Lars Niklasson

Improving the Sustainable Development Goals (eBook, PDF)

Strategies and the Governance Challenge

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be developed, especially in developing countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429633164
• Artikelnr.: 56841086

Autorenporträt

Lars Niklasson is a researcher at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS), and a professor of political science at Linköping University, Sweden. His research interest is European Union (EU)-Africa relations and the global leadership role of the EU. He has taught international political economy and comparative politics, with a focus on global challenges and governance. Niklasson has been a visiting teacher at the University of Nairobi, Kenya.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Overview Chapter 1: Global goals in search of
strategies A global agreement...Eradication of poverty in reach
Environmental urgencyAmbitious and flexible goals...to achieve sustainable
development...A political compromiseContested issues...through seventeen
goals... Economic issuesSocial issuesEnvironmental issuesCross-cutting
issues...without an explicit strategy...Weak on strategies for
implementationHow flexible are the goals?Weak on compliance...and in an
unclear relation to other global policies......but still an example of the
art of the possibleReferencesChapter 2: A research gap on strategies and
implementationFocus on the implementation of the
SDGsForward-lookingConnecting policy to researchAfrica and developing
countriesQuestions for the investigationAre the goals intended to be taken
seriously?Problems with the existing literatureSustainable
developmentTheoretical perspectivesEmpirical perspectivesPoverty
reductionReferencesChapter 3: Refocus from the goals to learning over
timePolicy by goalsThe role of goalsNew Public ManagementAnother
interpretation: A learning policyRationalism vs realismA learning
subjectThe importance of a program theory, a strategyHidden assumptionsA
theory of change for sustainable developmentMethods and
materialReferencesChapter 4: An inherent strategy in the goalsThe economic
dimensionGoal 1: No povertyGoal 8: Decent work and economic growthGoal 9:
Industry, innovation and infrastructureGoal 10: