Citizen and Educational Initiatives to Support Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation for All

Torres, María Luisa de Lázaro y; Uribeondo, Pilar Borderías; Yago, Francisco José Morales

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“…Previous studies in this regard studied the threat to SDG 6 from urban drought [ 7 ], educational and citizen initiatives to support SDG 6 [ 8 ], assessing transformed urban agglomerations from the viewpoint of the water planetary boundary for SDG 6 [ 9 ], and water governance and SDG 6 achievability in India [ 10 ]. Still, ignoring the end-users' perspective that is the essential part of achieving SDG 6, none of the past studies focused on willingness to pay for clean water (WPCW), social influence (SI), facilitation provided by the government (FPG), knowledge about contaminated water (KCW), public awareness (PA), and intention to use clean water (IUCW).…”

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Does Public Awareness Matter to Achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water for Everyone?

Mustafa

Jamil

Zhang³

et al. 2022

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

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United Nations set a Sustainable Development Goal to provide clean water for everyone (SDG 6). The successful implementation of SDG 6 is still miles to go. Public awareness’s role as a key factor in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6 is vital but received less attention from researchers in the past. To understand the role of public awareness and other relevant factors in achieving SDG 6, we have collected a cross-sectional dataset from a developing country and applied a partial least square structural equation modelling approach. The results revealed that willingness to pay for clean water, social influence, and facilities provided by the government, public awareness, and knowledge about contaminated water positively influence the households’ intentions to use clean water. We also found that public awareness partially mediates relationships. Study results have useful policy implications for governments, NGOs, and other stakeholder organizations working on achieving SDG 6 in developing countries.

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Does Public Awareness Matter to Achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water for Everyone?

Mustafa

Jamil

Zhang³

et al. 2022

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

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“…In this perspective, many local governments have outsourced the provision of services related to water resources in order to increase efficiency and receive a fee from private companies. However, due to differences in the excessive price paid by citizens [29] and the neglect of private companies, some local governments have returned the public management of water or sanitation services [15]. Several contributions in the literature aimed to identify which type of management (private or public) favored the efficiency of the services [30][31][32].…”

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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals. Efficiency in the Spanish Clean Water and Sanitation Sector

2020

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In recent years, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is becoming a major challenge for local governments. This research focuses on the role of Spanish local governments in the fulfillment of SDG-6, which aims to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all citizens. Specifically, this study analyses the evolution of the efficiency of Spanish local governments, and its determining factors, in the achievement of the SDG-6. The results indicate that the taxes associated with water supply and sanitation services, the private management of these services, population density, local government budget revenues, the income of the inhabitants of the municipality and the fragmentation of local governments are factors that can improve the evolution of the efficiency of Spanish local governments in achieving the SDG-6.Sustainability 2020, 12, 3015 2 of 13 debate on the efficiency in the management of water resources, which has become even more relevant with Agenda 2030 and, in particular, in relation to SDG-6. In this regard, measuring the evolution of the efficiency in the provision of water supply and sanitation services, and identifying how it can be improved to achieve SDG-6, is a further step towards the prosperity of the planet and people. However, despite the relevance of the topic, previous studies have investigated the efficiency of local governments in the provision of drinking water through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and regression models. These approaches do not allow the measurement of inter-annual efficiency. In light of this, there is a clear need for more advanced methodologies capable of enabling a better understanding of the phenomenon. In this regard, our study aims to fill this important gap by using a different approach, represented by the Malmquist index (inter-annual evolution of efficiency) and a truncated regression model. In fact, this methodology allows an assessment of the inter-annual evolution of the efficiency of Spanish local governments in relation to the resources used to achieve SDG-6.Regarding the analysis of the determinants, this study investigates the impact of the characteristics of the service and the demographic, economic, and political factors of the municipality represented by taxes, type of management, population density, level of tourism, citizens' income, political ideology and political strength of the government.The structure of this study is organized as follows. After this introduction, we review the literature analyzing the relevance of SDGs and the determinants of efficiency in water supply and sanitation. Section 3 presents the methodology, referring to the sample, variables, and econometric model. Section 4 presents the results and discussion. Finally, in Section 5, we draw the main conclusions and implications of our findings, the limitations of the study, and the directions for further research. Literature Review

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“…Defining a theoretical framework for geographical education on sustainable development [24] involves five phases: learning the directions and benefits of education on sustainability, educating the educators, identifying the pedagogies, taking action, and providing practical geographical education on sustainable development. Geospatial technology has proven to be the most effective tool for teaching and learning school geography in recent years, due to the wide availability of spatial data and the implementation of the technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK) [25,26], as published in [2,[27][28][29][30], even for geographical education on concrete sustainable development goals [12,23,[31][32][33][34][35].…”

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“…Geography is an essential contribution to the achievement of the United Nations Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as indicated by several recent studies [3][4][5][6][7][8]. Due to the transversal approach of the SDGs, geography is the most important school subject for education on sustainable development goals [9,10], as can be seen in the examples of good practices in European geographic education [11][12][13][14][15].…”

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Education on Sustainable Development Goals: Geographical Perspectives for Gender Equality in Sustainable Cities and Communities

González

López

2022

Sustainability

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Because of its interdisciplinary approach as a social science directly related to the natural sciences, geography is the academic discipline and school subject that equips students well with knowledge, skills, and values related to education on sustainable development goals. This study is part of the results of MyGEO, a project funded by the European Commission, and it is based on a collaborative mapping of streets named after women in a medium-sized city (Zaragoza, Spain), in connection with the international initiative GeoChicas (GeoGirls) on OpenStreetMap. Its main objective is to obtain evidence to emphasize, through public and digital space, gender equality and the empowerment of women in teacher education by means of their achievements. The learning methodology consists of (i) standardization and correction of alphanumeric information referring to street names contained in the OpenStreetMap spatial database that identify gender and (ii) linking and creating thematic information through Wikipedia editing. The results show that Zaragoza is at the top of the ranking of Spanish and Latin American cities mapped to date in the “Women’s Streets” viewer, with 18% of the streets named after women, compared to the average 15% in the rest of the 30 cities involved in GeoChicas. The direct participation of trainee primary and secondary schoolteachers in this project makes it possible to consolidate a narrative as well as a specific instructional design on education for sustainable development, particularly on SDG number 5 (gender balance) and SDG number 11 (sustainable cities and communities).

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Citizen and Educational Initiatives to Support Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation for All

Cited by 19 publications

References 25 publications

Does Public Awareness Matter to Achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water for Everyone?

Does Public Awareness Matter to Achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water for Everyone?

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals. Efficiency in the Spanish Clean Water and Sanitation Sector

Education on Sustainable Development Goals: Geographical Perspectives for Gender Equality in Sustainable Cities and Communities

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