Improving Governance for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals: Scenario Forecasting the Next 50years

Joshi, Devin K.; Hughes, Barry B.; Sisk, Timothy D.

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.01.013

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“…The SDGs encompass a new vision of development for the world as a whole, and compensate for shortcomings attributed to the MDGs [1]. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) comprise 17 different goals with 169 targets, which are supposed to guide and keep track of national and global efforts to achieve sustainable development [2].…”

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Evaluating Synergies and Trade-Offs among Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Explorative Analyses of Development Paths in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

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Abstract:Understanding the linkages between multiple targets of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) may help to integrate different sectoral programmes and develop coherent cross-sectoral policy to explore synergies. Synergy is interaction among two or more actions, which will lead to an impact greater or less than the sum of individual effects. Therefore, synergy can be positive or negative (trade-off). This paper aims at developing an analytical framework to evaluate sectoral linkages and examine potential synergies and trade-offs among various SDGs' goals and targets. Synergies and trade-offs related to energy access (SDG7), clean water and sanitation access (SDG6), food security and sustainable agriculture (SDG2) and poverty alleviation (SDG1) have been evaluated from the perspective of developing countries using examples from South Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka) and Sub-Saharan Africa (Ghana, Ethiopia and Rwanda), and historical data for the period between 1990 and 2012. The analytical framework includes both qualitative and quantitative methods. Network analysis technique has been used for exploring the conceptual linkage among different indicators, and capturing the targets associated with SDGs. Advanced Sustainability Analysis (ASA) developed under the European framework programme has been used for quantifying the synergies and trade-offs among sustainability indicators. The analysis showed strong synergy among various SDG targets. Interestingly, the potential synergy differs from country to country and over time. Ghana and Sri Lanka had relatively higher potential synergy, whereas Rwanda and Nepal had relatively lower potential synergy among the various targets. Higher synergy values were evidenced in those cases where the policy have recognized and emphasized on linkages among cross-sectoral targets.

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Evaluating Synergies and Trade-Offs among Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Explorative Analyses of Development Paths in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

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“…Governmental integrity behavior relates to the moral issue of the political sustainability. Joshi et al (2015) determine the governance variables related to the sustainable development. The governance variables include the security index, the capacity index and the inclusion index.…”

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PLS and OPLS Discriminatory Analyses on Political Sustainability in Taiwan

Guo

2018

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Political sustainability relates to successful governance. The general public's satisfaction is vital to political sustainability. In this paper, we propose to use the general public's satisfaction as the proxy and utilize the partial least squares discriminatory (PLS-DA) model and orthogonal partial least squares discriminatory (OPLS-DA) model to explore the factors that affect political sustainability in Taiwan. The results of the PLS-DA and OPLS-DA models vindicate that the satisfaction with the integrity performance of the central government, the satisfaction with the central government's modus operandi on food safety, and the satisfaction with the central government's policies on the twelve years primary education reform influence the Taiwanese civilians' satisfaction with the central government, which is closely related to political sustainability. This offers us the insights on political sustainability in Taiwan.

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“…On the other hand, when a country becomes more and more affluent in general, achieving sustainable goals in the process of urbanization also becomes an important new urban agenda for such emerging countries as China [7][8][9]. Sustainable development goals (SDGs) are not only important for maintaining a sustainable living environment for future generations; it has been well-documented that achieving some or all of the SDGs has important implications for the governance structure of an authority as well [10][11][12].…”

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Social Sustainability and Redevelopment of Urban Villages in China: A Case Study of Guangzhou

Han

2018

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Rapid economic development in China has generated substantial demand for urban land for development, resulting in an unprecedented urbanization process. The expansion of urbanized cities has started to engulf rural areas, making the urban-rural boundary less and less conspicuous in China. Urban encroachment has led to a rapid shrinkage of the rural territory as the rural-urban migration has increased due to better job opportunities and living standards in the urban cities. Urban villages, governed by a rural property rights mechanism, have started to emerge sporadically within urbanised areas. Various approaches, such as state-led, developer-led, or collective-led approaches, to redevelop these urban villages have been adopted with varying degrees of success. This paper uses a case-study framework to analyse the state-market interplay in two very different urban village redevelopment cases in Guangzhou. By an in-depth comparative analysis of the two regeneration cases in Guangzhou, which started within close proximity in terms of geographical location and timing, we are able to shed light on how completely different outcomes may result from different forms of state-market interplay. It is found that a neoliberal policy approach that aims at coordinating state resources with market forces rather than discarding the state's role provides a more satisfactory outcome in urban village redevelopment when there are a lot of stakeholders involved each with different agendas. The state maintains a good balance of the power-play in the process with a clear and supportive policy and regulatory guidance, leaving the market to function more effectively and satisfactorily in effectuating capital flow for the project, which helps to achieve sustainable outcomes.

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Improving Governance for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals: Scenario Forecasting the Next 50years

Cited by 101 publications

References 50 publications

Evaluating Synergies and Trade-Offs among Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Explorative Analyses of Development Paths in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

Evaluating Synergies and Trade-Offs among Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Explorative Analyses of Development Paths in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

PLS and OPLS Discriminatory Analyses on Political Sustainability in Taiwan

Social Sustainability and Redevelopment of Urban Villages in China: A Case Study of Guangzhou

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