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Abstract
This book provides a highly accessible and user-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.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Licence 4.0 International (CC- BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 International license.
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.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Licence 4.0 International (CC- BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 International license.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Place of Publication | Abingdon, U. K. |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Number of pages | 206 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781040392454, 9781003519560 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781032841694 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 24 Jul 2025 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2025, Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Yi hyun Kang, Carole-Anne Sénit and Yixian Sun. All rights reserved.
Acknowledgements
This A- Z Guide on Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable DevelopmentGoals is a collective endeavour by a large team of scholars, without whom this project
would not have been feasible. We would thus like to express our gratitude, first of all, to
our contributing authors for dedicating their time to write the 105 entries. Many contrib-
uting authors are members of the Earth System Governance Project’s Taskforce on the
Sustainable Development Goals, and the enthusiasm and energy within this taskforce
gave us the confidence to develop and complete this project. We also thank the Earth
System Governance Project’s larger community and its International Project Office, which
supported various activities of our initiative, including meetings during the 2023 Annual
Conference on Earth System Governance in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and the 2024
Virtual Forum on ‘Re-imagining Earth System Governance in an Era of Polycrisis’.
Special thanks go also to the GlobalGoals Project at Utrecht University, which has
been funded by a European Research Council’s Advanced Grant (grant agreement No
788001) providing critical support to our work. In particular, the 2024 GlobalGoals
conference in Utrecht was instrumental for this book. We moreover thank our own insti-
tutions – Utrecht University, Lund University and the University of Bath – for supporting
our research on the governance and politics of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable
Development Goals and the encouragement that we have received from our colleagues.
Last but not least, we are thankful to Grace Harrison, Rohita Divyanshu, Meghna
Rodborne, Radhika Gupta, Matthew Shobbrook, and Govindaram Devaa S. for all their
support and effective cooperation in the production process of this book and for com-
ments from five anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback on the original
book proposal and detailed recommendations for realizing this publication project.
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SGAIN: Sustainability governance of China's global infrastructure investments
Sun, Y. (PI)
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