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Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: An A-Z Guide [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 206 pages, kõrgus x laius: 246x174 mm, kaal: 453 g, 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: A-Z Guides for Environment and Sustainability
  • Ilmumisaeg: 24-Jul-2025
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032841699
  • ISBN-13: 9781032841694
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 206 pages, kõrgus x laius: 246x174 mm, kaal: 453 g, 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: A-Z Guides for Environment and Sustainability
  • Ilmumisaeg: 24-Jul-2025
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032841699
  • ISBN-13: 9781032841694
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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.



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.

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"This meticulously organized A-Z guide arrives at a crucial moment in our global pursuit of sustainable development. It strikes an excellent balance between theoretical depth and practical application. What sets this book apart is its accessibility and clear focus on governance and implementation challenges, making it an invaluable resource for students, policymakers, and sustainability practitioners alike. - Måns Nilsson, Executive Director of Stockholm Environment Institute

This book is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand and accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. Its accessible format, A-Z structure, and practical examples make complex concepts easy to navigate. Offering valuable insights from global experts with a focus on transformative change, the book will equip policymakers, practitioners, and advocates with tools to drive real impact. To address the halting pace of change, we must redouble efforts to build inclusive societies and a livable planet. This guide is indispensable for shaping a more just, peaceful, and sustainable future. - Anita Bhatia, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women

Sharing knowledge and research to support coordinated and informed decision-making is crucial to accelerating progress on the interlinked Sustainable Development Goals. This timely publication delivers much needed practical solutions and shows how everyone can contribute to transformative change. - Astra Bonini, Senior Sustainable Development Officer at the Division for the Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

As a youth representative having participated in the processes of the 2030 Agenda, I believe that this book can be very useful to any person willing to understand the problems and challenges related to the implementation of the SDGs. It presents key concepts in an easy-to-navigate fashion. I hope it will help structure the thinking of people who wish to fight for a better world." - Jean Servais, Belgian UN Youth Delegate for Sustainable Development 2022-24

This book is an invaluable resource for anyone working to advance the Sustainable Development Goals. With contributions from experts worldwideincluding researchers from Southern Voiceit offers a clear, accessible, and practical guide to the essential concepts shaping the global effort to implement the 2030 Agenda. At a time of uneven SDG progress and growing urgency, this AZ guide is a timely tool to help those in academia, policy, and practice navigate complexity and sharpen their contribution to sustainable development. - Margarita Gómez, Executive Director at Southern Voice and Visiting Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University

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
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.