Metagovernance for Sustainability - A Framework for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

This book tests the hypothesis that the implementation of sustainable development, in particular the 2015 SDGs, cannot be successful without metagovernance. Based on literature on governance and metagovernance, and taking into account societal factors in different countries, it presents a framework for the design and management of SDG implementation.

List of contents

Part 1. What is and for what governance? 1. Introduction: The problem with sustainability governance. 2. Three governance styles and their hybrids. 3. Governance failures and their causes. 4. Introducing metagovernance: governance of governance. Part 2. Features of metagovernance. 5. Fifty Shades of Governance: A toolbox. 6. How values, traditions and geography shape the feasibility of governance approaches. 7. Mind-sets and mental silos: Rise and fall of simple switches. Part 3. Metagovernance for Sustainability. 8. Metagovernance challenges for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. 9. Metagovernance: sketching a method. 10. Metagovernance, public sector reform, coherence promotion and capacity building. 11. Conclusions: Metagovernance as framework for SDG implementation

About the author

Louis Meuleman is member of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA)(2018-2021), and works at the European Commission in Brussels as coordinator of the Environmental Implementation Review and the greening of the 'European Semester.' He is affiliated with the universities of Leuven (Belgium), Massachusetts Boston (USA) and Wageningen (the Netherlands).

Summary

This book tests the hypothesis that the implementation of sustainable development, in particular the 2015 SDGs, cannot be successful without metagovernance. Based on literature on governance and metagovernance, and taking into account societal factors in different countries, it presents a framework for the design and management of SDG implementation.

Product details

• Authors: Louis Meuleman, Meuleman Louis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2020
• EAN: 9780367500467
• ISBN: 978-0-367-50046-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; NATURE / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Science / Environmental Science, Environmental policy & protocols, Development Studies, Environmental Monitoring, Environmental policy and protocols