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Improving the Sustainable Development Goals: Strategies and the Governance Challenge book cover

1st Edition

Improving the Sustainable Development Goals Strategies and the Governance Challenge

By Lars Niklasson Copyright 2019
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge
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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.... Read more
PrefaceIntroductionOverviewChapter 1: Global goals in search of strategiesA global agreement…Eradication of poverty in reachEnvironmental urgencyAmbitious and flexible goals…to achieve sustainable development…A political compromiseContested issues…through seventeen goals… Economic issuesSocial issuesEnvironmental issuesCross-cutting issues…without an explicit strategy…Weak on strategies for implementationHow 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 possibleReferencesChapter 2: A research gap on strategies and implementationFocus on the implementation of the SDGsForward-lookingConnecting policy to researchAfrica and developing countriesQuestions for the investigationAre the goals intended to be taken seriously?Problems with the existing literatureSustainable developmentTheoretical perspectivesEmpirical perspectivesPoverty reductionReferencesChapter 3: Refocus from the goals to learning over timePolicy by goalsThe role of goalsNew Public ManagementAnother interpretation: A learning policyRationalism vs realismA learning subjectThe importance of a program theory, a strategyHidden assumptionsA theory of change for sustainable developmentMethods and materialReferencesChapter 4: An inherent strategy in the goalsThe economic dimensionGoal 1: No povertyGoal 8: Decent work and economic growthGoal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructureGoal 10:

Biography

Lars Niklasson is a researcher at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS), and a professor of political science at Linköping University, Sweden. His research interest is European Union (EU)–Africa relations and the global leadership role of the EU. He has taught international political economy and comparative politics, with a focus on global challenges and governance. Niklasson has been a visiting teacher at the University of Nairobi, Kenya.

"This book explores the formulation and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals; this type of analysis is critical to make progress on sustainable development. The authors apply a forward-looking perspective to discuss drivers and barriers for achieving the goals, adding to the multifaceted debate surrounding societal efforts to enhance sustainability."
Henrik Selin, Frederick S Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University

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