scholarly journals Empowering the Community or Escape Daily Routine—A Voluntourism Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 12032
Author(s):  
José Abreu ◽  
Marisa R. Ferreira ◽  
Beatriz Casais
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
High Income ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Community Or ◽  
International Volunteers ◽  
Direct Contribution

On the edges of tourism, volunteering, and travel, we find voluntourism with tourists, mainly from high-income countries, looking for an alternative form of travel that promises sustainable development of destinations. The aim of the paper is to explore voluntourism through motivations and impacts, as well as aggregate different volunteers in categories, in order to better understand this phenomenon. The results of a questionnaire answered by 65 international volunteers show seven motivations and a lack of attention on the local projects. More than half of the volunteers are considered to have short participations in projects, considering the destination as a very important aspect, have minimal skills, and have a passive participation, as a minimal direct contribution. Generically, our research may help to highlight and boost the voluntourism experience, creating positive and transformative changes.

scholarly journals Creating the Habit of Recycling in Early Childhood: A Sustainable Practice in Spain

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 6393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Buil ◽  
Olga Roger-Loppacher ◽  
Mireia Tintoré
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Teaching Unit ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

Early childhood education on sustainability has been an issue of high relevance in the last decade. In Spain, many different efforts have been made to increase children’s knowledge, skills, and awareness related to sustainability issues. However, uncertainty about the effectiveness of education on sustainable development exists. This research reports on an exploratory study organized by the association that promotes aluminum packaging recycling in Spain (Arpal). Seven teachers were trained on sustainability in general and on aluminum packaging recycling in particular. These teachers defined and implemented a teaching unit with active learning activities that involved three preschools. Fifty-four children under 6 years of age, mainly 2 and 3 years old, along with their parents, participated in the teaching unit. Qualitative and quantitative methods (questionnaires, in-depth interviews, and focus groups) were carried out to assess the impact. The results proved that different partners, such as children, parents, teachers, managers, and associations, can work together with the common goal of improving education on sustainable development in early childhood, and all of them benefit from this collaboration. Moreover, this study confirmed that education on sustainability should be embedded in the daily routine of preschools. Furthermore, after the exploratory study, the teaching unit was implemented in 29 Andalusian preschools.

scholarly journals Beyond Food Security: Challenges in Food Safety Policies and Governance along a Heterogeneous Agri-Food Chain and Its Effects on Health Measures and Sustainable Development in Mexico

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yesica Mayett-Moreno ◽  
Juan López Oglesby
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
High Income ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Domestic Markets ◽  
Food Policies

This work describes the relevance of food policies and governance to reach food safety issues along a heterogeneous food chain, in the context of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) food security definition. Using personal interviews with agents in the food chain, and secondary data from 2014–2018, this exploratory research demonstrated that: (a) Mexican food policies regarding food safety are oriented to the exports markets and/or high income producers-consumers; (b) this has split the agri-food chain in two: one serving international and/or high income consumers, and another serving domestic markets; (c) the agri-food chain that serves domestic markets experiences regulatory budget shortfalls, lacks coordination in food regulations across its agents, and brings about alternate informal markets that put peoples’ health and financial stability at risk, especially those lower-income consumers. Only 0.7% of producers, 12.5% of supermarkets and 42.8% of restaurants have some type of food safety certifications. This is worsened by the way public resources have been distributed, focused, prioritized, and planned. If the differences between big, medium and small producers continue to increase, it will increase regional and individual inequality, leading to two different countries: one developed and one developing, challenging its sustainable development.

Wenn Millionen eine Reise tun ...

2002 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-226
Author(s):  
Jörg Hübner
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Tourist Industry ◽  
Theological Ethics ◽  
The People ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Rates Of Growth ◽  
At Home

Abstract Tourism is a less observed subject in theological ethics. In traditional theological ethics tourism is only understood as escape from everyday's Iife or as an expression ofpeople finding to themselves away from their daily routine. Both of those ways of looking at the theme of tourism don't allow to Iook at the subject in a responsible way regarding all the consequences oftoday's tourism since it plays an important role in the economy with enormaus rates of growth. Those facts challenge theological ethics tagether with the people incharge of the tourist industry to find ways of how the rights of travellers and the rights of people in tourist countries are taken into account. The article tries to take up such a position. Quality seals for tourist places, taxes on petrol for aeroplanes and plans for regions are means to include tourism in a sustainable development. Looking at tourism in such a way can save jobs in tourist countries and contributes to a gain for the tourists at the same time. By that the article doesn't follow the arguments of social ethics that either judges the motivation of tourists or suggests holidays at home as an alternative to current tourism.

Prospects for sustainable development goals in 2021

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
High Income ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Development Goals

Significance Before the onset of COVID-19, no country was on track for achieving all 17 SDGs, including high income countries. In the wake of the pandemic, the challenges are significantly greater.

How does a customer prefer community or brand? The impacts of customer experience on customer loyalty based on the perspective of value co-creation

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-302
Author(s):  
Qingjuan Bu ◽  
Yongsheng Jin ◽  
Zhaohui Li
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Brand Loyalty ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Brand Community ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Entertainment Value

PurposeWith the development of social networking service and WeMedia, virtual brand community has become a typical platform of value co-creation and customers have become a core subject of value co-creation. The high proportion of negative members and even zombie members has become an obstacle to the sustainable development of many communities. Then, how to maintain and promote the sustainable development of virtual brand community? The purpose of this article is to examine how customers prefer community or brand.Design/methodology/approachThis paper obtained data through an online questionnaire survey to test the proposed hypotheses of this study.FindingsThe findings of this study indicated that practical and social values not only promote customers to be loyal toward community but also drive customers to be loyal toward brand and their influence on community loyalty is greater than on brand loyalty, but entertainment value does not significantly affect community and brand loyalty. The effect of practical and social values on community loyalty is fully mediated by the effect of brand loyalty, and the effect of practical and social values on brand loyalty is fully mediated by the effect of community loyalty.Originality/valueThis research enriches the research study’s results of value co-creation theory and customer assets, thus providing a new perspective for research on customer loyalty.

The Austerity Decade 2010-20

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-157
Author(s):  
Isabel Ortiz ◽  
Matthew Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
International Monetary Fund ◽  
Government Spending ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
High Income ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
Fiscal Adjustment ◽  
Fiscal Space ◽  
Negative Impacts

In the wake of the financial, food and fuel crises, a fourth ‘F’ shockwave hit the global economy in 2010: fiscal adjustment. It would mark the onset of a prolonged period of budget cuts that is now projected to continue at least through 2020 in high-income and developing countries alike. This article: (i) examines International Monetary Fund (IMF) government spending projections for 187 countries from 2005 to 2020, indicating a decade of austerity from 2010 onwards; (ii) reviews 616 IMF country reports in 183 countries to identify the main adjustment measures; and (iii) discusses the negative impacts of austerity on jobs and welfare, pointing to alternative policies to identify fiscal space for equitable and sustainable development. Note that this analysis was done prior to COVID-19, and the estimates for 2019 and 2020 reflect pre-pandemic projections.

scholarly journals Role of Spirituality in Sustainable Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4S) ◽  
pp. 53-55
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Positive Thinking ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
General Belief ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Material Development ◽  
Loving Kindness ◽  
As Stress

Looking beyond the materialistic boundary of the conventional development paradigm, it is very important to keep a balance between the external changes and the changes which needs to be done within. Unfortunately Conventional development’s overemphasis on external changes, and it ignores inner changes, it may be because of the reflection of the prevailing general belief. Now a day the sense of ‘I’, self-centeredness and greed which is actually an inherent human characteristics common to all human beings is seen to be taking the charge of the personality and becoming dominant. As we all are talking about the Globalization, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics all this put together will definitely create a competition where the human beings will have to prove themselves better than the machines, this may lead to various problems such as stress, anxiety, depression, performance anxiety so forth and so on. The fundamental differences between the machines and human beings can be explained as; human beings are having (1) Empathy – the capacity to sense others’ feelings, (2) Loving kindness – the wish of others’ happiness, (3) Compassion – the wish to alleviate others’ suffering and (4) Generosity – the willingness to share one’s wealth with others in order to reduce their suffering. In other words we can say that the human beings are having thought ware. There is a need to understand that merely achieving money or position cannot be the sole measure to decide the success or failure of a person. Currently various initiatives are taken on design thinking, positive thinking and meditation. Even the school children are also having meditation as a part of their daily routine. It is seen that many of the youngsters are becoming victim of depression and fail to maintain their mental balance. The researcher strongly feels that for having a sustainable development people need to be spiritually ignited. In this paper the researcher has tried to relate the sustainable development with spirituality. For material development to be sustainable, spiritual advancement must be seen as an integral part of the human development algorithm.

OS ARRANJOS COMERCIAIS DE ARTEFATOS TRADICIONAIS NO SETOR AMANÃ – RESERVA DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL AMANÃ

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
Thatyana De Souza Marques
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Regional Markets ◽  
Kin Relationship

The production of objects for use employing traditional techniques still exists in riverine communities, despite the growing insertion of industrial objects in homes. But in general, the objects still present in such communities are not made by its residents, but bought from traders in local or regional markets. Of nineteen locations visited in the Amanã Sector - Sustainable Development Reserve of Amanã/AM - about nineteen families engage themselves in the production of artifacts for sale as a systematic economic activity. It was found that trade arrangements for the selling of artifacts by artisans of Amanã are mainly done in a straight-to-the- consumer basis, being either among families of the community or among nearby communities that usually keep a kin relationship among themselves.

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