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, 224 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 uder-friendly 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-year 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

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the editors

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 UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)

99 Voluntary Local Reviews

100 Voluntary National Reviews

101 Vulnerability

102 World Bank

103 World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED)

104 World Health Organization (WHO)

105 World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002)

106 World Trade Organization (WTO)

107 Youth

Annex: The 17 Sustainable Development Goals

Über Autor(innen)

Frank Biermann is Professor of Global Sustainability Governance at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and the 2025 Zennström Visiting Professor in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Thomas Hickmann is 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 Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science at Lund University in Sweden. Her research explores the role of civil society and technology in environmental politics and governance. Her research interests have been shaped by professional experiences in journalism, international development, and applied research.

Carole-Anne Sénit is Assistant Professor of Inclusive Sustainability Governance with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. The corpus of her research assesses the democratic legitimacy of sustainability governance, with a particular attention to whether and how citizens can take part in and influence the decisions that affect their lives.

Yixian Sun is Associate Professor in International Development and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Bath, United Kingdom. He studies transnational governance, environmental politics and sustainable development with a focus on emerging economies.