Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals - Global Governance Challenges

List of contents

Foreword 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

About the author

Simon Dalby, Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Susan Horton, Professor, School of Public Health and Health Systems, and Professor, Economics, University of Waterloo, Canada
Rianne Mahon, Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs and Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Diana Thomaz, Doctoral Candidate, Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

Summary

This book draws on the expertise of faculty and colleagues at the Balsillie School of International Affairs to both locate the SDGs as a contribution to the development of global government and to examine the political-institutional and financial challenges posed by the SDGs.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Horton Dalby, Susan Horton, Rianne Mahon, Diana Thomaz
• Assisted by: Simon Dalby (Editor), Dalby Simon (Editor), Susan Horton (Editor), Horton Susan (Editor), Rianne Mahon (Editor), Diana Thomaz (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367730345
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73034-5
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, NATURE / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Politics & government, Environmental Economics, Science / Environmental Science, Politics and government, Environmental policy & protocols, Development Studies, Environmental policy and protocols