Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

An A-Z Guide
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-84169-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: A-Z Guides for Environment and Sustainability

This book provides a highly accessible and easy-to-navigate overview of the essential concepts and terms related to the current global endeavour to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.

With the first decade of the 15-years timespan of the 2030 Agenda now past, the SDGs show limited progress and several goals are even regressing. It is imperative that SDG implementation is accelerated until 2030 and beyond to foster transformations and set the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. The book starts with a thematic introduction to contextualize the topic and set the stage for the individual entries. It then follows an A-Z format, with over 100 entries which describe an important concept or term, using practical examples to illustrate how it connects to the overall debate about sustainable development. It offers swift introductions to key concepts and terms that are discussed and explained by scholarly and policy experts from around the world in a concise and user-friendly way.

The guide is comprehensive in scope, practically oriented, and focused on political and societal processes to drive change on a larger scale. With cross-references to related terms in the entries, this book will be a highly valuable resource for students and practitioners engaged with the SDGs and sustainable development more broadly.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Senit, Carole-Anne

Biermann, Frank

Hickmann, Thomas

Kang, Yi hyun

Sénit, Carole-Anne

Sun, Yixian

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

1       Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: An Introduction

2       2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

3       Accountability

4       Anthropocene

5       Artificial intelligence

6       Brundtland Report

7       Budgeting for Sustainable Development

8       Business sector

9       Civil society

10    Climate change and sustainable development

11    Climate finance

12    Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD)

13    Coordination

14    Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

15    Custodians

16    Data gaps

17    Development banks

18    Discourse and discursive effects

19    Education for Sustainable Development

20    Effectiveness

21    Finance mechanisms

22    Fragmentation

23    Gender mainstreaming

24    Global Sustainable Development Reports (GSDR)

25    Governance by global goal-setting

26    High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)

27    Human Rights

28    Implementation

29    Inclusiveness

30    Independent Group of Scientists (IGS)

31    Indicators

32    Indigenous views

33    Inequality (global and national)

34    Institutions and institutional effects

35    Integration

36    Integrity (ecological and planetary)

37    Interaction and interlinkages

38    International Environmental Agreements

39    International Monetary Fund (IMF)

40    International organizations

41    Justice perspectives

42    ‘Leave no one behind’

43    Legitimacy

44    Living wages

45    Localization

46    Major groups and other stakeholders

47    Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

48    Modelling

49    Multi-level governance

50    National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS)

51    Negotiation of the Sustainable Development Goals

52    Network analysis

53    Nexus governance

54    Norms and normative effects

55    North-South relations

56    Official development assistance (ODA)

57    Orchestration

58    Paris Agreement

59    Participation

60    Partnerships

61    People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, Partnerships (5 Ps)

62    Philanthropic foundations

63    Planetary boundaries

64    Policy coherence and integration (at domestic level)

65    Policy coherence for sustainable development (at global level)

66    Political impact and steering effects

67    Political will and leadership

68    Private finance

69    Private governance

70    Rainbow washing

71    Rankings and performance measurement

72    Regional organizations

73    Responsibility

74    Science, technology and innovation

75    Scientific community

76    SDG summits

77    Silo approach

78    Stockholm+50

79    Subnational initiatives

80    Summit of the Future (2024)

81    Sustainable finance

82    Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)

83    Synergies and goal complementarity

84    Targets

85    Trade-offs and goal conflicts

86    Trans-disciplinarity

87    Transformation

88    United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (1992)

89    United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (2012)

90    United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972)

91    United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)

92    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

93    United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

94    United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)

95    United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG)

96    United Nations Statistical Commission

97    Universality

98    Voluntary Local Reviews

99    Voluntary National Reviews

100 Vulnerability

101 World Bank

102 World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED)

103 World Health Organization (WHO)

104 World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002)

105 World Trade Organization (WTO)

106 Youth

Annex: The 17 Sustainable Development Goals

Über Autor(innen)

Frank Biermann is a research professor of Global Sustainability Governance at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He has authored or co-edited 20 books and published over 250 articles and book chapters.

Thomas Hickmann is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Lund University in Sweden. He is highly committed to interdisciplinary collaborations, research-based education and engagements with civil society to identify pathways towards sustainability transformations.

Yi hyun Kang is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Political Science at Lund University in Sweden. Her research interests centre around the role of civil society and technology in environmental governance and politics. She has developed her interests through work experiences in journalism, international development and applied research.

Carole-Anne Sénit is an assistant professor of Inclusive Sustainability Governance with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She is a political scientist by training, with a career spanning both research on and practice in the civil society sector.

Yixian Sun is an associate professor in International Development at the University of Bath, United Kingdom. He studies transnational governance, environmental politics and sustainable development with a focus on emerging economies.