Governing Through Goals: Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation (Earth System Governance) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262035626 ISBN 13: 9780262035620

Publisher: MIT Press, 2017

Synopsis

A detailed examination of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the shift in governance strategy they represent.

In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals built on and broadened the earlier Millennium Development Goals, but they also signaled a larger shift in governance strategies. The seventeen goals add detailed content to the concept of sustainable development, identify specific targets for each goal, and help frame a broader, more coherent, and transformative 2030 agenda. The Sustainable Development Goals aim to build a universal, integrated framework for action that reflects the economic, social, and planetary complexities of the twenty-first century.

This book examines in detail the core characteristics of goal setting, asking when it is an appropriate governance strategy and how it differs from other approaches; analyzes the conditions under which a goal-oriented agenda can enable progress toward desired ends; and considers the practical challenges in implementation.

Contributors
Dora Almassy, Steinar Andresen, Noura Bakkour, Steven Bernstein, Frank Biermann, Thierry Giordano, Aarti Gupta, Joyeeta Gupta, Peter M. Haas, Masahiko Iguchi, Norichika Kanie, Rakhyun E. Kim  Marcel Kok, Kanako Morita, Måns Nilsson, László Pintér, Michelle Scobie, Noriko Shimizu, Casey Stevens, Arild Underdal, Tancrède Voituriez, Takahiro Yamada, Oran R. Young

About this title

About the Author:

Norichika Kanie is Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University and Senior Research Fellow at United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability.

Review:

This book is an enriching read and the chapters complement each other in a coherent and constructively critical manner, providing a solid basis from which to explore and reflect on potential pathways for global sustainability governance towards 2030.

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About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0262035626
• ISBN 13: 9780262035620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Kanie Norichika, Biermann Frank, Young Oran R