Political Criteria for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Selection and the Role of the Urban Dimension

Rivera, Moisés Hinojosa

doi:10.3390/su5125034

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“…Building on criticisms of the MDGs' focus on indicators, 'transformation' has become a central theme in SDG discussions. Many observations on the need for 'transformative development' have focused on local empowerment in relation to making the SDGs more inclusive and participative than the MDGs were (see Rivera, 2013;Sexsmith and McMichael, 2015). Nonetheless, this empowerment must take place in a context in which the very nature of 'sustainability' agendas contributes to discussions on equity, security justice and rights (see Allouche, 2015) that characterize 'transformation'.…”

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The EU and The Human Right to Water and Sanitation: Normative Coherence as the Key to Transformative Development

Koff

Maganda

2015

Eur J Dev Res

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The year 2015 is supposed to be a seminal moment in the international sustainable development agenda. World leaders are negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals Agenda and the European Union has declared 2015 to be the 'European Year for Development'. The Post-2015 agenda is supposed to be characterized by more 'transformative' development strategies. Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) is considered to be an important tool for the establishment of 'transformative' development. This article examines EU development programmes in the field of water. It contends that even though the EU is a world leader in global water and sanitation programmes, its approach to development is not coherent with transformative change because these strategies employ PCD as a technical policy tool. Instead, the article contends that transformative development requires 'normative coherence for development' defined as coherence between strategies in development and non-development policy arenas and core democratic norms, such as human rights.L'année 2015 est censée être un moment charnière dans l'agenda du développement international durable. Les dirigeants du monde sont en train de négocier l'ordre du jour de l'après-Objectifs Millénaire du Développement (OMD) et l'Union européenne (UE) a déclaré que 2015 sera «l'Année européenne pour le développement.' Le programme de l'après-2015 est censé être caractérisé par plusieurs stratégies de développement «transformatrices». La cohérence des politiques pour le développement (CPD) est considérée comme un outil important pour la mise en place d'un développement «transformateur». Cet article examine les programmes de développement de l'UE dans le domaine de l'eau. Il soutient que même si l'UE est un leader mondial en ce qui concerne les programmes d'eau et d'assainissement mondiaux, son approche du développement n'est pas cohérente avec le changement transformateur parce que ces stratégies emploient la CPD comme un outil de politique technique. Au lieu de cela, l'article soutient que le développement transformateur exige une 'cohérence normative pour le développement» définie comme la cohérence entre les stratégies de développement et les domaines de la politique de non-développement et des normes démocratiques fondamentales, comme les droits humains.

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The EU and The Human Right to Water and Sanitation: Normative Coherence as the Key to Transformative Development

Koff

Maganda

2015

Eur J Dev Res

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“…Even if the environmentally given limits were as clear as they seem, the means to stay within them are not. Here, new questions arise which require both a foundation in ethical understandings, e.g., on issues of fair burden-sharing in climate policies [53], as well as political focus, e.g., on how to spur effective policy implementation 'on the ground' [54]. Both requirements can be obscured by a fixation on absolute limits [55].…”

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New Departures—Or a Spanner in the Works? Exploring Narratives of Impact-Driven Sustainability Research

Gürtler

Rivera

2019

Sustainability

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This article analyses the narratives of impact-driven transition research in the field of sustainability studies. It reconstructs patterns of narrations at a discourse level. Departing from the understanding that narrating is a fundamental mode of communication and education, this contribution is ultimately driven by the commitment to understand how narrativity can be improved in order to reach more effective rhetoric for sustainability research. The article starts by describing the dilemma sustainability researchers might find themselves in regarding their position vis-à-vis society and politics. This dilemma seems to shape the narratives researchers use for describing their work. After conceptualizing narratives on a structural level, findings from a comprehensive qualitative interview study are presented and discussed. We find that sustainability researchers can be clustered in five different types, depending on their affinity or distance to real-world sustainability processes, their propensity to either incremental reforms or transformative change and the relationship between environmental and social concerns in the context of the sustainability concept. Furthermore, we find that critical-constructive transformative research encounters challenges when narrating about its position vis-à-vis society and policy-making in the process of formulating goals and working towards them. We identified a tension between leaning stronger either towards independent, critical goal formulation or towards an engagement with actual political processes. Maintaining the ability to change roles between the process-involved and the process-observing sustainability researcher might be a promising way out for those dedicated to workings towards sustainability transitions.

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“…Strengthening and restructuring key environmental organizations are of few guidelines that must be done. As of understanding the concept of sustainable development, Rivera [20] studied Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and investigated whether any work has been done between science and policy. The study pointed out the failure to fulfill some set criterion.…”

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The Efficiency of the Sustainable Development Policy for Energy Consumption under Environmental Law in Thailand: Adapting the SEM-VARIMAX Model

Sutthichaimethee¹,

Naluang²

2019

Energies

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This research aims to predict the efficiency of the Sustainable Development Policy for Energy Consumption under Environmental Law in Thailand for the next 17 years (2020–2036) and analyze the relationships among causal factors by applying a structural equation modeling/vector autoregressive model with exogenous variables (SEM-VARIMAX Model). This model is effective for analyzing relationships among causal factors and optimizing future forecasting. It can be applied to contexts in different sectors, which distinguishes it from other previous models. Furthermore, this model ensures the absence of heteroskedasticity, multicollinearity, and autocorrelation. In fact, it meets all the standards of goodness of fit. Therefore, it is suitable for use as a tool for decision-making and planning long-term national strategies. With the implementation of the Sustainable Development Policy for Energy Consumption under Environmental Law ( S . D . E L ) , the forecast results derived from the SEM-VARIMAX Model indicate a continuously high change in energy consumption from 2020 to 2036the change exceeds the rate determined by the government. In addition, energy consumption is predicted to have an increased growth rate of up to 185.66% (2036/2020), which is about 397.08 ktoe (2036). The change is primarily influenced by a causal relationship that contains latent variables, namely, the economic factor ( E C O N ) , social factor ( S O C I ) , and environmental factor ( E N V I ) . The performance of the SEM-VARIMAX Model was tested, and the model produced a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 1.06% and a root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 1.19%. A comparison of these results with those of other models, including the multiple linear regression model (MLR), back-propagation neural network (BP model), grey model, artificial neural natural model (ANN model), and the autoregressive integrated moving average model (ARIMA model), indicates that the SEM-VARIMAX model fits and is appropriate for long-term national policy formulation in various contexts in Thailand. This study’s results further indicate the low efficiency of Sustainable Development Policy for Energy Consumption under Environmental Law in Thailand. The predicted result for energy consumption in 2036 is greater than the government-established goal for consumption of no greater than 251.05 ktoe.

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Political Criteria for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Selection and the Role of the Urban Dimension

Cited by 20 publications

References 22 publications

The EU and The Human Right to Water and Sanitation: Normative Coherence as the Key to Transformative Development

The EU and The Human Right to Water and Sanitation: Normative Coherence as the Key to Transformative Development

New Departures—Or a Spanner in the Works? Exploring Narratives of Impact-Driven Sustainability Research

The Efficiency of the Sustainable Development Policy for Energy Consumption under Environmental Law in Thailand: Adapting the SEM-VARIMAX Model

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