Overview
- Showcases how countries in the Americas and Caribbean Region handle and implement the UN SDGs
- Comprehensively describes research, projects and practical action
- Provides government agencies, education institutions and non-governmental agencies
Part of the book series: Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives (IUNSDGRP)
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Table of contents (67 entries)
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Front Matter
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Research Perspectives
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About this book
This book is part of the "100 papers to accelerate the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals initiative".
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DTech, DL, DLitt, FSB, FLS, FRGS) holds the Chairs of Climate Change Management at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), and Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). He directs the European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR) and the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme, the largest network of universities specifically focusing on research on matters related to sustainable develpment. Professor Walter Leal Filho has over 30 years experience on sustainable development research and in excess of 700 publications to his credit.
Professor Noé Aguilar-Rivera (BSc MSc PhD) holds the chairs of research and thesis seminar, sustainable development, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), agroecological and organic agriculture at the Faculty of Biological and Agricultural Sciences of Veracruzana University, México. BSc, MSc and PhD supervisor specifically focusing on research on matters related to sustainability, bioeconomy and competitiveness. He has over 20 years of experience on sustainable development, waste valorization, and environmental management in agribusiness research and in excess of 150 publications to his credit. Experienced reviewer, as well as editor in indexed journals and books.
Dr. Bruno Borsari (D.Ag.Sc., PhD) is Professor Emeritus in the Biology Department at Winona State University in Minnesota, USA and adjunct faculty member at Minnesota State College Southeast where he teaches agroecology and environmental science courses in the Sustainable Food & Farming program. He was awarded two Fulbright Scholar grants between 2014 and 2020 that brought him to Panama to collaborate with local universities and introduce agroecology in their food and agricultural science curricula. Professor Bruno Borsari has over 30 years experience in sustainable development teaching, research andoutreach, substantiated by more than 100 publications.
Professor Paulo Borges de Brito (M.S. in Environmental Science, M.S. Agricultural and Resource Economics) is a Faculty Instructor in the Management Department at Colorado State University (CSU). He teaches Entrepreneurship, Social and Sustainable venturing, and International Business courses. Paulo was the founder of the Brazilian chapter of a conservation-focused non-profit which promotes collaborative conservation efforts worldwide. Brito has also organized and contributed articles to two award-winning books broaching the subject of social, economic, and environmental synergies for sustainable development. His current research focuses on the business opportunities created by the bioeconomy and social justice aspects globally. Brito received the CSU Alumni Association Best Teacher Award in 2023.
Professor José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra is Dean and full Professor in the Graduate Program in Administration at “Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina” (Unisul, Brazil). He holds the Chairs of Sustainable Development and Global Environmental Change at the University of Southern Santa Catarina, Unisul, and Ânima Institute (Brazil). He is the Director and Founder of the Centre for Sustainable Development/Research Group in Energy Efficiency and Sustainability (Greens, Unisul) and Research Fellow at Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, University of Cambridge. Professor Baltazar has over 20 years of experience in sustainable development research and over 150 publications to his credit.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region
Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Noé Aguilar-Rivera, Bruno Borsari, Paulo R. B. de Brito, Baltazar Andrade Guerra
Series Title: Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16017-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Earth and Environmental Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16016-5Published: 01 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-16017-2Published: 31 August 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-5576
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5584
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 1686
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 160 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Education, general, Political Science