SDGs in the Asia and Pacific Region: Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives
Editat de Walter Leal Filho, Theam Foo Ng, Usha Iyer-Raniga, Artie Ng, Ayyoob Sharifien Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 oct 2024
This book is part of the "100 papers to accelerate the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals initiative".
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783031174629
ISBN-10: 3031174623
Ilustrații: XXXV, 1575 p. 225 illus., 207 illus. in color. In 2 volumes, not available separately.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Ediția:2024
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seria Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3031174623
Ilustrații: XXXV, 1575 p. 225 illus., 207 illus. in color. In 2 volumes, not available separately.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Ediția:2024
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seria Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Cuprins
Convergence of Community Network and Sustainable Development Goals, Kudumbashree Community Network.- Adaptation Strategies for Asian Farmers against Climate Change.- SDGs in Global South Cities for Building Resilience to Climate Change.- Climate Change in Hong Kong with the Integration of UN SDG 13 Climate Action.- Protecting Water Security SDG 6 in Malaysia and China: Role of Model Simulations.- Conditions of Precarity and Strategies of Resilience: The Malaysian Hawker Community and COVID-19 Pandemic.- Social Contexts and Spatial Relationships in Design of Anganwadi Centers.- Disaster Management for Sustainable Development: Rural Bangladesh.- Urban Design as a Spatial Assessment Tool in Achieving SDG 11: Case of Bengaluru, India.- Climate Change Impact on Agriculture and Water Resources: Uzbekistan.- Sustainable Cities and Communities with Decent Work and Economic Growth Opportunities in India.- Healthy Aging and Well-Being of Older Adults in Hong Kong.- Every Drop of Water and Food Footprints Count for Humanity.- Alternative Development to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals: Southeast Asia.- Geospatial Analysis of Urban Sprawl in Agartala Municipal Council, India, from 1991 to 2021.- Transitional Spaces as an Integrated Design Approach Enhancing Social Cohesion in High Rise-Dwellings.- Transformative Research in Aquaculture for Sustainable Seafood Security.- etc.
Notă biografică
Professor Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DTech, DL, DLitt, FSB, FLS, FRGS) holds the Chairs of Climate Change Management at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), and Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). He directs the European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR) and the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme, the largest network of universities specifically focusing on research on matters related to sustainable develpment. Professor Walter Leal Filho has over 30 years experience on sustainable development research and in excess of 700 publications to his credit.
Theam Foo Ng (Dr, BSc, MSc, PhD) is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Global Sustainability Studies (CGSS), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia. Currently, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ng is a coordinator for the South East Asia Sustainability Network (SEASN) and Environmental Protection and Education Hub (EPEHub) as well as Active Mobility (E-bike) in USM. SEASN is a Southeast Asia countries network that incorporates higher education institutions and other related sustainability organisations which committed to promote, engage and integrate sustainability in their teaching, research, community engagement and institutional arrangement.
He is also an advisor for Green Ambassador, EPEHub and Kung Fu Club. He leads the EPEHub programmes and activities in USM and actively engaged with communities and NGOs in championing and promoting environmental protection and education related to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), climate change, reduce carbon footprint and waste management. He conducted various talks and training workshops related to environmental sustainability and SDGs. In the programme of Master in Sustainable Development Practice, he is the course coordinator for Energy Infrastructure Planning. He has the experience as guest editor, associate editor, section editor and reviewer for a few reputable journals/book series. His research interest is around environmental sustainability, education for sustainable development, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational intelligence, and image processing.
Usha Iyer-Raniga is Professor, Sustainable Built Environment at RMIT University, Australia. Usha co-leads the One Planet Network’s Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme (SBC), United Nations 10 Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (UN 10FYP SCP) aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 12. The work directly impacts SDG 11 on Sustainable Cities and Communities and SDG 12 on Responsible Consumption and Production. Usha’s research supports empirical applications.
Professor Artie Ng (BSc, MSc, MBA, MEng, PhD, FCPA, FCMA, SrMIISE) has over 100 publications, including refereed journals, edited books, conference papers and consultancy reports. In particular, he has published with impactful international journals on sustainability, including Energy Policy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Sustainability Accounting, Management & Policy Journal as well as Sustainability Science. He currently serves in the editorial boards of Accounting Forum, International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance as well as Social and Environmental Accountability Journal. Dr Ng is currently the Dean of International Business University based in Toronto, Canada. He has served as Senior Research Fellow with the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy at the University of Waterloo as well as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Ayyoob Sharifi is a Professor at Hiroshima University, Japan, where he works at the IDEC Institute and the Graduate School of Innovation and Practice for Smart Society. He is also a Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture and Design of the Lebanese American University. His research focuses on the intersection of urbanism and climate change mitigation and adaptation. He has served as a lead author for the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and an active contributor to the Future Earth global change research program. His main goal as a scholar is to inform actions toward creating sustainable and resilient cities and communities.
Theam Foo Ng (Dr, BSc, MSc, PhD) is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Global Sustainability Studies (CGSS), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia. Currently, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ng is a coordinator for the South East Asia Sustainability Network (SEASN) and Environmental Protection and Education Hub (EPEHub) as well as Active Mobility (E-bike) in USM. SEASN is a Southeast Asia countries network that incorporates higher education institutions and other related sustainability organisations which committed to promote, engage and integrate sustainability in their teaching, research, community engagement and institutional arrangement.
He is also an advisor for Green Ambassador, EPEHub and Kung Fu Club. He leads the EPEHub programmes and activities in USM and actively engaged with communities and NGOs in championing and promoting environmental protection and education related to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), climate change, reduce carbon footprint and waste management. He conducted various talks and training workshops related to environmental sustainability and SDGs. In the programme of Master in Sustainable Development Practice, he is the course coordinator for Energy Infrastructure Planning. He has the experience as guest editor, associate editor, section editor and reviewer for a few reputable journals/book series. His research interest is around environmental sustainability, education for sustainable development, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational intelligence, and image processing.
Usha Iyer-Raniga is Professor, Sustainable Built Environment at RMIT University, Australia. Usha co-leads the One Planet Network’s Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme (SBC), United Nations 10 Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (UN 10FYP SCP) aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 12. The work directly impacts SDG 11 on Sustainable Cities and Communities and SDG 12 on Responsible Consumption and Production. Usha’s research supports empirical applications.
Professor Artie Ng (BSc, MSc, MBA, MEng, PhD, FCPA, FCMA, SrMIISE) has over 100 publications, including refereed journals, edited books, conference papers and consultancy reports. In particular, he has published with impactful international journals on sustainability, including Energy Policy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Sustainability Accounting, Management & Policy Journal as well as Sustainability Science. He currently serves in the editorial boards of Accounting Forum, International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance as well as Social and Environmental Accountability Journal. Dr Ng is currently the Dean of International Business University based in Toronto, Canada. He has served as Senior Research Fellow with the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy at the University of Waterloo as well as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Ayyoob Sharifi is a Professor at Hiroshima University, Japan, where he works at the IDEC Institute and the Graduate School of Innovation and Practice for Smart Society. He is also a Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture and Design of the Lebanese American University. His research focuses on the intersection of urbanism and climate change mitigation and adaptation. He has served as a lead author for the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and an active contributor to the Future Earth global change research program. His main goal as a scholar is to inform actions toward creating sustainable and resilient cities and communities.
Caracteristici
Showcases how countries in the Asia-Pacific region handle and implement the UN Sustainable Development Goals Comprehensively describes research, projects and practical action Provides government agencies, education institutions and non-governmental agencies