Russian Abstract: В статье рассмотрена экологическая ситуация, сложившаяся в регионе Кавказских Минеральных Вод. Для сохранения окружающей среды и для обеспечения устойчивого развития регионального туризма необходимо разработать и реализация программы модернизации «старого» комплекса на основе крупны» инвестиционных проектов, обеспечивающую гармоничное развитие экологической и социально-экономической сторон регионального туристско-рекреационного комплекса Кавказских Минеральных Вод.English Abstract: In article the ecological situation which developed in the region of Caucasus Mineralnye Vody region is considered. And for providing a sustainable development of regional tourism it is necessary to develop for preservation of environment and implementation of the program of modernization of a "old" complex on a basis are large" investment projects, providing harmonious development of the ecological and social and economic parties of a regional tourist and recreational complex of Caucasus Mineralnye Vody region.
{"title":"Экологические Требования К Развитию Сферы Туризма Как Значимой Части Региональной Экономики (Ecological Requirements to Development of the Sphere of Tourism as Significant Part of Regional Economy)","authors":"V. Bagdasaryan","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2708767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2708767","url":null,"abstract":"Russian Abstract: В статье рассмотрена экологическая ситуация, сложившаяся в регионе Кавказских Минеральных Вод. Для сохранения окружающей среды и для обеспечения устойчивого развития регионального туризма необходимо разработать и реализация программы модернизации «старого» комплекса на основе крупны» инвестиционных проектов, обеспечивающую гармоничное развитие экологической и социально-экономической сторон регионального туристско-рекреационного комплекса Кавказских Минеральных Вод.English Abstract: In article the ecological situation which developed in the region of Caucasus Mineralnye Vody region is considered. And for providing a sustainable development of regional tourism it is necessary to develop for preservation of environment and implementation of the program of modernization of a \"old\" complex on a basis are large\" investment projects, providing harmonious development of the ecological and social and economic parties of a regional tourist and recreational complex of Caucasus Mineralnye Vody region.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"520 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116207943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper attempts to give answer to some important questions, on which there is no agreement among researchers, namely: „what is farm sustainability?“, „what is the relation between farm and agrarian sustainability?“, “which are critical factors of farms sustainability?”, and „how to assess farms sustainability level“. First, evolution of the “concept” of farm sustainability as alternative ideology, new strategy, system characteristics etc. is analyzed and discussed. On that base is suggested adequate definition of farm sustainability as ability of a particular farm to maintain its governance, economic, social and ecological functions in a long term. The final goal is better define farm sustainability and develop an efficient framework for assessing sustainability level of different type of farms.
{"title":"What is Sustainability of Farms?","authors":"Hrabrin Bachev Храбрин Башев","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2705390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2705390","url":null,"abstract":"This paper attempts to give answer to some important questions, on which there is no agreement among researchers, namely: „what is farm sustainability?“, „what is the relation between farm and agrarian sustainability?“, “which are critical factors of farms sustainability?”, and „how to assess farms sustainability level“. First, evolution of the “concept” of farm sustainability as alternative ideology, new strategy, system characteristics etc. is analyzed and discussed. On that base is suggested adequate definition of farm sustainability as ability of a particular farm to maintain its governance, economic, social and ecological functions in a long term. The final goal is better define farm sustainability and develop an efficient framework for assessing sustainability level of different type of farms.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128788533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We present a new evolutionary political economy approach to the study of long-run dynamics of socio-economic evolution and change based on a co-evolutionary model of differential citizen contributions to competing ‘utopias’ – market, statism, and environmentalism. We model the transition to a sustainable economy as an (plausible) outcome of ‘utopia competition’ in which environmentalism manages to coexist with market, while state fundamentalism vanishes. Our simulation-based framework suggests that the contributions of citizens to the battle of ideas – both the distribution within a utopia, and the interaction between different utopias – are crucial factors in explaining the dynamics of the transition to a sustainable economy.
{"title":"The Evolutionary Political Economy of Climate Change: Utopia Competition","authors":"I. Almudi, Francisco Fatás-Villafranca, J. Potts","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2703593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2703593","url":null,"abstract":"We present a new evolutionary political economy approach to the study of long-run dynamics of socio-economic evolution and change based on a co-evolutionary model of differential citizen contributions to competing ‘utopias’ – market, statism, and environmentalism. We model the transition to a sustainable economy as an (plausible) outcome of ‘utopia competition’ in which environmentalism manages to coexist with market, while state fundamentalism vanishes. Our simulation-based framework suggests that the contributions of citizens to the battle of ideas – both the distribution within a utopia, and the interaction between different utopias – are crucial factors in explaining the dynamics of the transition to a sustainable economy.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"1986 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125468364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We develop a game-theoretical methodology that incorporates competition for limited resources to explicitly model a firm’s valuation and, hence, its decision to either adopt environmentally sustainable strategies (e.g., recycling programs to replace limited natural resources, alternative technologies) or not. Even if switching to environmentally sustainable alternatives proves too expensive for individual firms or resource costs are expected to remain low, we show that competition for resources would still push firms to incur switching costs as they become more environmentally sustainable. Using a sample of firm-level data from the KLD database that includes firms' sustainability policies, we find empirical support that competition for resources is positively correlated with a firm's adoption of environmental strategies. Tests that use the Chinese government's 2010 rare-earth supply suspension as an exogenous shock to competition for limited resources suggest a causal interpretation for our finding.
{"title":"Competition for Limited Critical Resources and the Adoption of Environmentally Sustainable Strategies","authors":"Hsiao-Hui Lee, Manuel Nunez, J. Cruz","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2700538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2700538","url":null,"abstract":"We develop a game-theoretical methodology that incorporates competition for limited resources to explicitly model a firm’s valuation and, hence, its decision to either adopt environmentally sustainable strategies (e.g., recycling programs to replace limited natural resources, alternative technologies) or not. Even if switching to environmentally sustainable alternatives proves too expensive for individual firms or resource costs are expected to remain low, we show that competition for resources would still push firms to incur switching costs as they become more environmentally sustainable. Using a sample of firm-level data from the KLD database that includes firms' sustainability policies, we find empirical support that competition for resources is positively correlated with a firm's adoption of environmental strategies. Tests that use the Chinese government's 2010 rare-earth supply suspension as an exogenous shock to competition for limited resources suggest a causal interpretation for our finding.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133974535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper articulates a new theoretical perspective on the management of rural mini-grids for facilitating pro-poor electricity access in developing countries. Bridging the literature on common pool resource (CPR) management/collective action (including its application to irrigation systems) with the hydraulic analogy for explaining the behaviour of electricity in closed electrical circuits, a refined theoretical framework is produced for analysing the socio-cultural institutional conditions for sustainable management of rural mini-grids. The utility of the framework is demonstrated via empirical analysis of mini-grids in rural Kenya. This yields insights on socio-cultural approaches to addressing challenges relating to sustainable mini-grid management, e.g. seasonality of demand and fair allocation of limited amounts of electricity to different consumers, in ways that are acceptable to, and to some extent also enforced by the entire group of diverse resource users. The paper contributes to both the literatures on sustainable CPR management/collective action and the literature on pro-poor sustainable energy access in developing countries, providing a novel theoretical and empirical contribution to the emerging socio-cultural turn in the latter.
{"title":"Institutional Innovation in the Management of Pro-Poor Energy Access in East Africa","authors":"L. Gollwitzer, D. Ockwell, A. Ely","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2744604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2744604","url":null,"abstract":"This paper articulates a new theoretical perspective on the management of rural mini-grids for facilitating pro-poor electricity access in developing countries. Bridging the literature on common pool resource (CPR) management/collective action (including its application to irrigation systems) with the hydraulic analogy for explaining the behaviour of electricity in closed electrical circuits, a refined theoretical framework is produced for analysing the socio-cultural institutional conditions for sustainable management of rural mini-grids. The utility of the framework is demonstrated via empirical analysis of mini-grids in rural Kenya. This yields insights on socio-cultural approaches to addressing challenges relating to sustainable mini-grid management, e.g. seasonality of demand and fair allocation of limited amounts of electricity to different consumers, in ways that are acceptable to, and to some extent also enforced by the entire group of diverse resource users. The paper contributes to both the literatures on sustainable CPR management/collective action and the literature on pro-poor sustainable energy access in developing countries, providing a novel theoretical and empirical contribution to the emerging socio-cultural turn in the latter.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127876392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In "Bargaining to Lose: The Permeability Approach to Post Transition Resource Extraction" [1] Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal introduces an original and fertile explanation for the resource curse. Her "permeability" approach questions the treatment of the state as a decision maker having the public good as an objective, and replaces it by the results of a bargaining game between the state and International organizations. Her new theory is illustrated with unique hands-on experience in the case of copper and gold mines in Mongolia and Zambia, and focuses on a bargaining game between the state and key financial organizations: the Bretton Woods Institutions (IMF, World Bank) and MNCs. This piece extends and generalizes "Bargaining to lose" providing economic models that validate the original conclusions, and exploring its implications for the global commons: the atmosphere, the oceans and biodiversity. Chichilnisky-Heal’s "permeable state" is a transition to a new globalized society where the sovereign state - a relatively recent creation - is receding giving rise to a new set of global economic agents and institutions that better explain the dynamics of the global commons. We show that the permeable state complements other explanations for the resource curse [2] as a global market failure magnified by globalization and based on the lack of well-defined property rights on natural resources during the pre-industrial period. We generalize Chichilnisky-Heal’s "bargaining to lose" approach to the resource curse and explore its natural implications for the environmental crisis on the global commons. The solutions that Chichilnisky-Heal proposes, e.g. limiting the Bretton Woods’ Institutions’ ‘seat at the negotiation table’ of resource extraction contracts, could help resolve the environmental crisis that is based on over-extraction of global resources.
{"title":"Bargaining to Lose the Global Commons","authors":"Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal, G. Chichilnisky","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2718090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2718090","url":null,"abstract":"In \"Bargaining to Lose: The Permeability Approach to Post Transition Resource Extraction\" [1] Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal introduces an original and fertile explanation for the resource curse. Her \"permeability\" approach questions the treatment of the state as a decision maker having the public good as an objective, and replaces it by the results of a bargaining game between the state and International organizations. Her new theory is illustrated with unique hands-on experience in the case of copper and gold mines in Mongolia and Zambia, and focuses on a bargaining game between the state and key financial organizations: the Bretton Woods Institutions (IMF, World Bank) and MNCs. This piece extends and generalizes \"Bargaining to lose\" providing economic models that validate the original conclusions, and exploring its implications for the global commons: the atmosphere, the oceans and biodiversity. Chichilnisky-Heal’s \"permeable state\" is a transition to a new globalized society where the sovereign state - a relatively recent creation - is receding giving rise to a new set of global economic agents and institutions that better explain the dynamics of the global commons. We show that the permeable state complements other explanations for the resource curse [2] as a global market failure magnified by globalization and based on the lack of well-defined property rights on natural resources during the pre-industrial period. We generalize Chichilnisky-Heal’s \"bargaining to lose\" approach to the resource curse and explore its natural implications for the environmental crisis on the global commons. The solutions that Chichilnisky-Heal proposes, e.g. limiting the Bretton Woods’ Institutions’ ‘seat at the negotiation table’ of resource extraction contracts, could help resolve the environmental crisis that is based on over-extraction of global resources.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"295 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132804695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dynamic adjustments could be a useful strategy for mitigating the costs of acute environmental shocks when timing is not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could apply to fertility, we estimate the effects of temperature shocks on birth rates in the United States between 1931 and 2010. Our innovative approach allows for presumably random variation in the distribution of daily temperatures to affect birth rates up to 24 months into the future. We find that additional days above 80 °F cause a large decline in birth rates approximately 8 to 10 months later. The initial decline is followed by a partial rebound in births over the next few months implying that populations can mitigate the fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in birth rates during the spring and subsequent increase during the summer. The lack of a full rebound suggests that increased temperatures due to climate change may reduce population growth rates in the coming century. As an added cost, climate change will shift even more births to the summer months when third trimester exposure to dangerously high temperatures increases. Based on our analysis of historical changes in the temperature-fertility relationship, we conclude air conditioning could be used to substantially offset the fertility costs of climate change.
{"title":"Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks, Climate Change, and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates","authors":"Alan Barreca, O. Deschenes, Melanie Guldi","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2676902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2676902","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic adjustments could be a useful strategy for mitigating the costs of acute environmental shocks when timing is not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could apply to fertility, we estimate the effects of temperature shocks on birth rates in the United States between 1931 and 2010. Our innovative approach allows for presumably random variation in the distribution of daily temperatures to affect birth rates up to 24 months into the future. We find that additional days above 80 °F cause a large decline in birth rates approximately 8 to 10 months later. The initial decline is followed by a partial rebound in births over the next few months implying that populations can mitigate the fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in birth rates during the spring and subsequent increase during the summer. The lack of a full rebound suggests that increased temperatures due to climate change may reduce population growth rates in the coming century. As an added cost, climate change will shift even more births to the summer months when third trimester exposure to dangerously high temperatures increases. Based on our analysis of historical changes in the temperature-fertility relationship, we conclude air conditioning could be used to substantially offset the fertility costs of climate change.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124865692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A ground-breaking new research report has been released today by the analysts at Meteo Protect demonstrating that despite the best efforts of government leaders and international organizations to lead the response to climate change, their efforts have not been able to galvanize the key players who can make a difference. In fact, not only are they not engaged, they do not even know they are already at risk.A new White Paper from Meteo Protect modelling the impact of climate variability on the private sector finds that climate change is already making a significant impact in the profits of companies operating in sectors exposed to weather. Directly challenging the direction of present empirical research, and the consensus of how to respond to climate change, it identifies how and why private industry, including companies and investors, must act immediately to manage the consequences of climate change.Indeed, the extent to which the vast majority of companies are presently exposed to climate variability is likely to be a revelation for many analysts, investors and even companies executives themselves. Demonstrating that billions of dollars are at risk each quarter, continuing to go unreported and unmanaged, the researchers call for the provision of actionable and objective indicators to measure the exposure to climate risk and the implementation of mitigating weather hedging strategies to protect financial performance.A must-read for finance executives, investors, asset managers and business analysts, the White Paper takes a new approach to tackling a long-standing and unresolved problem, making it understandable, relevant and manageable.
{"title":"The Impact of Climate Variability on the Private Sector","authors":"Jean-Louis Bertrand, Miia Parnaudeau","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2658061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2658061","url":null,"abstract":"A ground-breaking new research report has been released today by the analysts at Meteo Protect demonstrating that despite the best efforts of government leaders and international organizations to lead the response to climate change, their efforts have not been able to galvanize the key players who can make a difference. In fact, not only are they not engaged, they do not even know they are already at risk.A new White Paper from Meteo Protect modelling the impact of climate variability on the private sector finds that climate change is already making a significant impact in the profits of companies operating in sectors exposed to weather. Directly challenging the direction of present empirical research, and the consensus of how to respond to climate change, it identifies how and why private industry, including companies and investors, must act immediately to manage the consequences of climate change.Indeed, the extent to which the vast majority of companies are presently exposed to climate variability is likely to be a revelation for many analysts, investors and even companies executives themselves. Demonstrating that billions of dollars are at risk each quarter, continuing to go unreported and unmanaged, the researchers call for the provision of actionable and objective indicators to measure the exposure to climate risk and the implementation of mitigating weather hedging strategies to protect financial performance.A must-read for finance executives, investors, asset managers and business analysts, the White Paper takes a new approach to tackling a long-standing and unresolved problem, making it understandable, relevant and manageable.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"119 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132351230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social Impact Assessment (SIA) was developed in the 1970s as a complement to Environmental Impact Assessment. Guidelines for SIA have been developed, for example, by the World Bank and the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA). SIAs are appraisals of the likely impact in which operations might have on the societies of host countries, regions and communities. An effective SIA optimizes the operations to account for potential social consequences. The primary purpose of SIA is to bring about a more sustainable and equitable biophysical and human environment. An SIA is a risk management tool informing and encouraging timely decisions on projects. SIA can influence project design and improve the quality of decision making. Communities engaged in or identified by the SIA process also benefits through a variety of ways which are vividly discussed in the paper. There are a number of activities and principles specific to SIA. Chief among them is that equity considerations should be a fundamental element of SIA and development planning. The paper then describes what a comprehensive SIA process should be in its entirety and then concludes by describing the various methods for predicting future impacts. This are important for any SIA practitioner and are at the heart of any SIA process. Care must be taken to ensure the quality of methods and data, and to provide for critical review. This involves investigating the probable social impacts in terms of predicted conditions without the actions (baseline condition) and anticipated conditions with the effects and the predicted impacts.
{"title":"Social Impact Assessment: A Literature Review","authors":"Antony Munene Kamakia","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2657601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2657601","url":null,"abstract":"Social Impact Assessment (SIA) was developed in the 1970s as a complement to Environmental Impact Assessment. Guidelines for SIA have been developed, for example, by the World Bank and the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA). SIAs are appraisals of the likely impact in which operations might have on the societies of host countries, regions and communities. An effective SIA optimizes the operations to account for potential social consequences. The primary purpose of SIA is to bring about a more sustainable and equitable biophysical and human environment. An SIA is a risk management tool informing and encouraging timely decisions on projects. SIA can influence project design and improve the quality of decision making. Communities engaged in or identified by the SIA process also benefits through a variety of ways which are vividly discussed in the paper. There are a number of activities and principles specific to SIA. Chief among them is that equity considerations should be a fundamental element of SIA and development planning. The paper then describes what a comprehensive SIA process should be in its entirety and then concludes by describing the various methods for predicting future impacts. This are important for any SIA practitioner and are at the heart of any SIA process. Care must be taken to ensure the quality of methods and data, and to provide for critical review. This involves investigating the probable social impacts in terms of predicted conditions without the actions (baseline condition) and anticipated conditions with the effects and the predicted impacts.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114718818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) offer a unique opportunity for policy-makers to build on the millennium development goals (MDGs) by adopting more sustainable approaches to addressing global development challenges. The delivery of health services is of particular concern. Most African countries are unlikely to achieve the health MDGs, however, significant progress has been made particularly in the area of child and maternal health due in part to significant external support. The weak global recovery, and persistent inequalities in access to healthcare, however, call into question the sustainability of the achievements made. Building on the principles articulated in Binagwaho and Scott, this commentary argues that addressing inequalities and promoting more integrated approaches to health service delivery is vital for consolidating and sustaining the health sector achievements in Africa.
{"title":"Sustaining Health for Wealth: Perspectives for the Post-2015 Agenda; Comment on 'Improving the World's Health Through the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Perspectives from Rwanda'","authors":"B. Armah","doi":"10.15171/ijhpm.2015.112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2015.112","url":null,"abstract":"The sustainable development goals (SDGs) offer a unique opportunity for policy-makers to build on the millennium development goals (MDGs) by adopting more sustainable approaches to addressing global development challenges. The delivery of health services is of particular concern. Most African countries are unlikely to achieve the health MDGs, however, significant progress has been made particularly in the area of child and maternal health due in part to significant external support. The weak global recovery, and persistent inequalities in access to healthcare, however, call into question the sustainability of the achievements made. Building on the principles articulated in Binagwaho and Scott, this commentary argues that addressing inequalities and promoting more integrated approaches to health service delivery is vital for consolidating and sustaining the health sector achievements in Africa.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114854199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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