scholarly journals Can a Water Smart Grid Help Society Achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of Water as a Human Right?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akhenaton-Andrew Jones
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Smart Grid ◽  
Positive Outcome ◽  
The United States ◽  
Equitable Access ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Development Goals

In the spirit of measuring what we care about, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide guidelines to measure ``universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.'' In this work, I show where permanent or semi-permanent, autonomous or semi-autonomous technologies (objects, not processes) can measure and induce progress toward those goals and where they cannot. To do this, I apply the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework to each of the seven normative definitions from the SDGs as ``action arenas.'' For each normative definition, I examine if technologies exist or can be created to effect a positive outcome for consumers in that particular action arena using nine evaluative criteria. This analysis is applied to the United States as a case study considering its physical systems, regulations, and governance structures. This work, combined with efforts to translate the United States' systems and structures, can lead to multinational applicability. This paper examines how and when a water smart grid can and cannot be used effectively. I conclude that the material artifacts of a water smart grid can advance the SDG of safety and affordability. However, technology alone cannot assign people to jurisdictions, limiting its ability to advance goals of universal and equitable access.

scholarly journals U.S. Aid and Moving Towards the Sustainable Development Goals in Aid Recipient Countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Maria Beletskaya
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The United States ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Per Capita

The article examines the connection between international development assistance provided by the United States and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the recipient countries. It shows the change in approaches to international development aid and SDGs during the presidencies of Obama, Trump and Biden. Author discusses the problems of assessing the results and effectiveness of aid at the macro level and makes a quantitative assessment of the relationship between indicators of international aid, the index of sustainable development and macroeconomic indicators of countries receiving US assistance. The article concludes that no relationship could be identified between the indicators of the provision of international assistance provided by the United States and the indicators of the sustainable development index of the countries receiving this assistance. At the same time, there is a relationship between the indicators of GDP per capita and the Sustainable Development Index. There are also signs of a relationship between the Sustainable Development Index and the volume of US aid per capita, of the recipient country - a lower Sustainable Development Index of a country is usually accompanied by a higher level of aid per capita.

Engaging the Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-15
Author(s):  
Sarah Whipple ◽  
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Shardul Tiwari ◽  
Tashiana C. Osborne ◽  
Gillian Bowser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The United States ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

The authors present a new approach to show how interdisciplinary collaborations among a group of institutions can provide a unique opportunity for students to engage across the science-policy nexus using the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Through collaboration across seven higher education institutions in the United States and Australia, virtual student research teams worked together across disciplines.

scholarly journals The Contribution of Migration to Sustainable Development: Western Vector of Migration from Central Asia (the US Case)

2020 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 02003
Author(s):  
Mara Gubaidullina ◽  
Zhasira Idrysheva ◽  
Gabit Zhumatay ◽  
Laura Issova ◽  
Almagul Kulbayeva
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Migration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Central Asian Republics

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes for the first time the favorable contribution of migration to sustainable development. This document is called the “declaration of interdependence”, which is especially true for migration, which connects countries of origin and destination countries and has a huge impact on the lives of millions of migrants and their families. In the context of globalization, international migration has become a key challenge for both global development as well as for some state actors. At the present time there are several attractive centers on the planet for migration, which include highly advanced European Union countries, the United States, Canada and others. Although a number of issues of the migration process from the Central Asian republics to the United States are considered to be typical for any nation in the context of globalization, there are some regional peculiarities. The issue of immigration of the Central Asians to the United States is undoubtedly relatively a new and less studied phenomenon. The article provides a comparative analysis of the causes and consequences of the migration movement “overseas” in a country context, and its impact on diaspora relations. The goal of the article is to analyze of the migration process from the Central Asian republics to the United States in connection with international migration trends in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM).

scholarly journals Sport and the Sustainable Development Goals: Where is the policy coherence?

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 793-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Lindsey ◽  
Paul Darby
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Policy Coherence ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Goals

This article addresses the urgent need for critical analysis of the relationships between sport and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals enshrined in the United Nations’ global development framework, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Importantly, there has yet to be any substantial academic exploration of the implications of the position accorded to sport as ‘an important enabler’ of the aims of 2030 Agenda and its broad set of Sustainable Development Goals. In beginning to address this gap, we draw on the concept of policy coherence for two reasons. First, the designation of a specific Target for policy coherence in the 2030 Agenda is recognition of its centrality in working towards Sustainable Development Goals that are considered as ‘integrated and indivisible’. Second, the concept of policy coherence is centred on a dualism that enables holistic examination of both synergies through which the contribution of sport to the Sustainable Development Goals can be enhanced as well as incoherencies by which sport may detract from such outcomes. Our analysis progresses through three examples that respectively focus on: the common orientation of the Sport for Development and Peace ‘movement’ towards education-orientated objectives aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 4; potential synergies between sport participation policies and the Sustainable Development Goal 3 Target for reducing non-communicable diseases; and practices within professional football in relation to several migration-related Sustainable Development Goal Targets. These examples show the relevance of the Sustainable Development Goals across diverse sectors of the sport industry and illustrate complexities within and across countries that make pursuit of comprehensive policy coherence infeasible. Nevertheless, our analyses lead us to encourage both policy makers and researchers to continue to utilise the concept of policy coherence as a valuable lens to identify and consider factors that may enable and constrain various potential contributions of sport to a range of Sustainable Development Goals.

scholarly journals Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Targets: A Possible Harmonisation? Insights from the European Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigi Petti ◽  
Claudia Trillo ◽  
Busisiwe Ncube Makore
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
National Level ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
National Databases

The Agenda 2030 includes a set of targets that need to be achieved by 2030. Although none of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focuses exclusively on cultural heritage, the resulting Agenda includes explicit reference to heritage in SDG 11.4 and indirect reference to other Goals. Achievement of international targets shall happen at local and national level, and therefore, it is crucial to understand how interventions on local heritage are monitored nationally, therefore feeding into the sustainable development framework. This paper is focused on gauging the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals with reference to cultural heritage, by interrogating the current way of classifying it (and consequently monitoring). In fact, there is no common dataset associated with monitoring SDGs, and the field of heritage is extremely complex and diversified. The purpose for the paper is to understand if the taxonomy used by different national databases allows consistency in the classification and valuing of the different assets categories. The European case study has been chosen as field of investigation, in order to pilot a methodology that can be expanded in further research. A cross-comparison of a selected sample of publicly accessible national cultural heritage databases has been conducted. As a result, this study confirms the existence of general harmonisation of data towards the achievement of the SDGs with a broad agreement of the conceptualisation of cultural heritage with international frameworks, thus confirming that consistency exists in the classification and valuing of the different assets categories. However, diverse challenges of achieving a consistent and coherent approach to integrating culture in sustainability remains problematic. The findings allow concluding that it could be possible to mainstream across different databases those indicators, which could lead to depicting the overall level of attainment of the Agenda 2030 targets on heritage. However, more research is needed in developing a robust correlation between national datasets and international targets.

s.One Norms and Principles, 4 The Rights-Based Approach to Health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bustreo Flavia ◽  
Doebbler Curtis FJ
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
Development Goals

This chapter describes the rights-based approach to health. This approach is based on the human right to health but looks beyond that right to focus on cross-cutting human rights principles for ensuring that health outcomes are achieved in a manner consistent with the foundational values of human rights. The rights-based approach to health is thus a key strategy in the development and implementation of health policy – based on principles of participation, equality and non-discrimination, transparency, and accountability. Examining these human rights principles, the rights-based approach has developed from rhetoric to practice, guiding health policy so as to provide for the highest attainable level of health for all. Nevertheless, the rights-based approach to health faces challenges as health and human rights address a larger global health landscape of state and non-state actors and find new meaning under the Sustainable Development Goals.

scholarly journals Sustainability of Educational Technologies: An Approach to Augmented Reality Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 4091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilio Abad-Segura ◽  
Mariana-Daniela González-Zamar ◽  
Antonio Luque-de la Luque-de la Rosa ◽  
María Belén Morales Cevallos
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Scientific Productivity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
University Education ◽  
Main Category ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Number Of Publications

Technological advancements have posed a challenge to educational institutions in the sustainability of management, research and teaching activities. Virtual technologies have allowed digital transformation to be incorporated into university education—among them, augmented reality (AR). The study examined the evolution of global research on this topic in the period 2005–2019. A bibliometric analysis of 1977 articles was performed, obtaining results of scientific productivity. The evidence showed a growing interest in studying the sustainability of AR in higher education. According to the results, the main category was computer science; the most productive journal was Computer and Education; the authors with the largest number of publications were Nee and Ong, while Wang was the most frequently cited author; the most productive institution was the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology; the United States was the country with the largest number of publications and citations; and, finally, the United States and Spain were the countries with the largest number of international collaborations in their articles. Five lines of research were identified, among which those oriented to the topics of technological resources, computer, simulation, education and learning stand out. It was verified that this research topic has a growing and dynamic interest in scientific activity, and its sustainable approach is confirmed by being linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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