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  • The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals

    Transforming Governance Through Global Goals?

    Edited by Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Carole-Anne Sénit ...
    Written by an international team of over sixty experts and drawing on over three thousand scientific studies, this is the first comprehensive global assessment of the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals, which were launched by the United Nations in 2015. It explores in detail the political steering effects of the Sustainable Development Goals on the UN system and the policies of ... Read more

    $114.79 USD

  • Rethinking Authority in Global Climate Governance

    How transnational climate initiatives relate to the international climate regime

    by Thomas Hickmann ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Global Environmental Governance
    In the past few years, numerous authors have highlighted the emergence of transnational climate initiatives, such as city networks, private certification schemes, and business self-regulation in the policy domain of climate change. While these transnational governance arrangements can surely contribute to solving the problem of climate change, their development by different types of sub- and non ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Anthropocene Debate and Political Science

    Edited by Thomas Hickmann, Lena Partzsch, Philipp Pattberg, Sabine Weiland ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Global Environmental Governance
    Anthropocene has become an environmental buzzword. It denotes a new geological epoch that is human‐dominated. As mounting scientific evidence reveals, humankind has fundamentally altered atmospheric, geological, hydrological, biospheric, and other Earth system processes to an extent that the risk of an irreversible system change emerges. Human societies must therefore change direction and navigate ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

    An A-Z Guide

    Edited by Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Yi hyun Kang, Carole-Anne Sénit, Yixian Sun ...
    Series series A-Z Guides for Environment and Sustainability
    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 ... Read more

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    Polycentricity in Action?

    Edited by Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Harro van Asselt, Johanna Forster ...
    Climate change governance is in a state of enormous flux. New and more dynamic forms of governing are appearing around the international climate regime centred on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They appear to be emerging spontaneously from the bottom up, producing a more dispersed pattern of governing, which Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom famously described as ... Read more

    $146.79 USD

  • Governing through Goals

    Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation

    Edited by Norichika Kanie, Frank Biermann ...
    Series series Earth System Governance
    A detailed examination of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the shift in governance strategy they represent.In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals built on and broadened the earlier Millennium Development Goals, but they also signaled a larger ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Non-Governmental Organizations, Management and Development

    by David Lewis ...
    Non-Governmental Development Organizations have seen turbulent times over the decades; however, recent years have seen them grow to occupy high-profile positions in the fight against poverty. They are now seen as an important element of ‘civil society’, a concept that has been given increasing importance by global policy makers. This book has evolved during the course of that period to be a prime ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

    Edited by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector in the provision of public services. Several of these efforts have employed the concept of co-production to better understand and explain this trend. This book aims to go further by systematizing the growing body of academic papers and reports that focus ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Democratizing Global Climate Governance

    by Hayley Stevenson, John S. Dryzek ...
    Climate change presents a large, complex and seemingly intractable set of problems that are unprecedented in their scope and severity. Given that climate governance is generated and experienced internationally, effective global governance is imperative; yet current modes of governance have failed to deliver. Hayley Stevenson and John Dryzek argue that effective collective action depends crucially ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Democracy and Sustainability

    Edited by Basil Bornemann, Henrike Knappe, Patrizia Nanz ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    This handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the dynamic and complex relationship between democracy and sustainability in contemporary theory, discourse, and practice. Distinguished scholars from different disciplines, such as political science, sociology, philosophy, international relations, look at the present state of this relationship, asking how it has evolved and where it is ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Capacity for Development

    New Solutions to Old Problems

    Edited by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Carlos Lopes ...
    'The United Nations system was a pioneer in the field of technical cooperation, and capacity development is its central mandate. UNDP has long played an important leadership role in both, as a source of technical cooperation funds and advisory services and as the home of innovative intellectual research and analysis on how to make them more efficient and effective. This book [presents] a vision ... Read more

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  • Improving the Sustainable Development Goals

    Strategies and the Governance Challenge

    by Lars Niklasson ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
    Improving the Sustainable Development Goals evaluates the Global Goals (Agenda 2030) by looking at their design and how they relate to theories of economic development. Adopted unanimously by the member states of the United Nations (UN) in 2015, the goals are remarkable for the global commitment on a set of targets to reach by 2030, but also for the lack of a strategy of implementation. The choice ... Read more

    $32.99 USD