U ovom radu ispitivala se međuovisnost primjene koncepta društveno odgovornog ponašanja i uspješnosti poslovanja najznačajnijeg regionalnog predstavnika cementne industrije u Republici Hrvatskoj, s ...jedne strane, te stavovi različitih skupina dionika o efektima primijenjenog koncepta na društvenu, ekonomsku i ekološku komponentu poslovanja promatrane kompanije, s druge strane. Istraživanje je napravljeno na primjeru kompanije Cemex Hrvatska d.d. Istraživanje uspješnosti poslovanja kompanije Cemex obavljeno je pomoću četiri pokazatelja profitabilnosti (efikasnost poslovanja) te pomoću KPI pokazatelja (efektivnost poslovanja). Ispitivanje stavova različitih dionika (uprave, menadžera, izvršnih radnika, susjeda/građana te lokalne samouprave) o razvijenosti ekološke, socijalne i ekonomske komponente društveno odgovornog ponašanja kompanije provedeno je anketom, koju je ispunilo 506 ispitanika. Rezultati su pokazali da je Cemex Hrvatska d.d. uvođenjem društveno odgovornog ponašanja podigao svoje poslovanje na višu razinu. Uspio je ostvariti, čak i prije postavljenih rokova, sve pokazatelje efektivnosti,
dok su pokazatelji efikasnosti pokazali stagnaciju, odnosno, dijelom, čak i smanjenje, što se moglo očekivati s obzirom na prisutnu globalnu krizu. S druge strane, utvrđeno je da se stavovi dionika statistički značajno razlikuju u poimanju razvijenosti komponenti društveno
odgovornog ponašanja kompanije Cemex Hrvatska d.d. Tako uprava i menadžeri Cemexa najbolje ocjenjuju rezultate primjene koncepta društveno odgovornog ponašanja, nakon njih dolaze zaposlenici Cemexa, zatim građani/susjedi udaljeni od tvornice do 3 km i više od toga, a najlošije ocjene dali su predstavnici lokalne samouprave.
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The challenges in drought-hit Bundelkhand are stemming from policy constraints and insecurity of water, energy, and food resources, which have triggered mass migration, unemployment, ...indebtedness, and farmer suicide. Among the surveyed households of Banda District, 21% have no electricity, 90% are using fuelwood and cow dung for cooking purposes, 70% are engaged in agriculture, per capita food consumption is very low, and 51% of the households are using less than 40 lpcd (liters per capita per day) of water. The research methodology is unique is tailored to the WEF nexus approach. It analyzes the primary data of 534 households, 33 experts (Delphi Technique), and the secondary data of 189 articles. The Causal Loop Diagrams capture the system's dynamic behavior and establishes interconnectedness of the identified control parameters using the systems approach. Major parameters for agricultural production are productivity, productive area, and cropping intensity, while major water demand comes from agriculture, industrial, and domestic use. The energy sector is identified as the most challenging in this region, and the total generation comes from solar, biogas, fossil fuels, and organic fuels. This study concludes with findings suggesting urgent actions to be taken for regional sustainability and policy recommendations at the local level.
The urban land administration system (LAS) of any country serves as a key pillar for good governance, resource planning, service delivery, infrastructure development, and revenue collection. To ...reform their LASs, countries need a thorough understanding of their existing context and global relevance. The goal of this paper is to examine the status and challenges of urban LASs in Pakistan using the United Nations Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA). The exploratory case study method used in the paper employs a mixed approach, which includes FELA-based questionnaire surveys, group discussions, and desk reviews. A total of 525 urban LAS stakeholders, including owner-buyers, real estate agents, bankers, lawyers, and LAS organizations, participated in the activity. The results show that more than half of the stakeholders are not satisfied with existing urban LASs, their governance and accountability, laws, and policies. Corruption is prevalent mostly in government organizations. Fraud and joint ownership are the most common sources of dispute, with 67 percent of the respondents stating that the cases take more than two years to resolve in court. The financial aspect of urban LASs is suffering due to property undervaluation and low revenue collection. Manual data and record keeping in LASs further complicate the system, with 87 percent of all respondents interested in innovating the urban LAS using modern technologies. Furthermore, 92 percent of all respondents expressed the need to standardize the existing LASs. There is a lack of capacity and skills, and 89 percent of organizations’ respondents believe that human resources skilled in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) can improve the efficiency of urban LASs. There is a lack of partnership among LAS organizations and a gap in the accessibility of LAS-related quality information. The country’s vision of building smart cities can be realized through LAS standardization and 3D and GIS innovation.
This paper presents the results of a collaborative project on public acceptance of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Germany, commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology ...(BMWi). The project “Socio-economic Research on Acceptance of CCS” (April 2006 to March 2008) analyzed various aspects of public acceptance of CCS mainly in the national context of Germany. It was the first project to handle this subject matter. Public acceptance is one of the crucial factors for the implementation of CCS in the future.
Use of patient clinical photographs requires specific attention to confidentiality and privacy. Although there are policies and procedures for publishing clinical images, there is little systematic ...evidence about what patients and health professionals actually think about consent for publishing clinical images. We investigated the opinions of three stakeholder groups (patients, students and doctors) at 3 academic healthcare institutions and 37 private practices in Croatia (total 791 participants: 292 patients, 281 medical and dental students and 281 doctors of medicine or dental medicine). The questionnaire contained patient photographs with different levels of anonymization. All three respondent groups considered that more stringent forms of permission for were needed identifiable photographs than for those with higher levels of anonymization. When the entire face was presented in a photo only 33% of patients considered that written permission was required, compared with 88% of the students and 89% of the doctors. Opinions about publishing patient photographs differed among the three respondent samples: almost half of the patients thought no permission was necessary compared with one-third of students and doctors. These results show poor awareness of Croatian patients regarding the importance of written informed consent as well as unsatisfactory knowledge of health professionals about policies on the publication of patients’ data in general. In conclusion, there is a need for increasing awareness of all stakeholders to achieve better protection of patient privacy rights in research and publication.
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