Thomas Hickmann
Associate professor | Senior lecturer | Recognised Teaching Practitioner
Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals : An A-Z Guide
Editor
- Frank Biermann
- Thomas Hickmann
- Yi Hyun Kang
- Carole Anne Sénit
- Yixian Sun
Summary, in English
This book provides a highly accessible and user-friendly overview of the essential concepts and terms related to the current global endeavour to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.
With the first decade of the 15-year timespan of the 2030 Agenda now past, the SDGs show limited progress and several goals are even regressing. It is imperative that SDG implementation is accelerated until 2030 and beyond to foster transformations and set the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. The book starts with a thematic introduction to contextualize the topic and set the stage for the individual entries. It then follows an A-Z format, with over 100 entries which describe an important concept or term, using practical examples to illustrate how it connects to the overall debate about sustainable development. It offers swift introductions to key concepts and terms that are discussed and explained by scholarly and policy experts from around the world in a concise and user-friendly way.
The guide is comprehensive in scope, practically oriented and focused on political and societal processes to drive change on a larger scale. With cross-references to related terms in the entries, this book will be a highly valuable resource for students and practitioners engaged with the SDGs and sustainable development more broadly.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Licence 4.0 International (CC- BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 International license.
With the first decade of the 15-year timespan of the 2030 Agenda now past, the SDGs show limited progress and several goals are even regressing. It is imperative that SDG implementation is accelerated until 2030 and beyond to foster transformations and set the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. The book starts with a thematic introduction to contextualize the topic and set the stage for the individual entries. It then follows an A-Z format, with over 100 entries which describe an important concept or term, using practical examples to illustrate how it connects to the overall debate about sustainable development. It offers swift introductions to key concepts and terms that are discussed and explained by scholarly and policy experts from around the world in a concise and user-friendly way.
The guide is comprehensive in scope, practically oriented and focused on political and societal processes to drive change on a larger scale. With cross-references to related terms in the entries, this book will be a highly valuable resource for students and practitioners engaged with the SDGs and sustainable development more broadly.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Licence 4.0 International (CC- BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 International license.
Department/s
- LU Profile Area: Nature-based future solutions
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
- Department of Political Science
- CIRCLE
Publishing year
2025-07
Language
English
Full text
Document type
Book
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Topic
- Political Science
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 9781040392454
- ISBN: 9781032841694