This Handbook brings together seminal research on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and investigates their effectiveness. For academics and students of economics, business studies, political science, and development studies, and also for leaders in industry, the public sector, civil society, and international policymakers.
This handbook brings together a collection of seminal research on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and investigates the effectiveness of the 17 goals for achieving transformative change toward sustainable development.
As a collection of inter- and transdisciplinary research from around the world, this volume explores the applications, implications, and best practices of the goals at thematic, regional, and national levels, providing specific examples from a diverse range of places, such as Australia, Brazil, China, DRC, India, Italy, the Sahel region of Africa, and the USA, among others. The book serves as a mid-term evaluation of the SDGs, bringing to the fore comprehensive experiences and evidence related to the SDGs, whilst highlighting the interlinkages between the different goals. The handbook is divided into two parts: Part I brings together groundbreaking research to define, identify, and present conceptual frameworks for a sustainable future, whilst Part II focuses on the policies, practices, and implementation of the SDGs. The chapters identify key aspects missing from the 2030 Agenda, such as global power imbalances, cultural diversity, Indigenous rights, and unsustainable levels of consumption; they also critically evaluate the overall delivery and effectiveness of the SDGs whilst outlining potential future directions for the post-SDG 2030 Agenda.
This handbook is aimed at a diverse and global audience of academics and students of economics, business studies, political science, and development studies. It will also serve as a valuable reference for leaders in the industry, the public sector, civil society, and international policymakers keen to gain a better understanding of the SDGs.
1. The Sustainable Development Goals Promise and Beyond Part I: Research
2. Multidimensional Poverty Indices and SDGs
3. Exploring Agenda 2030 Through
the 5P Lens: Energy Beyond Prosperity
4. Challenges and the Way Forward in a
Difficult Development Landscape: Achieving a Sustainable Future in Africa and
Its Sahel Region
5. Sustainability as a Defining Moment for Changing
(M)Eating Behavior? Comparing Eastern and Western Food Choices, Moral
Evaluations, and Harmonization Strategies in Consumption and Gaps in SDG 12
6. Energy Poverty and Education: Evidence from Indian Households
7.
Education, Employment, and Gender Equity: Interactions and Interlinkages
Between SDGs 4, 5, and 8
8. Measuring the Impact of SDG 5 on Empowerment in
India
9. Bridging Resources, Bridging Goals: Water, Energy and Food Nexus for
Integrated SDG Advancement
10. Conserving Water Resources to Attain the
Sustainable Development Goals in Bangladesh: A Legal Analysis
11. Achieving
Sustainable Markets
12. How Born-Sustainable and Sustainability-Driven
Companies Contribute to the SDGs
13. The Transformation of the Global
Financial System to Sustainability
14. Frugal Innovation and Sustainable
Development at the Bottom of the Pyramid
15. Border Carbon Adjustments, the
Developing Countries, and the SDGs
16. SD Goal 15Life on Land: Progress to
Date, the Role of Business, and a Case Study in Sustainable Development in
Human-Modified Landscapes
17. Sustainable Development Goals and Their
Emphasis on Managing Plastic Pollution
18. Social Innovation and Local
Sustainable Development: A Literature Review
19. SDGs in the Age of
Disinformation
20. Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) and the Right to
Self-Determination: A Case Study of Indigenous Peoples in the ASEAN Member
States Part II: Policy
21. Taiwans Responses to the European Carbon Border
Adjustment Mechanism and SDG 13Climate Action: From the Greenhouse Gas
Reduction Act of 2015 to the Climate Change Responding Act of 2023
22.
Understanding Legal Frameworks for Cultural Heritage: A Comparative Analysis
of SDG 11 in Practice
23. Sustainable Development and Comparative Contract
Law: Three Case Studies
24. Processes and Co-Design Methodologies for the
Territorialization of the SDGs for the Communities in Transition: An
Experimentation in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria
25. Mediating the
SDGs: The Role of (Mass) Media and Communication in Realizing the SDGs
26.
Carbon Neutrality in China and the Role of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR): A
Legal and Policy Analysis
27. Education for Sustainability in the
University-Society Relationship: Possibilities and Challenges in the
Contemporary Brazilian Context
28. Achieving Sustainable Menstrual Health for
All: Investigating Menstrual Cup Take-Up in India
29. The Role of Payment for
Ecosystem Services in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons
for Biodiversity in the Democratic Republic of Congo
30. Interlinkage Between
Sustainable Development and Human Rights in States Reports to International
Mechanisms
Ranjula Bali Swain is Research Director at the Center for Sustainability Research (CSR), SIR, Stockholm School of Economics, and Professor of Economics at Södertörn University, Stockholm. She is affiliated with the Center for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi), at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. Bali Swain has worked at the International Labour Organisation, Geneva, and at Uppsala University and has been Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; Tufts University; University of Pretoria, South Africa; and UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, New York, USA, to name a few. She has researched and published widely in the fields of sustainable development, environmental economics, energy, circular economy, sustainable finance, gender, and development economics. She has written and edited nine books, of which her edited volume Interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals was published in 2023.
Peter Dobers is Professor in Business Studies at Södertörn University and previous Dean of the Faculty Board between 2016 and 2022; Principal Editor of the journal Business Strategy and the Environment (BSE) between 2010 and 2024, currently with an impact factor of 12.5; President of the International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) between 2021 and 2023; and book series editor of Routledge/ISDRS Series on Sustainable Development Research between 2019 and 2024. He has been a board member of the Knowledge Foundation since 2022. He has published extensively in fields such as corporate social responsibility, urban development, and sustainable development. He has written and edited five books and eight special issues in BSE, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Sustainable Development, and Scandinavian Journal of Management.
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