Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

1 Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2 Sustainable Water Future Programme, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 3 Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 4 Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 5 Department of Civil Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, NY, USA, 6 In...

Maternal mortality: A challenge in achieving Millennium Development Goals

Introduction: Reducing the labour by an unskilful person is an important strategy in promotion of mother's health and reducing the maternal mortality as the fifth millennium development goals. Methods: This retrospective and descriptive study was accomplishd in 2010.The samples were 189 Iranian mothers with labour by unskilful person in urban and rural area affiliated to Mashhad University of M...

Water and Sustainable Development: a Southern Perspective

From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mark a historic and eff ective method of global mobilisation to achieve a set of important social priorities worldwide. They express widespread public concern about poverty, hunger, disease, unmet schooling, gender inequality, and environmental degradation. By packaging these priorities into an easily understandable set of eight goals, and by establishing...

From millennium development goals to sustainable development goals.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mark a historic and eff ective method of global mobilisation to achieve a set of important social priorities worldwide. They express widespread public concern about poverty, hunger, disease, unmet schooling, gender inequality, and environmental degradation. By packaging these priorities into an easily understandable set of eight goals, and by establishing...