Social entrepreneurship as a driver of green remediation and revitalization of affected territories: digital modeling and decision support systems
Keywords:
post-conflict transformation, green remediation, revitalization, social entrepreneurship, Decision Support System (DSS), Triple Bottom Line (TBL), ESG concept (Environmental, Social, Governance), LegalTech, GIS visualization, multicriteria analysis, simulation modeling, environmental sustainabilitySynopsis
In the conditions of post-conflict transformation of Ukraine’s territories, the issues of environmental restoration, legal transparency, and the involvement of social entrepreneurs come to the forefront in the context of sustainable development. In the present study, an integrated decision support system (DSS) has been developed and tested, in which social entrepreneurship acts as the main agent of changes. The methodological foundation of this work relies on the Triple Bottom Line (TBL), the ESG concept, which provides the operational level of measurable indicators: the E and S metrics for environmental and social results, as well as the G component (governance), which was implemented through a LegalTech module for the purpose of codifying the compliance requirements of smart contracts and maintaining an immutable audit trail. The empirical verification of the model was carried out on the example of the Kharkiv region, where 6 scenarios of digital integration were simulated. For visual-analytical evaluation, a Dendrogram of clusters (Dendrogram), a Parallel Coordinates Plot (PCP), and a Butterfly Chart diagram were used, which made it possible to reflect the degree of influence of digital solutions on TBL indicators, as well as to assess the degree of their influence on management efficiency. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the development of a digital model of integrative management of the processes of green remediation and revitalization of post-conflict territories relying on the tools of social entrepreneurship, which makes it possible to achieve end-to-end managerial visibility because it makes it possible to stitch together all links of the chain – data → analytics → selection → legal execution → cash flow → confirmed effect – into a single, verifiable orchestration. For the development of social entrepreneurship this has enormous significance, since it turns “good intentions” into contractible, financeable, and replicable projects with demonstrable impact and fair competition.
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Cherniavska, T., Rusnak, A., Nadtochii, I., Naida, I., & Skarzhynskyi, M. (2025). Social entrepreneurship as a driver of green remediation and revitalization of affected territories: digital modeling and decision support systems. In T. Cherniavska (Ed.), & T. Cherniavska, A. Onyshchenko, V. Kudin, O. Lytvyn, H. Kashcheieva, V. Samsonkin, I. Bulgakova, O. Yurchenko, R. Mammadova, T. Hasanova, M. Aliyeva, B. Cherniavskyi, V. Petrenko, A. Karnaushenko, K. Melnykova, M. Mammadova, T. Baydyk, Z. Jabrayilova, H. Gasimov, … M. Skarzhynskyi, Ecological systems modeling (pp. 196-236). Scientific Route OÜ®. https://doi.org/10.21303/978-9908-9706-6-0.ch9
