Regional sustainability assessment framework for integrated coastal zone management: Satoumi, ecosystem services approach, and inclusive wealth

Uehara, Takuro; Mineo, Keito

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.10.031

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“…It is worth emphasizing that in the Brundtland report itself, there are many direct references to management sciences [29]. The phrase 'sustainable' appears in many different contexts, from such narrow, specialist approaches as farm management [31] or coastal zone management [32], to more general areas like economic management [33], international management [34], or even global management [35].…”

Section: Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Construction Project Management (SCPM) Evaluation—A Case Study of the Guangzhou Metro Line-7, PR China

Dong

Xiong

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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As a pillar industry of the Chinese national economy, the construction sector needs to improve its level of management to embrace sustainable development. Sustainable construction project management (SCPM) performance evaluation can help to raise the level of management. However, the existing evaluation system that takes into account both the sustainable development and the dimension of traditional project management is meager. In order to address this problem, this study sets out an integrated sustainable performance evaluation method for SCPM, along with a comprehensive analysis of both traditional and future management directions. Through literature review and enterprise data analysis of the relevant factors of finance, schedule, quality, and safety, etc., indicators are filtered and classified. In order to determine the strength of each indicator, a questionnaire is administered to construction professionals within a large construction enterprise (group). From the result of the weight with an improved Group-G1 (iG1) method (finance 0.206, schedule 0.206, quality 0.185, safety 0.134, informatization 0.134, and greenization 0.134), it indicates that finance, schedule and quality management are still top three important dimensions in SCPM. However, amazingly, the greenization and informatization management is as significant as safety management. Finally, based on set pair analysis, the Guangzhou Metro Line 7 project is used as a verifying case, affirming the validity of the sustainable performance evaluation model. The above SCPM evaluation model can not only provide a guideline for construction companies' sustainable management in China, but also serve as reference cases for other countries/regions to carry out relevant research work.Sustainability 2019, 11, 5731 2 of 17 low profit, large resource consumption, serious environmental pollution, and poor ability to utilize information technology within the construction industry have raised concerns [4]. Moreover, traditional management fails to adequately address problems that often exist in areas of quality, scheduling, and safety, etc. [5]. China's state-owned construction companies generate a profit margin of 3.5%, compared with 10% for foreign companies [2]. According to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the construction industry accounts for about 40% of total national energy consumption, and produces between 45% and 65% of the disposed waste in landfills [6]. At the same time, the informatization level of the construction industry is only higher than that of agriculture, ranking the second to last among all industries [7]. Simply, the high-speed construction industry development pattern of 'high consumption, high pollution, low informatization, and low profit' is a matter requiring urgent attention [8].Consequently, how best to improve the economy, environment, and social equity, by way of improving the level of management, has become topical within the industry. The quality of management within construction enterprises, which directly ...

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Section: Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Construction Project Management (SCPM) Evaluation—A Case Study of the Guangzhou Metro Line-7, PR China

Dong

Xiong

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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“…Among recent literature about inclusive wealth, a major theoretical framework has been developed by Arrow et al (2012Arrow et al ( , 2013. Various articles have used this framework to estimate inclusive wealth of the 20 countries (Yamaguchi, 2014), Southeast Australia (Walker et al, 2010), West Virginia in the United States (Ghadimi et al, 2015), groundwater in Kansas in the United States (Fenichel et al, 2016), Japan at the prefectural levels (Ikeda et al, 2017), the Seto Inland Sea in Japan (Uehara and Mineo, 2017), and the oil-exporting countries (Collins et al, 2017). In addition, Kurniawan and Managi (2017) use the DEA model to estimate the entire productivity change, considering inclusive wealth (human, produced, and natural capitals), GDP, and carbon damage (using UNU-IHDP and UNEP (2014)).…”

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Shadow price of patent stock as knowledge stock: Time and country heterogeneity

Yagi

Managi

2018

Economic Analysis and Policy

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This study compares the shadow price (marginal cost) and shadow value (total cost) of patent stock (as knowledge stock) in each of 92 countries between 1992 and 2010. Two specifications are considered in the data envelopment analysis approach. One specification considers population, capital, patent stock, energy use (four inputs), greenhouse gas (undesirable output), and gross domestic product (desirable output). The other uses human capital and natural capital instead of population and energy use. Under these two specifications, respectively, the shadow price of the patent stock (on weighted average) for the whole period is −0.106 and −0.054 million US dollars per patent in the entire sample.Similarly, the shadow value of the patent stock (by the ratio of gross domestic product) in the entire sample is −5.8% and −2.9%, respectively. As the standing position of patent stock, the patent stock is less valuable than human capital and (produced) capital but more valuable than population, energy use, and natural capital. The patent stock also is likely to be valuable in developing countries. In addition, the shadow value of the patent stock is relatively high in certain large countries and nearly flat in most of the countries.

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“…Understanding people's valuations of nature and how they change in the long run is of crucial importance to establishing and sustaining desired relationships with nature (Uehara and Mineo, 2017;Uehara et al, 2016). The potential evolution of preferences for nature indicates that a conservation project assuming constant preferences could mislead us to an undesired state.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Long-term evolution of preferences for conservation projects in Seto Inland Sea, Japan: A comprehensive analytic framework

Uehara

Tsuge

Ota

2018

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The long-term evolution of preferences for nature is crucial to conservation projects given their targeted long-term horizons. Neglecting to account for this evolution could lead to undesirable human−nature relationships. This study compares the willingness to pay (WTP) for three coastal conservation projects in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan, at two distant time points (1998 and 2015) and tests for temporal transferability. It also compares protest responses that are often overlooked in WTP practices, regardless of their utility for conservation projects. Given the lack of a unanimous protocol for protest response analyses and their use in estimating WTP, we propose a comprehensive analytic framework that integrates the two. We show that while preferences for coastal ecosystem services were overall stable and temporarily transferable, the preferences for certain aspects of conservation projects considerably changed. This suggests the need to reconsider the projects’ scheme, not the ecosystem services themselves, along with the clarification of beneficiaries and those responsible for past destruction. We conclude by suggesting further studies with focus on regions experiencing significant social-ecological changes, such as developing countries, by exploiting the rich asset of existing valuations. This could contribute to the database for more temporal-sensitive ecosystem service valuations utilized for benefit transfers.

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Regional sustainability assessment framework for integrated coastal zone management: Satoumi, ecosystem services approach, and inclusive wealth

Cited by 41 publications

References 39 publications

Sustainable Construction Project Management (SCPM) Evaluation—A Case Study of the Guangzhou Metro Line-7, PR China

Sustainable Construction Project Management (SCPM) Evaluation—A Case Study of the Guangzhou Metro Line-7, PR China

Shadow price of patent stock as knowledge stock: Time and country heterogeneity

Long-term evolution of preferences for conservation projects in Seto Inland Sea, Japan: A comprehensive analytic framework

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