Author : Adam Sneyd
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 2024-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781773636900
This book presents a critical political analysis of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and counters mainstream feelgood accounts of this agenda.
Author : Adam Sneyd
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 37,54 MB
Release : 2024-09-17T00:00:00Z
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1773637029
This book analyzes the politics of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The conventional wisdom is that efforts to achieve the SDGs, or Global Goals, will contribute to building a more inclusive, sustainable and peaceful world. Adam Sneyd’s analysis counters this orthodox and unduly utopian point of view, uncovering the hidden politics of the SDG project and showing why the SDGs are not an ambitious package of progressive reforms. Sneyd’s analysis of each of the seventeen goals reveals how the SDGs are infused with minimalist intentions and a political orientation that sharply contrasts with the world-changing aspirations typically associated with the goals. He argues that the SDGs do more to bolster the legitimacy of the liberal international economic order and advance capitalist interests than to address pressing global challenges. This book analyzes the politics of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The conventional wisdom is that efforts to achieve the SDGs, or Global Goals, will contribute to building a more inclusive, sustainable and peaceful world. Adam Sneyd’s analysis counters this orthodox and unduly utopian point of view, uncovering the hidden politics of the SDG project and showing why the SDGs are not an ambitious package of progressive reforms. Sneyd’s analysis of each of the seventeen goals reveals how the SDGs are infused with minimalist intentions and a political orientation that sharply contrasts with the world-changing aspirations typically associated with the goals. He argues that the SDGs do more to bolster the legitimacy of the liberal international economic order and advance capitalist interests than to address pressing global challenges.
Author : United Nations Publications
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789211013689
The aim of this report is to present an overview of the 17 Goals using data currently available to highlight the most significant gaps and challenges.
Author : ADAM. SNEYD
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 2019-04-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781788530712
Adam Sneyd argues that it is imperative to recognize the importance of the sub-field of development politics.
Author : Max Schmidt
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2019-09-26
Category :
ISBN : 9783346052261
Literature Review from the year 2019 in the subject Politics - Environmental Policy, grade: 1.3, University of Leipzig (Institute of Political Science), course: Application-oriented introduction to qualitative methods of political science, language: English, abstract: This paper strives to provide an overview of the critical academic engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This literature review is structured as follows: Firstly, a short introduction to the key terms facilitated in this paper will be given: 'development' and its distinction to 'sustainable development'. Secondly, the underlying methodology of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and its differentiation from discourse analysis (DA) will be presented in order to embed the subsequent overview. Finally, some main findings will be compared with the contribution of (C)DA to development studies. In late 2015, one of the most far-reaching consensuses in the world was unanimously agreed upon by the 193 countries of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Set out to fulfil ambitious development targets by 2030, ranging from the complete eradication of poverty in all its forms everywhere (Goal 1) to strengthening the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development (SD) (Goal 17), this framework is part of the so-called Post-2015 Development Agenda respectively '2030 Agenda' (eponymous by the main document constituting the SDGs passed by the UN in 2015). As the intended outcome of this process, which was initiated in 2012, the SDGs are the legitimate successor of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight goals that were promised to be reached by 2015 by the UN Millenium Declaration (passed in 2000). Facing manifold shortcomings of the MDGs, which were measured by a mere 18 targets, the SDGs were extended to 17 goals measured by 169 targets. Unsurprisingly and especially regarding their abundance, the SDGs faced harsh critique from most d
Author : Narinder Kakar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1000421287
This book contains assessment of the progress, or the lack of it, in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through review of the assessments and of case studies, readers can draw lessons from the actions that could work to positively address the goals. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is designed to catalyze action in critical areas of importance to humanity and the planet. The effort to implement the SDGs, however, demands a sense of urgency in the face of environmental degradation, climate change, emerging conflicts, and growing inequality, among a number of other socio-economic problems. Five years after the launch of the 2030 Agenda, this book takes stock of how far the world has come and how we can position ourselves to achieve the global targets. The book is one of the first to assess how the implementation is impeded by the onset of COVID-19. It contains a special chapter on COVID-19 and the SDGs, while many thematic chapters on different SDGs also assess how COVID-19 adversely affects implementation, and what measures could be taken to minimize the adverse effects. This publication thus provides a fresh look at implementation of the SDGs highlighting impactful and creative actions that go beyond the business-as-usual development efforts. The volume reinforces this analysis with expert recommendations on how to support implementation efforts and achieve the SDGs through international and national strategies and the involvement of both the public and private sectors. The result is an indispensable textual tool for policy makers, academia, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as well as the public, as we march toward the 2030 deadline.
Author : Martin Gutmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Sustainable development
ISBN : 0192848755
"Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Historical Companion enables professionals, scholars and students engaged with the SDGs to develop a richer understanding of the legacies and historical complexities of the policy fields behind each goal. Each of the seventeen chapters tells the decades or centuries-old backstory of one SDG, including an examination of how the SDG problem impacted past societies and the various attempts at understanding and addressing it. Collectively, the chapters reveal the multiple and often interwoven histories that have shaped the challenges later encompassed in the SDGs. The book's chapters, written in an accessible style, are authored by international experts from multiple disciplines. The book is an indispensable resource and a vital foundation for understanding the past's indelible footprint on our contemporary sustainable development challenges"--
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 2001-05-14
Category :
ISBN : 9264192689
Sustainable development involves linking the economic, social and environmental objectives of societies in a balanced way. It stresses the importance of taking a broader view of what human welfare entails, of using a long-term perspective about the ...
Author : Malcolm Langford
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN :
The simplicity of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) formed the basis of its apparent success and the grounds for relentless critique. It is fair to say that the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) lurch in the opposite direction. After a unique exercise in global participatory democracy, world leaders have endorsed seemingly a dramatically ambitious social and environmental agenda. Constituted by a thick wad of seventeen goals and 169 targets, it stretches across a breath-taking array of global concerns, including many human rights. But is big so beautiful? Will the agenda wilt under its own ambitions? Did the lure of grand proclamation override the need for effective and focused global policy-making? And, has its breadth provided a convenient cover for problematic compromises and a conservative capture of the monitoring process? The answer to these questions is partly yes but the agenda's ultimate success lies in its potency as a political resource.
Author : Ilias Bantekas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1489 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Law
ISBN : 0192885170
In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This historic document constituted a transformative 'plan for action for people, planet and prosperity' with regards to the sustainable development efforts of all countries. The Sustainable Development Goals serves as an expert compendium, the most authoritative ready-reference tool for anyone interested in the SDGs. Each chapter comprises a detailed target-by-target analysis of one of the SDGs, including a methodical analysis of the preparatory proceedings that shaped each goal in its present form, an exhaustive examination of their content, and a critical assessment from an international law perspective. This commentary provides readers with the most up-to-date information on normative and legal questions arising from the incorporation of the SDGs into the international economic, social, and environmental legal frameworks, and on their implementation status. Scholars, practitioners, and those interested in the fields of law, politics, development, economics, environmental studies, and global governance will find this book a must-read.
