







Vol.1 , No. 4, Publication Date: Aug. 22, 2015, Page: 64-77
[1] | Azniv Felix Petrosyan, Department of Geography & Regional Planning, School of Rural & Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zographou Campus, Athens, Greece; Independent Researcher of Armenia, Zeytun, Yerevan, Armenia. |
Smart development is a nowadays topic. Despite the fact that sustainability has never been aptly computed, Composite Appraising Supportive Progress (CASP) is a pioneering index to assess Combined Sustainable Development Index (CSDI). Biodiversity economics is consistent with the concept of smart development in terms of CASP as: 1. Genes - Society - Universities - Students - Characterization - Supporting Institutions; 2. Species - Economy - Industries - Professors - Guides - Similarity Provisions; 3. Ecosystems - Nature - Organizations - Scientists - Assessments - Planning Management; 4. Functions - Management - Development - Governance - Guidance - Smart Procedures. ACASP is a new approach to educate economists as an opportunity to present educative, engineering, geographic and scientific views on compound procedures for smart development. The current paper is devoted to create CASP for Armenia through smart development using aforementioned biodiversity concept, which is applied to CASP capturing 3 D - Magnitudes with 6 categories each as: Society: Humans, Society Concerns, Knowledge in Practice, Space Science, Political Performances, Transport; Economy: Investment, Human Standards, Production & Consumption, Agriculture, Industry, Tourism; Environment: Land, Water, Air, Biodiversity, Energy, Landscape. The new structure of CASP is performed by means of Armenian existing uniform of proximity relations as smart development through proper governance of situations, knowledge, policies and implementations to progress the economy of Armenia. The geographic proximity types are acquired and categorized as: 1) University (U): Academy (U1); Research & Development (R&D) (U2); Onsite Performance (U3); 2) Industry (I): Industry (I1); Business (I2); Management (I3); 3) Organization (O): Private NGO (O1); Public Organization (O2); International Organization (O3); 4) Application: choice of three (3) main CASP categories within each magnitude as per categorized proximity types of University - Industry - Organization (UIO) through computation of Similarity Index and Similarity Percentage. Performance of Armenian CASP within Smart Development has an emphasis on Space Science with the next representative results as per importance: U – University, N – Nature, S4 – Space Science, O – Organization, S – Society, E6 – Tourism, I – Industry, E – Economy, N4 – Biodiversity. Recommendations are provided to construct species (β) as economy (E) or industry (I) stage through dominancy to regulate genes (α) as society (S) or university (U) stage and ecosystems (γ) as environment (N) or organization (O) stage as per aptly dispensed categories to proceed Armenian CASP.
Keywords
Smart Development, Proximity Relations, Proper Governance, Biodiversity, University-Industry-Organization (UIO), Combined Sustainable Development Index (CSDI), Armenian Composite Appraising Supportive Progress (ACASP)
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