scholarly journals Analysis of the United Territorial Communities Strategies in the Context of Sustainable Development Policy Implementation

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
Yuriy M. Petrushenko ◽  
Anna S. Vorontsova ◽  
Oksana S. Ponomarenko ◽  
Kostiantyn O. Derbenov
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Study Results

The concept of sustainable development has been considered as the main ideological paradigm of human existence. It is oriented not only on economic but also on social and environmental development. Its main ideas are grouped into Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which found their implementation at the national level of different countries, including Ukraine. They are also documented in such important political documents, as programs and strategies of the socio-economic development of the regions and the united territorial communities that have been formed due to the decentralization reform. The research paper analyses the number of SDGs which are adapted to the national (Ukraine) and regional (Sumy) levels. During the study, the aggregated ratings of SDGs according to their significance have been proposed. The study results reveal the priority directions of sustainable development of the whole country and its regional development vector. At the country level, the main trends have been highlighted: firstly economic, which involves the development of industry and infrastructure, increase in innovations, energy efficiency and secondly social, which includes improvement of healthcare, a justice system, and education. As for regional development, the main vectors have also been determined as economic growth, which is primarily due to the betterment in the labor market, the development of industry and infrastructure and social improvement, which is related to poverty reduction and improvements in quality of education, cooperation, and partnership. At the local level, the nine Strategies of united territorial communities of Sumy region were analyzed for using the methodology of sustainable development. Their main priorities have been appealed as followings: the openness, security, vitality and environmental sustainability of cities and towns; the strengthening of the global partnership for sustainable development; the establishment of sustainable infrastructure, the promotion of comprehensive and sustainable industrialization and innovation. Key words: united territorial community, sustainable development, strategy, global sustainable development goal, national sustainable development goal, regional development.

scholarly journals Climate Change Adaptation Mechanism for Sustainable Development Goal 1 in Nigeria: Legal Imperative

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Erimma Gloria Orie
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
The People ◽  
Reduction Strategies ◽  
Environmental Shocks

AbstractDespite international efforts on poverty reduction in the last decade, poverty is rampant in many countries including Nigeria. Poverty remains a principal challenge for development in twenty-first century and a threat to achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1, which is a global attempt, among others, to end poverty by 2030. Meanwhile, 13 out of the 15 countries where extreme poverty is rising are in Africa. According to the World Poverty Clock, Nigeria, by 2018, had the largest extreme poverty population of 86.9 million, thus making the people vulnerable to malnutrition, armed conflict, migration, and other socioeconomic and environmental shocks. Whereas these impacts are exacerbated by climate change (CC), unfortunately, Nigeria’s adaptation efforts are inadequate due to certain impediments. The chapter finds that Nigeria lacks the CC law to properly regulate institutional and policy interventions to impacts of CC. It argues that although adaptation as opposed to mitigation is interim, yet integrating adaptation measures into Sustainable Development (SD) framework and poverty reduction strategies is a potent means of addressing CC impacts on the poor and achieve SDG1 target. The chapter therefore recommends the establishment of CC law in Nigeria that incorporates adaptation measures in poverty reduction strategies and mainstreaming of CC issues.

Social enterprises as a tool for SDG implementation in slovakia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Bumbalová ◽  
Marcela Chreneková
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
National Level ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Territorial Development

The Slovak Republic as a member of the United Nations agreed to contribute to the fulfilment of 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) defined in the document Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite the efforts at the national level, the actual implementation of national priorities, derived from SDGs, at local level is lacking a systematic approach. When it comes to the territorial development, however, Slovakia has recognized the potential of social economy and social enterprises in particular. Concrete steps were taken to stimulate occurrence of this phenomenon especially in the lagging behind regions. The attempt to intersect these two aspects represents the main objective of the presented paper together with an answer to the research question – to what extent can social enterprises be considered as a tool for SDGs’ implementation in Slovakia. Through an extensive work with scientific and grey literature and through the analytical lenses when processing secondary data from the Registry of Social Enterprises of Slovakia, we identified numerous linkages between the reality of social enterprises and their contribution to the SDGs mainly in the area of poverty reduction and inclusion, education, job market, circular economy, usage of local resources and environmental protection.

Sustainable and inclusive – Evaluating urban sustainability indicators’ suitability for measuring progress towards SDG-11

2020 ◽  
pp. 239980832097540
Author(s):  
Ryan Thomas ◽  
Angel Hsu ◽  
Amy Weinfurter
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Urban Sustainability Indicators

The adoption of the sustainable development goals marks a transition in the global sustainability discourse to a growing focus on equity, with urban areas’ role in achieving sustainable and inclusive growth more explicit in sustainable development goal-11. Within this discourse, urban sustainability indicators could be used to monitor environmental quality and equity within individual cities, while promising to deepen our understanding of how urban areas contribute to global environmental sustainability. We examine 484 indicators of urban and regional environmental sustainability sourced from 40 indexes and online data repositories to determine their suitability for measuring both urban environmental performance and equity. Despite the large number of existing indicators related to urban environmental monitoring, we find that they are inadequate as tools for evaluating progress towards sustainable development goal-11’s integrated goal of sustainable and inclusive (i.e. equitable) urban areas, due to a lack of benchmarks, targets, and explicit measurement of equity considerations. Future research should emphasize data collection that can be disaggregated geographically to make it possible to measure distributional equity and establish locally appropriate benchmarks and realistic targets for urban sustainability indicators. Lastly, we argue that utilizing large-scale, high-resolution datasets has the potential to help overcome these data collection challenges.

scholarly journals The Regional Development Assessment of Social Resilience Based on Quantifiable Analyses Apply to Guangfu Village

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Chao Tung Wu ◽  
Yang Ting Shen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Taichung City ◽  
Development Assessment

This research aims to analyze an organization‘s social impact under Social Resilience issue (Herb, 2005) by developing the regional development assessment based on ESG standard. In addition, the assessment is also related with Sustainable Development Goal No.11 (Sustainable cities and communities). The application context is using our regional development assessment to evaluate how an organization can interfere when a community suffers external disturbances. This content could be established a sustainable management to arrange concrete consequences from various aspects of perspectives. It is observed that the assessment indicates that how to evaluate social impact of organizations in the community and scientifically quantitate value for Social Resilience. The framework is based on ESG consisting of Environment, Social, and Governance. This estimate proceeds from testing a non-governmental organization (NGO) or a non-profit organization (NPO) interfering with the regions results in how much their influence is and how large a range of their influence is. The assessment was applied to analyze the region—Guangfu Village in Taichung City, Taiwan. The evaluation was not really phenomenal on the appearance under ESG standard. According to this study, the consequences from the assessment are described as below.Keywords: Social Resilience; ESG; Sustainable Development Goal

scholarly journals Environmentally Sustainable Development of Urban Settlements In India: A Framework For Development of Indicators

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuvojit Sarkar ◽  
T Bhattacharyya
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Sustainable Development Indicators ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
Urban Settlements

There have been numerous efforts worldwide at various scales (global/national/regional/local) in the field of development of sustainable development indicators, focusing on either one or all of its various dimensions, following the Rio Summit in 1992. However, India has fallen behind in the area of development of Sustainable Development Indicators and none of the Indian cities figure in the review of the IISD Compendium, the most comprehensive database to date to keep track of Indicators efforts. A review of the initiatives by several international agencies and countries in formulation of the sustainability indicators though provide necessary guidance, the final framework needs to address the urban sustainability issues in the Indian context. The objective of this paper is to develop a set of indicators at macro and micro level for environmentally sustainable development of the urban settlements in India. It involves recommending an approach, a methodology and a structural framework for deriving the indicators set at various levels focusing on resource dynamics of urban settlements. Domain based classification has been followed wherein domains have been identified based on essential natural and built in resources. Further, for each domain environmental sustainability determinants have been recognised and based on them multilevel indicators have been identified with a goal of greater livability and quality of life. A way forward has been given for the evaluation of indicators for formulation of policies at national level and action plan at local level with stakeholder’s participation.

scholarly journals Linking Responsible Consumption and Production: A Global Assessment of Cropland Use for Agri-Food Production

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Abdullah Shaikh ◽  
Michalis Hadjikakou ◽  
Ozge Geyik ◽  
Brett Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
National Level ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Responsible Consumption ◽  
Environmental Limits

Sustainable Development Goal 12 requires countries to achieve responsible consumption and production patterns without exceeding safe environmental limits for natural resource use. However, little is known about how cropland impacts from the agri-food sector contribute to the exceedance of national environmental limits for consumption and production. Using a multi-regional input-output model, we linked the cropland impacts of agri-food production to countries of consumption while considering the exceedance of production-based and consumption-based environmental limits. We defined national consumption-based environmental limits via the fair-share approach and quantified national production-based environmental limits according to the biophysical limit of available arable land. We then classified countries into quadrants according to their exceedance of consumption and/or production environmental limits. We found that the USA, Australia and other high-income countries were exceeding both consumption-based and production-based environmental limits. High-population but low-income countries such as India and China were within safe consumption-based environmental limits but exceeded production-based environmental limits. Brazil and other countries of the Americas incurred substantial environmental costs due to the conversion of forests into cropland to produce food for export. We identified patterns in international trade relationships that could inform national-level responsible agri-food consumption and production patterns across the global supply chain, thereby contributing to Sustainable Development Goal 12. More stringent regulations and commitments in national and international policies are required to reduce the exceedance of consumption-based and production-based environmental limits and avoid exceeding the global land-system change planetary boundary.

scholarly journals Examination of Mechanisms of Regional Sustainable Development Strategy as Exemplified by the Leningrad Region

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5065-5076
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
National Level ◽  
Retail Trade ◽  
Leningrad Region ◽  
Scoring Method ◽  
Urban District ◽  
Municipal District

Sustainable regional development can be achieved through balanced use and development of the region's industrial potential, improvement of its socioeconomic performance and drawing up a logical and prudent list of priorities and regional development indicators in strategy papers to ensure consistency with the actual economic situation in the region and maximum utilisation of the available development potential. The above highlights the importance of analysing the region's socioeconomic conditions, identifying the weaknesses in development at the national level in general and priority industries in the region in particular and drawing up regional development scenarios to chart the optimum balanced path during the transition toward the digital interaction environment. The aim of the research is to analyse the content of strategy papers in order to identify priority development directions for the region in question, favourable territories at the microlevel for maximum fulfilment of the regional strategy (i.e. municipalities) and priority industries to support the region's balanced development in the long term. For that, the ranking scoring method is proposed for municipalities, which is based on the parametric analysis. The normative inferences are drawn from quantitative comparisons of statistical data for the region and municipalities, i.e. an aggregate score of a municipality is determined based on the selected criteria, according to which the municipality is assigned its rank. Simultaneously, the values for the Leningrad region as a whole are also presented. The method of calculating the indicators of the basic type of economic activity (an integrated set of indicators) is then used to identify the region's priority industry. As a result, municipalities with high socioeconomic profile are identified in the Leningrad region, which are the Vsevolozhsky municipal district, Sosnovoborsky urban district, Lomonosovsky municipal district and Gatchinsky municipal district. These territories show the strongest potential for implementing the mechanisms of sustainable development strategies. The analysis indicated the following priority industries for sustainable development of the Leningrad region: manufacturing, transport and communications, wholesale and retail trade, real estate transactions and construction. Accordingly, targeted financing of modernisation in these industries would lead to sustainable long-term development in the Leningrad region.

scholarly journals Earth Observation for the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 11 Indicators at Local Scale: Monitoring of the Migrant Population Distribution

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 950
Author(s):  
Mariella Aquilino ◽  
Cristina Tarantino ◽  
Maria Adamo ◽  
Angela Barbanente ◽  
Palma Blonda
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Migrant Population ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
The City ◽  
Spatial Distribution Map

This study focused on implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 indicators, at local scale, useful in monitoring urban social resilience. For this purpose, the study focused on updating the distribution map of the migrant population regularly residing in Bari and a neighboring town in Southern Italy. The area is exposed to increasing migration fluxes. The method implemented was based on the integration of Sentinel-2 imagery and updated census information dated 1 January 2019. The study explored a vector-based variant of the dasymetric mapping approach previously used by the Joint Research Center (JRC) within the Data for Integration initiative (D4I). The dasymetric variant implemented can disaggregate data from census areas into a uniform spatial grid by preserving the information complexity of each output grid cell and ensure lower computational costs. The spatial distribution map of regular migrant population obtained, along with other updated ancillary data, were used to quantify, at local level, SDG 11 indicators. In particular, the map of regular migrant population living in inadequate housing (SDG 11.1.1) and the ratio of land consumption rate to regular migrant population growth rate (SDG 11.3.1) were implemented as specific categories of SDG 11 in 2018. At the local level, the regular migrant population density map and the SDG 11 indicator values were provided for each 100 × 100 m cell of an output grid. Obtained for 2018, the spatial distribution map revealed in Bari a high increase of regular migrant population in the same two zones of the city already evidenced in 2011. These zones are located in central parts of the city characterized by urban decay and abandoned buildings. In all remaining city zones, only a slight generalized increase was evidenced. Thus, these findings stress the need for adequate policies to reduce the ongoing process of residential urban segregation. The total of disaggregated values of migrant population evidenced an increase of 44.5% in regular migrant population. The indicators obtained could support urban planners and decision makers not only in the increasing migration pressure management, but also in the local level monitoring of Agenda 2030 progress related to SDG 11.

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