Health-EDRM in International Policy Agenda III: 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and New Urban Agenda (Habitat III)

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-114
Author(s):  
Emily Ying Yang Chan ◽  
Janice Y. Ho ◽  
Chi Shing Wong ◽  
Rajib Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
New Urban Agenda

Enhancing the Transformative Potential of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Global Jurist ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Akestoridi ◽  
Francesco Seatzu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Missed Opportunity

AbstractThis work consists in a critical examination of an argument which purports to prove that unless the mainstream model which dominates the development industry changes, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will become a missed opportunity to eradicate poverty. The work is structured into three sections (plus an introduction and a conclusion) as follows: section one provides an overview of the previous UN policy agenda, the Millennium Development Goals; section two examines the SDGs framework as articulated in the 2030 Agenda. Building upon the latter, section three inquires why socio-economic growth should be the sole measure of human progress.

scholarly journals One fits all?

2018 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
Paulina Schiappacasse ◽  
Bernhard Müller
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Urban And Regional Development ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
New Urban Agenda

Abstract Resilience ranks high on the environmentally oriented research agenda on sustainable urban and regional development. The annual “Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation” has become a meeting point for academia and practice. The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development uses the term in two of their 17 Sustainable Development Goals, i.e., in Goal No. 9 on infrastructure as a basis for economic development and No. 11 on cities and human settlements. Moreover, resilience has become a prominent topic in the New Urban Agenda. Against this background, the article provides an overview of recent discussion on resilience. It scrutinizes how the concept has been used by different researchers from diverse disciplines with special reference to urban, regional and environmental studies. A systematic literature review on resilience was carried out in order to shed light on recent developments of thought and practice. All in all, 650 articles were reviewed. Following an introduction into the topic and description of the applied methodological approach, different facets of the debate on resilience are presented, and conclusions are drawn. It can be seen that the discussion of resilience needs more specificity, transdisciplinary approaches, and regional contextualization, especially in urban and regional development studies in the countries of the global south.

scholarly journals Sustainable Development in International Law: History, Normative Consolidation and Value for the Legal Protection of the Baikal World Heritage Site

2020 ◽  
pp. 247-257
Author(s):  
Roman Yu. Kolobov ◽  
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Elena D. Makritskaia ◽  
Yaroslava B. Ditsevich ◽  
Dmitry V. Shornikov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Lake Baikal ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Settlement Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Outcome Document ◽  
New Urban Agenda ◽  
Natural Territory

The article continues the study of the international legal basis of the regime of legal protection of Lake Baikal, supported by the RFBR grant (Project No. 20-011-00618). The origin of the category “sustainable development” is revealed, and the main stages of the formation of perceptions of sustainable development are noted. Particular attention is paid to the basic ideas of the report “Our Common Future”, also known as the Bruntland Commission report. Two components of sustainable development under this instrument are noted: needs (present and future generations) and constraints. The normative integration of the concept of sustainable development into international instruments is analysed: the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (Rio Declaration); the Millennium Development Goals; The Future We Want, the outcome document of the 2012 Conference on Sustainable Development; and the sustainable development goals of 2015. A separate block of research is the criticism of the concept of sustainable development developed both in Western (D. Carruthers, I. Bluhdorn, L. Tulloch) and in the domestic (M.M. Brinchuk) doctrine of environmental law. Based on the results of the analysis of the concept, it is concluded that the concept should be used primarily for the organic development of settlements located within the Lake Baikal Natural Territory. In the system of sustainable development goals, the issue of settlement development is addressed in Goal No. 11. In addition, the conclusions of the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Development (Habitat 3) have considerable potential. The article reviews Habitat Outcome Document 3 The New Urban Agenda, briefly compares it with the documents of previous UN-Habitat conferences, describes the content of the New Urban Agenda, identifies the basic principles of sustainable human settlement development, and addresses criticisms of the document analysed in the article. In the final part of the article, the authors analyse the documents on the territorial development of settlements located within the boundaries of the Lake Baikal Natural Territory. The conclusion is formulated that the principles of the New Urban Agenda should be incorporated into the development plans of the above-mentioned settlements, in particular, the principles of the development and introduction of indicators of urban sustainability. A number of proposals are made to reflect the principles of sustainable development in such documents.

Development goals and geography

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana M Liverman
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
International Policy ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Finance ◽  
Development Data ◽  
Development Goals

In response to the four excellent commentaries on my article, I address several points including the significance of development finance, the problems of development data, and questions about how development goals are created and for whom. I also provide assessment of some more recent literature on the Sustainable Development Goals and consider the rise of neoliberal metrics and the changes in US international policy that affect development.

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