Implementing the “Sustainable Development Goals”: towards addressing three key governance challenges—collective action, trade-offs, and accountability
Realising the aspirations of the “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) to reduce inequality, limit ecological damage, and secure resilient livelihoods is a grand challenge for sustainability science, civil society and government. We identify three key governance challenges that are central for implementing the SDGs
The three key governance challenges are:
(i) cultivating collective action by creating inclusive decision spaces for stakeholder interaction across multiple sectors and scales;
(ii) making difficult trade-offs, focusing on equity, justice and fairness;
(iii) ensuring mechanisms exist to hold societal actors to account regarding decision-making, investment, action, and outcomes.
The paper explains each of these three governance challenges, identifying possible avenues for addressing them, and highlights the importance of interlinkages between the three challenges.
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- Publication title
- Implementing the “Sustainable Development Goals”: towards addressing three key governance challenges—collective action, trade-offs, and accountability
- Publication date
- 11 July 2017
- Publication type
- Publication
- Magazine
- Current opinion in environmental sustainability
- Product number
- 2949