SDGs Under Pressure

Navigating Water, Food, Poverty and Health in the Climate Era
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-40905-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book explores the critical intersection of climate change and sustainable development, focusing on four key Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): eradicating poverty (SDG 1), ending hunger (SDG 2), ensuring good health and well-being (SDG 3), and achieving clean water and sanitation for all (SDG 6). It highlights a defining moment in the world as climate change and environmental crises threaten to reverse decades of progress: billions still live in poverty and hunger, while rapid industrialization and urbanization strain ecosystems, diminishing the well-being derived from nature; climate extremes—floods, droughts, desertification, and biodiversity loss—are intensifying humanitarian crises, forcing migration, and jeopardizing health, food security, and access to clean water.

The volume underlines how this is likely to affect South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa which houses a major chunk of the world’s population. It also lays out a roadmap to achieve the goals of SDG 1, 2, 3 and 6. The volume will be of interest to scholars and researches of politics, public policy and development studies. It will also be of interest to policymakers and professionals in the development sector.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Majaw, Baniateilang

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I: Introduction

II: Sustainable Development: The 2030 Agenda

III: Health in the Framework of Sustainable Development Goals

IV: End Poverty and Achieve Food Security

V: Water and the 2030 Agenda

VI: Progress Towards Sustainable Development Goals

VII: Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Baniateilang Majaw hails from Cherrapunjee. He holds the position of Assistant Professor of Political Science, teaching undergraduate students. Among his other works, he is the author of Climate Change in South Asia: Politics, Policies and the SAARC, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, Oxfordshire, London, UK 2020. He also publishes articles and commentary in noted journals like in Verfassung und Recht in Übersee (VRU): Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America; South Asia Research; Sustainable Water Resources Management; Economic and Political Weekly and others.

Core research focuses on the intersection of human activity, environmental sustainability, and South Asian geopolitics and borderland studies.

Relevant publications: Complex and worrying questions to Meghalaya’s water crisis (year of publication: 2023).