Improved assessments can help to increase the awareness of the successes or failures of the contribution made by social enterprises and events. The challenge is that there is no common standard for ...social impact assessment. This article aims to contribute to this contemporary discussion on impact measurement of social enterprises and events, proposing a measuring framework. The framework offers utility for inclusive stakeholder collaboration and the incorporation of diverse developmental theories. It highlights the systematic link between contextual insight on states of disequilibrium, opportunities and developmental ideas. As a diagnostic tool, the social-economic impact framework offers utility to stakeholders as it coordinates and guides the processes to identify and communicate a contextual theory of change. It promotes inclusive collaboration reflective processes, offering guidance to stakeholders as they explore insight into the contextual disequilibrium and the opportunity tension it creates, aligned with a theory of change that offers progressive developmental impact.
•We emphasize the end of the boom-and-bust development pattern in the Brazilian Amazon.•Deforestation and socio-economic development follow an inverted U-shape relationship.•Household incomes are ...greater in stabilized areas than in areas undergoing deforestation.•Environmental governance efforts fostered the emergence of EKC.
Socio-economic development in the Brazilian Amazon is currently reaching national averages although deforestation activity has been declining for a decade. As a consequence, recent studies rejected the widely agreed boom-and-bust development hypothesis that deforestation first generates an economic boom, which is then followed by a collapse as forest resources are depleted. Here, we confirm these studies that there is no boom-bust cycle and suggest that a new pattern of relationship between deforestation and socio-economic development has emerged following an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). In this scenario, environmental degradation increases in the early stages of economic development and decreases in later stages as the economy develops and wellbeing increases. To validate this assumption, we conducted the first sub-municipal analysis of socio-economic development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon for the 2000–2010 period. Our results confirm the emergence of an EKC relationship with a turning point beyond which socio-economic growth does not appear anymore to be a driver of deforestation. We also emphasize that areas subjected to active deforestation in 2010 present lower socio-economic indicators than stabilized areas, pointing to the precarious socio-economic situation of areas still undergoing active deforestation. We put these results in perspective by considering Brazilian efforts to ensure a transition in environmental governance with the objective of promoting land use sustainability through control of deforestation at the same time as supporting socio-economic development.
•Rice yield will be vulnerable to climate change and socio-economic development.•Energy plan could trigger conflicts with food sector due to high water demand.•There are strong relationships in the ...food-water and energy-water Nexus in MRD.•Water plays a central role in the FEW Nexus in MRD.•Climate change and socio-economic development both affect regional sustainability.
Food, energy, and water (FEW) resources are critical concerns to achieve long-term sustainability. Climate change and socio-economic development both affect the FEW Nexus, but the combined impacts of these two factors on a Nexus system is not well understood. An integrated management model was applied to quantify the combined impacts on the FEW Nexus through rice yield, power generation, and water withdrawal. Five scenarios from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 were chosen as the inputs of the integrated model in the Mekong River Delta (MRD). Results showed that rice yields will be vulnerable to extreme climate events. The minimum autumn rice yield, 4.7 ton/ha in 2023 under the SSP1–2.6 scenario, will be as low as the yield of the 2016 drought year (4.6 ton/ha). Power generation will increase sharply due to socio-economic development. The power generation of SSP5–8.5 in 2050 will be about 10 times higher than that in 2010. The average total water withdrawal in 2050 was estimated to increase by 40% compared to that in the 2016 drought year and will be more than 3 times higher than the average withdrawal of 1995–2010. Nexus analysis found water is a central resource that connects food and energy sectors in MRD. Regional sustainability analysis showed that climate change and socio-economic development both have a significant impact through affecting the FEW Nexus. Specifically, the energy and water sectors will be more vulnerable to the combined impacts than the food sector due to the coal-fired power plants planned in the MRD.
The article is concerned with substantiating the most important features of development of the system of goals of territorial branding in the context of socio-economic development of territories. The ...features of territorial branding are researched, which, along with the use of classical branding instrumentarium, uses specific tools and methods, which is due to the peculiarities of its object - the territories of the country. The main components of the territory brand are generalized according to the international ratings WorldBank Ethics Indices, UNDP Human Development Index, CAF World Giving Index, Arcadis Sustainable Cities Index, etc. It is determined that the main components of the brand of the territory are the brand image, which means the overall impression of the brand and its perception by society as a whole and stakeholders in particular; brand identity, as well as infrastructure and marketing components that support the brand and increase its strength. The analysis of scientific approaches to territorial branding has proved that in general they are aimed at determining its various components, but none of them pays enough attention to goal setting as a key element of branding. The logical scheme of the relationship between the elements of the goal setting of territorial branding is proposed. It is proved that the main elements of goal setting of regional development and territorial branding are mission, vision and the system of strategic and operational goals, which are determined taking into account the opinions of experts and residents of the territory. Consistency and interconnection of all elements of goal setting will increase the efficiency of territorial branding. Prospect for further research is to develop methodological support for algorithmization of the territory brand development process.
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The article considers methodological and practical issues of assessing the effects of measures aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the context of development and implementation of a ...strategy of Russia’s socio-economic development. The authors substantiate the relevance of investments in decarbonization measures, as well as the associated benefits (demand for the products of fund-creating industries) and costs (price increases and negative consumer reaction). The target scenario of low greenhouse gas emissions socio-economic development of Russia is based on a predictive and analytical toolkit based on the input/output method and on the database of the National Inventory of Anthropogenic Emissions. The target scenario combines an active economic policy with ambitious actions towards reducing net emissions: within the scenario, the average annual growth rate of Russia’s GDP is 2.6% and carbon neutrality is achieved by 2060. A more aggressive scenario of ensuring carbon neutrality by 2050 is characterized by significantly worse indicators of economic efficiency.
This study aims to introduce a novel coupling coordination degree (CCD) model to evaluate the degree of coupling coordination between socio-economic development and CO
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emission of 76 contracting ...countries in The Paris Agreement. The efficiency of the novel CCD model is demonstrated by scenario analysis in the contracting countries during the period between 2005 and 2015 on the basis of the theory of environmental Kuznets curve. The following results are obtained. Firstly, the subjectivity of the traditional CCD model contaminates the robustness of the evaluation. Secondly, the novel CCD of contracting countries during the survey period ranged between approximately 0.35 and 0.4, which is in the overall development stage of low coordination. Thirdly, the novel CCD of the two systems at the global level is not symmetrical in spatial distribution, and the European continent is generally higher than the African, while other continents sit on an intermediate level. Lastly, the novel CCD between socio-economy and CO
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emission systems presents a positive correlation with regional resident income in groups with varied income levels. The findings of this research provide rich policy references for facilitating global climate cooperation by balancing socio-economic development with CO
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emission mitigation.
The topicality of municipal strategizing in the Russian Federation is due to, among other things, the lack of a unified methodology for devising and implementing strategies of municipal ...socio-economic development. The quality of these strategies and their effectiveness vary significantly. The article examines methodological, practical and managerial aspects of the assessment of strategic planning in Russian municipalities. The research methodology is based on the theoretical principles of strategic management, regional and municipal economics. The methods of statistical analysis (ranking and grouping) are used. The empirical basis includes Rosstat statistical data and socio-economic development strategies of the largest Russian cities. In the research, we formulate and test the methodology for a comprehensive assessment of the strategic planning of regions at various hierarchical levels, which allows evaluating the formation process of a strategy, as well as its content and practical feasibility. The results of the assessment have allowed us to distribute the municipalities in question by the effectiveness of their socio-economic development and identify the main drawbacks of the corresponding strategies: lack of analysis of the environment, the mission and the main goal; poorly elaborated strategic avenues; ineffective methods and control mechanisms; untimely adjustments, etc. The socio-economic development of territories is proved to be dependent on the quality of strategic planning and management. The practical value of the study is due to the strong need for timely management of the strategic development of various territories, including municipalities.
This study aimed to develop an econometric model for assessing the effectiveness of economic international cooperation between Ukraine and international non-governmental organizations. Based on the ...cognitive modeling method, the key indicators of the model influencing the socio-economic development of Ukraine were determined. With the cognitive map's help, the links' qualitative characteristics have been identified and argued between the socio-economic indicators of the country's development and the amount of funding attracted from foreign non-governmental organizations. The direction of influence between the indicators of socio-economic development and the volume of investment was determined using economic laws and expert assessments with the involvement of 35 professional experts. The scenario analysis made it possible to analyze the changes in the country's socio-economic development due to changes in the size and structure of investment funds receiving from international non-governmental organizations.
In the current conditions of economic instability, the problem of regional space development in the Arctic zone, Eastern Siberia and the Far East, the regions where the main hydrocarbon and other ...mineral reserves are concentrated, is becoming more and more relevant. The main reserves of hydrocarbons and other minerals are concentrated in these regions. The integrated development of the mineral resource base on the principles of rational nature management, including the stages of exploration, production, processing, transportation, is the driver of the Russian regional economy development. The organization of raw materials centers (RMC) with regard to the development of energy resources and regional transport infrastructure, determines the effective development of the spatial economy. The aim of the study is to develop an integrated approach to the spatial development of the region by forming an RMC for achieving the national priority of efficient use of natural and economic resources. The achievement of the goal requires the solution of interrelated tasks, namely, the study of domestic experience in the spatial organization of regional economy; the analysis of the regulatory framework governing the functioning of specific industries in the Arctic zone, Eastern Siberia and the Far East in order to further socio-economic development of undeveloped regions, as well as the analysis of data on the current state of energy reserves in the Arctic. As a result, the study of the RMC organization indicates that their effectiveness is associated with the interaction of national and corporate interests and the development of a communication system. The interrelation of all components allows us to assess the multiplicative effect of the RMC organization on the economy of the region and the country as a whole, which determines the novelty of the work.
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