Improving the Sustainability Development Goals: Strategies and the Governance Challenge /
Lars Niklasson.
- 1st ed.
- London : Routledge, 2019.
- 1 online resource (132 pages : |b 14 illustrations)
- Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PrefaceIntroductionOverview Chapter 1: Global goals in search of strategies A global agreement…Eradication of poverty in reach Environmental urgency Ambitious and flexible goals…to achieve sustainable development… A political compromiseContested issues… through seventeen goals… Economic issues Social issues Environmental issues Cross-cutting issues…without an explicit strategy… Weak on strategies for implementation How flexible are the goals? Weak on compliance…and in an unclear relation to other global policies……but still an example of the art of the possible References Chapter 2: A research gap on strategies and implementation Focus on the implementation of the SDGsForward-looking Connecting policy to research Africa and developing countries Questions for the investigation Are the goals intended to be taken seriously? Problems with the existing literatureSustainable development Theoretical perspectives Empirical perspectives Poverty reduction References Chapter 3: Refocus from the goals to learning over time Policy by goalsThe role of goals New Public Management Another interpretation: A learning policy Rationalism vs realism A learning subject The importance of a program theory, a strategy Hidden assumptions A theory of change for sustainable development Methods and material References Chapter 4: An inherent strategy in the goals The economic dimension Goal 1: No poverty Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure Goal 10:
Improving the Sustainable Development Goals evaluates the Global Goals (Agenda 2030) by looking at their design and how they relate to theories of economic development. Adopted unanimously by the member states of the United Nations (UN) in 2015, the goals are remarkable for the global commitment on a set of targets to reach by 2030, but also for the lack of a strategy of implementation. The choice of appropriate action is handed over to individual governments, some of which are limited by their lack of resources. Taken from the Publisher Site.