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Child poverty has important psychological and social consequences. This means solutions need to cover very many different angles.
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Cloud computing can play a crucial role in helping African countries reach sustainable development.
Africa has already felt the effects of Donald Trump's climate change denialism. Recent events are also raising political issues of keen interest among the continent's democrats.
Australia has a moral duty to engage with the global challenge of providing quality education to hundreds of millions of Indian youth over the next 20 years.
Science academies have a crucial role to play in developing ways for scientists to engage more effectively.
The IMF has increasingly turned its focus to growing inequality worldwide. Ironically, research shows that policy reforms it mandated exacerbated income inequalities.
Immigration is neither the problem nor solution in many areas where Australia is off-track, from government debt to environmental action.
The data suggest that boys experience as much disadvantage as girls.
Boys are more likely to engage in risky behaviours than girls
When we plan a better future for an increasingly urbanised world, we need to be aware that more than half of all children now live in the tropics. That calls for solutions with a tropical character.
Tuberculosis kills more people globally than any other infectious disease. A human-rights approach and investment in quality care are essential to ending the global epidemic.
Building a fiscally capable state won't bring benefits in the short term but can build taxpayers confidence.
Across Africa less than 10% of the population is connected to a sewer system. But the waste could be used elsewhere.
Can tourism ever be sustainable? Only if operators and consumers start looking beyond the idyllic postcard images and take undesirable consequences of tourism into account.
Only half of Kenya's 47 counties achieved the 2000 goal on reducing child mortality
As many of the world's most popular tourism destinations are overrun by visitors, operators could pay attention to the UN's sustainable development goals.
Planning innovations around the world offer inspiration, but ultimately the innovations needed to make Australia's sprawling cities more sustainable must be shaped by local conditions.
African countries are sure to face more flooding in the future, they need to adapt or risk loosing the progress that's already been made
For our country to have a sustainable future, we need to ensure all Australians have access to quality education and healthcare and take steps to reduce inequality.
Top contributors
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John Thwaites is a Friend of The Conversation.Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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Sustainable Development Solutions Network Manager, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria and Co-ordinator of the South African SDG Hub, University of Pretoria
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Research Fellow in Sustainable Urban Development, Connected Cities Lab, The University of Melbourne
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André Stephan is a Friend of The Conversation.
Assistant Professor in Architectural Engineering, Université catholique de Louvain
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Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Business and Sustainable Development, University of Edinburgh
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Nina Lansbury Hall is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Research Fellow in Urban Resilience and Innovation, The University of Melbourne
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Monash University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Monash University
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Chair of Urban & Regional Planning and Director of Canberra Urban & Regional Futures, University of Canberra
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Thomas Wiedmann is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Sustainability Research, UNSW
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
