Sustainable Development: Development for Good
Sustainable development: What and how?
The modern narrative to development is often deeply rooted to some historically taken-for-granted drivers such as urbanisation and continuous advancement for consumptions – eventually resulted into a world of homogeneity, excessive consumption and externalities from the developed worlds.
Sustainable development is an approach with the ultimate objective to improve the quality of life. With development as a means, sustainable governance will rethink development and embed a foresight and integrated mindset for all developmental attributes.
Highlighted Projects
Rural 2.0: Reinventing Smallholders
Is Urbanisation the ultimate solution to economic growth? Today, China still have over 227 million smallholder households in cultivating a total of 120 million hectares of farmland, producing 20% of the world’s food. However, low economies of scale prevent these population from enjoying technological advantage. What is the way out?
Smart Consumption
In Ontario Canada alone, 3.7 million tonnes of food waste are produced annually, accounting for 32% of all waste and $31 billion of economic cost. Globally, food waste contributes 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. How can technology help on the consumer end?
Research Study
Migrant Workers’ Resilience against Public Health Crisis (2020)
Humans is a critical component of sustainable development. In a few developed regions, migrant Workers undergrad the economic development by providing low-wage services. The study reflects externalities and controversies of this issue. How should global states resolve the disparity in human development?