Proceedings From ICSD 2015

These proceedings include the unedited papers from the 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD), held September 23th and 24th 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

1. Raising Consciousness: The Intersection Between Cultural NGOs and Sustainable Development in the Andean Region
   Susan Appe and Laura M. Milanes-Reyes

2. Training India’s First Female Toilet Builders: An Argument for Improving Sanitation Through Women Empowerment and Social Inclusion
   Rao R. Bhavani, Christopher Coley, Vidya Nair, Srividya Sheshadri

3. The Cost of Climate Stabilization in Southeast Asia: A Joint Assessment With Dynamic Optimization and CGE Models
   Carlo Orecchia, Francesco Bosello, Giacomo Marangoni, David A. Raitzer, Massimo Tavoni

4. An Industrial-Ecology-Based View of the Firm
   Kieran Sullivan

5. What We Know and Don’t Know About Solutions for Poverty Eradication: Evidence Gap Map of Productive Safety-Net Interventions
   Martina Vojtková, Jennifer Stevenson, Benjamin Verboom, Yashaswini PrasannaKumar, Birte Snilstveit

6. Potential Structural Health Monitoring Tools to Mitigate Corruption in the Construction Industry Associated With Rapid Urbanization
   Yongchao Yang, Alessandro Cattaneo, & David Mascarenas

 

Introduction

ICSD 2015 was organized around 18 themes:

1. Indigenous Approaches to Sustainable Development
2. Climate Change and Access to Energy
3. Education
4. Examining the Science-Policy Interface
5. Inclusive Economic Growth / The Role of Business
6. Governance (Including Peace Building and Justice)
7. OECD New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) and the SDGs
8. Greening Cities
9. Health
10. Scientific Collaboration to Achieve Affordable, Sustainable Energy of Humanity
11. Accountability and Evaluation
12. International Science-Policy Interface 2.0: Research Coordination in Support of the SDGs
13. Social Inclusion (Including Gender & Human Rights)
14. Agriculture, Food Security, and Nutrition
15. Ending Extreme Poverty
16. Arab Religion: Challenges and Prospects of Implementing the SDGs
17. Planetary Boundaries (Including Biodiversity/ Ecosystem Services)
18. Financing for Development

 

Indigenous Approaches to Sustainable Development

 

1. Indigenous Knowledge the Key to Survival of Life
   Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
2. A Three Layered Model for Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Indigenous Peoples
   Adesuwa V. Ero, Oluwabusola Olaniyan, Barbara T. Gardner
3. Raising Conciousness: The Intersection Between Cultural NGOs and Sustainable Development in the Andean Region
   Laura Milanes & Susan Appe
4. Cultural and Environmental Sustainability and Development of an Indigenous Design Process
   William Semple
5. Ancient Technologies of the World’s Ecosystem Dwellers
   Julia Watson

 

Climate Change and Access to Energy

1. Achieving Net-Zero Self-Sustainable Households and Communities
   Tarek Alfarra & Ian Chow
2. Facilitating Access to Sustainable Lighting Among the Extreme Poor in Uganda
   Sarah Baird; Derrick Luwaga, Ben Kerman
3. Environmental and Health Impacts of Micro-Hydro in a Rural Area of Nepal: A Sustainable Development of a Nepalese Village
   Chiranjibi Bhattarai
4. Climate Change Awareness and Education in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
   Paul Carr
5. Drones in Africa? Targeted Climate Change Mitigation in Senegal’s Agro-Pastoralist Communities
   Tzviatko Chiderov & Thérèse d’Auria Ryley
6. Role of NGOs in Climate Change and Disaster Management: Case Studies from Bangladesh
   Md Manirul Islam
7. What Could Future Sahelian Cities Look Like? A Proposal for Sustainable Housing in Senegal and Burkina Faso
   Rugiyatu Kane; Desiré Zongo
8. Development of the National Life Cycle Inventory Database of Turkey
   Aydin Mammadov
9. Effectiveness of a CO2 Tax on Industrial Emissions
   Cristian Mardones
10. Review of Vulnerability and Policy Responses to Water Supply and Extreme Rainfall Events in Nigeria
    Olawale Emmanuel Olayide
11. Exploring the Potential of Community Based Water Resource Management Towards Sustainable WASH Service Delivery and Climate Change Adaptation
    Dayo Olugboye
12. The Cost of Climate Stabilization in Southeast Asia: A Joint Assessment With Dynamic Optimization and CGE Models
    Carlo Orecchia, Francesco Bosello, Giacomo Marangoni, David A. Raitzer, Massimo Tavoni
13. Photovoltaic Energy Access on Riverine Isolated Communities in the Amazonas State
    Gabriela Passos Sampaio, Michelle Gonçalves Costa, Eduardo Costa Taveira, Virgílio Mauricio Viana
14. Comparative Analysis of Environmental Impact Assessment Procedural Reform Efforts in Japan and the EU: Reducing Barriers to Large-Scale Renewable Energy Project Investment Development
    Kim Schumacher
15. Innovative Approaches to Climate Change: A Framework Applied to Senegal
    Renata Serra; Sarah McKune
16. The Central Role of Women in Achieving Energy-Related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
    Genevieve Smith
17. Investigation of the Carbon Footprint of Bogazici University
    Merve Tunali
18. Increasing Climate Information Services for Smallholder Farmers: The Case of Senegal
    Whitney Turientine, Ya Cor Ndione, Irving Chan-Gomez
19. Small Hydroelectric Power Stations as Promoters of Sustainable Development: The Case of Panambi/RS-Brazil
    Rosani Zachow

 

Education

1. Technology for Sustainable Production in Conservation Units of the State of Amazonas/Brazil
   Edvaldo Correa; Nathalia Flores
2. Information Communication Technology in Rural Schools of Nigeria: Case Study Enugu State, Nigeria
   Nathan David
3. Girls’ Education and Labour Market Empowerment: What do We Know and What do We Need to Know?
   Dileni Gunewardena
4. META 4 HESD: Mindful Entrepreneurship Training for Action Through Higher Education for Sustainable Development
   Marcia Harr Bailey
5. Environmental Education of Women in Agriculture in Southeast Nigeria and Its Implications for Sustainable Development
   Theresa Isife
6. Empowering Children for Disaster: The Experience of the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute in Child-Centered Disaster Risk Reduction in India
   Catherine Knap & Vandana Chauhan
7. Sustainable and Green Campus Initiative Student Behavior Survey
   Gulsume Kulce
8. Behavioural Economics Concepts in Financial Education
   Hanna Laufer
9. Education and Sustainable Development: ‘Third Mission’ of University of Rome Tor Vergata
   Irene Litardi, Gloria Fiorani, Cristina Mititelu
10. Educating the Future Generation on Sustainability in the Formal Curriculum Towards Achieving the Global Action Plan
    Noor Adelyna Mohammed Akib, Suzyrman Sibly, Mohd Sayuti Hassan, Kanayathu Chacko Koshy, Kamarulazizi Ibrahim
11. Trickling Down Youth Unemployment in Nigeria by Leveraging on Entrepreneurial Education
    Abiodun Odunuga
12. Access to Higher Education in Nigeria
    Grace Offorma
13. The State of Evidence on the Impact of Transferable Skills Programming on Youth in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
    Kristen Rankin, Annette Brown
14. Developing Awareness: Exploring the Use of Interiority Work to Increase Propensity for Environmental Stewardship
    Cheryl Re
15. Education in Emergencies and the SDGs
    Gonzalo Sanchez-Teran
16. Better Learning for a Sustainable Future: a Systematic Review to Assess the Effectiveness of Education Programmes
    Birte Snilstveit
17. What We Know and Don’t Know: Evidence Gap Map of Interventions for Improving Learning
    Birte Snilstveit & Jennifer Stevenson
18. Integrating Knowledge and Competencies Through Applied Research: An Innovative Way to Educate and Train the Sustainable Development Practitioner in the Formal Education Setting
    John Telesford
19. Early Childhood Development, Education, and Transition to Work (Nigeria Context)
    Shaba Tunde
20. Improving Sanitation In Schools: A Safe Haven for School Children
    Joannes Paulus Yimbesalu

 

Examining the Science-Policy Interface

1. The GSDR Report as a Catalyst for Research to Achieve the SDG’s?
   Patrick Paul Walsh, Richard Alexander Roehrl, David O’Connor, William Colglazier

 

Inclusive Economic Growth / The Role of Business

1. Engaging Distant Areas and Beyond: Assessing the Internal Integration of the PROSPER Sustainability Strategy Within Bavaria S.A. 
   Irving Chan Gomez, Victoria Chuong, Matthew Anderson, Rachel Stanton
2. The Role of the MNE in Inclusive Economic Growth
   John Dilyard
3. Inclusive Growth through Mass Tourism: Lessons Learned in Punta Cana
   Emma Fawcett
4. Gender and Economic Development in Ghana
   Babalisk Hamid
5. The Tropics and the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Lessons from the State of the Tropics
   Sandra Harding, Dennis Trewin, Ann Penny, Mark Ziembicki
6. Infrastructure for Citizenship
   Diana Méndez
7. Technology Innovation to Açaí­ Productive Chain Development at the Medio Juruá Region, Amazonas, Brazil: Main Challenges and Lessons Learned
   Gabriela Passos Sampaio, Maiara da Silva Gonçalves, Michelle Gonçalves Costa, Eduardo Costa Taveira, Virgílio Mauricio Viana, Marcelo de Castro Silva
8. Fostering Social Entrepreneurship for Development. The Case of Kunan: Innovation that Creates Value
   Manuel Silva
9. An Industrial-Ecology-Based View of the Firm
   Kieran Sullivan, Sebastian Thomas, Michele Rosano
10. Regional Intra Africa Trade Development: Sustainable Development Policy Tools
    Shaba Tunde

 

Governance (Including Peace Building and Justice)

1. City Diplomacy and “Glocal” Governance: Towards a Cosmopolitan World Order
   Koon Hong Chan
2. Private Firm Governance in the Context of Sustainable Development Goals
   John Dilyard
3. Environmental Protection, Economic Development, and Social Equity: Fragmentation Among Sustainability Goals and Programs in Phoenix, Arizona
   Lenara Galimova
4. Common Natural Intangible Heritage of Humankind – A Legal Global Support for Peace and Justice
   Paulo Magalhães

 

OECD New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) and the SDGs

1. Can Risks of Increasing Inequality be Addressed with Inclusive Growth?
   Patrick Paul Walsh, David O’Connor, Mathilde Mesnard, Stephen P. Groff

 

Greening Cities

1. Beauty and Design for Human Dignity in Post-Disaster Settings
   John Russell Beaumont
2. Urban Road Pricing: The Experience of Milan
   Edoardo Croci, Aldo Ravazzi Douvan
3. Community Integration of Solar-Powered Rubbish Units in Tourist Heavy Economies
   Natalie Koski-Karell
4. Affordable Housing without Subsidies Can’t Wait
   Carlos Linares
5. Potential Structural Health Monitoring Tools to Mitigate Corruption in the Construction Industry Associated With Rapid Urbanization
   David Mascarenas
6. Feeding the Community: The Food Center Model in Urban Areas
   Leah McDonnell
7. Pacto do Rio, for an Integrated City: Promoting, Monitoring and Accelerating Rio de Janeiro´s Sustainable Urban Development
   Marco Simões, Eduarda La Rocque

 

Health

1. Early Childhood Development Strategy for Forest Riverine Communities
   Rhamilly Amud
2. Maximizing the Contribution of Vaccination to the SDGs and The Grand Convergence – Integrating Multi Criteria Decision Analysis with the Broader Benefits of Vaccination to Align on Sustainable Immunization Strategies
   Gianluca Breghih, Rino Rappuoli, James Kenneth Timmis
3. Social Inequalities in Health Care: Evidence from Pakistan
   Sajid Javed; Waqas Imran, Huma Dad Khan
4. Analysis of Zoonotic Pathogen Presence Among Humans, Mountain Gorillas, and the Environment in Bisate, Rwanda
   Tyrell Kahan
5. Land Use Allocation: A Framework for Considering Health-Relevant Outcomes
   Max McClure, Catherine Machalaba, Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio, William B. Karesh, Peter Daszak
6. Policy Paper Towards Achieving Health Equity and Sustainable Development in the Indigenous Context
   Oluwabusola Olaniyan
7. Breaking Through Stagnation – Testing Innovative Approaches to Engaging Communities in Increasing Immunisation Coverage: A Scoping Study
   Subashini Perumal
8. Transforming China’s Informal E-Waste Recycling Sector
   Patrick Rulong
9. Developing a Seamless Service Experience for Clients Accessing Health, Economic, Education, and Social Services
   Frieda von Qualen

 

Scientific Collaboration to Achieve Affordable, Sustainable Energy for Humanity

1. Social & Scientific Collaboration to Achieve Affordable, Sustainable Energy for Humanity
   David Biello, Søren Hermansen, Jatin Nathwani & Paul Parker

 

Accountability and Evaluation

1. The Long Way to Paris and Beyond: A Method for Determining Intended Nationally Determined Contributions
   Inna Amesheva
2. AidData Pilot Project
   Samantha Custer & Brad Parks
3. Assessing Sustainable Development Goals
   Carlo Carraro; L Campagnolo, F Eboli, L Farnia
4. How Best to Measure the Sustainability Activities of Corporations?
   John Dilyard
5. Measuring Progress: Educational Development for Girls in Kibera, Kenya
   Christina Field & Amanda Traaseth
6. International Web-Based Consultation on Consumption Patterns for Sustainable Development
   Antonio Carlos Filgueira Galvão; Marcelo Khaled Poppe, Celena R. Soeiro de Moraes Souza
7. New Conceptual Framework for Sustainability
   Helen F. Foley
8. Accountability Issues in Nongovernmental Organizations Applying of Quality Management
   Anabell Gonzalez
9. Empowering Women Through Social Capital as a Tool in Colombia’s Post-Conflict Through the Program Evaluation of the “Escuela de Animación Comunitaria” in Medellin, Colombia
   Maribel Monroy & Carol Mondragon
10. Using a Web-Based Platform to Promote Solutions for Sustainable Development in the Amazon
    Thais Pinto
11. Developing Principle-Based Targets and Indicators for the SDGs
    Katie Ross; Kumi Abeysuriya, Cynthia Mitchell
12. Community-Driven Social Programmes and Environmental Stewardship Across the Brazilian Amazon: A Cross-Initiative M&E Framework for Understanding the Role of Social Learning in Improved Impacts 
    Victor Salviati; Ben Garside, Leandro Pinheiro, Marisa van Epp
13. Assessing the Impact of Short-Term Volunteers in an Early Childhood Development Intervention (ECD) Program
    Evans Yamoah, Trupti Sarode, & Yodit Tesfaye

 

International Science-Policy Interface 2.0: Research Coordination in Support of the SDGs

1. The Role of Science in National-Level Governance Arrangements for SDGs Implementation
   Farooq Ullah, Shiv Someshwar, Belinda Reyers, Måns Nilsson, Norichika Kanie, Maria Ivanova

 

Social Inclusion (Including Gender & Human Rights)

1. Cocoa Farming by Women: Steps Towards Achieving Social Inclusion. The Case of the Cameroon Cocoa-Eco Project
   Marguerite Belobo Belibi, Fidèle Honorine Yobo  A Koue, Judith Van Eijnatten, Charles Kacho Tah; Nathalie Ewane Nonga, Rachid Hanna, Mary Bakia, Léopold Aimé Ndongo, Ntiege Hans Sumelong
2. Getting Started on the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Identifying Positive Community Change Leaders in Cité Soleil, Haitii
   Albert Casella
3. An Inquiry into the Sustainable Development of Book of Changes
   Lin Chun Yin, Jenn-Bang Shiau
4. Fostering Change Through Youth Leadership: Leadership Development Training for Young Women in Goa, India
   Kristen Marks
5. Training India’s First Female Toilet Builders: An Argument for Improving Sanitation Through Women Empowerment and Social Inclusion
   Vidya Nair, Srividya Sheshadri, Christopher Coley, Rao R. Bhavani
6. Social Inequalities and Countries’ Ability to Cope with Extreme Weather Events
   Frank Neher; Apollonia Miola
7. Tossed Out and About: Forced Migrations Caused by the Effects of Hurricane Katrina
   Nicole Owens
8. A Regional Ethics-Based Sustainable Development Model for the WANA Region
   Laylla Rkiouak
9. The Role of INGOs in the Struggle for Land Rights in Ratanakiri, Cambodia
   Rhea Simms

 

Agriculture, Food Security, and Nutrition

1. Water Scarcity and Drought Management Plans as Enabling Elements for Achieving the SDGs in West Asia and North Africa
   Melinda Alfano, Sarabeth Brockley, Magdalena A. K. Muir, Sami Areikat
2. When Rights Collide: Land Grabbing, Force and Injustice in Uganda
   Padraig Carmody
3. The Gendered Dimensions of Climate Change: Women, Indigenous Knowledge & Adaptation
   Ayesha Constable
4. Oyster Farming in Chira Island, Costa Rica: Ensuring Food Security and Sustainability
   Gabriela Polo

 

Ending Extreme Poverty

1. Biocommunity: A Multidimensional Approach to address Poverty in Panama
   Her Excellency Ms. Lorena Castillo de Varela; Marlene Stoute
2. Sectoral Output Growth, Poverty Reduction and Inequality in Africa
   Anayochukwu Chukwu
3. More Aid to Needy Countries?
   Woojin Jung
4. The Quest to end Extreme Poverty and Gap Crisis in Politics of Ownership in Nigeria: Lessons for Sustainable Development Goals
   Eugene Ndubuisi Nweke
5. Improving the Poors’ Small Business Outcomes through Strengthening the Microfinance ‘Group Loan Approach’
   Levy Odera, Heejin Ahn
6. Cooperatives and the Sustainable Development Goals: The Role of Cooperatives in Poverty Reduction
   Tae In Park
7. Nutri-Entrepreneurship – Soydoy
   Diana Puerta
8. What We Know and Don’t Know About Solutions for Poverty Eradication: Evidence Gap Map of Productive Safety-Net Interventions 
   Martina Vojtkova

 

Arab Region: Challenges and Prospects of Implementing the SDGs

1. Looking Into the New Development Paradigm: How Does the Arab Region Fair Against Others?
   Khalid Abu-Ismail
2. Institutions and Political Dynamics in the Region: Evolution, Present and Future Scenarios
   Tamim Al-Barghouti
3. Social Justice, Inequality of Opportunity and Their Perceptions in the Arab Region
   Vito Intini
4. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: An Arab Regional Reading
   Roula Majdalani
5. Economic Growth, Employment and Poverty: Future Policy Challenges for the Region
   Niranjan Sarangi

 

Planetary Boundaries (Including Biodiversity/Ecosystem Services)

1. From Local to Global: Building Partnerships with Indigenous Communities in the Tourism Sector to Strengthen the Governance of Biodiversity Creating Inclusive Opportunities 
   Adolfo Arguello Vives
2. Sustainable Development of Water Resources in Bangladesh in the Context of Planetary Boundaries and Environmental Performance Index
   Md. Khalequzzaman
3. Planetary Boundaries and Peacebuilding: Separating Myth from Reality
   Marc Levy
4. Urban Green Areas as Sources of Ecosystem Services for Human Well-Being. Management Proposal of Urban Parks Engativa, Bogota
   Masiel Pereira
5. Economic Activity within Planetary Boundaries (PBs): The Industry Related Link Between Stratospheric Ozone Depletion (SOD) and Climate Change (CC)
   John Telesford

 

Financing for Development

1. The Present Value of Future Generations: Prioritizing Public Spending for Sustainable Development
   Juan Chebly
2. Analyzing the Coordinated Impacts of Climate Policies for Financing Adaptation and Development Actions
   Elisa Delpiazzo, Parrado Ramiro, Standardi Gabriele
3. Governance of Development Assistance: Issues and Challenges
   Sitlhou Lhoukhokai, Navreet Kaur
4. Fit for Purpose Metrics to Guide Global Action for Climate Resilient Development Within the Context of the New Sustainable Development Goals
   Apollonia Miola, Catherine Simonet
5. Aggregated Risk Management of Index Insurance Portfolios in the Tropical Developing Countries
   Pradipta Parhi
6. How Can Value Capture Strategies Unlock Desperately Needed Funds? Getting Serious about Sustainable Transport Finance
   Danielle Petretta
7. Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Guinea: The Prospect of Sustainable Development
   Diallo Mamadou Saliou Kokouma