Routledge Handbook of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Research and Policy

1. The Sustainable Development Goals Promise and Beyond

Ranjula Bali Swain and Peter Dobers 

Part I: Research

2. Multidimensional Poverty Indices and SDGs

Sabina Alkire

3. Exploring Agenda 2030 Through the 5P Lens: Energy Beyond Prosperity

Matheus Gobbato Leichtweis and Raiana Schirmer Soares

4. Challenges and the Way Forward in a Difficult Development Landscape: Achieving a Sustainable Future in Africa and Its Sahel Region

Mohammad H. Sepahvand

5. Sustainability as a Defining Moment for Changing (M)Eating Behavior? Comparing Eastern and Western Food Choices, Moral Evaluations, and Harmonization Strategies in Consumption and Gaps in SDG 12

Franzisca Weder, Stella Lemke, and Thomas Fenzl

6. Energy Poverty and Education: Evidence from Indian Households

Manasi B. and Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay

7. Education, Employment, and Gender Equity: Interactions and Interlinkages Between SDGs 4, 5, and 8

M. Niaz Asadullah, Kazi Mukitul Islam, Uma Kambhampati, and Reem Ashraf

8. Measuring the Impact of SDG 5 on Empowerment in India

Pritha Dev, Ananya Acharya, and Astha Kushwaha

9. Bridging Resources, Bridging Goals: Water, Energy and Food Nexus for Integrated SDG Advancement

Xin Zhou, Bijon Kumar Mitra, and Vibhas Sukhwani

10. Conserving Water Resources to Attain the Sustainable Development Goals in Bangladesh: A Legal Analysis

Zelina Sultana and Nasrin Akter

11. Achieving Sustainable Markets

Ranjula Bali Swain and Örjan Sjöberg  

12. How Born-Sustainable and Sustainability-Driven Companies Contribute to the SDGs

 Svenja Damberg, Morgane Fritz, and Ulla Saarii

13. The Transformation of the Global Financial System to Sustainability

Sebastian Thomas and Angela Bruckner

14. Frugal Innovation and Sustainable Development at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Bibhuti Ranjan Bhattacharjya and Hiranya K. Nath

15. Border Carbon Adjustments, the Developing Countries, and the SDGs

Partha Sen

16. SD Goal 15—Life on Land: Progress to Date, the Role of Business, and a Case Study in Sustainable Development in Human-Modified Landscapes

Robert Wallis and Graeme Coles

17. Sustainable Development Goals and Their Emphasis on Managing Plastic Pollution

Vinish Kathuria and Nishith Jardosh

18. Social Innovation and Local Sustainable Development: A Literature Review

Maria João Ruela, João Simão, and Filipe Almeida

19. SDGs in the Age of Disinformation

Marijane Luistro Jonsson

20. Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) and the Right to Self-Determination: A Case Study of Indigenous Peoples in the ASEAN Member States

Muhamad Sayuti Hassan, Rohaida Nordin, Izawati Wook, and Nurul Hidayat Ab Rahman

Part II: Policy

21.Taiwan’s Responses to the European Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and SDG 13—Climate Action: From the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act of 2015 to the Climate Change Responding Act of 2023

Anton Ming-Zhi Gao

22. Understanding Legal Frameworks for Cultural Heritage: A Comparative Analysis of SDG 11 in Practice

Kenadi E. Mitchell

23. Sustainable Development and Comparative Contract Law: Three Case Studies

Cristina Poncibò

24. Processes and Co-Design Methodologies for the Territorialization of the SDGs for the Communities in Transition: An Experimentation in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria

Giuseppe Mangano

25. Mediating the SDGs: The Role of (Mass) Media and Communication in Realizing the SDGs

Denise Voci and Matthias Karmasin

26. Carbon Neutrality in China and the Role of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR): A Legal and Policy Analysis

Haomiao Du

27. Education for Sustainability in the University-Society Relationship: Possibilities and Challenges in the Contemporary Brazilian Context

Jaqueline Silva Melo, Armindo dos Santos de Sousa Teodósio, Carolina Costa Resende, and Virgínia Simão Abuhid

28. Achieving Sustainable Menstrual Health for All: Investigating Menstrual Cup Take-Up in India

Karan Babbar and Supriya Garikipati

29. The Role of Payment for Ecosystem Services in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons for Biodiversity in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Clara My Lernborg and Mirey Atallah

30. Interlinkage Between Sustainable Development and Human Rights in States Reports to International Mechanisms

Biography

Ranjula Bali Swain is Research Director at the Center for Sustainability Research (CSR), SIR, Stockholm School of Economics, and Professor of Economics at Södertörn University, Stockholm. She is affiliated with the Center for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi), at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. Bali Swain has worked at the International Labour Organisation, Geneva, and at Uppsala University and has been Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; Tufts University; University of Pretoria, South Africa; and UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, New York, USA, to name a few. She has researched and published widely in the fields of sustainable development, environmental economics, energy, circular economy, sustainable finance, gender, and development economics. She has written and edited nine books, of which her edited volume Interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals was published in 2023.

Peter Dobers is Professor in Business Studies at Södertörn University and previous Dean of the Faculty Board between 2016 and 2022; Principal Editor of the journal Business Strategy and the Environment (BSE) between 2010 and 2024, currently with an impact factor of 12.5; President of the International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) between 2021 and 2023; and book series editor of Routledge/ISDRS Series on Sustainable Development Research between 2019 and 2024. He has been a board member of the Knowledge Foundation since 2022. He has published extensively in fields such as corporate social responsibility, urban development, and sustainable development. He has written and edited five books and eight special issues in BSE, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Sustainable Development, and Scandinavian Journal of Management.