Systems Thinking for Sustainable Development - Climate Change and the Environment

This book presents a systems thinking approach in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals for sustainable national development in vulnerable countries. Systems thinking is a process for understanding the interrelationships among the key components of a system; this book illustrates sustainable development as a system. Key environmental issues are discussed showing their relationship to socioeconomic aspects of development, in the light of increased climate threats and environmental disasters.

List of contents

Foreword.- Preface.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Renewable and Sustainable Energy.- Chapter 3: Access to safe drinking water .- Chapter 4: Access to basic health care in rural communities.- Chapter 5: Climate change adaptation.- Chapter 6: Sustainable development.- Chapter 7: Introduction of a recycling system for sustainable municipal solid waste management.- Chapter 8: Shipment of used ICT products to developing countries.- Chapter: 9 Underground storage tank system (USTs) environmental management and petroleum pollution control.- Conclusion and suggestions.

About the author

Dr. Edward Saja Sanneh obtained a Higher National Diploma in Public Health at the Gambia College in 2001. Six years later, on a Gambia Government scholarship, he received a Master's degree in environmental engineering from the prestigious National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) in Taiwan. He continued to a doctorate program, which he completed in August 2013 and then returned to The Gambia to serve as Minister of Energy between 2014 and 2016.Having worked as a Public Health Officer at the Kiang Karantaba Health Centre, the Serrekunda Health Centre and the Jammeh Foundation for Peace Hospital, Sanneh has a solid background in preventive health promotion and environmental sanitation coupled with a special interest on issues contributing to sustainable development of communities at the bottom of the pyramid. It is this background that has shaped the thoughts contained in this book. He speaks Chinese fluently.

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• Authors: Edward Saja Sanneh
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783319889641
• ISBN: 978-3-31-988964-1
• No. of pages: 114
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 219 g
• Illustrations: XXI, 114 p. 21 illus.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, Sustainability, Water, Sustainable Development, Environmental Health, Environmental Economics, Environmental factors, Environmental Social Sciences, Earth and Environmental Science, Pollution, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Renewable and Green Energy, Energy industries & utilities, Water pollution, Water and Health, Renewable energy resources, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Water supply & treatment, Development Studies, Development and Sustainability, Economic development—Environmental aspects