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SDG 4 quality education: governing education for sustainable development: towards inclusive and equitable quality education
No full textThis chapter provides a contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal 4, Quality Education (SDG 4), through analysing stakeholder partnerships and collaboration for the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). It argues that a better understanding of limiting and fostering factors preventing greater collaboration for ESD is required in order to meet the targets set by SDG 4 which advocates for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education. This chapter provides a multilevel governance analysis (global, national and institutional) on ESD and key stakeholders’ perceptions on limiting and fostering factors in collaborative governance for ESD. This manuscript also increases our understanding of whether ESD policy developed at the international level can be imagined at the national, institutional and local levels and highlights the factors involved in collaboration for ESD. This hopefully helps us understand how to develop rhetoric that can advance from policy to impact. Conclusions drawn from these analyses highlight key inconsistencies and gaps that resulted from incompatible perspectives and motivations for realizing ESD at all levels of governance
SDG 1 no poverty: building sustainable communities: a framework for supporting community livelihoods and poverty alleviation in resource regions
No full textThis chapter proposes the use of the sustainable livelihood framework (SLF) as a powerful conceptual approach for research aimed at understanding the interaction between global investment, local livelihoods and poverty reduction in resource regions. The chapter applies the SLF as a tool to develop recommendations for poverty alleviation, showing how it can contribute to SDG 1 No Poverty. The innovative application of the SLF helps us understand the ways in which key areas of research connect and interact as constituent components inherent in the framework. This chapter also argues that this framework helps increase our understanding of the ways communities build capacity to forge sustainable livelihoods in resource regions. It thus presents a justification for the use of the SLF, followed by an examination of the SLF principles, their implications for communities and relevance for empirical research in this field. The chapter also shows the way in which the SLF can be modified for application to local circumstances through case studies conducted in two resource regions of Colombia. Nevertheless, the findings of the research can be applied to other resource locations elsewhere
SDG 17 partnerships for the goals: global business networks: accounting for sustainability
No full textCorporate accountability has expanded rapidly in recent years as a tool that business can employ to respond for corporate performance. Nevertheless, the exercise of corporate accountability is challenging as it requires stronger corporate capacity and commitment to respond to external stakeholders in alignment with voluntary regulatory norms. In response, corporate agendas are being significantly shaped by internal and external stakeholders that are employees, suppliers, and customers. Yet, an examination of the current status of accountability both as a historical trend and in current corporate agendas in selected cases shows an increasing gap between policy and impact. Based on a case study method and theory building, the research reported in this article shows the status of corporate accountability of companies operating in Asia-Pacific and adhered to the Global Compact Network. It also provides some conceptual and practical tools toward enhanced accountability, contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal 17 (SDG 17) and its targets Multi-stakeholder partnerships (17.16 and 17.17) and Data, monitoring, and accountability
SDG 12 responsible consumption and production: sustainable community development through entrepreneurship: corporate-based versus wellbeing-centred approaches to responsible production
No full textThis chapter aims to build new theory about the links between sustainable community development, entrepreneurship, community wellbeing and interlinkages between the sustainable development goal 12 (hereafter SDG 12), sustainable consumption and production, and the sustainable development goal 3 (hereafter SDG 3) – good health and wellbeing. New theory is needed because multidimensional wellbeing has not been used as an outcome variable with which to assess relative merits or understand the intricacies of how development approaches achieve synergies or fragmentation between the varying components of wellbeing. The research presented here is based on a case study qualitative methodology strategy. Evidence shows that resource-rich regions of Latin America are sites for sustainable community development and responsible production by international companies. Through a comparative case study of two resource towns in Colombia – Antioquia and Risaralda – we find contrasting approaches with different outcomes. A top-down corporate-based approach to sustainable community development occurred in Antioquia but bound the future of the community to resource extraction (mining) with limited attention to other aspects of community wellbeing. This reduced the overall resilience and wellbeing opportunities for the community. In Risaralda, by contrast, a more responsible, wellbeing-conscious approach was adopted based on local entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship here was not only focused on economic development and the future self-sufficiency of the community apart from mining but was also conscious of producing responsibly and building a greater range of wellbeing components other than just economic. We use these results to articulate a wellbeing-centric approach to development called Entrepreneurship for Community Wellbeing
SDG 5 gender equality: not just a women’s issue: sustainable leadership in male dominated industries – the case of the extractive industry
No full textMale-dominated and gender-segregated fields, such as the extractive industry, present key limitations for sustainable leadership opportunities and career growth for women. By identifying these existing barriers and addressing necessary actions to be taken, research findings show that success in this area largely depends on the collaboration of multiple stakeholders, that is, governments, corporations, higher education institutions and civil society organizations. This study will provide a qualitative assessment of current leadership and organizational discourse in order to build knowledge and understanding of the limiting factors and barriers that prevent women from embarking on a sustainable leadership pathway in the early stages of their career. These limiting factors are grouped into three categories, namely, sociocultural, corporate and governance factors. Some specific challenges identified by participants include maternal, family, cultural conceptions of gender roles and norms as well as workplace diversity. These variables all contribute to a gender and culturally normative ecosystem that present competitive barriers for career development for women
SDG 13 climate action: climate education: identifying challenges to climate action
No full textThere is an increasing consensus that stakeholders at education institutions, specifically educators and students, face enormous challenges in translating climate education into effective action. Therefore, a better understanding of these issues – both within and beyond education institutions – is paramount. This chapter addresses such issues within education institutions, including teachers and students misconceptions regarding climate change, behavioural issues and social considerations such as peer pressure. This investigation worked to critically analyse issues with the current climate education scheme, whilst identifying key areas in which improvements should be made to effectively promote climate action and contribute to the achievement of the sustainable development goal related to climate action (SDG 13)
Impact sustainability: conclusions and lessons learned
No full textThis book deconstructed and re-evaluated the key issues that sustainability leaders, namely, educators, scientists, governments, practitioners and policymakers, face when achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The overarching aims of this book were to provide a coverage of results of research conducted in accordance with the sustainable development goals and to better understand the integration of the SDGs as an integral part of impact research, curriculum and community capacity-building for sustainability. The impacts of climate change, unsustainable resource development, widening of gaps between socioeconomic groups and social conflict are pressuring sustainability leaders to collaborate and reconstruct normative approaches to developing more consistent and impactful sustainability agendas. This stems from an inability to turn knowledge and theory into impactful outcomes. However, quantified targets do not always mean quantified solutions, and these outcomes are often impeded by homogenized interpretations of globalized targets. Thus, these 18 chapters broke down these traditional approaches and presented innovative and agile strategies to action the SDG targets
SDG 15 life on land: a review of sustainable fashion design processes: upcycling waste organic yarns
No full textThe fashion industry has had a significant impact on the environment and overall global sustainability. Evidence shows it is the most polluting industry and the largest consumer of water, accounting for 20% of global water wastage detrimentally affecting both life on land and underwater. As such a few key stakeholders in the fashion industry have begun undertaking key preventative measures. These include but are not limited to the use of organic cotton crops, reduction of water use throughout the production chain, the implementation of a zero-waste patternmaking technique, second-hand shops, recycling of production materials, recycling discarded fishing nets into nylon fibre and increasing the use of biodegradable fibres, crop’s waste fibres, bio-based fibres and bio-textile processes and renewable sources like bamboo and hemp. The review presented in this chapter examines the fashion production cycle, the use of alternative organic materials and recycling processes for the sustainable production of yarns whilst exploring the connections between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 15 Life on Land and 14 Life below Water
Towards impact sustainability
No full textThis book contributes to sustainability studies, as it focuses on local operationalization of all 17 Global Goals in an impactful manner. This book is the result of collaborative and interdisciplinary research work by sustainability leaders from all over the world, namely, scientists, researchers, educators and practitioners. Disconnected educational systems and policy practices from global and local sustainability trends create scepticism about the potential of the research institutions in contributing towards policy debates and issues centring on the question of sustainability, which compromise the wellbeing of all. Preliminary investigations identified that a few reasons for this were limited understanding of the context; lack of an overall approach to sustainability, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); and inadequacies in the education sector and collaboration processes amongst academics, educators and practitioners to achieve global sustainability targets (Franco et al. 2018; Franco and Tracey 2019)
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