scholarly journals Integrating design thinking with sustainability science: a Research through Design approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1565-1587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Maher ◽  
Melanie Maher ◽  
Samuel Mann ◽  
Clive A. McAlpine
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Sustainability Science ◽  
Design Methods ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Research Through Design ◽  
History Of ◽  
Development Goals

Abstract Design disciplines have a long history of creating well-integrated solutions to challenges which are complex, uncertain and contested by multiple stakeholders. Society faces similar challenges in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals, so design methods hold much potential. While principles of good design are well established, there has been limited integration of design thinking with sustainability science. To advance this integration, we examine the process of designing MetaMAP: an interactive graphic tool for collaborating to understand social–ecological systems and design well-integrated solutions. MetaMAP was created using Research through Design methods which integrate creative and scientific thinking. By applying design thinking, researchers and practitioners from different backgrounds undertook multiple cycles of problem framing, solution development, testing and reflection. The testing was highly collaborative involving over 150 people from diverse disciplines in workshops, case studies, interviews and critique. Reflecting on this process, we discuss design principles and opportunities for integrating design thinking with sustainability science to help achieve Sustainable Development Goals.

Introduction: Global Governance through Goal Setting

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norichika Kanie ◽  
Steven Bernstein ◽  
Frank Biermann ◽  
Peter M. Haas
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Governance Strategy

This chapter lays out a research agenda to assess conditions, challenges, and prospects for the Sustainable Development Goals to pursue this aim. First, the chapter discusses goal setting as a global governance strategy. Second, to contextualize the Sustainable Development Goals, it discusses the unique nature of the modern challenges that the Sustainable Development Goals must confront and review the historical and political trajectory of sustainable development governance, including the evolution from a primarily rule-based to a more goal-based system and the experience of the earlier Millennium Development Goals. Third, the chapter reviews the negotiating history of the Sustainable Development Goals. Then, the chapter elaborate on how the chapters are organized to address the three questions that guide the book.

scholarly journals Call for paper for sustainability science and implementing the sustainable development goals

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-178
Author(s):  
Kazuhiko Takeuchi ◽  
Braden Allenby ◽  
Thomas Elmqvist ◽  
Anantha Kumar Duraiappah ◽  
Joanne Kauffman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainability Science ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

Women, Development, and Gender Inequality

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Dominelli
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
And Gender

Women have a lengthy history of fighting their oppression as women and the inequalities associated with this to claim their place on the world stage, in their countries, and within their families. This article focuses on women’s struggles to be recognized as having legitimate concerns about development initiatives at all levels of society and valuable contributions to make to social development. Crucial to their endeavors were: (1) upholding gender equality and insisting that women be included in all deliberations about sustainable development and (2) seeing that their daily life needs, including their human rights, be treated with respect and dignity and their right to and need for education, health, housing, and all other public goods are realized. The role of the United Nations in these endeavors is also considered. Its policies on gender and development, on poverty alleviation strategies—including the Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals—are discussed and critiqued. Women’s rights are human rights, but their realization remains a challenge for policymakers and practitioners everywhere. Social workers have a vital role to play in advocating for gender equality and mobilizing women to take action in support of their right to social justice. Our struggle for equality has a long and courageous history.

scholarly journals Improving Knowledge about the Sustainable Development Goals through a Collaborative Learning Methodology and Serious Game

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 6169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ainhoa Saitua-Iribar ◽  
Javier Corral-Lage ◽  
Noemi Peña-Miguel
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The University

The university is a key agent in the process of transformation towards sustainability within the framework of the 2030 Agenda. This study aims to analyze the usefulness of the collaborative learning methodology through a serious game (SG) in the university environment to increase the level of knowledge and the importance given to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by students. Through ex ante and ex post questionnaires, the degree of variation in the knowledge acquired and importance given to the SDGs was measured. To compare the midrange of these two samples and determine whether differences existed, we applied the Student and Wilcoxon t-tests. The results indicate that the methodology used produced an improvement in knowledge about the SDGs. Therefore, it is concluded that the university should promote this type of workshop and SG activities to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs, both in the Bachelor’s Degree in Primary Education and in degrees of other disciplines. Moreover, we have encouraged active learning of the SDGs through collaborative workshops using the design thinking method and an SG called “The Island”, which, based on certain economic, social and environmental information, puts students in a position to govern resources to meet the needs of its population.

scholarly journals The Planetary Wellbeing Initiative: Pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3372
Author(s):  
Josep M. Antó ◽  
José Luis Martí ◽  
Jaume Casals ◽  
Paul Bou-Habib ◽  
Paula Casal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
History Of ◽  
Health Project ◽  
Development Goals

We live in a time of pressing planetary challenges, many of which threaten catastrophic change to the natural environment and require massive and novel coordinated scientific and societal efforts on an unprecedented scale. Universities and other academic institutions have the opportunity and responsibility to assume a leading role in an era when the destiny of the planet is precisely in the hands of human beings. Drawing on the Planetary Health project promoted by the Rockefeller Foundation and The Lancet, Pompeu Fabra University launched in 2018 the Planetary Wellbeing Initiative, a long-term institutional strategy also animated by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Planetary Wellbeing might be defined as the highest attainable standard of wellbeing for human and non-human beings and their social and natural systems. Developing the potential of these new concepts involves a substantial theoretical and empirical effort in many different fields, all of them interrelated by the crosscutting challenges of global complexity, interdisciplinarity, and urgency. Close collaboration of science, humanities, and culture is more desperately needed now than ever before in the history of humankind.

scholarly journals A change project to promote conflict resolution in order to ensure sustainable development in Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-121
Author(s):  
Harouna Zongo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Real ◽  
National University ◽  
Development Goals

The article describes the idea of a change project (a new course) in higher education. The aim of the change project is to promote traditional conflict resolution mechanisms and strategies in order to ensure sustainable development in Africa. The new program will combine the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and various conflict resolution scenarios by applying the technique of design thinking. The program will involve discussions about types of conflicts in Africa, the real causes of these conflicts, mechanisms for peaceful conflict resolution (with special emphasis on the rakiré and the palaver tree) and design thinking. The author intends to implement the program at the Faculty of International Relations of the Ivan Franco National University in Lviv.

scholarly journals Financing the Sustainable Development Goals

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2775 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Lagoarde-Segot
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Capital Adequacy ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Endogenous Money ◽  
History Of ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Tacit Assumptions

This paper contends that carving out pathways to finance the sustainable development goal (SDG) agenda entails to reconsider tacit assumptions regarding the functioning of financial systems. We first use a history of economic thought perspective to demonstrate the flaws of the loanable fund theory, which has come to underlie SDG finance strategies. We then introduce the alternative endogenous money theory using a consistent theoretical and accounting framework. This allows us to identify and discuss a set of financing mechanisms that would permit to bridge the SDG budget gap. These mechanisms include the issuing of sovereign green bonds, the modification of the European Central Bank’s collateral framework, changes in capital adequacy ratios, a market of SDG lending certificates and the introduction of rediscounting policies. We back up the discussion with examples from economic history.

Sustainability science and implementing the sustainable development goals

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 907-910 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osamu Saito ◽  
Shunsuke Managi ◽  
Norichika Kanie ◽  
Joanne Kauffman ◽  
Kazuhiko Takeuchi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainability Science ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals
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