scholarly journals Investigating, Implementing and Funding Regenerative Urban Design in a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Built Environment: A Reading Through Selected UN Sustainable Development Goals and the European Green Deal

2021 ◽  
pp. 395-413
Author(s):  
Maria Beatrice Andreucci ◽  
Antonino Marvuglia
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Change Scenario ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Urban Transition ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
To Come ◽  
Environmental Goals

AbstractBefore the world was impacted by COVID-19, progress towards the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was already uneven, and a more focused attention was needed in most SDGs’ target areas. The pandemic abruptly disrupted plans and efforts towards urban transition, in some cases reverting decades of progress. The concept of resilience changed in 2020 and having to face severe health issues combined with increased socio-economic challenges in a climate change scenario, cities must urgently explore on how best to combine environmental goals with economic recovery and social justice, modifying on-going plans and initiatives, while re-arranging priorities. Acknowledging the impact that the pandemic will produce, for the years to come, on processes and initiatives towards a regenerative economy, this contribution describes most recent strategies aimed at urban transition in Europe, and critically discusses available options with respect to implementation and funding, within the framework of selected UN SDGs. Our conclusions challenge the ability of our modern society to put in practice the needed urgent actions, and call for a paradigm shift to prepare Europe to deal with climate disruptions, activate transition to a healthy and prosperous future within the planetary boundaries, and scale up solutions that will trigger transformations for the benefit of people and the environment.

scholarly journals Natural language processing and network analysis provide novel insights on policy and scientific discourse around Sustainable Development Goals

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bryan Smith ◽  
Raffaele Vacca ◽  
Luca Mantegazza ◽  
Ilaria Capua
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Related Science ◽  
Environmental Goals

AbstractThe United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are heterogeneous and interdependent, comprising 169 targets and 231 indicators of sustainable development in such diverse areas as health, the environment, and human rights. Existing efforts to map relationships among SDGs are either theoretical investigations of sustainability concepts, or empirical analyses of development indicators and policy simulations. We present an alternative approach, which describes and quantifies the complex network of SDG interdependencies by applying computational methods to policy and scientific documents. Methods of Natural Language Processing are used to measure overlaps in international policy discourse around SDGs, as represented by the corpus of all existing UN progress reports about each goal (N = 85 reports). We then examine if SDG interdependencies emerging from UN discourse are reflected in patterns of integration and collaboration in SDG-related science, by analyzing data on all scientific articles addressing relevant SDGs in the past two decades (N = 779,901 articles). Results identify a strong discursive divide between environmental goals and all other SDGs, and unexpected interdependencies between SDGs in different areas. While UN discourse partially aligns with integration patterns in SDG-related science, important differences are also observed between priorities emerging in UN and global scientific discourse. We discuss implications and insights for scientific research and policy on sustainable development after COVID-19.

scholarly journals Review of Indicators for Localizing Environmental Goals at Sub National and Local Level in Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-307
Author(s):  
Ek Raj Sigdel ◽  
Martina Maria Keitsch
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Stakeholder Consultation ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Government ◽  
Environmental Goals

Nepal, as a member of the United Nations, is committed to achieve the global initiatives of Sustainable Development Agenda by 2030. Toward translating the commitment into action, Nepal has produced preliminary SDGs Report in 2015, even before the formal adoption of the 2030. Moreover, Voluntary National Review Report, Sustainable Development Goals, Status and Roadmap: 2016-2030, and Sustainable Development Goals 2016-2030 National (Preliminary) Report were developed. Further, Nepal has initiated mainstreaming the 2030 Agenda into national policies and plans. The 14th periodic plan, the national budget, and other sectoral plans have been closely aligned with the SDGs and the approach paper for 15th five-year plan is intended to achieve the SDG. The upcoming 15th periodic plan will basically aim to support the government in achieving all the SDGs by 2030 and help Nepal emerge as a middle-income country by 2030. The indicators comprise of renewable energy for electricity and vehicles, injuries due to disaster (number), greenhouse gases, adaptation plans, trained man power, climate change educations, and climate smart villages and farming are identified as indicators under climate and energy goals. Similarly, under forest goals proportion of forest land, forest under community-based management (% of total dense forest areas), protected area (including forest, in % of total land area), handover of forests to leasehold forest groups (000 hectare), wild tigers (number), rhino (number) etc are included. Likewise, conservation of lakes, wetlands, and ponds (number) and potentially dangerous lakes (%) are included under fresh water goals. However, there was no scientific basis how the indicators were derived for the environmental goals. In this backdrop, a study in identifying site specific, measurable, time bound, relevant and attainable indicators was paramount. Based on the secondary literature review, stakeholder consultation at sub national and local level, the indicators were verified and suggested strategies that help localizing the environmental indicators at sub-national and local level in Nepal. The study was therefore centered on reviewing the environmental indicators and suggest appropriate strategies so that it helps expediting localization of SDG in Nepal.

scholarly journals Tourism Management in Azerbaijan Under Sustainable Development: Impact of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
pp. 195-207
Author(s):  
Farhad Rahmanov ◽  
Ramilya Aliyeva ◽  
Anna Rosokhata ◽  
Nataliia Letunovska
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Bulgarian Academy ◽  
Middle East Countries ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Impact

The article is devoted to the current issue of 2020 on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tourism industry in general, Azerbaijan in particular, and overcoming this crisis, taking into account the main aspects and goals of sustainable development. The primary purpose of the article is to form recommendations for compliance with the goals of sustainable development in the tourism industry of Azerbaijan with the levelling of events caused by the influence of COVID-19. A review of the scientific literature concluded that the issue of tourism marketing in crisis conditions is always complicated and multifaceted. The development of the tourism sector is a positive change for the host countries, which helps to solve problems in other areas of the economy. The article presents the dynamics of development of the tourism industry in recent years in the world, in the group of Middle East countries, which respectively includes Azerbaijan. The leading quantitative indicators of tourism development in Azerbaijan, neighbouring countries, and Ukraine were compared. The relevance of this study is that a systematic restart of the tourism sector after the end of quarantine measures is a necessary condition to take into account all the preferences, requests, and concerns of citizens who are direct participants in the economic component of tourism. During the preparation of the material, a marketing survey of Azerbaijani citizens was conducted to study the potential impact of COVID-19 on the tourism industry. The survey was conducted on April 13-21, 2020, by a team of researchers from the University of Northampton (UK), the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, University of National and World Economy (Bulgaria). The article highlights the main results of this study, based on which the critical inquiries of Azerbaijani citizens regarding the restart of tourism in the country were formed. The analytical method of the article analyzes the goals of sustainable development, announced following the Resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on September 25, and which become most relevant in the context of 2020 and are a challenge for modern society and Azerbaijan in particular. As a result of this study, recommendations were made to restart the tourism sector in Azerbaijan, given compliance with and implementation of sustainable development goals. The results of this study can be useful for the governing institutions of Azerbaijan and other countries in which the tourism industry has developed dynamically and rapidly over the past few years. Keywords tourism, sustainable development goals, COVID-19 impact, social aspects of tourism, tourist choice, restart of tourism, health of citizens.

scholarly journals SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGION: THE ROLE OF A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-185
Author(s):  
O.A. Balabeikina ◽  
A.A. Yankovskaia ◽  
K.S. Gavrilova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Development Goals

The presented work is aimed at identifying the specifics and significance of religious institutions in achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) in a foreign region - England. Procedure and methods. The data were collected by analyzing the content of available online annual reports reflecting the most diverse aspects of the 41 dioceses of the State Christian Church of England activities and interviewing the leaders of separate dioceses. Results. The study allowed us to confirm active and diverse participation of the dioceses in the implementation of the sustainable development goals, among which the priority is given to environmental responsibility in broad sense and social activities of religious institutions meeting the needs of modern society. Practical significance. The example of effective implementation of the SDGs by the State Christian Church of England can be useful for domestic and foreign religious organizations, as well as for the leadership of Russian regions in developing effective cooperation between the State and the Church at the regional level.

Sustainable Development: Evolution and Challenges Ahead

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-96
Author(s):  
Basu Sood ◽  
Meenakshi Sooden
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Measurement Framework ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Standard Set ◽  
To Come ◽  
Social Environmental

The concept of Sustainable Development is inherent to the civilizations world over. The explicit use of the term in the literature of the development economics is only a recent phenomenon. The concept of sustainable development started emerging by relating environmental concerns to the economic development during the initial years of its evolution. Gradually, more and more spheres of human life started finding mention while discussing the concept. Today, the concept has taken a form where it encompasses economic, social, environmental, political and cultural aspects of life into its ambit. In fact, there is hardly any aspect of the life that cannot find a place while discussing the concept.  It has taken about four decades for the world Governments and the United Nations to come out with a standard set of Sustainable Development Goals which the nations across the globe are required to achieve in order to put the world economy on the path of sustainable development. There still remain many challenges in prescribing and following a standard recipe for achieving Sustainable Development Goals world over. A large number of parameters related to sustainable development are not possible to be standardized in the wake of prevalence of great diversity in the socio-economic, political and environmental conditions existing in different regions of the world. There are strong challenges for national and subnational Governments in developing a measurement framework for monitoring the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals.

scholarly journals Global strategies and local implementation of health and health-related SDGs: lessons from consultation in countries across five regions

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. e002859
Author(s):  
Sameen Siddiqi ◽  
Wafa Aftab ◽  
Fahad Javaid Siddiqui ◽  
Luis Huicho ◽  
Roman Mogilevskii ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Civic Society ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Development Goals

Evidence on early achievements, challenges and opportunities would help low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) accelerate implementation of health and health-related sustainable development goals (HHSDGs). A series of country-specific and multicountry consultative meetings were conducted during 2018–2019 that involved 15 countries across five regions to determine the status of implementation of HHSDGs. Almost 120 representatives from health and non-health sectors participated. The assessment relied on a multidomain analytical framework drawing on existing public health policy frameworks. During the first 5 years of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) era, participating LMICs from South and Central Asia, East Africa and Latin America demonstrated growing political commitment to HHSDGs, with augmentation of multisectoral institutional arrangements, strengthening of monitoring systems and engagement of development partners. On the other hand, there has been limited involvement of civic society representatives and academia, relatively few capacity development initiatives were in place, a well-crafted communication strategy was missing, and there is limited evidence of additional domestic financing for implementing HHSDGs. While the momentum towards universal health coverage is notable, explicit linkages with non-health SDGs and integrated multisectoral implementation strategies are lacking. The study offers messages to LMICs that would allow for a full decade of accelerated implementation of HHSDGs, and points to the need for more implementation research in each domain and for testing interventions that are likely to work before scale-up.

scholarly journals A Research on the Combination of Oblique Photography and Mobile Applications Based on the Sustainable Development of Tourism

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3501
Author(s):  
Mengyi Lin ◽  
Fu-Yuan Li ◽  
Haibin Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

Tourism is one of the world’s fastest driving forces of economic development, playing an important role in achieving sustainable development goals. In modern society, mobile social media is a communication and decision-making platform for users and a source of big data information about travel. Obtaining and analyzing travel data can provide customer-oriented information about travel destinations and comprehensive services for both tourism operators and tourists. It has a positive impact on the sustainable development of society, economy, environment, and humanities. Starting with theoretical analysis and empirical research, this study combines social media and oblique photography, conducts a case study of the Pingtan comprehensive experimental area in China, and develops an app about online travelling to provide corresponding information for consumers’ decisions. This study also discusses the potential value of the app, i.e., assisting the development of smart travel in city, achieving sustainable development of tourism, and contributing to tourism globally.

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