scholarly journals Impacts of Green Office Projects in Thailand: An Evaluation Consistent with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Sayam Aroonsrimorakot ◽  
Meena Laiphrakpam ◽  
Warit Paisantanakij
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Economic ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
High Satisfaction ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Economic And Social Impacts

This study aims to evaluate the environmental, economic, and social impacts of a green office project in Thailand, that is consistent with sustainable development goals (SDGs), to analyze and present the result of the study of the environmental, economic, and social impact of green office, and to evaluate satisfaction in the green office project operation. Evaluated the operating steps of green office projects, using new green office evaluation criteria, under Department of Environmental Quality Promotion (DEQP), by collecting preliminary data through questionnaires from 73 agencies, by monitoring and analyzing the project operation of participating organizations to certify as green office standard during 2015 to 2017. Besides, qualitative data were collected through the in-depth interview from 25 representative agencies, selected on the criteria of readiness to provide information and to evaluate their satisfaction in the green office project’s operation. The value of the green office project was 299 million Baht for all participant organizations equal to 1.4 million Baht/office/year. And this could be divided into economic compensation, (262.5 million Baht), social compensation (28.5 million Baht), and environmental compensation (7.55 million Baht). Evaluation of satisfaction found that most agencies (79.45%) have high satisfaction to certification on the evaluation result of national auditors, benefit on staffs’ knowledge, understanding, and observation of the importance of green office operation (86.63%), and the advantage of green office operation in their office (90.41%). The study further suggests that green office projects should be supported as a national policy to all agencies for continuous enhancement or development of the standard, to be an international level according to sustainable development goals (SDGs).

scholarly journals Open Education for a Better World: A Mentoring Programme Fostering Design and Reuse of Open Educational Resources for Sustainable Development Goals

Open Praxis ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Urbančič ◽  
Anja Polajnar ◽  
Mitja Jermol
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Online Mentoring ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Development Goals

An international online mentoring programme Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) has been developed to unlock the potential of open education in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The programme provides an innovative approach to building Open Educational Resources, connecting developers of educational materials with experts volunteering as mentors. The model of the programme has been carefully designed and tested in two subsequent implementations in years 2018 and 2019. Results have proved the model to be useful for building capacities in open education, while producing concrete educational materials with great potential for social impact. Analysis of results has been used to suggest further improvements needed for enabling the program to be used on an even larger scale. The paper presents the development of the OE4BW model, its main characteristics, implementation results and guidelines for the future.

Transportation Factors in the Selected Methods of Sustainable Development Assessment Tools

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 139-146
Author(s):  
Petra Kocurova ◽  
Michal Faltejsek ◽  
Roman Osika
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Economic ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Natural Sources ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
Traffic Performance ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Development Assessment

The interests focus on the tools, used in the case of evaluating the sustainability in the mobility structures. In the present is sustainable development regular part of planning in every scale. According to growing development and innovations, it was necessary to ensure a sustainable framework of progress or traffic performance. Sustainable development goals were founded as a reaction to limited natural sources and also as a response to the human impact on nature. Evolution of those goals started with the environmental base and then had also been added social and economic aspects. A study wants to find sophisticated tools for the evaluation of sustainable development in urban structures. As was located, in Europe exist methods for assessment of sustainability (EIA, SEA, LCA, EF, ER, GP, CBA, CEA, MCDA, EA, SIA, SEIA, etc.). Although even their large amount, they are mostly based on just one section of SD. Other tools which are used, are methods for evaluation sustainability (BREEAM, CASBEE-UD, GBI, LEED, IGBC, SB tool, DGNB, etc.), where are also included other sections (environmental, economic, social). Assessment tools were described and preliminary compared in the context of the factors’ coverage.

scholarly journals Social Aspects of Electric Vehicles Research—Trends and Relations to Sustainable Development Goals

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Vasja Omahne ◽  
Matjaz Knez ◽  
Matevz Obrecht
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Transportation Sector ◽  
Development Goals

E-mobility sustainability assessment is becoming more comprehensive with research integrating social aspects without focusing only on technical, economic, and/or environmental perspectives. The transportation sector is indeed one of the leading and most challenging greenhouse gas polluters, and e-mobility is seen as one of the potential solutions; however, a social perspective must be further investigated to improve the perception of and acceptance of electric vehicles. This could consequently lead to the European Green Deal’s holy grail: faster decarbonization of the transportation sector. Another way to achieve it is by promoting more comprehensive sustainable development goals. Therefore, this paper combines a systematic review of recent research with research emphasis focused on social aspects of electric vehicles and their interconnection with specific UN Sustainable Development Goals. By knowing the current research focus mainly related with “perception” of electric vehicles and assessing their social “impact” as well as an emerging area of “user experience” and their relations with UN Sustainable Development Goals enables better insight on the current and future directions of electric vehicle social sustainability research. The current priority is identified as “climate actions”. Increasingly important “sustainable cities and communities” shows potential for becoming one of the future research, policy, and community priorities.

scholarly journals Compliance with Russia’s national development goals and the UN sustainable development goals

2021 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 04002
Author(s):  
Lilia Chaynikova ◽  
Natalia Sorokina ◽  
Daria Melnikova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
National Policy ◽  
National Development ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article analyzes the correspondence between the national development goals of the Russian Federation and the UN sustainable development goals in the field of ensuring the quality and accessibility of education. It has been substantiated that the implementation of sustainable development goals in Russia is of great importance for activities to achieve the country’s national goals and development priorities. A comparative analysis of the education system in Russia as a source and factor of socio-economic development and improving the population’s quality of life is carried out. An analysis of the comparison between SDG 4 and the national project “Education” led to the following conclusion: the consistency of national policy measures with plans to achieve SDG 4 depends, first of all, on political priorities and national interests of the country and requires intersectoral coordination in planning and monitoring the implementation of targeted activities. Analysis of the compliance of the development goals of Russia within the framework of the implementation of the national projects “Labor productivity and employment support” and “Small and medium-sized entrepreneurship and support of individual entrepreneurial initiative” and SDG 8 showed the importance of institutional and financial instruments, the active use of which in the Russian economy is facilitated by the significant changes in legislation. The problem of mismatch of indicators of the studied documents is determined. For these are no statistical data in the framework of the implementation of sustainable development goals. It is concluded that the national development goals of the Russian Federation in the field of ensuring the quality and accessibility of education are generally consistent with the UN sustainable development goals.

The Emerging Future

2019 ◽  
pp. 229-239
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
High Level

This chapter draws together the various chapters of the book, summarising the high-level points from each. It highlights how Blockchain and other frontier technologies will be an important tool for social impact globally. A renewed focus and promise on emerging economies is highlighted as they now have a way to access knowledge, talent, capital, and to share their talent and ideas and to seek global investment in ways that were not possible before. Some of the policy and governance challenges which will emerge from Blockchain economies are raised as well as the need for more research and discovery. It reinforces the links to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the ways that Blockchain and frontier technologies can exponentiate impact towards the SDGs and should be a focus of governments, international institutions, and indeed, the entire ecosystem.

scholarly journals Participatory Communication in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Practices: Evaluation Process in Cross-Sector Partnership for Sustainable Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 140
Author(s):  
Yani Hendrayani ◽  
Nor Hazlina Hashim
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Participatory Communication ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Government ◽  
Corporate Social

Participatory communication in the effort to reach sustainable development goals can create a relationship among all the stakeholders to develop understanding in the context of language usage, channels, and space to ensure the successful implementation of group discussion between the government, companies, and society in CSR program. This study aims to analyze the participatory communication in the practice of CSR in the form of CSR forum case study. This study uses qualitative approach, which is an in-depth interview with the company and government and conducts focus group discussion by involving communities, program beneficiaries, which consists of the opinion leaders and nongovernmental organization (NGOs). From the result of the analysis in the communication component, there are nine significant basic components to evaluate the success of three sector partnership in achieving sustainable development. This study shows that the communication relationship in the practice of ideal CSR is in line with sustainable development goals.

scholarly journals NERACA LAHAN INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-254
Author(s):  
Theresa Novalia
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Economic ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
Development Goals

Dalam rangka mengukur sejauh mana capaian Indonesia dalam Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) tentu diperlukan suatu indikator. Komisi statistik di Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa merekomendasikan penerapan System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA-CF) 2012 sebagai standar statistik internasional dalam penyusunan indikator terkait lingkungan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah penyusunan neraca lahan untuk mendukung terpenuhinya indikator dalam tujuan ke-15 SDGs, yaitu melindungi, merestorasi, dan meningkatkan pemanfaatan berkelanjutan ekosistem daratan, mengelola hutan secara lestari, menghentikan penggurunan, memulihkan degradasi lahan, serta menghentikan kehilangan keanekaragaman hayati. Neraca lahan menjadi penting untuk dihitung karena dapat melacak dinamika perubahan tutupan dan penggunaan lahan. Lahan perlu menjadi perhatian karena menjadi basis dilaksanakannya kegiatan dalam suatu ekosistem. Metode penyusunan neraca lahan yang dilakukan adalah dengan mendapatkan informasi mengenai luas masing-masing klasifikasi tutupan lahan dalam satuan hektar dari citra satelit KLHK yang masih berupa format shapefile, kemudian melakukan transformasi ke tabulasi dalam format Microsoft Excel untuk pengolahan lebih lanjut menjadi neraca lahan. Berdasarkan hasil penyusunan neraca lahan dapat diketahui bahwa luas tutupan hutan di Indonesia pada tahun 2017 adalah seluas 100.536.496 hektar atau 52,45 persen dari total luas lahan di Indonesia secara keseluruhan. Pulau yang memiliki tutupan hutan terluas adalah pulau Papua, Kalimantan, dan Sumatera. Selama periode tahun 2013-2017, terjadi pengurangan luas tutupan hutan sebesar 3 juta hektar, di mana pengurangan terbesar adalah di pulau Sumatera dan Kalimantan. Penyusunan neraca lahan ini dapat mendukung indikator tujuan 15 SDGs, khususnya indikator 15.1.1 yaitu kawasan hutan sebagai persentase dari total luas lahan dan indikator 15.3.1 yaitu proporsi lahan yang terdegradasi terhadap luas lahan keseluruhan.

scholarly journals Reform of Chinese Universities in the Context of Sustainable Development: Teacher Evaluation and Improvement Based on Hybrid Multiple Criteria Decision-Making Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 5471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung-Shun Weng ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Yen-Ching Chuang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Teacher Evaluation ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Multiple Criteria ◽  
Improvement Strategy ◽  
Development Goals

China is pushing universities to implement reforms in order to achieve the sustainable development goals, but with the development level of teachers becoming the key restricting factor. In this sense, teacher evaluation and improvement act as positive factors for China to achieve the 2030 sustainable development goals. Previous studies on teacher evaluation have usually assumed that the relationship between the evaluation criteria is independent, with the weights of each standard derived from this assumption. However, this assumption is often not in line with the actual situation. Decisions based on these studies are likely to waste resources and may negatively impact the efficiency and effectiveness of teachers’ sustainable development. This study developed an integrated model for the evaluation and improvement of teachers based on the official teacher evaluation criteria of China’s International Scholarly Exchange Curriculum (ISEC) programme and a multiple criteria decision-making methodology. First, a decision-making trial and a laboratory-based analytical network process were used to establish an influential network-relation diagram (INRD) and influential weights under ISEC standards. Next, an important performance analysis was used to integrate the weight and performance of each standard to produce a worst-performance criterion set for each university teacher. Finally, the worst performance set used an INRD to derive an improvement strategy with a cause–effect relationship for each teacher. This study chose a Chinese university that has implemented teaching reform for our case study. The results show that our developed model can assist decision-makers to improve their current evaluations of teachers and to provide a cause–effect improvement strategy for education reform committees and higher education institutions.

scholarly journals Commitment for sustainable development and UN initiatives - returns and performance shown

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 360-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley Yeung ◽  
David Chui
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Un Global Compact ◽  
Iso 26000 ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Economic And Social Impacts

The purpose of this paper is to reflect the commitment of organizations in ESR reporting and explore ways to integrate ISO 26000 CSR Guidelines, ESG Reporting, and UN Sustainable Development Goals for innovations in CSR performance, focusing participation of women in the workforce and CSR training provided to employees. Based on quantitative ESG data* from Bloomberg database on the selected organizations’ qualitative information of China and Germany that are signatory member of UN Global Compact, it is observed that when comparing China and Germany, Germany in general has a higher ESG disclosure score, higher level of women participation, and a longer ESG reporting practice. In order to increase commitment of CSR and UN SDG, complying with ESR reporting guidelines is not sufficient. It is suggested to integrate the 17 SD Goals of United Nations to empower women with decent jobs for economic and social impacts, to link up ISO 26000 CSR guidelines to inclusion. This research is managerially and strategically relevant and topical. However, more practical innovations and sustainability-related education and business practices from the social perspective are required not only to improve the ESR disclosure score and economic impacts but also to generate a mindset of sustainability.

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