These proceedings include the unedited papers from the 2014 International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD), held September 17th and 18th at Columbia University, New York, USA. ICSD is a conference that brings together students, scholars, and practitioners to evaluate sustainable development best practices and solutions in creating a society that can meet the needs of the present generations without compromising the needs of future generations.
These proceedings include the unedited papers from the 2014 International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD), held September 17th and 18th at Columbia University, New York, USA. ICSD is a conference that brings together students, scholars, and practitioners to evaluate sustainable development best practices and solutions in creating a society that can meet the needs of the present generations without compromising the needs of future generations.
Best Papers
- The New Green Revolution: Enhancing rainfedd agriculture for food and Nutrition Security in Eastern Africa
Adi Dunkelman and Meghann Kerr - Socioeconomic And Political Influences On The Implementation Of The World Commission On Dams Recommendations
Amanda Joynt and Emma Rossi - Social Impact Assessment of Micro-Finance: The Case of Migrants in Hawassa, Ethiopia
Feven Tsehaye - Community-based Biodiversity Management And Women’s Development In The Rupa Lake Watershed, Nepal
Naomi Happychuk and Roshan Pudasaini - Gender and Value Chain Analyses of Artisanal and Small Scale Mining Activities in Rural Households in Oyo State, Nigeria
Olawale Emmanuel Olayide - Building A Post-2015 Framework That Leaves No One Behind: A Proposal To Incentivise Inclusive Progress
Grace Kite, José Manuel Roche, Lisa Wise
Table of Contents
Introduction
ICSD 2014 was organized around 12 themes, which mirror the Thematic Groups created by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). The Thematic Groups are solution-oriented and aim to identify practical solutions to the complex challenges of sustainable development. The papers presented at ICSD are organized under one of the 12 themes:
- Macroeconomics, Population Dynamics, and Planetary Boundaries
- Reducing Poverty and Building Peace in Fragile Regions
- Challenges of Social Inclusion: Gender, Inequalities and Human Rights
- Early Childhood Development, Education and Transition to Work
- Health for All
- Low-Carbon Energy and Sustainable Industry
- Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
- Forests, Oceans, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- Sustainable Cities: Inclusive, Resilient and Connected
- Good Governance of Extractives and Land Resources
- Global Governance and Norms for Sustainable Development
- Redefining the Role of Business for Sustainable Development
Macroeconomics, Population Dynamics And Planetary Boundaries
Chapter
- People, Prosperity And The Planet
By Michael Herrmann - Economic Integration, Trade And Investment Policies: A Veritable Tool For Sustainable Development In Sub-saharan Africa
By Abimbola Owolabi
Poverty Reduction And Peace-building In Fragile Regions
Chapter
- Development And Social Capital For The Post-conflict Agenda
Gloria Calderón Peña - Alleviating Poverty Through Integrated Population-health-environment And Energy Approach In Coastal Philippines
Joan Castro And Leona D’agnes - Social Impact Assessment Of Micro-finance: The Case Of Migrants In Hawassa, Ethiopia
Feven Tsehaye - Ecovillages: Sustainable Development Goals In Practice
Luísa Santiago, Daniella Bordon, Eduardo Harguindeguy, James Collector and Luis Felipe César - Hedging Price and Climate Risks; Evaluating the Impact of Cereal Banking on Food
Ramond Jatta - Role of Home Gardens in Reducing the Risks in House hold Decision Making and Improving the Livelihood
Sharon Paul, Ellen Goddard, Varghese Manaloor and Girigan Gopi - Poverty Reduction For Sustainable Development: Evidence-based Solutions From Malaysia’s Inclusive Growth
Normaliza Abdul Manaf, Suzyrman Sibly, Kanayathu C. Koshy, and Kamarulazizi Ibrahim - Unemployment And Social Welfare In Nigeria (review From 1999 – 2013)
Shaba Tunde - The Determinants And Coping Strategies Of Economic Shocks Among Rural Households In Nigeria
Sunday Yusuf
Challenges Of Social Inclusion: Gender, Inequalities, And Human Rights
Chapter
- Building A Post-2015 Framework That Leaves No One Behind: A Proposal To Incentivise Inclusive Progress
Grace Kite, José Manuel Roche, Lisa Wise - A Household Divided Applied Queer Theory for Evidence-Based Development
Christopher Stern - The Fruits of Co-Production Using Social Learning to Create a Gender Sensitive Climate Change Research Guide for Practitioners and Researchers
Nafisa Ferdous, Dr. Christine Jost, and Taylor Spicer - Measuring Minkay Advancements in the Operationalization of Social Capital
Liz Moyer and Tomás González Olavarría - Empowering Women And Ethnic Minority Groups To Collectively Market Non Timber Forest Products From Community Forests In Cameroon
Marguerite Belobo Mbia, Judith van Eijnatten, William Armand Mala, and Verina Ingram - Tackling Poverty Through Holistic, Interconnected, Neighborhood Based Intergenerational Learning: the Case Of Winnipeg’s Selkirk Avenue
MacKinnon, S. and Silver, J. - Living In A Sustainable World: Addressing The Issue Of Violence Against Women — The Case Of Rural Pastoralist Communities In Kenya
- Entrepreneurial Education: A Mechanism To Address Gender-Based Inequalities And Economic Disparities
Brittany John and Kara Luebbering - Governance Score Card: A Tool for Strengthening Pluralism and Engagement
Fayyaz Baqir, and Fakhira Khanam - Community Ecotourism Based on the Ecovillage Approach: A Sustainable Development Solution for the Caribbean Region
Angela Canon and Margarita O. Zethelius - Focusing on the Education Continuum Post 2015: Lessons Learnt from the Millennium Villages
Radhika Iyengar, Joanna Rubinstein, Alia Karim, and Tara Stafford - Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women and Leadership: Diversity and Inclusive decision making in development practice
Trudie Broderick - Identifying Opportunities for Action on Climate Change and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines
Zonibel Woods, Neesha Fakir, Nina Somera, and Nalini Singh - Indigenizing the Development Practitioner: Case Study of the Masters in Development Practice Program at the University of Winnipeg
Caroline Naomi W. Gichungu, Jessica Lee Numminen, Samantha Clarke, Vanessa Tait, Kaitlyn Duthie-Kannikkatt and Nathan McCorrister.
Early Childhood Development, Education, And Transition To Work
Chapter
- Technical And Vocational Education Training (Tvet) Strategy, Implementation, Challenges And Opportunities: The Case Of Tigray Tvet Institutions, Northern Ethiopia
Halefom Redae Abrha - Addressing The Challenges Of Higher Education In Sub-saharan Africa: The Role Of Inclusive Higher Education For Poverty Reduction And Sustainable Development In Ghana
Baba Douglas - Climate Change Awareness In A Developing Nations’ Second Level Education System
Conor Buggy and Gayle McGlynn - A Competency-Based Approach to Educating and Training the Sustainability Practitioner for 2015 and Beyond
Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Claude Levasseur, and John N. Telesford - Climate Change and School Going Children in Bangladesh: Understanding the Relationship
Ekhtekharul Islam - Do We Need More Public Investment in Education? Estimating the External Returns to Education in China
Wen Fan and Yuanyuan Ma - Ready Or Not, Here ICT Comes: A case study on e-readiness and governance in Kenya’s Laptop Project
Sharples, T. and Moldéus, K. - Early Childhood Development, Education, and Transition to Work (Nigeria Context)
Shaba Tunde
Health for All
Chapter
- The Impact Of Seasonal Change On Under-5 Diarrhea And Dysentery Patterns And The Role Of Community-led Total Sanitation On Diarrhea And Dysentery Prevention In Traditional Authority
Kuluunda and Mkukula, Salima and Dowa Districts Malawi Aryanie Amellina - Plastic Busters in the Mediterranean Sea
Cristina Fossi - Total Control of the Epidemic (TCE): Improved HIV/AIDS Outcomes through Systematic Community Mobilization
Marie Lichtenberg and Kevin Ivers - Universal Health Coverage in Odisha, India
Lipka Nanda, N. Srinivas, Sandeep Mahapatra and Sovesh Das - Implementing Sustainable Solutions To Control Typhoid: Planning For Availability Of A New Affordable Conjugate Vaccine For Endemic Countries
Rino Rappuoli, Laura B. Martin, Michele Barocchi, Rayasam Prasad, Akshay Goel and Gianluca Breghi. - Measuring Communication Competence and Effectiveness of ASHAs
Archana Shrivastava and Arun Kumar Srivastava - Building a business case for investments in health care in LMICs Investing in transparency to improve quality of care
Maaike Veen, Bart Schaap, and Nicole Spieker - Building Public-private Partnerships To Promote Access To Quality Healthcare For Low-income Groups: The Case Of The Kwara State Health Insurance Program
Maaike Veen and Kwasi Boahene - Population Health Environment Programmes: An Integrated Approach to Development Post-2015
Vik Mohan, Joan Castro, Deepa Pullanikkatil, Caroline Savitzky, Negash Teklu, Roger-Mark De Souza, and Sarah Fisher
Low-Carbon Energy and Sustainable Industry
Chapter
- Green Industries through Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production
by Heinze Leuenberger, Rene Van Berkel and Hassan Mehdi - A legal approach to mitigation and compensation of greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil
by Ivan Werneck Sanchez Basseres - The Sustainable Eradication Of Energy Poverty?
B. Benson - Assessing the Impact of Private Actors’ Voluntary Commitments on Sustainable Development
V. Bonraisin, K. F. Evertsen, J. Hirschnitz , J. McDonnell, J. Wegner & Z. Windle - Pico-solar Lights: The Effect on Rural African Household Income and Educational Opportunities
Kat Harrison - Railway: Is It An Environmentally-Clean Transportation Mode In Sri Lanka?
M. R. M. Hilmy Ishak - Fuelwood, Deforestation, and Climate Change: An Analysis of Consumption Patterns, Impacts and Alternatives in Lombok, Indonesia
Natalie Lucas, Soo Min Lee, Larry Fisher and Yeon-Su Kim - Using the UN Sustainable Development Goals to Achieve Integrated Approaches to Water Scarcity, Agriculture and Energy for West Asia and North Africa
Magdalena A. K. Muir, Sami Ariekat and Alexander VandenBroek - Electricity Energy And Sustainable Development In Sub-Saharan Africa: (Issues, Challenges and Options)
Abimbola Owolabi - Emerging Roles And Responsibilities For Private Sector In Facilitating Universal Access To Clean Energy In Rural India
Jarnail Singh - Resilience in Global Energy Systems: Implications of Network Governance for Sustainable Development Goals
Masaru Yarime, Masahiro Sato, Ali Kharrazi and Hirofumi Nakayama
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
Chapter
- Improving Community Engagement in Vietnam’s Payment for Ecosystem Services Program and Assessing its Efficacy
Megan Butler, Meagan Hume, Chou Moua, and Shruti Saxena - Breadfruit: A Vehicle for Improving Food Security and Rural Livelihoods in Jamaica
Randika De Mel & Afia Adaboh - Smallholder Drip Irrigation: The Hope For Home Nutritional Gardens And Food Security
Miriam H. Marembo and Brett A. Inder - The Importance Of Addressing Meat Consumption Trends In The Un Post-2015 Development Agenda
Cassia Oliveira Moraes - Policy Convergence Towards Agriculture And Food Systems In The Region Of Southern Africa
Haja Michel Rajaonarison
Forests, Oceans, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Chapter
- Integrating Population, Health and Environment Approach For Human and Ecosystems Health in the Philippines and Beyond: Experiences from the South
Joan Castro and Leona D’Agnes - Exploring The Management Of Biodiversity In Timor-leste: A Transdisciplinary Approach
Martyn Denis - The Capabilities Approach As A Fair Model Of Setting Sustainable Development Programs: The Case Of The Gef Small Grants Programme In Salamar, El Salvador
Martina Dorigo, Juan René Guzman and Carlos Noguera - Greater Than The Sum Of Their Parts: Environmental Complementarity Between Public, Private And Community Protected Areas
Tiphaine Leménager, Delphine King, Joanna Eliott, Helen Gibbons, and Anthony King - Differentiating Payments for Ecosystem Services Arrangements as a Necessary Step to Discussing their Strengths and Weaknesses
Yann Laurans and Tiphaine Leménager - The Need For Integrated Development In A Fragile Ecosystem; Evidences From Lake Chilwa Basin, Southern Malawi
Deepa Pullanikkatil, Sosten Chiotha, Welton Phalira and Lobina Palamuleni - Incorporating Biodiversity Conservation In Peruvian Development — A History With Different Episodes
Yves Zinngrebe - Feasibility Of A Butterfly Farming Initiative In Western Ecuador As A Viable Tool For Sustainable Development
Maria F. Checa - The New Green Revolution: Enhancing Rainfedd Agriculture For Food And Nutrition Security In Eastern Africa
Adi Dunkelman and Meghann Kerr - Socioeconomic And Political Influences On The Implementation Of The World Commission On Dams Recommendations
Amanda Joynt and Emma Ross
Sustainable Cities: Inclusive, Resilient and Connected
Chapter
- New Perspective for Sustainable Urban Development: Development of Basic Needs of Urban-Life Index Inspired by the Indonesian Experience
Andante Hadi Pandyaswargo and Naoya Abe - The Urban Changing Rio De Janeiro Projects And The Fiocruz Urban Health Observatory Organization
Jorge Azevedo de Castro - Putting Human Well-being At The Heart Of Investment Into Affordable Energy Supply For Urbanizing Countries
Peter Head - Collective Strategy Of Social Economy Toward A Sustainable City: The Case Of Wonju, South Korea
Bokyeong Lee - Waste Is Not Waste
Ximena Giraldo Malca - Exploring the Intersections of Disaster, Climate Change and Greater Migration into Asia’s Urban Centres
Karen E. McNamara and Laura L. Olson - Mobilizing Community Assets in Tikapur, Nepal: Searching for Sustainable and Resilient Development
Sunyoung Shin and Soyoon Chung - An Investigation Of Beijing Public Rental Housing Policy: A Case Study On Jingyuan Road Development
Keren Ruth Wong
Good Governance of Extractives and Land Resources
Chapter
- Governance of Water Resources and Water related Conflicts between Large Mining Operations and Local Communities in Ghana
Joseph Kweku Assan and Gloria M. Mahama - Time for Sustainable Practices: Addressing the Challenges of “Galamsey” Mining in Ghana
Baba Douglas and Margaret Lewis-John - Global Governance of Sustainable Land Use – Status and Perspectives
Uwe R. Fritsche, Ulrike Eppler, Leire Iriarte,Stephanie Wunder, Timo Kaphengst, Franziska Wolff, Alexa Lutzenberger - Copal Resin In The Ecuadorian Amazon: Creating Economic Opportunities For The Kichwa Communities Of The Hatun Sumaku Parish In The Amazon Rainforest
Angélica Getahun and Elizabeth Gering - Gender and Value Chain Analyses of Artisanal and Small Scale Mining Activities in Rural Households in Oyo State, Nigeria
Olawale Emmanuel Olayide - Looking For A Way Forward: Good Practices For Collaborative Policymaking And Land Resource Management At The Local Level, Lessons From The Kajang Case In South Sulawesi
Timothy Workman and Micah Fisher - Community-based Biodiversity Management And Women’s Development In The Rupa Lake Watershed, Nepal
Naomi Happychuk and Roshan Pudasaini
Global Governance and Norms for Sustainable Development
Chapter
- Governance Score Card: A Tool For Strengthening Pluralism And Engagement
Fayyaz Baqir, And Akhter Hameed - Building Sustainability: The Role Of University. The Ca’ Foscari Experience
Chiara Mio - A Conceptual And Perceptual Pathway To Species Survival And Evolutionary Continuity For Global Governance
Nirmalan Dhas
Redefining the Role of Business for Sustainable Development
Chapter
- The Jcm Bilateral Carbon Market Scheme Potential To Support Business Sector Role In Emissions Reduction Efforts In Indonesia
Aryanie Amellina - Assessing the Impact of Private Actors’ Voluntary Commitments on Sustainable Development
V. Bonraisin, K. F. Evertsen, J. Hirschnitz , J. McDonnell, J. Wegner & Z. Windle - The Limits and Potentialities of ICT for African Development
Pádraig Carmody and Jim Murphy - Extractive Industries & Sustainability: Challenges And Opportunities In South America
Sandra Carrillo Hoyos - Social Entrepreneurship and the Role of Business for Sustainable Development – the Case of Colombia
Samir Hamra - Energy For One World
Adriaan Kamp - Empowering women economic activities Sabab Lou and Anoshe Women’s GroupPartnership with Agricultural Business Model (SAPABM) in Chereponi District, Northern Region, Ghana
Cosmas Kombat Lambini - Energy Distribution Business Model In Brazilian Low-income Communities Clarissa Lins
Clarissa Lins - Post 2015: Opportunities For Engaging Private Sector Actors In Africa
Anesu Makina - Civil CSR Tools Help To Redefine Business Role For Sustainable Development: Critical Experiences Of Red Puentes Mexico
Pierre-Olivier Sire and Jorge Molina - Producer Organizations and Collective Action for Linking Smallholder Farmers with Markets in Central India
Madhyama Subramanian - Strategic Sustainability As A Practical Approach For Businesses Wishing To Plan Towards A Successful Socio-ecological System
J.N. Telesford - Achieving Long-Term Poverty Reduction and Institutional Sustainability in Microfinance through the Dynamic User-Focussed Approach
Eric H. Yeboah, Alhaji Abdulai and Esmeranda Manful