We announced that it signed the United Nations Global Compact (”UNGC”) advocated by the United Nations and was registered as a participant as of April 1, 2018. We endorse the principle of UNGC, the values of which is shared by its own Philosophy, ”We are committed to people, society...
The paper concludes that Islamic finance industry in Malaysia is still on the right track in terms of contributing to sustainable development goals, environmental preservation and social welfare, as advocated by the United Nations. All of the key stakeholders in Malaysia also have been working hard ...
To address the shortcomings of current practices, spatial planning is advocated as a suitable FRM strategy for Nigeria because it has the potential of integrating existing practices. It is recognized as the most sustainable flood risk management method. The adoption of coordinated and sustainable spatia...
By fostering the development of relationships among actors, thus providing a pathway for developing the local, intersubjective, value-based indicators advocated by Burford et al. [4, 5] and enabling the integrated multi-level partnerships that have been identified as one of the key drivers for SD...
This article explores the concept of “other effective area-based conservation measures” (OECMs) in the context of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 on marine protected areas and OECMs and its linkages to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It argu...
Zivkovic (2017) advocated for a holistic, blended approach of systemic innovation and complexity science when addressing wicked problems. Complexity science involves the interactions between small actions that lead to large-scale effects within a given situation due to complex and multi-dimensional interco...
This calls for specific policy measures widely advocated in environmental and agrarian justice approaches such as reducing and eliminating uneven agricultural subsidies, recognising peasant sovereignty over seeds (SDG2.5), stopping all land-grabbing (SDG2.3), regulating speculation on agricultural commodities...
Recent review articles have advocated using 'big data' to fill national data gaps in monitoring LDN and other SDG 15 targets, but an evaluation of a sample of three exemplar studies using the UAF still gives a mean Uncertainty Score of 4.7, so this approach will not be straightforward....
(Grin et al.2010). As new ways of thinking, doing and organising emerge in different systems, they may reach a tipping point where they are adopted or intensely advocated and ‘take-off’ (Smith and Raven2012; Geels2005; Gorissen et al.2018). Both slow moving trends (e.g. demographics...
(2008) already advocated that an integral systematic approach to the definition and measurement of indicators is needed for sustainability assessments. This facilitates the reproduction of well-structured methodologies and will ensure that all important aspects are included in measurements [134]. Malagó ...