Proceedings From ICSD 2020

These proceedings include the papers from the 2020 International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD), held September 21st – 22nd online. Please note that not all presenters wished to have their paper posted. To see a complete list of presenters, please view the program. 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. An Assessment of Attitudes Towards Flood Risk Management in Three Communities at La-Nkwantanang Madina Municipality in Ghana
    Alfred Godwin Adjabeng
  2. Climate Change Adaptation Needs in a Changing Global Health Issues
    Izzet Ari
  3. Framing a University Research & Innovation Strategy Around the SDGs: A Case Study
    Jennifer Morawiecki & Alice Aiken
  4. Land Sovereignty and Food Rights: Looking Back and Moving Forward for Indigenous Peoples in Canada
    Taylor Wilson
  5. Marine Debris Mitigation – Plastic Neutrality Through a Credit System in Southeast Asia
    Maggie Ka Ka Lee
  6. On the contribution of nature-based solutions to address urban metabolism challenges
    Benedetto Rugani, Javier Babií Almenar, & Thomas Elliot:
  7. Pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals through Teaching and Learning: A review of interdisciplinary research in higher education
    Jordan King
  8. Spatial Analysis of Street Tree Condition and Proximity to Gas Leaks and Leak-Prone Infrastructure
    Jessica Wright, Yaxiong Ma, Sucharita Gopal, & Nathan Phillips
  9. Transitioning the Sugarcane Industry to the Circular Economy in Central America. Can it lead the transformation in the food sector?
    Ronald Panameño
  10. Youth perspectives (and values) in relation to community institutions and forest resources in Mexico
    Constanza Mora

Oral Sessions

Avoiding ‘Day Zero’: Challenges and Opportunities for Securing Water for Megacities

  1. A Megacity’s Hydrological Risk: An analysis of water security issues in Jakarta City, Indonesia
    Destinee Penney and Mandie Yantha
  2. Achieving Urban Water Security in Tokyo
    Mukhnaam Kaur Chattha and Zhen Wei
  3. Avoiding ‘Day Zero’: Challenges and Opportunities for Securing Water for Megacities
    Larry A. Swatuk
  4. Challenges for Urban Water Security in the 21st Century: London and Cape Town Compared
    Moffat Sithole and Ivonne Morales
  5. Confronting the System: An Exploration of the Water Security Crisis in Melbourne
    Christine Kitoko and Margot Whittington
  6. Creating Water-Secure Futures in Megacities: A comparative case study of ‘day zero’ cities – Bangalore and Chennai
    Anika Tasnim Hossain, Kate MacMurchy, and Juhi Shah
  7. MENA Megacities Approaching Day Zero: A Comparative Study of Cairo and Istanbul
    Elena Edo, Goncha Sadayeva, and Nesma Hassan
  8. Sao Paulo’s Water System: A Megacity’s efforts to fight water scarcity
    Ana Velasquez and Ayesha Binte Manna

Children, Youth, and the SDGs

  1. A broader definition of cookstove stakeholder: The inclusion of youth and education in sustainable energy development
    Samantha Lindgren
  2. A Machine Learning, Pupillometric-Based Approach for the Automated Diagnosis of ADHD: Implications and Significance for Sustainable Youth Development Policies
    Shubh Khanna
  3. A Research on the Indicators Construction and Application for Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education —A Case Study on Taiwan U-start Innovation and Entrepreneurship Plan
    Shao Yun Wang
  4. Advancing Solutions to the Gaps in the Child Abuse, Neglect, and Prevention Act to Enhance Child Welfare for Sustainable Development
    Hope Attipoe and Oluwatosin Olayode
  5. CHILD-FOCUSED POVERTY GRADUATION: A CASE STUDY IN MALAW
    Peter Tyman and David Nwogbo
  6. Child Rights and the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria
    David Nwogbo
  7. Educating young consumers: the challenge for textile and apparel companies
    Alberta Bernardi
  8. Engaging Youths for Sustainable Development: Field Lessons from Community Sustainability Global
    Temitope Onifade, Oluwaseyi Awosiyan, Mikaela Frame, Toyin Adekanmbi, and Diana Kim
  9. Environmental education program in Ecuador: theory, practice, and public policies to face global change in the Anthropocene
    Monica Reinoso, Fander Falconí Benítez, Javier Collado-Ruano, Edwin Fernando Hidalgo, and Gelson David León
  10. Numbers are Alarming, Solutions are Scant – Out of School Children in Pakistan
    Faisal Badar and Jon Mason
  11. Placing children and adolescents at the centre of the Sustainable Development Goals will deliver for current and future generations
    Abdullahi Aborode
  12. Sustainability education framework for building ESD competencies and inspiring environmental stewardship and conscious consumption among students
    Prajna Cauvery Kotera Pooviah
  13. The strengthening and accessing the rights of children and adolescents in remote areas of the Amazon
    Fabiana Cunha, Franci Lima, Fernanda Cabral, and Anderson Mattos
  14. Urban Metabolism and Minority Pulse Campaign (UMMP): An educational approach to help children make informed decisions on sustainability issues
    Gabriela Fernandez
  15. Youth and Inequality: A study about third-level digital divide among youth in India
    Avinash Pandey
  16. Youth perspectives (and values) in relation to community institutions and forest resources in Mexico
    Constanza S. Mora

Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction for Cities

  1. A Review of the impact of Flood risk perception on preventive coping behaviors through the Place attachment component
    Leila Rahimi, Hadis Bordbar, and Sepideh Pouri
  2. An Assessment of Attitudes Towards Flood Risk Management in Three Communities at La-Nkwantanang Madina Municipality in Ghana.
    Alfred Adjabeng
  3. Assessing the Interaction between Urban Air Pollution and Land Use on the Sustainability of Tabriz city
    Sepideh Pouri and Leila Rahimi
  4. Assessing the sustainability reporting quality of leading sustainable companies, a science-based perspective
    Imane Allam
  5. Climate Adaptive Heat Action Plans for Vulnerable Poor A case study of Bhubaneshwar city, Odisha
    Rohit Magotra, Ajit Tyagi, Mohit Kumar, Asha Kaushik, Moumita Shaw, Ananya Bhatia, and Yashi Sharma
  6. Climate Change Adaptation Needs in a Changing Global Health Issues
    Izzet Ari
  7. Determinants of implementation of drought mitigative measures in Kenya
    Thiongo Karuri
  8. Determinants of Peoples’ Adaptation Strategies against Climate Change Impact on Agricultural Activities in Nepal
    Krishna Bhandari and Professor Vikash KC
  9. Multi-Level and Regional Governance Models for Urban Climate Action: A Case Study of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area
    Melissa Tier
  10. Municipal Finance Reform: Urban Adaptation in Developing Contexts
    Jonty Rawlins and Sarah Wewege
  11. Realizing Climate-Resilient Communities: Managed Retreat as a Just Transition
    Erica Asinas
  12. Size characterization of sidewalk particulate matter due to vehicular emissions
    Rene Rensoli, Aron Jazcilevich Diamant, Irma Rosas Pérez, Ricardo Torres Jardón, and Iván Yassmany Hernández Paniagua
  13. Spatial Analysis of Street Tree Condition and Proximity to Gas Leaks and Leak-Prone Infrastructure
    Jessica Wright, Yaxiong Ma, Sucharita Gopal, and Nathan Phillips
  14. The necessity of domestic flights at business trips. A theoretical and empirical study under the aspect of climate-friendly alternatives, based on a survey of business travelers at Stuttgart Airport.
    Erika Mueller, Daniela Ludin, and Wolfgang Gerstlberger
  15. The Role of the Youth in Achieving SDG 11: Pathways to Build Sustainable and Resilient Cities
    Ana Gabriela Ynestrillas Vega and Elie Kallab
  16. Towards sustainable urban development? Review of the practice of urban planning in Ecuadorian secondary cities addressing risk management
    Myriam Jácome

Cross-cutting, Just Solutions Towards the Sustainability of the Energy System

  1. Against the Tide: Potential for Marine Renewable Energy in Eastern and Southern Africa
    Elena Belletti and Milo McBride
  2. DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENERGY MODEL FOR MEXICAN ELECTRICITY SYSTEM
    Diocelina Toledo, Jesús Cerezo-Román, and R. Romero-Domínguez
  3. Eco-friendly Cooling System Design for a Hostel Building
    Nikhil Malviya, Prashant Akhilesh Tiwari, Dilawar Husain, and Ravi Prakash
  4. Energy Efficient Design of Cold Storage
    Rishabh Singh, Rahul Kumar Thakur, Nikhil Kalal, Shamsh Praveen, Dilawar Husain, Ravi Prakash
  5. Impact of economic structure on air quality in first tier cities of China – analysis of pre-COVID 19 pandemic
    Xiaoting Sun
  6. Making Personal Wind Power Practical With Specialised Roof Designs
    Jamal Kigotho
  7. Resilience of Community Energy Systems and Multidimensional Transformations: Resilient Behaviors, Functions and Scale
    Adrian Jimenez and Herena Torio
  8. Sustainability and Justice, the Case of Offshore Renewable Energy in Taiwan
    Yu Ju Lin

Democratizing Renewable Energy in the Global South

  1. Assessing Scalability and Gender Inclusiveness of the Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Solar Model in Humanitarian Settings
    Faiza Haq, Aditi Bansal, Angelo Benny Bertagnini IV, Tenzin Dawa Thargay, and Chandni Sinha Das
  2. Local energy practitioners and new forms of knowledge exchange can be change-maker in achieving SDG7
    Carmen Dienst, Julia Terrapon-Pfaff, Willington Ortiz, and María Yetano-Roche
  3. Open Source Hardware Technology, a Sustainable Solution to Achieve Energy for All in the Global South
    Guillermo Catuogno, Luiz Lavado Villa, Guillermo Pleitavino, Jean Alinei, and Carlos Martinez
  4. Powering Communities
    Harish Vikram, Clara Mewes, Sangeeth Raja, Eleanor Batilliet, and Tilman Leicht
  5. Renewable Energy Empowerment at the Grassroots: The Success Story of Solar Home System (SHS) in Bangladesh
    Syed Munir Khasru and Abdullah Ar Rafee
  6. Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development. A case study of Ghana
    William Osei Antwi
  7. Rethinking Sustainable Energy in Africa: Negative Impacts of Renewable Energy on Women
    Toyin Adekanmbi and Temitope Onifade

Economics and Demography of Natural Disasters and Disease Outbreak

  1. Analysis of Health Geography of Dengue in urban areas – A case study of Rajkot city, India
    Rohit Magotra, Mohit Kumar, Moumita Shaw, and Ananya Bhatia
  2. Autonomous long-range solar plane that mainly provides connectivity to remote areas and / or areas of natural disasters, as well as the possibility of surveying through the transmission of images in real time, opening communication windows in areas compromised by environmental catastrophes.
    Guillermo Catuogno, Carlos Catuogno, and Guillermo Garcia
  3. Covid-19 Risk and business sustainability: A view from economies of contagion
    Aries Heru Prasetyo
  4. Financing climate-induced disaster management: Models for engaging the formal financial sector
    Suborna Barua
  5. Strategically Redesigning the Future in the Time of the Covid-19 Disease Outbreak
    Belinda Rudinger, Elizabeth Potter-Nelson, and Jess Gaffney
  6. The less contributor paying a deadly cost: How climate change is affecting the livelihood of some farmers in Ghana.
    Stephen Asafo Agyei
  7. The Role of International Migration and Restrictions on Their Entry in the Timing of COVID-19’s Arrival: Evidence from County-level Data in the United States
    Hiroaki Matsuura
  8. Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic and Debt in Burkina Faso Facing a Multidimensional Crisis
    Laure Gnassou

Effective Industrial Policy to Achieve the SDGs

  1. Implementation and Imagination: The role of taxation in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
    Edward Hainsworth and Rauda Amer
  2. Increasing Climate Data and Ambition in Indonesia through Enhanced Data Transparency and Incentive Schemes
    Dedy Mahardika
  3. THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR A POLICY ON SUSTAINABLE SHIP RECYCLING INDUSTRY AND THE RESPONSE OF THE DEVELOPING NATIONS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SHIP BREAKING REGIME OF BANGLADESH
    Ishtiaque Ahmed

Food Production, Waste Management, and the Circular Economy

  1. An RGB sensor-based aerial robotic platform for sustainable precision agriculture
    Abioye Ayodeji
  2. Circular Economy Systems Engineering for Food Supply Chains: A Case Study on the Coffee Supply Chain
    Styliani Avraamidou, Stefanos G. Baratsas, Amanda Birnbaum, Leonardo Lombardini, and Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos
  3. Eliminating Electronic Waste Through Sustainable Awareness Within the Community
    Matthias Choi
  4. Food waste management and the circular economy in the Brazilian semiarid
    Diana Lunardi, José Eric da Silva Queiroz, Larissa Leykman da Costa Nogueira, and Vitor de Oliveira Lunardi
  5. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Apple Orchard Management: an insight into sustainable agriculture and new opportunities
    Meghann Smith
  6. Marine Debris Mitigation – Plastic Neutrality Through a Credit System in Southeast Asia
    Maggie Ka Ka Lee
  7. Not really a waste! Exploring sustainable ways of managing waste from post-harvest processing of oil palm by households in Twifo Wawase community of the Central Region of Ghana.
    Emefa Awuku and Yaw Asamoah
  8. The circular economy challenges and its paradigm shift in the tourism industry: lessons from a mature touristic destination.
    Julia Cabrera and Francisco López-del-Pino
  9. The role of home gardens in fighting extreme poverty and hidden hunger in Lagos, Nigeria
    Olalekan Sipasi
  10. Transitioning the Sugarcane Industry to the Circular Economy in Central America. Can it lead the transformation in the food sector?
    Ronald Panameño and Carlos Ruiz

Gender-based Innovations for Equitable SDG Outcomes

  1. A framework for gender equality and localizing the SDGs:  A first approach from policy to implementation using a case study of  Costa Rica
    Jenny Chaverri, Miguel Del Pino, and Ketra Schmitt
  2. A social project planned in cooperation with the university for the development of a detached district: a community center project through an architectural design studio
    Nevset Gul Canakcioglu
  3. Deconstructing the ‘Development Equals Empowerment’ Trap: A Case Study of Women Small-Scale Sunflower Farmers in Tanzania
    Peyton Ellis
  4. Disability-Inclusive GBV Prevention and Response Programming
    Rocío Freytes Martín and Esther Breffka
  5. Does Grameen Bank Membership change Secondhand Smoke Exposure among Women in Bangladesh?
    Kiran Khosla
  6. Gender equality in STEM: actions of Habitat Marte
    Julio Rezende, Camila Lustosa de Sousa, Paula Vivian Oliveira da Silva, Davi Alves Feitosa de Souza
  7. Gender Equity & Social Inclusion Among Community Forest User Groups In Nepal: Who Benefits?
    Leala Rosen and Ramila Baral
  8. Social Engagement to foster women empowerment against gender violence at the Amazon
    Paula Carramaschi Gabriel
  9. Statistical tools to monitor and assess gender mainstreaming and impact on policy-making at the international, EU and national level
    Cristiana Carletti and Mariella Pagliuca
  10. The vulnerability of women in coping with climate change effects and accessing mitigation/adaptation practices in Nigeria
    Idowu Ologeh and Tinuade Ekanade

ICT Standards for the Sustainable Development Goals

  1. 5G-Using Standards to Mitigate ICT Risks in Sustainable Development
    Olatunji Osunji
  2. Assessing progress towards SDGs implementation using the MRP-WSCI multicriteria method. The case study of the European countries
    Antonio Boggia, Matteo Cardinali, Elena Ricciolini,  Lucia Rocchi, Francisco Ruiz, and José M. Cabello
  3. Educational standards supporting UN Sustainable Development Goal 4
    Erlend Øverby
  4. Teaching and Learning in the Cloud: Prospects and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Education in Africa
    Sodiq Onaolapo and Temitope Onifade

Indigenous Approaches to the Sustainable Development Goals

  1. Analysis of Ecotourism Approach as a Sustainable Development Construction of Local Levels in Indonesia
    Nor Anisa
  2. Cows at the Center of Indian Approach to Sustainable Living and Development
    Smrithi Rekha Venkatasubramanian and Prajna Cauvery
  3. Global Issues, Local Voices
    Aimee Carlson and Neamatallah Elsayed
  4. Indigenous Techniques of Preventing Infant Morbidity in Metropolitan Ibadan
    Jide Eroh and Ismail O. Azeez
  5. Land Sovereignty and Food Rights: Looking Back and Moving Forward for Indigenous Peoples in Canada
    Taylor Wilson
  6. Empowering Rural Participation and Partnerships in Morocco’s Sustainable Development
    Yossef Ben-Meir
  7. The Political Economy of Indigenous Development: Addressing continued Indigenous reliance on government assistance in Canada
    Ada Chukwudozie

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Educate for Sustainable Development

  1. AAU Megaprojects: An Educational Strategy for Sustainable Development
    Lykke Brogaard Bertel, Maiken Winther, and Henrik Worm Routhe
  2. Affordances of design thinking and collaborative digital tools during the search for sustainability solutions at University
    Diane Pruneau, Viktor Freiman, Vincent Richard, Michel Léger, Liliane Dionne, and Anne-Marie Laroche
  3. An Ape Ethic and the Question of Personhood
    Gregory Tague
  4. Brazil, France and the USA: A multidisciplinary and cross continental model towards global sustainability and mastering skills to make an impact
    Mona Pearl
  5. Education for Regenerative Sustainability
    Giulia Sonetti and Mihaela Harmanescu
  6. Empowering Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) through education and training for sustainable community development: An Academic Institution/GEF Small Grants Program Partnership
    John Telesford
  7. Get Them While They’re Young!: Teaching Creative Problem Solving and Systems Thinking through Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Approach in High School Science Curriculum
    Richard Deanne Sagun, Emmanuel D. Delocado, Richard Deanne C. Sagun, and Mart Andrew S. Maravillas
  8. Implementing an interdisciplinary Masters of the SDGs
    Samantha Leonard, Glenn Banks, and Regina Scheyvens
  9. Integration of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and community service in the student journey
    Paola Visconti, Ana Leticia Rodriguez, and Marco A. Jimenez
  10. Interdisciplinary Education for Sustainable Development: The Harvard Global Development Practice (GDP) Model
    Hadiza Hamma and Will O’Brien
  11. Interdisciplinary Methodologies to Teach Sustainable Design: Case Studies from a “Sustainability University”
    Jacqueline Salmond and Michael Salmond
  12. Linking Teaching and Learning Formats with Students’ Development of Key Sustainability Competencies
    Aaron Redman
  13. Measure Your Impact and Champion Sustainability with Arbor Impact Management
    Jessica Vitiritti and Daniel Guelen
  14. On Teaching Sustainable Development at Universities – Drawing from the Systems Thinking Approach
    E. Alaphia Wright
  15. Pandemic student experience as foundation for engagement with sustainability and solutions
    Milena Popov, Paul Bartlett, Mary Ting, and Karen Malpede
  16. Pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals through Teaching and Learning: A Review of Interdisciplinary Research in Higher Education
    Jordan King
  17. Regime Effectiveness Reconsidered: Achieving the SDGs
    Montserrat Koloffon Rosas
  18. Teaching sustainability: cross-cutting solutions in the Baltic States
    Eugene Eteris
  19. Teaching Sustainability within the context of everyday life: the case of the EUSTEPs project
    Alessandro Galli, Georgios Malandrakis, Federico M. Pulselli, Nicoletta Patrizi, Sara Moreno Pires, Sandra Caeiro, Paula Bacelar Nicolau, and Mahsa Mapar
  20. Using Technological Innovations and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teach Sustainable Development: A Virtual Residency Case Study
    Rhianna Rogers, Mark Abendroth, and Linda Jones
  21. Wikipedia Edu: Taking Environmental Justice Beyond the Classroom Walls
    Paul Bartlett, Kristen Treglia, and John Ruppert

Multidisciplinary Energy Education for Societal Well-being

  1. Experimenting with an Interdisciplinary Approach for Sustainability Education in secondary schools: The case of D-Game, YOUth play the future
    Salvatore Ruggiero
  2. Re-envisioning an Energy Strategy for Manitoba: Planning for 2030 and Beyond
    Kate Robb, Patricia Fitzpatrick, and Gloria Desorcy

Nature Based Solutions to Climate Change

  1. Characterization of Halogen (Cl, Br, I) Emissions from Cooking Fuels in Nigerian Households Using Energy-Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry
    Francis Olawale Abulude
  2. Nature based Solutions for Heat Stress Management
    Rohit Magotra, Yashi Sharma, and Vijay Raj
  3. On the contribution of nature-based solutions to address urban metabolism challenges
    Benedetto Rugani, Javier Babí Almenar, and Thomas Elliot
  4. Sun, Biomimicry and Sustainability
    Rashida Atthar
  5. The Operating Venetian Lagoon: The Agency of “Barene”. A sustaining landscape infrastructure towards ecological, cultural, and productive heritage preservation.
    Amina Chouairi

Safe, Affordable, and Inclusive Transport under the SDGs

  1. Towards Safe, Inclusive and Sustainable Public Transport Solutions in Namibia
    Robert Ambunda and Eveline Nakale

Socio-technical Solutions for Water-Energy-Food Security Challenges

  1. A Multi-Objective Optimization Model to Plan City-Scale Water Systems with Economic and Environmental Objectives: A Case Study in Santiago, Chile
    Daniela Gormaz Cuevas, Javiera Riffo, Ludovic Montastruc, and Felipe Díaz
  2. Considerations for a socio-technical systems conceptualization of the water – energy – food nexus for rural communities
    Khadeeja Hamid, Aparna Katre, and David Wilsey
  3. Efficiency of two natural wastewater treatments at inactivating coliforms for safe reuse in agricultural irrigation
    Brayan Riascos and Alejandra Ortiz
  4. Embedded resources and connected networks: Ideas for research and implementation of water, energy, and food SDGs.
    Caitlin Grady, Lauren Trepanier, Paniz Mohammadpour, and Lauren Dennis
  5. From Grey to Green Filtration: Rethinking the Urban-Rural divide in Watershed Management
    Louis Chua
  6. Horizontal Price Transmission in Ghana: – An Asymmetric Error Correction Model (AECM).
    Emmanuel Bangmarigu, Artan Qineti, and Miroslava Rajcaniova
  7. Network-based Drivers of Technical and Social Innovations in Integrated Food, Water and Energy (FEW) Systems
    Rae Zimmerman
  8. United they stand, divided they fail: the WEF nexus for SD capacity building
    Maureen Papas
  9. Using data centre waste heat to dry coffee whilst supplying small-scale farmers with ICT: a case study based on a novel systems-based approach
    Petter Terenius, Richard Harper, and Peter Garraghan
  10. Utilizing Global Sustainable Tourism Council Criteria and Green Destinations Standards to Achieve Sustainable Development for Caribbean and Pacific Islands During COVID-19 Pandemic
    Magdalena Muir and Sami Areikat

Sustainable Blue Growth: Shipping and Ports

  1. Pathways & Initiatives to Sustainable Shipping
    Konstantinos Vlachos
  2. Reducing CO2 to Combat Climate Change: Shipping Vessels Footprint from Cradle-to-Grave
    Peter Mekailian and Nathalie de Gaulle
  3. Sustainable Shipping and Ports: Levers of Change
    Vera Alexandropoulou and Andreas Papandreou
  4. The 4-Seas Initiative. Mobilizing Science Driven Sustainable Blue Growth
    Nicolaos Theodossiou, Phoebe Koundouri, Andreas Papandreou, and Lydia Papadaki
  5. The Greek Privatization Program as a lever for Sustainable Development in Greece
    Riccardo Lambiris and Maria Christantoni

Sustainable Land Use Planning

  1. ACHIEVING WATER STEWARDSHIP IN COTTON IN THE BÜYÜK MENDERES BASIN
    Z. Derya Yildirim Özata, Gökçe Okulu, D. Eylül Dizdaroğlu, Eren Atak, Arzu Balkuv, Sevilay Topçu, and Angela Ortigara
  2. Assessment of the contributions of the Spanish Urban Agendas to achieving sustainable urban development
    Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga
  3. Exploring the role of climate leadership in supporting and informing sustainable land use planning in the context of African cities
    Karien Erasmus and Carl Erasmus
  4. FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS FOR IMPROVING WATER QUALITY IN TURKEY’S BUYUK MENDERES RIVER BASIN
    Eren Atak, Z. Derya Yıldırım Özata, and Angela Ortigara
  5. Land use and industrial animal agriculture: changing the paradigm towards a sustainable future
    Katya Burns
  6. Land Use Policies in Nepal: Implications for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security
    Tanka Prasad Dahal, Reshma Shrestha, and Purna B. Nepali 
  7. Methodology for identifying the ecological corridors. Case study: planning the brown bear corridors in the Romanian Carpathians
    Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor, Oana Catalina Popescu, and Antonio Valentin Tache
  8. Sustainable Land Use Planning for Tourism Development in protected landscapes of a Coral Atoll A case of Minicoy Island, India
    Komal Agarwal
  9. The role of community-based agritourism in sustainable land use; a case study of rural Morocco
    Alheen Mahmud, Khadeeja Hamid, and Sara Hussien
  10. URBAN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SUSTAINABLE LAND USE PLANNING
    Martyna Surma
  11. Water Crisis in Cities: The Case of ‘Day Zero’ in Chennai, India
    Bhrigu Kalia

Turning Supply Chains Into Engines to Support the SDGs

  1. Food Supply System in Wuhan Under COVID-19: An Evolutionary Perspective Based on Informality
    Yuan Gao, Yeshuo Shu, Chushu Yi, and Dihua Li
  2. Using Waste Carbon Feedstocks to Produce Chemicals
    Elizabeth Nesbitt

Universities Driving Collaborative Solutions for the Decade of Action

  1. A Unique Approach to Sustainability
    Okan Pala
  2. Framing a University Research & Innovation Strategy Around the SDGs: A Case Study
    Alice Aiken and Jennifer Morawiecki
  3. Higher Education Institutions transforming societies through Sustainable Development: the comprehensive approach of the University of Bologna
    Angelo Paletta, Pietro Fochi, Pietro Ceciarini, and Tullia Gallina Toschi
  4. Observing Sustainable Development Goals in Brazilian Federal Universities
    Paula Gonçalves Serafini, Jéssica Morais de Moura, and Júlio Francisco Dantas de Rezende

Poster Sessions

Children, Youth, and the SDGs

  1. Research Activism: An engaged anthropological perspective into addressing educational concerns within the Fundacion Futuro Lleno de Esperanza
    Yoon Sung Kim
  2. Review of Youth Activism in Climate and Environmental Justice
    Taylor Bazajou, Haniya Harhara, and Bonita Sharma

Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction for Cities

  1. The Challenges of Implementing Emission Control Policies in the Developing World: Nigeria As A Case Study
    Folawiyo Kareem Olajoku

Cross-cutting, just solutions towards the sustainability of the energy system

  1. MBA Program Preparation of Leaders for Sustainable Business
    Brandon Hahn

Effective Industrial Policy to Achieve the SDGs

  1. Cultural and Creative Industry (CCI) policy for sustainable development, a case of India
    Adwait Limaye
  2. Industrial Policy for a Sustainable Growth Path
    Aborode Abdullahi Tunde
  3. Using New Methods to Study Translation of Policies Regarding Water Sustainability
    Austin Kim

Gender Based Innovations for Equitable SDG Outcomes

  1. SDG 5: Gender Equality – A Precondition for Sustainable Forestry
    Aborode Abdullahi Tunde

Indigenous Approaches to the Sustainable Development Goals

  1. Indigenous Approach to the SDGs in India with special reference to Assam.
    Upendranath Bora

Sustainable Land Use Planning

  1. Land Use Planning: A Key to Sustainable Agriculture
    Aborode Abdullahi Tunde