📗 Libro en inglés ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT G OALS

This book provides a highly accessible and easy to navigate 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 years 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