Sustainable Development Goals in the Asian Context

Jan Servaes (PhD) is UNESCO Chair in Communication for Sustainable Social Change. He has taught International Communication and Communication for Social Change in Australia, Belgium, China, Hong Kong, the United States, The Netherlands, and Thailand, in addition to several teaching stints at about 120 universities in 55 countries.Servaes is Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal “Telematics and Informatics: An Interdisciplinary Journal on the Social Impacts of New Technologies”, and Editor of the Lexington Book Series “Communication, Globalization and Cultural Identity”, and the Springer Book Series “Communication, Culture and Change in Asia”.Servaes has undertaken research, development, and advisory work around the world and is the author of journal articles and books on such topics as international and development communication; ICT and media policies; intercultural communication; participation and social change; and human rights and conflict management. He is known for his ‘multiplicity paradigm’ in “Communication for Development. One World, Multiple Cultures” (1999).

• Chapter 1. Strategies for commons transition and sustainable development.- Chapter 2. Changing cultures, changing landscapes: shifting material use & consumption patterns and its impacts to the culture-environment nexus of sagada, northern Philippines.- Chapter 3. Companies’ accountability in sustainability: a comparative analysis of SDGS in five countries.- Chapter 4. A structural reform only can empower sustainable development and eradicate poverty.- Chapter 5. A synthesis of the studies on information communication technologies (ict) for education projects in ASEAN: can we close the digital divide?.- Chapter 6. Sustainable organizing: discourse of an eco-university.- Chapter 7. The transition from MDGS to SDGS: buzzwords and narratives.- Chapter 8. Development communication and the social integration of the new services and techniques: acceptance, appropriation and the role of the perceived value of use. multi-site case study within the sme support in central asia.