Awareness Training for Sustainable Development: Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Mobile Application

Çimşir, Burcu Turan; Uzunboylu, Hüseyin

doi:10.3390/su11030611

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“…With change agents working in communities unaware of the Goals, the whole-of-society approach required for the Goals can be limited. This finding is not unique to our research and has been outlined by other scholars who point out that SDGs' awareness continues to be low in different sectors [60][61][62]. A lack of awareness among citizens and citizen groups is problematic as awareness acts as a prerequisite for policy acceptance creates pressure on policymakers to implement specific policies over others [63].…”

Section: Fragmented Understanding Of the Sdgs And Cherry-picking Of Tmentioning

confidence: 60%

Perceptions of Multistakeholder Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals: A Case Study of Irish Non-State Actors

2020

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The United Nations 2030 Agenda emphasizes the importance of multistakeholder partnerships for achieving the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Indeed, Goal 17 includes a target for national governments to promote multistakeholder partnerships between state and non-state actors. In this paper, we explore how members of civil society organizations and the private sector perceive both the possibilities and challenges of multistakeholder partnerships evolving in Ireland for achieving the SDGs. The research uses data gathered during 2018 and includes documentary research, participant observations of stakeholder forums in Ireland and the United Nations, and semi-structured interviews to address related questions. The results demonstrate that numerous challenges exist for forming multistakeholder partnerships for the SDGs, including a fragmented understanding of the Goals. They also note previous examples of successful multistakeholder partnership models, the need for more leadership from government, and an overly goal-based focus on SDG implementation by organizations as major impediments to following a multistakeholder partnership approach in the country. These findings suggest that although Goal 17 identifies multistakeholder partnerships as essential for the SDGs, they are challenging to form and require concerted actions from all state and non-state actors for SDG implementation.

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Section: Fragmented Understanding Of the Sdgs And Cherry-picking Of Tmentioning

confidence: 60%

Perceptions of Multistakeholder Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals: A Case Study of Irish Non-State Actors

2020

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“…Moreover, the vast majority of users stated that they intend to use the application in future and recommend it to a friend. The feasibility and suitability of mobile eco-apps for improving users' environmental consciousness is also attested by [8,10,49]. These studies have highlighted the importance of exploiting mobile technologies to expose the community to environmental protection.…”

Section: Data Analysis and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Personalizing Environmental Awareness through Smartphones Using AHP and PROMETHEE II

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Environmental awareness refers to the understanding of the importance of protecting the natural environment. Digital technologies can play an important role in raising awareness of environmental issues. In view of this compelling need, this paper presents a novel way to promote environmental awareness with the use of smartphones. To achieve this, it employs personalization techniques, and specifically the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and PROMETHEE II. In more detail, the mobile application incorporates a user model that holds information, such as location (city, mountain, sea, etc.), age, interests, needs and indicators of waste management, economy of natural resources, general environmental protection, and biodiversity. At the first interaction of the user with the application, the user model is initialized; then, the system uses AHP and PROMETHEE II to provide personalized advice to users in order to help them raise their environmental awareness. The criteria, used to evaluate environmental advice, include the current location, living environment, habits, interests, needs, age, and seasonal suitability of the user. The novelty of this paper is the combination of AHP and PROMETHEE II for personalizing the environmental awareness using mobile technologies, taking into consideration the user profile as well as the surrounding area where the user is at the time that the advice is provided. The presented application has been evaluated regarding the system usefulness and environmental awareness. The findings indicate the high acceptance of this approach and its positive impact on users’ attitude and behavior with regard to reducing their environmental footprint.

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“…Some research suggested that the tools of m-learning can work without an internet connection. can be used at all levels of teaching and can have different language options [25]. The world is becoming increasingly interconnected.…”

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confidence: 99%

Advancing Students’ Environmental Sustainability Awareness Through Science Mobile Learning: A Literature Review

Illahaqi¹,

Nurcahyo²,

Panjaitan³

2021

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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Environmental Sustainability Awareness (ESA) should be built since early because it is a very important component to support Sustainable Development (SD). Educators have been made various attempts to improve student's ESA such as using different learning models, methods, and media or teaching materials in the learning process. However, some studies reveals that students had a good awareness of environmental problems but had not changed in practice. Learning independent of time and space concept has gained importance. Mobile learning (m-learning) can be used as an alternative learning resources to advance ESA. This literature study aims to give overview how to advance ESA through science m-learning. There are 5 content in m-learning science that will help students to advance their awareness on environmental sustainability: scientific content (i.e global warming, climate change, air polution, water polution, biodiversity), instant notification, social network support, and gamification. The authors suggest that it is essential to design science m-learning and the material can be taught both inside and outside the classroom.

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Awareness Training for Sustainable Development: Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Mobile Application

Cited by 22 publications

References 22 publications

Perceptions of Multistakeholder Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals: A Case Study of Irish Non-State Actors

Perceptions of Multistakeholder Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals: A Case Study of Irish Non-State Actors

Personalizing Environmental Awareness through Smartphones Using AHP and PROMETHEE II

Advancing Students’ Environmental Sustainability Awareness Through Science Mobile Learning: A Literature Review

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