scholarly journals Sustainable Program Management: Hierarchical Causal Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Bongs Lainjo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Causal Model ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Program Management ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Abraham Maslow ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Aspects

This research paper focuses on strengthening program management protocols, which can help in mitigating nuances along with duplication, and redundancies. In this context, seven components have been considered for facilitating the achievement of sustainable management of a development program. Thus, for conducting this study, a conceptual framework of the “CARROT-BUS” model has been taken into due consideration. CARROT mainly stands for Capacity, Accountability, Resources, Results, Ownership, and Transparency, which emphasizes enabling the environment while BUS is perceived as a bottom-up strategy. Correspondingly, this holistic and causal model can be considered to be conceptually synonymous with Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory. Additionally, each step of the model needs to be well-defined and described. Hence, designing and implementing sustainable development programs can be considered to be complex. Therefore, the systems presented in this abstract are a way of addressing these complexities. Herein, for conducting this study, secondary sources have been taken into high consideration. The use of these sources has significantly assisted in enhancing the existing knowledge on the identified issue in detail. Thus, the study has been able to understand the importance of sustainability in the present scenario, especially in project management. Based on the overall findings, it can be stated that sustainability is one of the key aspects, which are maintained by organizations all around the world for attaining success.

Movement for Sustainable Development through Green Economics

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rakesh Rangwani
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Economics ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Heads Of State

Despite substantial improvements over the past 23 years in many key areas of sustainable development, the world is not on track to achieve the goals as aspired to in Agenda 21, adopted in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and reiterated in subsequent world conferences, such as the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg in 2002. While there have been some achievements in implementing Agenda 21, including the implementation of the chapters on “Science for Sustainable Development” and on “Promoting Education, Public Awareness and Training”, for which UNESCO was designated as the lead agency, much still remains to be done. This decade had seen the idea of a “green economy” float out of its specialist moorings in environmental economics and into the mainstream of policy discourse. It is found increasingly in the words of heads of state and finance ministers, in the text of G20 communiqués, and discussed in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. The research paper focused to establish a relationship between sustainable development and green economics. The research paper is descriptive and analytical in nature. The data collected from secondary sources such as report from niti aayog, IMF indicators, RBI reports, newspapers, journals. The research design was adopted to have greater accuracy and in depth analysis of the research study. The statistical tools for the analysis are also being used.

Designing a Professional Development Program

2012 ◽  
pp. 171-189
Author(s):  
Amy Payne
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Development Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
Professional Development Program ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Effective Professional Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Professional Development Training ◽  
Professional Development Programs

Professional development is an essential aspect of any career. Many professions have minimum standards or requirements of training each year to maintain a license and/or job. This chapter outlines the necessary components for effective professional development training in terms of technology use, and examines some reasons why certain professional development programs may be ineffective. The chapter also discusses ways to assess the overall efficiency of a professional development program and highlight some outstanding professional development programs/practices in existence. A comparison between professional development practices performed in the United States with other countries around the world is provided to offer an understanding how professional development can vary depending upon culture.

Studio-based Approach to Developing Tourist Destinations Enriched With Objects of Cultural and Natural Heritage

10.12737/2869 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-39
Author(s):  
Беседин ◽  
D. Besedin
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Natural Heritage ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
The World ◽  
Ulyanovsk Region ◽  
Set Up

With the case of Ulyanovsk Region and the «Symbirsk- Ukyanovsk» tourist destination as an example, the author demonstrates how the studio of tourism, set up at the premises of the Department of UNESCO-UNITWIN network, operates to provide sustainable development for a tourist destination and to advance the UNESCO’s concept related to sustainable management of objects belonging to the world cultural and natural heritage.

scholarly journals The Role of the Population, Family Planning and Family Development Program (KKBPK) in Reducing Stunting Prevalence

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Agus Mauluddin ◽  
Novianti Novianti
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Family Development ◽  
Prevalence Data ◽  
The World ◽  
Prevention Interventions ◽  
Family Based

Stunting is a common issue in the global network. Stunting is one of the fundamental problems that hinder the development of toddlers in the world today and has received great international attention, at least in the last decade. In 2017, for example, around 150.8 million (22.2%) children in the world were stunted. The stunting prevalence data collected by WHO (2005-2017) puts Indonesia in third position, the country with the highest prevalence in the Southeast Asia region (36.4%). Basic health research data in 2018 shows the prevalence of stunting in Indonesia is around 30.8% and is still below the world standard (WHO), which is a maximum of 20%. Many interventions have been carried out to reduce the prevalence of stunting, especially from a (specific) health aspect. However, interventions that only target specific interventions are still ineffective, hence the need for interventions that involve various sectors or stakeholders. The argument from this study is the need for stunting prevention interventions that involve multi-sectors, not only specific ones (health), but also sensitive interventions (Population, Family Planning, and Family Development programs). Strengthened by the latest research shows the focus of studies on multi-sector stunting prevention. Recent studies also prove that it is important to pay attention to a family-based approach (family development) in the prevention of stunting, especially in regards to birth interval management which has an effect on reducing the prevalence of stunting.

scholarly journals Deep reinforcement learning in World-Earth system models to discover sustainable management strategies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Strnad ◽  
Wolfram Barfuss ◽  
Jonathan Donges ◽  
Jobst Heitzig
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Reinforcement Learning ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Management Options ◽  
System Models ◽  
The World ◽  
Earth System Models

<p>The identification of pathways leading to robust mitigation of dangerous anthropogenic climate change is nowadays of particular interest <br>not only to the scientific community but also to policy makers and the wider public. </p><p>Increasingly complex, non-linear World-Earth system models are used for describing the dynamics of the biophysical Earth system and the socio-economic and socio-cultural World of human societies and their interactions. Identifying pathways towards a sustainable future in these models is a challenging and widely investigated task in the field of climate research and broader Earth system science.  This problem is especially difficult when caring for both environmental limits and social foundations need to be taken into account.</p><p>In this work, we propose to combine recently developed machine learning techniques, namely deep reinforcement learning (DRL), with classical analysis of trajectories in the World-Earth system as an approach to extend the field of Earth system analysis by a new method. Based on the concept of the agent-environment interface, we develop a method for using a DRL-agent that is able to act and learn in variable manageable environment models of the Earth system in order to discover management strategies for sustainable development.</p><p>We demonstrate the potential of our framework by applying DRL algorithms to stylized World-Earth system models. The agent can apply management options to an environment, an Earth system model, and learn by rewards provided by the environment. We train our agent with a deep Q-neural network extended by current state-of-the-art algorithms. Conceptually, we thereby explore the feasibility of finding novel global governance policies leading into a safe and just operating space constrained by certain planetary and socio-economic boundaries.  </p><p>We find that the agent is able to learn novel, previously undiscovered policies that navigate the system into sustainable regions of the underlying conceptual models of the World-Earth system. In particular, the artificially intelligent agent learns that the timing of a specific mix of taxing carbon emissions and subsidies on renewables is of crucial relevance for finding World-Earth system trajectories that are sustainable in the long term. Overall, we show in this work how concepts and tools from artificial intelligence can help to address the current challenges on the way towards sustainable development.</p><p>Underlying publication</p><p>[1] Strnad, F. M.; Barfuss, W.; Donges, J. F. & Heitzig, J. Deep reinforcement learning in World-Earth system models to discover sustainable management strategies Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, AIP Publishing LLC, 2019, 29, 123122</p>

“Gender Diversity” as a constant in Sustainable Development Program Management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galyna Fesenko ◽  
Volodymyr Korzhenko ◽  
Tetiana Fesenko ◽  
Tamila Bilousko ◽  
Hryhorii Fesenko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Program Management

Sustainable Development and the US

2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (1) ◽  
pp. 477-482
Author(s):  
Ann H. Walker ◽  
Steven R. Warren ◽  
Debra Scholz ◽  
John Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Initiatives

ABSTRACT In the late 1980s, the United Nations recognized that industrial activities of the 19th and 2(20th centuries were responsible for global pollution-related problems, and presented a future threat to life-sustaining qualities of the environment. While difficult to document in a perfectly quantifiable and defensible case, the evidence was sufficiently strong for the UN to create a global initiative for sustainable development. Many countries around the world now have institutionalized programs for sustainable development. Target projects and procedures to implement incremental changes in the way the natural elements necessary for life are sustained for their support of, and use by, future generations by managing growth and pollution are underway. The United States has a number of initiatives in various agencies that primarily consist of discrete government-government or government-industry partnerships. Nonetheless, the concept of sustainable development in the US remains ambiguous in terms of its widespread understanding and adoption by the public and private sectors, which are responsible for activities that can cause pollution, or indirectly affect the ability of the environment to sustain future human populations, lifestyles, and the economy. The US Environmental Protection Agency refers to some of its sustainable development initiatives as “Smart Growth” to more clearly and positively conveys the focus of these activities. It has been observed that sustainable development will not make a significant difference in the US, relative to the strides made in other countries, unless sustainable development programs become regulatory in nature. The US sustainable development initiatives are discretionary and essentially implemented according to the prevailing political will. Since the US economy is based on capitalism, and growth in profits is a pre-requisite to economic success, sustainable development programs will only be implemented if program managers in industry and government believe that these programs somehow tangibly benefit “the bottom line.” While exhibiting pioneering leadership in many areas, with regard to innovative and across-the-board programs for sustainable development, the US in fact may lag behind the rest of the world.

Reflecting on Our Times: Valuing Transformative Leadership in Real-World “Living Systems”

2021 ◽  
pp. 109821402098207
Author(s):  
John Atkinson ◽  
Florence Lasbennes ◽  
David Nabarro
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Transformative Leadership ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Key Aspects

We present this brief reflection on key aspects of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the implications of the worldwide focus on achieving the sustainable development goals as external observers of the evaluation endeavor around the world. We have conducted and participated in evaluations, but it is not our primary field of work and we are not engaged in the global community of evaluation specialists. However, we believe that the urgency of the challenges confronting the world today should inspire those influencing and shaping evaluation internationally to focus much more fiercely on the value of evaluation and its implications for leadership at all levels and in all fields of work. We propose that evaluation as practice should support and help inspire, value, and evaluate the type of leadership that the world needs now—dynamic and purposeful “living systems” leaders working toward large-scale, drastic change.

scholarly journals World Culture Heritage in sustainable development. The case of Wismar and Stralsund

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 224-238
Author(s):  
Yu. A. Eremenko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
City Administration ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
The World ◽  
Culture Heritage ◽  
The City

Gradually realizing the consequences of development related solely to economic growth, modern cities are turning their attention towards the concept of sustainable development. Using the World Heritage Cities of Wismar and Stralsund as an example, this study examines how the concept of sustainable development relates to World Heritage status. This paper aims to identify what is the implementation of the World Cultural Heritage (WCH) protection program in urban policies and the limitations of sustainable development programs related to.The innovation of this research lies in the fact that the article considers how local governments make decisions regarding the implementation of WCH programs or sustainable development programs in cities similar in structure and historical past. The materials for the study are expert interviews with the author’s city administration, local activists, employees of museums and tourist centers, representatives of local businesses. Based on the obtained data, the main directions were identified why the city administration implements the WCH and restricts the sustainable development programs.The study showed that urban policies are formed in a situation where the status of the WCH cannot be considered solely as a benefit to the city. Today, the city administration sees the strategy of implementing the WCH program as more beneficial in the time perspective and implements sustainable development programs only with significant limitations.

scholarly journals Dominance Of Market Share Of Sukuk In Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 522
Author(s):  
Dini Selasi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Fixed Rate ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Treasury Bills ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

Indonesia is one of the issuers of sukuk in the world with various series that have been issued, this sukuk aims to help finance the state budget for various sectors for sustainable development programs. This study uses a qualitative research method using a phenomenological approach. The results show that the government is still dominated by sukuk because most of the financing of sukuk in Indonesia are government projects in various sectors, in their issuance in collaboration with conventional and sharia banking, securities companies that become AB Bursa. Sukuk series issued by the government such as Islamic Fixed Rate (IFR), greensukuk, Indonesian hajj fund sukuk (SDHI), savings sukuk, retail sukuk, sharia state treasury bills (SPNS), project based sukuk (PBS).

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document