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Assessing the impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in African montane ecosystems
The 2030 agenda for sustainable development by the United Nations emphasizes the need to protect the planet from degradation…… (UN, 2015).
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Inclusive multimodal (re)design for higher education pedagogies in South Africa and Sweden
Higher education globally is undergoing significant transitions due to increasing levels of diversity amongst student populations.
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South African Literature: Global Challenges, New Humanities
This project positions South African Literature within the emergence of the New Humanities (Medical, Environmental, Digital), and orients both toward Medical, Scientific and Social Sciences’ emphases on the Sustainable Development Goals.
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The role of children’s early development in lifelong health and human capital
The importance of early childhood development (ECD) for both individual and societal economic and humanitarian growth is increasingly appreciated and efforts by governments and multilateral agencies to improve human development are taking shape, including in low- and middle-income countries.
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Advancing Gender Equality in Africa and Globally: Strengthening Health and Economic Outcomes by Learning What Works at Scale
Around the world, gender inequality continues to shape individual opportunities, families, and societies.
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Is it well with my soul? Effects of contemporary African religious practices on well-being
Promotion of well-being and healthy lives is the third goal of the United Nations Organization Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) (United Nations Organization, 2015) and as such well-being has become a major concern among national leaders and policymakers.
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Spotlighting social inclusion: protection of Africa’s hunter gatherers’ communal land rights in the context of sustainable development goals (SDGs) implementation
Recently, there has been a renewed interest in discussions pertaining to ‘social inclusion’, largely resulting from adoption by the United Nations, of the UN 2030 Agenda encompassing the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and a commitment by States to ‘leave no one behind’ during SDGs implantation.
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Legal protection of hunter-gatherer groups’ land rights in Central and Southern Africa
Africa is home to the remaining hunter-gathers, meaning traditional communities that make a living predominantly through collecting wild fruits and hunting wild animals.
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Future of water quality: Taking stock of emerging contaminants in water sources in East and Southern Africa
Over 45 % of people in Africa do not have access to clean drinking water.
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DOHaD and SDGs: Moving towards Early Implementation
The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease & Sustainable Development Goals: Moving Towards Early ImplementationThe Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) paradigm provides us with a new and exciting way to think about causation of illness while at the same time providing us with both personal and population-level instruments for avoiding harm and promoting health.
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“Sustainable Cities in South Africa: A Legal Appraisal”
The 11th of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals adopted on 25 September 2015 (the new sustainable development agenda), focuses on the pursuit of cities that are inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
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Medical Pluralism, Maternal and Child Health, and Demographic Developments in Southeast Africa, 1890-present
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable is the 11th goal of the draft Sustainable Development Goals.
