Covid 19 Supply Chain Climate Change And Sustainable Development In Africa

Author : Shani D. Carter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031261213

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COVID-19, Supply Chain, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development in Africa by Shani D. Carter Pdf

All global countries are interdependent and all aspects of the global economy operate synergistically. The COVID-19 pandemic gave a renewed sense of urgency to focus on the synergies between supply chain, climate change, COVID-19, and sustainable development as they affect business in Africa and how what occurs in one part of the world affects the whole world. This book examines this synergy and the reciprocal impact of businesses, government, and society. Featuring contributions presented at the 2022 Current Business Issues in African Countries (CBIAC) Conference held at Wagner College in Staten Island, NY, USA, this book explores topics such as agriculture, entrepreneurship, education, gender, and capital flows in Africa demonstrating the wealth of business opportunities across the continent.

Author : Korbla P. Puplampu,Kobena T. Hanson,Peter Arthur
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031321641

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Sustainable Development, Digitalization, and the Green Economy in Africa Post-COVID-19 by Korbla P. Puplampu,Kobena T. Hanson,Peter Arthur Pdf

This book examines sustainable development in the broader framework of Africa post COVID-19. Specifically, the book studies governance and digitalization from the perspective of natural environment management, climate change, the green economy, as well as agriculture and education. Digitalization supports the deepening of natural resource governance by assessing extractive practices, sovereign wealth funds and the emerging discourse on global warming and green economic policies. This analytical exercise will better inform economic and socio-political policies and institutions for African development. The book, against the backdrop of the United Nations Agenda 2030 and the African Union Agenda 2063, offers unique insights on digitalization, governance, the green economy, and natural resource regime in Africa post COVID-19.

Author : Shani D. Carter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031560071

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Management and Resilience of African Organizations in Times of Crisis by Shani D. Carter Pdf

Author : Shani D. Carter,Sara Bensal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 303156006X

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Management and Resilience of African Organizations in Times of Crisis by Shani D. Carter,Sara Bensal Pdf

Businesses in African countries continued to face crises due to COVID-19, supply chain, and climate change. Governments can take steps to increase businesses’ resilience by supporting and promoting sustainable development. In turn, businesses can increase their resilience by promoting the resilience of their employees. This book explores the current state of management and resilience in African nations and discusses issues that revolve around its reciprocal impact on global business, government, and society. Featuring select papers from the 4th Annual Current Business Issue in African Countries (CBIAC) Conference held in Agadir, Morocco in 2023, this book focuses on the synergies between climate change, supply chain and sustainable development, particularly post pandemic featuring content from business and NGO leaders, faculty, and students. The impetus of the CBIAC conference was the discussions held at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) held in Nairobi, Keyna in July 2016 and in Bridgetown, Barbados, and Geneva in October. The goal of the conference is to create long-term collaborative relationships between business leaders, faculty, researchers, students, and community members from different African nations.

Author : Fred Olayele,Yiagadeesen Samy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000755367

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Sustainable Development in Post-Pandemic Africa by Fred Olayele,Yiagadeesen Samy Pdf

With both domestic and external financing expected to dry up in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book argues that there is a need for fresh ideas and new strategies for achieving sustainable development in Africa. In addition to triggering the most severe recession in nearly a century, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global value chains, causing unprecedented damage to healthcare systems, economies, and well-being, hitting the world’s most vulnerable people the hardest. Even before the pandemic, Africa was suffering from the effects of low commodity prices, sluggish GDP growth, high debt levels, low levels of domestic savings, and weak private capital inflows. This book argues that now, as the continent emerges from the current crisis, it will be important to reconfigure current financing sources under a forward-looking framework that incorporates other non-traditional financing tools and mechanisms such as public-private partnerships, sovereign wealth funds, gender lens investing, new growth drivers, and emerging and disruptive technologies. Finally, the book concludes by adopting a sectoral approach and examining the real economy impacts of new growth drivers such as agriculture value chains, industrialization, tourism, and the blue economy. Drawing on a range of original research as well as insights from practice, this book will be a useful guide for Global Development and African Studies researchers, as well as for policy makers, investors, finance specialists, and global business practitioners and entrepreneurs.

Author : Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811638602

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COVID-19 by Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu Pdf

This book highlights the impact of COVID-19 on environmental sustainability and SDG’s, using various case studies. The year 2020 was a historical year mainly due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19 and it influenced or affected the global economy, business models and the industrial sectors, thus impacting sustainability in various ways. Given that sustainability has many faces and facets, it is worthwhile to deal with the relation (or impact) of COVID-19 on various elements of sustainability. This book presents how COVID-19 has influenced Environmental Sustainability along with the SDG’s.

Author : Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031212833

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African Development and Global Engagements by Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran Pdf

The book takes a cursory look at the drivers and the directions of Africa’s developmental drive as a largely developing continent within the frameworks of the ever-dynamic global space, putting into perspective inherent challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century, and thereafter. Being the continent with most youthful population, Africa appears to still lack in requisite innovative interventions to transmute such demographic dividend into economic opportunities for the benefits of the larger population. Instead, there has been increasing trend in South-North migrations among both skilled and unskilled Africans across all age groups. Besides, impacts of climate change on the continent have also implied unstructured migratory trend within and beyond the bounds of the continent. Africa has continued to play a feeble role in various United Nations (UN)-enabled ‘Conference of Parties’ (COP) negotiations, such as the COP-26 in Glasgow, Scotland (2021). The management of recent Covid-19 epidemic across the world has presented a clear pointer to Africa that except development is internally-driven, no one is ready to exogenously drive sustainable good life for others. Ostensible ‘vaccine nationalism’ that has dotted the production and availability of various Covid-19 vaccine brands, which has ultimately left Africa as the ‘begging continent’ one more time calls for in-depth interrogation in contextualizing what the place of Africa has been, is and to be within the global interactive mode.

Author : Augustine Edobor Arimoro,Ezinne Mirian Igbokwe,Tamaraudoubra Tom Egbe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781040042366

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Law and Sustainable Development After COVID-19 by Augustine Edobor Arimoro,Ezinne Mirian Igbokwe,Tamaraudoubra Tom Egbe Pdf

This book considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the realisation of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Although efforts towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals are ongoing, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on these efforts: accentuating inequities, as well as absorbing resources. This book addresses this impact, as it takes up the question of how to ensure global recovery – in line with the target for the Sustainable Development Goals – after the pandemic. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, but focusing particularly on the role of law and legal frameworks in this recovery, the book considers the effect of the pandemic on key industries such as shipping, insurance, manufacturing, and banking, as well as on the role of the State and non-State actors. Pursuing an explicitly Global South perspective, the book maintains that in the post-COVID era it is the elaboration a rule of law framework that is in sync with both the Global North and South that is crucial if the Sustainable Development Goals are to be achieved. This book will be of value to scholars, students and policymakers working in the general area of law and development, but especially those with specific interests in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Author : Evans Osabuohien,Gbadebo Odularu,Daniel Ufua,Romanus Osabohien
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781801176880

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COVID-19 in the African Continent by Evans Osabuohien,Gbadebo Odularu,Daniel Ufua,Romanus Osabohien Pdf

COVID-19 in the African Continent examines the development, achievements, and challenges that have resulted owing to COVID-19 pandemic and how these precarious socioeconomic situations are being managed in African countries.

Author : Tonmoy Chatterjee
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781837535866

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International Trade, Economic Crisis and the Sustainable Development Goals by Tonmoy Chatterjee Pdf

Proposing international trade as a path for achieving the SDGs, this curated collection envisions a more equitable and sustainable world, one where the benefits of international trade are fairly distributed, where economic crises are met with resilience and innovation and where the SDGs are not just aspirations but lived realities.

Author : Manas Chatterji,Urs Luterbacher,Valérie Fert,Bo Chen
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781802625370

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International Migration, COVID-19, and Environmental Sustainability by Manas Chatterji,Urs Luterbacher,Valérie Fert,Bo Chen Pdf

With contributions from world-renowned scholars, this book tackles recent universal subject matter and ties it to key contemporary issues, including globalisation and sustainability, that are related to international migration and its impacts.

Author : Andreas Antoniades,Alexander S. Antonarakis,Isabell Kempf
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030874179

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Financial Crises, Poverty and Environmental Sustainability: Challenges in the Context of the SDGs and Covid-19 Recovery by Andreas Antoniades,Alexander S. Antonarakis,Isabell Kempf Pdf

This volume advances the state-of-the-art in the study of the interplay among financial crises, poverty dynamics and environmental sustainability. It offers timely and unique contributions to the immediate global challenge of sustainable development. Developing a new evidence-base, the volume offers concrete recommendations for policy action needed in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation to environment and poverty during the current conditions of financial distress. The approach taken is inductive and evidence-driven. Most analysis is based on in-depth case studies that aim to offer a detailed and dynamic picture on how poverty and environmental sustainability interact in specific social contexts and financial crises. In this way the volume aims to generate a wealth of new and concrete evidence that offer a solid foundation to understand the multiple channels through which social and environmental factors interact, and the ways in which this interaction can and should be managed in order to achieve the needed global transition to sustainability. Broader dynamics that are covered and analysed include the historical legacies of structural adjustment and colonialism; the current debt wave experienced in developing countries; the role of inequality; the significant impact that climate change has on livelihoods and on meeting the SDGs; the new challenge presented by the Covid-19 pandemic for the SDGs; the challenge of sustainable funding for SDGs; and the need for a new eco-social contract. Case-studies examined include Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Zambia, and subregions such as the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa and Lower Mekong Countries. The volume is part of a joint initiative by the ‘Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP)’ of the University of Sussex, the ‘UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Action for Sustainable Development Goals’ and the ‘United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)’. The overall aim is to advance a new research programme and foster a better understanding of the multiple, complex and often opposing ways through which the punctuated economic slowdown of financial crises, poverty dynamics and environmental sustainability interact. It also makes novel recommendations into how poverty reduction and environment can work in synergy rather than being antagonistic, especially during financial distress, leading into recommendations directly geared towards achieving the SDGs and beyond.

Author : Gbadebo Odularu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030478759

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Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change in Africa by Gbadebo Odularu Pdf

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the rapidly evolving COVID-19, increasing population growth, and exponential expansion in demand for agricultural commodities are putting pressure on available resources, thereby posing immense challenges to the region’s capacity to achieve nutritional security related to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although Sub-Saharan Africa boasts vast, fertile and uncultivated arable lands, its capacity to contribute to feeding its current and future population is being seriously undermined by factors such as poor adoption and utilization of innovations and digital tools, climate change impact, environmental degradation, weak political will, limited interest in farming, lack of government support, and more. In spite of these constraints, sustainable agriculture, food security and nutrition security in Sub-Saharan Africa can be achieved by adopting a multi-pronged approach, which includes improved agricultural mechanization, adoption of high yielding crop varieties, use of information technology, public investments in improved technologies, and rural infrastructure funding. This edited volume provides innovative policy tools for enhancing Sub-Saharan Africa's capacity to achieve sustainable agriculture, food security and nutrition security in the digital age and in the face of climate variability. Furthermore, this book presents smart strategies for increased agricultural production, reduced food waste, and enhanced nutritional outcomes by harnessing the latest discoveries in agricultural research, education and advisory services.

Author : A.L. Ramanathan,Chidambaram Sabarathinam,M.P. Jonathan,M.V. Prasanna,Pankaj Kumar,Francisco Munoz Arriola
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323858038

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Environmental Resilience and Transformation in times of COVID-19 by A.L. Ramanathan,Chidambaram Sabarathinam,M.P. Jonathan,M.V. Prasanna,Pankaj Kumar,Francisco Munoz Arriola Pdf

Environmental Resilience and Transformation in Times of COVID-19: Climate Change Effects on Environmental Functionality is a timely reference to better understand environmental changes amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated lockdowns. The book is organized into five themes: (1) environmental modifications, degradation, and human health risks; (2) water resources—planning, management, and governance; (3) air quality—monitoring, fate, transport, and drivers of socioenvironmental change; (4) marine and lacustrine environment; and (5) sustainable development goals and environmental justice. These themes provide an insight into the impact of COVID-19 on the environment and vice versa, which will help improve environmental management and planning, as well as influence future policies. Featuring many case studies from around the globe, this book offers a crucial examination of the intersectionality between climate, sustainability, the environment, and public health for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in environmental science. Features global case studies to illustrate themes and address issues to support environmental management Offers fundamental and practical understanding of ways to improve and validate predictive abilities and tools in addition to response Examines climate-related trends in the spread of the pandemic Presents different ways forward in order to achieve global goals with a specific focus on SDGs

Author : Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811638565

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COVID-19 by Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu Pdf

This book highlights the impact of COVID-19 on sustainable waste management and air emission, using various case studies. The year 2020 was a historical year mainly due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19 and it influenced or affected the global economy, business models and the industrial sectors, thus impacting sustainability in various ways. Given that sustainability has many faces and facets, it is worthwhile to deal with the relation (or impact) of COVID-19 on various elements of sustainability. This book presents how COVID-19 has influenced waste management and air quality.