Book chapters

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health by providing a comprehensive overview of impulsivity in individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), emphasizing the need for effective management strategies that include psychoeducation, pharmacological treatments, and psychosocial interventions to improve health outcomes. By highlighting the multifaceted nature of impulsivity and its evolving symptoms across different life stages, the content underscores the importance of tailored treatment approaches that address the unique needs of individuals with ADHD. Additionally, it supports Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by recognizing the varied presentations of ADHD, especially in women, and advocating for accessible and appropriate interventions that ensure all individuals, regardless of their gender or background, receive the necessary support to manage their condition and enhance their quality of life.

This chapter aligns with UN SDG Goals 3 and 14 by addressing the impact of crude oil spills on marine ecosystems and exploring sustainable solutions for mitigating pollution.

This chapter emphasizes the vital role of water in alleviating multidimensional poverty (SDG 1) by enhancing agricultural productivity, ensuring access to safe drinking water, and restoring ecosystems. Recognizing water as an economic, social, environmental, and institutional good, the chapter advocates for integrated water interventions that support sustainable watershed management, equitable benefit sharing, and ecosystem service expansion. Using a case study from North Gujarat, India, it highlights how water infrastructure development can both reduce and inadvertently deepen inequalities, underscoring the need for sustainable, equitable water management strategies that promote healthier communities and resilient urban environments (SDGs 11 and 3).

Aligns most closely with SDGs 11 and 6, looking at factors affecting water governance and supply, environmentally sustainable allocation and use of water, water markets as a tool to reallocate water in ways which promote efficiency and social equity.