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Autorzy wykorzystują złożony wskaźnik rozwoju społeczno-gospodarczego, zwany wskaźnikiem ALK (BDI), do analizy sytuacji gospodarczej w 22 krajach europejskich OECD w latach 1999-2017. Wskaźnik obejmuje 45 zmiennych społecznych i ekonomicznych w podziale na cztery grupy: 1) oceny bieżącej sytuacji społecznej i politycznej, 2) przewidywania i oczekiwania społeczne, 3) wewnętrzna sytuacja ekonomiczna,...
The article mainly studies the spatial effects of the adjustment of industrial structure on the urban-rural income disparity. The results show that: first, China's regional industrial restructure and urban-rural income disparity exists significant spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity; Second, the adjustment of industrial structure has two has spatial effect on the urban-rural income disparity...
In order to meet the development goals of distribution networks while maintaining the environment to continue to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and society depends, distributed energy resources have been continuously integrated on the grid. Assessing the impacts of integrating those distributed energy resources and evaluating the sustainability of the distribution...
Energy is directly proportional to GDP and plays a key role in socio-economic development of a country. The energy challenges that we face are immense. There is no one-solution-fix-all here. However, renewable energy will have to play a bigger role in the future energy mix. Of the different renewable energies, solar energy is the most widely distributed and the most abundant. Development and promotion...
This study is aimed at identifying and assessing distinct energy efficiency measures that can be implemented in residential buildings, taking into account different areas of intervention and multiple aspects of evaluation (technical, economic, environmental and social). The assessment of the different identified measures will be performed through the Electre Tri method which is devoted to the sorting...
Sustainable development has become a shared goal of all countries in the world. The assessment of regional sustainability is becoming an important theoretical basis for making policy. Based on emergy theory, the modified emergy ecological footprint model has been used to analyze the sustainable development status of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture from 2005 to 2013. The results indicated that...
The whole world turns more and more on the renewable energies. These occupy an important place in the economic growth and the sustainable development of the country. Morocco which does not make the exception, begins to become aware of these assets, the development of the green energies became its big priority especially that it has geographical and climatic conditions widely favorable.
Goal Programming (GP) is a relevant and simple technique in Operations Research that helps Decision Makers in solving problems involving conflicting and competing criteria and objectives. A GP program is a distance-based model that involves the minimization of the difference between the achievement level of a certain criterion and its goal. GP models when combined with the notion of satisfaction or...
Quantifying the actual impact of the proposed and implemented policies, with particular focus on citizens' prosperity, constitutes an important step towards holding policy makers and politicians in general accountable. However, concerns on the legitimacy of prosperity indicators that constitute the main tool towards quantifying and measuring prosperity pose difficulties on their exploitation for public...
With the great change of global climate and urbanization, urban drought is becoming a more and more urgent problem that affects human beings. This research investigates specifically urban vulnerability towards drought in the arid regions, and claims that Urban Vulnerability to Drought (UVD) refers to the sensitivity and resilience towards urban droughts. Our evaluation of urban drought vulnerability...
This paper presents an economic analysis of solar chimney power plant (SCPP) of 200 MW capacity in India by taking fifteen different sets of dimensions of chimney height and collector diameter, five sets each corresponding to collector efficiency of 33%, 50% and 65%. Quantity of different materials required and capital cost for construction of 200 MW solar chimney power plant is estimated. Based on...
In many regions of the world, drinking water has been contaminated with arsenic, resulting in a serious public health crisis and posing a threat to global sustainability. Therefore, the detection of arsenic in contaminated water has received considerable attention from the research community. The unique properties of nanomaterials can be harnessed by incorporating them into sensors that may improve...
The aim of the article is to analyse the status of Sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility in the area of the European Union. The article shows the development of the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility. There is highlighted the enterprise potential to address current social and environmental issues and achieve a competitive advantage. Sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility reflects...
Nowadays the world faces the global warming crisis, and countries all over the world are trying to develop low-carbon economy. It is a huge challenge for China to change from the traditional economy mode into a low-carbon economy mode. This paper puts forward that it is urgent to develop low-carbon economy for China by comparing the "total energy consumption" with the "ten thousand...
Based on emergy analysis, the development level of circular economy in Yulin city is evaluated from such five aspects as emergy flow, emergy economy, the use of environmental resources, environmental pressure and comprehensive index. The paper analyzed the development condition of circular economy in Yulin from 2000 to 2008. The results show that the development of economy mainly depends on the nonrenewable...
This paper calculated the total factor productivity of our country from 1991 to 2009 with Solow model and found that the extensive growth mode of our country was not changed but strengthened after the “Ninth Five Year Planning”. After analyzing the causes that made the extensive growth mode exist for a long time in our country, this paper pointed out that deepening the economic integration among provinces...
One of the European Union main goals of its energy policy is a 10% share of biofuels in fuel consumed for transport (petrol and diesel) in the year 2020. But the effort associated to this global target is not distributed among the member states (MS). Therefore, this study proposes a non-linear distribution method with dynamic objective targets for increasing the share of biofuels according to the...
He Essence of the Scientific Outlook on Development is the thought of sustainable development. One of the biggest challenges of sustainable development for China is how to respond to the constraint of the energy and environment to realize a harmonious society. Energy saving and emission reduction is necessary to maintain long-term sustainable economic development. In this respect, a following options...
Based on the method of Emergy Analysis, in this paper we investigate and characterize the state of eco-economy system of Gansu during 1995-2007 , it could be concluded that the change tendency of output efficiency of economic subsystem get reduced in 13 years, the economic development stage of Gansu is at lower level; people's living standard and life quality is low and has been declining trend; Waste...
During the global economic development advancement, technological small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) with the characteristic of high technology content, big growth potential and flexible mechanism have become the power to improve the world economic development and an important index to weight comprehensive national power. As an important carrier of technological innovation, the technological...
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