Resources for Sustainable Economic Development: A Framework for Evaluating Infrastructure System Alternatives

Duchin, Faye

doi:10.3390/su9112105

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“…Moreover, the study shows that the most wanted/desirable investments by local authorities from the Romanian rural area (namely those in local roads) have no impact on LED and the difference of LED between the commune that invested (through non-refundable program) in local roads and those communes that did not invest decreased over time. Thus, we would recommend extra-diligence when deciding how to invest limited public financial resources [58], following a strategic approach [59], especially in the context of financial crises [60] or underperforming local revenue mobilization [61]; we also need to take into account the relationship between good/quality governance and growth [62,63].…”

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confidence: 99%

Determining Local Economic Development in the Rural Areas of Romania. Exploring the Role of Exogenous Factors

Pavel

Moldovan

2019

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Based on data collected for 398 communes from the North-West development region of Romania between 2007 and 2014, this article presents a local economic development (LED) index for rural communities and identifies the main factors which influence LED in these communities. Our results show that exogenous factors, such as location in the influence area of urban communities and the existence of a direct connection to the European Road Network, influence the level of LED. At the same time nor the aforementioned exogenous factors nor other exogenous factors, such as non-refundable investments programs in local core infrastructure (financed by the European Union and the Romanian Government) which were designed to accelerate/spur economic development, as well as direct connections to the National Roads Network, do not have any statistically significant influence on spurring/accelerating LED (at least in this short period of time).

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Determining Local Economic Development in the Rural Areas of Romania. Exploring the Role of Exogenous Factors

Pavel

Moldovan

2019

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“…Figure 3. Prototype of the BIO-SES framework to define, monitor and evaluate outcomes and impacts of place-based bioeconomy transitions in the global resource system (based on Ostrom [34], Raworth [58], Duchin [118]).…”

Section: A Place-based Bio-ses Framework To Support Sustainable Bioecmentioning

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“…Hence, overcoming methodological issues to provide a comprehensive set of robust databases covering multiple scales in the global resource system is pivotal for providing an adequate evidence base for effective governance systems. Such a detailed account can help in identifying (responsibility) hotspots of ecosystem impacts related to specific economic activities in the place-based system, as well as improvements (reductions) associated with socio-technical alternatives [118,121].…”

Section: A Place-based Bio-ses Framework To Support Sustainable Bioecmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bioeconomy Transitions through the Lens of Coupled Social-Ecological Systems: A Framework for Place-Based Responsibility in the Global Resource System

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Bioeconomy strategies in high income societies focus at replacing finite, fossil resources by renewable, biological resources to reconcile macro-economic concerns with climate constraints. However, the current bioeconomy is associated with critical levels of environmental degradation. As a potential increase in biological resource use may further threaten the capacity of ecosystems to fulfil human needs, it remains unclear whether bioeconomy transitions in high income countries are sustainable. In order to fill a gap in bioeconomy sustainability assessments, we apply an ontological lens of coupled social-ecological systems to explore critical mechanisms in relation to bioeconomy activities in the global resource system. This contributes to a social-ecological systems (SES)-based understanding of sustainability from a high income country perspective: the capacity of humans to satisfy their needs with strategies that reduce current levels of pressures and impacts on ecosystems. Building on this notion of agency, we develop a framework prototype that captures the systemic relation between individual human needs and collective social outcomes on the one hand (micro-level) and social-ecological impacts in the global resource system on the other hand (macro-level). The BIO-SES framework emphasizes the role of responsible consumption (for physical health), responsible production (to reduce stressors on the environment), and the role of autonomy and self-organisation (to protect the reproduction capacity of social-ecological systems). In particular, the BIO-SES framework can support (1) individual and collective agency in high income country contexts to reduce global resource use and related ecosystem impacts with a bioeconomy strategy, (2) aligning social outcomes, monitoring efforts and governance structures with place-based efforts to achieve the SDGs, as well as (3), advancing the evidence base and social-ecological theory on responsible bioeconomy transitions in the limited biosphere.

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“…The interdependencies among the systems are usually quantified at the component level [22,23]. In comparison, in economic-theory-based models such as the dynamic inoperability input-output model (DIIM), the impacts of interdependencies between different systems are analyzed at the system level [24]. Infrastructure systems or subsystems are selected as the smallest analysis units [25].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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A Two-Stage Restoration Resource Allocation Model for Enhancing the Resilience of Interdependent Infrastructure Systems

2019

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Infrastructure systems play a critical role in delivering essential services that are important to the economy and welfare of society. To enhance the resilience of infrastructure systems after a large-scale disruptive event, determining where and when to invest restoration resources is a challenge for decision makers. Comprehensively considering the recovery time of infrastructure systems and the overall losses resulting from a disaster, this study proposes a two-stage restoration resource allocation model for enhancing the resilience of interdependent infrastructure systems. First, to evaluate the effect of resource allocation during the recovery process, dynamic resilience is selected as the criterion for the recovery of infrastructure systems. Second, taking into consideration the decision makers’ point of view, a two-stage resource allocation model is proposed. The objective of the first stage is to quickly recover the infrastructure systems’ dynamic resilience to meet the basic needs of the users. The second stage is aimed at minimizing the overall losses in the following recovery process. The effects of infrastructure interdependencies on resource allocation are incorporated in the model using the dynamic inoperability input–output model. Through a case study, the proposed approach is compared with other resource allocation strategies. The results show that: (1) the restoration resource allocation strategy obtained from the proposed approach balances the recovery time and the overall losses to infrastructure systems; and (2) the value of the usage cost of the unit restoration resource has a significant impact on the recovery time and the overall losses under different strategies. The proposed model is both effective and efficient in solving the post-disaster resource allocation problem and can provide decision makers with scientific decision support.

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Resources for Sustainable Economic Development: A Framework for Evaluating Infrastructure System Alternatives

Cited by 6 publications

References 60 publications

Determining Local Economic Development in the Rural Areas of Romania. Exploring the Role of Exogenous Factors

Determining Local Economic Development in the Rural Areas of Romania. Exploring the Role of Exogenous Factors

Bioeconomy Transitions through the Lens of Coupled Social-Ecological Systems: A Framework for Place-Based Responsibility in the Global Resource System

A Two-Stage Restoration Resource Allocation Model for Enhancing the Resilience of Interdependent Infrastructure Systems

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