I want to get transferred to higher ground, but then, there's the sap sap [the tasty local fish that is the basis of his income]." Aid agencies, led by the UN, are helping to diversify incomes, as well as highlighting how sustainability can help alleviate natural disaster.
What our experience and the recent riots have convinced me of is that providing young disadvantaged people with skills and training in sustainability will help them to improve their chances of employment, improve social mobility, help them to see the bigger picture and provide essential life skills.
Sustainable development demands conceptual and practical approaches to safety and sustainability that help us grasp uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity and dynamic change.
In dealing with this eco-complexity, the key issue is how to image the complicated interactions, how to simplify and integrate the diversified relationships, and how to develop a practical instrument for cultivating the sustainability in helping local people to help themselves.
Links could also be established with east Africa's cotton growing sector to improve its sustainability and help ensure a reliable local supply of raw materials.
He said a "sharp near-term reduction in our fiscal deficit is probably neither practical nor advisable," but that a long-term plan for fiscal sustainability could help to lower interest rates and borrowing costs, and even stimulate economic growth.
Reflecting on the last four years, it is essential that whatever plans are put in place build the sector's capacity and sustainability to help its vulnerable beneficiaries through the likely challenging times ahead.
A general goal of smart cities is to improve sustainability with help of technologies.
In addition, using measurable indicators to approximate the impact of subsets of attributes on food chain sustainability will help research objectivity and comparability.
Further research comparing food chains with different geographical scope over multiple dimensions of sustainability would help the validity of our study.
