scholarly journals Towards a sustainable longevity society: Instrumentalizing intergenerationality and human-centered design

2021 ◽  
pp. 401-426
Author(s):  
Eleonora Barone
Keyword(s):  
Practical Implication ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
Long Term Results ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Analytical Methodology ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Human Centered Design ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Community Ownership ◽  
Innovation Project

Objective: This article aims to decode the opportunities of longevity societies. Methodology: It uses a qualitative analytical methodology that is nourished by the learning of 6 years of research and projects carried out in mYmO1 (entity dedicated to intergenerational innovation). It also relies on technical knowledge and analysis original sources based on the Intergenerational approach and the Human-Centered Design. The proposal presents a clear goal that is to achieve Sustainable Cities and Communities, considering the unit of space-time measurement key to start mapping projects for long-lived societies. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) drawn up by the United Nations are mentioned as a reference for the scope of actions in the text, the target being SDG-11. In addition, all proposed actions are based on a premise that is taken as a basis and that lies in the importance of all actors assuming their responsibility in solving problems. In order to decode the opportunities that longevity societies offer and to achieve sustainable cities and communities, community ownership of change is considered essential. Results: Based on these considerations, a strategic matrix is designed that uses the Theory of Change to establish the relationships between actions and objectives. Desired changes are identified and what should happen to ensure that these changes lead to long-term results is analysed too. In addition, as a consequence of its practical implication, the proposed matrix is useful for small and large interventions, in any development and innovation project. Within this framework, intergenerational approach and human-centered design offer the methodology and tools to put into practice the development of concrete processes and projects. Limitations: It is an essay that shows some initiatives in concrete realities whose results are not universally extrapolated. Practical implications: As a result, new models of participation are made visible in which organizations, public authorities and individuals collaborate to solve current challenges.

scholarly journals Ocean I3. Pedagogical Innovation for Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 396
Author(s):  
Itziar Rekalde-Rodríguez ◽  
Julieta Barrenechea ◽  
Yannick Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Pedagogical Innovation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The People ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Capstone Projects

Universities are undertaking transformation projects that align their work with the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper describes how Ocean I3, an educational innovation project that aims to reduce plastic in the sea, has made an impact on its community over its three editions (2018/19 to 2020/21). Methodologically, it has been approached by the people who make up the technical team and academic coordination as an exploratory study using discrete, non-reactive techniques, mainly from the public domain (websites, blogs, press releases, etc.), and instruments, such as field notes and work material to manage, organize, and train within the project. The analytical procedure has represented a dynamic and systematic process of categorisation. The results highlight the repercussion of the project in terms of capstone projects, master’s thesis, coursework, etc., produced by the students involved; association with employability; collaborative work from the teaching teams; monitoring experience for research purposes, and social dissemination of the project. It concludes by suggesting lines for Ocean I3 to work on in the future to make its footprint sustainable in institutions over time.

scholarly journals Innocampus Explora: Una aproximación multidisciplinar a la problemática ambiental

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Núria Garro ◽  
Jose Moros-Gregorio ◽  
Alejandro Quílez-Asensio ◽  
Daniel Jiménez-Romero ◽  
Ana Blas-Medina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Work Team ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Development Goals

We present the activities of the Innocampus Explora innovation project developed on the Burjassot-Paterna campus of the Universitat de València and whose main objective is to show the interrelation between the different scientific and technical degrees on campus. In this year, the work team made up of students and professors from all the faculties and schools of the Burjassot-Paterna campus, have carried out activities around environmental issues. A cross-sectional and interdisciplinary vision of the problems of the uses of plastic and nuclear energy that link with several of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) dictated by the United Nations. With the development of this project we contribute to quality transversal training for all participating students.

scholarly journals THE STATUTE OF THE CITY AND THE MASTER PLAN: INSTRUMENTS FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 342-357
Author(s):  
Gabriela Soldano Garcez ◽  
Mariana Vicente Braga Carmello
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Management ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
Federal Constitution ◽  
Social Economic Development ◽  
The City

The Master Plan is an important instrument to promote significant changes in Brazilian cities in order to achieve a sustainable development and create a new relationship between man and the environment. As far as this planning is concerned, the Master Plan is a basic tool to stablish guidelines to meet citizens necessities, as well as quality of life and social-economic development. For this purpose, citizens supervision and participation in local activities are necessary, so that Constitutional principles and democracy are accomplished. Civil society should be part of the decision-making process concerning enviromental public policies, as well as integrate elaboration, and supervision of these policies, taking into consideration that the public authorities, as well as the society, have to protect and defend the environment for the future generations (article 225, of the Federal Constitution). In this context, this task aims, firstly, evaluare the general guidelines od the Statute of the City (Law nº 10.257/01) and the importance of the Master Plans. Afterwards, adresses the participatory management as a way of implementing the sustainable cities. 

Urban densification potentials and energy impacts in Switzerland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Eggimann ◽  
Kristina Orehounig
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation ◽  
Sustainable Urbanization ◽  
Explicit Analysis ◽  
Development Goals

<p>Building sustainable cities, as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals by the UN, requires sustainable urbanization as well as reducing per capita environmental impacts of living in cities. As a result of a growing population and constrained availability of building space, countries such as Switzerland are faced with increasing pressure on their land resources. They will need to considerably densify in existing urbanized areas to prevent urban expansion. Even though Swiss regulation promote inward settlement development and the creation of compact settlements, only limited analysis is available on the densification potentials combined with sustainability implications. We develop a geospatial explicit analysis framework which allows to up-scale the assessment and evaluation of densification potentials for the whole of Switzerland. An energy simulation tool is used for exploring impacts of different densification strategies on a district scale with respect to energy consumption.</p>

scholarly journals Explaining the outcomes of the ‘Clean India’ campaign: institutional behaviour and sanitation transformation in India

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Val Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
List Type ◽  
Open Defecation ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
New Findings

AbstractIntroductionWhilst many less developed countries are struggling to provide universal access to safe sanitation, in the last five years India has almost reached its target of eliminating open defaecation. The object of this study was to understand how the Indian Government effected this sanitation transformation.MethodsThe study employed interviews with 17 actors in the Government’s ‘Clean India’ programme across the national capital and four states which were analysed using a theory of change grounded in Behaviour Centred Design.ResultsThe Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) claims to have improved the coverage of toilets in rural India from 39% to over 95% of households between 2014 and mid 2019. From interviews with relevant actors we constructed a theory of change for the programme in which high-level political support and disruptive leadership changed environments in districts, which led to psychological changes in district officials, which, in turn, led to changed behaviour concerning sanitation programming. The Prime Minister’s setting of the ambitious goal to eliminate open defecation by the 150th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi (October 2019) galvanised government bureaucracy, while early success in 100 flagship districts reduced the scepticism of government employees, a cadre of 500 young professionals placed in districts imparted new ideas and energy, social and mass media was used to engage and motivate the public and key players, and new norms of ethical behaviour were demonstrated by leaders. As a result, district officials engaged emotionally with the programme and felt pride at their achievements in ridding villages of open defecation.ConclusionsThough many challenges remain, Governments seeking to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of universal access to safe sanitation can emulate the success of India’s Swachh Bharat Mission.SUMMARY BOXESWhat is already known?At least 47 countries are not on track to reach the Sustainable Development Goal of universal access to safe sanitation by 2030 and some 0.6 billion people are still defecating in the open.It is not clear how governments in low income countries can be galvanised to act to resolve this pressing public health problem.What are the new findings?The experience of the Clean India programme suggests that countries can almost eliminate open defecation.The success of the programme was due to factors including: the setting of ambitious targets; the use of modern communications strategies and monitoring technology; and the provision of visible reward and recognition for employees.What do the new findings imply?Disruptive leadership is needed to create working environments where sometimes jaded civil servants are given an opportunity to make a difference.Politicians who embrace the cause of sanitation may find that there are votes in toilets.

scholarly journals The Role of Good Environmental Governance in the Sustainable Development of South Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Loretta Feris
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Decisions ◽  
Value Choices

This article seeks to analyse good governance decision-making in the environmental context through an understanding and interpretation of the relationship between good environmental governance (evidenced inter alia by decision-making by public authorities) and sustainable development in South Africa.  It critically assesses recent case law in an attempt to understand the way in which our courts are evaluating authorities’ environmental decisions.  In reaching its objectives, this article considers also how environmental decisions are made in the first place and asks the question: what are the value choices underlying government’s decisions and what role does sustainable development play in informing decisions for good environmental governance.

scholarly journals Combining the theory of change and realist evaluation approaches to elicit an initial program theory of the MomConnect program in South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eveline M Kabongo ◽  
Ferdinand C. Mukumbang ◽  
Peter Delobelle ◽  
Edward Nicol
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Program Effectiveness ◽  
Maternal Mortality Ratio ◽  
Realist Evaluation ◽  
Program Theory ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Program Outcomes ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Initial Program

Abstract Background One of the Sustainable Development Goals is to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030. In South Africa, the flagship National Department of Health MomConnect program was launched in 2014 to strengthen the quality of maternal and child health (MCH) services and improve mortality outcomes. MomConnect was rapidly rolled out with a limited understanding of how and why the program was expected to work even though studies had shown the effectiveness of the MomConnect program in improving the uptake of MCH services. This study aimed to unearth the initial program theory of the MomConnect program based on explicit and implicit assumptions of how the program was organized and expected to work. Methods We conducted a document analysis using design- and implementation-related documents of the MomConnect program guided by the principles of Theory of Change (ToC) and Realist Evaluation (RE). Content and thematic analysis approaches were deductively applied to analyze the documents toward constructing ToC and RE-informed models. Abductive thinking and retroduction were further applied to the realist-informed approach to link program context, mechanisms, and outcomes to construct the initial program theory. Results ToC and RE-informed models illustrated how the MomConnect program was organized and expected to work. The process of constructing the ToC provided the platform for the development of the initial program theory, which identified three critical elements: (1) the central modalities of the MomConnect program; (2) the intended outcomes; and (3) the tentative causal links indicating, in a stepwise manner of, how the outcomes were intended to be achieved. The RE approach ‘enhanced’ the causal links by identifying relevant programmatic contexts and linking the postulated mechanisms of action (empowerment, encouragement, motivation, and knowledge acquisition) to program outcomes. Conclusion The application of ToC and RE provided an explicitly cumulative approach to knowledge generation in unveiling the initial program theory of MomConnect rather than delivering answers to questions of program effectiveness.

scholarly journals Phosphorus – a “political” element for transdisciplinary chemistry education

2019 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Zowada ◽  
Ozcan Gulacar ◽  
Antje Siol ◽  
Ingo Eilks
Keyword(s):  
Chemistry Education ◽  
Research University ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Curriculum Innovation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Digital Learning Environment ◽  
Undergraduate Chemistry ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Development Goals

AbstractThe paper describes a curriculum innovation project for integrating the sustainability-oriented socio-scientific issue of phosphate recovery into undergraduate chemistry education. Justification for the topic is derived from the importance of responsible use of phosphates as fertilizers for achieving some of the sustainable development goals issued by the United Nations in 2015, but also by the consideration of the phosphorus biochemical flow into the environment in the concept of the world’s planetary boundaries. Integration of the topic into undergraduate general chemistry was operated by a digital learning environment providing the base for a transdisciplinary approach towards the topic. Findings are reported from an implementation case in a research university in the USA.

Partnerships for sustainable cities as options for improving solid waste management in Nairobi city

2020 ◽  
pp. 0734242X2096773
Author(s):  
Florence A Ogutu ◽  
Dennis M Kimata ◽  
Raphael M Kweyu
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Private And Public

Partnerships as enshrined in policies are vital for achieving sustainable cities under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Indeed the SDGs recognize the importance of partnerships in solid waste management (SWM) as a way of developing workable and reliable waste management systems. SWM in Nairobi city continues to be a great challenge, and poor practices threaten environmental and public health. Ineffective waste management in Nairobi city has been linked to inefficient policy implementation and enforcement by different stakeholders. To effectively address the challenge of sustainable waste management in Nairobi city, amalgamation of strategies amongst several segments, including stakeholders, private and public sectors (formal and informal), non-governmental organizations and communities, is important, through partnerships to implement improved policies, in terms of capacity, financial prudence, and technical and institutional factors. The paper seeks to analyse existing policy framework on SWM and its effectiveness in addressing SWM in Nairobi city. The study is based on a descriptive research design which involved interrogating the stakeholders included in the implementation of the policy frameworks in place. Data were acquired through semi-structured questionnaires administered to 385 respondents and interviews with 10 key informants. The theoretical framework is based on institutional theory and capacity building theories that expound the gaps in policy implementation and the role of partnerships. Policies in SWM should be interlinked for sustainable cities.

scholarly journals THE STATUTE OF THE CITY AND THE MASTER PLAN: INSTRUMENTS FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 342-357
Author(s):  
Gabriela Soldano Garcez ◽  
Mariana Vicente Braga Carmello
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Management ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
Federal Constitution ◽  
Social Economic Development ◽  
The City

The Master Plan is an important instrument to promote significant changes in Brazilian cities in order to achieve a sustainable development and create a new relationship between man and the environment. As far as this planning is concerned, the Master Plan is a basic tool to stablish guidelines to meet citizens necessities, as well as quality of life and social-economic development. For this purpose, citizens supervision and participation in local activities are necessary, so that Constitutional principles and democracy are accomplished. Civil society should be part of the decision-making process concerning enviromental public policies, as well as integrate elaboration, and supervision of these policies, taking into consideration that the public authorities, as well as the society, have to protect and defend the environment for the future generations (article 225, of the Federal Constitution). In this context, this task aims, firstly, evaluare the general guidelines od the Statute of the City (Law nº 10.257/01) and the importance of the Master Plans. Afterwards, adresses the participatory management as a way of implementing the sustainable cities. 

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