Creative destruction: building toward sustainability

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Hartshorn ◽  
Michael Maher ◽  
Jack Crooks ◽  
Richard Stahl ◽  
Zoë Bond
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Creative Destruction ◽  
Engineering Community ◽  
Planning And Management ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Civil Engineering Infrastructure ◽  
The Impact

The engineering community at large, and the civil engineering community in particular, has the opportunity and arguably the obligation to promote a development agenda that considers not only the economics of development, but also the health of the environment and society at large. In this paper, we contemplate the challenge of sustainable development and its effect on project scale and scope. We discuss the inherent opportunity to drive the "creative destruction" of the development industry, using innovation to exploit inefficiencies in the planning and management of engineering systems to create a range of "future" products and services that challenge existing practice. We review the impact of procurement policy, contract pricing, prescriptive codes, and public policy on innovation. Several examples of innovative design and sustainable development introduced into the planning and management of Canadian civil engineering projects are provided. We assert that the most effective means of promoting the sustainability of built environment and civil infrastructure systems will be through inter- and intra-industry collaboration with the support of public policy-makers.Key words: sustainable development, civil, engineering, infrastructure, innovation, creative destruction, environment, collaboration.

Advanced Composites for Civil Engineering Infrastructures

2018 ◽  
pp. 212-248
Author(s):  
Xia Cui ◽  
Shuzhu Zeng ◽  
Zhen Li ◽  
Qiaofeng Zheng ◽  
Xun Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Construction Cost ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Advanced Composites ◽  
Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites ◽  
Functional Composites ◽  
Civil Engineering Infrastructure

The development of advanced composites not only enhances strength, ductility, durability of materials, and endows materials with the multifunctional property, but also reduces the construction cost and promotes civil engineering infrastructure to make sustainable development. In this chapter, several representative advanced composites with abundant research achievements and wide applications are systematically introduced with regard to cementitious composites, fiber-reinforced polymer composites, novel thermally functional composites, and 3D printing composites in terms of their definitions, properties, research progress, and applications in civil engineering infrastructures.

Work environment, health and the international development agenda

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Hyde ◽  
Töres Theorell
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Development ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Psychosocial Working Conditions ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Impact

This chapter reviews the current debates on the role of work and working conditions in the discourse on international development and explores the impact of vulnerable work and poor psychosocial working conditions on health. The launch of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 is a welcome addition in the fight to secure decent work and ensure health and well-being in developing countries. For decades research from Europe and North America has consistently shown that being exposed to poor psychosocial working conditions, such as not having sufficient control to meet the demands at work or being inadequately rewarded for one's efforts, can have serious negative health consequences. The extent of poor working conditions in these countries today demonstrates just how big a task the UN and associated agencies face in tackling this issue. This in turn raises the question of how Sustainable Development Goal 8, of ensuring decent work for all, will be realised.

scholarly journals Interdependence between international migration and evolution of development gaps

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-100
Author(s):  
Angelica Băcescu-Cărbunaru
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Development Factor ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Migration plays an important role in almost all objectives of sustainable development. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, many authors debated the non-deterministic character of the impact of migration on the development of primarily the countries of origin. Migration as a complex process in globalization has amplified relations between states but there have been very rare reductions in development gaps between them that in turn discourage labour migration. In spite of the increase in well-being based on theory, practice has always revealed an asymmetric development that causes an increase in the differences between emigration and immigration countries. The global strategy for poverty eradication adopted by world leaders in 2000 did not include migration-related targets, probably because the link between migration and development had not yet been properly perceived. Since then, studies, policy analyzes, international forums and migration recommendations have focused on policy-making in practice, including efforts to support migration concerns in the post-2015 development agenda. Various ideas and recommendations were presented during that data on the most appropriate way to use the migration-development link to maximize its positive effects. In 2015 was adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Starting with these documents, the contribution of migration to sustainable development was officially recognized for the first time. From the beginning remittances have played an important role in setting migration as the most important development factor. We sustained that this view, on which allmost all national policies are based, distorts the notion of development and hide the main causes of current labor migration. In this context, this study also attempts to analyze the two-way relation between the factors that determine human development (income, education and health) and international migration. Managing migration is one of the most important issues of global cooperation.

The Future of Human Rights in WHO

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavia Bustreo ◽  
Veronica Magar ◽  
Rajat Khosla ◽  
Marcus Stahlhofer ◽  
Rebekah Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines how the Sustainable Development Agenda—with its focus on equity, gender equality, and human rights—has provided an unprecedented opportunity to advance human rights within the World Health Organization (WHO). It looks at how human rights are increasingly permeating the Organization’s work, both implicitly and explicitly, and how this paves the way for a bolder vision for human rights in health. Through this examination, the authors lay out a strategy for three necessary shifts that would set WHO on an unprecedented path toward greater rights-based health governance: the adoption of a Resolution by WHO’s governing body on health, both as a human right and as a means to achieve human rights (“to health and through health”); greater collaboration between WHO and the UN human rights system to promote rights-based approaches to health; and building evidence of the impact of such approaches on health.

scholarly journals Globalisation And Public Policy In Nigeria: Challenges And Prospects

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Love Arugu ◽  
Ogedi Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
The Impact

This paper attempts to look at the impact of globalisation on public policy as it affects the economic development in Nigeria. The main proposition of this paper is that Nigeria cannot comfront the challenges of contemporary globalisation without a sustained effort to develop her economic foundations. This is because globalisation will most likely be utilitarian if its end can foster domestic development agenda. The paper was anchored on the Marxist Theory of State. The import of this approach to the paper is that it proceeds from a holistic examination of the country's historical experience and its implication for the present day political economy. The research design was historical-descriptive research design and the data were obtained through secondary sources. Content analysis was used in analyzing the data obtained. The paper concludes that many poor countries like Nigeria liberalised its economy without adequate preparation and precaution. The paper recommended inter-alia that Nigeria should formulate economic policies that recognises her specific needs and circumstances in order to promote inclusive economic development.

scholarly journals Vehicle platooning: Environmental aspects

Tehnika ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-363
Author(s):  
Olga Bogdanov ◽  
Nataša Bojković ◽  
Marijana Petrović
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Reduce Fuel Consumption ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Vehicle Platooning ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
The Impact

Environmental protection is actively becoming one of the main issues of the Sustainable Development Agenda, and is therefore in the focus of various scientific papers and publications. In the context of vehicle platooning, the environment represents an important area, considering that some of the main goals of this transport technology are to reduce fuel consumption and the reduction of harmful gas emissions. Both goals are achievable when optimizing the speed of vehicles in the convoy, but they also depend on the number of vehicles in the convoy, the type of road they travel on, the weight/mass they carry, as well as the weather conditions. This paper will provide insights into platooning simulations and researches conducted in real conditions, which will focus on the impact of this transportation technology on the environment.

scholarly journals Global sustainability: policy networks for the Sustainable Development Goals

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Hassall ◽  
Marjan Van den Belt
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Sustainability ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Sustainability Policy

This article focuses on public policy networks, but more particularly on those that are global in scope and intent.  It examines how such networks are being deployed to advance the goals of the Sustainable Development Agenda, and how the New Zealand government and non-government actors might be involved. Networks have become an important tool in policy making at all levels of government. 

The Relationship between Architectural Materials and Human Settlements

2014 ◽  
Vol 672-674 ◽  
pp. 1843-1846
Author(s):  
Li Xia He ◽  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Tao Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Human Settlement ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Manufacturing Performance ◽  
Development Direction ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Engineering Projects

This paper expounds the relationship between architectural materials and human settlement and elaborates the importance of production, manufacturing, performance and quality of architectural materials in protecting the environment and improving human settlements proceeding from the impact of architectural material improvement on civil engineering projects and human settlements. In addition, this Paper expounds the development direction and importance of new architectural materials proceeding from resource and energy conservation, natural environment and ecological balance protection, sustainable development of civil engineering and human settlements improvement.

What is the post-2015 development agenda? A look from the underlying disaster risk drivers

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Sarmiento
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Development Agendas ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the current and projected impacts of the three post-2015 development agendas on the underlying disaster risk drivers (UDRD): the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Paris COP21 Agreement. Design/methodology/approach The methodology is based on an ontological process, understood as an exhaustive analysis of the properties and relationships of an entity or subject of study. Findings The process characterized and linked the objectives proposed in the three agendas through the impact of the expected results on the underlying risk drivers. First, elements related to disaster risk within each agenda were identified. Then, in following the theory of change, a series of tools were used to identify domains of change, pathways, breakthroughs, and incremental outcomes that counteract the construction of disaster risk by acting on the underlying causes. It is essential that there be coherence, complementarity, and interdependence between the three agendas analyzed in order to transcend beyond the desired economic growth, and thus underpin true sustainable development by focusing on the UDRD. Originality/value Applying the theory of change constitutes a novel approach to identify the pathways or domains of change needed to integrate the three 2015 development agendas.

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