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Book SynopsisThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) came with bold promises: ending poverty, saving the planet and making this world a better place by 2030. But being in the second halftime, there is too little progress and too many setbacks. Drawing on the expertise of an author who has been actively involved in negotiating and later implementing the SDGs, this book offers a unique insider view into the behind-the-scenes processes. It relates the SDGs and their aims of fighting poverty and achieving sustainability to the bigger picture of politics, economics and vested interests, breaking down dependencies and alliances, expectations and motives. It uncovers and dissects the politics and interests that shaped the SDGs from the very beginning, as well as the drivers behind propelling or curtailing sustainable development.This book is an indispensable and comprehensive guide to the SDGs. It outlines where they came from, the main lessons learned so far and what to conclude for the years ahead. As the deadline of 2030 is close, and discussions about what should come after the SDGs are imminent, this book is among the first to draw conclusions for the post-2030 era, what to expect and what to demand from a potential successor agenda.This book addresses policy-makers, practitioners, researchers, and students alike, anyone interested in poverty, environment and sustainability. Written in a highly accessible style, this book also breaks down the United Nations and its processes, setting the frame, enabling but also limiting the SDGs and the sustainability agenda in general.

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Book SynopsisDespite promises of 'fast and easy' results from slick marketers, real personal growth is neither fast nor easy. The truth is that hard work, courage and self-discipline are required to achieve meaningful results - results that aren't attained by those who cling to the fantasy of achievement without effort.Personal Development for Smart People reveals the unvarnished truth about what it takes to consciously grow as a human being. As you read, you'll learn the seven universal principles behind all successful growth efforts (truth, love, power, oneness, authority, courage and intelligence); as well as practical, insightful methods for improving your health, relationships, career, finances and more.You'll see how to:- Become the conscious creator of your life instead of feeling hopelessly adrift.- Enjoy a fulfilling career that honours your unique self-expression.- Attract empowering relationships with loving, compatible partners.- Wake up early feeling motivated, energised and enthusiastic.- Achieve inspiring goals with disciplined daily habits.- Resolve conflicts between logic and intuition to awaken your inner genius.- Earn abundant income by contributing genuine value to others.With its refreshingly honest yet highly motivating style, this fascinating book will help you courageously explore, creatively express and consciously embrace your extraordinary human journey.

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Book SynopsisThe so-called 'supplementary exercises' - to be carried out alongside the 'review exercises' and meditation - are integral to the path of personal development presented by Rudolf Steiner. Together they form a means of experiencing the spiritual realm in full consciousness. Meditation enlivens thinking, the review exercises cultivate the will, whilst the supplementary exercises educate and balance feeling. Conscientiously practised, this path of self-knowledge and development has the effect of opening a source of inner strength and psychological health that soon make themselves felt in daily life. In six stages these exercises enable the practise of qualities that can be summarized as: control of thoughts, initiative of will, equanimity, positivity, open-mindedness and equilibrium of soul. When carried out regularly, they balance possible harmful effects of meditative practice and bring inner certainty and security to the soul. They are also of inestimable value in their own right due to their beneficial and wholesome effect on daily life. In this invaluable small book, the editor has drawn together virtually all Rudolf Steiner's statements on the supplementary exercises, supporting them with commentary and notes. With a chapter devoted to each exercise, they are described in detail and from different perspectives.

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Book SynopsisAs the 15-year Millennium Development Goals approach their conclusion, we can now measure their larger successes and failures in more than âsnapshotâ fashion; and we can begin to consider how best to shape the international development agenda for the coming decades based on what we have learned. But the performance and outlook for the MDGs can neither be reduced to the sum of its eight goals, nor be divorced from international dynamics - the hard interests of states and other actors, and the global dynamics that impact on both. For that reason, this volume balances contextual analysis, the role of formative and constraining forces, the importance of normative considerations and illuminating case studies to deliver a study of the MDGs which has depth and nuance as well as breadth. Poised between judging the recent performance and the future promise of the MDGs, this book is substantial, provocative and timely.This book was published as a special issue of Third World QuarteTable of Contents Foreword 1. Introduction: The Millennium Development Goals: challenges, prospects and opportunities 2. If not the Millennium Development Goals, then what? 3. The Millennium Development Goals: back to the future? 4. Achieving the MDGs and Ensuring Debt Sustainability 5. Millennium Development Goal 1: poverty, hunger and decent work in Southeast Asia 6. The ‘Other Diseases’ of the Millennium Development Goals: rhetoric and reality of free drug distribution to cure the poor’s parasites 7. Food Security Politics and the Millennium Development Goals 8. The ‘AIDS and MDGs’ Approach: what is it, why does it matter, and how do we take it forward? 9. The Idea of Partnership within the Millennium Development Goals: context, instrumentality and the normative demands of partnership 10. The Millennium Development Goals and Development after 2015

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Book SynopsisThis book contains assessment of the progress, or the lack of it, in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through review of the assessments and of case studies, readers can draw lessons from the actions that could work to positively address the goals. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is designed to catalyze action in critical areas of importance to humanity and the planet. The effort to implement the SDGs, however, demands a sense of urgency in the face of environmental degradation, climate change, emerging conflicts, and growing inequality, among a number of other socio-economic problems. Five years after the launch of the 2030 Agenda, this book takes stock of how far the world has come and how we can position ourselves to achieve the global targets. The book is one of the first to assess how the implementation is impeded by the onset of COVID-19. It contains a special chapter on COVID-19 and the SDGs, while many thematic chapters on differentTrade Review"This impressive compendium adds refreshingly new perspectives on the contemporary discourse on SDGs and offers a rigorous assessment of best practices and challenges in their implementation, suggesting course-correction and review, based on lessons from diverse socio-cultural and geographical contexts. The rich empirical analysis is buttressed by a robust ethical framework. The editors do a stellar job of breathing normative life into it, transcending the conventional targets-indicators matrix and the moribund binaries of economic growth vs. environmental protection, infusing it with the ‘leave no one behind’ transformative impulse. The book throws its substantial intellectual weight behind the idea that building resilient societies requires an integrative vision and a sensitivity to complexity. The interconnectedness and linkages between the SDGs and the need to build synergy is a persistent leitmotif. The bold call for a rescript of the current multilateral system to render it more responsive to subaltern aspirations is evocative and compelling. The book’s rich inter-disciplinary non-linearity and its fidelity to the idea of ownership by civil society - not just its messianic leaders - lends it a refreshing vitality. This volume is an eloquent exhortation to governments to buck up, and equally an invitation to citizens to immerse themselves in an extraordinary enterprise, an exciting work-in-progress, to usher in a just and humane world, that is waiting to be born. The volume succeeds in making despair unconvincing and hope practical. An absolute ‘must read’!"Meenakshi Gopinath"This admirable book by Popovski, Kakar and Robinson, makes the ‘COVID-damage assessment’, but also finds opportunities to recover, build back green and fast, and fulfil the 2030 Agenda. The philosophical underpinnings of the idea of ‘sustainable development’, now half a century long since Stockholm 1972, resonates through the volume as does the commitment to ‘greater community of life’. The book points out growing inequalities and conflicts both within and between societies as the main cause of human suffering, and the need for a nexus between peace and development to reach the goals. It reinforces the meaning of peace, heiwa, which in Japan refers to equality of people, striving in harmony for the interest of all and sustaining resilience needed to recover from disasters and rebuild communities."Sukehiro Hasegawa"COVID-19 has dramatically illustrated how fragile and unequal our world remains, despite the good intentions of the SDGs. Sadly, as this collection of essays plainly shows, the achievement of the goals by 2030 – already a doubtful proposition - has now become even harder. Yet this instructive assessment reminds us that we must not give up on the SDGs. Quite the opposite, it shows why and how we should accelerate global efforts to protect our planet and people. This is a comprehensive and timely contribution to keeping the SDGs in public focus, vital to secure a better world for all."Alan Doss"COVID-19 sets back all SDGs and they may well be out of reach. A World Bank study found over 1600 different forms of gender discrimination embedded in the laws of UN member states, indicating that we will struggle to achieve gender equality and to empower all women and girls. The lack of meaningful action on climate change will put at risk the achievement of many other SDGs. Against the background of this sobering picture, this book is not only a call to action, but also an extremely useful roadmap. Kakar, Popovski and Robinson have assembled an impressive team of scholars who have managed to put a crucial message across: no matter the obstacles ahead, we must persevere because the stakes are inordinately high to unleash change and to enrich the lives of people everywhere."Augusto Lopez-Claros"Five years after the SDGs announcement, Kakar, Popovski and Robinson have published a comprehensive and timely resource on their implementation. They draw on several disciplines — anthropology, economics, governance, public administration, and politics — to provide goal-specific recommendations and best practices on how to accelerate action. The book adds value by addressing the critical issue of ‘climate victims’ and the need to establish legal status for climate refugees. One year and a half into a devastating pandemic, the book reminds us that a people-centric lens is necessary to reverse the adverse impacts on sustainable development. Now it is time for multilateralism to respond with action."Arunabha Ghosh"The oft-chanted appeal to "build back better" is a powerful rallying cry for all who hold out hope for human society post-COVID-19. The most compelling starting for defining how to do so is the implementation of the SDGs. That is precisely what Kakar, Popovski and Robinson offer us in this timely and urgently needed book outlining the challenges and concrete steps that are needed to transform the SDGs from good intentions to economic, social, and environmental transformation."Stephen Marks"The clock is ticking. The year 2030 by when we need to achieve the SDGs is approaching quickly, but just a few of them seem on track to be fulfilled. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the latest status of each goal and the challenges we face to build institutions for a sustainable future. A must-read for all who are interested in the future of the Planet."Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira "Achieving the SDGs will require assessment of their implementation and understanding of their impact. Kakar, Popovski and Robinson combine expertise and vision into insightful analysis of what has been achieved, and what and why has been missed. This comprehensive volume is not only an academic marvel, but also a guide to motivate action for accelerating improvement." Maria Ivanova "This book is timely and courageous. We have all agreed on the ambitious SDGs and now we have less than 10 years to achieve them. The examples of efforts made and challenges remaining for each of the goals will inform and encourage those who haven’t yet joined this crucial journey which must involve all of us. As the book tells us, with leadership, cooperation, commitment and a sense of urgency, we should be able to arrive at the hoped-for destination."Julia Marton-Lefèvre`"Fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals" offers valuable insights into collective actions to realize the SDGs that the UN member states challenged each other to achieve by 2030. With the global pandemic compounding both the difficulty and urgency of these efforts, this book outlines – for experts and general readers alike – how nations and all sectors can collaborate to achieve the ambitious yet vital 2030 Agenda.’Mark Kennedy"If the ambitions of the SDGs are achieved, our planet will be a far better place for all of humanity, for living generations and those to come. Ambition means little without implementation. This book makes an invaluable contribution by tackling the implementation problem - what has been achieved, what has worked and what has not, and what more needs to be done to realize the ambitions of the goals."Michael B. Gerrard "This ambitious volume contains some hidden gems: the chapter by David Nabarro and Joe Colombano is a timely reminder of how international health security underpins the entire SDG framework."Sam DawsTable of ContentsForewordPrefaceI SDGs in CONTEXTA. Special Introduction: H.E. B. Multilateralism Under Challenge: C. COVID-19 and the SDGs: II IMPLEMENTING THE SDGs P E O P L E Chapter 1: Extreme Poverty Eradication: Conceptual Evolution and Policy Challenges Chapter 2: Critical Assessment of the Latest Progress in Eradication of Extreme Poverty Chapter 3: Achieving Zero Hunger Using a Rights-based Approach to Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture Chapter 4: Health and Sustainable Development: Assessing Progress and Challenges Chapter 5: Gender Equality and Women Empowerment: Critical Assessment of the Implementation of SDG 5 Chapter 6: Sustainable Management of Water and Sanitation: A Long and Winding Road Ahead Chapter 7: Inclusive, Safe, and Resilient Cities and Settlements P R O S P E R I T Y Chapter 8: Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education: Why Are We Missing the Mark? Chapter 9: Environmental Education Chapter 10: STEM Education: Environmental Restoration Science in New York Harbor Chapter 11: Working Together Toward Sustained and Inclusive Growth Chapter 12: The Road to Sustainable IndustrializationAnna Shostya Chapter 13: Reducing Inequality and Sharing Opportunities for All P L A N E T Chapter 14: Accelerating the Energy Transformation Chapter 15: Toward Sustainable Consumption and Production Chapter 16: Missing Climate Action: Gaps in the Implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change Chapter 17: Climate Change and Small Islands Chapter 18: Achieving SDG 14: Time for a Global Ocean Approach Chapter 19: Legal Tools in Combating Marine Pollution and Mitigating the Effects of Acidification Chapter 20: Marine Pollution: Maximizing Synergies for Transformative Changes Chapter 21: Sustainable Use of Terrestrial Ecosystems and Protection of Biodiversity Chapter 22: Restoration of Ecosystems and Land Degradation Neutrality P E A C E Chapter 23: Peaceful Societies and Leaving No One Behind Chapter 24: Nigeria’s Alternative Pathway to Peace P A R T N E R S H I P Chapter 25: Partnering for a Better World: Shift from Sustainable Finance to Financing Sustainable DevelopmentChapter 26: Private Corporations and Environmental Social Governance: An Uneven ResponseChapter 27: From Means of Implementation to Implementation of Means: Realizing the SDGs as if they MatterIII INTEGRATING THE SDGs Chapter 28: Interlinkages between Climate Change, Economic Inequality, and Human MigrationChapter 29 Indigenous Peoples, the SDGs, and International Environmental lawChapter 30: Codification and Implementation of Customary International LawJuanChapter 31: Integrating the SDGs through "One Health"IV CONCLUSIONSChapter 32: Pathways to 2030

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Book SynopsisIn the year 2000, the international community agreed to a framework to address global poverty. This framework, known as the Millennium Development Goals, was time-bound with an end date of 2015. With this end now in sight, the international community is focusing on the achievement of these goals. However, it is also very important that consideration now turns to what will follow the MDGs after 2015. Millennium Development Goals: Looking Beyond 2015 provides a critical analysis of the MDGs and discusses a range of issues that must be considered by the international community in determining what poverty alleviation framework might replace the MDGs. This reflection is made even more imperative as the poverty landscape has shifted considerably since these original goals were made.This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy.Trade Review'Overall, Millennium Development Goals: Looking Beyond 2015 is an interesting and well-organized look at the successes, failures, and challenges that have emerged out of the MDG movement in the Asia-Pacific region. This reviewer warmly recommends Millennium Development Goals: Looking Beyond 2015 as a valuable resource.' - Thomas Glendinning, African Review of Economics and FinanceTable of Contents1. Old Challenges and New Opportunities for the MDGs: Now and Beyond 2015 Matthew Clarke and Simon Feeny 2. A Fresh Look at the MDGs Jan Vandemoortele 3. 'All the World's a Stage’: Structure, Agency and Accountability in International Aid Gerhard Hoffstaedter and Chris Roche 4. Cultivating Model Developing Citizens: Exposing the Grassroots to the MDG Tanya Jakimow 5. The MDGs and the Incomplete Relationship between Development and Foreign Aid Thomas W.D Davis 6. The MDGs in Myanmar: Relevant or Redundant? Anthony Ware 7. Maternal Health in Lao PDR: Repositioning the Goal Posts Anna Scopaz, Liz Eckermann and Matthew Clarke

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on the expertise of faculty and colleagues at the Balsillie School of International Affairs to both locate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a contribution to the development of global government and to examine the political-institutional and financial challenges posed by the SDGs. The contributors are experts in global governance issues in a broad variety of fields ranging from health, food systems, social policy, migration and climate change. An introductory chapter sets out the broad context of the governance challenges involved, and how individual chapters contribute to the analysis. The book begins by focusing on individual SDGs, examining briefly the background to the particular goal and evaluating the opportunities and challenges (particularly governance challenges) in achieving the goal, as well as discussing how this goal relates to other SDGs. The book goes on to address the broader issues of achieving the set of goals overall, examining thTrade Review"The agreement on the SDGs was above all, an important achievement in international cooperation. But more is needed to take commitments to implementation. This book provides a rich analysis of what is needed, goal by goal. It fills a gap in current debates on SDGs that has focused on country action and neglected the need for further international cooperation to address key obstacles that lie in global rules, resources and action." — Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Professor of International Affairs and Program Director, The New School, New York, USA"Adopted in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) put forward a broad, and potentially transformative, agenda for global economic, social, and environmental development. The chapters comprising this excellent volume explore key aspects of the global governance issues stemming from SDGs. The book is a must read for scholars and practitioners interested in the relationship between global governance and sustainable development." — Daniel Béland, McGill University, Canada"This valuable collection of papers explores the novel approach to global governance represented by the Sustainable Development Goals. Through a selection of goals, the SDGs set out a universal and transformative agenda for achieving an equitable and sustainable future. The authors recognise the opportunities of the SDGs, while illuminating the inevitable tensions and contradictions, contested priorities and challenges of coordination that are inherent in such ambition. Cutting across separate goals, and drawing on diverse disciplines, a range of arguments emerge around critical governance, financing and implementation challenges in the absence of hard enforcement mechanisms. The volume provides an immensely important resource for policy makers, practitioners and scholars seeking to look beyond individual goals and targets, to explore collective strategies for action and to grasp the transformative potential of the SDGs." — Sarah Cook, Director for the UNSW Institute for Global DevelopmentTable of ContentsForeword 1. Global Governance Challenges in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Introduction 2. Food System Lessons from the SDGs 3. From MDGs to SDGs: Health Slips in Global Priorities 4. Gender Equality from the MDGs to the SDGs: The Struggle Continues 5. Gender, Labour Migration Governance, and the SDGs: Lessons from the Case of Nepal 6. The Problem with International Migration and Sustainable Development 7. SDGs and Climate Change Adaptation in Asian Megacities: Synergies and Opportunities for Transformation 8. Climate Change, Security, and Sustainability 9. Development as a Determinant of Climate Risk and Policy Challenge 10. Religion and the Sustainable Development Goals 11. The Ecological Limits of the Sustainable Development Goals 12. Development as Usual: Ethical Reflections on the SDGs 13. Financing the Sustainable Development Goals: Beyond Official Development Assistance 14. Sustainable Finance and the SDGs: The Role of the Banking Sector 15. Global Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces the reader to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in an accessible and concise way, examining sustainable development from an international law and policy perspective.The SDGs seek to stimulate social, economic and environmental action to achieve peace and prosperity for all people and the planet. The book examines the SDGs in an approachable and engaging way, situating the goals in the broader context of international law and policy efforts to achieve sustainable development. Beginning by exploring the background to the SDGs, the book includes the historical, politico-legal and developmental context, their broad scope, and how they are enabled, measured and tracked. It then discusses the SDGs thematically, explaining how they are underpinned by and contribute to international law and policy, as well as exploring the interlinkages between the goals and targets. Finishing with a future-focused perspective, the book suggests opportunities and initiatives which can advance the SDGs.The book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field of international law, environmental studies and sustainable development.

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Book SynopsisHeralded as a success that mobilized support for development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ushered in an era of setting development agendas by setting global goals. This book critically evaluates the MDG experience from the capabilities and human rights perspectives, and questions the use of quantitative targets as an instrument of global governance. It provides an account of their origins, trajectory and influence in shaping the policy agenda, and ideas about international development during the first 15 years of the 21st century. The chapters explore: whether the goals are adequate as benchmarks for the transformative vision of the Millennium Declaration; how the goals came to be formulated the way they were, drawing on interviews with key actors who were involved in the process; how the goals exercised influence through framing to shape policy agendas on the part of both developing countries and the international community; the politicaTrade Review‘This book, by one of the foremost analysts of development goals, presents a review of the strong influence but also the limitations of the United Nations’ MDGs. It holds important lessons on the use of global goals, and it is a must read in the era of the SDGs launched by the UN in 2015.’ - José Antonio Ocampo, Professor, Columbia University, USA. Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs'This critically important book examines the consequences of using numerical goals for development. Focusing on the major contemporary development initiative, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr exposes serious limitations of governance by indicators, particularly for a human rights approach to development.' Sally Engle Merry, New York University and author of 'The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking' 'Just like the king in "The Little Prince" claimed to command the sun to set every evening, the MDGs have been credited with results that would most likely have happened anyhow, while obscuring increased inequalities and structural causes. A privileged witness and participant, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr brilliantly documents in this book two decades of development practice and narrative and draws unavoidable conclusions.' - Roberto Bissio, coordinator of Social WatchTable of ContentsIntroduction: Goals and norms of development Part I Shaping the international development agenda: From human development and human rights to basic needsChapter 1. Prospective circa 2003: The Millennium Development Goals—why they matterChapter 2. Retrospective circa 2013: Recapturing the human rights vision of the Millennium DeclarationPart II The marketplace of ideasChapter 3. The emergence and spread of the global poverty normChapter 4. The poverty narrative and the political economy of developmentChapter 5. Are the MDGs a priority in national poverty reduction strategies and aid programs? Only a few are!Part III Global goals and the power of numbers Chapter 6. Global goals as a policy tool: Intended and unintended effects of quantificationChapter 7. The power of numbers: How targets perverted human rights and human development agendasChapter 8. Framing the discourse and shaping agendas: The MDG hunger target and the narrative of food securityChapter 9. MDGs as performance measures: Faulty metrics that penalize countries starting behindChapter 10. Conclusion: Global goals to set international agendasSelect bibliography

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Book SynopsisThere are important links between teachers'' own experiences at work and their students'' outcomes. A crucial part of providing successful learning environments for students in K-12 classrooms is to have effective teachers. In this book, the authors lead a discussion on how attending to teachers'' experiences in the classroom is central for promoting effective teaching and learning. The authors examine the relationship of goal setting processes of teachers across different professional development (PD) experiences with teacher pedagogical learning. A matrix is also developed that can be used to help teachers integrate entrepreneurial mindset training throughout the curricula and the education system as a whole. The third chapter explores the links between instructional practices and interest and satisfaction of the teachers'' students. The fourth chapter focuses on the positive impact of effective functioning on achievement-related outcomes.

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Book SynopsisThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015. The SDGs make the central promise to Leave No One Behind and include a dedicated goal to reduce inequalities. Human rights advocates have put great hopes in the SDGs as an instrument for transformative change. But do they bring about the much-needed paradigm shift? Or were the extensive consultations and negotiations much ado about nothing?Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights: A Critical Early Review follows two central lines of inquiry. The chapters examine to what extent do the SDGs live up to the promise to reduce inequalities and provide for monitoring and policies that address the needs of marginalized and invisible populations. They further suggest transparent and binding accountability processes and mechanisms to ensure that the SDGs are more than lofty goals and bring power to their promise.The volume begins with three chapters that focus on different aspects of SDG 10 and the commiTable of Contents1. The Sustainable Development Goals and human rights: a critical early review Inga T. Winkler and Carmel Williams 2. Tackling inequality through the Sustainable Development Goals: human rights in practice Ignacio Saiz and Kate Donald 3. Vertical inequalities: are the SDGs and human rights up to the challenges? Gillian MacNaughton 4. Leaving no one behind? Persistent inequalities in the SDGs Inga T. Winkler and Margaret L. Satterthwaite 5. Evaluating the health-related targets in the Sustainable Development Goals from a human rights perspective Audrey R. Chapman 6. Neglecting human rights: accountability, data and Sustainable Development Goal 3 Carmel Williams and Paul Hunt 7. Economic growth, full employment and decent work: the means and ends in SDG 8 Diane F. Frey

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on the expertise of faculty and colleagues at the Balsillie School of International Affairs to both locate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a contribution to the development of global government and to examine the political-institutional and financial challenges posed by the SDGs. The contributors are experts in global governance issues in a broad variety of fields ranging from health, food systems, social policy, migration and climate change. An introductory chapter sets out the broad context of the governance challenges involved, and how individual chapters contribute to the analysis. The book begins by focusing on individual SDGs, examining briefly the background to the particular goal and evaluating the opportunities and challenges (particularly governance challenges) in achieving the goal, as well as discussing how this goal relates to other SDGs. The book goes on to address the broader issues of achieving the set of goals overall, examiTrade Review"The agreement on the SDGs was above all, an important achievement in international cooperation. But more is needed to take commitments to implementation. This book provides a rich analysis of what is needed, goal by goal. It fills a gap in current debates on SDGs that has focused on country action and neglected the need for further international cooperation to address key obstacles that lie in global rules, resources and action." — Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Professor of International Affairs and Program Director, The New School, New York, USA"Adopted in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) put forward a broad, and potentially transformative, agenda for global economic, social, and environmental development. The chapters comprising this excellent volume explore key aspects of the global governance issues stemming from SDGs. The book is a must read for scholars and practitioners interested in the relationship between global governance and sustainable development." — Daniel Béland, McGill University, Canada"This valuable collection of papers explores the novel approach to global governance represented by the Sustainable Development Goals. Through a selection of goals, the SDGs set out a universal and transformative agenda for achieving an equitable and sustainable future. The authors recognise the opportunities of the SDGs, while illuminating the inevitable tensions and contradictions, contested priorities and challenges of coordination that are inherent in such ambition. Cutting across separate goals, and drawing on diverse disciplines, a range of arguments emerge around critical governance, financing and implementation challenges in the absence of hard enforcement mechanisms. The volume provides an immensely important resource for policy makers, practitioners and scholars seeking to look beyond individual goals and targets, to explore collective strategies for action and to grasp the transformative potential of the SDGs." — Sarah Cook, Director for the UNSW Institute for Global DevelopmentTable of ContentsForeword 1. Global Governance Challenges in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Introduction 2. Food System Lessons from the SDGs 3. From MDGs to SDGs: Health Slips in Global Priorities 4. Gender Equality from the MDGs to the SDGs: The Struggle Continues 5. Gender, Labour Migration Governance, and the SDGs: Lessons from the Case of Nepal 6. The Problem with International Migration and Sustainable Development 7. SDGs and Climate Change Adaptation in Asian Megacities: Synergies and Opportunities for Transformation 8. Climate Change, Security, and Sustainability 9. Development as a Determinant of Climate Risk and Policy Challenge 10. Religion and the Sustainable Development Goals 11. The Ecological Limits of the Sustainable Development Goals 12. Development as Usual: Ethical Reflections on the SDGs 13. Financing the Sustainable Development Goals: Beyond Official Development Assistance 14. Sustainable Finance and the SDGs: The Role of the Banking Sector 15. Global Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals

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Book SynopsisIn 2015, the United Nations launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to define and coordinate global priorities and aspirations up to 2030 in response to the economic, social and environmental challenges faced by the planet. Many governments across the world signed up to these goals. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon noted at the outset that business would be a vital partner in achieving the SDGs. This easy-to-digest book provides a critical evaluation of how a range of multinational companies from across different commercial sectors are currently addressing the SDGs and the challenges they are facing in contributing to them.The private sector has thus been set the challenge of responding positively in support of the SDGs whilst at the same time acting in the shorter-term interests of its stakeholders. Using a wealth of illustrative materials drawn from company reports and other sources, this book looks at the response of 80 companies and organisations from eight different industry sectors. It examines the different approaches taken, discusses how far the SDGs are actively supported and reviews how progress is being assessed against related targets and objectives. In addition to an analysis of each industry sector, the book provides a summary overview of all industry sectors studied, identifying the most and least supported SDGs overall.This book will be of interest to the fast-growing body of academics studying and researching sustainability, as well as to industry managers and public-sector operators involved in sustainability management and reporting. It provides detailed commentary and insights, and identifies both key themes from the research and critical issues for the successful implementation of the SDGs in the period up to 2030. Table of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Financial Services Industry; 2. The ICT Industry; 3. The Automotive Industry; 4. The Hotel Industry; 5. The Marketing and Media Industry; 6. The Pharmaceutical Industry; 7. The Retail Industry; 8. The Energy Industry; 9. Conclusion; Glossary of terms; Index

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Book Synopsis Chapter 1. An Overview of water, energy food and ecosystem interactions within the framework of sustainable development goals.- Chapter 2. Sustainable rural livelihoods and the role of Water, Energy, Food in Sustainable Development.- Chapter 3.  Challenges Facing water, energy and food MENA Region.- Chapter 4. Role of Water, Energy and Food Nexus in Sustainable Development: Case Studies.- Chapter 5. Analysis and Assessment of the water-food-energy nexus using Indices in the MENA region for Sustainable Development region.- Chapter 6. Territorial climate planning in water-scarce areas as a subnational integration process: Case of the Souss Massa, Region, Morocco.- Chapter 7. Future Scenarios of the Algerian food system against natural vulnerabilities and water challenges.- Chapter 8. Adaptation Model for Food security and the problem of Water resources in Algeria.- Chapter 9. Various water-agricultural management practices from the Water-Energy-Food viewpoint: Tomato and melon production case study.- Chapter 10. Standardized hydraulic incidents index (SHYINI): a new method to Analyze hydraulic incidents and their influence on Energy.-Chapter 11. Development of RO desalination system powered by PVT panels for rural areas in the MENA region.- Chapter 12. The Integrated Management of the Natural Resources within the Water-Energy-Food Sectors.- Chapter 13. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A focused review of enabling and accelerating factors for nexus implementation in the Mediterranean area.- Chapter 14. ICT tool to facilitate collaborative governance of water resources in the Mediterranean agriculture.- Chapter 15 Sediment Management for the Fertile Crescent and Southwest Asia in times of Global Warming.-Chapter 16 Sediment Management for the Nile River in times of Global Warming.- Chapter 17 Explore past, present, and future scenarios for climate change and natural resources in Saudi Arabia.- Chapter 18 Haloculture: a new approach to achieve food security and reduce climate change consequences for societies.- Chapter 19 Conclusions and Recommendations.

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Book SynopsisThis book critically examines Sustainable Development Goals and cities in developing countries with special reference to climate change, inclusion, diversity, and citizen rights in India. It discusses global issues of sustainability and climate change in the context of rapid urbanisation and focuses on the role of equitable and just processes of urban development aimed at protecting social diversity, redeeming natural environments and, pursuing economic growth geared towards improving the quality of life. The volume looks at the nature of opportunities and future challenges presented to cities and codifies ways to transcend these. It explores key themes such as mitigation of risks from heat island effects, devastating floods, and extreme weather events like droughts; improvement of air quality; compact development; reduction in urban sprawl and protection of agriculturally productive lands for long-term food security; growth of small and medium towns; protection of rurTable of Contents1. Introduction: Sustainable Development Goals, New Urban Agenda, and Climate Change PART I: Sustainable Development, Climate Risk and Resilience 2. Climate Risk and Resilience of Indian Cities 3. Indian Cities on the Ladder of Sustainable Development: What Can Make it a Success Story? PART II: Rights, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Quality 4. What is Right for the City or Right to the City: Criticality of Citizenship and Governance 5. Cities and the Dilemmas of Diversity 6. New Empirically Driven Approaches to Inclusive Human Development in Cities 7. Judging the Quality of Urbanisation in Cities and Towns of India PART III: Housing and Shelter 8. Incongruence between Housing Policy Intentions and Housing Needs 9. Universal Access to Shelter in Indian Cities PART IV: Carers of Indian Cities 10. Mapping India’s Urban Planners PART V: Interconnections and Interdependencies 11. Epilogue: Our Interconnected and Interdependent Future in the World of Pandemics

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Book SynopsisThe Inner Consultation, Second Edition sets out the author’s thoughts on how consulting skills, and methods of teaching them, have evolved in the 17 years since the book’s first publication. It also develops the theme of ‘curiosity’ as the key requirement for patient-centred consulting and provides a practical consultation model with five checkpoints to work to, advice for developing skills, and suggestions for doctors to ensure they know the cues in the consultation that require their full attention. All general practitioners, GP registrars, and medical professionals will find this book essential and thought-provoking reading.Trade Review"'The Inner Consultation has become one of the very few contemporary medical classics. This remarkable book focuses very clearly on both parties in the medical consultation. It is now well accepted that the consultation is the epicentre of general practice. Quality consulting makes us more effective, and makes our task both more interesting and more worthwhile. I was deeply humbled when I re-read the book so that I could prepare these words. I had forgotten quite what an astonishing book this is - how beautifully written, how wise and incisive and witty and fun it is. If you have neverread this book, you are in for a treat.' David Haslam, Chairman, Royal College of General Practitioners" 'This self help manual is obligatory for all trainees and trainers in general practice and those whose consultation skills have devolved to little more than wing and prayer. It will, as the author states boldly, enable you to consult more skilfully, more intuitively and more efficiently.A"' BMJTable of ContentsForewords to the first edition, About the author, Acknowledgements, Guarantee, Introduction to the second edition, Overview, Section A: Goal-setting, Section B: Skill-building, Section C: Getting it together, Appendix 1: An ‘Inner Consultation’ training programme, Appendix 2: Annotated bibliography, Index

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Book SynopsisThis book looks at migration in contemporary society and its interrelations with development. It presents the complexities and dilemmas associated with migration, the changes in theoretical and historical perspectives on migration and development, and the role of policies and the sustainable development goals in this context.The volume views migration as a phenomenon for advancing human development outcomes. It deals with wide-ranging issues including labour migration, the idea of decent work, migration and transnationalism, remittances, social networks and capital, and addressing poverty. The chapters highlight the focus of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and its relevance on migrant rights, safeguarding livelihoods and health. They also offer insights into regional and international co-operation on policies for migration, social growth and protection, and citizenship. With comparative analyses of data, trends and development indicators as well as various casTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Preface. 1. Contours of Migration and Development in the SDG Agenda 2. Migration and SDGs: Towards New Data Approaches 3. An Overview of Migration-Specific SDGs in the Indian Context and the Way forward on Target 10.7 4. SDG Implementation: A Policy Analysis of Internal Migration in India 5. Migration Governance and the Global Compact on Migration 6. Moving towards a Better Future: Education through Place making with Migrant Children 7. Young Migrant Women from South Asia in the UAE: Issues and Challenges 8. Young Bonded Labourers – from the lens of Migration and the SDGs 9. Recruitment Practices of Gulf Migrants in Telangana: A Boon or Bane? 10. Subcontracting and Construction Sector Labour Migration to Kerala: Challenges to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals on Decent Work 11. Potential Migration: A Case Study of Youth from Kerala. Epilogue. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book contains assessment of the progress, or the lack of it, in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through review of the assessments and of case studies, readers can draw lessons from the actions that could work to positively address the goals. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is designed to catalyze action in critical areas of importance to humanity and the planet. The effort to implement the SDGs, however, demands a sense of urgency in the face of environmental degradation, climate change, emerging conflicts, and growing inequality, among a number of other socio-economic problems. Five years after the launch of the 2030 Agenda, this book takes stock of how far the world has come and how we can position ourselves to achieve the global targets. The book is one of the first to assess how the implementation is impeded by the onset of COVID-19. It contains a special chapter on COVID-19 and the SDGs, while many thematic chapters on differentTrade Review"This impressive compendium adds refreshingly new perspectives on the contemporary discourse on SDGs and offers a rigorous assessment of best practices and challenges in their implementation, suggesting course-correction and review, based on lessons from diverse socio-cultural and geographical contexts. The rich empirical analysis is buttressed by a robust ethical framework. The editors do a stellar job of breathing normative life into it, transcending the conventional targets-indicators matrix and the moribund binaries of economic growth vs. environmental protection, infusing it with the ‘leave no one behind’ transformative impulse. The book throws its substantial intellectual weight behind the idea that building resilient societies requires an integrative vision and a sensitivity to complexity. The interconnectedness and linkages between the SDGs and the need to build synergy is a persistent leitmotif. The bold call for a rescript of the current multilateral system to render it more responsive to subaltern aspirations is evocative and compelling. The book’s rich inter-disciplinary non-linearity and its fidelity to the idea of ownership by civil society - not just its messianic leaders - lends it a refreshing vitality. This volume is an eloquent exhortation to governments to buck up, and equally an invitation to citizens to immerse themselves in an extraordinary enterprise, an exciting work-in-progress, to usher in a just and humane world, that is waiting to be born. The volume succeeds in making despair unconvincing and hope practical. An absolute ‘must read’!"Meenakshi Gopinath"This admirable book by Popovski, Kakar and Robinson, makes the ‘COVID-damage assessment’, but also finds opportunities to recover, build back green and fast, and fulfil the 2030 Agenda. The philosophical underpinnings of the idea of ‘sustainable development’, now half a century long since Stockholm 1972, resonates through the volume as does the commitment to ‘greater community of life’. The book points out growing inequalities and conflicts both within and between societies as the main cause of human suffering, and the need for a nexus between peace and development to reach the goals. It reinforces the meaning of peace, heiwa, which in Japan refers to equality of people, striving in harmony for the interest of all and sustaining resilience needed to recover from disasters and rebuild communities."Sukehiro Hasegawa"COVID-19 has dramatically illustrated how fragile and unequal our world remains, despite the good intentions of the SDGs. Sadly, as this collection of essays plainly shows, the achievement of the goals by 2030 – already a doubtful proposition - has now become even harder. Yet this instructive assessment reminds us that we must not give up on the SDGs. Quite the opposite, it shows why and how we should accelerate global efforts to protect our planet and people. This is a comprehensive and timely contribution to keeping the SDGs in public focus, vital to secure a better world for all."Alan Doss"COVID-19 sets back all SDGs and they may well be out of reach. A World Bank study found over 1600 different forms of gender discrimination embedded in the laws of UN member states, indicating that we will struggle to achieve gender equality and to empower all women and girls. The lack of meaningful action on climate change will put at risk the achievement of many other SDGs. Against the background of this sobering picture, this book is not only a call to action, but also an extremely useful roadmap. Kakar, Popovski and Robinson have assembled an impressive team of scholars who have managed to put a crucial message across: no matter the obstacles ahead, we must persevere because the stakes are inordinately high to unleash change and to enrich the lives of people everywhere."Augusto Lopez-Claros"Five years after the SDGs announcement, Kakar, Popovski and Robinson have published a comprehensive and timely resource on their implementation. They draw on several disciplines — anthropology, economics, governance, public administration, and politics — to provide goal-specific recommendations and best practices on how to accelerate action. The book adds value by addressing the critical issue of ‘climate victims’ and the need to establish legal status for climate refugees. One year and a half into a devastating pandemic, the book reminds us that a people-centric lens is necessary to reverse the adverse impacts on sustainable development. Now it is time for multilateralism to respond with action."Arunabha Ghosh"The oft-chanted appeal to "build back better" is a powerful rallying cry for all who hold out hope for human society post-COVID-19. The most compelling starting for defining how to do so is the implementation of the SDGs. That is precisely what Kakar, Popovski and Robinson offer us in this timely and urgently needed book outlining the challenges and concrete steps that are needed to transform the SDGs from good intentions to economic, social, and environmental transformation."Stephen Marks"The clock is ticking. The year 2030 by when we need to achieve the SDGs is approaching quickly, but just a few of them seem on track to be fulfilled. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the latest status of each goal and the challenges we face to build institutions for a sustainable future. A must-read for all who are interested in the future of the Planet."Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira "Achieving the SDGs will require assessment of their implementation and understanding of their impact. Kakar, Popovski and Robinson combine expertise and vision into insightful analysis of what has been achieved, and what and why has been missed. This comprehensive volume is not only an academic marvel, but also a guide to motivate action for accelerating improvement." Maria Ivanova "This book is timely and courageous. We have all agreed on the ambitious SDGs and now we have less than 10 years to achieve them. The examples of efforts made and challenges remaining for each of the goals will inform and encourage those who haven’t yet joined this crucial journey which must involve all of us. As the book tells us, with leadership, cooperation, commitment and a sense of urgency, we should be able to arrive at the hoped-for destination."Julia Marton-Lefèvre`"Fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals" offers valuable insights into collective actions to realize the SDGs that the UN member states challenged each other to achieve by 2030. With the global pandemic compounding both the difficulty and urgency of these efforts, this book outlines – for experts and general readers alike – how nations and all sectors can collaborate to achieve the ambitious yet vital 2030 Agenda.’Mark Kennedy"If the ambitions of the SDGs are achieved, our planet will be a far better place for all of humanity, for living generations and those to come. Ambition means little without implementation. This book makes an invaluable contribution by tackling the implementation problem - what has been achieved, what has worked and what has not, and what more needs to be done to realize the ambitions of the goals."Michael B. Gerrard "This ambitious volume contains some hidden gems: the chapter by David Nabarro and Joe Colombano is a timely reminder of how international health security underpins the entire SDG framework."Sam DawsTable of ContentsForewordPrefaceI SDGs in CONTEXTA. Special Introduction: H.E. B. Multilateralism Under Challenge: C. COVID-19 and the SDGs: II IMPLEMENTING THE SDGs P E O P L E Chapter 1: Extreme Poverty Eradication: Conceptual Evolution and Policy Challenges Chapter 2: Critical Assessment of the Latest Progress in Eradication of Extreme Poverty Chapter 3: Achieving Zero Hunger Using a Rights-based Approach to Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture Chapter 4: Health and Sustainable Development: Assessing Progress and Challenges Chapter 5: Gender Equality and Women Empowerment: Critical Assessment of the Implementation of SDG 5 Chapter 6: Sustainable Management of Water and Sanitation: A Long and Winding Road Ahead Chapter 7: Inclusive, Safe, and Resilient Cities and Settlements P R O S P E R I T Y Chapter 8: Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education: Why Are We Missing the Mark? Chapter 9: Environmental Education Chapter 10: STEM Education: Environmental Restoration Science in New York Harbor Chapter 11: Working Together Toward Sustained and Inclusive Growth Chapter 12: The Road to Sustainable IndustrializationAnna Shostya Chapter 13: Reducing Inequality and Sharing Opportunities for All P L A N E T Chapter 14: Accelerating the Energy Transformation Chapter 15: Toward Sustainable Consumption and Production Chapter 16: Missing Climate Action: Gaps in the Implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change Chapter 17: Climate Change and Small Islands Chapter 18: Achieving SDG 14: Time for a Global Ocean Approach Chapter 19: Legal Tools in Combating Marine Pollution and Mitigating the Effects of Acidification Chapter 20: Marine Pollution: Maximizing Synergies for Transformative Changes Chapter 21: Sustainable Use of Terrestrial Ecosystems and Protection of Biodiversity Chapter 22: Restoration of Ecosystems and Land Degradation Neutrality P E A C E Chapter 23: Peaceful Societies and Leaving No One Behind Chapter 24: Nigeria’s Alternative Pathway to Peace P A R T N E R S H I P Chapter 25: Partnering for a Better World: Shift from Sustainable Finance to Financing Sustainable DevelopmentChapter 26: Private Corporations and Environmental Social Governance: An Uneven ResponseChapter 27: From Means of Implementation to Implementation of Means: Realizing the SDGs as if they MatterIII INTEGRATING THE SDGs Chapter 28: Interlinkages between Climate Change, Economic Inequality, and Human MigrationChapter 29 Indigenous Peoples, the SDGs, and International Environmental lawChapter 30: Codification and Implementation of Customary International LawJuanChapter 31: Integrating the SDGs through "One Health"IV CONCLUSIONSChapter 32: Pathways to 2030

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Book SynopsisMillennium development goals (MDGs) and sustainable development goals (SDGs) have significant implications for global development, in particular for African countries. This book seeks to assist Africa's policy makers and political leaders, MNCs and NGOs, plus its increasingly heterogeneous media landscape, to understand and better respond or negotiate the evolving development environment of the 21st century.In this collection of nuanced essays, the contributors interrogate the relationship between the MDGs and SDGs in key areas of African development to enhance our understanding and knowledge of the evolving nature of development. They address issues of governance, agriculture, south-south cooperation in a context of foreign aid, natural resource governance and sustainable development, export diversification and economic growth as well as emerging topics such as the internet of things or the sharing economy, climate change, conflict and non-traditional security. The varied, yTrade Review"In exploring the international development community’s expanded the focus from MDGs to SDGs, this timely and well-written book offers a refreshing look at the synergies between the SDGs and Africa’s own development agenda and stresses the critical role that African leaders can play in achieving the SDGs." - Francis Owusu, Professorand Chair of the Department of Community & Regional Planning, Iowa State University."As an African researcher and educationist who lives on the continent, I believe "From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals" will be a point of reference for many years to come. The book is a brilliant piece of work in which the informed contributors give great thoughts for Africa’s positive way forward. It suggests practices that will shape the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals in Africa and brings unimaginable prospects in Africa closer in time and space. I highly recommend this comprehensive and well-reasoned contribution to the world." - Professor Hany Besada, Deputy Executive Director, Diamond Development Initiative. Table of ContentsChapter 1 – MDGs to SDGs: African Development Challenges and ProspectsChapter 2 – The African State and Development Initiatives: The Role of Good Governance in the Realization of the MDGs and SDGsChapter 3 – Conflict and Sustainable Development Goals in AfricaChapter 4 – From MDGs to SDGs: The Policy and Institutional Dynamics of African AgricultureChapter 5 – South-South Cooperation, SDGs, and Africa’s development: A Study of China’s Development Intervention in Ghana Chapter 6 – Natural Resource Governance & Sustainable Development in Africa: Are We There Yet?Chapter 7 – Does the Sophistication of Exports matter in Sustaining Growth in Middle-income African Countries?Chapter 8 – The Internet of Things and Sharing Economy: Harnessing the Possibilities for Africa’s Sustainable Development Goals Chapter 9 – Environment and Climate Change in Africa in an Era of Sustainable Development Goals Chapter 10 – Crystalizing Africa Rising Narrative with Sustainable Development

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Book SynopsisThis book offers insight into the use of empirical diffusionist models for analysis of cross-cultural and cross-national communication, translation and adaptation of the United Nationâs (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The book looks at three social analytical instruments of particular utility for the cross-national study of the translation and diffusion of global sustainable development discourses in East Asia (China and Japan). It explains the underlying hypothesis that, in the transmission and adaptation of global SDGs in different national contexts, three large groups of social actors encompassing sources of information, mediating actors and socio-industrial end-users form, shape and contribute to the complex, latent networks of social engagement. It illuminates how the distribution within these networks largely determines the level and breadth of the diffusion of global SDGs and their associated environmentalist norms. This book is an essential read forTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Growing Sustainability Discourse. 2. Social Diffusion of the Sustainability Discourse. 3. Current Developments towards Renewable Energy. 4. Development of Clean Energy in China and Japan. 5. Translation. 6. Multi-Sectoral Interaction for Social Diffusion of SDGs. 7. Corpus Research Methodologies. 8. Sustainable Living Discourse in China. 9. Diffusion of Sustainable Living Discourse in China and Japan. Conclusion. Appendices. References.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers insight into the use of empirical diffusionist models for analysis of cross-cultural and cross-national communication, translation and adaptation of the United Nationâs (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The book looks at three social analytical instruments of particular utility for the cross-national study of the translation and diffusion of global sustainable development discourses in East Asia (China and Japan). It explains the underlying hypothesis that, in the transmission and adaptation of global SDGs in different national contexts, three large groups of social actors encompassing sources of information, mediating actors and socio-industrial end-users form, shape and contribute to the complex, latent networks of social engagement. It illuminates how the distribution within these networks largely determines the level and breadth of the diffusion of global SDGs and their associated environmentalist norms. This book is aTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Growing Sustainability Discourse. 2. Social Diffusion of the Sustainability Discourse. 3. Current Developments towards Renewable Energy. 4. Development of Clean Energy in China and Japan. 5. Translation. 6. Multi-Sectoral Interaction for Social Diffusion of SDGs. 7. Corpus Research Methodologies. 8. Sustainable Living Discourse in China. 9. Diffusion of Sustainable Living Discourse in China and Japan. Conclusion. Appendices. References.

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Book SynopsisUses maps, charts and analysis to illustrate, trends, challenges and measurement issues related to each of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals.

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Book SynopsisThis book looks at migration in contemporary society and its interrelations with development. It presents the complexities and dilemmas associated with migration, the changes in theoretical and historical perspectives on migration and development, and the role of policies and the sustainable development goals in this context.The volume views migration as a phenomenon for advancing human development outcomes. It deals with wide-ranging issues including labour migration, the idea of decent work, migration and transnationalism, remittances, social networks and capital, and addressing poverty. The chapters highlight the focus of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and its relevance on migrant rights, safeguarding livelihoods and health. They also offer insights into regional and international co-operation on policies for migration, social growth and protection, and citizenship. With comparative analyses of data, trends and development indicators as well as various casTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Preface. 1. Contours of Migration and Development in the SDG Agenda 2. Migration and SDGs: Towards New Data Approaches 3. An Overview of Migration-Specific SDGs in the Indian Context and the Way forward on Target 10.7 4. SDG Implementation: A Policy Analysis of Internal Migration in India 5. Migration Governance and the Global Compact on Migration 6. Moving towards a Better Future: Education through Place making with Migrant Children 7. Young Migrant Women from South Asia in the UAE: Issues and Challenges 8. Young Bonded Labourers – from the lens of Migration and the SDGs 9. Recruitment Practices of Gulf Migrants in Telangana: A Boon or Bane? 10. Subcontracting and Construction Sector Labour Migration to Kerala: Challenges to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals on Decent Work 11. Potential Migration: A Case Study of Youth from Kerala. Epilogue. Index.

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Book SynopsisAfter training, it is common for teachers to feel adrift in the first few years - a fact reflected in the numbers who leave within the first few years. This book aims to address the factors that lead to this and is a source of advice for teachers on the first steps of the career ladder.Table of ContentsPart 1 Early professional development; Chapter 1 Getting the most from early professional development; Chapter 2 Early professional development activities; Part 2 Things that can help or hinder; Chapter 3 Performance management; Chapter 4 Being inspected; Part 3 Getting better …; Chapter 5 Getting even better in the classroom; Chapter 6 Managing your workload; Chapter 7 Handling tricky situations; Chapter 8 Leading and managing; Part 4 Getting on; Chapter 9 Career options; Chapter 10 Getting a new job;

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Book SynopsisArtificial Intelligence has a real impact on our lives and on our environment, and the Sustainable Development Goals enable us to evaluate these impacts in a systematic manner. AI for the Sustainable Development Goals shows how AI potentially affects all SDGs. Positively, but also negatively.Trade Review"Artificial Intelligence is continuously presented as the technology that will help solve some of the most complex problems of contemporary society, including the fight against climate change and global warming. However, reducing modern problems to mere engineering solutions is not straightforward and may have adverse consequences too. In this book, Sætra shows in an elegant and simple way how AI can indeed be a potential solution to some of the most pressing issues humanity is facing today. Yet, it also alerts about the dangers AI may entail without appropriate oversight and highlights the role and responsibilities of those wielding influence over such great powers. An excellent read and a stepping stone towards having AI serving the Sustainable Development Goals." -- Dr. Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Assistant Professor, eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies, Leiden University.Table of ContentsAuthor. 1 Introduction. 2 AI and the SDGs in Context. 3 The Challenge of Evaluating AI Impact. 4 Sustainable Economic Development. 5 Sustainable Social Development. 6 Sustainable Environmental Development. 7 Assessing the Overall Impact of AI. 8 Conclusion. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how innovation can serve as a powerful catalyst for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). As the world grapples with challenges such as climate change, inequality, health crises, and education gaps, this book presents innovation not only as a technological advancement but as a multidimensional process involving social, cultural, institutional, and organizational transformation. Through a rich compilation of real-world case studies, cross-disciplinary perspectives, and evidence-based insights, the book explores how innovative strategies are being designed and implemented across sectors to foster inclusive development, economic resilience, and environmental stewardship. It highlights how community-led solutions, digital tools, policy reforms, and collaborative frameworks can contribute to systemic change and more sustainable futures. The volume underscores the importance of context-sensitive innovation that responds to local needs while aligning with global sustainability objectives. Offering both conceptual frameworks and practical strategies, this book provides a roadmap for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers committed to integrating innovation with sustainable development. It will be of particular interest to those engaged in economics, environmental studies, public policy, development studies, and the broader sustainability discourse.

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Book SynopsisIn Pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals uses interviews and real-world case studies to delve into how initiatives like self-help groups and community lending have empowered women and contributed to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of poverty reduction (Goal 1) and women's empowerment (Goal 5).

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Book SynopsisThis book centers around an intense debate among donors, policymakers, development practitioners, and academics on the efficacy of aid in eradicating poverty while promoting human development. It seeks to fill the gap in present literature by presenting stories of better spending through implementing Sustainable Development Goals and addressing Agenda 2030 via indigenization of global development goals with initiatives at local and national levels. The book adopts an innovative approach to dealing with aid effectiveness by highlighting the relevance of better spending, rather than excessive spending. It does so with real-life examples of interventions made in the Global South to realize the vision of thinking globally and acting locally. These case studies speak to the significance of communities' role in shouldering responsibility for planning, financing, operating, and maintaining local developmental initiatives. The examples also demonstrate how aid serves its purpose whenTable of ContentsList of figures List of tables Foreword List of contributors PART I Citizens, state, and markets 1 Introduction and background: global goals, local action FAYYAZ BAQIRPART II Frameworks for better spending 2 Anatomy of an effective development operation: a finance minister considers whether to borrow from the World Bank ANTHONY CHOLST3 SDG tracking through SSC for better SDG spending HASANUZZAMAN ZAMAN AND SYED SAJJADUR RAHMANPART III South Asian landscape: moving from patronage to participation4 Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP): an Indian experience of rapid poverty reduction through women’s empowerment SHOAIB SULTAN KHAN5 An inspirational story: galvanizing local action for realizing global development goals: the story of BRAC making the 21st-century drive to eradicate extreme poverty at local levels NIPA BANERJEE6 Water management is water measurement FAYYAZ BAQIR7 Redefining and localizing development in Pakistan FURQAN ASIF8 Market-led development SHAKEEL AHMADPART IV Resilient communities in fragile states: Central South Asia 9 Community-driven development as a mechanism for realizing global development goals: the National Solidarity Programme and Citizens’ Charter Afghanistan Program NIPA BANERJEE10 Multidimensional poverty measurement and aid efficiency: a case study from Afghanistan ABDULLAH AL MAMUN AND SANNI YAYAPART V Non-zero options for local development 11 Development aid and access to water and sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa SANNI YAYA, OGOCHUKWU UDENIGWE, AND HELENA YEBOAH12 From more spending to better spending: the case of food and nutrition security in Ethiopia SANNI YAYA, NEVILLE SUH, AND RICHARD A NYIAWUNG13 Don’t spend more, spend better: improving the social efficiency of water and sanitation services in Uruguay and South Africa ADRIAN MURRAY AND SUSAN SPRONKPART VI Global South in the Global North 14 Indigenous peoples in Canada – the case of Global South in the Global North PART VII Social capital: the highest form of capital15 Conclusion: can a single spark create a prairie fire? FAYYAZ BAQIRAppendices Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores Nigeria's progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, presenting key country-specific lessons, as well as providing innovative solutions and practices which are transferrable to other emerging economies. Despite all of Nigeria's potential, and substantial oil revenues, poverty remains widespread and the country faces many challenges. The contributors to this book provide comparative historical and contemporary analysis of the main challenges for achieving progress in the SDGs, and make recommendations for the most effectives ways of developing, adopting, disseminating and scaling them. Starting with the conceptualisation and evolution of the SDGs, the book goes on to consider the goal on ending poverty, and the urgent need to combat climate change and its impacts. The book also reflects on the role of business and taxation, and the cultural and societal dimensions of the SDGs, including education, gender, and the role of the church. OveralTable of ContentsPart I: SDGs Conceptualisation and Evolution 1. Introduction: Evolution of the SDGs Framework 2. The Legal Framework for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria Part II: Reducing and Ending Poverty 3. Food Security through Technological Innovations in Agriculture: What Role for Law in Nigeria? 4. Implementing the Teaching Manpower Policy in Nigeria: An Imperative for Sustainable Development Part III: Take Urgent Action to Combat Climate Change and its Impacts 5. The Environment, Climate Change and Underdevelopment of Nigerian Cities 6. Towards Successful Delivery of Clean Drinking Water by 2030 in Nigeria: Dealing with the Challenges of Climate Change and Poor Environmental Practices 7. Examining Global Court Practices in Reducing Climate Change Impacts through Litigation: Lessons for Nigeria Part IV: Business and Taxation 8. Towards Corporate Sustainability in Nigerian Corporations: Opportunities and Disruptions 9. Taxation and the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria 10. SDGs and Private Public Partnerships in Nigeria Part V: Societal and Cultural Dimensions 11. SDG 3 and Maternal Health Rights: A Biosocial Approach to ending the VVF Scourge in Northern Nigeria 12. Churches and the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria 13. Staff Awareness of the Role of Education in Sustainable Development Goals: Evidence from the University of Benin 14. Towards an Inclusive Implementation of Sustainable Oceans, Seas and Marine Resources -SDG14: A Holistic Approach in Nigeria

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Book SynopsisSustainable Development Goals introduces the subject of sustainable development, delving into detail of the framework to address gaps and shortages in different disciplines and sectors. The global drivers of change are analysed and the opportunities and challenges of attainment of development goals are investigated.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an in-depth and deeply engaged conversation among interfaith religious leaders and interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in pursuit of an ethical consensus that could ground sustainable development efforts.Trade ReviewIn Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development, religious leaders of many faiths and scholars of many disciplines address the ethics of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Their message is timely and hopeful: the world’s great religious and ethical traditions share the common commitment to end poverty, assure social justice, and achieve environmental sustainability. The world can indeed come together to build the Future We Want. -- Ban Ki-moon, former secretary-general of the United NationsI came away from this book with a lot of new information and ideas but also a sense of relief: maybe it isn't too late; maybe humanity and much of the other life on the planet is not irrevocably lost and without hope. Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development brings together a broad coalition of authors from disparate disciplines and shows how all of their work is connected to the pressing need to address environmental degradation. -- Philip J. Ivanhoe, author of Oneness: East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All ConnectedTable of ContentsForeword, by Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch BartholomewIntroduction, by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Owen FlanaganPart I: Advancing the Common Good: Shared Virtues and Visions of Well-Being1. The Vision and Values of the Sustainable Development Goals, by Jeffrey D. Sachs2. A Social Movement to Make the Last First, by Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo3. Virtue Across Traditions: Common Ground?, by Owen Flanagan4. Secular Ethics, Moral Capital, and the Sustainable Development Goals, by Owen Flanagan5. The Current Resurgence of Interest in the Civil Economy Paradigm, by Stefano ZamagniPart II: Religious Traditions and the Common Good6. The Confucian Conception of the Common Good in Contemporary China, by Anna Sun7. Hinduism: “Consider the common good in all actions,” by Anantanand Rambachan8. Judaism and the Common Good, by David Rosen9. Buddhism and the Common Good, by Kyoichi Sugino10. Greek Orthodoxy and the Common Good, by John D. Zizioulas and Jesse Thorson11. Catholicism and the Common Good, by Daniel G. Groody12. Islam and the Common Good, by Hamza YusufPart III: An Ethical Consensus on Sustainable Development: Poverty13. The Challenge of Global Poverty, by Jeffrey D. Sachs14. Ethical Actions to End Poverty, by Anthony Annett15. Community-Based Poverty Reduction, by Jennifer Gross16. Judaism and Poverty, by David RosenPart IV: An Ethical Consensus on Sustainable Development: Peace17. On Peace and a Moral Framework for Statecraft, by Jeffrey D. Sachs18. Advancing Shared Well-Being as a Multireligious Vision of Positive Peace, by William F. Vendley19. Building Peace: Strategies, Resources, and Religions, by R. Scott ApplebyPart V: An Ethical Consensus on Sustainable Development: Migration20. The Drivers of Migration, by Jeffrey D. Sachs21. A Muslim Perspective on Refugees, by Hamza Yusuf22. Migration and Refugees: A Christian Perspective, by Daniel G. GroodyPart VI: An Ethical Consensus on Sustainable Development: Businesses as Agents of Sustainable Development23. Toward a Laudato si’ Coherent Corporate Responsibility Management, by Klaus M. Leisinger24. Sustainable Investment and Ethics in Action, by Kerry Kennedy25. The Case for Business in Achieving the SDGs, by Jacqueline CorbelliPart VII: An Ethical Consensus on Sustainable Development: Education26. The Challenge of Education, by Jeffrey D. Sachs27. What Will It Take to Meet the Sustainable Development Goal for Education?, by Radhika Iyengar28. “Only Connect”: Neuroscience, Technology, and Global Literacy, by Maryanne WolfPart VIII: An Ethical Consensus on Sustainable Development: Climate Justice29. Climate Disruption: A Personal Journey Into the Ethical and Moral Issues, by Veerabhadran Ramanathan30. The Religious Case for Environmental Care, by Emmanuel Adamakis31. Health Justice Is Climate Justice, by Ted Smith and Christina Lee Brown32. Environmental Injustice: How Treaties Undermine the Right to a Healthy Environment, by Lisa Sachs, Ella Merrill, and Lise Johnson33. Ethics in Action and Divestment, by Erin LothesPart IX: An Ethical Consensus on Sustainable Development: Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking, and Access to Justice for the Poor and Vulnerable34. Actualizing Justice for the Poor, by Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo35. Multireligious Action Against Modern Slavery and Trafficking, by William F. Vendley36. Violence Against the Poor and Ethics in Action, by Sharon Cohn WuPart X: An Ethical Consensus on Sustainable Development: Indigenous Peoples37. Care of the Earth, Care of the Soul: Indigenous Communities and Inner Climate Change, by T8aminik (Dominique) Rankin, Marie-Josée Tardif, and Daniel G. Groody38. Practical Approaches to Sustainable Development in Indigenous Communities and Traditional Populations of the Amazon, by Virgilio VianaPart XI: An Ethical Consensus on Sustainable Development: Corruption39. Understanding and Combatting Corruption, by Sean Hagan40. The Role of Institutions in Fighting Corruption, by Jermyn BrooksPart XII: An Ethical Consensus on Sustainable Development: The Future of Work41. Unions and the Future of Work, by Sharan Burrow42. The Coming AI Revolution: Is This Time Different?, by Carl Benedikt Frey43. Slow but Sure: Cooperatives and Integral Ecology, by Nathan Schneider44. The End of Work as We Know It: A Muslim Perspective, by Hamza YusufConclusion: Toward a Moral Economy, by Anthony Annett and Jesse ThorsonList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book represents an unusual intervention in debates about the nature of contemporary international development, where the majority of scholarship tends to concern itself with measuring or collating goal performance. Through a series of analyses of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this book explores development as a political construct, and is concerned with the kinds of epistemological, hegemonic, or politico-economic assumptions built into contemporary development policy, and the ensuing effectiveness the SDGs will have in terms of addressing or perpetuating the historical impoverishment of large groups of people living in poverty. The contributors to the book take issue with many of the assumptions upon which SDGs rest, while also broadening the conversation to pay attention to knowledge production, modernity, colonialism, exclusion, citizenship, and other conceptual insights. In this context, the book raises questions about the discourses and practices of theTable of ContentsForeword: The Shared Humanity of Global Development: Bio-politics and the SDGs Introduction: Leaving No-one Behind? The Politics of Destination in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals 1. Universal Access to Affordable Housing? Interrogating an Elusive Development Goal 2. Politics of Poverty: The Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals and the Business of Agriculture 3. Are Equity and Sustainability a Likely Outcome When Foxes and Chickens Share the Same Coop? Critiquing the Concept of Multistakeholder Governance of Food Security 4. Politics of ‘Leaving No One Behind’: Contesting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 5. Migration and Development after 2015 6. Re-centring ‘Race’ in Development: Population Policies and Global Capital Accumulation in the Era of the SDGs 7. Decoupling: A Key Fantasy of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda 8. The Affective Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals: Partnership, Capacity-Building, and Big Data

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Book SynopsisHalf of the world's people live in urban areas, and roughly a third of these live in desperate poverty without access to basic amenities. Taking on the themes of UN-HABITAT's Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities (2003), this new volume focuses on the deficiencies in the provision of water and sanitation where most of the populations of the developing world live: in towns and small cities. Drawing on extensive unpublished research and 15 commissioned papers from experts involved in designing and implementing innovative projects around the world, this is the first major study of the problems facing the smaller urban centres that are recognized to be of enormous importance by governments, international agencies, NGOs and service providers. Tackling these problems is a crucial part of development and of good governance, and critical to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. The volume will be essential reading for all professionals and researchers in the relevant fields and a valuable resource for teachers and students of urban development.Trade Review'I trust that this publication will help to bring a renewed awareness on the needs of small urban centres and their role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.' Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations, and Executive Director, UN-HABITAT 'A young girl's dream in urban slums or rural areas is to marry into a household with a latrine.' A young mother from an Indian Slum, heard at the Unheard Voices of Women event at the 12th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, New York 'Lack of access to water for meeting basic needs such as health, hygiene and food security undermines development and inflicts enormous hardship on more than a billion members of the human family.' Kofi Annan, Secretary General, United NationsTable of ContentsPart I Meeting Water and Sanitation Needs in Small Urban Centres * Part II Small Urban Centres and Large Villages: The Habitat of Much of the World's Low-Income Population? * Part III Deficiencies in Provision for Water and Sanitation in Small Urban Centres * Part IV Addressing Needs: How to Attain the MDG Targets in Each Locality * Part V Information for Action and Indicators for Monitoring Provision * Part VI Key Challenges to Meeting Needs in Small Urban Centres * Part VII Finance for Water and Sanitation in Small Urban Centres * Part VIII Integrated Water Resources Management and the Provision of Water Supply and Sanitation in Small Urban Centres * Part IX The Needed Pro-Poor Governance Framework in Small Urban Centres

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Book SynopsisThis book identifies both the consistencies and disparities between Catholic Social Teaching and the United Nation's (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With Pope Francis' Laudato si' encyclical, Catholicism seems to be engaging more than ever with environmental and developmental concerns. However, there remains the question of how these theological statements will be put into practice. The ongoing involvement of the Catholic Church in social matters makes it a significant potential partner in issues around development. Therefore, with the use of the comparative method, this book brings together authors from multiple disciplines to assess how the political and legal aspects of each of the UN's 17 SDGs are addressed by Catholic Social Teaching. Chapters answer the question of how the Catholic Church evaluates the concept of sustainable development as defined by the Agenda 2030 Goals, as well as assessing how and if it can contribute to shaping the contempoTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Agenda 2030, SDG 1, Catholic social teaching, poverty, social security, solidarity - Tomasz Szyszka, Piotr Broda-Wysocki and Radosław Mędrzycki Chapter 2. Agenda 2030, SDG 2, Catholic social teaching, hunger, food production, FAO - Waldemar Cisło, Katarzyna Góralczyk and Mariusz Sulkowski Chapter 3. Agenda 2030, SDG 3, Catholic social teaching, health care, life protection, health prevention - Jan Kazimierz Przybyłowski, Katarzyna Kucharska and Sebastian Sikorski Chapter 4. Agenda 2030, SDG 4, Catholic social teaching, education, ESD, missions - Jarosław Michalski, Rev. Piotr Tomasik and Beata Zbarachewicz Chapter 5. Agenda 2030, SDG 5, Catholic social teaching, gender, new feminism, housework - Małgorzata Pawlus, Andrzej Waleszczyński, and Magdalena Wilczek-Karczewska Chapter 6. Agenda 2030, SDG 6, Catholic social teaching, access to water, water distribution, water ecosystems - Małgorzata Laskowska, Marek Rzotkiewicz and Wojciech Kluj Chapter 7. Agenda 2030, SDG 7, Catholic social teaching, energy transformation, energy poverty, energy competition - Piotr Burgoński and Mariusz Szyrski Chapter 8. Agenda 2030, SDG 8, Catholic social teaching, sustainable economic growth, unemployment, exploitation - Bartosz M. Rydliński, Katarzyna Roszewska and Jarosław A. Sobkowiak Chapter 9. Agenda 2030, SDG 9, Catholic social teaching, industrialisation, digital revolution - Marek Robak, Andrzej Rudowski and Piotr Łuczuk Chapter 10. Agenda 2030, SDG 10, Catholic social teaching, inequality, migrants’ rights, social protection - Tomasz Płudowski, Anna Fidelus, Elżbieta Hanna Morawska and Jarosław Różański Chapter 11. Agenda 2030, SDG 11, Catholic social teaching, urban areas, cultural and environmental heritage, social integration - Katarzyna Flader-Rzeszowska, Henryk Skorowski and Jacek Jaworski Chapter 12. Agenda 2030, SDG 12, Catholic social teaching, consumption, harmony with nature - Mariusz Boguszewski, Piotr Burgoński and Małgorzata Starzomska Chapter 13. Agenda 2030, SDG 13, Catholic social teaching, climate change, climate education, Anthropocene - Dominika Dzwonkowska, Izabella Olejniczak and Kazimierz Pawlik Chapter 14. Agenda 2030, SDG 14, Catholic social teaching, ecosystems, marine resources, resilience - Barbara Strzałkowska and Krzysztof Opaliński Chapter 15. Agenda 2030, SDG 15, Catholic social teaching, soil degradation, environmental ethics - Adamczewski Bartosz, Krassimira Ilieva-Makulec, Agnieszka Klimska and Agata Kosieradzka-Federczyk Chapter 16. Agenda 2030, SDG 16, Catholic social teaching, individual freedom, access do justice, decentralisation - Irena Lipowicz, Grzegorz Embros and Krzysztof Cebul Chapter 17. Agenda 2030, SDG 17, Catholic social teaching, partnership, Catholic Church, inter-religious partnerships, implementation - Rafał Leśniczak, Ryszard F. Sadowski and Janusz Balicki Conclusion

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to incorporate the key events, trends and debates that are shaping development today, such as humanitarianism and the global refugee crisis, the growing number of fragile states, and the contested nature of trade and trade deals. Building on the book's original framework, the second edition also includes three new chapters which explore development in relation to global policy formation, focusing on the end of the UN Millennium Development Goals in 2015 and the start of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which will run until 2030. Designed to offer something different to the standard introductions to the topic, this issues-driven text examines the debates that have generated the most interest and passion among practitioners and non-practitioners alike. Always attentive to the contested and plural nature of the field, it makes the case for a genuinely interdisciplinary approach which takes full account of the impact of globalization. Both wide-ranging and critical, Understanding Development is the essential student guide to one of the most challenging subjects of our age.Trade Review"With three new chapters, this revised and updated edition of Understanding Development is essential reading for anyone wishing to explore the intersection of development, globalization and politics in the contemporary world. Paul Hopper offers an interdisciplinary perspective on vital themes, from poverty to international migration and humanitarianism, drawing from a range of academic and policy materials." Gareth Jones, London School of Economics“Dr. Paul Hopper offers an exemplary exploration of the many dimensions and constantly expanding frontiers of international development. Revised and updated, few accounts of this kind provide readers with a more comprehensive look at the field, from theory to practice. Suffused with contemporary events and cases, Understanding Development is a pristine piece of scholarship and is ideal for anyone new to development studies as well as seasoned scholars and practitioners across a broad range of disciplines.”African Studies Quarterly

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