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Featured Articles- Sustainable Development Goals

Click on the links below to read selected articles from the GCC Library's databases. These articles feature information and research on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and their various applications. For off-campus access, simply input your MEID and password when prompted.

Implementing the “Sustainable Development Goals”: towards addressing three key governance challenges—collective action, trade-offs, and accountability
"Realising the aspirations of the “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) to reduce inequality, limit ecological damage, and secure resilient livelihoods is a grand challenge for sustainability science, civil society and government. We identify three key governance challenges that are central for implementing the SDGs: (i) cultivating collective action by creating inclusive decision spaces for stakeholder interaction across multiple sectors and scales; (ii) making difficult trade-offs, focusing on equity, justice and fairness; and (iii) ensuring mechanisms exist to hold societal actors to account regarding decision-making, investment, action, and outcomes."
Sustainable development goals in mining
"The objective of this research is to discuss the congruence between mining activity and the SDG, starting from experiences of the scientific literature and the observation of one mining activity."
High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution
"Although health outcomes have improved in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the past several decades, a new reality is at hand. Changing health needs, growing public expectations, and ambitious new health goals are raising the bar for health systems to produce better health outcomes and greater social value."
Indigenous tourism and the sustainable development goals
"This research aims to identify opportunities for the tourism industry to effectively address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in ways that respect Indigenous priorities and support development aspirations of Indigenous peoples."
Assistive products and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
"The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have placed great emphasis on the need for much greater social inclusion, and on making deliberate efforts to reach marginalized groups. People with disabilities are often marginalized through their lack of access to a range of services and opportunities. Assistive products can help people overcome impairments and barriers enabling them to be active, participating and productive members of society."
Assessing research trends related to Sustainable Development Goals: local and global issues
"The aim of this paper was to identify the main Sustainable Development Goals approached by experts from different geographic regions, according to their experience and research area, and to discuss the relation between these goals and the main local issues and challenges of each region."
Urban drought challenge to 2030 sustainable development goals
"This review is intended to fill this knowledge gap by identifying the key concepts behind urban drought, including the definition, occurrence, characteristics, formation, and impacts."

Featured Articles - Diversity Consciousness & Equity Mindedness

Click on the links below to read selected articles from the GCC Library's databases. These articles feature information and research on diversity consciousness and its various applications. For off-campus access, simply input your MEID and password when prompted.

BUILD YOUR DIVERSITY CONSCIOUSNESS.
An article about how the University of Pittsburgh began a Diversity Consciousness class that "challenges staff, faculty and students to engage with moments of complex truth-telling about racism..."
Diversity Consciousness in the Classroom: A Case for Opening New Spaces and Generating 'New' Knowledge for Critical Literacy Using Imaginative Practices
This article, while specifically focused on students in K-12, offers insight and information on the concept of diversity consciousness.
"The purpose of this research paper is to offer/propose a framework/model of specific imaginative practices, classroom engagement ideas, and implementation pathways that can be adapted across various grade levels within the K-12 (preferably language and literacy) classrooms to utilize the inherent diversity (of lived experiences) amongst the learners as a resources for fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the classroom while simultaneously generating 'new' knowledge for learning and sense-making."
Creating teachers of promise: Growth toward equity-mindedness in a landscape of practice
This article shares ideas and concepts about equity-mindedness which is closely related to the concept of diversity consciousness and goes hand-in-hand with diversity. This is focused on education, but may prove useful for learning the concept and understanding its importance.