Perspective Of Sustainable Development Goals Research Articles

Research Status and Future Agenda in Small Hydropower from the Perspective of Sustainable Development Goals

Research Status and Future Agenda in Small Hydropower from the Perspective of Sustainable Development Goals

Poverty Eradication Efforts in Iraq and Its Challenges in the Perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Introduction: Iraq faces high levels of poverty, exacerbated by conflict and political crisis. The sustainable development goals (SDGs) offer a framework for overcoming poverty. This research aims to explore efforts to eradicate poverty in Iraq and its challenges from an SDGs perspective.
 Methods: This qualitative study uses in-depth interviews with 15 key informants from the government, non-governmental organizations, and academics in Iraq. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis.
 Results: This research found that Iraq has made several efforts to alleviate poverty, including social assistance programs, investment in education and health, and economic reform. However, these efforts face various challenges, such as corruption, weak infrastructure, and political instability.
 Conclusion: Iraq still has a long way to go to achieve the SDGs regarding poverty alleviation. More targeted and sustainable efforts are needed to overcome existing challenges.

Sustainable development through quality management: a multiple-case study analysis of triumphs, trials and tribulations

PurposeIn a highly competitive and globalised era, agile organisations proactively steer towards sustainability. This situation persuaded the organisations to align Quality Management (QM) initiatives to achieve sustainable outcomes. This study aims to explore quality–sustainability linkage, explicitly focusing on attaining the prestigious IAQ Quality Sustainability Award. Further it investigates, the impact of QM as a strategy for promoting sustainability to meet sustainable development goals (SDGs).Design/methodology/approachDue to the lack of substantial literature connecting QM to sustainability, the current research adopted an explanatory multiple-case study. Six cases were purposively chosen for the study. Three cases of those who have achieved the prestigious IAQ Quality Sustainability Award and remaining have been selected that have fallen short of receiving the award. A detailed within-case and cross-case examinations involving six cases that reported their QM achievements aligned with SDGs.FindingsThe findings demonstrate the significant role of QM adoption in achieving positive results from the perspective of SDGs, such as reduced environmental impacts, improved operational efficiency and enhanced quality of life. Effective stakeholder collaboration, proficiency in analytical tools and strategic alignment with SDGs emerged as critical success factors. Conversely, weak linkage with sustainability and unclear approaches were crucial challenges in attaining the IAQ Quality Sustainability Award.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper outlines essential commandments for organisations actively seeking to promote sustainability. It offers valuable insights for decision-makers, facilitating a profound understanding of the challenges and opportunities in pursuing sustainable performance.Originality/valueThe distinctive nature of this study lies in its dedicated exploration of the intricate relationship between QM deployment and its true impact on the achievement of the SDGs.

Examining the coupling and coordination of water-energy-food nexus at a sub-national scale in India – Insights from the perspective of Sustainable Development Goals

The interconnected and interdependent nature of water, energy, and food (WEF), called the WEF nexus, is essential for achieving long-term sustainability in producing and consuming of these three resources. Coupling and coordination degrees, which describe the intensities of interdependence and cooperation between different system components, are convenient for evaluating and managing the WEF nexus for a region or a nation. Although coupling and coordination of WEF nexus evaluations are essential for sharing knowledge about WEF security challenges, none of the studies has examined how coupling and coordination of WEF nexus based on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) affects a country's regions. This study developed a Coupling Coordination Degree Model to examine the WEF nexus at India's sub-national (States/Union Territories) level for 2011 and 2021 and address the SDGs. The comprehensive evaluation index and coupling degree, representing the progress score of WEF security and interaction between the WEF security, respectively, were first determined for the core WEF nexus using 29 indicators based on SDG 2 (zero hunger), SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation) and SDG 7 (cheap and clean energy). Subsequently, the degree of coordination reflecting the level of coordinated development on WEF sectors considering the governance, collaboration, and cooperation among stakeholders from different sectors was obtained. The results show that WEF components are strongly coupled with each other in all the Indian States/Union Territories. The results also show that the comprehensive evaluation index increased in 2021 compared to 2011, reflecting improved WEF security. However, the coordination degree of WEF security varied spatially and temporally, reflecting the variations in the coordination among the water, energy and food sectors in various Indian States/Union Territories. However, the coordination degree improved over the years, and consequently, 39 % of the States/Union Territories advanced from intermediate development in 2011 to good development in 2021. This study also identified the States/Union Territories of India that need improvement in the coordination degree of WEF security and suggested different WEF-related policies and programs for improvement. Results also identified that the development in the food sector (SDG 2) is superior to the water (SDG 6) and energy (SDG 7) sectors in most Indian States/Union Territories. This study may help administrators and policymakers identify the States/Union Territories requiring greater attention for implementing the existing or new policies to attain specific resource security.

Natural resources and energy resources prices an answer to energy insecurity? The role of mineral, forest, coal resources and financial development

Natural resources can be both a true blessing as well as a curse relying on its use. Using panel data for G7 economies from 1990 to 2021, this study aims to explore the influence of energy price shocks on energy security. This research applied the method of moment quantile regression to analyze the long-term link between study variables. The long-run method of moment quantile regression test results shows that energy price shock decreases energy security. Environmental innovation, renewable energy R&D, financial development, and low economic risk increase energy security in selected economies. No study has examined energy price shocks and energy security in the G7 economies using the method of moment quantile regression model and additional control variables. Additionally, natural resources in the form of coal, mineral, and forest rents increase energy insecurity. This research suggests some measures to do to boost energy security and stable energy prices in G7 economies. In terms of implications for policymakers, the role of natural resources is vital for a broader perspective of sustainable development goals.

An analysis of annual reports from the sustainable development goals perspective

Purpose The sustainable development goals (SDGs) are introduced to guide achieving the sustainable goals and tackle the global problems. United Nations members may perform activities to achieve the predetermined goals and report on their SDG activities. The comprehension and commitment of several stakeholders are essential for the effective implementation of the SDGs. Countries encourage their stakeholders to perform and report their activities to meet the SDGs. The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which corporations’ annual reports address the SDGs to assess and comprehend their level of commitment to, priority of and integration of SDGs within their reporting structure. This research makes it easier to evaluate corporations’ sustainability performance and contributions to global sustainability goals by looking at the extent to which they address the SDGs. Design/methodology/approach In the study, it is revealed to what extent the reports meet the SDGs with the multilabel text classification approach. The SDG classification is carried out by examining the report with the help of a text analysis tool based on an enhanced version of gradient boosting. The implementation of a machine learning-based model allowed it to determine which SDGs are associated with the company’s operations without the requirement for the report’s authors to perform so. Therefore, instead of reading the texts to seek for “SDG” evidence as typically occurs in the literature, SDG proof was searched in relevant texts. Findings To show the feasibility of the study, the annual reports of the leading companies in Turkey are examined, and the results are interpreted. The study produced results including insights into the sustainable practices of businesses, priority SDG selection, benchmarking and business comparison, gaps and improvement opportunities identification and representation of the SDGs’ importance. Originality/value The findings of the analysis of annual reports indicate which SDGs they are concerned about. A gap in the literature can be noticed in the analysis of annual reports of companies that fall under a particular framework. In addition, it has sparked the idea of conducting research on a global scale and in a time series. With the aid of this research, decision-making procedures can be guided, and advancements toward the SDGs can be achieved.

SCIENTOMETRIC REVIEW OF SMART WATER MANAGEMENT LITERATURE FROM THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL PERSPECTIVE

Water is essential to human survival; however, many people, particularly those in poorer countries, lack access to reliable sources of clean and safe water. Despite decades of effort to address this issue, water sustainability remains elusive even today. Smart technologies have been widely adopted for water management, rendering smart water management a promising path to achieving water sustainability. Nevertheless, the efficacy of such smart water management in attaining sustainability remains unclear. This study aims to investigate the progress made in pursuing water sustainability with smart water management through a scientometric literature review. The Scopus database was employed to extract a pool of 460 candidate publications, which were then analyzed for content using bibliometric analysis and VOSviewer software. Nine clustered research themes were classified, corresponding to the nine targets of sustainable development goals (SDGs) for water. The findings show that engagement across these topics is highly unequal, providing substantial guidance on where emerging research efforts should be concentrated. The novelty of this study mainly lies in the SDG perspective that provides a significant but overlooked angle for observing progress in smart water management domain. The findings can enlighten the international water industry to create a more favorable environment for regions lagging in using smart technologies to facilitate overall water sustainability.

Development of environmentally friendly soft contact lenses made from cellulose-derived hydrogel materials

With the performance improvement of soft contact lenses (SCLs) over the past few decades, their global use and market have steadily expanded. Consequently, contamination by disposable SCLs has become a potential threat to the environment. From the perspective of sustainable development goals, overcoming this issue requires the development of new biodegradable SCL materials based on plant-derived cellulose. In this study, highly transparent hydrogels based on hydroxypropyl cellulose were prepared via a radiation crosslinking technique using electron beams. By optimizing the irradiation dose and type of added monomer, excellent physicochemical properties, such as mechanical strength and transparency, and biological properties, such as low lysozyme deposition and biodegradability, were obtained. Thus, hydrogels produced by radiation crosslinking can be potentially used as human- and environment-friendly SCL materials.

An Analysis of Online Learner Types Applicable to Lifelong Learning Environments

<p>Based on the perspective of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Quality Education and lifelong learning, it is necessary to respect the learning opportunities and quality for all individuals. Online learning can provide more opportunities for lifelong learning, but due to the significant differences in students’ backgrounds and characteristics, personalized and timely support becomes more crucial. Learning analytics (LA) in online learning environment is a way to facilitate understanding of the potential meaningful information and relationships of students. One of the main functions of LA is to monitor the learning performance and identify potential learning problems early. In this study, 𝑘-means clustering is performed to determine the types of learning in lifelong online learning environments, based on students’ personal traits (background factors), learning behavior paths, and interactive perspectives on learning performance. Moreover, statistical analysis is used to further evaluate the linear correlation coefficients as well as the characteristics of each group of students, who ranged in age from 18 to 73, with a total of 2386 participants from five courses, in the interactive perspective. The result shows a significant correlation between learning performance and persistence across the three learning clusters, with a tendency towards continuous learning, thus providing educators an understanding of the learning behavior characteristics of those types of online learners.</p> <p> </p>

Sustainability Of Muslim Family Livelihoods In The Perspective Of Sustainable Development Goals

According to the classical scholarly view that health, education, and others of a primary nature other than clothing, feed, boards are not the responsibility of the husband in the corridors of living. The problem that often occurs is not only primary needs, wives also often demand hal-things that are secondary. A shift in understanding of the concept of living needs to be developed. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the sustainability of livelihoods in this age of fashionrn. This research uses a multiple case study approach. Data sources obtained through 2 sources. The results showed that living in today's era does not only revolve around food, clothing and shelter. rather, the meaning of living today shows the meaning of the cost of life in the form of primary, secondary or tertiary. The sustainability of the meaning of living shows conformity with the SDGs program which is summarized in 3 aspects, namely: welfare aspects, environmental aspects and equality aspects.

Ultrasound applications in drying of fruits from a sustainable development goals perspective

This review focuses on the many contributions of ultrasound technologies for fruit drying toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Along this review, several aspects attained from the application of ultrasound technologies are correlated with the SDGs. The main ultrasonic technologies applied for fruit drying, such as ultrasonic bath, probe ultrasound, air-borne ultrasound air-drying, and ultrasound-assisted contact air-drying, are presented. An in-depth discussion on ultrasound contributions, its advantages, disadvantages, and limitations are made. The effects of ultrasound on water diffusivity in several fruits are presented by correlating this effect with drying time and cost of energy. Ultrasound-assisted fruit drying, like other food processing technologies, directly impacts Zero Hunger, but ultrasound technologies contribute to much more than delivering long shelf-life food. This technology can be used to produce healthy foods and provide well-being, which will be discussed by correlating the effects of ultrasound-assisted air-drying with the concentration of nutritional compounds. Ultrasound-assisted fruit drying reduces wastewater toxicity and energy consumption and improves productivity, potentially improving workplaces and salaries. A walk through the technology is presented from Zero Hunger to No Poverty.

Sustainable development goals perspective: nexus between Christians' religious tourism, geopolitical risk, and CO2 pollution in Italy.

Travel and tourism support a country's economy and improve its social outlook. The religious inclination is an important factor influencing tourism and constitutes a significant part of general tourism. Thus, assessing and evaluating its real impacts on a country is crucial. As the world continues to grapple with the effects of environmental degradation, numerous studies have delved into the research between tourism, energy consumption, and pollution emissions. However, the impact of religious tourism on the environment is often overlooked. To bridge this gap, this study explores the relationship between religious tourist arrivals, geopolitical risk, and environmental quality in Italy. By employing ARDL and wavelets coherence analysis on the Italian data from 1997 to 2019, the findings of this study reveal a mitigation effect of religious tourist arrivals and geopolitical risk on CO2 pollution levels. In contrast, it highlights the significance of foreign direct investment and transportation as significant contributors to CO2 pollution. In conclusion, the study highlights the crucial role that religious tourism and religious leaders can play in mitigating environmental pollution and the importance of considering this aspect in future environmental studies as well as emphasize the need for Italian authorities to pay close attention to the impact of foreign direct investment and transportation energy consumption on the environment to achieve sustainable development goals.

Analyzing the barriers in supply chain digitization: sustainable development goals perspective

Analyzing the barriers in supply chain digitization: sustainable development goals perspective

The Continuous Use Intention for the Online Learning of Chinese Vocational Students in the Post-Epidemic Era: The Extended Technology Acceptance Model and Expectation Confirmation Theory

In an attempt to prevent and control the outbreak of COVID-19, education systems worldwide have comprehensively implemented online courses to fulfill the educational goal of the suspension of classes without suspending school. Numerous online courses have been developed under these circumstances. From the perspective of sustainable development goals, these online courses should be continued. However, as the epidemic gradually eases, it is questionable whether or not students will still willingly participate in these courses. The method of teaching is a critical issue for schools to decide. Compared with other related educational research, the research on the vocational education system is still limited. To expand the understanding of this topic, this study adopted snowball sampling and invited students from Chinese vocational colleges to fill in a questionnaire to help understand the perceptions that affect students’ expectations, attitudes, perceived effects, and satisfaction and the persistence of online learning. A total of 819 valid questionnaires were retrieved, with an effective questionnaire response rate of 81.9%. Meanwhile, under the framework of Expectation Confirmation Theory (ECT) and the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this study extended the theoretical model and proposed a sustainable model. The results of this study showed the following: 1. Expectancy belief and online learning attitudes had a positive impact on perceived ease of use and usefulness; 2. Perceived ease of use had a negative impact on practical class satisfaction but a positive impact on theoretical class satisfaction and perceived usefulness; 3. Perceived usefulness had a negative impact on practical course satisfaction but a positive impact on theoretical course satisfaction; and 4. Both types of course satisfaction had a positive impact on continuous use intentions for learning.

Spatial Planning in the Perspective of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Case Study on Ternate, North Maluku, Indonesia

This study aims to analyze and describe the spatial layout of Ternate City from the perspective of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Spatial planning has been positioned as one of the important components that also determines the success or failure of the development process of a region, especially within the framework of a sustainable development process. This study uses a qualitative approach with descriptive methods; the research location is Ternate, North Maluku Province of Indonesia. The results show that the sustainable development of Ternate is guided by achieving the vision, mission, goals, objectives, policies, strategies, and medium-term regional development programs by utilizing the city area. The novelty of this research lies in the analysis and assessment of the SDGs perspective which includes four dimensions: economic, social, environmental, legal and governance, which are then integrated to merge each sectoral dimension into sustainable development. Keywords: spatial planning, Sustainable Development Goals, local government. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55463/hkjss.issn.1021-3619.60.94

Greener Communication: To Make Better Understand the Interaction between Aging and the Environment

As a part of a marginalized and vulnerable group, global older adult and environmental change bring together two key policy challenges that must be addressed to ensure a sustainable future. In terms of the communication perspective of sustainable development goals, communication performance should address environmental factors for the effectiveness of successful aging. The success of the communication strategies and attitudes scale in two previous studies was applied in the current study. This study applied a survey to assisted-specific living communities with the 71 items of communication scale for older adults. The result showed that older adults’ communication strategies and attitudes scale has high validity and reliability. Several items of communication strategies and attitudes were modified based on the local context of a specific region in Indonesia. This study concluded that an Indonesian version of the greener communication self-assessment scale of older adults (Indonesian-Greener CSOA) could be developed for more local contexts in specific regions of Indonesia, including the integration with the model that applied a greener communication perspective. The existing greener communication perspective could make a better understanding of the interaction between global aging and the environment to prevent and minimize disproportionate negative impacts on older people.

Assessing city sustainable development—Residents' quality of life from the perspective of sustainable development goals and spatiotemporal evolution

AbstractScientific evaluation of the sustainable development efficiency of China's large and medium‐sized cities has far‐reaching significance to how to improve the well‐being of residents and improve the level of sustainable development. This research uses the parallel two‐stage SBM dynamic (PT‐DSBM) model to evaluate the sustainable development efficiency of 33 cities in eastern, central, and western China. The innovation of this article is divided into two points. First of all, the PT‐DSBM model is used to subdivide the sustainable development system into social, economic, and ecological subsystems and closely integrates it with residents' QOL, which further reveals the inherent mechanism of the sustainable development system. Second, the spatiotemporal evolution can further reveal the spatiotemporal changes of sustainable development and residents' QOL within the scope of this investigation. The results show the following. (1) The overall efficiency of urban sustainable development in China is high in the east and west and low in the central. (2) The social subsystem efficiency in western cities exhibits outstanding performance, eastern cities perform better in economic and ecological sustainable subsystems, while the efficiency of residents' QOL remains at a high level in the sample cities as a whole. (3) In the study of spatiotemporal evolution, the concentration of urban sustainable development decreases with time evolution. Finally, this research gives suggestions on social security, stakeholder engagement, and environmental policies.

Small and medium-sized enterprises failure in providing workers' rights concerning Sustainable Development Goals-2030 in Pakistan.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an enormously crucial part in the modern world economy, demonstrating the most unique and incredible ground-breaking system. SMEs’ employment statistics and future worker needs make it a focus of policies among rising economies, and Pakistan is no exception. The working conditions in SMEs diverge from industry to industry; however, irrespective of the industrial categorization, the SMEs are failing to protect the workers’ rights in the perspective of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The interpretivism paradigm and purposive sampling, narrative inquiry, and analysis method have been adopted to gain in-depth knowledge of workers’ rights in SMEs concerning the SDGs. Results revealed that Pakistan-based SMEs argue to be financially weak and perceived as less equipped to adhere to the world’s standards. Highlighted issues in failure to adhere to worker’s rights include lack of financial resources, top management’s commitment, regulatory framework, SDG awareness, strategic planning, and the dire need for expert guidance and consultation in translating goals to work environments.

Informal Sector Employment and Economic Growth: Evidence from Developing Countries in SDG Perspective

The understanding of the role of informal employment in economic growth is important to facilitate developing countries in safeguarding the decent work, productive employment, and inclusive growth agenda mentioned in Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 8. The present study attempts to this end by investigating the role of informal employment on economic growth with an aim to assist in fulfilling target 8.3 of SDG. This study utilizes the data available for 20 developing countries for the period 2011–2019. Panel data analysis techniques have been applied, considering the percentage of total employment in the informal sector as the main explanatory variable of the models. The relevant macroeconomic indicators are included in the model as control variables. Empirical findings from Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS), Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS), and Dynamic Fixed Effect (DFE) models indicate a positive effect of informal employment on the economic growth of developing countries. The other macroeconomic indicators, per capita income, national expenditure, money supply, and economic freedom, are also found to contribute to the economic growth of the selected countries. This study reveals an important bidirectional causal association between informal employment and economic growth, a unidirectional causal link from per capita income to informal employment and from informal employment to national expenditure. Taking into account the contribution of the informal sector to the economy, this study fosters the need for achieving the targets mentioned in SDG 8 by adopting appropriate policies rather than punishing this sector immediately.

Gender disparities in rural education attainments and agricultural landownership from the perspective of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): evidence from 16 Sub-Sahara African countries

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between gender disparities in rural education attainments and agricultural landownership (ALO) in Sub-Sahara Africa with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) perspective. Design/methodology/approach This study uses SDG indicators interactions and pairwise correlation analysis. Findings There is a significant negative association between gender disparities in rural education attainments and ALO in Sub-Sahara Africa. Such negative relationship is not influenced by national economic development and living standards. Research limitations/implications The data is limited with 16 Sub-Sahara African countries, and as this is an early output of a number of follow-up studies in the author’s plan, the methodology is relatively simple. Practical implications Reducing gender disparity in rural Sub-Sahara Africa especially in ALO requires more integrated approaches which also address other aspects of sustainable development. This is particularly the situation because of the strong male-favored customary practices in rural Sub-Sahara Africa. The prioritization of different dimensions of sustainable development is also important in Sub-Sahara Africa. Social implications Strong awareness of SDGs is important. Further efforts in collecting data for and use data of sustainable development, especially the SDGs, are essential. Emerging trend of studying the interactions across SDGs reflects the future direction of relevant fields. Originality/value This paper has high originality because it is an early-stage research in the SDG interactions in Sub-Sahara African countries with the perspective of gender, gender disparity, Sub-Sahara Africa, SDGs, ALO and rural education attainments. This paper has both academic and practical values because of its innovative research thoughts and policy-oriented implications.