13, 2021): 1299–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01519-9.
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AbstractThis perspective recognizes the seminal Ambio articles of Sombroek et al. (1993), Turner et al. (1994) and Brussaard et al. (1997), identifying their individual and collective role in laying the ground work for a global change research agenda on land and its human use through increased understanding of terrestrial ecosystem dynamics and global change, and furthering nascent interdisciplinary efforts within the global change science community to better understand the ‘human driving forces’ of change. From these efforts, land system science, as a systemic science focused on complex socio-ecological interactions around land use and associated trade-offs and synergies, emerges as an ‘interdiscipline’ challenged to better understand land systems as the ‘meeting ground’ for multiple claims on land for biodiversity, carbon, livelihoods, food production among others, and support pathways to sustainability for people and nature.
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Yuldashev, N. K., V. I. Nabokov, K. V. Nekrasov, and O. D. Djurabaev. "Modern models of agro-industrial production organization in Uzbekistan." BIO Web of Conferences 51 (2022): 06007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20225106007.
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The objective need to increase economic efficiency and to intensify the functioning of the agro-industrial complex poses new challenges related to the choice of competitive models that contribute to the maximum use of production capacities and the entire potential of the agricultural sector. The study of the development dynamics of different forms of management has shown a significant impact of various organizational forms and types of integration on economic growth, the sustainability of economic development, the competitiveness of the products of the agro-industrial complex (AIC). The study of the development evolution of integrated structures allowed to pay special attention to the functioning of cluster structures in the agro-industrial complex, to their high socio-economic and other efficiency. The important advantages of agro-industrial clusters in agricultural production include their use of the competitive advantages of the respective regions engaged in the production of certain food products, considering the geographical location of the regions of the republic, their climatic and other conditions. In addition, the use by clusters of existing opportunities characteristic of integrated systems for the development and improvement of the technical and technological base of all branches of the agro-industrial complex of the country.
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Zaytsev, Andrey. "Rental Income Structure in Economy as a Basis for Sustainable Agrarian Relations in the Agro-Industrial Complex." Sustainability 12, no. 18 (September 5, 2020): 7287. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12187287.
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Modern features of the development of the agro-industrial complex as part of the economy as a whole require changes in the traditional models of state regulation, which do not take into account the structure of rental income in the economy and do not use the capabilities of the relevant instruments. This is reflected in the insufficient efficiency of subsidies provided by the state to agricultural enterprises and the preservation of high social and infrastructural differentiation of the regions, as well as the dependence of the agricultural sector on the pricing policy of other industries. All this is shown by the example of the analysis of statistical data of regions of the Russian Federation for 2011–2019. To eliminate these problems, theoretical and methodological approaches have been developed, which made it possible to substantiate the concept of regulating the sustainability of agricultural relations through the synthesis of the theory of sustainability, the theory of systems, and rental theory. Within the concept the role of the structure of rental income in the formation of sustainability of agrarian relations, in their qualitative content, and in the redistribution of added value from the agrarian sphere in monopolized spheres is revealed. The possibility and necessity of state regulation of the agrarian sphere on the basis of dynamic regulation of the sustainability of agrarian relations with the help of management of the rent mechanism is substantiated.
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Alexeev, D. K., V. A. Shelutko, N. V. Zueva, E. V. Kolesnikova, E. S. Urusova, and E. A. Primak. "Research results in the field of applied and systems ecology at RSHU." HYDROMETEOROLOGY AND ECOLOGY. PROCEEDINGS OF THE RUSSIAN STATE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, no. 60 (2020): 306–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.33933/2074-2762-2020-60-306-324.
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The authors’ point of view on formation and development of applied ecology at RSHU is given. The article contains a brief overview of research results over the past 20 years in the field of applied ecology. The main directions of research of the Department of Applied and Systems Ecology are presented: consideration of features of environmental information during the processing of observation data, development of theory and methods of assessment of pollution in rivers and reservoirs, ecological and hydrometeorological problems of large cities and industrial areas, quality management of the urban environment, mathematical modeling of water body ecosystems, monitoring and assessment of the ecological status of marine ecosystems. The issues of international cooperation of the Department with foreign and Russian organizations are highlighted. One of the challenges that require making immediate decision in environment quality assessment is criterion selection for estimation the ecological condition, status or ambient quality standard. To solve this problem, it is proposed to use the method of integral assessment of the sustainability and health of marine and freshwater ecosystems, which can characterize the ecological status of the aquatic ecosystems as a whole. On the basis of synthesis of existing approaches to assessing the sustainability and ecosystem health, the choice of models and methods for their quantitative integral assessment is justified. An integral indicator of the sustainability of marine and freshwater ecosystems, as well as a training model-classification have been developed to calculate integral indices, which allow to classify various aquatic areas according to the classes of sustainability and ecosystem health. In addition, recommendations have been proposed to improve standard methods of water quality assessment based on hydrochemical data and to reduce environmental risk for sustainable development of urban areas.
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van der Leeuw, Sander. "Closing remarks: novel approaches to complex societal change and sustainability." Sustainability Science 13, no. 6 (May 29, 2018): 1589–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0581-2.
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Abstract This paper summarizes some personal impressions of the 7th conference of the International Complex Systems Society, co-organized with “Future Earth”, held in Stockholm on August 24–26, 2017. The main point is that it is urgent and important to consider the sustainability conundrum as long-term, society-driven one, and to place societal dynamics at the core of how we, as a global society, came to this point, how ongoing dynamics are driving us towards a tipping point, and which role the Information and Communication Technology revolution plays in that process. A much wider involvement of the social sciences is essential. This also requires major changes in our thinking about sustainability—we need to develop an approach in which change is the natural state of affairs and societies attempt to impose stability on the dynamics involved. We need to focus on learning from the past, about the present, but above all for the future. And we need to shift from an entity-focused approach to a relational one, which pays more attention to contexts and networks. Other issues raised by such a shift in our thinking are about the role of science, the adoption of complex systems approaches and a few others that the paper points to.
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Kadomtseva, Marina Ye. "Theoretical and methodological aspects of ensuring the sustainable development of agro-food systems." Izvestiya of Saratov University. Economics. Management. Law 22, no. 3 (August 24, 2022): 277–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1994-2540-2022-22-3-277-286.
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Introduction. The relevance of the scientific substantiation of approaches to ensuring the sustainable development of the agro-food system is due to the growing impact of environmental factors on the internal structural balance and the target setting of the agro-food system. The sustainable development of the national agro-food system has begun to imply economic growth in order to achieve indicators of the physical and economic accessibility of quality food for the Russian population. At the same time, environmental priorities increasingly has begun to fade into the background, which contradicts the basic principles of the concept of sustainable development, which implies the unity of economic, social and environmental aspects. Research methodology. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is a systematic approach, the main provisions of which give grounds to consider the agro-food complex as a complex, dynamic and multi-level system of interconnected elements and diverse ordered relationships between them. Theoretical analysis. The article considers and systematizes theoretical approaches to the interpretation of the concept of “agro-food system”. The structural features of the agro-food complex as a system are highlighted. The stages of the reproduction process in all sectors of the agro-industrial complex are characterized through the prism of the economic, social and environmental components of the concept of sustainable development. Empirical analysis. Using a systematic approach, the influence of external and internal factors on the main criteria for the sustainability of the agro-food system has been studied. A conceptual framework for analyzing the resilience of agro-food systems in relation to external influences is presented. Potential for sustainability, adaptation and management are considered with regard to agro-food system. Conclusions. The relationship between the basic principles of ensuring the sustainability of agro-food systems and aspects of food security is revealed. The properties that are most significant for maintaining the sustainability of the agro-food system under the constant influence of external risks are identified.
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Willmann, Rolf. "Integration of sustainability indicators: the contribution of integrated economic and environmental accounting." Marine and Freshwater Research 51, no. 5 (2000): 501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf99055.
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There is a need to integrate indicators relating to complex human–nature systems. This paper discussesthe scope and limitations of achieving such integration through the interim version of the system of integrated environmental and economic accounting (SEEA) published by the United Nations in 1993. It also briefly considers alternative or complementary approaches such as the National Accounting Matrix including Environmental Accounts (NAMEA) developed in the Netherlands. Issues that arise when applying SEEA to the marine fisheries sector are discussed, and examples are given of indicators for the marine fisheries sector derived from the SEEA and NAMEA.
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Chertow, Marian R., Thomas E. Graedel, Koichi S. Kanaoka, and Jooyoung Park. "The Hawaiian Islands: Conceptualizing an Industrial Ecology Holarchic System." Sustainability 12, no. 8 (April 13, 2020): 3104. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12083104.
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The Hawaiian Islands form a holarchic system with at least five nested layers (holons) at increasing spatial scales: from a single enterprise to cities, to individual islands, to the archipelago (the group of islands), and to the global resource base that connects them all. Each holonic layer operates individually but is also linked to holons at lower and higher levels by material input and output flows. An integrated study of the holarchic system allows us to explore the value of applying this concept to industrial ecology. We present examples from a multi-level material flow analysis combining a large quantity of material and energy flow data for Hawaii from the five holarchic levels. Our analysis demonstrates how a holarchic approach to the study of selected interacting systems can reveal features and linkages of their metabolism not otherwise apparent and can provide a novel basis for discovering material, energy, and societal connections.
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Adedeji, Kazeem B., Akinlolu A. Ponnle, Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz, and Anish M. Kurien. "Towards Digitalization of Water Supply Systems for Sustainable Smart City Development—Water 4.0." Applied Sciences 12, no. 18 (September 13, 2022): 9174. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app12189174.
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Urban water supply systems are complex and dynamic in nature, and as a result, can be considered complex to manage owing to enhanced urbanization levels, climate change, growing and varying consumer demands, and limited water resources. The operation of such a system must be managed effectively for sustainable water supply to satisfy the growing consumer demand. This creates a need for intelligent systems for the purposes of operational management. In recent years, computing technologies have been applied to water systems to assist water utilities in addressing some of these problems. Unfortunately, previous ICT solutions have not been able to provide the necessary support for applications to deal with the dynamics of water supply system environments. With the increasing growth in technology, the water sector is moving to the full phase of digitalization to enhance the sustainability of systems. Thus, a new industrial revolution in the water context (Water 4.0) is being researched. This is referred to as Water 4.0, which offers better possibilities to enhance the sustainability of water supply system operations. This paper presents an overview of Water 4.0 and its applications in enhancing water supply system operations. Key features of Water 4.0 are discussed. Furthermore, challenges and future opportunities offered by technology for sustainable operation of municipal water services are discussed.
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Linnhoff, B., and S. Ahmad. "SUPERTARGETING: Optimum Synthesis of Energy Management Systems." Journal of Energy Resources Technology 111, no. 3 (September 1, 1989): 121–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.3231413.
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Thermodynamically based procedures that guarantee minimum energy levels in the design of integrated systems have recently been reported in the chemical engineering literature. These procedures—generally summarized as pinch technology—apply to heat exchanger networks, heat pumps, combined heat and power cycles, and utility systems. The procedures are based on Second Law Analysis. They have proven successful in over 500 industrial applications worldwide and the cost benefits have been significant. This paper describes recent developments in pinch technology aimed at the optimization of energy and capital. An overall method has now emerged which brings together energy and capital costs. It virtually guarantees near global optimality for integrated process plant and energy systems. This guarantee even applies for complex and highly constrained industrial problems. A key concept is that of supertargeting.
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Javanmardi, Ehsan, Sifeng Liu, and Naiming Xie. "Exploring Grey Systems Theory-Based Methods and Applications in Sustainability Studies: A Systematic Review Approach." Sustainability 12, no. 11 (May 29, 2020): 4437. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12114437.
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In recent years, there have been international movements advocating more sustainable societies, and as a result of such movements, a remarkably important sub-branch has been shaped in systems studies called sustainability. It would be vital to propose methods that could deal with inherent complexities and uncertainties in such systems. Grey systems theory (GST) represents a nascent method that could help to solve complexities in the face of multifaceted problems, uncertainty, and complexity in systems, and the theory could considerably contribute to sustainability studies. The present study sought to fill a gap and provide an updated review of the literature on the roles and impacts of GST-based methods in sustainability studies as one of the most significant areas of exploring economic, social and environmental systems. Primarily, the theoretical foundations of sustainability and GST were briefly reviewed. Next, by categorizing the studies conducted in the literature on sustainability studies, GST-based methods used in such studies were identified. Finally, the advantages, effects and functions of GST-based theories and their applications in sustainability studies were explicated. The papers found in this systematic review were searched on such databases as Scopus, Web of Science, and ScienceDirect, as published from 2010 up to the first three months of 2020, based on these keywords: grey relation or grey relational, grey model, grey system or grey systems, grey prediction, grey control, grey incidence, grey cluster, grey decision, grey input-output. The total number of publications found on all of the databases was 446, although (following a more meticulous investigation of the publications) 145 ones were used for the comprehensive analysis. The 10 different areas in which GST was used to explore sustainability in the publications were: sustainability assessment, industrial sustainability, urban sustainability, energy sustainability, sustainability development, businesses sustainability, agricultural sustainability, sustainable products, tourism sustainability, social sustainability. The results revealed that complexity, uncertainty, and inaccessibility of a large set of data and initial statistical distributions led researchers to rely on GST in sustainability studies, and that the applied areas of GST in terms of sustainability issues had some features in common, including linguistic variables, long-term projects, technological demands, conflicting goals, and uncertainty. Moreover, compared to other methods used to deal with uncertainty, GST did not require the formation of an extensive databank of classified rules and was more practical and efficient in sustainability calculations (as complex systems) with fewer numerical calculations. Ignoring systematic approaches, causal relations, cause-effect loops, and dynamic feedback was the missing link in the application of GST in sustainability studies as complex economic, social and environmental systems.
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Borzì, Iolanda. "Evaluating Sustainability Improvement of Pressure Regime in Water Distribution Systems Due to Network Partitioning." Water 14, no. 11 (June 2, 2022): 1787. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w14111787.
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Water distribution networks (WDNs) represent essential civil infrastructures providing freshwater for domestic and industrial uses. Pressure management in WDNs is a key issue in operation and management, especially in big and complex networks, and this is the case with Messina City’s WDN. Water network partitioning (WNP) into district zones helps improve water network management; it simplifies water budget computation and consequently helps in the identification and reduction of water loss. In this study, an approach based on sustainability indices (SIs) is proposed to evaluate the improvement in terms of WDN pressure performances after WNP. The sustainability indices are based upon performance criteria including reliability, resiliency, and vulnerability. Three different scenarios are analyzed: (1) the first sees the WDN in the current configuration without partitioning, (2) the second sees the WDN partitioned into district zones for each of which SI is evaluated, and (3) the third sees, in addition to partitioning, the introduction of pressure regulating valves (PRV). Results show an improvement in pressure sustainability at the global- and district-scale and evidence how districts with greater differences in altitude values of terrain topography take more benefits from the installation of PRV.
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Hornborg, Alf. "Colonialism in the Anthropocene: the political ecology of the money-energy-technology complex." Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 10, no. 1 (March 2019): 7–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2019.01.01.
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This article sketches a transdisciplinary theoretical framework for understanding the so-called Anthropocene in terms of global inequalities. The concept of the Anthropocene has several profound implications that challenge central aspects of the modern worldview. Its relation to issues of global justice requires a cataclysmic reconceptualization of conventional notions of development, economic growth, and technological progress. The article refers to the asymmetric global flows of resources that were a prerequisite to the British Industrial Revolution to illustrate how technological systems and so-called energy transitions are not just politically innocent revelations of nature, but thoroughly societal strategies of appropriation. Contemporary observations regarding environmental justice, climate justice, and energy justice can be theorized in terms of the modern inclination to think of the economy as detached from nature, and of technology as detached from world society.
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Subercaseaux, Diego, Ana I. Moreno-Calles, Marta Astier, and José de Jesús Hernández L. "Emerging Agro-Rural Complexities in Occident Mexico: Approach from Sustainability Science and Transdisciplinarity." Sustainability 13, no. 6 (March 16, 2021): 3257. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13063257.
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Rural and agricultural modernization and industrialization (RAMI) increased in recent decades in a multiscalar way. RAMI has implied the rural landscape transformation through the arrival of industrial models. These processes have not been linear or unidirectional; heterogeneities, opposites, mosaics, hybridizations, new interactions, problems, and tensions, between traditional and industrial agriculture and other agriculture types, have emerged. We tackle and problematized the RAMI processes, which is a complex and a real-world problem, from Sustainability Science (SS) and transdisciplinarity. Thus, considering studies and experiences in different rural areas in the world, an epistemological positioning is presented, which allows overcoming scientific frontiers and relating it to rural sustainability. We delve into the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin (LPB), Mexico, an area with a strong agricultural tradition (“milpa” systems). Recently, the presence of industrial agriculture (mainly avocado monoculture and berry greenhouses) has increased, occurring the coexistence between peasant-entrepreneurs, indigenous–non-indigenous, and new-rural. The article aims to understand comprehensively the emerging complexities from the RAMI, deepening LPB’s real case. The epistemological approach developed allow us to conceive the interaction and possible complementation between traditional agriculture, industrial agriculture and other agriculture types, and the emergence of an included middle that corresponds to an “emerging complexity”. Finally, relevant topics and questions are highlighted.
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Hrestic, Maria-Luiza, and Constantin Popescu. "Sustainability, as a Source of Environmental Law." Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Law 8, no. 2 (December 12, 2020): 44–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/lumenlaw/8.2/44.
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The latest research has approached the ecosystem's carrying capacity, an issue that both the specialists in demography and the specialists in human ecology inquired about, to be able to estimate based on scientific grounds the limits of natural development and of demographic growth. The carrying capacity is a characteristic feature of every ecological system or category of ecosystems, depending on their development stages and the hierarchic stage they are part of. Consequently, the carrying capacity is the concrete expression of the stability domain expressing the ecosystem's ability to modify its structural and functional parameters under the influence of the command factors. The stability domain of an ecosystem designates the direction in which it is developing, with the mention that the process is taking place on very large time scales, of over 100 years and is reversible, each time a strong impact from external factors is exerted on the system. It results, in this context, that the notion of “carrying capacity” actually points to the capacity of functioning of large, complex and dynamic systems, as ecological systems are.
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Xu, Hui, Shuxiu Li, Yongtao Tan, and Bin Xing. "Comprehensive Resilience Assessment of Complex Urban Public Spaces: A Perspective of Promoting Sustainability." Land 11, no. 6 (June 4, 2022): 842. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11060842.
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Complex urban systems, such as multi-floor rail transit stations and integrated railway transport hubs, are termed “complex urban public spaces” (CUPSs). These CUPSs facilitate people’s lives, but, at the same time, are threatened by various risks due to their multi-floor structure, dense crowds, high correlation in multi-function, complex facilities, and space openness. The risk events of CUPSs could have a negative influence on public safety and further influence sustainable development. Increasing the resilience of CUPSs is an effective way to respond to risks and guarantee public safety. Therefore, it is necessary to first assess the resilience of CUPSs. In this paper, a six-level comprehensive resilience indicator system was established based on aspects of the essence of resilience. Used in combination with the methods of resilience impact score and fuzzy analytical hierarchy process, the resilience value could be calculated. The Shenzhen North Railway Station (SZ) and the Guangzhou South Railway Station (GZ) were used to validate the proposed methodology. The established resilience indicator system was shown to be comprehensive and innovative, and, regarding practicality, the proposed assessment methodology is convenient to use. This research can help policymakers to assess the resilience of CUPSs and develop relevant policies to improve the resilience of buildings, which can further enhance urban sustainability.
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Liu, Jin-peng, Yu Tian, Hao Zheng, and Tao Yi. "Research on Dynamic Evolution Simulation and Sustainability Evaluation Model of China’s Power Supply and Demand System." Energies 12, no. 10 (May 25, 2019): 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en12102009.
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Power supply and demand systems are important support systems for industrial production and residents’ lives. They have multiple influencing factors, and complex mechanisms of interaction exist among these factors. In view of the present sustainability problems faced by China’s power supply and demand system, this research adopts a system dynamics (SD) model to simulate the evolution of China’s power supply and demand system, and analyzes the interaction mechanism of various elements of the system. Based on this, an innovative index system for the evaluation of the sustainability of power supply and demand systems is proposed based on the four elements of total amount, structure, technology and environment. Furthermore, by integrating Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and State Space (SS) method, a PCA-SS evaluation model is constructed to explore the development bottleneck of China’s power supply and demand system. The results show that there is still a large gap between the actual sustainability and the ideal range, and that the sustainability of structural and environmental layers needs further improvement. This research expands the knowledge system regarding the evaluation of the sustainability of power supply and demand systems and provides a theoretical reference for the optimization of China’s power supply and demand system.
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Ozigbo, Nathaniel. "BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS SUPPORTING SUSTAINABILITY ON FIRM’S DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES AND PERFORMANCE." International Journal of Advanced Research in Statistics, Management and Finance 8, no. 1 (January 5, 2021): 64–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.48028/iiprds/ijarsmf.v8.i1.05.
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In today’s competitive business environment, there exist the need to investigate the adequacy of infrastructural flexibility for Business Intelligence Systems to support Sustainability on Firm’s Decision-making processes and performance. The Business Intelligence Systems consist of unique functions that are intrinsic aimed at supporting better quality decision-making within the organization. It is critical to the smooth operations of every organization. The intention of this study is not to discuss the technical details of implementing Business Intelligence Systems but to explore how to gain maximum benefits from the applications and usage of Business Intelligence Systems. An intensive literature review that highlighted the impact of Business Intelligence on firm performance and decision-making processes were initiated. The focus was on how to apply the Business Intelligence Systems to gain competitive advantage and to create more value from information by aligning it with the needs of employees who are engaged in complex business decision-making in today’s business environment. The study contributed in both academic and industrial operations by providing first time evidence of Business Intelligence solutions with particular reference to Nigerian firms located in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study employed the partial least square analysis with a sample size of 985 respondents randomly selected from five manufacturing companies. The findings suggested that the more effective use of Business Intelligence implementation, the more effective the decision-making processes and firm performance. The study offers a number of implications for theory and practice, noting that Business Intelligence System is in effect allowing firms to shift their structure to more carefully and thoughtfully align with the needs of customers and partners.
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Oatley, Thomas. "Energy and the Complexity of International Order." Global Environmental Politics 21, no. 4 (November 2021): 20–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00637.
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Abstract This article explores the role of states and industrial policy in shaping the historical coevolution of energy and international order. I explore how states, by narrowly self-interested pecuniary goals, the desire for geopolitical advantage, and concerns about the political ramifications of domestic economic structure, use industrial policy to encourage the development of energy-intensive transportation and agricultural systems. Over time, increasingly energy-intensive systems allowed an increasingly complex international order to develop, one characterized by significant differentiation and specialization organized over a geographically expansive area. This contemporary complex order is dependent on fossil fuels. I argue that states retain geopolitical and domestic political incentives to use green industrial policy to develop the technologies needed to transition away from this fossil fuel dependence, but industrial policy today faces greater challenges than it did in the past.
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Iannino, Vincenzo, Valentina Colla, Claudio Mocci, Ismael Matino, Stefano Dettori, Sebastian Kolb, Thomas Plankenbühler, and Jürgen Karl. "Multi-agent systems to improve efficiency in steelworks." Matériaux & Techniques 109, no. 5-6 (2021): 502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/mattech/2022010.
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A multi-agent system consists of several computational entities capable of autonomous actions, called agents, which communicate with each other, and have the ability to coordinate their actions and to cooperate. Multi-agent systems received a great interest and attention over time, as they can be seen as a key enabling technology for complex applications, where distributed and processing of data, autonomy, and high degree of interactions in dynamic environments are required at the same time. Therefore, in view of current and future developments of the digitalization of industrial production cycles promoted by Industry 4.0, multi-agent systems are foreseen to play an increasing role for industrial production management and optimization. Because of barriers represented by large presence of legacy systems, in the steel sector agent-based technology is not widely applied yet, and multi-agent systems applications are very few. On the other hand, steel manufacturing industries are complex and dynamic systems whose production processes held a strategic role in the global economy. During last decades, the steel sector has undergone relevant transformations, especially through the massive digitalization and the innovation introduced by Industry 4.0. A further evolution is foreseen in the incoming years to improve the sustainability of the production cycle by improving energy and resource efficiency. Therefore, steel industries must face several challenges on the path toward the factory of the future. In such context multi-agent systems, through their intrinsic properties, such as autonomy, social abilities, reactivity, proactivity, and mobility, can overcome existing drawbacks and barriers, by increasing flexibility, improving resources efficiency, handling production operations, reacting to unpredicted events, optimizing production processes, and supporting legacy systems. In this paper, some applications of multi-agent systems in steel sector are presented to show the advantages and opportunities of agent-based technology.
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Abdullayeva, Nargiz, Tarana Bakirova, and Aytan Rahmanova. "Town-planning Organization of the Baku Industrial Region: 19th – 20th Centuries." Problemy Ekorozwoju 15, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 223–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.35784/pe.2020.2.22.
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The article considers the emergence in the modern town-planning practice of Azerbaijan complex planning systems require comprehends to historical experience, especially the end of the nineteenth beginning of the twentieth centuries. The industrial revolution started in the middle of the 19th century in connection with the development of the oil industry accelerated the process of urbanization in Absheron also in Baku the centre of population concentration and various types of labour activity. The purpose of the study is to present Baku oil district at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries to reveal communications and interactions between social, demographic and other processes as a complex organism with all contradictions inherent in the epoch of rapid development of capitalism which has received the material expression in the form of the newly developed planning system.
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Battistoni, Chiara, Carolina Giraldo Nohra, and Silvia Barbero. "A Systemic Design Method to Approach Future Complex Scenarios and Research Towards Sustainability: A Holistic Diagnosis Tool." Sustainability 11, no. 16 (August 17, 2019): 4458. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11164458.
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This article aims to frame the role of Systemic Design (SD) as an alternative design model for the future of design for sustainability, by defining and assessing a structured process to execute Holistic Diagnosis (HD), an innovative context framework. Taking as its background a deep understanding of the design for sustainability and systems thinking concepts that frame SD as a field where HD is rooted, multiple case-study analyses were performed. HD demonstrates its ability to overcome the design boundaries in different fields such as industrial production, local communities, and policy-making, thereby providing a more in-depth understanding of complex environments with an iterative process: assess, research, collect, visualize, and interpret. This framework is a relevant tool for designers to address problem framing in complex scenarios to obtain future sustainable solutions with an innovative and transdisciplinary approach, thereby promoting a horizontal dialogue among all involved components.
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Taylor and van der Velden. "Resistance to Regulation: Failing Sustainability in Product Lifecycles." Sustainability 11, no. 22 (November 19, 2019): 6526. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11226526.
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International policy and law have long sought to ensure that states regulate the negative impacts of production processes on people and the planet. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 targets sustainable production and consumption; international conventions, such as the Basel Convention, or the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and the International Labour Organisation Conventions, all seek to regulate toxic or labour-related impacts associated with industrial production. However, there is ample evidence that such impacts continue. At a time of increasing pressure to develop sustainable systems of production and consumption, we asked whether the existing legal frameworks are appropriate to the task of regulating for sustainability in consumer products. Drawing on research conducted into sustainability in the mobile phone lifecycle, this paper examines the regulatory ecology of hotspots of unsustainability in the product lifecycle of electronics. This paper finds that the interaction of regulatory disjunctures, business models, design of technology, and marginalisation combine to ensure that our systems of production and consumption are predisposed to resist regulation aimed at sustainability.
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Richardson, Martin, and Mikhail Soloviev. "The Urban River Syndrome: Achieving Sustainability Against a Backdrop of Accelerating Change." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 12 (June 13, 2021): 6406. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126406.
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Human activities have been affecting rivers and other natural systems for millennia. Anthropogenic changes to rivers over the last few centuries led to the accelerating state of decline of coastal and estuarine regions globally. Urban rivers are parts of larger catchment ecosystems, which in turn form parts of wider nested, interconnected systems. Accurate modelling of urban rivers may not be possible because of the complex multisystem interactions operating concurrently and over different spatial and temporal scales. This paper overviews urban river syndrome, the accelerating deterioration of urban river ecology, and outlines growing conservation challenges of river restoration projects. This paper also reviews the river Thames, which is a typical urban river that suffers from growing anthropogenic effects and thus represents all urban rivers of similar type. A particular emphasis is made on ecosystem adaptation, widespread extinctions and the proliferation of non-native species in the urban Thames. This research emphasizes the need for a holistic systems approach to urban river restoration.
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Grubic, Tonci, Liz Varga, Yukun Hu, and Anurag Tewari. "Micro-generation technologies and consumption of resources: A complex systems’ exploration." Journal of Cleaner Production 247 (February 2020): 119091. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119091.
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Han, Feng, Zhangcong Feng, Chao Wang, Nujie Yang, Dong Yang, and Feng Shi. "Interweaving Industrial Ecology and Ecological Modernization: A Comparative Bibliometric Analysis." Sustainability 13, no. 17 (August 27, 2021): 9673. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13179673.
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Although industrial activity has brought about rapid economic growth, it also faces the dual challenges of resource constraints and environmental pressure. Industrial ecology (IE) and ecological modernization (EM) are two theories regarding the conceptualization and implementation of sustainable development that emerged from the natural and social sciences, respectively. Over the past three decades, scholars have conducted copious amounts of theoretical and applied research on IE and EM, but comparative studies from an interdisciplinary perspective on the relationship between the two remain relatively rare. On the basis of a bibliometric analysis, this study offers a comprehensive examination of the background, theoretical connotations, and main content of IE and EM, also exploring the role of both theoretical perspectives in the promotion of sustainable industrial development. The findings are fourfold: (1) the research on IE and EM has been increasing year by year, particularly in the past decade; (2) the research is mostly concentrated in developed countries such as the United States and European Union member nations, and contributions from China have increased significantly in recent years; (3) IE has a broader research community than EM and has evolved clearer and more specific research contents and methods; and (4) IE, which analyzes the problems of specific industrial systems, and EM, which constitutes a higher-level institutional policy design, exhibit a trend of cross-fertilization. This study provides a reference for building a more systematic and comprehensive theoretical system of ecological transformation and discusses the future research directions in this field.
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Roci, Malvina, Niloufar Salehi, Saman Amir, Sayyed Shoaib-ul-Hasan, Farazee M. A. Asif, Aleš Mihelič, and Amir Rashid. "Towards circular manufacturing systems implementation: A complex adaptive systems perspective using modelling and simulation as a quantitative analysis tool." Sustainable Production and Consumption 31 (May 2022): 97–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2022.01.033.
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Sessa, Maria Rosaria, Benedetta Esposito, Daniela Sica, and Ornella Malandrino. "A Logical-Mathematical Approach for the Implementation of Ecologically Equipped Productive Urban Areas." Sustainability 13, no. 3 (January 28, 2021): 1365. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13031365.
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Sustainability is a complex phenomenon that refers to economic, environmental, and social aspects. Any concept of sustainable urban development must incorporate sectoral concepts; these must be well integrated into the overarching urban, regional, and governance policies. One sectoral policy of great importance is the redevelopment processes of disused industrial areas into Sustainable Industrial Areas (AIS), Ecologically Equipped Productive Areas (APEA), or Eco-Industrial Parks (EIP). These territories, as socioeconomic systems that are being observed in the framework of the development of sustainability monitoring, are complex objects for evaluation due to the presence of a large number of interconnections between the constituent elements and hierarchical levels (sectors and spheres). For this reason, it is necessary that a new interpretation of economical, natural, and social phenomena, following a systemic and integrated approach, is able to reinterpret them for the dissemination of an ecologically and socially sustainable economy. The purpose of this work is to analyse the state of realisation of APEA on the Italian national territory, in order to understand the real benefits of production areas managed through eco-efficiency standards and to guarantee an integrated management system of environmental aspects. An additional aim is to consider a logical-mathematical model that would be able to support territorial policies in the identification of suitable areas to be converted into APEA, in order to promote sustainable development of the territory.
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Vargas-Hernández, José G., and Olga E. Domené-Painenao. "Contributions of Urban Agro Ecological Agriculture to Ecosystem Services." International Journal of Urban Planning and Smart Cities 2, no. 1 (January 2021): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijupsc.2021010101.
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This paper has the aim to analyze the implications of the transition of ecosystem services based on urban agro ecology. It advances on the debate over the negative effects of the traditional and industrial oriented agricultural production on the ecosystem services, food systems, climate change, etc. and analyses the principles, methods, and some practices that support the transition to urban agro ecology. The method employed is the analytical of the theoretical and empirical literature review. It concludes that a transition from traditional and industrial-oriented agriculture towards more urban agro ecology is inevitable to improve the ecological and environmental services, the economic efficiency, the social equity and justice, and the environmental sustainability of cities.
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Ruiz-Puente, Carmen. "Proposal of a Conceptual Model to Represent Urban-Industrial Systems from the Analysis of Existing Worldwide Experiences." Sustainability 13, no. 16 (August 18, 2021): 9292. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13169292.
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The adoption of Industrial Symbiosis (IS) practices within urban areas is gaining interest due to the environmental impacts entailed by the development of cities. However, there is still a lack of knowledge about how the relationships between industrial and urban areas can be modelled. In this context, this research aimed at posing a conceptual model to understand and represent Urban-Industrial Systems (UIS). To this end, a set of worldwide previous UIS experiences were overviewed to identify the agents, dynamics, and collaboration opportunities that characterize them. The multi-perspective analysis of these cases indicated that UIS are complex systems, which means that they are autonomous, self-organized, responsive, nonlinear, and willing to consolidate their resilience. As such, Agent-Based Models (ABM) were suggested to be the most suitable approach for their representation.