A Way Forward Springer

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This book focuses on understanding the characteristics of the marine environment; overall characteristic of the marine resources (especially the marine new energy) and their current utilization; important routes, channels, and ports; and the Maritime... It also discusses the significance and opportunities of the Maritime Silk Road initiative, analyzes the challenges involved in the construction of the Maritime Silk Road and provides corresponding countermeasures. Based on the above research, this book also proposes to construct a comprehensive application platform for the Maritime Silk Road that will be a practical tool for decision-making. This book focuses on understanding the characteristics of the marine environment; overall characteristic of the marine resources (especially the marine new energy) and their current utilization; important routes, channels, and ports; and the Maritime... It also discusses the significance and opportunities of the Maritime Silk Road initiative, analyzes the challenges involved in the construction of the Maritime Silk Road and provides corresponding countermeasures. Based on the above research, this book also proposes to construct a comprehensive application platform for the Maritime Silk Road that will be a practical tool for decision-making.

This chapter points to the way ahead by introducing five recommendations to meet the requirements set forward by the Stockholm+50 agenda. The requirements identify co-working as vital to addressing the planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, better collaboration and cooperation across all sectors, reinventing to a circular economy meaning decouple economic development... In response to this potential need, they present five transition options that might facilitate realising the requirements above and recognise a need for: (1) system change, (2) radical interdisciplinarity and trans-disciplinarity, (3) net positive... Business leaders, their stakeholders and other groups should consider meeting these needs through their work in partnership with other actors. You have full access to this open access chapter, Download chapter PDF Chapter 21 focused on how the CapSEM Model tools for continuous improvement can contribute to a transition to sustainability.

Chapter 21 also looked at drivers for transition achieved through the use of the CapSEM toolbox and additional drivers sourced from new policy frameworks and international roadmaps, SDG-roadmaps and the European Green Deal. Chapters 22 and 23 presented two means for enhancing this transition: firstly, business models innovation for sustainability, and secondly multi-criteria decision supporting tools. This final chapter explores possibilities inherent in forward-looking approaches, discussed new, innovative recommendation and which possible options to accelerate transitions to true sustainability. When following the CapSEM Model, the stepwise transitions related to processes, products or organisational changes, can be viewed as a bottom-up approach with incremental, and measurable, achievements in sustainability. Transition towards sustainability from a top-down approach might look quite different. Global challenges such as climate change, scarcity of resources, pollution of oceans and land, sea-level rise, changes in the global economy, all call for radical changes and necessitate longer-term transition solutions.

Global leaders are continuously searching for new perspectives and models for collaboration for sustainability. To develop such models, business and society cannot work in isolation from each other: they must act together in order to pave the way ahead. At the top of the agenda for forward looking leaders, is how to carry out effective system changes. To this end, both bottom-up and top-down approaches are needed. The driving forces can, to some extent, be different. Figure 24.1 illustrates both top-down and bottom-up approaches.

On one hand, a bottom-up approach might start as a result of consumer demand, for example, by putting pressure on business to document the environmental impacts or climate footprints of the products or services... When using the CapSEM Model approach, this frequently leads to incremental, and continuous, changes. On the other hand, civil society at large, exposed to pollution and increased waste streams, climate changes and loss of biodiversity, represents a driver for changes on national and international levels. This, in turn, puts pressure on governmental bodies’ top-down instruments to consider more radical system changes. Top-down visions, strategies and frameworks must be connected to bottom-up delivery of solutions if viable solutions for systems change are to be properly implemented.

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