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oapen-20.500.12657-590272022-10-25T03:42:18Z The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals Bexell, Magdalena Jönsson, Kristina Development economics and emerging economies;Applied ecology;International relations;Environmental policy and protocols;Environmental chemistry;Environmental science, engineering and technology bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics & emerging economies bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPS International relations bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RND Environmental policy & protocols bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PN Chemistry bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TQ Environmental science, engineering & technology This book draws attention to political aspects of sustainable development goal-setting, exploring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the global-national nexus during their first five years. After broad global deliberation and political negotiations, the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs were adopted in the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 2015, and by now many countries have political structures in place for working towards their realisation. This book explores three concepts to call attention to the political qualities of processes related to the SDGs: legitimacy, responsibility, and accountability. Legitimacy is required to obtain broad political ownership for policy goals in order for them to become effective in addressing cross-border sustainability challenges. Responsibility needs to be clearly distributed among political institutions if a long-term set of broad goals such as the SDGs are to be realised. Accountability to the public is the retrospective mirror of political responsibility. The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals contributes new knowledge on political processes at the nexus of global and national levels, focussing on three countries at different levels of socio-economic development and democratisation: namely Ghana, Tanzania, and Sweden. These countries illustrate a variety of challenges related to the realisation of the SDGs. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable development, international organisations, and global politics. 2022-10-24T10:06:58Z 2022-10-24T10:06:58Z 2021 book 9780367489489 9781032008691 9781000395570 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59027 eng Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000395570.pdf http://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/agentjpg/978100304/9781003043614.jpg Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003043614 10.4324/9781003043614 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9780367489489 9781032008691 9781000395570 Routledge 185 open access
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This book draws attention to political aspects of sustainable development goal-setting, exploring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the global-national nexus during their first five years.
After broad global deliberation and political negotiations, the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs were adopted in the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 2015, and by now many countries have political structures in place for working towards their realisation. This book explores three concepts to call attention to the political qualities of processes related to the SDGs: legitimacy, responsibility, and accountability. Legitimacy is required to obtain broad political ownership for policy goals in order for them to become effective in addressing cross-border sustainability challenges. Responsibility needs to be clearly distributed among political institutions if a long-term set of broad goals such as the SDGs are to be realised. Accountability to the public is the retrospective mirror of political responsibility. The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals contributes new knowledge on political processes at the nexus of global and national levels, focussing on three countries at different levels of socio-economic development and democratisation: namely Ghana, Tanzania, and Sweden. These countries illustrate a variety of challenges related to the realisation of the SDGs.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable development, international organisations, and global politics.
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