Policy and Practice
Sustanability and Investment : The Case of Peru
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Maria E Sanchez Zambrano
Managers in the public sector who oversee the administrative processes that are behind an adequate execution of investment spending face a number of institutional barriers in terms of: heterogeneous capacities to operate the different systems of the organization, such as the absence of projects to global scale, high transaction costs-explained by bureaucratic procedures - and excessive audit controls. This is why the proposal of a sustainable investment management model requires the intervention of public-private investment as a guarantee for the continuity of projects if we want to overcome the political cycle of each elected authority. This article presents a model that will serve as a tool to relate critical variables to the management of public investment by subnational governments and public agencies that execute the investment budget. The purpose of the model proposal is to identify the critical variables for the management of investments related to efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability.
A Review of Strategic Firm Value: A Collaborative Perspective
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Chantal Ramcharan Kotze, Johan Olivier
Partnerships are key enablers of firm innovation and value creation required to drive Sustainable Development (SD), corroborated through Sustainable Development Goal 17. However, the concept of strategic firm value in relation to SD remains inadequate in its development and required application. Firms as sub-systems rely on a number of partner bases that are often overlooked in relation to understanding strategic value creation. These interactions result in hybrid arrangements in a firm’s attempt to respond to complexity whilst growing the bottom line. A qualitative case research study undertaken within a South African mining context demonstrates how Public-Private Collaboration (PPC) processes create strategic value for firms driven by sustainability objectives. An integrated strategic value model highlighting competitive, collaborative and societal advantage constructs is put forward. The paper's contributions have implications for strategy development, organisational, and cross-sector theory in relation to the SD agenda. It calls less for instrumental and transactional lenses, promoting a transformative view of the role of the firm as part of society as opposed to the firm and society.
Application of Approaches and Methods of Landscape Planning in Slovakia
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Henrich Grežo, Regina Mišovičová
An important part of the planning processes is territorial (landscape) planning, which has experienced intensive development in the world, especially in the last fifty years. Existing developed landscape-ecological methods forming scientific bases for landscape planning, can be considered as one of the most serious platforms of applied landscape-ecological research. Methodological outputs and landscape planning tools are used mainly in spatial planning, land consolidation projects, river basin management plans and other strategic plans related to the landscape. Many procedures of landscape-ecological evaluations forming the basis for sustainable landscape planning and landscape management have been developed in Slovakia. At the Institute of Landscape Ecology the original methodology of landscape-ecological planning LANDEP was developed (Ružička & Miklós 1982) representing a systemically structured complex of applied landscape-ecological methodologies and methods with the aim of developing ecologically optimal spatial arrangement and functional land-use. The practical applicability of the methodology is also highly evaluated abroad. It was included in AGENDA 21 document adopted at the Earth Summit (Rio de Janeiro 1992) as recommended methodology for ensuring an integrated approach to country planning and management. LANDEP has become a tool to ensure sustainable landscape development. The contribution of LANDEP to practice can be divided into 4 problem areas: proposals for ecologically optimal territory division (landscape plan), proposal for ecologically optimal sector planning (agriculture, melioration, tourism), proposals for measures of landscape protection and creation, solution of environmental impact assessment. The outputs of LANDEP are applied to all societal activities that can in any way affect the environment quality.
Systems-level Factors in the Adoption of Remote Monitoring
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Danika Tynes
Innovations in technology have implications for sustainable development. Telehealth is one innovation for which the evidence-base has grown to support its viability as a quality healthcare delivery method. This research reviews systems-level data on telehealth adoption, in particular, remote monitoring, and how it may be leveraged to support sustainable development goals for health and wellness. This research assesses the influence of systems-level indicators on the successful adoption of remote monitoring. Analyses include data from 84 countries, as extracted from the World Health Organization, World Bank, ICT (Information Communications Technology) Index, and HDI (Human Development Index) datasets. Analyses showed several factors to be strong influencers on the adoption of remote monitoring, including life expectancy, communicable disease, non-communicable disease, and ICT Index, while indicators approaching significance include child mortality rate under five and rural population. Findings from this research may help focus on the allocation of resources, as a sustainability concern, through consideration of systems-level factors that may influence the success of innovation like remote monitoring.
