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Emerging technologies can also be used for governance . This is the case for sand. Sand is a key ingredient for many industries, including concrete, glass, and electronics. In this chapter, sand governance framework is suggested through the applying blockchain technology with the aim of regulating sand extraction and trade. In this case, blockchain is the technology that can be used for distributed concurrency monitoring. Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) is applied to demonstrate the application of the model.
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It is time to treat sand like a key resource, on a par with clean air, biodiversity, and other natural endowments that nations seek to manage for the future (Gheorghe et al. 2018). Under this premise, there is need to develop applicable methods, tools, and techniques for addressing risks and vulnerabilities associated with sand. The simulated benefits, clearly, outweigh, continued ‘current’ approach. Moreover, the proposed framework enables the governance of sand through use of blockchain technology along with use of ABM tools. The purpose of this framework is to reduce (and more ambitiously, eliminate the illegal sand mining. This is can be done by monitoring the sand trades through the blockchain technology and geographic imagery provided by satellites and other technologies including unmanned aerial vehicle (e.g., Doyle and Adams 2015). Moreover, the impacts on the environment can be reduced by taking immediate actions for the critical regions which the applied methodology identifies. In addition, it can arm regulators with policy-making of natural resources treatments. Applying the decentralized blockchain system and using influential parties through the ABMS generates major effects from a discrete decision to the cooperative outcome.
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Georgescu, A., Gheorghe, A.V., Piso, MI., Katina, P.F. (2019). Governance by Emerging Technologies—The Case for Sand and Blockchain Technology. In: Critical Space Infrastructures. Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12604-9_10
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