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This volume examines the legacies and historical context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The complex background of relationships, actors, and institutions of the several goals are explored in detail by international experts from a range of disciplines.
List of contents
- Overview of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals
- Introduction: The Long and the Short Road to the Sustainable Development Goals
- 1: Martin Ravallion: SDG 1 - On the Idea of Ending Poverty
- 2: Derek Byerlee and Jessica Fanzo: SDG 2 - The Elusive Quest to End World Hunger
- 3: Martin Gorsky and Erica Nelson: SDG 3 - Historical Perspectives on International Policies to Improve Health and Well-Being
- 4: Eckhardt Fuchs: SDG 4 - Global Education Unfolding: Concepts, Emergence, Objectives
- 5: Claire Somerville and Maria Amalia Pesantes: SDG 5 - A Long, Short, and Unfinished History of the Journey to Gender Equality
- 6: Petri S. Juuti, Riikka P. Rajala, Jarmo J. Hukka, and Tapio S. Katko: SDG 6 - Changing International Policies on Safe Water and Sanitation after World War Two
- 7: Anthony Penna: SDG 7 - A History of Fossil Fuel Consumption and Its Replacement with Renewable Sources of Energy
- 8: Zhun Xu and Shouvik Chakraborty: SDG 8 - Growth, Decent Work, and the Green Transition
- 9: Martin Gutmann and Olutayo Adesina: SDG 9 - Historicizing Production, Innovation, and Infrastructure, from the Industrial Revolution to Contemporary African Strategies of Industrialization
- 10: Anne Marie Brady: SDG 10 - The Politics and Policies of Inequality in the West, 1800-2015
- 11: Jeremy Caradonna and Cameron Owens: SDG 11 - The Past, Present, and Future of Sustainable Cities
- 12: Aniruddha Bose and Benjamin Möckel: SDG 12 - Sustainability and the World of Goods since the Industrial Revolution
- 13: John Haldon, Adam Izdebsky, Luke Kemp, Lee Mordechai, and Ben Trump: SDG 13 - How Societies Succeeded or Failed to Respond to Environmental Disruption
- 14: Poul Holm: SDG 14 - Exploiting and Managing the Alien and Unseen World below Water
- 15: Christine Fürst and Martin Gutmann: SDG 15 - Caretaking, Conservation, and Exploitation in the Evolving Relationship between Humans and Life on Land
- 16: Christine Smith-Simonsen: SDG 16 - The Many Pieces of Peace
- 17: Daniel Gorman: SDG 17 - The History of Global Partnerships and International Cooperation
About the author
Martin Gutmann is a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He was previously a senior lecturer and Managing Director of the ETH Zurich Swiss School of Public Governance, where he designed an executive education programme for international policy makers on leadership and the SDGs.
Daniel Gorman is Professor of History at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA). He is the former Director of the PhD program in Global Governance at the BSIA.
Summary
This volume examines the legacies and historical context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The complex background of relationships, actors, and institutions of the several goals are explored in detail by international experts from a range of disciplines.
