The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals Legitimacy, Responsibility, and Accountability

You must be logged in to access this title.

Sign up now

Already a member? Log in

Synopsis

This book draws attention to political aspects of sustainable development goal-setting, exploring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the global-national nexus during their first five years.

After broad global deliberation and political negotiations, the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs were adopted in the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 2015, and by now many countries have political structures in place for working towards their realisation. This book explores three concepts to call attention to the political qualities of processes related to the SDGs: legitimacy, responsibility, and accountability. Legitimacy is required to obtain broad political ownership for policy goals in order for them to become effective in addressing cross-border sustainability challenges. Responsibility needs to be clearly distributed among political institutions if a long-term set of broad goals such as the SDGs are to be realised. Accountability to the public is the retrospective mirror of political responsibility. The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals contributes new knowledge on political processes at the nexus of global and national levels, focussing on three countries at different levels of socio-economic development and democratisation: namely Ghana, Tanzania, and Sweden. These countries illustrate a variety of challenges related to the realisation of the SDGs.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable development, international organisations, and global politics.

Book details

Series:
Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
Author:
Magdalena Bexell, Kristina Jönsson
ISBN:
9781000395570
Related ISBNs:
9781032008691, 9781003043614, 9780367489489, 9781032008691, 9781003043614, 9780367489489
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
174
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2021-06-09
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2021
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Business and Finance, Earth Sciences, Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Politics and Government