Proceedings From ICSD 2022

These proceedings include the papers from the 2022 International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD), held September 19 – 20 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.

 

Achieving Gender Parity in Science and Academia

Exploring Female Academics Underrepresentation in Senior Leadership Positions: A case of Public and Private Universities in Tanzania

Anna Mwakitalu, Dr. Susan Murphy, Dr. Joseph Roche

 

Advancing SDGs at the Local Level: Understanding Scale for Collective Impact

An effective human resource management for capacity building in sustainable urban transformation of India

Ratna Bysani, Swanya Singh, Saurabh Mishra, Rupesh Chopra

Localization of Sustainable Development Goals in Sri Lanka: The Way Forward

Ajra Azhar, Azafah Kaleel

Adaptation to Climate Change and the SDGs at Local Scales

Dr. David Major

Governing against the government: SDG’s steering effects on Brazilian subnational governments and civil society

Dr. Thiago Gehre Galvão, Rodrigo Correa Ramiro

Deploying Renewal Energy to Market Places in Nigeria

Ikoro Maduka

GoGlocal! in Windhoek and Stuttgart! The Neighbourhood Scale for Collective Action: Building transformative knowledge on SDG implementation and monitoring

Dr. Astrid Ley, Dr. Bettina Bunk, Dr. Sigrid Busch, Audrey Dobbins, Dr. Ludger Eltrop, Dr. Ulrich Fahl, Jannik Vetter-Gindele, Gaby Hansen, Dr. Phillip Luehl, Gert van der Merwe, Friederike Thonke

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN NIGERIA: THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE, USING ABUJA MUNICIPAL AREA COUNCIL AS A STUDY

Dr. David Nwogbo, Kayode Kadiri

Understanding the Linkage Between Climate Change And Insecurity: Creating a Peacebuilding Toolkit for Local Practitioners

Bradford McGann, Unusa Karimu, Portia Xiong, Dr. Mohammad Abbass, Jas Sethi

Supporting EV Adoption by Reducing Range Anxiety Through Scaling EV Zoning Regulations Adoption

Daphne Dixon

Experiential learning in Urban Gardens: a Case Study of urban garden supporting life skills development in New York City

Chris Jeong

Bridging the North-South gap: Authentic leadership for transitional justice training

Melissa Faye Brouard and René de Klerk

Mainstreaming Inclusion in Indian cities through robust Monitoring and evaluation framework

Kanika Bansal, Haimanti Banerji, Purbita Samanta, and Haimanti Banerji 

 

Children, Youth, and the Future of the SDGs

Exploring the Psycho-Social Factors Influencing Pro-Environmental Behavior among Filipino Youth Environmental Advocates

Jacques Zacharie Thaddeus Ponce, Elyssa Marie Castro, Zoe Panganiban, Manuel Josue Rosario, Joaquin Enrique Sinjian, Richard Deanne Sagun

Building The Capacity of Marginalized Youth Without Parental Care in Egypt to Advocate for their Cause

Azza Osman, Yasmine El Hagri

Empowering youth on entrepreneurship for the SDGs: the case of a high-school contest on sustainable and innovative ideas

Dr. Marco Tortora

 

Climate Change and Covid-19: Abiding Challenges for Achieving SDG6

Tapping Sustainable Agricultural Potential in the Senegal River Valley: Famine risk

Alyssa Cheung, Madina Kane

Developed or Disregarded?: Indigenous Vulnerabilities to Water Insecurity in Canada and Australia

Calyssa Burke, Chiamaka Ibeanusi, Sydney Thorburn

Towards SDG 6.6 and SDG 11: Exploring the Ecosystem Services Approach in water and watershed management in Canadian cities

Dr. Natasha Tang Kai

 

Connecting Science and Policy 

Multi-Stakeholder Platforms for Water Management: Connecting policy and Science

Dr. Angelos Alamanos, Dr. Phoebe Koundouri

Is there a “Technological Fix” in High Conflict Transboundary Basins? The Impacts of Desalination on Hydropolitics of the Jordan River Basin

Nesma Hassan, Josee Maurice, Larry Swatuk

Women20 for co-sharing expertise and responsibilities to tackle gender equality: experiences from the Italian presidency of G20

Sveva Avveduto, Gianna Avellis, Giuliana Rubbia

Sustainability: priorities for modern politics and economics

Dr. Eugene Eteris

A Data-driven Approach for Supporting Policy Intervention in Sustainable Development

Pooja Bassin, Dr. Srinath Srinivasa, Dr. Sridhar Mandyam

A tool to measure sustainability in biosphere reserves located in prosperous countries

Dr. Laura Sinay

Novel Statistical–Simulation Approach to Promote Health Informed Heat Mitigation Strategies

Dr. Mohamed Dardir, Dr. Jeffrey Wilson, and Dr. Umberto Berardi

 

Digitization for a Sustainable, Inclusive, and Resilient Decade of Action

Digitization for a sustainable and inclusive development

Dr. Tajinder Kaur

The importance of digital tools in a nature-based climate adaptation programme in Malaysia: the case of Penang island

Sofia Castelo, Dr. Miguel Amado, Melissa Sivaraj

Deploy a method to measure the carbon footprint of ICT in an organization.

Guillaume Bourgeois, Dr. Benjamin Duthil, Dr. Vincent Courboulay

Towards an inclusive digitalization of urban service delivery: Residents’ utilization of the digital property address system in Accra, Ghana.

Stephen Leonard Mensah, Dr. Louis Kusi Frimpong, Dr. Seth Asare Okyere

The Cooperative Intelligence Platform for Primary Health Care – Strengthening Territorial Governance for the 2030 Agenda implementation

Dr. Wagner de Jesus Martins, Flora Carvalho de Oliveira e Freitas Fonseca, Gabriel Maia Veloso, Dr. Edward Torres Maia, Antonio Sheila Gomes Lima

Ensuring that Experts Update and Improve Wikipedia SDG Articles – Bridging a Key Knowledge Management Gap

Dr. Arno Rosemarin and Dr. Elisabeth von Muench

Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation, and COVID-19 in Physical & Sustainable Development Planning

Assessing Sustainable Tourism Expectancies in Asia

Ariel Toh

Preparing for Hurricanes: An Evaluation of Disaster Preparedness in East Coast Schools

Eugene Yoo

Urban Design for Climate Change in Developing Countries

Emma Kim

 

Economics and Demography of Natural Disasters and Disease Outbreaks

Social Meaning of Difficult-to-Return Zones in Fukushima – Using Qualitative Data Analysis of Interviews with Japanese and U.S. Experts

Dr. Keiichi Sato

Circular Economy For Disaster Risk Reduction

Dr. Fitria Husnatarina

Indigenous and local communities-led initiatives for climate change resilience development in Niger

Ousseyni Kalilou

Reframing the Opioid Crisis as a Natural Disaster

David Kim

Avoiding Disaster by Developing Resilient Infrastructure through Decentralization

Joshua Giardino

 

Fiscal Policy and Governance in Support of Sustainable Development

Sustainability Reporting and Certification: Evaluation of the ESG Criteria Used in the Palm Oil Industry in Malaysia

Bakhtiar Talhah

AN ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE AND IMPACT OF FISCAL AND GOVERNANCE POLICIES TOWARDS MAXIMISING THE PROGRESS OF SDG’S: WITH FOCUS ON BEST PRACTICES IN INDIA

Sheen Tyagi

Public Investment in Sri Lanka for Closing the SDG Financing Gap

Dr. Lakmini Fernando

Investigating the infrastructure enabling environment to close the infrastructure financing gap

David Boroto

 

Foreign Investment’s Impacts on Global Development and the SDGs

Tourism- led economic growth in Zimbabwe

Dr. Naftaly Mose, Thabani Nyoni

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SOURCING COST CHALLENGES FOR A FAIRE CIRCULAR MACROECONOMY IN TOGO

Essossinam Beguedou, Dr. Habil Satyanarayana Narra, Dr. Komi Agboka, Dr. Mani Kongnine Damgou

Donor or ‘debt trap’? China’s role in global development

Dr. Pádraig Carmody, Dr. Tim Zajontz, Dr. Ricardo Reboredo

Comparative Studies of the Impact of US Foreign Aid on Economic Development in the Global South: The Middle East and North Africa vs. sub-Saharan Africa

Cecilia Gomes

 

Inclusive Global Value Chain Governance

The SDGs and value chains: customized solutions for an inclusive global value chain governance

Ludovica Chiappini, Luca Osvaldo Uccello

Global Value Chain and Environment, Social & Governance Goals in Malaysia: A Multinational Corporation Perspective

Hong Qing Yeng, Chai Lim Choong, Dr. Mahendhiran Nair, Dr. Pervaiz Ahmed, Dr. Santha Vaithilingam

 

Indigenous Alliances for Sustainable Development

Ngarrindjeri Yarluwar-Ruwe (Sea Country, lands, waters and all living things): Negotiating and monitoring respectful spaces for First Nation engagement with settler colonial natural resource management.

Dr. Steve Hemming, Daryle Rigney, Shaun Berg

Roles of Malaysian indigenous communities in biodiversity conservation: A case study approach

Shirlyn Tang, Dr. Teow Hui Hui, Dr. Pervaiz K. Ahmed, Dr. Mahendhiran Nair, Dr. Santha Vaithilingam

Redefining the future through Indigenous concepts from the Amazon: What does “sustainable development” mean when seeking harmony for our Earth?

Vanessa Coronado, Adriana Bohorquez, Dr. Alysson Akiko Oakley

Indigenous Alliances for Advancing the Pan-African Great Green Wall of the Sahel

Ousseyni Kalilou

 

Innovative Solutions, Case-Studies, and Applications: Towards the Decarbonization of the Energy Sector

Consumer confusion with profusion of environmental labelling: Need for an alternative climate labelling to reduce carbon footprint?

Dr. Khan Md Raziuddin Taufique

How Sustainable Engineering Solutions and Our Health Depend on Biodiversity

Dr. Eric Chivian, Dr. Gaël McGill, Jeannie Park

A Low Carbon Pathway for the Turkish Electricity Generation Sector

Dr. Izzet Ari

 

Integrating Gender Perspectives into SDG Implementation

A Mixed Method Approach to a Study on the Contribution and Role of Women in Livelihood and Sustainable Development Goals.

Asha Ravikumar, Dr. Ansuman Rabboni

WOMEN IN FARM, HOUSEHOLD CHORES AND DECISION MAKING IN FARMING FAMILIES: CASE OF THE PERI-URBAN AREAS OF KATHMANDU NEPAL.

Benju Dhakal, Milan Subedi, Kunju Dhakal

Gender certification: how to use the modelling approach to achieve SDG5 and beyond

Cristiana Carletti

 

Online Learning and Innovation for ESD

ENGAGING GRADUATE STUDENTS IN EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT TELKOM UNIVERSITY INDONESIA: The Power of Emotional Connection in a Virtual Classroom

Dr. Ratna Lindawati Lubis

Parental Engagement in Early Childhood Education during COVID-19: Learning from Structured Tech and Teacher Support Programs in Urban Maharashtra

Nisha Vernekar, Pooja Pandey, Karan Singhal, Aditya Narayan Rai, Avinash Reddy

EXAMINING IMPACT OF E-LEARNING ON SUSTAINABLE EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA (A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIA)

Oluwasegun Ogunsakin, Olamide Akindapo

Challenges and Opportunities in NYC School Sustainability During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Structural Topic Model Analysis

Yijin Du

Reimagining EdTech beyond Traditional Learning Spaces

Stefan Reindl and Salomey Tardy Hackman

 

Partnerships and the Sustainable Development Goals

Scaling Sustainable Development Cooperation through Executing and Educating about General Collective Intelligence

Andy Williams

Improving cooperation towards sustainable transformation through a value debate

Johanna Vogel

Passing the Baton: Understanding the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Model of Pre-Primary Education in Mumbai, India

Pooja Pandey, Nisha Vernekar, Avinash Reddy, Dr. Rahela Khorakiwala, Sakshi Pawar

The Centrality of Collaboration in Social Services for Sustainability and Communities

Dr. Rae Zimmerman

Partnership for Poverty Alleviation: A case study of the partnership between government and national civil society organisations in Jordan

Mr. Feras AlSaid Herbawi

 

Risks and Opportunities of the Energy Transition

Hydrogen for Decarbonisation: is it real option?

Arina Loginova, Vladimir Potashnikov

Negative effects of autarky on the example of power generation in Russia

Vladimir Potashnikov, Ksenia Demidova, Michael Brody

 

SDGs, Construction, and the Built Environment

Net-positive energy buildings: towards achieving the SDGs and carbon neutrality

Monika Mikhail, David Mather, Dr. Paul Parker

 

Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Development

SDG Workshops as an extra-curriculum activity for teaching SDGs to Children

Dr. Sinan Akyüz, Dr. Sümeyra Ayik, Dr. Burak Asiliskender

Design for Impact: A model for embedding education for sustainability across an undergraduate design program

Dr. Deanna Meth, Sheona Thomson, Dr. Claire Brophy, Melanie Finger, Dr. Gregor Mews, Dean Brough

A review and suggestions on the need for upgrading the syllabus of compulsory course on Environmental Studies in India

Raghav Bhardwaj, Avdesh Bhardwaj, Anurag Singh Chaudhary, Poonam Bhardwaj, Sushma Bhardwaj

SEP for SDGs in Practice: Learning through Real-Life Experience

Dr. Chanita Rukspollmuang

Interdisciplinarity and awareness raising – two necessary challenges for susstainable education on the Water-Food-Energy-Nexus and the food value chain

Dr. Sigward von Laue, Fatma Abosamra, Marwa Waseem, Dr. Mohamed Abdel Hameed, Anas Saad, Natalie Tamer Khairy, Richard Gramlich, Victoria Timpe, Yomna El-Awamri, Dr. Hani Sewilam

Enterprise Innovation Course: Exploring the Intersection of ESD and Entrepreneurship Education

Eda Sanchez-Persampieri

The ‘SDGs-in-the-Classroom’ Curricular Innovation Hub: A Pan-University Interdisciplinary Scaffolded Strategy to Incubate and Accelerate the Infusion of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals into York’s Classrooms

Sandra Peniston, Dr. Cheryl van Daalen-Smith, Dr. Carolyn Steele, Nitima Bhatia

Teaching and Learning Sustainable Tourism Practices: A Class-wide Collaborative Enterprise

Jacqueline Harper, Dr. Sanjay Nepal

Project-work approach in initial career guidance: a case study in Italian high school education to improve sustainable skills

Sibilla Montanari, Mustafa Marchych, Dr. Ines Giunta, Dr. Massimiliano Costa

Science Education for Sustainable Development – The impact of UNESCO’s Global Microscience Experiments Project in the Caribbean

Petal Punalall Jetoo

Psy-SDGs: Building Bridges at University Between Psychology and Sustainability

Carla Furtado, Juliana Goncalves

Youth environmental sustainability education and practices at home: Longitudinal evidence from Namibia

Dr. Samantha Lindgren, Ghaida Alrawashdeh, Cecilia Vaughn-Guy, Viktoria Keding

Investigating environmental values and psychological barriers to sustainable behaviors among college students

Charlotte Cullen, Alyssa Ganino, Vera Gliga, Paige Kramer, Rohith Mahesh, Lauren Maunder, Sean Murray, Kiara Scott, Taha Shaikh, Dr. Najla Mouchrek

Empowering responsible and sustainability-aware business graduates through digital authentic assessment

Dr. Lucia Walsh, Dr. Olivia Freeman, Alacoque McAlpine, Dr. Cormac McMahon

Consciousness based education approaches for developing effective inclusive solutions for UN SDGs

Dr. Mohan Gurubatham, Dr. Anil Maheshwari

Inviting college students to investigate the global eco-social emergency through an transdisciplinary perspective

Dr. Najla Mouchrek

 

The Agri-Food System’s Value Chains 

Consumer support for sustainable food packaging: a novel approach for research-to-commercialization

Karen Farley

Consumption and Responsibility: Sustainability of Brazilian Food Choices during the Covid-19 pandemic

Dr. Elaine Cristina de Souza Lima, Letícia Matias Lacaz, Laura Buarque Goulart Coutinho, Thaiane Ingrid Silva de Oliveira, Dr. Adriana Oliveira Andrade, Dr. Katia Cilene Tabai

 

Transforming Research, Governance and Education within Higher Education to Support Sustainable Development

Bridging sustainability projects across stakeholders and educational institutions

Shubhra Shukla

 

Transport Sector Electrification and Decarbonization

Decarbonising Energy Systems: Electrification and Regional Integration

Shubhangi Jain, Abhishek Banerjee