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Title Achieving the sustainable development goals : global governance challenges / edited by Simon Dalby, Susan Horton and Rianne Mahon, with Diana Thomaz
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 261 pages)
Series Routledge studies in sustainable development
Routledge studies in sustainable development.
Contents Global governance challenges in achieving the sustainable development goals : introduction / Simon Dalby, Susan Horton, and Rianne Mahon -- Food system lessons from the SDGs / Alison Blay-Palmer and Laine Young -- From MDGs to SDGs : health slips in global priorities / Alan Whiteside -- Gender equality from the MDGs to the SDGs : the struggle continues / Sara Rose Taylor and Rianne Mahon -- Gender, labour migration governance, and the SDGs : lessons from the case of Nepal / Hari KC and Jenna L. Hennebry -- The problem with international migration and sustainable development / Jonathan Crush -- SDGs and climate change adaptation in Asian megacities : synergies and opportunities for transformation / Idowu Ajibade and Michael Egge -- Climate change, security, and sustainability / Simon Dalby -- Development as a determinant of climate risk and policy challenge / Vanessa Schweizer -- Religion and the sustainable development goals / Paul Freston -- The ecological limits of the sustainable development goals / Stephen Quilley and Kaitlin Kish -- Development as usual : ethical reflections on the SDGs / Seyed Ali Hosseini -- Financing the sustainable development goals : beyond official development assistance / Susan Horton -- Sustainable finance and the SDGs : the role of the banking sector / Olaf Weber -- Global governance and the sustainable development goals / Alexandra R. Harrington
Summary This book draws on the expertise of faculty and colleagues at the Balsillie School of International Affairs to both locate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a contribution to the development of global government and to examine the political-institutional and financial challenges posed by the SDGs. The contributors are experts in global governance issues in a broad variety of fields ranging from health, food systems, social policy, migration and climate change. An introductory chapter sets out the broad context of the governance challenges involved, and how individual chapters contribute to the analysis. The book begins by focusing on individual SDGs, examining briefly the background to the particular goal and evaluating the opportunities and challenges (particularly governance challenges) in achieving the goal, as well as discussing how this goal relates to other SDGs. The book goes on to address the broader issues of achieving the set of goals overall, examining the novel financing mechanisms required for an enterprise of this nature, the trade-offs involved (particularly between the urgent climate agenda and the social/economic goals), the institutional arrangements designed to enable the achievement of the goals and offering a critical perspective on the enterprise as a whole. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals makes a distinctive contribution by covering a broad range of individual goals with contributions from experts on governance in the global climate, social and economic areas as well as providing assessments of the overall project - its financial feasibility, institutional requisites, and its failures to tackle certain problems at the core. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of international affairs, development studies and sustainable development, as well as those engaged in policymaking nationally, internationally and those working in NGOs
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Simon Dalby, Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Susan Horton, Professor, School of Public Health and Health Systems, and Professor, Economics, University of Waterloo, Canada Rianne Mahon, Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs and Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Diana Thomaz, Doctoral Candidate, Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
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Subject Sustainable Development Goals.
SUBJECT Sustainable Development Goals fast
Subject Sustainable development.
sustainable development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development.
NATURE -- Ecology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
Sustainable development
Form Electronic book
Author Dalby, Simon, editor
Horton, Susan, editor
Mahon, Rianne, 1948- editor.
LC no. 2019009657
ISBN 9780429029622
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