Network model-based analysis of the goals, targets and indicators of sustainable development for strategic environmental assessment

Sebestyén, Viktor; Bulla, Miklós; Rédey, Ákos; Abonyi, János

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.02.096

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“…SNA is a tool that can help to identify key actors in networks and is one of the effective methods to analyse social relationships in industrial networks to develop actions that can strengthen resilience in the network (Domenech and Davies, 2009;Song et al, 2018). For example, SNA is effectively used as a method to analyse ISNs with respect to relationships between participant companies's managers (Ashton, 2008), relationships among companies's goals and indicators (Sebestyén et al, 2019) relationships among tenant firms (Song et al, 2018), and to compare exchanges of products, by-products, and wastes among tenant plants (Zhang et al, 2013).…”

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A socio-ecological approach to improve industrial zones towards eco-industrial parks

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Capelleveen

Erdiş

et al. 2019

Journal of Environmental Management

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One of the concrete examples of industrial symbiosis development is eco-industrial parks, which improves resource efficiency and minimizes environmental impacts by adopting models for waste exchanges between industries. Despite past efforts, many industrial zones around the world are not yet considered as eco-industrial parks because of the low number (or total lack) of symbiotic relationships among industries. A promising strategy is to develop those existing industrial zones into eco-industrial parks. However, there is a lack of studies addressing how to assess the environmental improvement in relation to network sustainability. This study demonstrates such an assessment approach using an integration of food web analysis and social network analysis. These two methods can assist in assessing differences in network configurations with respect to potential implementations of industrial symbiosis, and in analysing the resilience, redundancy, connectance, and cyclicity of eco-parks. The use of the methods is illustrated in a case study of an industrial zone in Turkey. Four potential future scenarios are proposed including potential future co-location of companies in the industrial zone in order to foster industrial symbiotic network formation. These scenarios are compared with the current configuration. The results indicate the method's ability to assess the resilience of an industrial network. Moreover, the case shows an improvement of network sustainability and follows some sustainable properties of natural ecosystems as a result of implementing the industrial symbiosis.

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A socio-ecological approach to improve industrial zones towards eco-industrial parks

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Capelleveen

Erdiş

et al. 2019

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…Note that the adjacency matrix A defines a network, where the vertices are the selected variables ( V = X ), edges are indicated by the nonzero values ( e ij ∈ E ⇔ [ A ] ij = a ij > 0) and their weight is the absolute rank correlation between the selected variables ( w : E → ℝ + , w ( i, j ) = a ij ). (Note that the same strategy was applied by, e.g., [13] and [14], to visualize variable similarity. )…”

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The Role of Societal Aspects in the Formation of Official COVID-19 Reports: A Data-Driven Analysis

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Katona

Lantos

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This paper investigates the role of socioeconomic considerations in the formation of official COVID-19 reports. To this end, we employ a dataset that contains 1,159 preprocessed indicators from the World Bank Group GovData360 and TCdata360 platforms and an additional 8 COVID-19 variables generated based on reports from 138 countries. During the analysis, a rank-correlation-based complex method is used to identify the time- and space-varying relations between pandemic variables and the main topics of World Bank Group platforms. The results not only draw attention to the importance of factors such as air traffic, tourism, and corruption in report formation but also support further discipline-specific research by mapping and monitoring a wide range of such relationships. To this end, an R Notebook is attached that allows for the customization of the analysis and provides up-to-date results.

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“…As can be seen the proposed data can provide a comprehensive view of how SDGs are interrelated, which interconnections are detailed in Ref. [2]. With the help of the proposed data and program not only this publication can be reproduced but further detailed analysis can be performed.…”

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Data-driven multilayer complex networks of sustainable development goals

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Bulla²,

Rédey

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This data article presents the formulation of multilayer network for modelling the interconnections among the sustainable development goals (SDGs), targets and includes the correlation based linking of the sustainable development indicators with the available long-term datasets of The World Bank, 2018 [1]. The spatial distribution of the time series data allows creating country-specific sustainability assessments. In the related research article “Network Model-Based Analysis of the Goals, Targets and Indicators of Sustainable Development for Strategic Environmental Assessment” [2] the similarities of SDGs for ten regions have been modelled in order to improve the quality of strategic environmental assessments. The datasets of the multilayer networks are available on Mendeley [3].

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Network model-based analysis of the goals, targets and indicators of sustainable development for strategic environmental assessment

Cited by 54 publications

References 32 publications

A socio-ecological approach to improve industrial zones towards eco-industrial parks

A socio-ecological approach to improve industrial zones towards eco-industrial parks

The Role of Societal Aspects in the Formation of Official COVID-19 Reports: A Data-Driven Analysis

Data-driven multilayer complex networks of sustainable development goals

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