These proceedings include the unedited papers from the 2016 International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD), held September 21st and 22nd 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
- Informing mitigation of disaster loss through social media
Maura Allaire - Aiming higher: why the SDG target for increased higher education scholarships by 2020 misses the mark in sustainable educational development planning
Stephanie Bengtsson and Bilal Barakat - Sustainability in Times of Crisis: Planning Disaster Responses Based on Scientific Data
Ozge Karadag Caman - Policy Coherence to Achieve the SDGs
David Collste - Connecting the resource nexus to urban basic service provision – Towards an Urban CLEW model
Rebecka Engström - How productive countries must become to achieve their goals INDCs on climate change?
Luis E. Gonzales - Applying Aboriginal Knowledge to Improve Urban Sustainability
David Griggs et al. - First Thing First, Arguing the Case for the Inclusion of Women in Energy Decision Making Process towards Achieving Sustainable Rural Development in Practice: The Nigerian case
Uchenna Ijoma - Urban Food Systems Strategies: A New Tool for Implementing the SDGs in Practice?
Rositsa T. Ilieva - Soil Quality in the Volta Region of Ghana – Reconciling Rice Farmer’s Perception with Scientific Evidence
Emmanuel Kofi Zinsu & Maria Gerster-Bentaya - Urban Water Management in the Face of Climate Change: Social Learning, Power, and Practice
Abby Lindsay - Rebuilding Old Aleppo, Postwar Sustainable Recovery and Urban Refugee Resettlement
Jwanah Qudsi - The SDGs in practice: Measuring and managing sustainable development water targets
Lisa-Maria Rebelo - Virtual Balancing Act: Digital tools for decolonization
Jasmin Winter
Poster Presentations
Date for Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition
- The Impacts of Fisheries Management Practices on Food and Income Security in Belize
Wendy Flores - Kombucha: An Exploration of Brewing Conditions and the Effect of Fermentation Time on the Rate of Alcohol Production
Gallop Ponamgi & Erin-Leigh - Big Data & the African Smallholder
Ibrahim Faridah - Does Chochos (L. Mutabilis) Production Have the Potential to Increase Farm Revenues and Contribute to Food Security if li Replaces Soybean Maize Production in Ecuador?
Sarah Najera
Date for Disaster Resiliency & Adaptation
- Assessing the Vulnerability of Tourism-related Livelihoods to Tropical Cyclones in Small Island Developing States: A Comparison of Tobago and Jamaica
Thalia Balkaran - From Local to Global: Climate Vulnerability of the Supply-Chain
Apollonia Miola - Climate Change and Housing Relocation in the New York Metropolitan Region
Robert Taylor
Indigenous Innovations for Data
- Sustainable Development Through Open Service Innovation
Paola Belingheri
Data for Socially Inclusive Economic Growth
- Big Data for Small Businesses: Leveling the Playing Field Through up to Date Spatially Enabled Economic Reports
Johannes Moenius - Llama Wool Supply Chain Sustainability in Bolivia
Rebecca Starkman
Education and Training for Agriculture Food Security & Nutrition
- An Exploration of the Role of Indigenous Women’s Knowledge in the Food System
Esther Awotwe - Educational Trainings on Sustainable Small-Scale Agriculture in San Juan Colorado, Oaxaca, Mexico: Local Realities and Constraints on Food Security and Nutrition
Mary Glenn - International Conference on Sustainable Development
Lacey Harris-Coble - Need for Global Curriculum on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Kiruba Krishnaswamy - Fostering Rural Empowerment and Sustainable Development Solutions: Case Studies of Rural Communities in Nigeria and Senegal
Olufemi Oshinowo - The Talking Book: Impacts of Audio Information for Women on Farming Practices, Gender Equity, and Nutrition in Northern Ghana
Sarah Turkaly
Education and Training for Disaster Resiliency & Adaptation
Indigenous Innovations for Education and Training
Education and Training for Low-Carbon Urban Development
- Sustainable Development- Environment, Climate Change and the City of Mumbai
Rashida Atthar - Fostering Sustainable Infrastructure Through Project Rating System
Madeline Foley - Assessment of Student Behavior in Sustainable Campus Life
Gulsume Kulce
Education and Training for Socially Inclusive Economic Growth
- Can Research and Extension Be Integrated?: Kasiglahan Village National High School Case Study
Ruth Bugas & Jasmin E. Acuña - Restored Mangrove Area Creates Environmental Awareness
Luiza Callado - Everyone Knows They Need to Innovate and Invest in Sustainability, Now We Need to Teach Them How
Pat Corden - Alternate Power Source for ICT in Rural Schools of Nigeria: Case Study Enugu State, Nigeria
Nathan David - Addressing Social Inequality Through the Establishment of Arts and Crafts Training Centre in Ekiti State, Nigeria
Yvonne Dioka - Engaging Men in the Dialogue on Changing Women’s Oppressed Status
Rachel Lastinger - Promoting Women’s Voices in Rural Contexts: Reflections from the Literature and Women Sapphire Miners in South West Madagascar
Lynda Lawson - Peace Boat’s Ecoship: a holistic approach to putting the SDGs into practice
Robin Lewis - Daughters United: A Model for Girls’ Leadership, Empowerment, and Reproductive Health Advocacy Through Safe Spaces and Cascading Leadership in Kibera, Kenya
Sarah Ward
Innovation in Technology and Governance for Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition
- Urbanization of Refugee Camps and the Role of Urban Agriculture in Combatting Food Insecurity
Michael Baylen Campbell - The Importance of Peasant Production and Family Farming as the Basis for Food Sovereignty
Adolfo Guzman
Innovation in Technology and Governance for Disaster Resiliency & Adaptation
- Saving Lives at Birth in Rural Afghanistan
Fardous Asem Rahmani - Earth bag Technology: Presented by Good Earth Nepal
Nathan Belofsky - The Role of Government, NGOs and Developers in Revolutionizing Technology for Increasing Resilience to Natural Disaster in Bangladesh
Saiba Sharmeen
Innovation in Technology and Governance for Low-Carbon Urban Development
- The Transformation of an Energy Company Through Governance and Technology
John Dilyard - Distributed Electricity Generation and Resilient Cities Governance for the Energy-Climate-Poverty Nexus in Brazil
Catherine Gucciardi Garcez - Towards Low Carbon Tourism Through Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans
Sladjana Lazarevich & Jelena Janjušević
Innovation in Technology and Governance for Socially Inclusive Economic Growth
- Human Development in the Arab Spring
Yossef Ben-Meir - The Role of the Tanzanian People’s Defense Fore in the Socio-Economic Development of Dar es Salaam
Patrick Considine - Melbourne: Visions of a Sustainable City
Louis O’Connor - Economic Empowerment of Women and Inclusive Growth: A Study of Mahalir Thittam in Tamil Nadu, India
Nithiyanandam Ramadevi - Roles of Corporations and Multi-Stakeholder Governance for Advancing Sustainability of the Supply Chain – A Case of Palm Oil
Indra Thangavelu - The Startup Country: Lessons from Estonia’s Digital Society
Kathy Zhang
The Science-Policy-Implementation Interface for Disaster Resiliency & Adaptation
- Operationalizing the SDGs Through Climate Action in Aotearoa New Zealand
Stephen Flood - Enabling Global Partnerships for Sustainable Development: A Science Policy Interfaces to Support Climate Resilient and Low Carbon Development
Apollonia Miola & Frank Neher - Urban Ecosystem Services Reviews for Climate Resilience, Energy Supply and Green Space Development
Jeannette Sieber - Adaptive Urban Governance to Climate Change Risk in Indonesia: Cross-Comparative Study
Ramanditya Wimbardana
The Science-Policy-Implementation Interface for Low-Carbon Urban Development
- Thailand’s National Policy on Low-Carbon Urban Development in the Context of Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement
Sangchan Limjirakan - The Negative Economic, Environmental, and Social Implication’s of Brazil’s Energy Policy: The Case of the Belo Monte Dam Complex
Laura Maxwell - Riverine Biomass as Ecosystem Service for Low Carbon Urban Development
Swinda Pfau
The Science-Policy-Implementation for Socially Inclusive Economic Growth
- Sustainable Development and Oman Fisheries: Current practices and development needs
Mohammed H AlRizeiqi & Paul Walsh Patrick - Spatially Integrated Development of Economy and Resources
Georgios Avgerinopoulos - “Doing” Socially Inclusive Sustainable Development Through Transdisciplinary Knowledge Dynamics: The Case of Paper Province 2.0
Margareta Dahlström - Measuring the Impact of Multinational Corporations on SDG Implementation
Peter Hardi - Narrative Mapping of Environmental Conflicts and Shark Protection Policy: The Case of Costa Rica
Helen Temple
Oral Presentations
Climate Actions and Sustainable Development Goals at the Local Level in Indonesia
- Sustainable Business: The Rebuild Program
Hashim Djojohadikusumo - Indonesia Biodiesel Program, More Sustainable
Paulus Tjakrawan - Change Needed to Achieve Indonesia’s Vision
Rachmat Witoelar
Data for Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition
- The Sustainable Development Goals in NEXUS Perspective Among the Food Trade Market: Focus of the EU Agri-Food Import Dependency
Juliana Barbosa, Tera Armada Bras & Julia Seixas - Sustainability Assessment of Water Resources Through the ‘Water, Energy and Food Nexus’
Carlo Giupponi - Can Smallholder Drip Irrigation Improve Food Security at the Household Level? Evidence from Mutasa and Mtutoko Districts in Zimbabwe
Miriam Marembo - Smallholder Drip Irrigation: The Hope for Home Nutritional Gardens and Food Security
Miriam Marembo
Data for Disaster Resiliency & Adaptation
- Kiribati’s Plight: Balancing Adaptation and Resilience Needs for Small-Island Developing States
Vidya Nair
Data for Low-Carbon Urban Development
- Cooling Urban Noise Pollution in 3D: Data-Driven, Community-Driven, Art-Driven
Tae Hong Park, Vladislav Borguinia, Johannes Moenius, Charles Shamoon, & Min-Joon Yoo
Data for Socially Inclusive Economic Growth
- Giving Lights, Changing Lives: Data Collection, Social Inclusion and Local Progress in Uganda
Sarah Baird - Measuring Natural Capital in Practice for Sustainable and Socially Inclusive Growth
Pierre Bertrand - Gauging Access to Electricity: How do Multi-Tiered Frameworks Address the Shortcomings of Binary Variables When Measuring Rural Communities Access to Modern Electricity?
Matthew Day - Large-Scale Longitudinal Household Data on Social Inclusiveness and Economic Dynamism in South-East Asia
Yongheng Deng - First Thing First, Arguing the Case for the Inclusion of Women in Energy Decision Making Process towards Achieving Sustainable Rural Development in Practice: The Nigerian Case
Uchenna Ijoma - How Far Are the Brazilian Amazon Cities to Achieve SDGs? An Analysis Based on SDGs and Social Progress Index Indicators
Fernanda Silva Martinelli - Health Practitioners’ Perspectives of Treatment of Psychosis in Rwanda: An Exploratory Study
Maegan McConnell - SDGs and Culture: Now What?
Laura Milanes - Closing the Gender Gap: Data to Support Women’s Economic Empowerment
Amy Raub & Jody Heymann - The Challenge of Implementation: Early Lessons from Australia
Michael Reid & Mary O’Neill - Using Evidence to Achieve Impact in SME Development
Lucia Sanchez & Elizabeth Koshy - Tracking Socio-Economic-Environmental Outcomes in Families Living with HIV/AIDS: Evidence from the EARNEST Trail
Patrick Walsh
Education and Training for Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition
- Food Security and Food Safety: A New Human Approach in the SDGs Perspective
Cristiana Carletti - Community-Based Solutions to Locally-Sourced Food Production Systems Featuring the Revival of Indigenous Knowledge
May East - On-The-Line Radio Programme as a Conduit for Sustainable Agriculture Communication: An Example from Benue State
Emmanuel Odiaka & Janet Onuh - Fleet Farming
Nicholas Stampar
Education and Training for Disaster Resiliency & Adaptation
- Arts and Culture: The Fourth Pillar of Sustainable Development / An Experience from Humanitarian Aid
Lucia Quijano
Indigenous Innovations for Education and Training
- Partners for Engagement and Knowledge Exchange
Wendy McNab - Participatory Bilingual Education: The Highland Community Program in Cambodia
Sary Meakh - Developing a Local Framework for Empowerment in KwaMhlanga, South Africa
Andie Tucker - Revitalization of Indigenous Midwifery in Canada to Address Maternal and Child Health and Well-being
Sarah Wood
Education and Training for Socially Inclusive Economic Growth
- Waste Management in the Dominican Republic
Amanda Brinton - Incorporating Environmental Justice into the Undergraduate Biology Curriculum
Alison Dell & Kathy Nolan - Creating A “Sufficiency” Mindset: Thailand’s Educational Strategy for a Sustainable Society
Priyanut Sharmapiya & Molraudee Saratun - Contributing to SDG Implementation by MOOCs
Liliana Diaz - Rethinking Poverty Reduction by Microfinance Institutions: A Case Study of Rural Subsistence Farmers in Uganda
David Kamusaala Babi - Transforming Youth Years in Senegal: Developing a Youth Venture Program with Ashoka Sahel
Rugiyatu Kane - Reflections on the Life Stories of Gemstone Professionals in Madagascar
Lynda Lawson - University-Civil Society Collaboration for Implementing SDGs in Brazilian Northeast
Henrique Menezes, Xaman Minillo, & Inalda Beder - Boosting Social Mobility: The Grass Can be Greener for All
Nestor Mercado - Unravelling the Gender Bind, Uncovering the Heterogeneity of Domination
Molly Middlehurst - Lessons in Displacement: Challenges and Solutions of Girl’s Education in Refugee Camps in Kenya
Kadra Rayale - Can Education Meet the Sustainability Challenge?
Aaron Benavot - Teaching Inclusive Business Strategies Through Collaborative Group Projects
Alix Ruggiero - Achieving Socially Inclusive Economic Growth: A Study of Skill Development Training of Women in Rural Mahrashtra, India
S.S Sripriya - The Role of Governmental Training Programs in Increasing Youth Employability Rate: Evidence form Kazakhstan
Aizhan Temerbayeva - Costa Rica, Seven Steps for Sustainability Empowerment and Social Inclusion: A Transversalizing Tool
Helen Temple - Women Learning Alliances for Greening Manufacturing Industries in Developing Countries
Paola Vasquez & Inés Restrepo - Unlocking the Power of Impact of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) Realizing the Opportunity
Achyuta Samanta, Dwiti Vikramaditya, and Nidhi Singh
Innovation in Technology and Governance for Agriculture Food Security & Nutrition
- Environmental Technology Gaps and Technical Efficiency of Rice Farms in Northern Ghana
Jacob Asravor, Alexandra Wiredu, & Khalid Siddig - The Case of Rwanda: Strengthening the Agricultural Sector in Africa Ahead of the 2050 Population Boom
Tegan Joseph Mosugu - Maya Nut in the Modern Market
Lillian Osborne, Maria Camila Villarraga, & Melanie Aleman - Converging Frontline SMS, Freedom Fone and Radio for Mobilizing Knowledge for Sustainable Agriculture in Sri Lanka
Faria Rashid, Helen Hambly Odame, Gordon Gow, Nuwan Waidyanatha, Udith Jayasinghe, & Chandana Jayathilake
Innovation in Technology and Governance for Disaster Resiliency and Adaptation
- Collective Action as an Example of the Strength of an Environmental Civil Society Organization
Norha Carrasco Rincón - Dutch Cities Rain-Proof: A Governance Analysis for the Best Way Forward
Rebecca Wörner, Dr. L. Dai, and Dr, H.F.M.W van Rijswick - An Integrative Double Skin Façade Damper System for Structural Safety and Energy Efficiency
Rui Zhang
Indigenous Innovations in Technology and Governance
- The Digital Divide in Colombia: The Yanacona Village Experience
Michael Chaves - Integration of Traditional Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science Knowledge for the Co-Management of Freshwater Resources
Vanessa Copa and Poh-Ling Tan - Changing Patterns of Indigenous Tribe Development: A case Study of Malayali Tribes in Vellore District, Tamil Nadu, India
Pandiyan Maduraiveeran - Innovation for Whom? The 2030 Agenda and the Brazilian System on Access and Benefit-Sharing of Genetic Heritage (ABS)
Isadora Cardoso Vasconcelos, Amanda Barroso Lima, & Beatriz Abreu de Santos - The Incorporation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives into Sustainability Governance
Katherine Wood
Innovation in Technology and Governance for Low-Carbon Urban Development
- Collaborative Governance for Implementing Sustainable Community Plans
Amelia Clarke, Dr. Adriane MacDonald, Eduardo Oradaeez-Ponce, Dr. Lei Huang, Dr. Mark Roselan - Morocco’s First Smart Microgrid Green Campus: Case INPT
Nezha Larhrissi - Tipping the Scales in Favor of the SDGs in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Role of Sustainable Infrastructure
Hendrik Meller & Sven-Uwe Mueller - The Upgrading of Izbet Khayrallah: Financial and Social Cost-Benefit Analysis
June Nkwenge, Oyudari Baatartsogt, Ashfaqul Chowdhury, Nfamara Dampha, Sean Hadorn, Elise Holmes, Mikki O’Leary, Lillian Osborne, Brandon Kenney, Gregory Lewin, & Antony Maikuri - Decentralized Green Algae Production in Urban Spaces
Habib Wenish
Innovation in Technology and Governance for Socially Inclusive Economic Growth
- Institutional and Governance Challenges in an Emerging Bio-economy: A Case Study of Maize Value-Webs in Nigeria
Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Sarah Gupta, Victor Okoruwa, & Regina Birner - The Legal Mechanisms of ‘Leaving No One Behind’ – International Law’s Role in Achieving the SDGs
Inna Amesheva - Sustainability as a Measure of Success: Externally Promoted Participatory Budgeting in El Salvador Ten Years Later
Gary Bland - Post-Commodity Africa: Industrial Policy as Assemblage
Padraig Carmody - Sustainable Development as a Path to Peacebuilding: Finding Common Ground to Counter the Extremist Narrative
Juan Chebly, Austin Schiano & Federico Ruiz - Socially Inclusive Economic Growth Through Innovative Governance
John Dilyard - Space as an Enabler of Sustainable Development
Stefano Ferretti - Slums, Informal Settlements and Inclusive Growth in Cities: examples from Morocco and Colombia
Judith Hermanson - Sustainable Municipalities Program – Governance Analysis
Oswaldo Medina-Ramirez - Results-Based Management Approach: Help or Hindrance?
Patrick Considine, Dr. Susan Murphy, Molly Middlehurst, Grace Kiernan, Enid Friel & Angelina DeMarco - Devolved Revenue Practices: A Case Study of Machakos and Nakuru Counties
June Nkwenge, Marin Phelps, Johanna Tatlow, & Moses Waiswa - Business Development Services: Developing Business Model for Rural Microenterprises Comparative Case Study of Rural Microenterprises in Madagascar
Sandra Paulina Segin - SDG 7 as the Enabling Factor for Sustainable Development: The Role of Technology Innovation in the Electricity Sector
Andrea Zucca, Isabella Alloisio & Samuel Carrara
Ethics, Religion, and Sustainable Development Panel
Moderator: Dr. Anthony Annett. Presenters: Dr. William Vendley, Dr. Scott Appleby, Dr. Meghan Clark, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, & Dr. Ebrahim Moosa
The Science-Policy-Implementation Interface for Agriculture Food Security & Nutrition
- Gender and Cash Transfer: Implications of Intra-Household Decision Making Processes on Nutrition in the SNNP Region of Ethiopia
Linda Lumbasi - Sustainability Indicators for Agriculture: Implementation of the SDGs for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Peter May - The SDGs as a Framework for Transboundary Water Conflict Resolution: A Case Study of the Eastern Nile River Basin
Ramy Noaman - Farmers’ Level of Knowledge, Environmental Concerns and Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation: A Randomized Control Method Application
Janaka Pallewela - Multi Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) as a Tool to Develop Indexes and Dashboard of SDG 2: A Hypothetical Case Study
Byomkesh Taulkder - The Determinants and Coping Strategies of Economic Shock Among Rural Households: A Study of Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria
Sunday Yusuf
The Science-Policy-Implementation Interface for Disaster Resiliency and Adaptation
- Too Hot, Too Dry, Too Wet for Growth? Macroeconomic Risks of Climate Change and Extreme-Weather Events in Africa
Florent Baarsch, Jessie Granadillos, & William Hare - Mitigating Freshwater Crises: Individual and State Adaptive Measures in India
Ujjwal Dadhich - Sustainable Development, Climate Variability, and Data Limitation in Flood Management
Iguniwari Thomas Ekeu-wei, Alan George, & Azuma Kate Ihuaku - Measuring Resilience to Monsoon Flooding Over Time: An Innovative Tool Approach
Laura Hammett, Dr. Alark Saxena, & Kristin Lambert - Building Resilience in Ethiopia
Erwin Knippenberg & John Hoddinott - Between Rainfall and Windfall: Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Change in an Agricultural Economy
Olawale Olayide - Drought Response and Irrigation: Overcoming Lacunae in Impact Assessment and Decision Making
C. Dionisio Pérez-Blanco, Marie S. Curie, Jaroslav Mysiak, & Elco Koks - The Implications of Irrigation as a Planned Adaptation Measure on an Economy Wide Context
Ramiro Parrado, Anna Dellarole, & Francesco Bosello - Assessment Rubric for Adaptation: Sustainable Cities Goal 11
Lian Plass, Anna LoPresti, Adam Heinis, Dawn Wells, Jennifer Sweeney, Lisa Wiler, Lucy Tilton, Rachael Lubitz, & Tim Lee K - Charting a Pathway for Water Security and Resilience
Bob Raleigh, Dr. Corinne Schuster-Wallace, & Bob Sandford - Climate Change Adaptation Trends in Small Island Developing States
Stacy-ann Robinson
The Science-Policy-Implementation Interface for Indigenous Innovations
- Assessment of Ecosystem Services of Rattan Agroforest in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Afentina, Paul McShane, & Wendy Wright - Melding Indigenous and Tourist Lived Topographies in Sagada, Northern Philippines as a Sustainable Development Mechanism The Case of the Begnas Ritual System
Danes Anacio
The Science-Policy-Implementation Interface for Low-Carbon Urban Development
- Brokering the Planet: Challenges in Negotiation a Carbon Offsets Agreement Between California and Acre, Brazil
Maria Kei Oldiges & Dr. Raoni Rajao - Climate Change Mitigation Strategy for the Residential Sector, Buenos Aires City – Argentina
Martin Rabbia - Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutants Emissions of China’s Urban Residential Sector: Analysis on Household Energy Transition
Rui Xing
The Science-Policy-Implementation Interface for Socially Inclusive Economic Growth
- Tying Policy to the Sustainability Mast: The Influence of Green Parties On National Environmental Policy Integration in 28 European States, 1990-2014
Kajsa Borgnaes - Can Paris Deal Boost SDGs Achievement? An Assessment of Climate-Sustainability Co-Benefits or Side-Effects
Davide Marinella - Implementing the SDGs in Australia
David Griggs, John Thwaites, & Tahl Kestin - Quadruple and Quintuple Helix as a Way for Socially Inclusive Growth in the Development of Bioeconomies in Europe?
Ida Grundel - Global Tools to Analyze Policy and Implementation Gaps and Advance Socially Inclusive Economic Growth
Jody Heymann, Amy Raub, & Aleta Sprague - The Research Policy Nexus and Research Accessibility: Insights from Peru
Erika Malich