scholarly journals Socioeconomic Aspects of the Forests in Portugal: Recent Evolution and Perspectives of Sustainability of the Resource

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonel Jorge Ribeiro Nunes ◽  
Catarina Isabel Rodrigues Meireles ◽  
Carlos José Pinto Gomes ◽  
Nuno Manuel Cabral de Almeida Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Rural Environment ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Production Industry

Portuguese forests have always played an essential role in the socioeconomic development of national rural areas, but also in several forest-based industrial sectors, such as the cork, pulp and paper, and wood panels industries. In addition to these dominant sectors, there are also several other uses for forest timber, such as being the major raw materials to the production of furniture or devoted to the growing biomass pellets production industry. This review article presents the evolution of the forest industrial sector throughout the recent past, and its impact on the development of the rural environment, from a socioeconomic perspective, namely concerning the jobs and value-added creation, as well as the importance of the forest in national industrial development. It shows the importance of sustainable forest management for the development of the rural environment, as an essential sector for the creation of wealth and for the establishment of populations in the interior regions of the country.

scholarly journals Location of Biorefineries Based on Olive-Derived Biomass in Andalusia, Spain

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 3052
Author(s):  
Diego Cardoza ◽  
Inmaculada Romero ◽  
Teresa Martínez ◽  
Encarnación Ruiz ◽  
Francisco J. Gallego ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Olive Tree ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrial Wastes ◽  
Olive Pomace ◽  
Crop Fields ◽  
Lignocellulosic Feedstock ◽  
Olive Stones

A biorefinery integrated process based on lignocellulosic feedstock is especially interesting in rural areas with a high density of agricultural and agro-industrial wastes, which is the case for olive crop areas and their associated industries. In the region of Andalusia, in the south of Spain, the provinces of Jaén, Córdoba and Seville accumulate more than 70% of the olive wastes generated in Spain. Therefore, the valorisation of these wastes is a matter of interest from both an environmental and a social point of view. The olive biorefinery involves a multi-product process from different raw materials: olive leaves, exhausted olive pomace, olive stones and olive tree pruning residues. Biorefinery processes associated with these wastes would allow their valorisation to produce bioenergy and high value-added renewable products. In this work, using geographic information system tools, the biomass from olive crop fields, mills and olive pomace-extracting industries, where these wastes are generated, was determined and quantified in the study area. In addition, the vulnerability of the territory was evaluated through an environmental and territorial analysis that allowed for the determination of the reception capacity of the study area. Then, information layers corresponding to the availability of the four biomass wastes, and layers corresponding to the environmental fragility of the study area were overlapped and they resulted in an overall map. This made it possible to identify the best areas for the implementation of the biorefineries based on olive-derived biomass. Finally, as an example, three zones were selected for this purpose. These locations corresponded to low fragility areas with a high availability of biomass (more than 300,000 tons/year) in a 30 km radius, which would ensure the biomass supply.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Development of the Industrial Sector in the Context of Global Transformation of Economic Processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 07031
Author(s):  
Maria Klevtsova ◽  
Yulia Vertakova ◽  
Yulia Polozhentseva
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Modern World ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Current State ◽  
National Wealth ◽  
The World ◽  
Stable Growth

Research background: In the modern world the rate of global transformation of economic processes is constantly increasing, while stimulating the growth of industrial production in the countries of the world. The industrial sector plays an important role in achieving stable growth in national wealth indicators, as well as in ensuring national security. Accelerating the pace of industrial development, especially high-tech, contributes to an increase in employment and the transition to a balanced economic development of the country. Purpose of the article: The main purpose of the publication is to study the current state and structural transformations in industry in the world economy, to analyze the level and dynamics of the main indicators of industrial development. Methods: Using statistical analysis of time series and dynamics indicators, the authors have evaluated the development trends of the industrial sector, based on the methods of scientific knowledge, a comparative analysis of the systematic results of development indices characterizing the functioning of industry around the world. Findings & Value added: A statistical analysis of the development of the industrial sector in the context of globalization allows the authors to determine the exact number of enterprises, the costs of the industry and their income, as well as the contribution made to the development of both region and the country as a whole. In this research the authors have considered the main economic indicators of industrial development in the world. The authors have systematized the main measures aimed at the development of the industrial sector.

scholarly journals ARTICULATING INDUSTRIAL CULTURE FOR PERFECTION OF THE CURRENT INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 18-36
Author(s):  
Michael John Haule
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Spatial Location ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Industrial Culture ◽  
Industrial Planning ◽  
New Vision

Industrial culture is both a product and a mover of industrial development. The owners of industries and the workers have a long term relationship which is derived from the operation of the sector, and that constitutes industrial culture. The study was carried out through a deep literature review whereby various issues pertinent to industrial culture and development, were articulated for the identification of the highlights critical for the advancement of the industrial sector in Tanzania. A change in perception and embracing of the new culture are aspects necessary for the perfection of industrialization and industrial production systems. Industrial culture requires a new vision for industry owners, industry employees, and both the potential and actual consumers of the branded industrial goods. For industry owners, this implies a change from exporting raw materials to the export of standardized industrial products. For the consumers, a change envisaged is from the consumption of branded agro-products to the consumption of branded and standardized industrial goods. At the current onset of industrialization, the Tanzania government requires an understanding of what an industrialized country should respond to addressing cultural issues for prospective positive operation and growth of the sector. The broad agro-based industrial development scheduled for the country requires an integration of various trans-sectoral strategies extending to issues of employment, industrial planning, and spatial location of industries. As such, the main findings of the paper stresses that there is the paucity of industrial culture in Tanzania, hence the need to accommodate it for sustainable industrial development. Political readiness is essential for the selection of appropriate industrial technologies to cope with the modern production process. Cultural transformation is a necessity for the enhancement of the benefits of agglomeration and the advancement of the sector. The above are the preconditions for a move towards a meaningful and appropriate industrial path for Tanzania.

scholarly journals The Impact of Industry 4.0 Technologies on Structural Transformation in the Manufacturing

2021 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 01009
Author(s):  
Oksana Kushnirenko ◽  
Natalia Gakhovich ◽  
Liliia Venger
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Efficient Solutions ◽  
Strategic Partnership ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
The Impact

In the paper, we investigate the impact of global trends Industry 4.0 on the structural transformations of Ukrainian industrial sector through the prism of global technological challenges. The current structural imbalances of Ukrainian industrial development and highlights the opportunities that 4.0 technologies provide for innovative industrial renewal are considered; and the readiness for adoption of innovative technologies of Industry 4.0 in the industrial enterprises is assessed. The key conclusion of the study is that further innovative transformation of global production will lead to inevitable changes in the organization and management of production processes. Based on the research results, an effective solution to certain problems has been proposed. The key finding of the research is that representatives of Ukrainian industry though perceive the importance of this tool face many obstacles in its implementation. Considering research results the efficient solutions of identified problems were proposed. They include the establishing strengthening the strategic partnership between the state science and business institutions in the process of stimulating cluster development; improvement of innovation infrastructure, creating the innovation ecosystems for the capitalization of scientific developments and the commercialization of innovations; creation of competitive conditions for all market participants, including equal conditions for access to the raw materials market, technology transfer, protection of property rights; reforming educational infrastructure; creation of a favorable investment environment with the help of mechanisms of state guarantees for foreign investments.

scholarly journals Exploring the Classification and Restructuring of Chemical Industrial Cities in China: The Perspectives of Sectoral and Spatial Differences

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Hui Zou ◽  
Xuejun Duan ◽  
Lei Wang ◽  
Tingting Jin
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Industry ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Spatial Transformation ◽  
Location Factors ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Industrial Cities ◽  
Spatial Differences ◽  
Development Goals

As an economic pillar, major resource consumer, and polluter of cities, the chemical industry determines many cities’ transformation, prosperity, and decay. It is thus a major concern for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In China, which is at the stage of accelerated industrialization that is varied across regions, the chemical industry has gradually retreated from developed cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, in the eastern region, and has become the inevitable choice for industrialization of less-developed cities, such as Xi’an, Chengdu, and Chongqing, in the western region. This study took the perspectives of chemical industrial sectors and their spatial differences to understand the changing patterns of the chemical industry and its dominant cities. It identified chemical industrial cities (CICs), examined their spatial-temporal patterns with respect to their industry scale and structure, and accounted for factors influencing the spatial evolution from coastal areas to inland regions. The results show that large CICs were mainly located in coastal port regions with balanced industrial sectors, while small CICs were mainly distributed in inland areas with abundant oil and coal resources and a single dominant industrial sector. The location factors of ports, markets, and technology play important roles in the eastern region, while resource conditions and foreign direct investment promote the chemical industry’s development in the central, western, and northeastern cities. These findings improve the understanding of CICs’ spatial transformation and shed light on the policy-making of chemical industrial development in China and other developing countries.

Value-Added Agriculture for Central Asian Countries

2018 ◽  
pp. 135-154
Author(s):  
Khabibullo Pirmatov ◽  
Jana Galova ◽  
Elena Horska
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Leather Industry ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Central Asian Countries

The goal of this chapter is to analyze the socio-economic role of value-added agriculture (VAA) for Central Asian (CA) countries. The agricultural sector of the region provides raw materials for the food, textile, and leather industry. Cotton, wheat, rice, and fruit (fresh and dried) play an important role in the foreign trade of each CA country. These countries have unrealized potential for storing, freezing, processing, and packaging of the wide nomenclature of fruit, food production, and drinks with the organization of their further exports to perspective markets. Adding value to agricultural products lead to increasing the share of finished goods in export, supplying import-substituting products, improving infrastructure in rural areas, providing new jobs, and growing farmers' income. Based on the analysis, the authors recommend using value-added agriculture for the CA countries by attracting domestic and foreign investments to rural areas, establishing tax incentives, and allocating preferential credits for agribusiness.

scholarly journals Institutional Environment as a Determinant of Efficiency of Industrial Development of Ukraine

2020 ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
N. Grazhevska ◽  
А. Khodzhaian ◽  
A. Zavazhenko
Keyword(s):  
National Economy ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
The State ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Industrial Enterprises

The authors proved that contrary to the global trends of development of science-intensive neo-industrial economy in Ukraine there is deindustrialization of the economy associated with outpacing growth of production and export of raw materials with a low level of technological processing and added value. The article examines the main factors of the deindustrialization of Ukraine’s economy, in particular, a significant degree of depreciation of fixed assets of industrial enterprises and production infrastructure, insufficient volume and unsatisfactory structure of capital investment to restore worn-out fixed capital, negative dynamics of foreign direct investment in the spheres of national economy such as innovations, etc. The authors also highlighted and analyzed the institutional factors influencing the industrial development of Ukraine, namely: the “presence” of the state in the economy, corruption and the shadow economy. The negative impact of the institutional environment on the innovative modernization of the national industrial sector was confirmed with the help of economic and mathematical modelling. The main directions of intensification of the state ‘s activity to overcome the institutional dysfunctions and traps formed during the period of market reform of the national economy are substantiated.

scholarly journals INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS OF THE AGRO-INDUSTRIAL SECTOR OF UKRAINE IN TERMS OF MODERN ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronika Chala ◽  
◽  
Ye. S. Barbul ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Foreign Market ◽  
World Market ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Broad Concept

The competitiveness of the agro-industrial sector should be considered as a fairly broad concept that characterizes the ability to compete in both domestic and foreign markets and is measured by the degree of presence of domestic products in them. The agro-industrial complex of Ukraine is one of the key components in the process of solving certain socio-economic problems. Domestic farmers have significant potential for development, the implementation of which requires addressing a number of obstacles. Despite the fact that Ukraine is one of the leaders in the export of agricultural products to the international market, in the future the development of the domestic agricultural sector may face significant problems due to low technology, insufficient inflow of investment resources, lack of highly qualified specialists in the industry. The article examines the prospects for the development of the domestic agro-industrial complex in the context of European integration. Ukrainian agricultural producers have a strong resource base for short-term capitalization and development of agricultural production, at the same time, agricultural enterprises are producers of raw materials, not finished products for consumption. Therefore, the efficiency of enterprises depends on the redistribution of income at all stages of value added. Reducing the cost of raw materials directly proportionally affects the profitability of production and efficiency of enterprises. The purpose of this article is to identify problems and prospects of agricultural entrepreneurship in Ukraine, and provide proposals for sustainable development of agriculture. The authors got acquainted with the mechanism of assessing the competitiveness of the enterprise and developing ways to increase competitive positions in the foreign market. The transformation of the agricultural sector of Ukraine is due to current trends, primarily in the world market. The integration of Ukrainian society into the European community encourages and forces domestic producers of the agricultural sector to produce products that are highly efficient and competitive, as the requirements for the quality characteristics of finished products increase.

scholarly journals Occupational hazards in medium and large scale industrial sectors in Sri Lanka – Experience of a developing country

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.M. Arnold ◽  
MSK Wickrematilake ◽  
RMSD Fernando ◽  
HMRC Sampath ◽  
RPP Karunapema ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Health Hazard ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Occupational Hazards ◽  
Physical Hazards ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Poor Ventilation

Abstract Objective Occupational hazards is an area where many countries have begun to pay more emphasis as it affects the health of many particularly in developing countries. However, documented literature is scarce in this regard although occupational hazards are common in workplaces. The study was carried out with the objective of describing the physical hazards and control measures adopted in the formal medium and large-scale industrial sector in Sri Lanka . Results Physical hazards detected in the workplaces were; excessive noise (78.3%), poor light (58%), increased temperature (65.2%), and poor ventilation (68.1%). Over 50% of large machinery and 33% of medium-scale machinery were not adequately guarded. Nearly 41% of the machinery were difficult to operate, of them 36.2% had controls in positions which were hard to reach. Of safety measures adopted, only 34.8% had proper demarcation of areas with 28.9% displaying safety signs. Housekeeping was poor in 59.4% and less than 40% had safe storage of raw materials and end products. Key words Occupational hazards, Occupational health, Hazard control, Industry

scholarly journals Occupational hazards in medium and large scale industrial sectors in Sri Lanka – Experience of a developing country

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.M. Arnold ◽  
MSK Wickrematilake ◽  
RMSD Fernando ◽  
HMRC Sampath ◽  
RPP Karunapema ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Health Hazard ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Occupational Hazards ◽  
Physical Hazards ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Poor Ventilation

Abstract Objective Occupational hazards is an area where many countries have begun to pay more emphasis as it affects the health of many particularly in developing countries. However, documented literature is scarce in this regard although occupational hazards are common in workplaces. The study was carried out with the objective of describing the physical hazards and control measures adopted in the formal medium and large-scale industrial sector in Sri Lanka. Results Of the 69 units of the 25 factories, physical hazards detected in the workplaces were; excessive noise (78.3%), poor light (58%), increased temperature (65.2%), and poor ventilation (68.1%). Over 50% of large machinery and 33% of medium-scale machinery were not adequately guarded. Nearly 41% of the machinery were difficult to operate, of them 36.2% had controls in positions which were hard to reach. Of safety measures adopted, only 34.8% had proper demarcation of areas with 28.9% displaying safety signs. Housekeeping was poor in 59.4% and less than 40% had safe storage of raw materials and end products. Key words Occupational hazards, Occupational health, Hazard control, Industry

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