Governing the Sustainable Development Goals

Bandola‐Gill, Justyna; Grek, Sotiria; Tichenor, Marlee

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“…2014; Stone 2019; Bandola‐Gill et al . 2022). This circulation of technical consultants, data standards, templates and guidelines shapes how climate action is understood and implemented (Gupta et al .…”

Section: Regional Ontologies In a Mosaic Of Climate Actionmentioning

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Opening up New Geographical Ontologies around Adapting to Climate Change

Fisher

2023

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Opening up regional ontologies for climate action is a necessary and underexplored dimension of climate change policymaking. This commentary explores how a regional lens might be integrated into the complex mosaic of climate governance, particularly in the context of resilient regions. I argue regional ontologies for climate policymaking could have greater analytical power if integrated into a theoretical framing of action that goes beyond the nation‐state, beyond formal policy processes and beyond a strict binary between science and policy. Applying this lens to resilient regions, I argue there are particular opportunities at the regional scale for highlighting diverse perspectives or adaptation issues obscured through a national ontology, using existing transnational data infrastructure and community‐led data systems to support the regional ontology and reframing the scale of collective future visions for a climate‐adapted world.

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Section: Regional Ontologies In a Mosaic Of Climate Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Opening up New Geographical Ontologies around Adapting to Climate Change

Fisher

2023

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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“…More recently, a theoretical lens of epistemic infrastructure started to gain prominence in the literature on the politics of numbers (Bueger, 2015;Tichenor, 2022). The concept of an infrastructureinitially developed in Science and Technology Studies (Ruhleder & Star, 1996)-moves the theoretical lens from numbers and their specific effects to broader systems of knowledge production (cf.…”

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“…Bueger, 2015). As my collaborators and I explored elsewhere (Bandola-Gill et al, 2022) epistemic infrastructure could be understood as an interplay of three levels: (i) materialities-which involve objects for collecting, analysing and communicating data; for example, indicators, their evaluative frameworks (i.e. tier system), reports, strategic documents, declarations etc.…”

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“…(UN, 2021, p. 24) Nevertheless, as was the case with the SDGs (Bandola-Gill et al, 2022), the Agenda conceptualises participation through quantification. Re-thinking what and whose knowledge is seen as valid is one of the tenets of transformations (Abson et al, 2017)-and the transformative potential of participation is questionable when it is conducted through the same (quantified) means.…”

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“…This paper mobilises the theoretical lense from the sociology of quantification, specifically the notion of an epistemic infrastructure of measurement (Bandola‐Gill et al, 2022; Merry, 2016; Power, 2015). There is a growing scholarship on the politics of numbers showing how quantification became the central mode of knowing global problems (Best, 2014; Desrosiéres, 1998; Porter, 1996; Rottenburg et al, 2015) and an implicit ‘logic’ of governing the global (Merry, 2016).…”

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Our common metrics? Our Common Agenda report and the epistemic infrastructure of the Sustainable Development Goals

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Our Common Agenda—the flagship report by the UN Secretary General released in September 2021—promises a transformative change in the face of a post‐pandemic crisis in the progress towards global human development. As such, the report is not only closely aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals but also from the outset outlines its ambition to ‘accelerate’ progress towards the SDGs. This paper unpacks the complex interplay between the two frameworks through the theoretical lens of an epistemic infrastructure of quantification. The paper shows how Our Common Agenda could be seen as a move towards an expansion of the existing infrastructure of measurement to include a new temporal dimension. Overall, the paper argues that the transformative potential of the epistemic infrastructure is in fact impeded by the statistical path dependency of the existing metrics and the distinct politics of infrastructure which promotes blurred accountability lines and lacks specific solutions.

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The monitoring and evaluation challenges of the sustainable development goals: An assessment in three European countries

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2023

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While discourse about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has primarily focused on ‘whether the goals’ are achieved, there remains limited understanding of how developed countries organize their monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems, which play a crucial role in tracking progress towards the SDGs. In this contribution, we unpack the M&E frameworks of Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. To do so, we have devised an analytical heuristic that combines insights from the literature on policy performance measurement and measurement infrastructures with the more specific literature on SDG governance. Through document analysis and elite interviews conducted in 2021, our findings highlight similarity in underdeveloped M&E frameworks, rather than significant variation across the three case studies. The results do not suggest a linkage between SDG performance and the development of M&E frameworks.

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Governing the Sustainable Development Goals

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Opening up New Geographical Ontologies around Adapting to Climate Change

Opening up New Geographical Ontologies around Adapting to Climate Change

Our common metrics? Our Common Agenda report and the epistemic infrastructure of the Sustainable Development Goals

The monitoring and evaluation challenges of the sustainable development goals: An assessment in three European countries

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