These proceedings include the unedited papers from the 2018 International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD), held September 26th-28th 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 Paper
- Italian Cities SDGs Composite Index
Luca Farnia and Laura Cavalli - Breaking down silos: simulating consumer investment decisions in the multi-actor UK retrofit system
Luciana Miu, Christoph Mazur, Adam Hawkes, Jeffrey Hardy, and Julia Sachs - Kimeltuwe: Developing intercultural education strategies for Pehuenche communities in Chile
Pauline Claramunt Torche and Fernando Dowling - Best practices for inclusion of gender equality in monitoring and evaluation of rural climate services
Tatiana Gumucio and Saroja Schwager - Breaking down silos for national SDG planning
Steven Arquitt and Matteo Pedercini - New approaches to implement Sustainability Science – a Case of University of Helsinki
Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki, Janna Pietikäinen, Paula Schönach, and Virpi Kuitto - Sustainable cities and communities: the case study of Natal – Brazil
Julio Rezende, Álvaro Oliveira, and Irani Santos
Oral Sessions
Linking Policy, Operations, and Workforce toward Meeting Global Health Goals
- mHealth4Afrika – Supporting Primary Healthcare Delivery in Resource Constrained Environments
Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham - Environmental and health impacts of effluents from textile industries in Ethiopia: the case of Gelan and Dukem, Oromia Regional State
Diriba Dadi Debela, Feyera Senbeta, Till Stellmacher, Hossein Azadi, and Steven Van Passel - The Impact of Water and Sanitation on Childhood Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Chaltu Daniel Kalbessa - How can we and should we promote the private sector’s contribution beyond “established” global health community
Michikazu Koshiba - Gender Differences and Reflective Teaching on Reading Comprehension: Implications for Sustainable Development in Obiyo
Ngozi Obiyo - Sustainability of Societal Peace and the Paradox of Nation Building in Apartheid South Africa and Its Contemporary relevance.
Olugbenga-Jay Oguntuwase - Linking Policy and Engaging Cross-sector Institutes in Meeting Global Health Goals with Partner Countries – Public-Private Partnerships for TaiwanICDF’s Overseas Health Projects
Chien-Yao Tseng - Strengthening Health Systems: lessons from developing nation
Arushi Sirohi
Metrics and frameworks for assessing Sustainable Urban Development
- Sustainable Urban Development Assessment of Northern Tehran Suburbs The case study of Shemiranat County in the Greater Tehran Area
Yasmin Afshar - How urban sanitation data standards will improve data collection, sharing and analysis to enable and track progress on SDG 6.2
John Peter Archer and Lindsey Noakes - Metrics and frameworks – capturing SDG interlinkages
Ranjula Bali Swain - Breaking Barrier for Sustainable Growth Index: An Integrated Tool for Assessing Sustainable Development Approaches
Darshan Desai - Italian Cities SDGs Composite Index
Luca Farnia and Laura Cavalli - Monitoring 25 years sustainable urban development with the Land Use Efficiency indicator; perspectives from the Global Human Settlements Layer
Michele Melchiorri, Marcello Schiavina, Christina Corbane, Aneta J. Florczyk, and Martino Pesaresi - Exploring SDGs in Six BC Cities: Aligning SDGs with Local Government Plans
Sara Muir Owen - Measuring Progress Toward the Sustainable Development Goals in Urban Contexts in Colombia
Jorge Salem, Lucia Haro, Lia Celi, Diego de Leon, and Sarah Goddard - Transforming Australia: SDG Progress Report
John Thwaites, Michael Reid, Cameron Allen, Rod Glover, and Tahl Kestin - Big Earth Observation Data for Sustainable Urban Development
Panshi Wang, Chengquan Huang, and Eric Brown de Colstoun - Spatial urban sustainability metrics and indicators guiding urban design and planning interventions
Elena Vanz, Kyle Corkum, and Ryan Blackmon
Ensuring Public Engagement and Accountability for Sustainable Urban Development
- Public awareness and knowledge about seawater desalination and its impacts on the environment: Gaza strip, Palestine
Saleh Aldaghma - Internal Migration and Urbanization: A Case Study from Semi – arid Regions of Pakistan
Ghamz E. Ali Siyal, Imran Khalid, and Ayesha Qaisrani - A Model for Civic Engagement to Facilitate Sustainable Development in Los Sitios, Habana, Cuba
Jackson Chabot, Daniel Eizo Miyagusko, Koichiro Tamura, Claudia Castillo de la Cruz, Daniela Freidman, and Dhanya Rajagopal - Engaging Community Hearts, Minds and Spirit for Sustainable Development
Barbara A. Coe - The Power of Photography in the Hands of Community Stakeholders
Cara Indiano, Claudia Rebola, Braden Trauth, and Michael Roller - Social and Environmental Accountability Mechanisms at the United Nations
Ani Karapetyan - Why people matter: Moving from rhetoric to practice in public engagement
Thandie Mwape - Strengthening community engagement: promoting the SDG in condos
Julio Rezende, Vicente Maciel, Christian Ribeiro, Luana Albuquerque, Diana Themístocles - Sustainable cities and communities: the case study of Natal – Brazil
Julio Rezende, Álvaro Oliveira, and Irani Santos - Environmental Justice and Participation for Communities in Southern India
Cassandra Szabo
Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Towns and Small Cities
- Thinning sea ice and thawing permafrost: Climate change adaptation planning in Nome, Alaska
S. Jeff Birchall - Increasing resilience through intense science-practice collaboration in a coastal urban region
Sonja Deppisch - Adapting Coastal Towns and Small Cities to Climate Change: Assessing the Scale of the Challenge
James Fitton, Martin Lehmann, David C. Major - Community Development in Maputo Special Reserve, Mozambique
Fiona Hogan - Dolores after the tornado: community governance, environmental challenges and adaptations in Southwestern Uruguay
Silvina Lopez Barrera and Diego Thompson
Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Building in Agriculture
- Assessing Communication Channels for Scaling-up of Climate Smart Agriculture among Smallholder Farmers in Northern Uganda
Oluwadara Adetuyi - Assessment of Climate Variability, Post-Harvest Losses and Household Food Security in Kayonza District, Rwanda
Toyib Aremu, Olawale Olayide, Andre Ndagijimana, and Jean Claude Mudahunga - Assessing IFAD Value Chain Development Programme on Productivity and Income of Smallholder Farmers’ in Obafemi-Owode and Yewa North Local Government Areas of Ogun State
Temitayo Bamidele, Olawale Olayide, and David Onigbinde - Climate Change Impacts on Global Agricultural Trade Patterns: Evidence from the Past 50 Years
Suborna Barua - Farmers Labs: Learning for the climate change adaptation of Cacao Farming
Ibnu Budiman and Marta Truszewska - Advancing Climate Smart Agriculture Across the World
Gabriela Burian, Tony Siantomas, Matthew Reddy, Daima Somogy, and Amy Braun - Participatory Assessment and Adaptation for Resilience to Climate Change
John Choptiany, Benjamin Graub, Samuel Ledderman, and Daniele Conversa - Effectiveness of knowledge and skills development program on improving productivity of Smallholder Farmers’ Organisations:A Case of Post-Harvest handling of Fruits and Vegetables in Lushoto, Tanga, Tanzania
Bukola Lawal, Olawale Olayide, and Bertha Mjawa - Scaling-up Sustainable Development Initiatives: A Comparative Case Study of Agri-Food System Innovations in New York, Senegal, and the South of Brazil
Rositsa T. Ilieva and Andreas Hernandez - What is the Effect of Adoption of Innovative Rice Processing Techniques on Profitability and Empowerment of Smallholder Rice Processors? Case Study of IFAD Value Chain Development
Abubakar Metcho and Olawale Olayide - Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture: Proposals on Methods and Approaches for assessing adaptation, Adaptation Co-Benefits, and Resilience
Godwell Nhamo - Assessment of the Effect of Rural Enterprises Programme’s Business Development Services on Rural Livelihoods and Empowerment of Micro and Small Enterprises in Atwima Mponua and Kwabre East Districts of the Ashanti region of Ghana
Lydia Oladapoo, Olawale Olayide, and Cletus Y. Kayenwee - Role of Warehouse Receipt System in Enhancing Smallholder Producers Access to Credit Facilities from Financial Institutions
Olubusayo Elizabeth Faleye, Segun Opadeji, and Julius Kallambo - Linking Smallholder Farmers to Markets Enhances Productivity Growth: A Case Study of Rice Farmers in Ghana
Luju Oranu, Olawale Olayide, and Galina Okartei-Akko - Assessing the Water Quantity and Quality in the Upper Tana Catchment of Kenya: A case study of Embu and Kirinyaga Counties
Isaac Oritogun, Olawale Olayide, and Francis Koome - What are the Factors Influencing Livelihoods Diversification and Afforestation in the Upper Tana Area of Kenya?
Idowu Owoeye, Olawale Olayide, and Paul Njuguna - Trading Soils for Ceilings: Comparing the Resource Intensity of Vertical Farming to Conventional Techniques
Alexander Rudnicki - Effect of IFAD Value Chain Development Programme on Economic Welfare of Smallholder Rice and Cassava Producers in Anambra State, Nigeria
Funmilola Tenabe, Olawale Olayide, and Michael Nwadihi - The performance of financial cooperative societies and networks in provision of products and service to rural communities – A case of Same Kaya SACCOS, Tanzania
Fatima Umar
Economics and Demography of Natural Disasters
- Natural Disaster Risk and the Distributional Dynamics of Damages: a Global Analysis
Matteo Coronese, Francesco Lamperti, Francesca Chiaromonte, and Andrea Roventini - The Effects of Dust Storms on Economic Development
Timothy Foreman - Long-Run Growth Impacts of Natural Disasters and the Connection to the Spatial Pattern of the Natural Hazard
Stephanie Lackner - The Protection Effect of Constitutional Human Rights during the Natural and Manmade Disaster, 1970-2007
Hiroaki Matsuura - Effects on Regional Population caused by the Kobe Earthquake Damages and Reconstruction Projects
Michio Naoi and Keiichi Sato - Migration Response to Tsunami Risk: Evidence from Nankai Trough Earthquake Predictions in Japan
Michio Naoi, Keiichi Sato, Shingo Nagamatsu, and Hiroaki Matsuura - Exposure to floods and earthquakes in Europe: demography variability in daily and seasonal cycles
Marcello Schiavina, Sérgio Freire, Konstantin Rosina, and Filipe Batista e Silva
Clean and Affordable Energy as a Keystone for Sustainable Development
- Energy Access, Climate Change and Water Use: Synergies and Trade-offs
Isabella Alloisio - Exploring the economic impact of renewable energy on grid: Diminishing marginal revenues and increasing abatement costs
Saptarshi Das, Eric Williams, and Eric Hittinger - A Sustainable Solar Power System for the University of Nigeria, Nsukka using Micro Inverters
Nathan David - A Proposed Solar Energy Efficient Sustainable Street Light System: Case Study University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Nathan David, Ifeebube Okoye, and Sochi Ogbonna David - Energy needs for adaptation: what can we learn from Paris Agreement’s NDCs?
Davide Marinella and Enrica de Cian - Energy, emission and cost savings impact assessment of adopting energy efficient lighting in Enugu, Nigeria
Anayo Ezeamama - Addressing Renewable Energy Conundrum in the DR Congo: Focus on Grand Inga Hydropower Dam Project
Laure Gnassou - Extracting Power: How the Geopolitics of Rare Earths and the Clean Energy Transition Sustain Traditional Global Power Relationships and Unnatural Capitalism
DeLaine Mayer - Multi-Stakeholder partnerships to deliver on the SDGs in the Mont Kenya region
Fanny Guezennec, Elias Ako, Thomas Blackburn, Meinrad Bürer, Thierry Fornas, Bernard Giraud, Arnaud Lanfranconi, Sarah Megahed, Kenneth Mwenda, Nishal Ramdoo, and Jean-Pierre Rennaud - Applying Systems Thinking to Integrate Sustainability in PPPs for Mini-grids: Bukuya Mini-Hydro Case Example
Douglas Marett, Arindam K. Basu, Marc A. Marr, Emma Mario, and Joeli Valemei - Breaking down silos: simulating consumer investment decisions in the multi-actor UK retrofit system
Luciana Miu, Christoph Mazur, Adam Hawkes, Jeffrey Hardy, and Julia Sachs - Harnessing Clean Energy Projects in Mexico:The Case of the Jalisco 1 Solar Plant and the LED lighting in Zapopan
Eduardo Riguero - Challenges in the sustainability of hydroelectric projects and energy access in the Brazilian Amazon
Judith Rodriguez
Globalization, Value Chains and Decent Work
- Getting it right: A new economy for South Africa
Philippe Burger - Policy Diffusion and the Fragmentation of Environmental Regulations in Asian Countries
Fang-Ting Cheng - Building a sustainable and inclusive value chain network in the Andean camelid textile sector
Maria Fernandez, Paul Middlekoop, and Adriana Marina - The Dispersion and Diffusion of Clean Technologies using machine learning methods
Kyle Herman and Jun Xiang - Spillover Effects of Global Value Chains for Sustainable Development
Musa Jega Ibrahim - A Fourth Industrial Revolution that empowers SDG 2030 : Exploring the Development-Technology Nexus in quest for Inclusivity
Syed Munir Khasru and Avia Nahreen - The Effect of Land-Based Investments in Developing Countries on Likelihood of Deforestation
Hee Jin Koo and Kyle Frankel Davis - Technology and Market Access Improve Livelihoods for Rural Ethiopian Beekeepers
Elizabeth McGovern, Joshua Kruskal, and Lianna Tabar - Understanding Youth: Skills and Decent Work in Tanzania
Bethlehem Girma Mamo - Towards safe and secure work for women in Bangalore, India: “Forward March”
Salina Suri and Natalie Boychuk - Corporate Sustainability in the Age of the Sustainable Development Goals
Anton van Zanten and Rob van Tulder
Indigenous Approaches to Understanding and Practicing Sustainable Development
- Establishment of legally binding International Legal framework and Policy for Traditional Knowledge Protection in relation to Biodiversity
Amanda Appasamy - Shaping the Maya Economy: Human-Centered Design Approaches to Biocultural Innovation
Sadikshya Aryal, Juliana Ramos, and Tyler Vogel - Kimeltuwe: Developing intercultural education strategies for Pehuenche communities in Chile
Pauline Claramunt Torche and Fernando Dowling - Underlining the Ethical Principles that Drive Indigenous Farmers in Developing Countries to Pursue Environmental Sustainability when Adapting to Climate Change
Eromose Ebhuoma - Between extractivism and good living: An analysis of the Bolivian indigenous proposal
Marysabel Pacheco Arreaño - Indigenous Community Energy Plan
Chelsie Parayko, Patricia Eyamba, and Nik Friesen-Huges - Feeding the world, the nation or the village? Agrarian movements’ battle for food provisioning in Colombia
Felipe Roa-Clavijo - The Honourable Harvest: An Indigenous Research Protocol for Sustainable Development
Erika Vas, Silvina Antunes, Kara Passey, and Jordan Tabobondung
Mainstreaming Gender in Agenda 2030: Interlinkages between Sustainable Development Goals
- Menstrual Hygiene Management Monitoring and the SDGs
Sarah Goddard, Libbet Loughnan, Therese Mahon, Rob Bain, and Marni Sommer - Gender Mainstreaming in Mine Action: creating interlinkages for progress across SDGs
Vanessa Gomes Sampaio, Ursign Hofmann, Marion Provencher, and Laura Biscaglia - Best practices for inclusion of gender equality in monitoring and evaluation of rural climate services
Tatiana Gumucio - Scaling Agency for Gender Empowerment & Strategic Gravidity: A Comprehensive Sexual & Reproductive Health Rights Programme for Ekiti State, Nigeria
Mark Johnson, Shelby Graves, Maria Martinez, and Olumide Olorunfemi - Linking Gender Equality (Goal 5) with Decent Work and Economic Growth opportunities (Goal 8) through the development of infrastructure (Goal 9) In LAC. Pilot experiences in Bolivia, Paraguay and Nicaragua
Manuel Pastor and Isabel Granada - Women / Energy / Climate: Linking SDG Impacts
Renata Valladares and Sarah Leugers
Breaking Down Silos in Government Administration
- National Social Investment program: The potential to achieve the sustainable development goal on zero poverty through the Conditional Cash Transfer program in Nigeria
Ibraheem S. Adam - Breaking down silos for national SDG planning
Steven Arquitt and Matteo Pedercini - Silos or integrated policy making? An analysis of national institutional approaches to implementing the 2030 Agenda
Anita Breuer - Which silos first? Analysing the Italian case through the study of Tuscany Region’s government
Simone Cresti and Alice Avalieri - Towards Understanding the Level of Communication between Water-Energy-Food Government Organizations in San Antonio
Bassel Daher, Rabi H. Mohtar, Kent E. Portney, and Bryce Hannibal - America’s Goals for 2030
Caroline Fox, Alainna Lynch, and Anna LoPresti - Filling Africa Development Financing Gap: possible Africa-China-West Trilateral Cooperation
Jie Li - State of the Environment Reporting framed by the UN SDGs
Michael Reid, Gillian Sparkes, David Griggs, Scott Rawlings, and Jenny Jelbart - Requirements for the regionalization of global sustainability indicator concepts
Dorothea Schostok - Euskadi Basque Country Agenda 2030
Estibaliz Urcelay and Leyre Madariaga
Breaking Down Silos in Universities: Imaginative Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainable Development Research, Education, and Practice
- Integrating Core Sustainability Meta-Competencies and SDGs Across the Silos in Curriculum and Professional Development
Paul Bartlett - Sustainable innovation in the digital transition and disruptive technologies age
Mohamed Cheriet, Darine Ameyed, and Réjean Samson - Urban Metabolism and Minority Pulse: An Education and Awareness Campaign Targeting Minority Groups
Gabriela Fernandez and Carol Maione - Developing the Sustainability Faculty Learning Community at SUNY New Paltz
Will Hong - New approaches to implement Sustainability Science – a Case of University of Helsinki
Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki, Janna Pietikäinen, Paula Schönach, and Virpi Kuitto - Higher education response to the energy sustainable development goal: Case of University of South Africa
Godwell Nhamo - Earth Hacks: A University Hackathon to Generate Interdisciplinary Solutions to Pressing Environmental Problems
Sanjana Paul, Stephen Fong, Mashaba Rashid, Robert Burris, Nicholas Hattrup, Mit Amin, Vishakha Sehgal, Bhargav Sathish, and Ushna Arora - Mars and SDG: applying SDG to Mars research station Habitat Marte
Julio Rezende, Daniel Mousinho Lago, Vitor Jerônimo Teles - SDG in universities: the study of UFRN in Brazil
Julio Rezende, Laudemar Pessoa, Alana Nascimento Araújo, and Ana Carolina Fernandes Bezerra - Leveraging a new generation committed with impactful interdisciplinary projects for the Sustainable Development Goals
Leonardo Santos, Ariane Moura, and Cinthia Mara - Interdisciplinary Approaches and Action: Teaching and Transversalizing Sustainability at The Centre for International Programs and Sustainability Studies, Universidad VERITAS, Costa Rica
Helen Temple - The Latin American university and the SDGs: A contribution to the construction of Transformative Innovation
Eliana Villa and Jorge Robiedo
Collaborative Arts & Culture to Help Achieve the SDGs
- Art as Policy: The Blued Trees Symphony
Aviva Rahmani - (Re)Crafting Sustainability Through the Creative Industries: Perspectives from the Global South
Connie Rapoo and Maitseo Bolaane
What’s Law Got to Do With It? Legal Preparedness for Delivering the SDGs
- Water Hazards, Environmental Justice, and Advanced Biofuels
Nadia Ahmad, Stephanie Traeger, and Scott Badenoch - Collaboration between MEAs and the SDGs: Mainstreaming sustainable development along global environmental conventions
Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy - Dreaming of Paris: Making the Paris Agreement Enforceable through International Arbitration
Injy Johnstone - Realizing the Right to Food and Nutrition through South-South Cooperation: A Rights-Based Technical and Knowledge Assistance for School Meals and Smallholder Farming Programmes
Bruno Valim Magalhaes and Christiani Amaral Buani - The Fate of Customary Tenure Systems of Ethnic Minority Groups in Upland Myanmar: An Analysis of the Land Tenure Reform Process since 2012
Manuel von der Mühlen
In Search of Water Security in the Era of Climate Change
- Water Sharing or Dominance Declaring: Analyzing the Potentials for Transboundary Water Agreements between Israel and Palestine
Riyaz Basi, Dilbag Jhuty, Shahene Patel, and Karolina Szymszyk - Profiting from Water Security: Theories and Practice of Private Sector Participation
Zachary Burns, Chrissy Scheerer, and Franklyn Searle - The Real Water Wars: Water, Water Justice and Women
Maria Carmona and Aleena Naseem - Seeing the Unseen: Subaltern Voices and Actions for Water and Health Security
Victoria Filippelli, Kiara Reyes-Leonte, and Shannon Seeraj - The ‘Pluralism Puzzle’: Shifting from Reductionist to Pluralistic Understandings of Water Security
Bradley Noonan, Jonathan Hand, and Mariana Sánchez Soto - Critical Review of IWRM in Achieving Water Security
Adnan Qader, Miha Alam, and Moushin Zadehesmaeil