Sustainable Development
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The significance of ecotourism in the context of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals
Rebeen Abdulkhaliq Abdullah, Kameran Tahir Saeed
Due to contemporary accumulation of environmental issues for many natural and humanitarian motives, this has led countries around the world and international organizations to take action to prevent the further improvement of this issue, restricting excesses and determining solutions. In this context، the United Nations has evolved an intensive program for our present day century, agenda 21, in which sustainable development is the principle basis for achieving the goals، which includes 17 standard goals, at the same time as identifying methods to achieve those goals. For this purpose، tourism in well-known and ecotourism specially plays a role within the achievement of those goals, much like many different economic, social and environmental sectors that we have proven on this study. As a result, we have got come to the conclusion that environmental tourism has a strong and direct relationship with more than 9 targets of the overall goals of Sustainable development, and that this process requires the overall cooperation of stakeholders and is not carried out by one aspect alone and does not reach the goal.
Volume 7 · Issue 2 · April 2020Review studies of Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment tools
Gulala Abdulqadir Aziz
Urbanization due to population growth has negative environmental impact. The sustainable developments of the city and neighborhoods becomes as essential requirement. For this purpose, in the last few years several Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment tools have been developed and used around the world. The aim of this research is comprehensive review of the used neighborhood sustainability assessment tools in the literature and compares the assessment criteria among the tools. The systematical review method is used in this study in order to determine the development, progress, and future direction of this emerging topic. The result of this study shows an overview of neighborhood sustainability assessment tools in the context of annual publications and journal publishers, authors main contribution, published research by countries, common neighborhood sustainability assessment tools in literature, and literature findings. This paper recommends potential research area for future researchers and policymakers of neighborhood and residential sustainable design.