This solution-focused report — the fourth in its series — offers 10 new markets which could help get the Global Goals back on track, such as blockchain-based land rights for Goal 10 and energy-efficient cooling for Goal 13. The report aims to demonstrate how global sustainability challenges and risks can be seen as opportunities.
Human mobility and inequality have determined one another throughout modern history, from the effects of labour migration to processes of urbanisation.
This work intends to develop an intelligent, four-dimensional (namely X-Y-Z plus somatosensory), partial control, and virtual-reality-enabled Tai-Chi System (VTCS).
Elsevier,
Social Media: The Academic Library Perspective, Chandos Publishing Social Media Series, 2019, Pages 45-55
This chapter addresses SDGs 4 and 10 through the use of a case study from a very large academic library that collaboratively compiled a set of guidelines specifically addressing copyright and disability issues on social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. It also discusses disseminating these guidelines through a series of workshops targeted at social media managers, and offers an initial assessment of the guidelines impact on social media account owners, managers, and users.
Developing SDG 3 (good health and well-being) and SDG 10 (reduced inequalities), this article explores transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) populations in health care settings. Findings suggest that TGNC people are exposed to a variety of social stressors, including stigma, discrimination, and bias events that contribute to mental health problems.
There is overwhelming evidence that the national food system in South Africa is in crisis. This chapter contributes to goals 2 and 10 by outlining some of the key interventions that are attempting to increase food equity and sustainability.
Elsevier,
International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities, Volume 55, 2018, Pages 145-180
This chapter addresses SDGs 3 and 10 by providing content on a variety of topics pertaining to intellectual and developmental disabilities through the most recent research on the causes, effects, classification systems and syndromes of developmental disabilities.
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International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities, Volume 55, 2018, Pages 213-266
This content addresses SDGs 3 and 10 by identifying practices that promote integrated and competitive employment for people with IDD, examining the current state of employment for people with IDD, reviewing the level of evidence of studies that have examined the effectiveness of interventions targeting employment for adults with IDD, showing the connection between post secondary education (PSE) and employment and reviewing the research on PSE and outcomes for individuals with IDD.
This chapter explores goals 1 and 10 by examining whether the social sustainability enjoyed by sugar industry employees can be maintained given expanding beet production, falling world prices, promotion of healthy diets and the development of sugar alternatives.
There is currently much interest in identifying and mitigating gender inequity within medicine, the greater workforce and society as a whole.
