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Author Lindkvist, Ida Kristine

Title Towards Sustainable Futures The Role of Evaluation
Published Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (323 p.)
Series Comparative Policy Evaluation Series
Comparative policy evaluation series
Contents Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1 From projects to systems and politics -- 2 Can equity be sustained -- and can evaluation find the answer? -- 3 Evaluation of sustainability in the presence of a goal conflict -- 4 Understanding and addressing sustainability in evaluation -- 5 Setting goals and missing them: can evaluations help us meet SDGs? -- 6 Strategies to manage disaster risks: evaluating their contributions to sustainable development -- Part 2 Methods and applications
7 Evaluating sustainability through the lens of circular business models -- 8 Credibility and utility of corporate sustainability reporting -- 9 A classification algorithm to link official documents to Sustainable Development Goals -- 10 Evaluation: a road to sustainable welfare -- 11 Sustainability, systemic change, and theory-based evaluation: lessons from the 'safe system' approach in road safety -- 12 Why we should employ a social practice perspective when we evaluate sustainability -- 13 Evaluating social sustainability: concepts, approaches and how to apply these to evaluations
14 Re-imagining the role of evaluation in planning for sustainability of gender equity interventions -- 15 Evaluating sustainability -- a multidimensional approach -- Part 3 Conclusion -- 16 Conclusions -- outlining the roles for evaluation -- Index
Summary Towards Sustainable Futures serves as a guide to better understand what roles evaluation can play in sustainability. A stellar line up of specialists, theorists, and practitioners in the field of development evaluation provide engaged analysis of key issues, re-focussing evaluation towards the green transition imperative
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Sustainable development -- Evaluation
Economic development projects -- Evaluation.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Bastøe, Per Øyvind
Forss, Kim
ISBN 9781003856610
1003856616