Sustainability and Sustainable Development

Haller, Cynthia R.

doi:10.4324/9781315442044-11

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“…So, it is essential to use natural resources at the rate they can be recovered. Simultaneously, waste should not be emitted at a pace more remarkable than that at which the environment absorbs it because the earth's systems are bounded and constrained (United Nations 2017; Haller 2018).…”

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Striving towards sustainable development: how environmental degradation and energy efficiency interact with health expenditures in SAARC countries

Zhong

Ren

Akbar

et al. 2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The previous studies focused on environmental issues, identifying their root causes, urging prompt action to reduce environmental degradation. In this context, the current article extends the literature by incorporating the ecological impacts on the health sector and the role of sustainable development. The present study adds to the body of knowledge by examining the relationship between CO 2 emissions, sustainable development, energy efficiency, energy intensity, and health expenditures for SAARC countries from 2000 to 2020. Fully modified OLS (FMOLS) and dynamic OLS (DOLS) are used and diagnostic tests to check the association between the variables. The empirical analysis validated the long-run impact of the examined factors on health expenditures. The results show that energy efficiency and sustainable development have a statistically significant negative effect on health expenditures, vice-versa for CO 2 emission. Energy efficiency, energy intensity, and CO 2 emissions have been shown to have a one-way causative relationship with health expenditures, but sustainable development and economic growth have a two-way causation relationship. The better health status of the SAARC economies necessitates the establishment of long-term development strategies, environmental sustainability, and an examination of the energy sector. This work's conceptual and empirical advances have significant policy ramifications for this part of the globe and its efforts to improve sustainability.

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Striving towards sustainable development: how environmental degradation and energy efficiency interact with health expenditures in SAARC countries

Zhong

Ren

Akbar

et al. 2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…Organisations are an integral part of modern societies [16,17]. Organisations are affected by forces and conditions that operate beyond their boundaries [18], and at the same time, they still have the ability to react to their immediate environment [19].…”

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“…In this context, organisations (civil society organisations (CSOs), companies, and public sector organisations (PSOs)) have been instrumental in contributing to making societies more sustainable [17,[26][27][28][29]. Organisations have been focusing more on the economic dimension (almost equally in the short-, medium-, and long-term), than on the environmental and social ones, which tend to be more important in the medium-and long-term (see Figure 1) [24].…”

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Changes in Sustainability Priorities in Organisations due to the COVID-19 Outbreak: Averting Environmental Rebound Effects on Society

2020

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The COVID-19 outbreak has affected societies and organisations in an unprecedented way. This has resulted in negative impacts to economic and social issues, but it is a “blessing in disguise” for environmental issues. This paper analyses how the outbreak has affected organisations’ sustainability priorities. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, such priorities were on the economic dimension followed by the environmental and social dimensions. A survey was sent to 11,657 organisations to analyse such changes, with a 5.60% response rate. The results show that for organisations, the main priority is now on the social dimension, followed by the economic one; however, the environmental dimension has suffered a negative impact in prioritisation, regardless of organisation type, country where they are based, organisation size, or the time they have been working on sustainability. We are currently facing an environmental conundrum, where air quality has improved and pollution has decreased in societies, but organisations are starting to neglect such environmental issues. The COVID-19 outbreak is an opportunity for organisations to better contribute to sustainability by ensuring that the efforts that have been undertaken in the last three decades are not forgotten, and that societies and organisations are better coupled to face such crises and avert rebound effects.

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“…Categorization was based on SPI classification shown in Table 1, and climate regimes realized from the classification are shown in Table 2. 1994, 1995, 1999Near Normal 1982, 1985-1988, 1992, 1993, 1996-1998, 2001-2003, 2006, 2007Moderately wet 2004, 2005Very wet 1990, 2000 For each climate regime, we compute an initial SPI12 value, representative of the climate regime. Then we set a threshold and define the impact as:…”

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“…Within the same period, corporate social responsibility, which involves corporations, investors, consumers, and bankers trying to integrate the social, economic, and environmental performance of all matter came on the scene. By this time, social, economic, and environmental became pillars for defining sustainable development in general [3,9,10]. On 16 November 2000, the World Commission on Dams (WCD) recommended "sustainability" as one of the five basic standards necessary to address environmental and social impacts of dams [11].…”

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Sustainable Hydroelectric Dam Management in the Context of Climate Change: Case of the Taabo Dam in Côte D’Ivoire, West Africa

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Management of hydroelectric dams is an aspect of sustainability that comes with resolving problems locally. The use of global indicators has not been a sustainable solution, thus the need for local indicators. Besides, current sustainability assessment tools lack the integration of climate, making assessments in a climate change context impossible. In this paper, we present management and sustainability assessment in a climate change context using sustainability indicators. We modeled a change in the climate using normal, moderate, and extreme climate conditions defined by Standardized Precipitation Indices (SPI) values. Out of 36 years analyzed, 24 years fall in the near-normal climate regime, and the remaining 12 years in moderate and extreme conditions, making near-normal climate regime the basis for managing the Taabo Dam. The impact of climate, techno-economic, and socio-environmental indicators on sustainability were investigated, and the results were analyzed according to scenarios. Climate adaptation shows higher sustainability indices than techno-economic and socio-environmental scenarios. Probability matrices show high and low values, respectively, for environmental and flooding indicators. Risk matrices, on the other hand, show that even with small probability values, risks still exist, and such small probabilities should not be taken as an absence of risk. The study reveals that sustainability can be improved by integrating climate into existing assessment methods.

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Sustainability and Sustainable Development

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Striving towards sustainable development: how environmental degradation and energy efficiency interact with health expenditures in SAARC countries

Striving towards sustainable development: how environmental degradation and energy efficiency interact with health expenditures in SAARC countries

Changes in Sustainability Priorities in Organisations due to the COVID-19 Outbreak: Averting Environmental Rebound Effects on Society

Sustainable Hydroelectric Dam Management in the Context of Climate Change: Case of the Taabo Dam in Côte D’Ivoire, West Africa

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