Pub Date : 2020-05-06DOI: 10.18601/01207555.n27.09
Iván Santiago Galarza Cachiguango, C. Aguinaga, Pablo Xavier López Egas, Roberto Molina, Guadalupe Rosero Ortega
The objective of this work was to establish a framework of labor competences to guide the management of key positions in restoration companies. A two-dimensioned holistic approach was employed focusing on occupational and personal competences. The design of the research was a cross-sectional study in phenomenography. It was carried out during the months of May and August 2018, in the province of Imbabura, Ecuador. The analysis unit corresponded to first and second category restaurants. Sampling criteria was used, and consisted of a semi-structured interview. The research question was: What are the job competences that catering companies require for the efficient management of key jobs? The results show that there are few people with skills training; the competences seen as the most important for management processes are personal skills.
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The study was carried out since March, 2020. The major objective was to examine Quarantine role in the economic development of the world society. Total 11 articles were downloaded from the net and read so many times and analyzed the situation and draw the result. The result indicates that quarantine is necessary for the development of a country and without good quarantine the development of a country is impossible. Through quarantine the country is protected from harmful items entering if the quality and honest staffs are on duty in the place of quarantine. Then they check everything and not allow those items which are dangerous for the country. The government set different set up of quarantine at different level in the country. The quarantine staff present in airport for checking for harmful items protection while they also control boundaries of their countries. They check their passport and their bags and they also check their personality to which group they belong and for what purpose they are entering to their countries, so they analyze from many angle the persons and their goods, if the person is favorable and fit for their country then they give permission to them for entering the country otherwise stop to them and return to their own countries. So quarantine play great role in filtering the all person who entering into the countries while they also check all goods which enter into their countries while play important role in pest controlling of the country. The pest entered into country through different way which damage the crops of the country which latter on create food crisis in the country. All countries have their own quarantine system while sometime they failed and the harmful items and agents enter into country which in the long run creates different problems to their countries, when the accident of Wuhan Corona virus occurred in the China. They have sealed all the boundaries and closed all their schooling, colleges and industries and lock down were started in the country, so they very easily control the corona virus problems through good quarantine while in other countries of the world good quarantine have not implemented and because of this the corona virus very easily spread in the whole world and kill so many people. So many epidemics were occurred in the world while through good quarantine the epidemics were controlled in the past. So the mentioned story elaborate that quarantine and isolation play great role in the development of a country but in majority countries the quarantine are present but the quarantine staff do not perform properly duty on the boundaries and they get some money from the people and allow to them without checking which in the long run affect the economy negatively. Similarly this accident was also happened in Pakistan. The boarder of Iran was opened for Pakistani people while Pakistan has ignored the rule of Quarantine and without checking the people entered into Pakistan and carried the corona virus al
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Pub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.5709/CE.1897-9254.330
Mónica de Castro Pardo, P. Fernández Martínez, José Manuel Guaita Martínez, J. M. Martín Martín
Investment in natural capital is increasingly necessary and urgent considering the increasing loss of global bio- diversity and the associated social and economic losses. Ecosystem services are tools for quantifying the stock of natural capital and there is great concern about their assessment and valuation. However, there remains a substantial gap between the large amount of information available about ecosystem services and the information required to support decisions and this undermines the efficiency of their management. Multi-criteria analysis techniques can be very useful to efficiently develop decision-making processes to properly channel investment and optimize the costs associated with conservation. This paper proposes an innovative mixed methodology for multi-criteria analysis to assign priorities to ecosystem services in protected areas in terms of importance and vulnerability. The model was applied by a group of experts to prioritize 20 ecosystem services in the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park. In order to collect and analyze the individual valuations, a mixed method of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Goal Programming (GP) was used, and to aggregate the valuation criteria, a Joint Relevance Index (JRI) was used, which presents the relative importance of each service in an aggregated way. The results show that conservation policies should be primarily directed towards life-cycle maintenance and water conditions. Depending on the vulnerability of the services, conservation policies should be channeled towards provisioning services related to wild animals and wild plants. Considering the relative importance of services in the park, priority should be oriented to life-cycle maintenance, water conditions and intellectual interaction with the environment.
{"title":"Modelling Natural Capital: A Proposal for a Mixed Multi-Criteria Approach to Assign Management Priorities to Ecosystem Services","authors":"Mónica de Castro Pardo, P. Fernández Martínez, José Manuel Guaita Martínez, J. M. Martín Martín","doi":"10.5709/CE.1897-9254.330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5709/CE.1897-9254.330","url":null,"abstract":"Investment in natural capital is increasingly necessary and urgent considering the increasing loss of global bio- diversity and the associated social and economic losses. Ecosystem services are tools for quantifying the stock of natural capital and there is great concern about their assessment and valuation. However, there remains a substantial gap between the large amount of information available about ecosystem services and the information required to support decisions and this undermines the efficiency of their management. Multi-criteria analysis techniques can be very useful to efficiently develop decision-making processes to properly channel investment and optimize the costs associated with conservation. This paper proposes an innovative mixed methodology for multi-criteria analysis to assign priorities to ecosystem services in protected areas in terms of importance and vulnerability. The model was applied by a group of experts to prioritize 20 ecosystem services in the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park. In order to collect and analyze the individual valuations, a mixed method of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Goal Programming (GP) was used, and to aggregate the valuation criteria, a Joint Relevance Index (JRI) was used, which presents the relative importance of each service in an aggregated way. The results show that conservation policies should be primarily directed towards life-cycle maintenance and water conditions. Depending on the vulnerability of the services, conservation policies should be channeled towards provisioning services related to wild animals and wild plants. Considering the relative importance of services in the park, priority should be oriented to life-cycle maintenance, water conditions and intellectual interaction with the environment.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"8 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121001057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The role a government plays to contribute to its economy through the application of certain Fiscal policies is what is so referred to as Public Finance. However, having strong Public Finance strategies is as important as having the ability to sustain those strategies and Fiscal abilities for future generations. This is referred to as Fiscal Sustainability or in other words, “Sustainable Public Finance”. The following paper sheds light on the important role Sustainable Public Finance plays within an economy, the strategies that governments or entities follow to create a more sustainable Fiscal future for its economy and future generations along with the challenges facing sustainable public finance and corporate sustainable finance.
{"title":"Sustainable Public Finance: A Mini-Review","authors":"Haneen Al Kahlout, Haitham Nobanee","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3538835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3538835","url":null,"abstract":"The role a government plays to contribute to its economy through the application of certain Fiscal policies is what is so referred to as Public Finance. However, having strong Public Finance strategies is as important as having the ability to sustain those strategies and Fiscal abilities for future generations. This is referred to as Fiscal Sustainability or in other words, “Sustainable Public Finance”. The following paper sheds light on the important role Sustainable Public Finance plays within an economy, the strategies that governments or entities follow to create a more sustainable Fiscal future for its economy and future generations along with the challenges facing sustainable public finance and corporate sustainable finance.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131280937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.e6955.038620
Bipul Kumar Das
Corporate Social Responsibility has become a mainstream global business strategy in recent years and a large number of firms in the world issue numerous activities as a part of it. India is one of the first among few countries in the world to have a CSR act and the first to bring about legislation to implement CSR activities.The Government of India has made two significant interventions in the field of CSR-- in 2010, it made compulsory for public as well as private enterprises to spend 2 to 5 percent of their net profit on CSR; and it amended the Companies Act, 1956 that made compulsory provision for CSR under Section 135 in 2013. In this context this article is an attempt to discuss the progress in CSR initiatives in India over the years.
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Resources depletion means the situation in which the consumption of resources if faster than its replenishment. The resources of the world can be divided into mainly two categories as renewable and non- renewable. The characteristic of resources is utility, limited availability and potential for depletion or consumption. The consumption of resources done through mining plays a crucial role in sustainable development of the world. The current pattern of consumption justifies the development of the nations of the world but in the long run it plays a very important part in economic downfall of the world and may also lead to resource depletion. Other economic, social and political factor also plays a vital role in resource depletion. In general sense, mining refers to the extraction of geological materials from the earth, which are used for the economic development. From time to time mining may have different effect on environment. There are two types of mining such as underground hard rock mining (UGHRM) and underground soft rock mining (UGSRM). UGHRM refers to excavation of hard minerals such as ore containing gold, silver, iron, copper and other metals. UGSRM refers to excavation of minerals such as salt, coal, oil sands, potash or any other geological material from sedimentary rocks. Mining is still the primary method of extraction of minerals from hard rock or soft rock. It provides most of the raw material to build infrastructure and instruments which are used daily to obtain huge amount of energy for the development of the world. But at the same time, it is the human activity that has been disturbing the earth also the environment which will lead to resources depletion. With increase in mining there is a large amount of contribution in world’s Gross Domestic Product. The current mining methods should be changed for the contribution to healthy ecosystem and to be compliant with sustainable development and to face future challenges.
{"title":"Mining Vis-a-vis Sustainability and Unsustainability: Critical View","authors":"K. Modi","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3631802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3631802","url":null,"abstract":"Resources depletion means the situation in which the consumption of resources if faster than its replenishment. The resources of the world can be divided into mainly two categories as renewable and non- renewable. The characteristic of resources is utility, limited availability and potential for depletion or consumption. The consumption of resources done through mining plays a crucial role in sustainable development of the world. The current pattern of consumption justifies the development of the nations of the world but in the long run it plays a very important part in economic downfall of the world and may also lead to resource depletion. Other economic, social and political factor also plays a vital role in resource depletion. In general sense, mining refers to the extraction of geological materials from the earth, which are used for the economic development. From time to time mining may have different effect on environment. There are two types of mining such as underground hard rock mining (UGHRM) and underground soft rock mining (UGSRM). UGHRM refers to excavation of hard minerals such as ore containing gold, silver, iron, copper and other metals. UGSRM refers to excavation of minerals such as salt, coal, oil sands, potash or any other geological material from sedimentary rocks. Mining is still the primary method of extraction of minerals from hard rock or soft rock. It provides most of the raw material to build infrastructure and instruments which are used daily to obtain huge amount of energy for the development of the world. But at the same time, it is the human activity that has been disturbing the earth also the environment which will lead to resources depletion. With increase in mining there is a large amount of contribution in world’s Gross Domestic Product. The current mining methods should be changed for the contribution to healthy ecosystem and to be compliant with sustainable development and to face future challenges.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115211619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arabic Abstract: يعتبر تحقيق التنمية المستدامة أحد أهم أهداف الدول من أجل الحفاظ على الموارد الطبيعية وتخفيض تكاليف المنتجات والحفاظ على البيئة من الآثار الضارة للنشاطات الصناعية وبما أن المحاسبة هي أحد العلوم الإجتماعية كان لابد من تطوير هذا العلم لكي يتوافق مع التوجهات الحديثة, فكان ظهور المحاسبة البيئية كأحد النتائج لمواكبة علم المحاسبة للتطورات المجتمعية الحاصلة في العالم فبرزت بوصفها أداة رقابية للنشاطات البيئية في المنشآت الصناعية من أجل الحد من الإنتهاكات البيئية وتقليل الإنبعاثات الضارة وتخفيض تكاليف تصنيع المنتجات على المدى الطويل.
English Abstract: Achieving sustainable development is one of the most important goals of countries in order to conserve natural resources, reduce costs of products, and preserve the environment from the harmful effects of industrial activities. Since accounting is one of the social sciences, this science had to be developed in order to comply with modern trends, so the emergence of environmental accounting was one of the results To keep pace with the accounting science of the societal developments taking place in the world, it has emerged as a control tool for environmental activities in industrial facilities in order to reduce environmental violations, reduce harmful emissions and reduce costs of manufacturing products in the long run.
{"title":"دور المحاسبة البيئية في تعزيز التنمية المستدامة (The Role of Environmental Accounting in Enhancing the Sustainable Development)","authors":"Thabit H. Thabit","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3619504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3619504","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Arabic Abstract:</b> يعتبر تحقيق التنمية المستدامة أحد أهم أهداف الدول من أجل الحفاظ على الموارد الطبيعية وتخفيض تكاليف المنتجات والحفاظ على البيئة من الآثار الضارة للنشاطات الصناعية وبما أن المحاسبة هي أحد العلوم الإجتماعية كان لابد من تطوير هذا العلم لكي يتوافق مع التوجهات الحديثة, فكان ظهور المحاسبة البيئية كأحد النتائج لمواكبة علم المحاسبة للتطورات المجتمعية الحاصلة في العالم فبرزت بوصفها أداة رقابية للنشاطات البيئية في المنشآت الصناعية من أجل الحد من الإنتهاكات البيئية وتقليل الإنبعاثات الضارة وتخفيض تكاليف تصنيع المنتجات على المدى الطويل.<br><br><b>English Abstract:</b> Achieving sustainable development is one of the most important goals of countries in order to conserve natural resources, reduce costs of products, and preserve the environment from the harmful effects of industrial activities. Since accounting is one of the social sciences, this science had to be developed in order to comply with modern trends, so the emergence of environmental accounting was one of the results To keep pace with the accounting science of the societal developments taking place in the world, it has emerged as a control tool for environmental activities in industrial facilities in order to reduce environmental violations, reduce harmful emissions and reduce costs of manufacturing products in the long run.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130898238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper is a critical analysis of gender inequality and impediments to women’s economic participation for sustainable development in Africa with Cameroon as a point of focus. It was informed by a review of the literature on women and gender alongside focused group discussions and available primary data. The issue of gender inequality must be purposely checked if the pursuit of a more sustained development approach in today’s world is to be accomplished. In this regard, gender equality and women’s participation in every sphere of life are indispensable for the furtherance of sustainable development. The key questions that inform this policy paper are: Is gender inequality an impediment against sustainable development in Africa? What are the impediments against women’s economic participation for sustainable development? What is the state of Cameroonian women in the sustainable development process? Is there any National Gender Policy in Cameroon, if so, what are the key dimensions and alternative policies for sustainable development? Which international policy arrangements exist, and so far, have they been instrumental for sustainable development? What are the challenges for policy implementation and lastly, what are the policy implications for gender policy and practice? The underlying assumption of this paper is that for gender inequality and precisely women’s economic participation to thrive and contribute to sustainable development in Africa, governments and relevant stakeholders must shift from the approach of mere Women in Development (WID) to that of Gender and Development (GAD).
{"title":"Gender Inequality: Impediments to Women’s Economic Participation for Sustainable Development in Africa (Cameroon)","authors":"Modi A. Egoh","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3584530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3584530","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a critical analysis of gender inequality and impediments to women’s economic participation for sustainable development in Africa with Cameroon as a point of focus. It was informed by a review of the literature on women and gender alongside focused group discussions and available primary data. The issue of gender inequality must be purposely checked if the pursuit of a more sustained development approach in today’s world is to be accomplished. In this regard, gender equality and women’s participation in every sphere of life are indispensable for the furtherance of sustainable development. The key questions that inform this policy paper are: Is gender inequality an impediment against sustainable development in Africa? What are the impediments against women’s economic participation for sustainable development? What is the state of Cameroonian women in the sustainable development process? Is there any National Gender Policy in Cameroon, if so, what are the key dimensions and alternative policies for sustainable development? Which international policy arrangements exist, and so far, have they been instrumental for sustainable development? What are the challenges for policy implementation and lastly, what are the policy implications for gender policy and practice? The underlying assumption of this paper is that for gender inequality and precisely women’s economic participation to thrive and contribute to sustainable development in Africa, governments and relevant stakeholders must shift from the approach of mere Women in Development (WID) to that of Gender and Development (GAD).","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114632385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
There is a growing demand by United Nations development agencies and governments for a higher engagement of firms in sustainable development goals, including that of eradicating poverty. Nevertheless, the social issue of poverty has not traditionally been covered by firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. In addition, there is a need to integrate theories in order to better explain pro‐poor CSR in developing countries. Relying on a review of both conceptual and empirical research articles on CSR for poverty alleviation, this study contributes to the CSR research agenda by proposing an integrated research framework for assessing and explaining a firm's contribution to poverty alleviation. Besides discussing the existing evidence, the following issues are critically analysed with the general purpose of obtaining the framework and suggesting avenues for future research: the assessment of a firm's contribution to poverty alleviation, types of pro‐poor CSR initiatives that could be adopted by firms, and the factors influencing a firm's contribution. The framework, which intends to be useful for future research, can also assist the United Nations to increase the firms’ contribution to its alleviating poverty sustainable development goal.
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Improving corporate engagement with society, as advocated in the Business Roundtable’s 2019 statement, should not be viewed as a zero-sum proposition where attention to new stakeholders detracts from delivering shareholder value. Corporate programs for sustainable and ethical sourcing practices, however, have fallen far short of solving the underlying causes of extreme poverty, extensive use of child labor, and threats to the environment and human health. We identify several causes to explain this disappointing shortfall in societal performance, including traditional company policies and incentives that inhibit the implementation of innovative, inclusive growth strategies. We propose the role for a new actor, a catalyst, to help companies forge new relationships with external funders, local intermediary companies, NGOs, and community leaders. The catalyst aligns the multiple stakeholders from multiple sectors into enduring, mutually- beneficial relationships that produce more value than that currently produced when stakeholders connect only by transactional relationships. The catalyst attracts funding from public and private sources to invest in the new ecosystem, which can generate attractive financial returns while alleviating poverty and environmental degradation. Finally, the catalyst engages the multiple participants to collectively co-create explicit strategies and scorecards of metrics, which serve to motivate, create accountability, and enable an enduring governance model for a multi-stakeholder ecosystem.
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