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Journal articles on the topic "Sustainable economic welfare indicators (SEWIs)"
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Cieślik, Ewa. "Selected alternative methods of measuring economic development." Equilibrium 1, no. 1-2 (2008): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/equil.2008.010.
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The traditional economic growth measures based on SNA are not precisely as welfare indicators. The economists have tried to construct indicator that include both quality and quantity aspects of economic development. Achieving a balance between three board objectives of sustainable development – maintenance of economic growth, social progress, and protection of environment - the new challenge for statisticians is to develop a package of indicators that can monitor and report progress towards the concept of sustainable development. The aim of this article is to present some different and less popular approaches to alternative measurement of welfare are discussed. The paper does not decide which indicator describes the level of sustainable development most precisely, but tries to present advantages and defects of each method. Concluding, the sustainable indicators are more precise than traditional ones in estimating welfare. The main difficult in calculating these measures is the requirement of data which can not be gathering easily.
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Karimian, Hamed, Qi Li, and Huan Fa Chen. "Assessing Urban Sustainable Development in Isfahan." Applied Mechanics and Materials 253-255 (December 2012): 244–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.253-255.244.
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Urbanization is happening in the huge scale. Beside many advantages of urbanization such as economic and social growth, but at the same time, urbanization brings many problems like air and noise pollution. Urban sustainability aims to make balance between economic growths, environmental issues and social and welfare condition of a city to meet the present needs without jeopardizing the resources and future generation’s opportunity. In order to measure sustainable development progress of an area the role of indicator system is undeniable. In this pre-research work the sustainable development of the Isfahan city in Iran was studied based on 28 indicators in Economic growth, Environmental protection and social and welfare. Moreover the Improved Permutation Polygon Synthetic Indicator Method (IFPPSI) was used to synthesize the value of indicators and geometric illustrate of different indicators. The result showed that the synthetic value of indicators to measure sustainable development of Isfahan city is 0.5 which indicates moderate level of sustainability.
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Butnariu, Anca, and Florin Alexandru Luca. "An index of sustainable economic welfare for Romania." New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences 6, no. 8 (2019): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v6i8.4543.
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This paper has the objective to develop an Index of Sustainable Welfare for Romania from 1990 to 2017, in order to more clearly establish the status of the Romanian economy in terms of economic welfare. The results show that whilst gross domestic product (GDP) per capita increased significantly, the ISEW per capita grew at a much slower pace. The value of household labour contributes strongly to the growth of welfare, but income distribution, costs of climate change, cost of road accidents and cost of air pollution limit an improvement of population economic well-being. Our new valuation approach confirms the general conclusion of most authors on economic development that, during last decades, welfare has shown little improvement in spite of a growing GDP. Our conclusion is that the ISEW provides a useful alternative to indicators such as GDP despite subjected to its limitations and criticism.
 Keywords: Economic welfare, GDP, ISEW.
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Kirilchuk, I. O., and V. L. Rykunova. "INDICATORS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AS INDICATORS OF THE ECOLOGO-ECONOMIC SECURITY." Proceedings of the Southwest State University 22, no. 2 (2018): 94–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.21869/2223-1560-2018-22-2-94-101.
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In article the direction of transition of society to sustainable development as a basis of ekologo-economic security is considered. Authors have analysed experience in the field of development and use of indicators of sustainable development which are necessary not only for assessment of effectiveness and efficiency of scientific and technical progress and development of economic systems and also for forecasting and management of process of transition to sustainable development. The systems of indicators of sustainable development developed by the Commission of the UN on sustainable development, OECD, the World Bank, the system of indicators developed for improvement of management of environmental management in Central America are considered. On the basis of the analysis of the international and Russian experience of development of indicators of sustainable development by authors their classification is offered. Authors note that indicators of sustainable development are the basis for indicators of Strategy of ecological safety of the Russian Federation until 2025 developed in 2017. A special problem at selection of indicators is extent of their integration. In article the most widespread integrated indicators of sustainable development are considered: Living Planet Index, The Ecological Footprint, Genuine Progress Indicators, Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare, Human development index, Index of Adjusted netsavings. On the basis of the analysis of the specified indexes authors draw a conclusion that the most worked in the theoretical plan, having good statistical base and possibilities of calculation is considered integrated Index of Adjusted netsavings of the World Bank.
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Karadjova, Vera, and Snezhana Dichevska. "ECONOMIC GROWTH V.S. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT – COMPLEMENTARY INDICATORS." Balkans Journal of Emerging Trends in Social Sciences 2, no. 1 (2019): 28–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31410/balkans.jetss.2019.2.1.28-38.
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The paper deals with a topic relating to the economic growth, development and general welfare of a national economy, a wider region, or even the entire world, through indicators that differentiate growth from development. It is a complex subject that contains numerous aspects of the life of a community in a certain space, which, because of its complexity, cannot be limited exclusively to economic aspects, so because of that cannot be limited exclusively to economic or monetary indicators. Life in a community besides the economic includes also legal, sociological, philosophical, psychological and other aspects, from which it logically results that measuring the development and welfare is a complex process that can hardly be limited to one indicator. In that sense, the paper addresses issues relating to production, distribution, fairness and equality, employment, unemployment, poverty, productivity, economic stability, sustainable development, human development, a sense of well-being and happiness, etc., in the direction of the thesis for the use of complementary development indicators. The complexity of the process of harmonizing the numerous indicators is further complicated by the need to calculate the degree of their mutual correlation, especially if it concerns divergent indicators or indicators that are mutually exclusive or have a negative correlation. The issue of welfare has been the subject of economic science interest since its very beginnings, even from the time of the first ancient thinkers when it was not singled out as an independent science, through the utopians, to contemporary economic thought. The economic operation and the rational use of limited resources in order to meet unlimited human needs is the heart of the economy. The basic indicator used to measure economic growth is undoubtedly the GDP and GDP per capita. But one has to take into account the distinction between quantitative growth and qualitative development, whereby GDP is an indicator of growth. Development is a broader concept that covers growth, but also technological and any other kind of advancement of the social community. Development as a qualitative feature means the advancement of the qualitative characteristics of society and the well-being of individuals, and the well-being is not only the increase of GDP, but the subjective sense of the people in the community that they live better, a sense of improving the quality of life. Growth and development together make the progress of the community. In this sense the paper elaborates just a few indicators of growth and development that are used parallel, such as GDP, Human Development Index, and the World Happiness index, that do not exclude each other and whose interwoven use gives a fuller picture of growth and development although the ranking of countries around the world according to one of these indicators may be quite different with respect to the ranking according to the other indicator. This only confirms the thesis of the need for a more comprehensive analysis of the analyzed issues and suggestions for a more comprehensive indicator that would be a complementary set of several alternative and complementary ones that would eliminate the shortcomings of its constituent parts, thereby obtaining a relevant indicator of economic development and welfare, without any intention to propose a concrete solution.
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Varga, József, Gyöngyi Bánkuti, Ádám Csuvár, and Tekla Sebestyénné Szép. "MEW és az ISEW alternatív gazdasági mutatók elméleti áttekintése." Acta Scientiarum Socialium, no. 49 (November 28, 2019): 9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.33566/asc.2527.
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In our publication we focus on the economic well-being indicators that can be good substitutes or alternatives of the gross domestic product. After the brief overview of the often mentioned weaknesses and mistakes of GDP, we present the Measure of Economic Welfare (MEW) and the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW). We summarize that albeit there are more than enough indicators, none of them is so widely accepted as GDP. It is not clear yet which one(s) will replace it in its role. The study was created for the Economics Seminar of Kaposvár (KAKTUSZ) which is organized annually by the Kaposvár University. Another research team of the environmental economics session of KAKTUSZ 2016 undertakes to demonstrate other alternative economic indicators in the article titled "Theoretical overview of the GPI, the SNBI and the HDI alternative economic indicators" by Csuvár et al. (2018).
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Kovalchuk, Olha, and Olena Hyryla. "Modelling economic dimensions of global sustainable development." Herald of Ternopil National Economic University, no. 1(91) (January 1, 2019): 117–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.35774/visnyk2019.01.117.
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The article reveals the problems of “measuring” economic dimensions of global sustainable development of modern society, improves the existing set of indicators for an adequate quantitative assessment of economic growth and develops optimal mathematical models for integrated assessment of economic dimensions of global sustainable growth. The subject matter of the study includes the most important challenges of sustainability and direction relevant to economic activities, and also the main indicators of effectiveness of public economic policy, which provide information and scientific knowledge useful for identifying key factors of development. The main significant results of using methods of mathematical modeling for building models of economic growth have been examined. The main problem of mathematical modeling of economic component of sustainable development is an adequate choice of qualitative and quantitative indications, as well as development of more complex device for mathematical and computer modeling for analyzing features of economic phenomena and economic aspects of the function of sustainable development. It is claimed that the long-running economic crisis, a growing gap in access to advantages of economic progress, age disparity in wealth, income inequality in developed countries and increasing ecological degradation due to unsustainable practices have lead to the situation when economic policies of many countries do not adequately meet the needs of public welfare and society. The authors state that the problems enumerated above along with the sluggish growth call into question the efficiency of traditional models of economic growth. In addition, it is indicated that geopolitical tension and unstable currency are slowing down economic growth. The study provides a correlation analysis, factor analysis (principal component method), discriminant analysis (developing classification functions), and data mining (classification trees). A factor model for the quantitative assessment of economic component of sustainable development has been developed. A country classification by economic growth indicators is developed and the results are presented as a tree solution. An optimal discriminant model for building classification functions of country allocation by the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) is constructed. This index is one of the basic dimensions of a long-term economic growth relevant to analyzed economic indicators of sustainable development. It is found that GCI is an adequate dimension of economic component of global sustainable development. The Global Talent Competitiveness Index, ICT Access Index and Corruption Perception Index are the most significant for country allocation by its levels
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Nekoonam, Mahdi, Hooman Rahimi, and Keyvan Ahzan. "Evaluation of urban transportation indicators with emphasis on sustainable development (Case study: Andishe New City)." Journal of Research in Science, Engineering and Technology 5, no. 04 (2019): 50–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jrset.vol5iss04pp50-58.
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This research aims on evaluation and prioritization urban transport sustainability indexes in Andisheh new city by descriptive-analytical methodology and application of factor analysis method. Surveying method was used in this research through questionnaire to collect data. Statistical population of this research was all citizens of Andisheh city. Sample volume was selected 383 persons by Cochran general formula, and simple random sampling and multistage clustering sampling methods were used to select sample population. Factor analysis statistics tests and T-test in SPSS software were used to analyze data to study the validity and reliability of questionnaire. After data analysis, two factors or indexes of “economic trip” or “green economy” with 0.61% cumulative variance in economic sustainability, two factors of “social welfare and justice” and “social security and health” with 0.61% cumulative variance in social sustainability, and one factor of “pure environment” factor with 0.62% cumulative variance in environment sustainability were extracted. Based on citizens ideas of Andisheh city and statistical analysis, economic trip index in economic sustainability, “social welfare and justice” index in social sustainability index and “pure environment” index in environment sustainability with values of -0.2549, -0.2488, and -0.3239, respectively didn’t have proper conditions and have higher priorities. Therefore, it is suggested to have more emphasis and attentions on planning to promote these indexes.
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Brennan, Andrew John. "Theoretical foundations of sustainable economic welfare indicators — ISEW and political economy of the disembedded system." Ecological Economics 67, no. 1 (2008): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.05.019.
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Campra, Maura, Silvana Secinaro, Valerio Brescia, and Cristina Gonçalves Góis. "Redefining the New Public Management and Effects of Indicators: Sustainable Healthcare Mobility." Journal of Management and Sustainability 9, no. 1 (2019): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jms.v9n1p141.
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New Public Management has changed the way we perceive and at the same time govern public health companies. The applied method is quantitative subjective, the theory of New Public Management is redefined. The carried-out elaboration, after having identified the variables considered and the possible mathematical relationship between variables (for example a synthetic index of mobility), defines the relationship between them through linear regression and multivariate statistical analysis. The choice of mobility for acute performance in the ordinary regime between regions in Italy is used as a case study. The challenge of the new millennium is the identification of non-economic indicators useful to support the traditional economic indicators that are not always representative of the real welfare of the population in a modern redefinition of New Public Management approach.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sustainable economic welfare indicators (SEWIs)"
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Brennan, Andrew John. "Measures of environmental and sustainable socioeconomic welfare and the political economy of capitalism - theoretical reconstruction, technical specification, and critical analysis: GDP, ISEW and GPI." Thesis, Curtin University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/114.
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This study undertakes a critical analysis of measures of environmental and sustainable socioeconomic welfare from the perspective of political economy. One of the prime motivations for such an inquiry is that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) provides an inadequate measure of social and ecological waste in the economic system. Good measures with solid theory (or theories) can offer vital insights where there may be conflict between the various spheres of economy, society and ecology. The inquiry centres on measures that may be referred to as 'Net Income Indices' or Sustainable Economic Welfare Indicators (SEWls), since they are designed for assessing aspects of sustainability and welfare. Commencing in 1972 and ending in April 2009, there have been forty-five individual studies involving construction of a SEWI. SEWls are worthy of a comprehensive appraisal as it is generally accepted that the indices are necessary, workable and adequate measures. This study embarks on a systematic, detailed and scholarly examination of the conclusions drawn in the relevant literature on SEWls, focusing on the calibre of their theoretical, empirical and technical foundations, historical specificity vis-a-vis business cycles and institutional dynamics.For any study into sustainable well-being, the key focus is the effects of market institutions on society. GDP has many limitations, but GDP is charged with significance because it aids our understanding of the capitalist system, however, the same cannot be said for SEWls. It is argued that the net income indices are not very good measures of environmental and social welfare: many authors provide no major good or detailed advancement in theory and no one provides a strong socio-historical institutional analysis. Critically absent from every SEWI analysis is a systematic understanding of the political economy and system dynamics of capitalism. This led to the major hypothesis, which states: understanding the political economy of capitalism will provide vital insights into SEWIs. SEWI advocates have started with ceteris paribus assumptions where medium and long-term processes are not affecting the socioeconomic system. Because ad-hoc commonsensical accountancy prevails, the authors are inadequately accounting for the present well-being effects on the social structure, and do not consistently, as done for ecological capital depreciation, value the future generational costs (lost services) of an (un)sustainable social capital and human-health capital base. SEWI restricts the analysis to a few monetary variables and thereby it is too inflexible and not very helpful.Yet, such social services and disservices are elementary for critically evaluating the multiple contradictions of capitalism in a disembedded economy (where the 'economy' tends to dominate other aspects of culture). Multiple contradictions assess the complexity of the disembedded economy better than single contradictions. SEWI advocates focus mainly on the contradiction (i.e. the trade-off) between the natural environment and consumption goods, and their inquiry is, at the most, limited to the national level. It is argued that they are in a one-and-a-half contradiction world: they see primarily one contradiction and a partial social reality from a very nationalistic perspective. In the global disembedded economy, all areas of life are both relatively autonomous yet interconnected. There are multiple contradictions of capitalism to be explored, but it is hard to link all of them in one index. It is necessary to transcend the one-and-a-half contradiction world and have a broad view of wealth.It is difficult to determine the true nature of the "service" and its distribution to persons-in-community in an exclusive aggregated net-income index. Composite net-income indicators inadequately measure distribution. Without fundamentally understanding the heterogeneous power relations that define the system's reproduction, applications of 'Net Income Indices' are ineffective. It is argued that there are major limits to which SEWls can be transformed or radically redeveloped within the context of the political economy critique. The crux of the problem is that SEWI advocates fail to incorporate an understanding of the historical socioeconomic system of capitalism (as the fundamental background condition), which affects their whole project. A tendency for the literature to abstract from real trends in the disembedded economy is apparent because of the weak institutional apparatus, mechanical applications, and conceptual difficulties. This thesis raises questions about the competence of SEWls to deal with real-world problems. A more detailed and broader approach to sustainable well-being is needed to find the root of social and environmental problems.
Books on the topic "Sustainable economic welfare indicators (SEWIs)"
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Fikfak, Alenka, Saja Kosanović, Miha Konjar, and Enrico Anguillari, eds. SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE: socio-spatial perspective. TU Delft Bouwkunde, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.47982/bookrxiv.23.
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Sustainability and resilience have become indispensable parts of the contemporary debate over the built environment. Although recognised as imperatives, the complexity and the variety of interpretations of sustainability and resilience have raised the necessity to again rethink their notion in the context of the built environment and to reframe the state-of-the-art body of knowledge. The book Sustainability and Resilience: Socio-Spatial Perspective so begins with the exploration of the broadest conceptual frame-of-reference of issues related to sustainability, and the re-establishment of the connection between the built environment and the conditions that are vital to its functioning, primarily in relation to energy, land use, climate, and economy. Subsequent discussion on resilience as a term, approach, and philosophy aims to conceptualise an interpretation of key resilience concepts, explain relationships and links among them, and propose the classification of resilience as applicable to the context of urban studies. By studying the processes of transition of the built environment, the book then reveals a coherent formula of ‘thinking sustainability + resilience’ aimed at improving the ability to respond to disruptions and hazards while enhancing human and environmental welfare. The necessity to integrate the two approaches is further accented as a result of a deliberative discourse on the notions of ‘social sustainability’, ‘sustainable community’, and ‘socio-cultural resilience’. The potential of measuring sustainable development and urban sustainability on the basis of defined social, human, and, additionally, natural and economic values is presented though an overview of different wellknown indicators and the identification of a currently relevant tangible framework of sustainable development. Correspondingly, the role of policies and governance is demonstrated on the case of climate-proof cities. In this way, the consideration of approaches to sustainability and resilience of the urban environment is rounded, and the focus of the book is shifted towards an urban/rural dichotomy and the sustainability prospects of identified forms-in-between, and, subsequently, towards the exploration of values, challenges, and the socio-cultural role in achieving sustainability for rural areas. In the final chapters, the book offers several peculiarised socio-spatial perspectives, from defining the path towards more resilient communities and sustainable spaces based on a shared wellbeing, to proposing the approach to define community resilience as an intentional action that aims to respond to, and influence, the course of social and economic change, to deliberating the notion of a ’healthy place’ and questioning its optimal scale in the built environment. The study of sustainability and resilience in this book is concluded by drawing a parallel between environmental, economic, and social determinants of the built environment and the determinants that are relevant to human health and well-being.
Book chapters on the topic "Sustainable economic welfare indicators (SEWIs)"
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Hassan, Viana Imad, Mohamad Saad El Dine Knio, and Georges Bellos. "A Triple Bottom Line Analysis of the Smart Cities Projects in GCC Countries." In Smart Cities, Citizen Welfare, and the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7785-1.ch001.
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Cities are tackling their economic, social, and environmental challenges through smart city solutions. To demonstrate that these solutions achieve the desired impact, an indicator-based assessment system is needed. This chapter presents the process of developing CITYkeys performance measurement systems for target setting and monitoring. This European smart city indicator framework was developed by analyzing cities' needs, existing indicators, and gaps. The current research sets out to review several indicators, KPI, and performance measurements, along other indicator frameworks on the case studies involving the conceptualisation, development, and monitoring of smart cities in Lebanon and in Malta for comparative purposes. For this purpose, a mixed methods approach was adopted, whereby both interviews and structured surveys were used to collect primary data pertaining to the analyses of the respectively investigated smart cities.
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Asikis, Konstantinos, Marta Rofin Serra, and Georgia Skoufi. "Smart Planning for Healthy Cities (Urban Space Is Not Just a Place)." In Smart Cities, Citizen Welfare, and the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7785-1.ch014.
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Cities are constantly increasing their importance, from any point of view: population, energy, food, transport. Healthy cities aim at wellbeing for all by creating urban spaces capable of inclusive community prosperity. Place is the combined tangible and intangible context of a location. It includes the integrated urban ecosystem: the constructed, environmental, social, economic, and cultural status. It is a human, natural, and artificial habitat whose combined conditions are able to upgrade or harm health and wellbeing. Its significant impact on people's life happens through a variety of ways, positive or negative, physical or mental. There are several urban determinants that affect the health indicators, which help us measure this impact. This process is named health impact assessment. It is conducted via specific tools, and till now it showed us that the urban environment affects public health much more than the medical system. On the other side, only vigorous communities are able to ensure thriving culture and economy, urban and regional sustainability and development.
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Ciocoiu, Carmen Nadia, and Claudiu Cicea. "Development of the Green Economy in Romania." In Green Economic Structures in Modern Business and Society. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8219-1.ch009.
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The socio-economic context and globally discouraging trends observed in recent years regarding resource conservation and regeneration, control of climate change, technical, technological and informational inequality, progress gaps among nations and locally among citizens of the same country, have led to the need for developing policies, reforms and programs to support sustainable development. In this chapter the authors analyze some important issues regarding the Romanian experience in developing the green economy. They start with the background analysis of the concept, emphasizing several European Union documents regarding green economy and sustainable development. Then, the authors analyze the social and economic profile of Romania, in relation with some suggestive indicators of welfare, sustainability, equity and economic opportunities etc. Special attention is given to the environmental Performance Index (EPI) and Human Development Index (HDI). In the last part of the research, the authors present a short SWOT analysis for the green economy in Romania and several future research directions.
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Fernández-Villacañas Marín, Manuel A., and Ignacio Fernández-Villacañas Marcos. "Strategies for Managing Shocking Global Crises in a Disruptive Environment: Proposal for a Intelligence Management Model." In Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. IOS Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/faia200644.
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The high global vulnerability revealed by the current pandemic confirms the existence of a very threatening and disruptive environment. The development of new strategies is needed in response to the new shocking global disruptive crisis, analysing the use of new methodologies and digital tools for their early detection and prospective planning. This will allow the development of more proactive, effective, and efficient response plans, with minimal risks. The work considers the convenience of standardized use and optimisation of social welfare functions that integrate social, economic, and ecological variables and indicators, around the achievement of 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda, and 169 objectives associated with them.
Conference papers on the topic "Sustainable economic welfare indicators (SEWIs)"
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Bao, Han P., and Sundeep Bodapati. "Development of Sustainable Indicators for Products and Processes." In ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2011-48273.
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Sustainable development is only a lofty goal as long as there is a lack of standard metrics and benchmark values to measure the performance of sustainable development. Measurement of sustainability has been articulated by researchers in several ways, but most definitions are based on the so-called Triple Bottom Line (TBL) approach i.e., with Economic (Profit), Environment (Planet) and Social welfare (People) objectives. Individual measures were proposed by many researchers for these dimensions of sustainability using various indicators. The focus of this paper is on manufacturing processes and products, as opposed to services and organizational entities, it is meant to test the hypothesis that there is a concise subset to the wide range of indicators so far identified in the literature which could be applied to manufacturing processes and products. We wanted to address three issues: 1- What kinds of indicators can be used; 2- How often have they been used or, in other words, how relevant are they? and 3- Are there other indicators which may have been missing? Our primary approach was to look for real case studies in which the authors clearly intended their products to be officially declared as sustainable. All together we found 106 case studies which fit the purpose of our study in the Environmental Product Declaration (E.P.D., http://www.environdec.com). EPD is an organization which provides relevant, verified and comparable information to meet various customers and market needs. The categories of products in EPD range from food and beverage products to textile, wood, chemical, non-metallic mineral, basic metals, fabricated metal, machinery and equipment, and office machinery and computers. Each case study in EPD was carefully assessed with regards to the three issues indicated above, and the final result was the formation of a new set of indicators which will be more suitable for manufacturing processes and products. This new set of indicators, perhaps better described as a filtered set of indicators, was used in a case study to compare the sustainability of a Cathode Ray Tube (C.R.T.) and a Liquid Crystal Display (L.C.D.) desktop computer. Both of these products have been extensively documented by Sony Corporation and the EPA. They provided substantial quantitative data which enhance the validity of our own study. One other tangible result of our study was the determination of a “Sustainable Threshold“ for various products based on the 106 case studies indicated above. We wanted to submit the proposition that an aggregated score determined as indicated in our work can serve as a reliable measure for sustainability.
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Levkina, Elena Vladimirovna, and Irina Aeksandrovna Kuzmicheva. "«Green economy» as a factor of economic security and sustainable development of the economy." In III All-Russian Scientific Conference with International Participation "Science, technology, society: Environmental engineering for sustainable development of territories". Krasnoyarsk Science and Technology City Hall, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.47813/nto.3.2022.6.35-52.
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The current political and economic situation determines the need to change the concept of sustainable development of the economy and its economic security. In modern economic conditions, environmental and social factors are becoming increasingly important. This is due to the fact that the pace of economic growth has exacerbated the problem of the limited biocapacity of the planet, and the environmental factor limits the general welfare: from reduced life expectancy to natural disasters. The recognition by the world of the parity of environmental, economic and social values marked a transition to sustainable development. To date, about 200 states have announced the development and implementation of environmental policies in accordance with the principles of sustainable development. In the context of sustainability, new models of the economy related to environmental factors have become widespread both in theory and in practice: the «green economy», the economy based on green growth, the «low-carbon economy», the bioeconomy, the «blue economy», etc. The article is devoted to the study of trends in the greening of the Russian economy, as well as the latest developments in changing the system of indicators of economic and social progress. An analysis of Russia's activities in the field of ecologization of the economy is given, as well as a rationale for the prospects and effect of the transition to a «green economy» at the federal level. The object of the research is the formation of elements of the «green economy» in Russia. The subject of the work is an assessment of the level of development of the "green economy" in Russia and its impact on the economic security of the national economy.
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Darmajanti, Linda, Daniel Mambo Tampi, and Irene Sondang Fitrinita. "Sustainable Urban Development: Building Healthy Cities in Indonesia." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/mbxo5435.
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The urban process or commonly called urbanization is a phenomenon that is occurring in several regions in Indonesia. In 2045, the projection results show 61.7% of Indonesia's population will live in urban areas. In the process, cities in Indonesia are facing several challenges related to Urban Infrastructure, decent and affordable housing, clean environment, local economic, slum, and urban poor (Social welfare). These indicators can have a positive impact on increasing the city index with healthy city categories, but also can have a negative impact with the increasing gap between the poor and the rich. The purposes of this study are to find out which cities in Indonesia fall into the category of healthy cities and to find out what factors and actors play a role in building healthy cities in Indonesia. The analytical method in this study is log frame analysis. The result is building healthy cities is closely related to the availability of aspects of life in urban areas: health services, environmental, and socioeconomic aspects. There are 3 cities in Indonesia: Palembang, Solo and Denpasar City. Building a healthy city is also an effort in improving health status, health facilities, cleanliness, garbage services, food availability, clean water, security, safety, park facilities, public transportation, art and culture facilities, housing, urban economics, religious facilities, and urban planning quality. Healthy cities in Indonesia will be achieved if efforts to improve not only physical health but also mental, social, economic and spiritual health are achieved. Finally, building a healthy city in Indonesia is an effort to contribute to sustainable urban development.