Linking Daly's Proposition to policymaking for sustainable development: indicators and pathways

Zhu, Dajian; Zhang, Shuai; Sutton, David

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.04.070

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“…In the production system, in the context of environmental sustainability, there are limitations to ensure that natural resources are used at a constant rate not exceeding the rate of renewal of these resources, and the environmental capacity to absorb these wastes should not be ignored. The focus should be on renewable natural resources as alternatives to non-renewable ones [3]. Production occurs in a "weak sustainability" model, which means the rational exploitation of natural resources or even the minimization of waste to match what is environmentally disposable.…”

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Impact of Industry 4.0 on Environmental Sustainability

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Industry 4.0 is a concept that originated from the German industry, and whose essence is the use of technology for efficient production. In business today, the emergence of Industry 4.0 for production, and its related technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems, amongst others, have, however, a negative impact on environmental sustainability as a result of air pollution, the poor discharge of waste, and the intensive use of raw materials, information, and energy. The method used in this study is an analysis of a literature review of manuscripts discussing topics related to Industry 4.0 and environmental sustainability published between 2000 and 2020. There is currently a gap existing between the actual and the desired situation, in that production occurs in a weak sustainability model, and, therefore, this research debates the effects on environmental sustainability and the challenges facing Industry 4.0. Four scenarios are discussed: a deployment scenario, an operation scenario, integration and compliance with sustainable development goals, and a long-run scenario. The results indicate that there is a negative relationship related to the flow of the production process from the inputs to the final product, including raw materials, energy requirements, information, and waste disposal, and their impacts on the environment. However, the integration of Industry 4.0 and the sustainable development goals enhance environmental sustainability to create ecological support that guarantees high environmental performance with a more positive impact than before. This paper will help stakeholders and companies to provide solutions to the existing environmental challenges that can be mediated through adopting new technologies. The novelty of this study is its depiction of Industry 4.0 and its technologies integrated with sustainable development goals to create a sustainable Industry 4.0 combining environmental protection and sustainability.

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“…The Ecological Well-being Performance indicator (EWP) [50] is composed as the ratio of the HDI and the logarithmically normalized value (EFn) of the EF to measure the achieved level of sustainable human development in relation to ecological assets consumed: EWP = HDI/EFn.…”

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Measuring the Implementation of the Agenda 2030 Vision in Its Comprehensive Sense: Methodology and Tool

2021

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The contribution of the energy sector to human development (HD) is one of the aspects that requires measuring growth of the overall sustainability of HD. The UN program, Agenda 2030, has defined the vision of advanced development by introducing a sustainable HD paradigm, the balanced integrated development paradigm, in three dimensions: economic, social and environmental. The overall performance of countries is not currently assessed; there are several proposals for measuring sustainable HD level, but none have become widely accepted due to their weaknesses. The selected indirect measurement method reflects the interlinkage of development dimensions in real cases of low data availability. By combining the strengths of existing proposals and eliminating their weaknesses, the measuring methodology has been created and an appropriate tool—the Advanced Human Development Index (AHDI)—has been designed, which ensures unity and concordance of all included comprehensive dimension indices. The calculations confirm the accuracy and simplicity of the measurement. The proposed methodology and AHDI, as a simple, balanced index that is based on result-oriented headline indices, provide the big picture, which will be transparent, acceptable and usable for experts, politicians and the global community to assess the achieved development levels and to make strategic decisions for the coming period.

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“…Rees further proposed the concept of ecological footprint (EF) based on Daly's work, which turned the ecological inputs in EWP into measurable indicators and promoted the development of EWP [34]. Later, Zhu et al quantified it as the increase in human wellbeing per unit of ecological consumption, using the ratio of the human development index (HDI) to ecological footprint (EF) for empirical evidence [35]. EWP reflects the efficiency of economic and well-being output under certain ecological constraints and belongs to the category of the strong sustainability concept.…”

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“…First, in the measurement and evaluation of EWP, the ratio and the modeling method are mainly used. The ratio method is used to measure EWP by the ratio of HDI and EF [35,37,38]. Since HDI and EF can be applied to various geographical scales (global, regional, national, urban, and community) [39], the ratio method is widely used, which greatly broadens the scope of EWP use.…”

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Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Influencing Factors of Ecological Well-Being Performance from the Perspective of Strong Sustainability: A Case Study of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

Lai

Zhuomin

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The concept of strong sustainability suggests that natural capital is irreplaceable and emphasizes that human natural consumption cannot exceed the carrying capacity of the ecological environment. In the realistic context of tightening resource constraints and ecological degradation, how to explore the optimal economic and well-being output under certain ecological constraints has become an important topic in sustainability research. Ecological well-being performance (EWP) can comprehensively reflect the efficiency of natural resources and ecological inputs into the well-being level and has become an important tool for sustainable development research. Based on strong sustainability, this paper constructs an EWP evaluation index system. It decomposes EWP into two stages: ecological economy and economic well-being, which opens the “black box” of the ecological well-being conversion process. PCA-DEA, the network super-efficiency Epsilon-based measure (Network SEBM) model, and Geodetector are used to dynamically measure the EWP in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area (TGRA) from 2010 to 2020 and analyze its spatial and temporal characteristics and influencing factors. The results show that (1) temporally, the EWP in the TGRA shows an increasing trend from 2010 to 2020, but the overall level is low. Spatially, it shows a high pattern in the east and low in the west, and spatial differences are gradually decreasing; (2) ecological economic efficiency is significantly lower than economic well-being efficiency, and ecological economic efficiency is the main reason limiting the improvement in EWP in the TGRA. The ecological well-being situation of the TGRA is not optimistic; (3) there is an overall problem of excessive ecological input and insufficient per-capita GDP and well-being output in the TGRA, and decisions should be made according to local conditions; (4) the level of economic development has an EWP level that plays a dominant role and also has a greater relationship with the policy system, socioeconomic conditions, and natural environment.

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Linking Daly's Proposition to policymaking for sustainable development: indicators and pathways

Cited by 28 publications

References 47 publications

Impact of Industry 4.0 on Environmental Sustainability

Impact of Industry 4.0 on Environmental Sustainability

Measuring the Implementation of the Agenda 2030 Vision in Its Comprehensive Sense: Methodology and Tool

Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Influencing Factors of Ecological Well-Being Performance from the Perspective of Strong Sustainability: A Case Study of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

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