scholarly journals Knowledge for Justice: Critical Perspectives from Southern African-Nordic Research Partnerships

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tor Halvorsen ◽  
Hilde Ibsen ◽  
Henri-Count Evans ◽  
Sharon Penderis
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Social Environmental

With the adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, the purpose of development is being redefined in both social and environmental terms. Despite pushback from conservative forces, change is accelerating in many sectors. To drive this transformation in ways that bring about social, environmental and economic justice at a local, national, regional and global levels, new knowledge and strong cross-regional networks capable of foregrounding different realities, needs and agendas will be essential. In fact, the power of knowledge matters today in ways that humanity has probably never experienced before, placing an emphasis on the roles of research, academics and universities. In this collection, an international diverse collection of scholars from the southern African and Nordic regions critically review the SDGs in relation to their own areas of expertise, while placing the process of knowledge production in the spotlight. In Part I, the contributors provide a sober assessment of the obstacles that neo-liberal hegemony presents to substantive transformation. In Part Two, lessons learned from North-South research collaborations and academic exchanges are assessed in terms of their potential to offer real alternatives. In Part III, a set of case studies supply clear and nuanced analyses of the scale of the challenges faced in ensuring that no one is left behind. This accessible and absorbing collection will be of interest to anyone interested in North-South research networks and in the contemporary debates on the role of knowledge production. The Southern African-Nordic Centre (SANORD) is a network of higher education institutions that stretches across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Universities in the southern African and Nordic regions that are not yet members are encouraged to join.

scholarly journals Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG): What Is Wrong with ESDGs, and What Can We Do Better?

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Helen Kopnina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Ecological Justice ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Social Environmental

This article will discuss social, environmental, and ecological justice in education for sustainable development (ESD) and Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG). The concept of sustainable development and, by extension, the ESD, places heavy emphasis on the economic and social aspects of sustainability. However, the ESD falls short of recognizing ecological justice, or recognition that nonhumans also have a right to exist and flourish. An intervention in the form of an undergraduate course titled Politics, Business, and Environment (PBE) will be discussed. As part of this course, students were asked to reflect on the three pillars of sustainable development: society, economy, and environment, linking these to the fourth concept, ecological justice or biospheric egalitarianism. Biospheric egalitarianism is characterized by the recognition of intrinsic value in the environment and is defined as concern about justice for the environment. Some of the resulting exam answers are analyzed, demonstrating students’ ability to recognize the moral and pragmatic limitations of the anthropocentric approach to justice. This analysis presents ways forward in thinking about the role of “ecological justice” as the ultimate bottom line upon which both society and economy are based.

scholarly journals Virtual Capacity Building for International Research Collaborations in Times of COVID-19 and #Flygskam

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Richter ◽  
Elizabeth Gabe-Thomas ◽  
Carya Maharja ◽  
Thu Ha Nguyen ◽  
Quyen Van Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
International Travel ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Travel Restrictions ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Collaboration And Communication ◽  
New Situation

In the wake of the current global pandemic, international travel is restricted. This poses substantial challenges for research relationships aiming to build capacity and foster co-creation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, where global collaboration and communication is paramount. This is especially challenging when it comes to interactive dialogues that go beyond the typical one-way structure of online learning. Considerations on structural, technical and behavioral levels are needed to not only deal with these challenges but rather to take advantage of the new situation. This commentary outlines the lessons learned from an internationally operating project, co-developed to cope with travel restrictions. We discuss implications for future reduction of international travel to reduce carbon in the context of climate change.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF GERONTOLOGISTS IN ACHIEVING THE UN’S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S76-S76
Author(s):  
Carole Cox ◽  
Carole B Cox
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Status ◽  
Development Goals

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) developed by the United Nations in 2015 are global benchmarks for all countries to meet by 2030 to ensure well-being and prosperity while protecting and promoting human rights and freedoms. The underlying pledge is that no one will be left behind Globally, older adults are one of the most vulnerable populations, suffering from poverty and poor health and little social protection. Social workers can play key roles in assuring that the concerns and interests and rights of older adults are recognized in the SDGs and in the policies developed to meet them. This paper focuses on 6 of the SDG’s that are most pertinent to the status and inclusion of older people and the implications they have for specific social work involvement.

scholarly journals Covid19, lesson at vulnerability at Tacna – Perú: “The role of education at management risk in to building resilient communities at natural events”.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Martín Osorio Soto
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
World Health ◽  
Sustainable Communities ◽  
Governance Indicators ◽  
Resilient Communities ◽  
Risk Education ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Social Environmental

Abstract: The present article, it’s a descriptive study, about the circumstances and conditions of Sendai Framework implementation by de Disaster Risk Reduction and the application of Sustainable Development Goals (ODS) at enforcement to build resilient communities to disruptive events by natural origin at Tacna – Perú, in to world health emergency by the Covid19 pandemic. And the new – future social, environmental and sanitary stage, therefore to determine a new social and governance dynamic. Accordingly, to promote a new method to comprehension at risk scene and determinate to requirement to implementation a better reduction risk education in to community, to purpose a enhance the governance indicators; make a sustainable communities and strong institution by mean of transversal a interinstitutional alliances as for get accomplishment integral reduction risk goals and enforcement to vulnerability communities at Tacna – Perú.

THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN INTERNET GOVERNANCE. PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
N. S. FILATOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The State ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
State Management ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Development Goals

The article is devoted to the study of the concept of the Internet governance model with the participation of stakeholders and its impact on business in regions and countries, as well as to the discussion of sustainable development goals related to Internet governance. Examples of how enterprises suffer from state management methods in this area are presented.

scholarly journals Towards Sustainable Mobility? The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Romanian Mobile Citizens in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 4023
Author(s):  
Silvia Marcu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
New Models ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Depth Interviews

Using the case study of Romanians in Spain, this article highlights how the COVID-19 crisis presents both challenges and opportunities when it comes to human mobility and sustainability. Drawing on in-depth interviews with mobile people during the period of lockdown and circulation restrictions, and in accordance with the objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the paper advances and contributes to the relevance of sustainability and its impact on people’s mobility in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. I argue that even in the midst of the crisis, sustainable ways may be found to promote and protect human mobility. The paper raises the way sustainability acts as a driver, gains relevance and influence, and contributes to the creation of new models of resilient mobility in times of crisis. The conclusions defend the respect for the SDGs regarding human mobility and emphasise the role of people on the move as sustainable actors learning to overcome distance and the barriers to their mobility during the pandemic.

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