Environmental Degradation, Sustainable Development and Human Well-being: Evidence from India

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barun Kumar Thakur ◽  
Himanshu Sekhar Rout ◽  
Tamali Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Water Contamination ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Millennium Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Water Borne

Environmental problems are multidisciplinary in nature. Some problems are global and regional while some are local. This paper is an attempt to study the local environmental problems in India and establish their linkage with environmental degradation and human well-being. It also lists India's major environmental problems and suggests changes in policies for sustainable development in India. The paper particularly focuses on water and water contamination related water-borne diseases which affect human well-being and other health aspects. Due to such hindrances, India is finding it hard to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of environmental sustainability.

scholarly journals Environmental Education in Environmental Engineering: Analysis of the Situation in Colombia and Latin America

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7239
Author(s):  
Pedro Mauricio Acosta Castellanos ◽  
Araceli Queiruga-Dios ◽  
Ascensión Hernández Encinas ◽  
Libia Cristina Acosta
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
University Education ◽  
Educational Models ◽  
Development Goals

Environmental education (EE) has become the only tool for environmental sustainability in training processes in Colombia, for basic cycles in primary and secondary, as well as university education. EE tends to transform human actions in nature, based on multidisciplinary knowledge that supports decision-making. Its goal is to generate a change in social behavior in order to achieve the recovery, conservation, and preservation of the environment. In Colombia, education for sustainable development (ESD) is embedded in EE. These educational models (EE and ESD) seek to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs), which generally seek the economic and social well-being of nations, both for current and future generations. Environmental engineering is a relatively new degree course in Colombia and Latin America since it appeared in the mid-nineties, and it must involve EE within its curriculum. Students are trained in this trend. This research intends to demonstrate, through a curricular review of the environmental engineering curricula and also surveying students from this degree, the level of inclusion of EE in Latin America. Strengths are identified in the curricula, such as the strong presence of EE in disciplinary subjects and opportunities for improvement based on the needs of the students. The situation in South America is also included in this study.

Environmental Education and Its Effects on Environmental Sustainability

2021 ◽  
pp. 182-199
Author(s):  
Joan Mwihaki Nyika ◽  
Fredrick M. Mwema
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The North ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Resource Degradation

Environmental education (EE) for sustainable development remains a valuable subject of contemporary society, which is characterized with environmental issues such as climate change, pollution, loss of biodiversity, and resource degradation. The delivery of EE is based on the North American Association for environmental education values of knowledge, dispositions, competencies, and responsible behavior towards the environment. EE is a transformative tool to learners since it prepares learners with skills, attitudes, knowledge, and values to resolve environmental problems. It promotes environmental activism and action-oriented resolution of environmental issues. The full benefits of EE are challenged by limited human capacity, questionable professionalism, limited resources, and poor transformation of knowledge to practice. These challenges however can be alleviated through community engagement in formulating EE programs, multidisciplinary engagements, and research on EE delivery and quality.

scholarly journals Education for Sustainable Development as Strategy for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: A Literature Review

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Lou E. Neri
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Keywords Education

The World Health Organization (2003) stated that there is growing evidence that changes in the global climate will have profound effects on the well-being of citizens in countries throughout the world. The “business as usual” frame of mind in dealing with this phenomenon is no longer feasible. Rather, there is a great need for a “sense of urgency” to empower and actively involve every individual to adapt and to mitigate the worsening of climate change. A great number of studies show that the leadership of the educational system in developed countries for more than 2 decades has been successful in promoting environmental sustainability. Some of these studies are reviewed and documented in this paper so that vulnerable countries may learn and benchmark from their experiences. Keywords - Education, sustainable development, climate change

scholarly journals When multi-functional landscape meets Critical Zone science: advancing multi-disciplinary research for sustainable human well-being

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Luo ◽  
Yihe Lü ◽  
Bojie Fu ◽  
Paul Harris ◽  
Lianhai Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Critical Zone ◽  
First Century ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Functional Orientation

Abstract Environmental degradation has become one of the major obstacles to sustainable development and human well-being internationally. Scientific efforts are being made to understand the mechanism of environmental degradation and sustainability. Critical Zone (CZ) science and research on the multi-functional landscape are emerging fields in Earth science that can contribute to such scientific efforts. This paper reviews the progress, similarities and current status of these two scientific research fields, and identifies a number of opportunities for their synergistic integration through functional and multi-functional approaches, process-based monitoring, mechanistic analyses and dynamic modeling, global long-term and networked monitoring and systematic modeling supported by scaling and deep coupling. These approaches proposed in this paper have the potential to support sustainable human well-being by strengthening a functional orientation that consolidates multi-functional landscape research and CZ science. This is a key challenge for sustainable development and human well-being in the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Evolution of international commitments for fisheries sustainability

2013 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jake Rice
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Fish Stocks ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
International Commitments ◽  
Fisheries Sustainability ◽  
Ocean Law

Abstract Rice, J. 2014. Evolution of international commitments for fisheries sustainability. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 71: 157–165. The basic standards for the sustainability of fisheries were set by international policy in the UN Fish Stocks Agreement (FSA). However, each year since the FSA was ratified, the United Nations General Assembly has negotiated and agreed to resolutions on Ocean Law of the Sea and on Sustainable Fisheries. This paper reviews chronologically how the interpretation of “sustainability” has evolved in those resolutions, as well as been addressed in the decadal world summits on sustainable development. Although the basic biological benchmarks for sustainability have not been altered by these resolutions, commitments for the standards to be met by all ecosystem components impacted by fishing have become increasingly strong. The annual resolutions have increasingly stressed that environmental sustainability is critically important, but is not more important than social well-being aspects of sustainability, with fisheries having a vital role in sustainable development in many parts of the world. In addition, agreements on biodiversity conservation made largely in Oceans and Law of the Sea resolutions are increasingly influencing the nature and pace of evolution of how “sustainability” is interpreted in fisheries.

scholarly journals Encouraging and Enabling Lifestyles and Behaviours to Simultaneously Promote Environmental Sustainability, Health and Equity: Key Policy Messages from INHERIT

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (19) ◽  
pp. 7166
Author(s):  
Ingrid Stegeman ◽  
Alba Godfrey ◽  
Maria Romeo-Velilla ◽  
Ruth Bell ◽  
Brigit Staatsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Feedback Loops ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Facilitators And Barriers ◽  
Sustainable Societies

Human consumption and activity are damaging the global ecosystem and the resources on which we rely for health, well-being and survival. The COVID-19 crisis is yet another manifestation of the urgent need to transition to more sustainable societies, further exposing the weaknesses in health systems and the injustice in our societies. It also underlines that many of the factors leading to environmental degradation, ill health and social and health inequities are interlinked. The current situation provides an unprecedented opportunity to invest in initiatives that address these common factors and encourage people to live more healthily and sustainably. Such initiatives can generate the positive feedback loops needed to change the systems and structures that shape our lives. INHERIT (January 2016–December 2019), an ambitious, multisectoral and transnational research project that involved 18 organisations across Europe, funded by the European Commission, explored such solutions. It identified, defined and analysed promising inter-sectoral policies, practices and approaches to simultaneously promote environmental sustainability, protect and promote health and contribute to health equity (the INHERIT “triple-win”) and that can encourage and enable people to live, move and consume more healthfully and sustainably. It also explored the facilitators and barriers to working across sectors and in public private cooperation. The insights were brought together in guidelines setting out how policy makers can help instigate and support local “triple-win” initiatives that influence behaviours as an approach to contributing to the change that is so urgently needed to stem environmental degradation and the interlinked threats to health and wellbeing. This article sets out this guidance, providing timely insights on how to “build back better” in the post pandemic era.

scholarly journals ‘When you preach water and you drink wine’: WASH in healthcare facilities in Kenya

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thelma Zulfawu Abu ◽  
Susan J. Elliott ◽  
Diana Karanja
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Informal Settlement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Infection Prevention And Control ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Healthcare Facilities

Abstract Access to basic water, sanitation and hygiene, waste management and environment cleaning (WASH) in healthcare facilities (HCFs) is critical for infection prevention and control. The WHO/UNICEF 2019 global baseline report on WASH in HCFs indicates that 51 and 23% of those in sub-Saharan Africa have basic access to water and sanitation, respectively. Guided by the political ecology of health theory, this research engaged with 13 key informants, 16 healthcare workers and 31 community members on their experiences on the implementation, use and management of WASH in HCFs. Interviews were conducted in one informal settlement and three rural dispensaries in Kisumu, Kenya from May to September 2019. Findings indicate improvement in water access, yet water quality and other WASH service components remain a challenge even in newly constructed maternity facilities, thus impacting local health promotion efforts. Institutional challenges such as limited financial resources and ecological factors like climate variability and disease outbreaks compromised WASH infrastructure and HCF resilience. To achieve Sustainable Development Goal 3, good health and well-being, as well as Sustainable Development Goal 6, clean water and sanitation, the prioritisation of WASH in HCFs is required at all levels, from the local to the global.

scholarly journals Influence of Assistive Technology in Attaining Sustainable Development Goal 3: An Indian Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1S3) ◽  
pp. 546-550
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Status ◽  
Development Goals

World now tries to move on sustainable development. This means development of the current generation without affecting future generations’ rights on environment, employability, healthy life. Towards this end United Nations drafted 17 Sustainable development goals to be achieved in the year 2030. Sustainable Development Goal 3, states that countries should “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all persons with disabilities”. Disabled persons will be in the marginal position in the society because of the disability. Disabled can be helped by assistive technology. Assistive technology will help in many ways, such as (i) assisting to live, or (ii) to have improvement in their disability, (iii) to assess the level of disability, (iv) to train disabled to overcome disability. This paper analyses the status of disabled in the India, various types of disabled persons with statistics, their condition in the society and the challenges in utilizing these devices for the upliftment of the disabled

scholarly journals Limitations of the implementation of the concept of sustainable development in a coal mining region (the case of the Kemerovo region - Kuzbass)

2021 ◽  
Vol 315 ◽  
pp. 04021
Author(s):  
Olga Zonova ◽  
Natalia Kudrevatykh ◽  
Oksana Sheveleva ◽  
Ekaterina Slesarenko ◽  
Nina Vagina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Environmental Burden ◽  
Mining Region ◽  
The Social

A three-pronged approach to sustainable development of coalmining regions, which involves the combination of social stability, economic efficiency and environmental sustainability, is discussed in the article. The factors that restrain the increase in the social well-being of the population and the reduction of the environmental burden are identified in the context of the presented limitations on the implementation of the concept of sustainable development of coal mining territories.

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