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Sustainable Development, Government Efficiency, and People’s Happiness
Today’s society appears prosperous, but it faces the challenges of unbalanced development due to climate change, economic growth, social equality,...
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Climate Change, Politics and the Transformation Challenge
Politics is a key factor in determining the societal construction of risk, its use and the consequences of that use. Societal transformation is...
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Practice and Politics of Land Use for Urban Climate Mitigation and Adaptation in Blantyre and Lilongwe Cities, Malawi
Malawi’s population is fast growing, with a good share of urban residents being susceptible to environmental risks and disasters. This risk is...
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Politics and Health
The discipline of politics examines the debates, ideas and institutions that surround community organization and collective decision-making about...
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‘Incantatory’ Governance: Global Climate Politics’ Performative Turn and its Wider Significance for Global Politics
The 2015 Paris agreement represents a deep-rooted change in global climate governance. While existing scholarly assessments highlight central...
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The Sustainable Housing Challenge
This chapter explores historic, current, and future challenges that are contributing to holding back a sustainable housing transition. In doing this,...
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Leaving no One Behind: Displaced Persons and Sustainable Development Goal Indicators on Sexual and Reproductive Health
This paper critically reviews evidence on the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of people displaced due to conflict and violence, addressing the...
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Providing Sustainable Housing through Sustainability Transitions
In this chapter, we explore the concept of sustainability transitions and how it offers a framework to change some of the deep structural elements...
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The Sustainable Development Goals
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 represents today, one of the main milestones toward...
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Sustainable Development: Ways to the Common Future
Sustainable development, the global policy including all components of the Great Transformation to deal with the social and ecological problems,...
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A Synergy Between Sustainable Solid Waste Management and the Circular Economy in Tanzania Cities: a Case of Scrap Metal Trade in Arusha City
The increased demand for secondary materials, particularly scrap metals, in cities due to development activities in both emerging economies and...
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Critical Reflection on Discourses of Sustainable Development
This chapter critically reflects on the contested discourse of sustainable development. The notion of sustainable development as a contested concept...
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Universal Health Coverage with Private Options: The Politics of Turkey’s 2008 Health Reform
Over the past decades, countries across the Global South have been adopting expansionary health reforms and are increasingly doing so under the...
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Religion, Politics, and Ideology: Migration and Everyday Assertion
This chapter investigates the sub-themes of religion, politics, and ideology of Dalit migrants as well as the ways in which their beliefs have...
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Socio-Technical Dimensions for a Sustainable Housing Transition
In this chapter, we explore key socio-technical dimensions that we have identified through the wider literature and our own sustainable housing...
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The Sustainable Development Goals as Epistemic Infrastructures
Over the last three decades, quantification has emerged as the predominant governing logic in global public policy. In this introductory chapter, we...
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Electoral Politics, Fiscal Policy, and the Resource Curse
While some governments use natural resources for immediate political gain, others create transparent institutions that promote sustainable...
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Urban Expansion and Sustainable Water Argumentation for Africa’s Cities
The chapter argues that urban expansion and sustainable water augmentation is a colonial engineered problem whose impact if not tamed will perpetuate...
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Sustainable Development
Sustainability has been defined in many different ways in the literature. However, the common point of all definitions is that they have financial,...