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A lot of literature on urban development in developing countries has entirely focused on the nexus between rapid urbanization, Gross Geographic Product (GGP) and poverty growth with little research that demonstrates what this impacts on urban sustainability especially with increasing slums in rapidly urbanizing African countries. Available research...
Unlike the 21 st century sustainability challenges, the counter concepts, sustainability and sustainable development (SD), have been clouded by nebulousness. It is against this background that this review set-out to explore conceptual relationship between sustainability and SD; sustainability interpretations; and, SD discourses including their impl...
The global construction industry is lagging in transitioning to sustainability, and the Kenyan construction industry is not excluded. As a result, and in response, there are Kenyan policies with specific provisions on SCT. Despite this progress, there is limited empirical research on their scope and implementation dynamics. Against this backdrop, t...
Sustainable development requires well-planned cities as centers of creativity, innovation
and enterprise. There is need to develop strategies that integrate urban, sub-urban, periurban and rural areas while also addressing social, economic and environmental pillars of
sustainable development in Africa, where sustainable urban development can serve...
The global construction industry is lagging in transitioning to sustainability, and the Kenyan construction industry is not excluded. As a result, and in response, there are Kenyan policies with specific provisions on SCT. Despite this progress, there is limited empirical research on their scope and implementation dynamics. Against this backdrop, t...
Rural-urban migration is a livelihood strategy used to increase income at the household level. This study proposes four stages of livelihood enhancement in the urban informal sector: (1) Migration from rural to urban areas, (2) Entering an informal sector, (3) Formation of self-help groups and local enterprises and (4) Expansion of stable income-ge...
Africa’s biggest challenge in its pursuit of SDGs and beyond is how to bring about ‘sustainable industrialization’ so as to enable inclusive and green growth, and, above all, employment creation for its increasing population. This would call for strengthening of existing industries and investing massively for the creation of new industries and impr...
This paper argues that the most important role of higher education in developing sustainability in today’s world lies in creating a new breed of young and energetic leadership fully endowed with the capacity to promote sustainability thinking both in theory and practice. To fulfill this role adequately higher education institutions should transform...
An emerging issue of research that remains crucial to Africa’s sustainability is “youth entrepreneurship in Africa” which continues to play a critical role because Africa is at the dawn of industrialization. Evidently, entrepreneurship is the backbone of economic growth and development due to its link to poverty reduction. Clearly, rapid economic c...
Africa continues to experience serious signs of multiple crises in the context of sustainability. These crises include vulnerability to climate change, rapid urbanization, food insecurity, and many others. One crisis, that defines Africa today, is the unprecedented rapid urbanization which continues to pose a big challenge to the diminishing availa...
As one of the three pillars of sustainable development, social sustainability has received little attention compared to the economic and environmental pillars. The major reason accounting for the neglect is attributed to its contested nature. This has culminated in the current conceptual understanding of the term. Previous efforts on social sustain...
Africa continues to experience serious signs of multiple crises in the context of sustainability. These crises nclude vulnerability to climate change, rapid urbanization, food insecurity, and many others. One crisis, that defines Africa today, is the unprecedented rapid urbanization which continues to pose a big challenge to the diminishing availab...
In recent years, population aging has been recognized as an emerging challenge in many parts of the world. Earlier studies discussed its impacts on the sustainability of social security systems and national economic growth; however, they tended to focus on the issues at the national level and were limited to developed countries. With the knowledge...
Africa has been the region lagging furthest behind in the global economic convergence trend, though many countries have recently been experiencing significant economic growth. Concerns remain that this growth may be fueled by liquidation and export of natural capital, and the benefits shared unequally. The continent continues to face multitudinous...
Kenya continues to face unprecedented rapid urbanization which is not concomitant to the country’s speed of socio-economic development. The growth of cities in Kenya has brought about a widespread growth of informal settlements leading to pervasive poverty, high levels of illiteracy, gross underdevelopment, contagious diseases and enormous conflict...
This paper argues that the role of higher education in Africa’s sustainable development is crucial and concerted efforts should be made to promote universities’ international collaboration to enhance this role. Most African universities today, however, lack resources, capacities and institutional basis even to maintain their existing operation, and...
The role of rural-urban linkages is critically vital for Africa’s development in this era of rapid socio-economic transformation. A better understanding of cities and how they relate both to the rural and urban development is needed in view of the continuous changes in development. This paper argues that many of Africa’s development problems such a...
Africa has a shared history and the common challenges of slow economic growth, and inadequate response to the issues facing the continent that include youth unemployment, food insecurity, environmental degradation and conflict. The provision of relevant and quality education is considered key to responding to these challenges and improving the live...
The Kenyan population is highly concentrated in urban centres, leading to increased social, economic and environmental strains, with a significant percentage of urban dwellers living in sprawling slums. Urban development is increasingly a major focus, especially in the fight against urban sustainability problems. There is little practical orientati...
Africa’s development challenges are multitudinous and deep-rooted, with serious signs of multiple sustainability crises. The continent lags furthest behind in the global economic convergence trend, though many countries have recently been experiencing significant economic growth. Concerns remain that this growth may be fueled by liquidation and exp...
Considering Ganga River as one of main Holy River in India, millions of people throng to the river to have a holy dip, Aachman (Mouthful of holy water) and cleanse themselves of sins. Magh Mela is a great festival to take place in bank of Triveni (Sangam) at Allahabad and runs more than one and half month, when millions of pilgrims from different r...
Global urban development is increasingly becoming an aspect of focus as nations fight sustainability challenges. A review of the current literature on urban sustainability suggests that research on development of cities, in both developed and developing countries, is growing fast, with an emphasis on sustainable development. However, very little of...
The River Mandakini is one of the holy rivers of India, which flows across the Chitrakoot area of the eastern part of Bundelkhand region. Its water is shared by the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Water quality assessment of the river Mandakini from Sati Anusuya to Ramghat was carried out at various locations. Various water quali...
Although mainstream research on investing in the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) segment focus heavily on investors' expected returns, there is less focus on the fast increasing gap on the role of financial training in the academic literature. In addition, there is a lack of deliberate focus on the wellbeing and success of targeted micro-entrepreneurs...
There is a global consensus that addressing corruption and building good governance are pre-requisites for developing people, markets and the environment. Many researches on corruption and institutions measuring corruption perceptions have rated many African countries as being corrupt and suggestions for addressing corruption have been drawn mainly...
The ever changing sustainability concerns requires continuous renewal of sustainability science research and calls for intensive collaboration among sustainability science researchers for sustainable development, which may be built on an integrative framework that promotes knowledge sharing among the young scholars as well as between the young and...
Until recently, there has been little interest in investing in the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) markets — the largest and poorest socio-economic group in a community — for sustainable community development. This is despite the fact that there is ample literature that illustrates the importance of investing in the poor for just that purpose.
There is...
The global community witnessed the passing of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the Millennium Declaration of the year 2000 involving 189 countries to be implemented from the year 2000 to 2015 and also the inception of the United Nations Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) that started from 2005 to 2014.I Both MDGs and D...
Much of the literature on peace building and conflict transformation focuses on socio-economic analyses, while relatively little research addresses the psychological causes and impacts of violence and insecurity. This paper seeks to refine existing models of conflict analysis through the explicit inclusion of psychological and cultural perspectives...