Practical application of sustainable development in decision-making processes in the Great Lakes Basin

1996 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. D. Hartig ◽  
J. H. Hartig ◽  
D. R. Lesh ◽  
D. G. Lowrie ◽  
G. H. Wever
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Great Lakes Basin ◽  
Decision Making Processes

scholarly journals Corruption and Combating Corruption: A Framework for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development in Post-Independent Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Eric Che Muma
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
The World ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Global Peace ◽  
The Way

Abstract Since the introduction of democratic reforms in post-independent Africa, most states have been battling corruption to guarantee sustainable peace, human rights and development. Because of the devastating effects of corruption on the realisation of peace, human rights and sustainable development, the world at large and Africa in particular, has strived to fight against corruption with several states adopting national anti-corruption legislation and specialised bodies. Despite international and national efforts to combat corruption, the practice still remains visible in most African states without any effective accountability or transparency in decision-making processes by the various institutions charged with corruption issues. This has further hindered global peace, the effective enjoyment of human rights and sustainable development in the continent. This paper aims to examine the concept of corruption and combating corruption and its impact on peace, human rights and sustainable development in post-independent Africa with a particular focus on Cameroon. It reveals that despite international and national efforts, corruption still remains an obstacle to global peace in Africa requiring a more proactive means among states to achieve economic development. The paper takes into consideration specific socio-economic challenges posed by corruption and the way forward for a united Africa to combat corruption to pull the continent out of poverty, hunger and instability, and to transform it into a better continent for peace, human rights and sustainable development.

scholarly journals The Role of Public Participation in Governance towards Achieving Sustainable Development. Part 1

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-404
Author(s):  
Maurice S. Nyarangaa ◽  
Chen Hao ◽  
Duncan O. Hongo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Political Class ◽  
The Public ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Government

Public participation aimed at improving the effectiveness of governance by involving citizens in governance policy formulation and decision-making processes. It was designed to promote transparency, accountability and effectiveness of any modern government. Although Kenya has legally adopted public participation in day-to-day government activities, challenges still cripple its effectiveness as documented by several scholars. Instead of reducing conflicts between the government and the public, it has heightened witnessing so many petitions of government missing on priorities in terms of development and government policies. Results show that participation weakly relates with governance hence frictions sustainable development. Theoretically, public participation influences governance efficiency and development, directly and indirectly, thus sustainable development policy and implementation depends on Public participation and good governance. However, an effective public participation in governance is has been fractioned by the government. Instead of being a promoter/sponsor of public participation, the government of Kenya has failed to put structures that would spur participation of citizens in policy making and other days to activities. This has brought about wrong priority setting and misappropriation of public resources; The government officials and political class interference ultimately limit public opinion and input effects on decision-making and policy formulation, which might be an inner factor determining the failure of public participation in Kenya. The study suggests the need for strengthening public participation by establishing an independent institution to preside over public participation processes.

How have national sustainable development strategies made an impact on decision-making processes?

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thorvald Moe ◽  
Bakary Toure ◽  
Elena Polyakova ◽  
Guenther Bachmann ◽  
Ross Andrews ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Decision Making Processes

scholarly journals Why the use of weather and climate information is essential for SDG implementation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Griggs
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Climate Information ◽  
Climate Services ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Development Goals

<p>The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an ambitious plan for “people, “planet and prosperity”. At its core are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the achievement of which is critically affected by weather and a changing climate. To that end emphasis has been given to delivering weather and climate services, with information packaged in ways that support timely decision making.</p><p>Yet often these approaches tend not to address which decision-making processes need what information, why they need it, or what form they need it in. They have also tended to be focussed on specific situations and SDGs (such as SDG 14, 15) where the need for weather and climate information is clear and obvious.</p><p>In this presentation, we will look at how weather and climate information impinges on different decision making contexts, requiring that information to be tailored in new ways. In doing so we will identify key action areas that need to be addressed to improve integration of weather and climate information into SDG decision making. </p>

scholarly journals Women and Sustainable Development in Africa: Issues and Challenges from Nigeria

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1740-1749
Author(s):  
Leke OKE
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
State And Local ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women In Decision Making ◽  
Local Levels

Globally, crave for sustainable development and increasing women participation in governance have been on unabated. This is premised on the belief that sustainable development is attainable where and when there is good governance and gender justice. Making use of library research and content analysis methodologies, the paper detailed in a systematic manner the missing link in sustainable development in Africa with particular emphasis on Nigeria. It analyses the current practice ofsextortion among the women in decision- making processes and leadership at the national, state and local levels and its impact on development. More so, the paper discusses the conditions that facilitate womens representation in decision-making processes within the context of the current socio-economic and political transformations. It also examines the linkages between womens presence in critical decision-making positions and sustainable development. The paper contends that most states in Africa are yet to attain development to be sustained. It blames the African leaders and the patriarchal states for the precarious pace at which the region develops. The paper concludes that sustainable development will remain a pie in the sky in Africa for as long as greed, self-centeredness and emperornic disposition of African leaders as well as mass poverty and infrastructural decay continue.

scholarly journals Fair trade governance: revisiting a framework to analyse challenges and opportunities for sustainable development towards a green economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Cristina Ribeiro-Duthie ◽  
Fred Gale ◽  
Hannah Murphy-Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Ethical Consumption ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Decision Making Processes

AbstractAs a relatively new form of non-state governance, the fair trade movement presents an opportunity to promote sustainable production and consumption and hence social change. Global market demands and consumer engagement denote changes in social practices that have led governments to share decision-making processes with private sector and non-governmental organisations. In this context of change, it is important to consider not only whether new forms of governance weaken or strengthen states’ authority within the marketplace but also the extent to which they may allow for “green washing” instead of the green economy proposed by the United Nations Environmental Program. This study considers the fair trade of food production and consumption as a potential innovative model. In doing so it examines the existing general literature on governance, which highlights that decision-making processes tend to reproduce top-down approaches. While such practices may reproduce conventional hierarchies, it is worth questioning the potential of new forms of governance within global markets. This article builds on a sustainability governance analytical framework to deepen understandings of fair trade governance and its possible responses to the dilemmas of food production for ethical consumption and thus sustainable development in transnational relations. This research aims to contribute to the literature on improving compliance with global sustainability standards and through this, inform practices that allow for cooperation towards a green economy.

scholarly journals The use of presumptions and duties in sustainable development equations

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Ross ◽  
Agne Zasinaite
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Solar Panels ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Managing Change ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Regulatory Regimes

Sustainable development provides a forum for sometimes complementary, but often conflicting, factors to be raised and the best solution found. As new challenges present themselves, they need to fit into our decision making processes. This article examines the use of presumptions and duties in what it refers to as ‘sustainable development equations’. More specifically, it asks whether the regulatory regime for managing change in listed buildings is promoting and delivering the sustainable management of listed buildings. It does so by examining how various presumptions and duties are used and prioritized by the courts, by Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and local authorities in their policies on managing change and then in practice, in listed building consent decisions relating to solar panels. The paper concludes presumptions and duties are useful tools for ensuring certain factors are brought into sustainable development equations and given the appropriate status. However, in the context of listed buildings, the current balance is not capable of delivering or encouraging their sustainable management. Presumptions and duties are most useful when expressly part of particular regulatory regimes and where the policy that supports these sustainable development equations is sufficiently detailed to provide both regulators and regulated with reassurance and certainty.

scholarly journals Knowledge Management for Sustainable Development in the Era of Continuously Accelerating Technological Revolutions: A Framework and Models

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3353
Author(s):  
Meir Russ
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Organizational Decision Making ◽  
New Era ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Human Actors

This conceptual, interdisciplinary paper will start by introducing the commencement of a new era in which human society faces continuously accelerating technological revolutions, named the Post Accelerating Data and Knowledge Online Society, or ‘Padkos’ (“food for the journey; prog; provisions for journey”—in Afrikaans) for short. In this context, a conceptual model of sustainable development with a focus on knowledge management and sharing will be proposed. The construct of knowledge management will be unpacked into a new three-layer model with a focus on the knowledge-human and data-machine spheres. Then, each sphere will be discussed with concentration on the learning and decision- making processes, the digital supporting systems and the human actors’ aspects. Moreover, the recombination of new knowledge development and contemporary knowledge management into one amalgamated construct will be proposed. The holistic conceptual model of knowledge management for sustainable development is comprised by time, cybersecurity and two alternative humanistic paradigms (Homo Technologicus and Homo Sustainabiliticus). Two additional particular models are discussed in depth. First, a recently proposed model of quantum organizational decision-making is elaborated. Next, a boundary management and learning process is deliberated. The paper ends with a number of propositions and several implications for the future based on the deliberations in the paper and the models discussed and with conclusions.

scholarly journals The “Post Accelerating Data and Knowledge Online Society” (Padkos[1]): The first and the last continuously accelerating technological revolutions and their implications for Knowledge Sharing for Sustainable Development. [1] Food for the journey; prog; provisions for journey- in Afrikaans.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meir Russ
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Organizational Decision Making ◽  
New Era ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Human Actors

This conceptual, interdisciplinary paper will start by introducing the commencement of a new era in which human society faces continuously accelerating technological revolutions, named for short ‘Padkos’. In this context, a conceptual model of sustainable development with a focus on knowledge sharing and management will be proposed. The construct of knowledge management will be unpacked into a three-layer model with a focus on the knowledge-human and data-machine spheres. Then, each sphere will be discussed with concentrating on the learning and decision- making processes, the digital supporting systems and the human actors’ aspects. Moreover, the recombination of new knowledge development and contemporary knowledge management into one amalgamated construct will be proposed. The holistic conceptual model of knowledge sharing for sustainable development is comprised by time, cybersecurity and two alternative humanistic paradigms (Homo Technologicus and Homo Sustainabiliticus). Two additional particular models are discussed in depth. First, a recently proposed model of quantum organizational decision-making is elaborated. Next, a boundary management and learning process is particularized. The paper ends with several implications for the future based on the deliberations in the paper and the models discussed.

scholarly journals Globalization and innovation applying smart solutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 02011
Author(s):  
Ján Parobek ◽  
Erika Loučanová ◽  
Miriam Olšiaková ◽  
Hubert Paluš ◽  
Michal Dzian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Friendliness ◽  
Smart Packaging ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Considerable Potential ◽  
Consumer Interest ◽  
Continuous Application ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Survey Results

The global economic environment is closely connected with the continuous application of innovation reflecting global trends and market changes. Currently, substantial attention is focused on innovations presenting smart solutions. Their purpose rests in efficiency, economy, environmental friendliness, safety (including health). Moreover, they increase consumers´ comfort. The packaging and its functions represents one of possibilities having considerable potential for sustainable development. It is related to the need to ensure that consumers perceive packaging in the context of sustainable development. The paper deals with consumers’ attitudes to innovative (especially smart) packaging aspects. We focused on the attitude of consumers towards innovative packaging functions by using intelligent solutions and their overall perception of intelligent packaging with regard to their education and income in Slovakia. The survey results allow us identifying the main advantages of packaging functions for better understanding and consequently more effective communication in decision-making processes. The results point to the importance of packaging, especially in the protective, environmental, information and economic areas. The survey was applied as part of the global research and pointed out that consumers perceive this issue as unknown and new. This is the main reason why the results point to low consumer interest in smart packaging.

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