IC 114 Module 6 Week 11 12
IC 114 Module 6 Week 11 12
IC 114 Module 6 Week 11 12
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LEARNING MODULE on IC 114 – Globalization and Public Administration
Introduction
This lesson will expose to us the various social issues and concerns to be
address as one united and global community. It will discuss the role of UN and the
purpose of the Sustainable Development Goal UN and its member-nations has been
advocating.
a. Sustainable Development
Sustainability Versus Stability
b. Sustainable Development Goal
Sustainable Development Models
Global Challenges in Food Security
Global Food Security Model
Activity
World Issues!!! Attached in the 3 boxes provided 3 pictures of todays
current World issues and Problems. Example: Poverty, War, Pollution, etc. Provide a
short description for each photo. You may just attach your photo as different file if you
will answer online or via email.
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Analysis
1. What are the common Global issues you observed from the activity?
2. What are the effects of this issues in terms of economy, security, health, education,
and to the future generation?
Abstraction
Sustainable Development
The concept of
sustainable
development has
been-and still is-
subject to criticism.
What, exactly, is to be
sustained in
sustainable
development? It has
been argued that there
is no such thing as a
sustainable use of a non renewable resource, since any positive rate of exploitation
will eventually lead to the exhaustion of earth's finite stock. This perspective renders
the industrial revolution as a whole unsustainable. It has also been argued that the
meaning of the concept has opportunistically been stretched from "conservation
management" to "economic development", and that the Brundtland Report promoted
nothing but a business as usual strategy for world development, with an ambiguous
and insubstantial concept attached as a public relations slogan.
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Sustainability versus Stability
In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly formally adopted the
"universal, integrated and transformative" 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The goals are to be implemented
and achieved in every country from year 2016 to 2030.
1. Sustainable Environment
2. Sustainable Agriculture
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humans to thrive and reclaiming and transforming deserts into farmlands (Herman
Daly, 2017).
The total environment includes not just the biosphere of earth, air, and water,
but also human interactions with these things, with nature, and what humans have
created as their surroundings.
Sustainable Energy
Sustainable energy is clean and can be used over a long period of time. Unlike
fossil fuels and biofuels that provide the bulk of the worlds energy, renewable energy
sources like hydroelectric, solar and wind energy produce far less pollution. Solar
energy is commonly used on public parking meters, street lights and the roof of
buildings. Wind power has expanded quickly, its share of worldwide electricity usage
at the end of 2014 was 3.1%. Most of California's fossil fuel infrastructures are sited in
or near low-income communities and have traditionally suffered the most from
California's fossil fuel energy system. These communities are historically left out
during the decision-making process, and often end up with dirty power plants and other
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dirty energy projects that poison the air and harm the area. These toxicants are major
contributors to health problems in the communities. As renewable energy becomes
more common, fossil fuel infrastructures are replaced by renewables, providing better
social equity to these communities. Overall, and in the long run, sustainable
development in the field of energy is also deemed to contribute to economic
sustainability and national security of communities, thus being increasingly
encouraged through investment policies.
Sustainable Technology
Sustainable Politics
The United Nations Global Compact Cities Programme has defined sustainable
political development in a way that broadens the usual definition beyond states and
governance. The political is defined as the domain of practices and meanings
associated with basic issues of social power as they pertain to the organization,
authorization, legitimation and regulation of a social life held in common. This definition
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is in accord with the view that political change is important for responding to economic,
ecological and cultural challenges. It also means that the politics of economic change
can be addressed. They have listed seven subdomains of the domain of politics:
Sustainable Culture
The loss of biodiversity, for example, is often definitive. The same can be true
for cultural diversity. For example, with globalization advancing quickly the number of
indigenous languages is dropping at alarming rates. Moreover, the depletion of natural
and social capital may have non-linear consequences. Consumption of natural and
social capital may have no observable impact until a certain threshold is reached. A
lake can, for example, absorb nutrients for a long time while actually increasing its
productivity. However, once a certain level of algae is reached lack of oxygen causes
the lake's ecosystem to break down suddenly.
Sustainable Education
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Higher education in sustainability across education streams including
engineering, finance, supply chain and operations is gaining weight-age Multiple
institutes including Wharton, Columbia, CASI Global New York offer certifications in
Sustainability. Corporate's prefer employees certified in sustainability.
Sustainable Progress
(Source: Shaker, R.R. the Spatial Distribution of Development in Europe and Its Underlying
Sustainable Correlations, 2015)
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Some people add a fourth leg / dimension: Culture is intertwined with the social
leg, but organizations like Living Principles divide the social aspect into people and
culture. They define the people dimension as, "actions and issues that affect all
aspects of society, including poverty, violence, injustice, education, healthcare, safe
housing, labor and human rights," and the culture dimension as "actions and issues
that affect how communities manifest identity, preserve and cultivate traditions, and
develop belief systems and commonly accepted values." Living Principles refer to the
economy, environment, people, and cultures as sustainability "streams." Others refer
to three or four "pillars" of sustainability. Metaphors abound.
They draw society as the second largest circle because that is where their
customers and other important stakeholders live. The environment would then be the
smallest because it is the most external to standard. business metrics. Unfortunately,
this model implies that the economy can exist independently of society and the
environment that the part of the red circle that does not overlap with the blue and green
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circles has an existence of its own. This large incongruity leads us to the next, more
accurate model.
They draw society as the second largest circle because that is where their
customers and other important stakeholders live. The environment would then be the
smallest because it is the most external to standard business metrics. Unfortunately,
this model implies that the economy can exist independently of society and the
environment that the part of the red circle that does not overlap with the blue and green
circles has an existence of its own. This large incongruity leads us to the next, more
accurate model.
3-nested-dependencies model. If
you were to ask a maritime fisherman
whether the devastating collapse of the cod
fishery off the east coast of Newfoundland
an environmental disaster, a social disaster,
or an economic disaster was, he would say,
"Yes." The 3-nested-dependencies model
reflects this co-dependent reality. It shows
that human society is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the environment that without
food, clean water, fresh air, fertile soil, and
other natural resources, we're cooked.
It's the people in societies who decide how they will exchange goods and
services. That is, they decide what economic model they will use. Because they create
their economies, they can change them if they find their current economic models are
not working to improve their quality of life. To add another metaphor: the economy is
the tail and society is the dog not vice versa.
The vast majority of the world's hungry live in developing countries. Southern
Asia faces the greatest hunger burden, with about 281 million undernourished people.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, the current rate of undernourishment is currently around 23 per
cent. Despite decreasing under-nutrition, levels remain unacceptably high.
Despite improved food access at all income levels, diet quality is declining.
Notwithstanding recent food production increases, nutritious foods remain
unaffordable for many. The consequences are severe; poor nutrition causes nearly
half the deaths in children under five, and one in four children suffer stunted growth;
66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing
world, with 23million in Africa alone. Without policy changes, obesity will increase in
all countries and reach 3.28 billion by 2030, increasing non-communicable disease
prevalence and health costs.
Agriculture is the single largest employer in the world, providing livelihoods for
40 per cent of today's global population and it is the largest source of income and jobs
for poor rural households. Investing in smallholder farmers is an important way to
increase food security and nutrition for the poorest, as well as food production for local
and global markets.
It examines the core issues of food affordability, availability, quality and safety,
as well as natural resources and resilience in 113 countries. It is based on 26 unique
indicators that measure these drivers of food security across both developing and
developed countries. "This index is the first to examine food security comprehensively
across the three internationally established dimensions. Moreover, the study looks
beyond hunger to the underlying factors affecting food insecurity. This year the GFSI
includes an adjustment factor on natural resources and resilience."
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Overall
Singapore is the runaway winner (Global Rank: 19), followed by Malaysia (43),
Rice exporters are at lower tiers: Thailand (53), Vietnam (64), Cambodia (84), and
Myanmar (80). Rice importers' ranks, excluding Singapore and Malaysia, are:
Indonesia (73) and the Philippines (79). ASEAN countries with high GFSI are ahead
in affordability, availability, and quality and safety criteria.
1. Affordability
Singapore posted the highest per capita income at $73,168, distantly followed
by Malaysia with $9,503 in 2016. Indonesia has $3,570, the Philippines $2,951, and
Vietnam, $2,186. The two leaders had little (if no) poverty. Malaysia's poverty
incidence was only 1.6% in 2014 versus 21.6% for Philippines in 2015.
2. Quality;
3. Safety; and
The level of development of a country affects the quality and safety criteria.
Singapore and Malaysia are far ahead. Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines are in
the middle cluster.
The 2017 GFSI includes "a new environmental criterion that recognizes the
growing emphasis on resource conservation, climate change adaption, and
sustainable agriculture practices. With factors, such as temperature change, land
deforestation, and depletion of water resources, the NRR category measures future
impacts on the countries in the GFSI." (To read the report, please visit the link
http://bit.ly/ secure food or use a smartphone to scan the QR code.)
MINK is the process-based crop modeling for global food security. This was
pointed out by Richard Robertson of the International Food Policy Research Institute
(IFRI) in September 5, 2017.
Over the last decade, computer models of crop growth have increasingly been
used to understand how climate change may affect the world's capacity to produce
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food. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has undertaken a major
sustained effort to analyze changes in the productivity of major crops across the entire
world. The results are integrated into economic modeling efforts ranging from
household to country-level economy-wide models to the global agricultural sector
partial-equilibrium economic model known as IMPACT. With the models working
together, researchers can examine how biophysical changes in crop growth interact
with changes in social and economic conditions.
Now, for the first time, IFPRI is releasing a comprehensive volume describing
the global-scale crop modeling system behind IMPACT known as "Mink" for short.
Crop modeling starts at the field level and scaling this up to the global level is
challenging. Climate data must be collated, processed, and formatted. Representative
crop varieties and planting calendars have to be chosen. Fertilizer input levels need
to be specified. Myriad other assumptions need to be considered and appropriate
values and strategies determined. And that is just the preparation phase. All the data
then have to be organized, exported, and run through the crop models to obtain
simulated yields under different climate scenarios and production environments. This
necessitates employing parallel computing to get the job done quickly enough to be
useful. And then the reams of output data must be organized, manipulated, analyzed,
and finally interpreted to provide context as well as specific information so
policymakers can plan appropriately for the future.
Naturally, with so much going on, the process can be mysterious for those
looking in from the outside and potentially confusing even for those on the inside.
The document addresses how Mink works at several different levels. There is
the broad discussion of interest to policymakers and managers concerning how global-
scale crop modeling can be used, its strengths and weaknesses, how to think about
the issues, and where it sits in the wider context of agricultural and policy research. At
a middle level, every step of the process is described for those who wish to understand
how it works so they can use the results properly, but not necessarily generate the
numbers themselves. Along the way, though, various tips, tricks, and lessons learned
are revealed for those who do, in fact, wish to replicate this kind of work on their own.
And finally, for collaborators and researchers who wish to use Mink themselves, there
is the nitty-gritty, nuts-and-bolts level documentation and tutorial aspects that literally
say "Change this number; click here and drag there."
Mink has been used to provide insight for numerous reports, peer reviewed
journal articles, and the popular press.
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Application
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Assessment
LESSON 6 ACTIVITIES:
I- Definition- Define the following terms based on the lesson discussed in this
learning module. (2 pts. Each)
1.) Sustainability –
2.) Stability –
II- Differentiate: Compare and Contrast the Following Regions of the World.
(10 points each item)
1 Stability Sustainability
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