Young peoples’ involvement in global water issues

Araya, Yoseph N.; Kabakian, Vahakn

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2003.10.010

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“…The young represent the key stakeholders and participants in all the questions that refer to SD and viability, and “has the right of a sustainable future and the right of being part of this transformational process” [56]. They play necessary active role in the adequate decision making processes that relate to integration of all SDGs as well as to each individual SD pillar–economic, social and environmental [57–60]. Therefore, the opinion of young people must be taken into consideration as a necessary element of SD, since their involvement in the matters of sustainability is important for more successful and better functioning of every society [4].…”

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Youth and forecasting of sustainable development pillars: An adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system approach

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Sustainable development goals are used as a guidance for strategies development on local, regional and national levels. The importance of including young people in this complex process is recognized in all relevant documents (i.e. Agenda 21), however it is not an easy task to elicit opinions and preferences from the youth. Furthermore, the assessment of the sustainable development goals itself presents a challenge for the noisy data and nonlinear relationships in data. Popular approach is fuzzy set models where expert knowledge is presented with comprehensible rules; however expert knowledge elicitation takes a long time too. Several studies proposed an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system approach that combines the fuzzy set theory to model expert knowledge with neural networks for inferring rules and membership functions from data to assess the sustainable development performance. We base our assumptions that ANFIS can be used to predict the importance of sustainable development pillars from the demographic data of young people. For this purpose, we have conducted an online survey on sustainable development goals opinions and importance of young people in Serbia. The sample of 386 respondents has been split into a training sample of 300 instances (to generate membership functions and fuzzy rules) and a testing sample of 86 instances to predict the importance of the three pillars. We have conducted a trace-driven simulation test to validate the results of the proposed ANFIS model. Results of the study provided insights into how the young people in Serbia assess the importance of sustainable development goals. Secondly, the results suggest that ANFIS can be applied to predict values of importance of the three sustainable development pillars with the relative error of Rel Err < 5%. It must be noted that the considered model could be further improved by using training samples with more data.

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Youth and forecasting of sustainable development pillars: An adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system approach

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“…Water is essential for human life; each human being requires 1.5 liters of water daily to survive (Spellman, 1998). Water has become increasingly limited during the last 100 years and low water levels now threaten the American lifestyle (Araya & Kabakian, 2004;DeLorme, Hagen, & Stout, 2003;Spellman, 1998). Water supply has depleted in the United States since the 1900s with a fourfold increase in water usage but with no increase in rain and snow amounts (Spellman, 1998).…”

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confidence: 99%

Setting the Agenda: Exploring Florida Residents' Perceptions of Water Quality and Quantity Issues

Leal¹,

Rumble²,

Lamm³

2015

Journal of Applied Communications

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Water quantity and quality are among the top issues currently facing Florida. To understand residents' perceptions of these issues as well as understand how agenda-setting may be used to influence residents' behaviors and opinions surrounding water issues, this study explored Florida residents' opinions of water. Agenda-setting served as the conceptual framework to aid in understanding where water quality and quantity emerge on the public's agenda. Responses were obtained from 469 Florida residents via an online survey. The results showed respondents believed water quality had not changed, with the exception of the quality of bays, which they believed was getting worse. Water quality was found to be an issue of high importance among respondents, especially in regard to the quality of drinking water. Respondents believed water quantity was highly important; however, more importance was associated with water quality issues. The results of this study identified the current disconnect that exists among residents concerning water issues. This study also established the salience of water issues on the public's agenda and how Florida residents could be better informed. A statewide communication campaign focused on both water quality and quantity issues was recommended to decrease the disconnect that currently exists between residents' perceptions and the reality of water issues. This campaign should utilize the technology-based outlets to stay informed with the public's agenda to personalize communication efforts. These efforts would increase the public's interest concerning water issues by reducing redundant information and diluting important issues.

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“…Water has become increasingly limited during the last 100 years and low water levels now threaten the American lifestyle (Araya & Kabakian, 2004;DeLorme, Hagen, & Stout, 2003;Spellman, 1998). Water supply has depleted in the United States since the 1900s with a fourfold increase in water usage but with no increase in rain and snow amounts (Spellman, 1998).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a study conducted by Mahler et al (2004) in the Pacific Northwest, 99% of the respondents considered clean drinking water the most important water priority. With not only their personal health in mind, parents want to ensure their families are safe from radiation, bacteria, parasites, and other harmful contaminants (Araya & Kabakian, 2004;Hu, Morton, & Mahler, 2011;Merkel et al, 2012). Unfortunately, Mahler, Simmons, and Sorensen (2005) found many residents do not have adequate knowledge to evaluate potential water pollutants.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Journal of Applied Communications vol. 99 (3) Full Issue

Ellis¹

2015

Journal of Applied Communications

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Young peoples’ involvement in global water issues

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Youth and forecasting of sustainable development pillars: An adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system approach

Youth and forecasting of sustainable development pillars: An adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system approach

Setting the Agenda: Exploring Florida Residents' Perceptions of Water Quality and Quantity Issues

Journal of Applied Communications vol. 99 (3) Full Issue

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