These proceedings include the unedited papers from the 2017 International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD), held September 18th and 19th 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
- Considering Maya Identity in Economic Development Models in Southern Belize: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Kristina Baines and Sebastien Buttet - Sustainable Development – Road to 2050 – Spirituality – the Missing Link
Sanjay Banerji, Rajiv Prasad, R. Raghu Raman, and Ramanand K. Amrita - Unintended Consequences of Dams and Water Security: An Insight into Women’s Vulnerability and the Spread of Malaria in Ethiopia
Romy Buchner, Mridula Nair, and Barbara Pinto - Challenges to accomplish carbon neutrality in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area by 2050
Karna Dahal - The Role of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals in Morocco
Bassel Daher and Rabi Mohtar - Estimating Baseline Aid to the Sustainable Development Goals
Matthew DiLorenzo, Sid Ghose, and Jennifer Turner - Consumption Patterns and the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy in 2050 – The Case for Brazil
Carolina Grottera, Williams Wills, and Emilio Lèbre La Rovere - Downshifting in the Fast Lane: A post-Keynesian Model of a Consumer-led Transition
Eric Kemp-Benedict and Emily Ghosh - Carbon Structural Adjustment: The key to profiting from the low carbon transition
Karlson ‘Charlie’ Hargroves and Peter Newman - UPM campus as a test bed for public policies and social innovation
Carlos Mataix, et al. - Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions: British Columbia’s Universities Collaborating on Climate Change Solutions
Sara Muir Owen - Water, Energy and Agriculture in the context of Climate Change and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda – mitigating risks to a sustainable future for Australia
Maureen Papas - Climate Variability and Diarrheal Diseases: Evidence from Outpatient Data from Uganda
Akampumuza Precious and Hirotaka Matsuda - An Assessment of Radio-Based Education about Female Genital Cutting and Health and Human Rights Issues in Douentza, Mali
Megan E. Schliep, Joseph M. Feinglass, Kenzie A. Cameron, and Juliet S. Sorensen - Engaging Men and Promoting Equitable Household Decision-Making in Agriculture and Livelihood Projects
Renata Serra, Michelle Kendall, and Alexandra Towns
Poster Presentations
Agronomy for Sustainable Development
- Key Innovations for Food and Water Security
Michael Davidson - Empirical Analysis of the Agricultural Sector of Ghana: The Role of Governance
Samuel Mintah - Agronomy and Value Chains for Sustainable Development
Benon Mugulusi - What Defines Sustainable Land Management in Dryland Areas: a Case Study of Baringo Basin, Kenya
Vydehi Muppavarapu - Species composition and vermicomposting studies on sustainable mountain agricultural in Kumaun region of Indian Himalayas
Neha Rajwar - Autosuficient Integral Farm Program, Social Approach Program for the Rural Sector
Hector Fabio Restrepo Guerrero - Screening introduction and improvement of Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L) Gaertn) Varities as a hope for sustainable food Security in Nigeria
Chibiya Shinggu - Scaling up the Farmer Field School approach – challenges and opportunities
Alessia Volpe
Building Resilience to Climate Change
- Making the UNFCCCWork for the Rural Poor in Esan Land
Charles Esele - Towards Climate Resilient and Inclusive Urban Development in Latin America: Showcasing a participatory planning project in three cities
Ebru Gencer - Youth Decision Making in Agricultural Adaptations to Climate Change An Analysis in East Africa
Chloe Hein - Resilience to climate change: Politics and Practice of Development
Garima Maheshwari - Local to global: Communities at the centre of policy implementation
Thandie Mwape - Reappropriation of Resilience to Neoliberal Vision Political Sustainability in Post-Paris Africa’s Climate Change Adaptation
Auustine Okoh - Cultural Heritage in the Context of Sustainable Development Goals: A Rationale for Engaging Heritage Paradigm into Climate Actions
Obafemi Alaba Olukoya - Climate Change: Effects and Adaptive Measures in Africa
Olawale Onada - Coping and Adaptation to Climate Vulnerabilities: Implications for Agricultural Livelihoods in Semi-Arid Ghana
Balikisu Osman - Building Resilience to Climate Change at Local Level: A Case of Community Forests of Nepal
Ganesh Paudel - Inundated: Holistically Improving Institutional Coordination and Crisis Management Following Superstorm Sandy
James Rausse - Off-Farm Livelihood Diversification as a Strategy for Adaptation to Resilience Against Climate Change in Rural Uganda
Poppy Royal - Using Ecosystem-based Adaptation for building resilience to climate change: case study from a pilot in Ha Tinh, Viet Nam
Lien Tran
Conserving Habitats and Biodiversity in Latin America & the Caribbean
- The Impact of the Public Policies in the Forestry sector on the Care and Productive Capacity of the Forest
Miguel Olivas-Perez - Setting Priorities and Measuring Impact in Conservation and Sustainable Development Projects in Madre de Dios, Peru
Tania Romero Bautista - Forests and Land Tenure: A Look at National REDD-type Initiatives in Costa Rica, Mexico, and Ecuador
Seble Samuel
Economics and Demography of Natural Disasters
- The United Nation’s Cooperation to Transboundary Basin and Island States in Case of Natural Disasters
Fàtima de Jes’s Moreno Merlo
Education for Sustainable Development: An Issue of Consciousness and Values
- The World’s Biggest Promise: SDGs for Everyone
Karol Alejandra Arambula Carrillo - Quality Education for all: Virtual Global School
Claudia Bardoni - Environmental sustainability in the Italian architectural teaching
Antonio Basti - Education Data Analysis for SDGs Achievement: An Eagle Eye View
Ahmed Belal - Impact of Information Communication Technology in Rural Schools of Nigeria: Case Study Enugu State, Nigeria
Nathan David - 1-2 Strategy for Diffusing Educational Technology
Abir El Shaban - Bases of Learning
Nathàlia Flores - Education for a Sustainable Futures: Meeting an Unmet Demand
Arun Kashyap - Environmental Challenges in Migrant Host Communities: The role of Education for Sustainable Development in tackling Waste Management
Aristea Kounani - Frontier of well-being
Chun-Yin Lin - Main Factors Contributing to Cognitive Growth in Preschool Children in Tanzania and India
Jung Won Park - Haitian Parents’ Vision for their Children’s Future
Soo Park - Re-defining “Quality Education” through the Perspectives of Kenyan Teachers
Soo Park - Moderating Role of Islamic Work Ethics between Employee Empowerment, Interpersonal Trust and Organizational Development in Public Sector of Pakistan
Rizwana Rasheed - Sustainable Development Education for Indigenous Communities in High States of Vulnerability in Colombia
Ivan Santodomingo - The Power of Citizen Participation
Jina Sim - Mass Media Functionalities and the Sustenance of Nigeria Development
Hamza Suleiman - What University Students Think a Volunteer is vs. What a Volunteer Really is: University Students’ Volunteer Perceptions
Eyüp Aygün Taysir - Learning by Practice: Sustainable Development in Ghana’s Gold Mining Sector
Francis Xavier Dery Tuokuu - Factors Affecting the Consumer Satisfaction Levels of Private Education Providers of Sri Lanka – Employable Force for 2020, Trends and Challenges
Poornima Weerasinghe
Extreme Events Affecting Life and Livelihood for Small Island States
- Impact on Islands: How Islands are Adapting to Climate Change
Arno Boersma - Long-term Psychological Impact of the 2001 Earthquake on Young Children in Haiti: Seven Years and Counting
Yana Kuchirko - Sinking Maldives
Alessia Volpe
Fostering Equity and Social Inclusion in Cities
- Déyé món, gen món: Language, Power, and Development in Deaf Communities of Haiti
Hannah Bohn, Amal Warsame, Jennifer Compton - Not Too Young To Run
Badru Juma Rajabu - Civic Engagement and Development of Collaboration between Community Organizations in Cities
Nick Ngatia - Indigenization of Graduate Studies Programs
Ari Phanlouvong, Sandra Wiebe - Impacts of climate change on children and youth in Spain and measures to address them
Ana Belén Sánchez
Gender and Sustainable Development
- Young Female Decision Makers in Ghana, Senegal, and Liberia
Jaehyun Ahn - Gender Equality and Gaps in Income: An Approach to Explore the Status of Bangladesh
Jesmin Aktar - GENDER, LABOR, AND POLITICS: How women’s labor participation affects their access to political power
Ginger Albertson - Gender and Sustainable Development: Empowering Women in Armenia
Zarine Arushanyan - Inaccessible Workplace Invisible Labour
Varuna Chauhan - How countries are mainstreaming gender in the sustainable development goals implementation: a HLPF desk research study
Patricia Fernandes da Silva - Roadmap to Women’s Empowerment in Tanzania’s Water & Sanitation Sector
Muniyat Haque - USAID/INGENAES Nutrition and Gender Study: Honduras
Breton Homewood - Girl Scout Programming Around the SDGs
Amanda Monroy - Bread Power: How Bakeries Are Sustaining Livelihoods in Rwanda
Meg North - Integral Ecology and Sustainable Development: An Ecofeminist Conversation with Laudato Si’
Hilary Nwainya - Defining Strategies to Incorporate Women into the guayusa (Ilex guayusa) value chain
Grace Palacios - Understanding Women’s Job Prospects and Gender Inequality Issues in a Developing Community: A Case study of the Cabarete Community in the Dominican Republic
Soo Park - Women’s work and economic development: the case of BPOs and Indian women
Mahjabeen Raza - Religious and Cultural Clashes in the Modern World: Understanding Latent Issues of Middle Eastern Wives
Shiva Thompson - What are the socio-economic barriers for girls to accessing secondary school in Tanzania?
Alessia Volpe
Governance of Energy Transformations: Key to Sustainable Electric Systems
- Sustainable Energy generation through Wastewater: A situation in the Urban City of Lagos, Nigeria
Timothy Oluwagbenga Ajayi - Innovations, Institutional Linkages, and Knowledge Production: A Case of Solar Energy Sector in India
Amitkumar Singh Akoijam - Killing two birds with one stone: Decentralized renewable energy systems for energy transformation and rural electrification
Kathrin Goldammer - Financial Viability in Renewable Energy Projects in Australia using the Mathematical Algorithm of the Monte Carlo Simulator
Gonzalo Chiriboga Gavidia, Johon Gutierrrez Jaraba, Gina Angulo Blanquicett - The future energy grid: Demand Side Management and Distributed Energy Resources
Nikolaos Iliopoulos - Facilitating Microgeneration and Renewable Energy Transition in Russia
Tatiana Lanshina - Educational benefits and social impacts of solar photovoltaic systems in rural Kenyan schools
Tabitha Olang - Rethinking power markets: capacity mechanisms and decarbonisation
Shelagh Whitley
Green Growth: How Can We All Profit from the Low Carbon Transition?
- Achieving a Greener Environment: Implication on the Economy of OPEC – Case Study of Nigeria
Omopeju Afanu - Mining as a Catalyst for Sustainable Development
Dee Bradshaw - Mainstreaming Climate Finance: Market-based Solutions to Climate Change
J. Elias Chebly - SDGs as a great opportunity for the green growth in the private sector
Agustin Delgado - Investing in a Greener Future: Rethinking Sustainability in Aviation
Philippe Lacamp - Knowledge and attitudes about the ‘green car’ concept among bank officers of Colombo district
Bhagya Silva
Health and Sustainable Development
- UEco-toxicology in the Arctic
Jacqueline Allegra Curnick - Harnessing the positive impact of family planning on environmental sustainability to reduce the global unmet need for contraception
Céline Delacroix - Icelandic Social Support Model and Icelandic Adolescent Mental Health
Katerina DeVito - Food Security, Marine Conservation and Dietary Health of the Small Scale Fishers of Belize
Wendy Flores - Mental health consequences of Development-Induced Displacement faced by tribal people
Devika Gupta - Barriers to accessign maternal health services in Uganda: an investigation into the experiences of women living in the slums of Kampala
Aoife Kenna - HEALTH & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Perceptual Pathways to Sustainability, Salutogenesis and Beyond
Ruchira Kitsiri - Are Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia prepared to meet the Sustainable Development Goals’ Health Targets? A Policy Analysis
Natasha Mbabazi - Beliefs, Barriers and Breakthroughs – Accessing Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Services, Information and Education: A Review of Tanzania’s National and Institutional Policies
Sinead Murray - The Effects of Maternal Health Literacy on Child Health Outcomes in Oyo State, Nigeria
Adefunke Olaniyan - Yellow fever: Reflections on environmental justice and sustainability in the reurbanization of the disease.
Irineia Sant’ Anna Rosa - Understanding the Reproductive Health Education Needs of Adolescent Girls in Uganda
Eunmi Song - Addressing child health inequities in the post-2015 framework. A perspective on how new country indicators could help SDGs implementation in high-income countries
Marianna Vitaloni - Assessing the Efficacy of Low-Cost Air Monitors in Measuring Particulate Matter Concentrations on New York City Streets
Jonathan Young
Health Economics
- Assessment of Scrap Vehicles Types in The Northern Cyprus
Oluchi Orieke - Heat waves & Health – An econometric approach
Dheeya Rizmie
Indicators, Feedback Loops, and impact Evaluation for the SDGs
- Developing effective M&E systems for adaptation to climate change in India across sectors: challenges and recommendations
Somya Bhatt Wadhawan - Impact of Corruption on Government Machinery and Sustainable Development
Bandyopadhyay Biswajit - A New Approach for Tracking Philanthropic Activity to the SDGs
Michelle DiSabato - Empirical analysis of corporate sustainability impact on the financial performance of the company
Artem Martynov - How far are the Brazilian Cities from achieving the Sustainable Development Goals? An analysis based on SDG Index
Fernanda Silva Martinelli, David Durand-Delacre - Sustainable Development Goal 10 – Reduced inequalities. Where does Portugal stand?
Tomas Silva, Mariana Carrapatoso, Filipa Moreira - Testing the Causality between Consumers’ Environmental Awareness and Fuel Efficiency of Private Automobiles: Case study on Japan and South Korea
Sunbin Yoo
Indigenous Way sof Knowing and Approaches to Sustainable Development
- Climate Change and the use of Traditional Weather Forecasting Techniques among Small-Farmers in Trelawny, Jamaica
Ayesha Constable - Quilombola community of Alto da Serra do Mar: analysis of the term of agreement of use of territorial area superimposed with the State Park of Cunhambebe, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Januaria Mello - A Livelihood for the Maya: The Viability of Milpa in Rural Quintana Roo, Mexico
Sol Moure - Sustainable Tourism Assessment and Mitigation Strategies for the protection of their natural and cultural assets, of two Ashaninka Communities in Peru
Grace Palacios - ‘Complex Crisis’ and the rise of Collaborative Environmental Governance: Institutional Trajectory of a Wildlife Governance Experience in Ghana
Emmanuel Yebaoh-Assiamah
New Technologies and Solutions for Development Practice
- 40 Years of Innovated Industrial/Guture Based AGri Tech Sustainability For Small Scale Farmers, at Zero Food Waste
Ali Ali - Feasibility Analysis for Social Impact Bond to Alleviate Gang Violence in Central America
Carla Aguilar de la Fuentes - Business Education Teacher – An Instrument for Integrating New Business Education Technologies for Sustainable Development Practice
Modupe Durojaye - Innovation to Promote the SDGs
Jordan Imahori - Feasibility Analysis for Social Impact Bond to Alleviate Gang Violence in Central America
Raul Jindra-Cotilla - A Risk Assessment Model for Humanitarian Prosperity
Eduarda La Rocque - Harnessing ICT to scale-up agricultural solutions: gender equality considerations
Hanna Lange-Chenier - The Use of Technology in strengthening Traditional Communities by Community Based Tourism
Camilla Ribeiro da Silva Lirio - Land use and Land Cover Accounting a Require for Environmental Management of Bangladesh
Byomkesh Talukder - The SDGs Made Simple – A Systems Thinking Approach
Alaphia Wright - The Sustainable Business Case Framework as a Method for Measuring Costs and Benefits in Sustainability for a Specific Supply-Chain
Rodrigo Zeidan, Tracy Van Holt
Poverty Eradication, Social Protection, and Equality in the SDGs
- Nexus of Poverty, Environment and Urbanization in Nigeria: Implication for Sustainable Development
Ademola Adeyemi - Explaining Public Support for Social Protection: Empirical Evidence from Ghana
Callistus Akachabwon Agbaam - Assessment of Consortium Approach in Food Value Chain Development on Income of Smallholder Farmers in East Africa, Countries of Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda
Cecilia Dada - Feasibility Analysis for Social Impact Bond to Alleviate Gang Violence in Central America
Carla Aguilar de la Fuente - Thailand’s Efficient Trade Agreement and its Impacts on Poverty and Income Inequality
Wannaphong Durongkaveroj - Poverty as a Violation of the Right to Life
Yaroslav Karachevtsev - Social Protection Systems for Poverty Eradication in Uganda
Maeve McKiernan - Prospecting Sustainable Development in Nigeria Through Poverty Eradication and Social Protection
Elem Obona - Public Spending and the Poor in a Nigeria’s Nascent democracy: Lessons for Inclusive and Sustainable Development
Saheed Olayiwola - Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: How Far Can Africa Go in the Face of Dwindling Commodity Prices?
Isaac Oluwatayo - Creating Sustainable Livelihood For Youths in the Cocoa Value Chain: A Case Study of Igangan Community, Osun State, Nigeria
Chinonso Onwunali - Sustainable Development Goals to Achieve the Aim of New Urban Agenda
Srishti Raizada - The Significance of Good Governance Institutional Quality to Economic Growth and Development (In EME Country)
Tunde Shaba - Education Eradication of Poverty: Case Study of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences
Kadey Soren - Minimising Marginalisation through Education
Helena Stromberg - A Contested Development Nexus: Participation in Contract Farming Schemes
Vilbert Vabi Vamuloh - The impact of participatory approaches on Food Security
Alessia Volpe - Strengthening Community-Based Organizations (CBOs); as a Panacea to Poverty: a study of Kibera Slum, Nairobi, Kenya
Sunday Oladipo Yusuf
Sustainability Science from SDSN Northern Europe
- Future sustainable living (SDG 11)
Maria Ådahl - GAME Network – The GAME changer for sustainable development
Katarina Gårdfeldt
Sustainable Blue Growth
- Scaling up the dissemination of aquaponic systems through the conversion of brownfield sites in Italy
Alessandro Biagetti - Mapping the Shark Value Chain in Ghana: Past Lessons, Present Challenges, and Future Opportunities
Max Gelber
Sustainable Consumption and Production
- Informal economic activities in Peru: A misleading path for economic growth and how to improve this situation
Gustavo Cruz - The Consumers, the variable that completes the equation of sustainable and low emissions development: Sustainable practices on the demand side
Natalia González Romero - An Evaluability Assessment of a Sustainable livelihood in a Haitian Refugee Camp
Rosanna Kingston - State of the art in development of physical supply and use tables for the Czech Republic
Jan Kovanda - Redressing the (Unspoken) Dignity Gap – Thailand’s ‘Phook-Pinto-Khao’ Project, Sufficiency Economy Philosophy, and How to Slingshot to SDG#16 via SDG#2, et al.
Poomjai Nacaskul - Digitalization as Enabler towards a Sustainable Circular Economy in Germany
Adriana Sonia Neligan - Addressing the gaps in sustainable consumption and production practices for Rwanda’s rural populations
Anne Wanlund - Global Goods and Mining Across Diverse Landscapes: Sustainable Livelihoods and Challenges
Winfield Wilson
Sustainable Development Challenges in Urban Areas (Climate, Water, Natural Resources, Transportation, etc.)
- Urbanization and Equitable Service Delivery: An Analysis of Water Supply in Korail Slum, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Nazmi Ahmed - Inter-Cultural Dialogue, Social Harmony and Sustainable Development in the Urban Context
Aliraza Alidina - Solid Waste Management (Case on Armenia)
Zarine Arushanyan - Local Action Harnessed Nationally, Can Solve Sustainable Development Challenges in the United States: Creating a Scalable, Sustainability Network Model with Metric Driven Initiatives that Brings Global Issues Down to Local Action
Daphne Dixon - Urban Ecology as a tool for analysis of the urban free spaces system
Maria Elisa Feghali, Marcos Feghali - Understanding the role of non-state driven urban water development initiatives in informal settlements
Francesco Gimelli - Urban Watercourses Restoration in Goiania – Macambira Anicuns Park
Maria Cecilia Gorski - Vitoria-Gasteiz: Green Infrastructure for a Sustainable Development
Jorge Guarin - Evaluation of Urban Drainage Infrastructure: New York City Case Study
Ali Hamidi - Sustainable Affordable Housing Development in Indonesia
Gina Cynthia Raphita Hasibuan - Understanding population concerns about climate change-induced heat and the importance of green spaces in urban Côte d’Ivoire
Malan Ketcha Armand Kablan - Understanding the Species Mitigation Market in the United States and the Impacts on Sustainable Development
Ari Kapiloff - Environmental Risk Factors Associated to Acute Respiratory Infections in the Bamenda Health District North West Region of Cameroon
Nsoh Marius - Sustainable Cities need Fire Resilient Buildings
Birgitte Messerschmidt - Property Development on Floodplains in Port Harcourt Metropolis, Nigeria: Acceptable or unacceptable Risk?
Prince Chinedu Mmom - Exploring Challenges Impeding Sustainable Supply Chain Practices in Mining Sector
Yves Mulongo Ndala - African Transport Corridors: A Problem-Driven Framework for Applied Political Economy Analysis of the North-South Corridor Programme
Cemre Mutlu - BBFuels of Puerto Rico, LLC: A Sustainable Industrial Model for Bioethanol Production in Puerto Rico
Jorge L. Nina Espinosa - An Assessment of Risks/Opportunities and Valuation of Ecosystem Services, in the Case of Mekelle City, Ethiopia
Mensur Nuri - SDG 11 in Lower Mekong River Delta. A literature Review Approach
Sergio Pereira da Silva - Fleet Farming: The Journey to Food Deserts
Lee Perry - An overview of Building LCA from the sustainability rating tools perspective
Stefano Politi - Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the City Level: a case study of Seoul in Republic of Korea
Jaemin Song - The pressures of population growth on Urban Areas
Alexei Zammit Douglas
Sustainable Use of Water Resources
- Sustainable Use of Water Resources in the Republic of Armenia
Armine Arushanyan - Towards a Pro-community-based Water Resource Management System in North-west Cameroon. Practical evidence and Lessons of Best Practices
Henry Bikwibili Tantoh - Knowledge was power; now data is. Case studies of water resource development in Latin America
Lauren Butler - Potential for Aquaculture Integration with Wastewater Treatment Wetlands in Southern Iraq
Melaina Dyck - Determination of the Intensity-Frequency Curves (IDF) for the city of Cartagena de Indias in Colombia During the Period between 1970 and 2014
Fabio Perez Marquez, Johon Gutierrez Jaraba - The Development of 3R Water Filter to Solve the Problem of Arsenic Poisoning in Vietnam
Dongyong Lee - Food Security, Marine Conservation and Dietary Health of the Small Scale Fishers of Belize
Wendy Flores - Fostering investments in water and sanitation sector: a veritable tool to human health and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa
Abimbola Owolabi - Effective Irrigation schemes as means of rapidly achieving sustainable food security in Nigeria
Femi Oyeniyi - “New Thinking in Sustainability: A System Dynamics Approach” Case Study: Karaj watershed, Tehran, Iran
Mohammad Radmehr - Water supply decision-making for a sound prioritization of society’s limited resources
Karin Sjostrand - Eco-Service Quantification of Ecologically Engineered Urban Wetlands in Ait Campus
Isaac Takyi - Influence of Rural Women’s Social Network on Attitude toward Water Conservation: Case Study of a Village in West Bengal, India
Ai Tashiro
The Arts as a Tool to Raise Awareness of the SDGs
- Symbiotic Relationship between the Arts & the SDGs and the Existing Challenges in the use of Arts in the Promotion of the SDGs in Nigeria
Chinelo Chinelo - What Art Can Do – Envisioning a role for artists in wicked problems
Merlijn Twaalfhoven
The Role of Natural Resources in Peace-Building
- The role of natural resources in conflict, environmental destruction and peace-building in the Ogoniland of Nigeria
Hurso Adam - Natural Resources and Resource Control as a Mechanism for Peace-Building in Problematic Federal States: Nigeria as a Prototype
Gabriel Adeola - Equity in collaborative Forestry in Nepal: A Case Study from Kailali District
Bhola Bhattarai - The role of Natural Resources in peace-Building
Siméon Roland Edoko Mveng - Governance of Oil Sector in the DR Congo on the Edge
Laure Gnassou - Oil and the Challenges of the Niger Delta Development: Towards a New Outlook for Peacebuilding, Security, and Development
Augustine Ikein - The Risk of Conflicts Over Natural Resources in an Era of Climate Vulnerability
Vicki Jan Isler
The Role of Universities in the Implementation of the SDGs
- Found in Translation: Facilitating University Interdisciplinary Research and Practice
Anita Behari - Operationalizing the SDGs in Mining for Emerging Economies
Dee Bradshaw - Operationalizing the SDGs – from advocacy to action
Brian Chicksen - Observatory for the Sustainable Development of Cartagena – OCARTAGENA Design of a web platform for the follow-up to the Sustainable Development of Cartagena – Colombia
Johon Gutierrez Jaraba - Comparison of sustainable lifestyles of university students based on cultural characteristics in different geographical regions
Gulsume Kulce - “Most of Them Do Not Quit:” Exploring Gender Norms and Student Persistence at at Tanzanian Teachers College
Molly Middlehurst - The role of universities for developing the farming system of Bangladesh through Training and Technical Education
Mohammad Nuruzzaman - Social and environmental commitment of the University U.D.C.A. In inforportaing the ODS: Environmental Course and Integrated Environmental Management System
Masiel Pereira - Competencies Needed in the International Agricultural Development Community: A Modified Delphi Study
Manuel Piéa - Professional social work for sustainable development. Evidence from East Africa
Helmut Spitzer - Contribution of Smart Technologies to the Performance of Green Building in Social and Technical Aspects
Mehmet Meric Tunali - Role of non-formal youth-led educational societies for achieving SDGs in Quetta, Pakistan
Hameed ul Mehdi - Tertiary Language Learning: A new potential for sustainable education at universities as key actors
Sanja Vidovic - The Role of Thai Universities in the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals from 2012 to 2017
Kisnaphol Wattanawanyoo - Boosting Youth Power Key to the Role of Universities
Jieun Yang
Tools & Technology to Improve Health in Rural Areas
- Offline Internet Technology for Health Information in the Dominican Republic
Maria Gonzalez Millan - Using satellite observations to determine rural areas with higher health risks
Diana Guzman Barraza - Using iCloud for Health Data Management in Rural Communities: Challenges and Opportunity to Sustainable Health Provision in Congo
Valmy Ilunga - Exploring the Ability to Expand Community engagement for Open0Source Tools to Support Humanitarian and Development Applications
Stephen Little - Identifying and characterizing health policy and system-relevant documents in Uganda: a scooping review to develop a framework for the development of a one-stop shop
Boniface Mutatina - Clean Cookstoves Improve Community Health While Improving Environmental Conditions
Barbara Vallarino - Developing Monitoring Tools to evaluate Emergency Response Systems in South Sudan
Nicole Yohe
Towards Affordable and Clean Energy through Life Cycle Thinking
- How Citizens Can Ostensibly Help Mitigate Climate Change, Enhance Sustainable Energy, and Make the Public Richer through Free and Open Environmental Trade
Rafael Leal-Arcas
Water, Energy, and Agriculture in the Context of Climate Change and the SDGs
- Scaling up Climate Smart Agriculture among Smallholder Farmers in East Africa
Olaide Akinyemi - Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in the Moroccan Context
Samarth Bordia - Measuring the effectiveness of Biochar on agricultural practices in Rwanda
Jamie Fanous - The political determinants of Adaptive capacity in coastal Bangladesh: A case of shrimp farming
Muniyat Haque - Efficient Program of Agroindustry sustainability and renewable energy for vulnerable people
Henry Ibarra Pino - Downstream Impacts from Upstream Actions: The Toll of Food Production on Water Quality
Emma Krasovich - Impacts of Climate Change on the indigenous Majhi community in Nepal
Bashudev Neupane - How far can Cellulosic Ethanol help India?
Rakhi Ojha - Towards Sustainable Cassava Agro-Processing Systems and Effluent Management Techniques in Southwest Nigeria: Challenges and Benefits
Lanre Oloyede - “Energy is indispensable for development.” Then what about for sustainable development?
Josée Provençal - Diagnosing impacts of climate disasters on the global wheat network system: How do shocks propagate from a country to the globe?
Kasturi Shah - Water Conservation
Gagan Singh - Briquettes of sugar cane in Peru as an energy source
Katherine Valderrama
Oral Presentations
Agronomy for Sustainable Development
- Agricultural crisis in India, Sustainable Development of Small and Marginal Farmers
Waman Salve - Is EU Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) Supporting Other Countries in achieving the SDGs? Assessing Policy Coherence for Development
Yves Zinngrebe
Building Resilience to Climate Change
- Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape (A2R): A Baseline Study of Climate Resilience in the Developing World
Lisa Dale - Regenerative Strategies for Climate Justice
May East - Planning for Climate Resilient Barangays in the Philippines: The Case of Barangay Tumana in Marikina City, Metro Manila
Nicasio Jr. Espina - RegionsAdapt 2016 Data Report: An assessment of risks and actions
Joan Frederick Ferreira Franca - Capacity Development for Resilience to Climate Change in the pacific: The EU-PacTVET project
Helene Jacot Des Combes - Water resources resilience and social perception of water scarcity in Tacloban, Philippines
Rita Marteleira - Global political processes and the multiplier effect of climate (in) justice
Susan Murphy - Climate resilience by Nucleus of Research in Engineering, Science and Sustainability of Semiarid (NUPECS)
Julio Rezende
Conserving Habitats and Biodiversity in Latin America & the Caribbean
- Mosaics of Protected Areas: a tool for strengthening biodiversity conservation in Brazil
Ana Carolina Marques - Factors for the analysis of community-based tourism initiatives in Latin America
Carla Panyella Medrano - Curbing Gold Mining in Choco, Colombia
Kamaladevy Sivalingam
Economics and Demography of Natural Disasters
- Economic Effects of Emergency Risk Communication: Evidence from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
Hiroaki Matsuura - Natural hazard information and migration across cities: Evidence from the anticipated Nankai Trough earthquake
Michio Naoi - Recent Japanese Cases and Problems of Widespread Migration Following Massive Disasters
Keiichi Sato
Education for Sustainable Development: An Issue of Consciousness and Values
- Determinants of Corporate Social Responsibility Toward Employees: The Case of MNCs’ Subsidiaries Operating in Canada
Raja Abid - Unlocking the hidden power of worldviews: a new opportunity for the transformative Education for Sustainable Development
Emilia de la Sienra - Franciscanism: A Framework Sustainable Development Education
John Dilyard - A two-pronged approach to increasing levels of consciousness that generate lasting structural change
Vivian Kadelbach - Doughnut as a Sustainability Education Tool in Central Asia
Olga Krestyaninova - Sustainable Development Goals in Conselho Regional de Administração CRA-RN (Brazil): The Promotion of Manager’s New Consciousness and Values
Julio Rezende - Proposed learning outcomes spaces of deep learning for sustainability
Katie Ross - Individual and Collective Consciousness as the Basis for Sustainable Development
Peter Salk - Innovation for Education values with the rising complexities
Bhupindar Singh - Revisiting Tagore’s philosophy of education: A perspective on social sustainability and human development
Yi Sun
Enhancing the Resilience of Livelihoods and Production Systems in the Sahel, Africa
- New Life to Plastic: Reducing the Consumption of Plastic Materials and Turning Urban Waste into Opportunity in African Informal Settlements
Carol Maione - A Reflection on the Commitment to Enhancing Resilience of the Livelihoods and Production Systems to Climate Variability and other related risks in Africa
Herve Alain Napi Wouapi
Extreme Events Affecting Life and Livelihood for Small Island States
- Water availability, demand and supply model for the Rio Cobre basin of Jamaica – under different climate scenarios. Impact of drought on water resources
Melissa Curtis - Exploring A2 Futures: Combining modeling and scenarios to asses water availability and adaptation in the Small Island State of Carriacou
Crystal Drakes - Hydro-meterological hazards in Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean – case study from Jamaica
Arpita Mandal, David Smith, Arpita Nandi, Johann Sidial, Andre Reid, Shavel Watson
Fostering Equity and Social Inclusion in Cities
- Combating Gentrification Pressures in Inner Cities: A Case Study of Localized Affordable Rent-Determination in Malaysia
Suraya Ismail - Inclusive Urban Development: narrative of urban cleaners community in Bangladesh
Md. A. Halim Miah, Makfie Farah, Uttam Kumar Saha, Hasin Jahan - Fostering Equity and Social Inclusion in Cities as a strategic policy for poverty reduction and sustainable development: The Sub0Saharan Africa Region’s Experience
Abimbola Owolabi
Gender and Sustainable Development
- Gender and Sustainable Development
Ekaterina Dorodnykh, Paloma Duran - Comprehensive Sexual Health Education in Zambia as a Modality for Sustainable Development and Gender Empowerment
Mark Johnson - Using evidence to promote women-owned small and medium enterprises
Elizabeth Koshy Kalarikad - Women’s Empowerment and Its Impact on Women’s Role in adaptation to Climate Change
Citra Indah Lestari - What Women Want: An Analysis of Discourses Surrounding Education access for Underserved Populations
Heather MacCleoud - Strengthening Entrepreneurship Programs Countering Gender Based Violence Through Monitoring & Evaluation in South Africa
Sheila Maingi - Connecting scientific Understanding of Gender Issues with SDG Targets and their Intervention Measures, for all SDGs
Elizabeth Pollitzer - ‘My mom is a hero’: A clock wise analysis of women’s role in poverty alleviation through an indigenous community entrepreneurship program
Aries Heru Prasetyo - Engaging Men and Promoting Equitable Household Decision-Making in Agriculture and Livelihoods Projects
Renata Serra, Michelle Kendall, Alexandra Towns - “The Invisible Ring” – A process documentation and analysis of formation of women’s groups for mainstreaming gender into a marginalized community
Nirosha Welgama - Menstruation, Sanitation, Participation: Advancing gender justice through participatory approaches to sanitation
Claire Windsor
Governance of Energy Transformations: Key to Sustainable Electric Systems
- Good Governance for PPPs for the Transformation of the Energy System in West Africa
Isabella Alloisio - Barriers and drivers of retrofit: using transitions theory and agent-based modeling to drive energy efficiency in UK housing
Luciana Miu - Sectoral systems of innovation: A case study of solar photovoltaics
Ranaporn Tantiwechwuttikul
Green Growth: How Can We All Profit from the Low Carbon Transition?
- Positioning countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands for success in the transition towards a sustainable, equitable, net zero emissions world
Megan Argyriou - Achieving a profitable low carbon transition: Learning from an entrepreneurial approach
Daniel Conley - Carbon Structural Adjustment: The key to profiting from the low carbon transition
Karlson ‘Charlie’ Hargroves - Downshifting in the Fast Lane: a post-Keynesian Model of a Consumer-led Transition
Eric Kemp-Benedict - Innovation for Economic and Environment Health: Achieving Corporate Carbon Neutrality
Bhupindar Singh - Low-Carbon Competitiveness in Asia
Sugandha Srivastav
Health and Sustainable Development
- Climate Variability and Diarrhea Diseases: Evidence from Outpatient Data from Uganda
Precious Akampumuza - Exploring the barrier to improving Health management Information System reporting in the Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia: Focus on Maternal Health Reporting. A qualitative study.
Alexandra Trant - Effects of Climate Change on Ciguatera Fish Poisoning, and Social-Ecological Resilience: Case Study of French Polynesia
Lingfeng Zheng, Clémence Gatti, Esther Garrido Gamarro, Aya Suzuki, Heng Yi Teah
Health Economics
- The Measure of Market Structure and The Quality of Healthcare in Hospital Markets, Ibadan, Nigeria
Bosede Awoyemi - Trend of dengue cases in Sri Lanka: An empirical investigation in Doluwa MOH area
Janaka Lakshman Pallewela
Indicators, Feedback Loops, and iMpact Evaluation for the SDGs
- Evaluating partial satisfaction of multiple SDGs
David Horan - Why we have to ask the question “Who cares?”
Rainer Kunz - Sets of Sustainable Development Indicators in Vietnam: Status and Solutions
Ngo Dang Tri, Tran Thuy Chi, Tran Van Y, Tuan Nguyen - Review of sustainability indicators: the area of tension between existing Sustainability Strategies at the Level of the European Union, the National and Regional Level of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Sustainable Development Goals
Dorothea Schostok - Developing integrated pathways to prove the feasibility of achieving the SDGs and long-term sustainability transformation: The World in 2050 Framework
Caroline Zimm, Sebastian Busch, Frank Sperling
Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Approaches to Sustainable Development
- Considering Maya Identity in Economic Development Models in Southern Belize: an Interdisciplinary Approach
Kristina Baines, Sebastien Buttet - Juridical Pluralism Indigenous Justice: A new perspective for consolidating cross-cultural sustainable development
Victor Cabezas - Establishing an Understanding of the Context of a Mayan Economy
Julia Fair - Developing Indigenous Paralegal Training Programs to Promote Sustainable Development on the Amazon River
Honor Humphrey - Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Rural Development: on the Revitalization of Laochi in Shaanxi Province, China
Yapeng Ou - Approaches to Sustainable Economic Development in Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation
Cassandra Szabo
New Technologies and Solutions for Development Practice
- Technology for change: Sustainable Development in Rural India through CGNetSwara
Aaliya Ahmed, Malik Zahra Khalid - The Purposeship Principles Standard: A Guide for Purpose-Driven, Cross-Sector Relationships
Paloma Andres Urrutia - Bringing Earthbags to the People- A New Democratic Approach to Sustainable Building
Nathan Belofsky - Blockchain and SDG Finance
Fraser Brown - Going beyond rhetoric in building multi-actor environments at universities
Carlos Mataix, et al. - Preparing for a World of 8 Billion: A Non-Zero-Sum Initiative
Sumair Sayani
Poverty Eradication, Social Protection, and Equality in the SDGs
- Participatory Planning of Housing and Community Development
Yossef Ben-Meir - Rural Livelihoods Diversification: A Case Study of Dairy Farming and Wool Spinning Enterprises in Padampur, Nepal
Elmohanad Elsayad - Global Inequality and Transboundary Pollution
Johnson Kakeu - Sustainable Development Goals for Peace: Greece as a case study
Jimena Leiva Roesch - Education as Enabling Right: The Need to Incorporate Data on Forcibly Displaced Women’s Access to Education in the GEM Reports
Heather MacCleoud - Poverty Eradication and Social Protection: A Study of Women Self-Help Groups Movement in Tamil Nadu
Pandiyan Mauduraiveeran - Internal Displacement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Issues and Challenges
Balaji Naika B G - Effect of Microfinance Institutions on Rural Households Well-being in Oyo State: A Case Study of IFAD/RUFIN Supported Project
Olufemi Oshinowo - Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers anti-poverty programs as long term incentives for the use of public services in health and education by the beneficiaries. An empirical approximation based on panel data for the Mexican example of Prospera – Oportunidades (2002-2012)
Odra Saucedo Delgado - No one left behind: a review of disability inclusive development efforts at the World Bank
Jacob Sims - Estimating Baseline aid to the Sustainable Development Goals
Jennifer Turner
Sustainable Blue Growth
- Sustainable Coastal-Marine Livelihoods in Indonesia: A Mangrove Management Case Study
Nurmala Kartini Sjahrir
Sustainable Consumption and Production
- Sustainable consumption: How materialism and trust play a role on collaborative non-ownership consumption
Hanna Arruda, Cláudia Buhamra Abreu Romero - An Empirical Exploration and Typology of Corporate Sustainability
Manfred Max Bergman - Consumption patterns and the transition to a low-carbon economy in 2050 – The case for Brazil
Carolina Grottera, Williams Wills, and Emilio Lèbre La Rovere - An Assessment of No-Deforestation Commitments in the Brazilian Amazon: The case of soy and cattle in Mato Grosso
Michelle Mendlewicz - Are consumer preferences for sustainability in the textile industry in alignment with best practice approaches to sustainable supply chain management?
Nelly Oelze - Sustainability performance of Italian textile product
Marzia Traverso, Paola Lenzo, Giovanni Mondello, Roberta Salomone, Giuseppe Ioppolo
Sustainable Development Challenges in Urban Areas (Climate, Water, Natural Resources, Transportation, etc.)
- My city, my food: Examining the potential impact of the MyCiTi bus system on food security in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa
Rebekah Adams - Challenges to accomplish carbon neutrality in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area by 2050
Karna Dahal - How Best to Measure Progress Toward Sustainability in Cities: Ranking Lists vs Sustainability Plans
John Dilyard - Global Sustainability Risk to India
John Donnellan - An Integrated Strategy for Sustainable Development, Global Climate Change, and Indigenous Renewable Energy Resources
Arun Jhaveri - Looking Ahead for Sustainable Development: Results and Lessons Learned from the Vision development of a “Sustainable North Rhine-Westphalia 2030” in a science-practice-dialogue
Miriam Müeller - Localization of SDGs through Disaggregation of KPIs
Manohar Patole - Sustainable Vision for Cities and Regencies in Indonesia
Rachmat Witoelar
Sustainable use of Water Resources
- The Contribution of Mining to Clean Water and Sanitation (SDG 6): Case Studies from South Africa
Jennifer Broadhurst - Reconciling polycentric administrative data to improve drinking water security in rural Bangladesh
Alex Fischer - Mining and Communities: Turning risks into opportunities through shared approaches to sustainable water management
Jocelyn Fraser
The Arts as a Tool to Raise Awareness of the SDGS
- Dance and mixed media performance for building scientific understanding and environmental respect
Lauren Butler
The Role of Natural Resources in Peace-Building
- Building trust and collaborating with others: challenges for a sustainable peace in Caquetà, Colombia
Maria Fontecha - Blood and Soil: The Dynamic Relationship between Natural Resources and Social Conflict
Alison Heslin
The Role of Universities in the Implementation of the SDGs
- Towards the implementation of SDGs in Jalisco, Mexico: The University of Guadalajara Green Campus Initiative
Marco Berger - Development of a Platform for Sustainable Development in Africa through Minerals and Metals
Dee Bradshaw - University Entrepreneurship: Legislation and Public Policies. Study of KTOs at Mexican Universities, and a Proposal for the Promotion and Fostering of Protected Technological Innovation for the Strengthening of Competitiveness and Economic Development of the Country
Helena Valeria Calderón Argomedo - What do the Sustainable Development Goals mean for research?
Joanne Chong - Challenges on establishing a sustainable development program at Université Alioune Diop de Bambey, Senegal
Aladji Madior Diop, Sailou Mamdou Mbengue - Gender Sensitivity or a Gender Content?: Gender Mainstreaming Curricula and Promoting SDG 5 at a Tanzanian Teachers College
Brianna Guidorzi - University of São Paulo Environmental Policies: Challenges and Achievements
Patricia Iglecias Faga Lemos - Universities and Clean Cities: Building Synergies and Partnerships for Sustainable Waste Management
Frederick Kakembo - Global Learning for Global Results
Heather MacCleoud - UPM campus as a test bed for public policies and social innovation
Carlos Mataix, et al. - Universities can be the Social Innovation Engines that End Energy Poverty
Nigel Moore - Engaging college students in the transition to sustainability through design-based approaches
Najla Mouchrek - Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions: British Columbia’s Universities Collaborate on Climate Change Solutions
Sara Muir Owen - Universities as Transformative Locations for Sustainable Approaches to Science: Network of Early-Career Sustainable Scientists and Engineers’ Sustainable Universities Programme
Natalie O’Neil, et al. - Rethinking the University Teaching: The Changing Role of the University Teacher for Attainment of the SDGs
Grace Offorma
Tools & Technology to Improve Health in Rural Areas
- Towards Universal Energy Access: Technology and Tools in Rural Uganda, Improving Health and Tracking Impacts
Sarah Baird - Interventions using Community-led total sanitation approach (CLTS) in developing countries: an analysis of practical experience
Frantisek Ficek - Reaching The Rural Poor Through Ehealth-Enhanced Community Health Workers (chws)
Chief Nathaniel Ebo Nsarko - An Assessment of Radio-Based Education about Female Genital Cutting and Health and Human Rights Issues in Dountza, Mali
Juliet Sorensen
Towards Affordable and Clean Energy through Life Cycle Thinking
Water, Energy, and Agriculture in the Context of Climate Change and the SDGs
- Addressing Food Insecurity with year-round Geothermally Run Greenhouse in Canada
Amanda Appasamy - The role of the National adaptation Plans (NAPs) in agriculture for achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals and implementing the Paris Agreement
Armine Avagyan Juergenliemk - The Role of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals in Morocco
Bassel Daher - SDGs under the climate change threat: an impact assessment in the agricultural sector
Elisa Delpiazzo - Water-Intensive Food Multinationals and SDG 6: How the Actions of the Former Relate to the Achievement of the Latter
John Dilyard - The SDGs and the Arab World: Questions about Citizenship, Gender, and Conflict
Abbas El-Zein - Water, Energy and Agriculture in the context of Climate Change and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda – Mitigating risks to a sustainable future for Australia
Maureen Papas - Potentiality of Biogas as Renewable Energy Technology and its role for the Conservation of Environment
Maheshwor Poudel - Renewable energies in 2050: Modeling the link between renewable energies and climate change
Nathalie Spittler
Water Security in the Era of Climate Change: Issues, Cases, Practices
- Are Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Inclusive? The cases of Surat, Durban and Rio de Janeiro
Roweida Arafah, Muniyat Haque, Ericha Moores - Transboundary Water Management: Add Climate Change and Stir
Rebecca Arbour, Rebecca Thomson, Amgad Zaky - Combating Climate Change and Achieving SDGs through Integrated Watershed Management (IWM): Lessons from India
Suraj Baral, Hayden Gould, Jenessa Loewen - Addressing Water Security Challenges in Caribbean Small Island Developing States to Increase Resilience against Climate Change Threats
Jonathan Bolai, Alejandra Calle, Craig Eby, Melanie Marshall - Unintended Consequences of Dams and Water Security: An Insight into Women’s Vulnerability and the Spread of Malaria in Ethiopia
Romy Buchner, Mridula Nair, Barbara Pinto - Assessing the Vulnerability of Bangalore’s Water Supply to Climate Change
Josephine Chan, Wendy Nakigudde, Naomi Sunu - Trade not Aid?: International Trade as a Means of Adaptation for Food and Water Security Under the Influence of Climate Change in the Sahel Region
Oluwalayomi Odusanya, Stephanie Poirier, Larry Swatuk