Governing the UN Sustainable Development Goals: interactions, infrastructures, and institutions

Waage, Jeff; Yap, Christopher; Bell, Sarah; Lévy, Caren; Mace, Georgina M.; Pegram, Tom; Unterhalter, Elaine; Dasandi, Niheer; Hudson, David; Kock, Richard; Mayhew, Susannah; Marx, Colin; Poole, Nigel

doi:10.1016/s2214-109x(15)70112-9

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“…The inter-linkages across the SDGs are many, and a full and systematic understanding of the links can offer an opportunity to formulate strategically policy interventions and solutions that simultaneously advance multiple goals (Waage et al, 2015). Furthermore, failure to achieve water-related goals propagates the risk of failure in achieving other interlinked goals.…”

Section: Understanding the Sdg Interlinkagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

Bhaduri

Bogárdi

Siddiqi

et al. 2016

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Efforts to meet human water needs at local scales may cause negative environmental externalities and stress on the water system at regional and global scales. Hence, assessing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets requires a broad and in-depth knowledge of the global to local dynamics of water availability and use. Furthermore, interactions and trade-offs between different SDG targets may lead to sub-optimal or even adverse outcomes if the set of actions are not properly pre-designed to consider such inter-linkages. Thus, scientific research and evidence have an important role to play in facilitating the implementation of SDGs through assessments and policy engagement from global to local scales. This paper addresses some of these challenges related to implementation and monitoring of the targets of the SDGs from a water perspective, based on the key findings of a conference organized in 2015 focused on three essential aspects of SDGs: indicators, inter-linkages, and implementation. The paper argues that indicators should not be too simple and should ultimately deliver sustainability measures. The paper highlights that remote sensing and earth observation technologies can play a key role in supporting the monitoring of water targets. It also recognizes that implementing SDGs is a societal process of development, and there is a need to link how SDGs relate to public benefits and to communicate this to the broader public.

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Section: Understanding the Sdg Interlinkagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

Bhaduri

Bogárdi

Siddiqi

et al. 2016

Front. Environ. Sci.

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105

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“…If tackling the SDGs in the New Urban Agenda focuses too narrowly on the Urban SDG, then a more holistic approach to urban development could be at risk. Nonetheless, beyond SDG11, the breadth and complexity of the SDG agenda create the potential for more interactions between the other SDGs (Waage et al 2015) in urban areas than under the previous millennium development goals (MDGs). The complex interactions between the SDGs are difficult to map out, but these must be taken into consideration to align the SDGs and the New Urban Agenda in an effective way.…”

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The New Urban Agenda: key opportunities and challenges for policy and practice

Caprotti

Cowley

Datta

et al. 2017

Urban Research & Practice

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The UN-HABITAT III conference held in Quito in late 2016 enshrined the first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) with an exclusively urban focus. SDG 11, as it became known, aims to make cities more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable through a range of metrics, indicators, and evaluation systems. It also became part of a post-Quito 'New Urban Agenda' that is still taking shape. This paper raises questions around the potential for reductionism in this new agenda, and argues for the reflexive need to be aware of the types of urban space that are potentially sidelined by the new trends in global urban policy.

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“…There is a consensus that, to achieve the SDGs, policy-makers, scientists, and practitioners have to clarify how the corresponding 169 targets interconnect, analyse trade-offs and synergies, and develop metrics and models [1,2]. The need for analysis and clarification on the ethical implications of the SDGs is far less recognised.…”

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“…For example, SDGs 2: 'zero hunger' [5] and 3: 'good health and wellbeing' [2,6] have been the subject of research articles concerning justice. The limited research in this area shows the necessity of examining the general principles embodied in the SDGs and associated targets.…”

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Back to the Future: The Potential of Intergenerational Justice for the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

Oliveira

2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:The establishment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) bolstered momentum to achieve a sustainable future. Undeniably, the welfare of future generations is a fundamental value of sustainable development since the publication of the Brundtland report. Nevertheless, SDGs and their targets are meagre on intergenerational justice concerns. The 15-year target horizon of the SDGs might be beneficial for implementation reasons. However, such a short-term perspective is far from innocuous in justice terms. It jeopardises the establishment of long-term goals, which protect both present and future people. This article advocates for clearer stances on intergenerational justice. What type of distributive principles could and should dictate the present socio-economic development? Looking at intragenerational justice principles contained in SDGs does not provide a full answer since they express conflicting visions of what constitutes a fair development. Furthermore, a fair distribution of the development benefits and burdens among present and near future people does not necessarily guarantee the wellbeing of more distant generations. I propose an intergenerational sufficientarian perspective as a way of extending the beneficial impacts of SDGs to both close and distant future generations. Hopefully, it facilitates the translation of the SDGs into policies that promote fairer implementation strategies.

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Governing the UN Sustainable Development Goals: interactions, infrastructures, and institutions

Cited by 211 publications

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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

The New Urban Agenda: key opportunities and challenges for policy and practice

Back to the Future: The Potential of Intergenerational Justice for the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

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