Dissertations / Theses: '2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development'

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Haarni, Viktoria. "Degrowth - an Analysis of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-454051.

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The United Nations member states adopted and signed the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, establishing a framework for global discussion on sustainable development. The inclusion of 'Economic Growth' in these goals begs the question of what constitutes sustainable economic growth in the eyes of the UN. This insight, in conjunction with the ongoing debate about the growth paradigm, growthism, and the limits to growth, is, to put it mildly, fascinating and worth examining. Numerous studies conducted on this issue reveal that conventional economic growth is unsustainable and that alternative strategies must be used to bring about a paradigm shift. The purpose of this research is to determine whether traits of a competing discourse known as 'Degrowth' may be detected in the United Nations' discourse of sustainable economic growth. Whilst sustainable development has been a prominent topic for decades, Degrowth can be perceived as a more recent, less mainstream, and even radical discourse. The discourse emphasizes the limits to growth and advocates for democratically-led shrinking in production and consumption with the goal of achieving equality, justice and ecological sustainability. In order to accomplish the research project’s objective, the discourse and key characteristics of Degrowth are explored. The study was conducted as a qualitative case study (design) using document analysis as the method. The analysis was guided by the theoretical lens combining Dryzek’s discourse analysis approach and Cosme et al.’s framework. By examining solely documents produced by the UN itself, this analysis concluded that while there are some parallels between the UN’s discourse of sustainable economic growth and Degrowth, there is a distinct difference between the two. The SDGs represent the traditional understanding of sustainable development, a discourse in which it is believed that economic growth can and will be decoupled from ecological degradation and that growth, in fact, is the key to poverty eradication, whereas Degrowth represents a school of thought in which the capitalistic system is viewed as the culprit to a majority of issues at hand and that decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation has been declared as debunked.

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Ceaser, Cheslyn Craig. "Agenda 2030: A South African perspective on the sustainable development goals." University of Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7348.

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Environmental degradation and the impacts on sustained life for all on Earth has become a global concern. Climate change illustrates one of the Anthropocene affects on continued life for both human and non-humans. The global recognition of the importance of addressing climate change in light of Sustainable development has been well noted in international instruments inter alia the Kyoto Protocol, The Rio Declaration and the Paris Agreement. In recognizing the importance of continued sustainable development on Earth, various soft law goals were adopted.
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Donato, Nicola <1990&gt. "Decent work and the 2030 Agenda: a path towards a sustainable development." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/11727.

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Nel settembre 2015 le Nazioni Unite hanno adottato “l’Agenda 2030 per uno sviluppo sostenibile” che con i suoi 17 obiettivi per lo sviluppo sostenibile guiderà le politiche di sviluppo internazionali per un periodo di 15 anni dal 2015 al 2030. Il fattore che differenzia questa iniziativa delle Nazioni Unite è la presa in considerazione , all'interno degli obbiettivi dell'Agenda 2030, di un elemento chiave per l’eliminazione della povertà e lo sviluppo dell’umanità: la piena occupazione e il lavoro dignitoso. In questa epoca caratterizzata dalla globalizzazione bisogna tenere conto del carattere sempre più globale che ha acquisito la concezione di sviluppo. L’agenda 2030, in questo senso, si propone come base e guida per la costruzione di un framework globale in grado di garantire uno sviluppo equo, inclusivo e sostenibile per tutti. Per sviluppo sostenibile si intende uno sviluppo in grado di assicurare «il soddisfacimento dei bisogni della generazione presente senza compromettere la possibilità delle generazioni future di realizzare i propri». Il presente elaborato presenta la storia dell’ Organizzazione Internazionale del Lavoro (OIL) e il suo percorso verso la creazione di un contesto globale in grado di raggiungere uno sviluppo sostenibile. La tesi continua poi con l’analisi dell’Agenda 2030 e dei vari rapporti tra lavoro e sostenibilità. Gli ultimi capitoli sono dedicati al concetto di lavoro dignitoso e al suo ruolo in ambito internazionale.

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Engwall, Mikaela. "Agenda 2030 for sustainable development and the role of companies : A human right based approach to sustainable development." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-351840.

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The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the understanding of human rights in Agenda 2030 and the role of companies by adopting a human rights-based approach to sustainable development. It applies a qualitative idea analysis of the primarily material where central concepts are operationalized by constructing a model of analysis based on dimensions. The dimensions of human rights as moral, politics and law, derives from previous research by the ethical theorist Elena Namli. A potential fourth dimension, the economic dimension of human rights, is further developed, applying research of the economists Dan Seymour and Jonathan Pincus. Furthermore, this research considers what Agenda 2030 indicates in terms of human rights obligations for companies and the impacts the perceived role of companies may have for human rights. Therefore, the theoretical framework is complemented by research of the political theorist Thomas Pogge's, and international lawyer Andrew Clapham’s ideas of human rights obligations for companies. The results show that Agenda 2030 encourages a multi-stakeholder approach and addresses companies as partners in order to achieve a sustainable development based on human rights. This can be regarded as an opportunity to enhance the respect, protection and fulfillment of human rights, inviting more actors to contribute in a complementary way to states. At the same time challenges remains in creating policies, accountability and monitoring mechanisms towards companies bothin terms of human rights and companies’ performance on the SDGs. Until there is more legal clarity, the moral question of what is good and fair business practice becomes central.

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Verleye, Rikenberg Emma. "Europe and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development : The Future of European Integration." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-95932.

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This thesis is a theory consuming case study that aims to examine how the Council of the European Union voted in matters regarding the environment between 2015 and 2019 in order to begin the implementation of the 2030 Agenda’s Sustainable Development Goal number 13. Moreover, the thesis further examines the impact of the Council’s voting results on the European integration process by using rational choice institutionalism and three explanatory factors; ideology, institutional factors and economical position in the EU. The findings of the thesis show that the member states in the EU voted diversely and that only four member states constantly voted yes throughout 2015 to 2019. Despite the diversity in voting, the factors and the theory utilised here helped explain why it is unlikely that disintegration would occur. As a result, it is clear that the European integration process will continue even though the voting results of the Council could impact further integration or even disintegration due to the member states’ various preferences. The future of European integration thus continues to be uncertain.

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Angelstam, Mikael. "A Future in Sustainable Development : Backcasting the SDGs." Thesis, KTH, Miljöstrategisk analys (fms), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-211256.

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In 2015 the 17 Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by 193 member states of the United Nations. The SDGs are highly ambitious and their underlying processes are interconnected by causal relationships. Work towards fulfilling them therefore requires considering how solutions for one goal will impacts others. In this study target-oriented backcasting is applied to examine set goals in the future, as well as to determine the current state and trends of development. This is done in an effort to determine conflicts between targets and resource limitations of future development. The findings suggest that the current paradigm of giving GDP growth highest societal priority, leads to a causal relationship where development occurs at the expense of sustainability at the global level. In order to overcome this, the fulfilment of the SDGs has to be given higher priority than the size and growth rate of the GDP.
Under 2015 antogs de 17 globala hållbarhetsmålen av 193 medlemsstater i Förenta Nationerna. Målen är väldigt ambitiösa och deras underliggande processer sammanlänkar dem via orsakssamband. Arbetet med att uppfylla målen kräver därför att hänsyn tas till hur tänkta lösningar till ett mål i sin tur påverkar de övriga. I den här studien tillämpas target-oriented backcasting för att undersöka de uppsatta framtida målen, samt hur utvecklingen i dagsläget förhåller sig till dessa. Detta görs som ett försök att identifiera konflikter mellan de uppsatta målen, samt mot den begränsade mängden naturresurser som finns tillgänglig för framtida utveckling. Resultaten tyder på att under det rådande paradigmet där BNP tillväxt ges högsta prioritet i samhället, leder detta till ett orsakssamband där samhällsutveckling sker på bekostnad av långsiktig hållbarhet på global nivå. För att kunna komma runt detta krävs att uppfyllandet av de globala hållbarhetsmålen prioriteras över ekonomins storlek och tillväxt avseende BNP.

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Sandell, Linnea. "Sweden in the Global Leader's Jersey : Constructing Leadership for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-339561.

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In September 2015, the leaders of the world agreed to head on a journey towards a socially, environmentally and economically sustainable future at 2030 by the adoption of the 2030 Agenda containing 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Sweden pledged to be the global leader in this transition. This study explores how Sweden constructs this leadership narratively and in which manner it is legitimized, using concepts borrowed from Pierre Bourdieu as an added dimension to the narrative analysis. The result is that the main narrative of Sweden’s identity in this context is one of being an experienced role-model. The most salient characteristics underpinning this main narrative are being ambitious, a moral power, economically rational, and knowledgeable. Its legitimacy is argued to rest on knowledge, social and good-will capital. Tensions are found between the logic of the field from the Swedish perspective and what is aimed for in the 2030 Agenda in terms of competing in contrast to collaborating, promoting one model of development in contrast to national ownership and assuming market logic versus a logic where sustainability in all three pillars is the superordinate goal.

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Kasarabada, Divya. "Urban Leftovers - Identifying and Harnessing their potential for the Agenda 2030 in Malmö." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23876.

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The planning of cities and transformation of social, political and economic structures have resulted in open spaces of two types. First, the type of open space that is planned and designed and the second type, that is undesigned. These undesigned open spaces are referred to as leftover spaces. They are unused roof tops, or space under a flyover that is vacant, or spaces behind a building that are unattractive or a parking lot that is empty on weekends. Their nature, appearance and qualities vary from context to context. Some cities are recognizing the untapped potential of these spaces and are working towards revitalizing them. The narrative of a city can change when these spaces are incorporated into the urban fabric of the city. Malmö, as a city with so much industrial history and one in the forefront of sustainable development, is also home to many leftover spaces. These spaces could be a test ground for working towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Leftover spaces are also already being recognized for different needs such as temporary uses, artworks, tactical urbanism, environmental design. This thesis maps the types of leftover spaces in the city using different methods and suggests a typology of spaces for the city. Case study examples from Scandinavia and strategies that were inferred from them form the basis of linking these spaces to the SDGs. These leftover spaces are not ‘seen’ by the city and pose various challenges such as ownership, funding and the building traditions of Sweden. This discussion will put Malmö, Sweden and broadly Scandinavia among the other studies done on the realm of leftover spaces.

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Hultström, William. "Synen på Agenda 2030 bland några av de största fastighetsbolagen i Sverige." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298371.

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Bakgrund och syfte: Vid FN:s toppmöte 25 september 2015 antog världens ledare och regeringschefer Agenda2030 och de 17 globala målen för hållbar utveckling. Detta är dock inget tvingade dokument, de svenskafastighetsbolagen behöver inte implementera Agenda 2030. Om Agenda 2030 implementeras på företags nivåsker det på frivillig basis, samtidigt står fastighetsbranschen idag för 40% av energianvändningen i EU och förstora mängder utsläpp som ökar år för år. Därför har detta arbete som syfte att undersöka hur några av destörsta fastighetsbolagen i Sverige ställer sig till Agenda 2030. Studien ska även fördjupa sig i mål 11, hållbarastäder och samhällen. Metod: De tio största bolagens års- och hållbarhetrapporter analyserades för att ta reda på hur de ser påAgenda 2030. Detta sammanställdes och analyserades tematiskt och med hjälp av intressent-, legitimitets-,signal- och institutionell teori. Resultat och slutsats: Studien visade att bolagens ställning till Agenda 2030 var positiv. För att operationaliseraAgenda 2030 valde ett antal företag att tolka den, utifrån Agenda 2030 skapades ”fokusområden” som kundekopplas till bolagens olika verksamhetsdelar. En annan återkommande strategi var att bolagen valde ut ettantal mål som man vill eller tror att man kan bidra till. Studien visade att alla bolag i studien hade nämnt mål11, men få kunde beskriva en strategi kopplat till mål 11 eller de tillhörande delmålen.
At the UN summit 25th of September 2015 agreed world leaders and head of states to adopt the Agenda 2030 the 17 sustainable development goals. However, this is not a forced document, the Swedish Real Estate companies do not ness to implement the Agenda 2030. If Agenda 2030 is implemented at a company levels it is done on a voluntary basis, while the Real Estate today account for 40% of the energy use in the EU and large amounts of emissions, increasing year by year. Therefore, is the aim of this paper to investigate how some of the largest Real Estate companies in Sweden view Agenda 2030. This study will also delve into goal 11, sustainable cities and communities. The ten largest companies´ annual and sustainability reports were analysed to found out how the view Agenda 2030. This was compiled and analysed thematically and with help of stakeholder, legitimacy, signal, and institutional theory. The study showed that the companies position on Agenda 2030 was positive. To operationalize Agenda 2030, several companies chose to interpret it, based on Agenda 2030, “focus areas” were created that could be linked to the companies' different sections of the business. Another recurring strategy was that companies selected several SDG´s that they want or believe that they can contribute to. The study showed that all companies in the study had mentioned goal 11, but few could describe a strategy linked to goal 11 or the associated sub-goals.

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Leite, de Almeida Ana Carla. "The Agenda 2030 in Brazil: evaluation of Sustainable Planning Initiatives and implementation of SDG 11 at local levels." Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/392016.

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Good governance, integration of policies and effective social participation are crucial issues for successful implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) 11, “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable,” and needs to be prioritised by national and local authorities. This thesis examines the implementation of SDG 11 in Brazilian Municipalities and proposes a new approach to effective implementation of SDG Goal 11 at local levels. What factors contribute to the success of local sustainable planning initiatives? Under what conditions can a local policy positively impact development and be adopted as a strategy for sustainable development? How best to integrate existing initiatives at local levels to promote SDG 11 and city sustainability? The answers to these questions proposed in this research were addressed in this thesis through a participative investigation rather than an empirical approach. The research was developed in Brazilian Municipalities, involving three main stages of research. First, existing planning initiatives implemented in Brazil were selected to analyse the impacts on local policies, as well as their potential contribution to the achievement of SDG 11. Assuming that existing planning initiatives can influence the implementation of local policies, the research attempts understanding how four sustainable planning initiatives (Healthy Municipalities, Cities and Communities, Local Agenda 21, Millennium Development Goals, and Master Plans), impacted on local policies to promote urban sustainability. By evaluating the effectiveness of four planning initiatives, it was found that planning positively contributed to enhancing local public policies, mainly environmental policies. Moreover, the effectiveness evaluation suggested that these four planning initiatives can contribute to the future implementation of SDG 11 at local levels. Good governance, broad social participation and effective integration between local policies were identified as the main challenges undermining the successful implementation of SDG 11 in the Brazilian Municipalities studied. Furthermore, based on the learned experience, an action framework was proposed to support local governments in achieving more effective SDG 11 targets. Second, the Brazil National Strategy to implement the SDGs was examined. The analysis was developed to better understand the impacts of strategies developed by the national government for implementing SDG 11 at local levels. The analysis involved a participatory approach and the engagement of distinct stakeholders’ groups. A group of 33 key stakeholders identified the main vulnerabilities and common interests for improving the implementation of SDG 11 at these levels. Key recommendations to implement SDG 11 more efficiently include better coordination and increased social participation. Third, two case studies were carried out to evaluate the progress of SDG 11 in distinct regions in Brazil. As demonstrated by the case studies, on one hand, there are several challenges to be faced by local governments and social actors regarding the implementation and evaluation of SDG 11. On the other hand, there is an opportunity for Goal 11 to become referential to promote sustainability in the cities. To facilitate the SDG 11 implementation urgent improvements will be necessary to foster stakeholder collaboration. This thesis revealed the importance to learn from previous and/or ongoing local planning strategies. The main barriers that hindered the implementation of previous initiatives, as well as the successful factors identified by stakeholders, proved a baseline to inform the commencement of the implementation of SDG 11 at local levels. New partnerships with business sectors and civil society organisations are critical. Regarding social participation, this thesis identified that, despite several problems, civil society organisations and the business sectors are looking for opportunities to establish partnerships and develop integrated projects. All sectors have a role to play in achieving SDG 11 and the roles must be clarified to facilitate ownership. Effective participatory mechanisms for implementation of SDG 11 at local levels must be developed. SDG 11 must be implemented based on participatory mechanism involving the communities and ensuring transparency of process and outcomes. This thesis suggests the adoption of Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis (MAMCA) as a potential tool to support local governments to broad participation at local levels. Mechanisms for good governance, especially at the national level, need to be improved. It is important to monitor and report regarding SDG 11 goals and objectives. Monitoring of progress and reporting will be the great challenges for local governments. It is urgent to create a structured data collection and recording system to provide a baseline for evaluation. Also, this thesis revealed the importance to develop evaluations combining quantitative and qualitative data to provide a more inclusive and effective assessment of SDG 11. Finally, the Performance Assessment proposed in this thesis, as a tool for collaborative benchmarking, should be adopted by Brazilian municipalities to facilitate the implementation of SDG 11 at local levels.
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Olsson, Emma, and Erik Stenemo. "Agenda 2030, Sveriges miljömål och energieffektiva byggnader : En studie om hur Agenda 2030 och byggnadsteknik kan bidra till att nå Sveriges miljömål." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Byggteknik och byggd miljö, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-433674.

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by all United Nations member states in 2015. Since then, the Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has become a broad framework for sustainable development. In Sweden, the ecological dimension of the 2030 Agenda is represented by the national environmental goal system, which the environmental quality objectives (EQOs) are an integral part of. Currently only one of the EQOs is reached. However, since the 2030 Agenda is experiencing a global momentum, it may be used to increase the pace in the work towards the EQOs. This study aims to examine how the 2030 Agenda can be used as a tool for working towards the Swedish environmental goal system. This is done through an actor analysis based on literature studies and qualitative interviews, where the work towards the Agenda and the national environmental goals in different sectors is analyzed. In addition to the actor analysis, a case study is conducted to investigate how energy efficient buildings can contribute to reaching SDG 11 and the EQOs Reduced climate impact and A Good Built Environment. The case study concerns the office building Trikåfabriken in Stockholm’s Hammarby Sjöstad district. Trikåfabriken’s energy use is analyzed through the software VIP-Energy, and further energy efficiency measures are evaluated. These include adding more solar panels to the roof, increasing the solar protection on windows and decreasing the activity in the building. The results show that most studied actors work with the 2030 Agenda to some extent, but few outside of the public sector are actively working with the EQOs. There is however a consensus that the Agenda correlates with the EQOs. The case study shows that Trikåfabriken contributes to reaching SDG 11 and the EQOs Reduced climate impact and A Good Built Environment due to its design and embedded technologies. Regarding further energy efficiency measures, the results show that a reduced activity would lead to a higher energy use, whereas the two other measures would reduce it.

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Medeiros, Gabriel Londe. "Dos ODM aos ODS : o papel das cidades na agenda 2030." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19706.

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Mestrado em Desenvolvimento e Cooperação Internacional
Os modelos de desenvolvimento adotados desde os anos 1950s promoveram deslocamentos do campo em direção as cidades. Durante décadas esses deslocamentos de pessoas foram ignorados por estes modelos que não previram os impactos nas cidades. Esses deslocamentos acabaram por provocar o acirramento dos problemas e desafios nas cidades. A Cooperação Descentralizada, instrumento pela qual os atores subnacionais cooperavam entre si, tem possibilitado a troca de experiências e práticas, para lidar com esses problemas e desafios. No início do século XXI é lançada a Agenda do Milênio (2000-2015). No entanto, apesar das expectativas, as cidades acabaram por não ser inseridas nesta agenda. A partir da nova Agenda 2030 para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável lançada em 2016, e para ser implementada até 2030, é que as cidades emergem como atrizes centrais. Este trabalho final de mestrado (TFM) analisa de forma crítica as razões que explicam a centralidade das cidades nesta nova agenda global dos ODS em um contexto de crescente interdependência entre os atores e ampliação da Cooperação Descentralizada.
The development models adopted since the 1950s have promoted displacements from the countryside to the cities. For decades, these displacements of people were ignored by those models that did not predict impacts on cities. The consequences of these displacements were the intensification of problems and challenges in cities. Decentralized Cooperation, an instrument through which subnational actors cooperate with each other, has enabled the exchange of experiences and practices to deal with these problems and challenges. At the beginning of the 21st century the Millennium Declaration (2000-2015) is launched. However, despite expectations, cities were not included in this agenda. From the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development launched in 2016, and to be implemented by 2030, cities emerge as central actresses. This final Master's work critically analyzes the reasons that explain the centrality of cities in this new global agenda of SDGs in a context of increasing interdependence between actors and expansion of Decentralized Cooperation.
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Wahlandt, Selhag Laura. "Key Components of Governance for Sustainable Development and SDG Implementation in Sweden." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-296431.

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The aim of this qualitative interpretive study is to look into SDG implementation in Sweden from a governance for sustainable development perspective. This research is to be seen as a first attempt at mapping the state of governance for sustainable development in relation to SDG implementation in Sweden – further research is both necessary and welcomed in order to get a complete picture of the situation. Seven key components of governance for sustainable development developed by Gibson et al. (2005) are used as a theoretical framework for the study. Those key components are; policy integration; shared sustainability objectives; sustainability based criteria for planning and approval of significant undertakings; specified rules for managing trade-offs and compromises; widely accepted indicators of needs for action and progress towards sustainability; information and incentives for practical implementation, and; programmes for system innovation. Previous research as well as reports from organizations such as the OECD and the European Commission have been used to evaluate the state of these components in Sweden, primarily from an environmental sustainability perspective. Conclusions reached include that the main components relevant for Swedish implementation of the SDGs are: policy integration, shared sustainability objectives and widely accepted indicators for needs for action and progress towards sustainable development. Another conclusion drawn is that the level of fulfillment in some of these key components does not necessarily correspond with the likelihood of successful SDG implementation. Further research is being suggested for a governance-related mapping of the social and economic pillars of sustainable development. Together with the environmental pillar they are essential for the holistic approach that sustainable development deserves.

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Hedström, Helena. "Economic Growth in the UN Post-2015 Development Agenda: A Critical Analysis." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-282765.

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This study examines how economic growth is framed in the UN post-2015 development agenda, which is centered on the Sustainable Development Goals. It uses a transdisciplinary approach combining Ecological Economics and Critical Theory. Through a qualitative content analysis of nine official documents from different work streams in the post-2015 process, the thesis seeks to answer what the goal of ‘sustained, inclusive, and sustainable’ growth actually means, how it relates to the aim of transformative change which is central to the agenda, and how the agenda addresses the relationship between growth and the environment. The results show that there is a strong consensus to maintain and increase growth levels, while changing the quality of growth to make it more socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable. Thus, the agenda reinforces the ‘sustainable development’ concept which has been established over the last three decades as the mainstream approach to international environmental governance. No limits to growth are recognized; poverty reduction and greater equality are to be achieved mainly by aiming for higher growth rates in developing countries than developed ones. It is acknowledged that the GDP metric has many shortcomings and needs to be revised to better account for externalities and complemented by alternative measures of welfare and well-being. However, no existing alternative measures are used in the SDGs. The goal is to develop better ones by 2030, which effectively postpones the necessary shift away from GDP. The documents express a strong belief in ‘green growth’ (the decoupling of growth from material resource use and emissions), but this optimism seems to be unfounded since the documents fail to account for several aspects that are crucial to determining the feasibility of green growth. Most notably, there appears to be no evidence of absolute decoupling ever having occurred. At the same time, the scale of decoupling that is required appears to be physically impossible to achieve. Since the agenda does not question growth dependency at all, and fails to distinguish between the intrinsic and instrumental value of GDP growth, my conclusion is that it does not fulfill the promise of transformative change.

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Barros, Elisabete Marques. "O papel da comunidade económica dos Estados da África Ocidental na implementação da igualdade de género no âmbito da Agenda 2030 das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/16483.

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Dissertação de Mestrado em Relações Internacionais
A discriminação com base no género e a falta respeito pelos direitos das mulheres é um problema que afeta todos os continentes no geral e África em particular. Na África Ocidental, apesar dos esforços empreendidos desde 2000, continuam a persistir barreiras à plena participação económica, social e política das mulheres. A presente dissertação tem como objetivo compreender o papel da CEDEAO na implementação da igualdade de género no âmbito da Agenda 2030 para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável. Para compreender o papel da CEDEAO recorremos ao uso de alguns indicadores que nos deram informações específicas sobre a condição da igualdade de género na África Ocidental. A igualdade de género é uma questão de direitos humanos e os indicadores estão relacionados com normas e padrões de direitos humanos, refletindo princípios e preocupações e são usados para avaliar e acompanhar a promoção e implementação de direitos humanos. Nesta dissertação os indicadores permitiram observar e analisar o desempenho da CEDEAO na implementação da igualdade de género e empoderamento da mulher. Os indicadores utlizados são tanto qualitativos como quantitativos e nesta dissertação utilizou-se uma abordagem mista. Os indicadores quantitativos facilitam avaliações qualitativas por medir a magnitude de certos eventos e da mesma forma, as informações qualitativas podem complementar a interpretação de indicadores quantitativos. Concluímos que, embora exista um crescente compromisso por parte da CEDEAO e dos seus Estados membros para alcançar a igualdade de género, as estratégias e os planos de ação parecem permanecer "no papel". Por fim, a CEDEAO, como uma organização com potencial para promover mudanças, deve fortalecer as instituições e garantir uma maior transparência.
Discrimination based on gender and the lack of respect for women's rights is a problem that affects all continents in general and Africa in particular. In West Africa, despite the efforts since 2000, barriers to full economic, social and political participation of women continue to persist. This dissertation aims to understand the role of ECOWAS in the implementation of gender equality in the framework of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. In order to understand the role of ECOWAS, we used some indicators that gave us specific information about the condition of gender equality in West Africa. Gender equality is a human rights issue and the indicators are related to norms and standards of human rights, reflecting principles, concerns and are used to assess and monitor the promotion and implementation of human rights. In this case the indicators allowed observing and analyzing the performance of ECOWAS in the implementation of gender equality and empowerment of women. The indicators used are both qualitative and quantitative and in this dissertation a mixed approach was used. Quantitative indicators facilitate qualitative assessments by measuring the magnitude of certain events, and qualitative information can complement the interpretation of quantitative indicators. We conclude that while there is a growing commitment on the part of ECOWAS and its member states to achieve gender equality, strategies and action plans appear to remain "on paper." Finally, ECOWAS, as an organization with potential for change, must strengthen institutions and ensure greater transparency.
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Alemanji, Rudy Nkemanjong. "Innovation for Sustainable Development: How the Jonkoping Municipality is Working with Social Innovation for the 2030 Agenda." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-99738.

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Innovation has been widely discussed as being extremely important for our drive towards the attainment of the sustainable development goals. This is because, as embed in its definition, sustainable development requires that we shift away from business as usual to find new ways of doing things, that take into consideration the preservation of the three pillars of sustainable development; the economic, social and ecological pillars. Since the publication of the Brundtland Report, there have been more focus, both in terms of research and policy, on the economic and ecological pillars of sustainability than on the social pillar. The thesis carried out a research to determine how Jonkoping Municipalit is working to achieve the sustainable development goals, taking into perspective, the three pillars of sustainability: the ecological, economic, and social pillars. The research found that, even though the Municipality is working with all the goals and dimensions of sustainable development, more progress has been made with the ecological and economic dimensions than the social dimension. Using the Quadruple Helix Model of Innovation Cooperation, this research examines what kind of social innovations that are taking place within Jonkoping Municipality that are tailored for the attainment of the sustainable development goals located within the social pillar of sustainability, and who are kind of actors and activities involved. The research finds that there are some social innovations going within the municipality that are specifically geared towards the 2030 agenda.

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Wallace, Alexandra. "Sustaining Patriarchy? : A Critical Discourse Analysis of Sustainable Urban Development." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-416636.

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The United Nations (UN) has implemented a policy of gender mainstreaming in their agendas forboth sustainable development and urban development with the aim of improving gender equity in member statesthrough all of the organization’s work. However, many scholars have criticized the UN’s incorporation ofgender in these agendas for lacking systemic and coordinated policy schemes that are capable of ensuringgender equity. The majority of these analyses were performed shortly after the agendas’ introductions. In thisthesis, I return to these agendas a few years after their implementation to examine the discourses of gender inurban sustainability that they contain and consider whether these discourses are or are not reflected in thenational and local sustainable urban development agendas of one member state, Sweden, and its largest city,Stockholm. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is used to identify such gendered discourses and determinewhether the ideologies they reflect are or are not contributing to the agendas’ stated aim to achieve genderequity. Findings show that there are both significant similarities and differences between discourses at all levels,with different degrees of both reinforcement of and opposition to status quo gender hierarchy at each level.Agendas at the national and local levels showed more evidence of anti-hierarchical ideology than theinternational level, suggesting that the gender equity work of member states need not be constrained by theshortcomings of the UN approach.

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Wallén, Camilla, and Kristina Kardell. "Framing Sustainability : A Qualitative Study of the Translation of the 2030 Agenda." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-355489.

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Following the increase of transnational organisations, global governance today is mainly relying on voluntary standards. One standard is the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This motivates a need to understand how such an idea unfolds within organisations and what impact global CSR standards have, leading to the research question: How are CSR standards deriving from global ideas translated into organisations and influencing sustainability activities? Based on a literature review of Scandinavian institutionalism, soft rules and standards, CSR, traveling of ideas, translation, identity and image, decoupling and aspirational talk, five assumptions were formulated as to what implications the standard might have. These are examined qualitatively through multiple case studies in the Swedish food industry using semi-structured interviews and examining CSR reports. The analysis find partial support for all assumptions. Main findings include the use of the 2030 Agenda mainly as a communication tool, constituting a common sustainability language and a platform for collaborations. The standard is thus interpreted as being symbolically translated. This open up possibilities for future research regarding the translation of standards and the implications of an facilitated way of framing sustainability work, adding the concept of symbolic translation to translation theory.

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Hanses, Erika. "Transforming our world : the legal value of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development in the EU legal order." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-140656.

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Hallgren, Erika. "De Globala målens plats i undervisningen : En intervjustudie kring Agenda 2030s implementering i samhällskunskap." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-84670.

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The aim of this thesis is to examine how civics teachers use and implement of Agenda 2030, the seventeen sustainable goals set by the United Nations, in their teaching. This paper will off in the implementation theory set by Lennart Lundquist that has three requirements: understanding, will and knowledge and how those requirements affect the teachers in their work. Five teachers have been interviewed in person and it is their answers that has been the basis of this study. Their answers have then been analysed by using four themes to answer the questions at issue. These four themes are: knowledge of Agenda 2030, teaching of Agenda 2030, the teacher’s opinion on guidelines and interdisciplinary teaching. The result showed a lack of implementing Agenda 2030. There are a few reasons for this, but it is mainly because there is a lack of understanding among teachers what Agenda 2030 really means and a lack of knowledge of how to implement it.

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Matikainen, Oliver Albert. "Sustaining the One-Dimensional : An Ideology Critique of Agenda 2030 and the SDGs." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385979.

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The project of sustainable development, as reflected in the Agenda 2030 and the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals, plays a central role in the story of crisis and transformation today. Yet, this project has rarely been the object of ideology critique. This paper formulates an ideology critique as a form of immanent critique of the project of sustainable development with a basis in Herbert Marcuse’s one-dimensionality thesis. The analysis of the ideology of sustainable development is structured around the three-pillar conception of sustainability which is applied in the Agenda 2030. The transformative potential of the project of sustainable development is assessed on the background of the analysis. The transformative potential in each of the three pillars is found to be inhibited by the project of sustainable development and the paper identifies and explains the ideological mechanisms through which this inhibition takes place. The research suggests that the project of sustainable development cannot be seen as a transformative project.

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Horsfield, Will. "Social investment as a strategy to achieve Sustainable Development Goals : a critical assessment." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-395239.

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This paper assesses the relevance of social investment in relation to the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), targets, and indicators. The research question is: How could social investment support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals? The thesis conceptualises social investment, sustainable development, and sustainability, before turning to the issue of how social investment could enhance its impact by focusing on areas of policy that it has not considered typically. This thesis goes beyond addressing the SDGs themselves to consider other issues that shall arguably be significant in relation to achievement of the 2030 Agenda, such as the contentious matter of limits to growth. The thesis includes a content analysis of the global indicator framework for the 2030 Agenda, based upon social investment-related search terms and focused reading of particular examples from the social investment literature. The first part of the analysis suggests that social investment in its current form can contribute towards Goal 4 on quality education and Goal 8 on decent work and economic growth; and to a somewhat lesser extent towards Goal 1 on no poverty, Goal 5 on gender equality, and Goal 10 on reduced inequalities. The analysis considers subsequently further SDGs that social investment could ultimately support. While recognising the value of social investment as understood usually for policymaking to achieve the SDGs, the concluding section suggests that a broadened version of social investment could strengthen policy relevance.

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Bengtsson, Johanna. "Att sätta en agenda : En studie av lokal implementering av Agenda 2030 i Älmhults kommun." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för biologi och miljö (BOM), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-99032.

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Resolutionen Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, eller Agenda 2030 som den kallas, antogs av FN i september 2015. Då skrev samtliga 193 medlemsstater under deklarationen och de tillhörande 17 Globala målen. Med sin ambition att täcka in samtliga aspekter av hållbar utveckling på global nivå är agendan omfattande, och aktörer står inför utmaningen att genomföra den och nå de Globala målen. Kommuner har pekats ut som särskilt viktiga i genomförande, på grund av sin närhet till medborgarna. Dessutom är kommuner ansvariga för flera samhällsfunktioner som är kritiska punkter för att nå Globala målen. Deklarationen och de Globala målen ger dock få instruktioner om hur agendan ska implementeras på lokal nivå, och många kämpar med att hitta strategier för arbetet. Älmhults kommun är en av de kommuner som är i startgroparna för att implementera Agenda 2030 i sitt styrsystem. Syftet med denna uppsats är att kartlägga nuläget i kommunens hållbarhetsarbete med koppling till Globala målen, samt ge förslag på hur implementeringen av Agenda 2030 kan förbättras. Genom en analys av kommunens styrdokument, mål, vision och aktiviteter har kopplingar mellan dessa och Globala målen kunnat göras. Tillsammans med den intervjustudie som genomfördes kunde en överblick av nuläget, samt förslag på förbättring av implementeringen ges. Resultatet visar att Älmhult till viss del har påbörjat implementeringen, men att det systematiska arbetet saknas. Det finns goda förutsättningar för framgångsrik implementering i och med processtyrt arbetssätt, men också utmaningar som behöver lösas i form av till exempel intressentinvolvering, prioriteringar, målsättning och kunskap.
The resolution Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, or Agenda 2030 as it is called, was adopted by the UN in September 2015. At that time, all 193 Member States signed the Declaration and the associated 17 Global Goals. With its ambition to cover all aspects of sustainable development at the global level, the agenda is comprehensive, and actors face the challenge of implementing it and achieving the Global Goals. Municipalities have been singled out as particularly important in implementation, due to their proximity to citizens. In addition, municipalities are responsible for several societal functions that are critical points for achieving the Global Goals. However, the Declaration and the Global Goals provide few instructions on how to implement the agenda at the local level, and many are struggling to find strategies that works. Älmhult municipality is one of the municipalities that is in the starting pits to implement Agenda 2030 in its control system. The purpose of this thesis is to map the current situation in the municipality's sustainability work in connection to the Global Goals, and to provide suggestions on how the implementation of Agenda 2030 can be improved. Through an analysis of the municipality's governing documents, goals, vision and activities, connections between these and Global goals have been made. Together with the interview study that was conducted, an overview of the current situation, as well as suggestions for improving the implementation, could be given. The results show that Älmhult has to some extent begun the implementation, but that the systematic work is lacking. There are good conditions for successful implementation through process-controlled working methods, but also challenges that need to be solved in the form of, for example, stakeholder involvement, priorities, objectives and knowledge.

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Lopes, Leonor Correia Martins Costa. "Objetivos de desenvolvimento sustentável : previsão do progresso de Portugal no cumprimento da agenda 2030." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/20953.

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O mundo como o conhecemos irá mudar caso não façamos nada para o impedir. Apela-se cada vez mais a uma maior consciencialização das populações alertando-as para a adoção de comportamentos mais sustentáveis. Sustentáveis não só a nível ambiental como também ao nível social e económico para que, sem exclusões, contribuamos para a mudança que deve ser feita. A dissertação procura analisar e avaliar o comportamento de um conjunto de indicadores de sustentabilidade em Portugal de forma a perceber enquanto país, se estão a ser tomadas as decisões e as estratégias mais acertadas para contribuir para um planeta mais sustentável. Para essa avaliação será desenvolvido para cada um dos indicadores selecionados um modelo de previsão tendo como base os dados registados até ao ano de 2019. Para o seu desenvolvimento vai ser seguida uma abordagem de aprendizagem automática que se espera que auxilie na resolução do objetivo proposto. Os resultados do trabalho desenvolvido permitiram concluir que apesar dos desafios inerentes, Portugal está comprometido e num bom caminho para contribuir para um mundo mais sustentável.
The world as we all know will change in case we did not do anything to stop it. There is an increasing call for the awareness of populations by alerting them to adopt more sustainable behaviours. Not only at the environmental level but also at the social and economic level so that, without exclusions, we contribute to the change that must be made. The dissertation seeks to analyse and evaluate the behaviour of a set of sustainability indicators in Portugal to understand, as a country, if the measures and strategies implemented have been the most appropriate to contribute for a more sustainable planet. To make that evaluation will be developed for each one of the selected indicators a forecast model having into account all recorded data until the year of 2019. For its development will be followed a machine learning approach, which is expected to help in the resolution of the proposed objective. The results of the developed work allowed to conclude that despite the challenges, Portugal is committed and on track to contribute for a more sustainable world.
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Halleby, Olivia, and Niclas Persson. "UNGDOMSPERSPEKTIV IFRAMTAGANDET AV NATIONELLAGENDA 2030 POLICY Ungdomsrörelsen inflytelserik men utan påverkan?" Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-90134.

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In this study we focus on how Swedish youth organizations influenced formulation of anational agenda 2030 policy, contributing enhanced understanding how independent,representative and youth-led organizations can facilitate young people's participation insocietal change. A secondary query concerns what challenges and opportunities to a highlevel of youth participation can be found, aiming to learn from a crucial case of youthparticipation in formulation of national policy under favorable conditions in the supposedlyinclusive Agenda 2030-framework. This case study was designed inspired by process tracingmethod and an attributed influence approach using semi structured interviews to supplementrecords and reports from the Agenda 2030-committee. Through this study we conclude thatyouth organizations are seen as important and influential actors, and often invited as experts.But evidence of large degree of effect on final policy is lacking. Related to this we find thatthe Agenda 2030-committee largely wielded a form of communicational influence towardsthe Swedish government which for the most part ignored its conclusion andrecommendations. We therefore conclude that this unclear relation between the dialoguestructure and formal decision-making process contributes a considerable challenge toqualitative participation. Even as the consultation have been designed to facilitate organizedinterests we find that government officials stress the importance of reaching “real” youthrather than members of youth organizations, effectively creating a dichotomy betweenorganized and non-organized youth.

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Sciberras, Lawrence. "Implementing the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development : making the case for the international maritime organization and its stakeholders." Doctoral thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/20607.

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Doutoramento em Estudos de Desenvolvimento
In September 2015, the United Nations (UN) officially adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development together with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (UN, 2016). The main collective aims of the 17 SDGs are to end poverty, hunger and inequality, to take action on climate change and the environment, improve access to health and education, and build strong institutions and partnerships. More than three years have passed into this 15-year process, and while many countries have started implementing the SDGs, it is becoming increasingly clear that there are a number of issues concerning the implementation of the SDGs, including challenges within the United Nation’s Development System (UNDS). The attainment of any sustainable development programme including the three dimensions of sustainable development (social, economic, and environmental) is known to be inherently complex particularly across horizontal and vertical boundaries in policy making processes. Concerns have been expressed at the United Nations through various channels and levels. Member States would like to see more coordination, coherence, effectiveness and efficiency in the operational activities for development within and among all levels of the UNDS. The Secretary-General of the UN is fully committed to repositioning the UNDS to deliver on the 2030 Agenda by becoming more structured and less fragmented to support the achievement of the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda. Similarly, the International Maritime Organization1 (IMO) as part of the UNDS, must be effective through its stakeholders in contributing tangibly towards the implementation of the SDGs in the international maritime transport domain as shipping plays a central role in the world economy. The fulfillment of the SDGs requires a strong commitment by all UN Member States, not least by the Contracting Governments at the IMO. In 2017, the IMO Secretariat stated that IMO is almost two years behind other United Nations system bodies in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. Since then, progress has been very slow and most of the work was done by the IMO Secretariat with scarce input from IMO stakeholders. This empirical research aims to identify the issues and challenges which the stakeholders at IMO are facing when implementing the United Nation’s 2030 Agenda for sustainable development in the international maritime transport domain. This study aims to identify the phenomenon that has contributed to this rather laid-back situation at IMO by shining a light on the issues that have impacted the implementation of the 2030 Agenda from the perspective of IMO and its stakeholders and further identify how these can be addressed. This study introduces grounded theory as the research methodology that was used, explains the research and analytical process undertaken, and presents the key findings based on empirical data gathered from 47 interviews. The main results are presented as a set of six propositions supported by an institutional conceptual framework, all of which have been validated as part of the research process. The first proposition presents the emergent core substantive grounded theory. It explains the phenomenon overwhelming Member States at IMO which has bred inactivity among Member States regarding the achievement of the SDGs at IMO. The other five propositions, which also form part of the substantive grounded theory, suggest how the issues, which can be attributed to the phenomenon explained by the first proposition, could potentially be best addressed. To effectively implement the SDGs, the study identified what needs to be done within IMO and by its stakeholders and concludes that there must be an IMO-led strategy on sustainable development within the context of the 2030 Agenda supported by an appropriate governance structure that sees the introduction of strategic actors for coordinating the implementation of the SDGs at national level. With the support of a Task Force on sustainability, and by also making use of the IMO Member State Audit Scheme2 to create more awareness and ownership, the strategic actors could work towards balancing the three dimensions of sustainable development – the economic, the environmental, and the social dimensions, which were found to be imbalanced in the international shipping domain. The IMO Member State Audit Scheme (IMSAS) aims to provide an audited Member State with a possibility of an assessment of how effectively it implements and administers the mandatory IMO instruments falling under the Scheme (IMO, 2017b). This study also concludes by presenting an Institutional Conceptual Framework developed on the basis of the findings of the empirical research and the resulting six propositions. The Institutional Conceptual Framework, as a platform, brings together the most critical elements that were found to be important and need to be implemented so that issues that this study has raised can be addressed, and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs within the international maritime transport domain can be accelerated and mainstreamed. Since studies of this nature within the context of IMO are very scarce, this research has provided a valuable contribution to the current academic literature and knowledge on sustainable development. The outcome of this doctoral thesis aims to create a better understanding of the potential issues and challenges in relation to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and the SDGs in the maritime transport domain. These insights are valuable for the stakeholders at IMO in preparing the necessary groundwork for a sustainability course within IMO and at national level, to effectively implement the SDGs. If well engaged, IMO stakeholders can be the frontrunners in contributing towards achieving sustainable development on a global level by mainstreaming the SDGs through the work of IMO and by successfully integrating the economic, social, cultural and environmental dimensions of sustainable development of vital importance in the struggle to eradicate poverty and promote prosperity on a global scale through the maritime transport domain.
Em setembro de 2015, a Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) adotou a Agenda 2030 para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável, bem como os 17 Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS) (UN, 2016). A meta global destes 17 objetivos inclui erradicação da pobreza, fome e desigualdades, agir sobre as alterações climáticas e o ambiente, melhorar o acesso à educação e aos cuidados de saúde, construir parcerias e instituições mais robustas. Mais de três anos passaram, neste processo com duração total de quinze, e enquanto muitos países já iniciaram a implementação dos ODS, é cada vez mais claro que existem numerosas questões sobre esta implementação, incluindo desafios dentro do próprio Sistema de Desenvolvimento das Nações Unidas (SDNU). O cumprimento de qualquer programa de desenvolvimento sustentável, incluindo as três dimensões da sustentabilidade (social, económica e ambiental), é um processo inerentemente complexo, particularmente no concerne às fronteiras horizontais e verticais de definição de políticas. A ONU tem vindo a exprimir preocupações aos mais diversos níveis e através de inúmeros canais. Os seus Estados Membros querem mais coordenação, coerência e eficiência por parte do SDNU a nível das atividades operacionais para o desenvolvimento. O Secretário Geral das Nações Unidas está empenhado no reposicionamento do SDNU a nível da implementação dos objetivos da Agenda 2030, tornando-o mais estruturado e reduzindo a sua fragmentação, a fim de apoiar da melhor forma a efetiva realização dos ODS e da Agenda 2030. Paralelamente, a Organização Marítima Internacional3 (OMI), como parte integrante do SDNU, tem de ser eficaz através dos seus stakeholders, de modo a contribuir de forma tangível para implementação dos ODS no domínio do transporte marítimo internacional o qual tem um papel central na economia mundial. O cumprimento dos ODS exige um forte compromisso por parte de todos os estados membros da ONU, e nomeadamente pelos Governos Contratantes da OMI. Em 2017, o Secretariado da OMI reconheceu que a organização está quase dois anos atrás de outros órgãos do sistema das Nações Unidas na implementação da Agenda 2030 e dos ODS e, desde então, o progresso tem sido bastante lento e muito do trabalho realizado deve-se ao Secretariado da OMI, com uma contribuição reduzida por parte dos intervenientes principais na OMI. Esta investigação empírica tem como objetivo identificar as questões e desafios que os stakeholders na OMI enfrentam na implementação da Agenda 2030 das Nações Unidas para o desenvolvimento sustentável, no domínio do transporte marítimo internacional. Este estudo visa também analisar as causas que têm contribuído para a forma descontraída como a situação tem sido tem sido tratada na OMI, evidenciado as questões que estão a afetar a implementação da Agenda 2030 na perspetiva da organização e seus stakeholders, e identificando a forma como podem ser abordadas. Este estudo introduz a teoria fundamentada (Grounded Theory) como metodologia de investigação, explicando o processo de pesquisa e análise implementado, e apresentando as principais constatações extraídas dos dados empíricos recolhidos nas 47 entrevistas realizadas. Os principais resultados são apresentados como um conjunto de seis proposições apoiadas num referencial conceptual institucional, tendo sido validadas como parte do processo de investigação. A primeira proposição apresenta o núcleo emergente da teoria fundamentada substantiva. Explica o fenómeno que envolve os estados membros da IMO, responsável pela sua inatividade a nível dos ODS na OMI. As cinco proposições seguintes, que são parte integrante da teoria fundamentada substantiva, sugerem a forma como as questões encontradas, que resultam em grande medida do fenómeno explicado pela primeira proposição, podem potencialmente ser abordadas. Para uma implementação eficaz dos ODS, o estudo identificou as ações a empreender no âmbito da OMI pelos seus intervenientes principais, concluindo que deve existir uma estratégia liderada pela OMI sobre o desenvolvimento sustentável no contexto da Agenda 2030, apoiando-se numa estrutura de governança apropriada que inclua a introdução de atores estratégicos na coordenação da implementação dos ODS a nível nacional. Com o suporte de um grupo de trabalho sobre sustentabilidade, e fazendo uso do Esquema de Auditoria aos estados membros da OMI4 na criação de sensibilização e apropriação, os intervenientes estratégicos poderão trabalhar no sentido de equilibrar as três dimensões do desenvolvimento sustentável – económica, ambiental e social, que apresentavam desequilíbrios no domínio do transporte marítimo internacional. 4 O Esquema de Auditoria aos Estados Membros da OMI almeja prestar ao Estado Membro Auditado a possibilidade de requerer uma avaliação relativa à efetividade da implementação e administração dos instrumentos obrigatórios que estão no seu âmbito. Este estudo apresenta também como conclusão um referencial conceptual institucional baseado nas constatações mais relevantes da pesquisa empírica bem como nas seis proposições resultantes. A estrutura conceptual institucional, como plataforma, reúne os elementos considerados fundamentais para a abordagem das questões identificadas, de forma a acelerar e integrar a implementação da Agenda 2030 e dos ODS, no domínio do transporte marítimo internacional. Dada a escassez, ou mesmo inexistência de estudos desta natureza, esta pesquisa fornece uma contribuição significativa ao conhecimento e literatura académica na área do desenvolvimento sustentável no contexto da OMI. O resultado desta tese de doutoramento visa criar uma melhor compreensão das potenciais questões e desafios em relação à implementação da Agenda 2030 para o desenvolvimento sustentável e ODS no domínio do transporte marítimo. Esta visão é essencial aos intervenientes na IMO para o estabelecimento das bases necessárias de forma a rumarem na direção da sustentabilidade, tanto a nível da OMI como nacional, de forma a implementar eficazmente os ODS. Os atores principais da OMI, se corretamente envolvidos, podem ser líderes na contribuição para o desenvolvimento sustentável a nível global, incorporando os ODS através do seu trabalho na OMI e integrando com sucesso as dimensões económicas, sociais, culturais e ambientais do desenvolvimento sustentável – de grande relevância para a erradicação da pobreza e estimular a prosperidade a uma escala global através do transporte marítimo.
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Hübsch, Elina, and Martinez Paula Martinez. "Hållbarhetsarbete inom svensk besöksnäring : En kvalitativ studie om hur svenska turistdestinationer på landsbygden arbetar mot hållbar utveckling i relation till Agenda 2030." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Globala studier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-44700.

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Allt fler har börjat kritisera det vardagsliv som vi i utvecklade länder lever, där hög konsumtion, flygresor och annan markant klimatpåverkan blivit vardag (Claesson, 2018). 2018 var året som Sverige upplevde värmerekord med följder som både torka och bränder. Sommarens extrema väder har bidragit till att klimatet fått mer fokus i samhällsdebatten, och både privatpersoners och företags påverkan på klimatet har blivit föremål för diskussion (Frid, 2018). Diskussionen har även blivit aktuell inom besöksnäringen. Turistsektorn lyfter fram dess påverkan på miljön och det är en av de största utmaningar som beslutsfattare inom besöksnäringen står inför idag, både regionalt, nationellt och internationellt (Tillväxtverket, 2019). Syftet med studien har således varit att undersöka hur svensk besöksnäring på landsbygden arbetar med en hållbar utveckling ställt i relation till Agenda 2030. Hur arbetar den svenska besöksnäringen idag med hållbarhet och hur verkar den i en av vår tids mest komplexa omställningar? För att besvara detta genomfördes semistrukturerade intervjuer med sex personer som är verksamma i sex olika populära turistdestinationer på den svenska landsbygden. Dessa turistdestinationer ligger till grund för studiens empiriska material. Resultatet visade att det är ett begränsat antal anläggningar som aktivt arbetar med hållbar utveckling inkorporerat i verksamheten, även om allt fler har börjat arbeta mer aktivt med hållbarhet. Studien bidrar till en djupare förståelse kring den svenska besöksnäringens arbete med hållbarhetsfrågor, samt hur det skiljer sig utifrån verksamheternas geografiska läge. Studien bidrar också med ett kunskapsunderlag för hur den svenska besöksnäringen kan utvecklas för en mer hållbar framtid.

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Olsson, Erika, and Jennifer Holm. "Volontärturism - En väg till utveckling eller undergång? : En kvallitativ studie om hur svenska volontärresebyråers projekt anknyter till Agenda 2030." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Globala studier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-45304.

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De globala hållbarhetsmålen, antagna år 2015, ska verka för en global satsning för ökad social, ekonomisk, och miljömässig hållbarhet. I styrdokument publicerade 2018 från FN uppmanas berörda parter på olika nivåer att inkorporera mer ideellt engagemang i form av volontärarbete. Detta för att kunna etablera en lokal förankring som ska underlätta genomdrivandet av de 17 målen, med tillhörande 169 delmål. En typ av volontärarbete som vuxit fram de senaste 20 åren är så kallade volontärresor, där ofta unga västerlänningar åker för att hjälpa till i projekt i utvecklingsländer, i kombination med nöjesresor. I denna studie undersöks hur projekt som erbjuds av svenska volontärresebyråer kan relateras till de globala hållbarhetsmålen, samt hur olika publikationer från FN om volontärarbete och hållbar turism kan förstås utifrån kommersiell volontärturism. Här har fyra svenska volontärresebyråers projektbeskrivningar synats och jämförts med delmålen för Agenda 2030. Metoden som använts är en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av projektbeskrivningar från volontärresebyråernas hemsidor. Rättighetsperspektivet (Human Rights Based Approach) har använts vid analysen för att se på vilket sätt projektbeskrivningarna kan ses vara rättighetsbaserade. Resultaten visar på att volontärturism främst berör hållbarhetsmål för utbildning och biologisk mångfald, genom engelskundervisning och vård av djur och natur. I de projekt som finns kan kvalitén på de insatser som görs ofta inte garanteras, och en medvetenhet kring hållbarhetsmålen tycks heller inte finnas. Engagemanget kan därför ses adressera effekterna av strukturella problem, men inte verka för en lösning av de grundläggande orsakerna till problemen. En förbättring som föreslås för att volontärturism ska kunna bidra till en väg till utveckling är att öka kopplingen i projekten till Agenda 2030 genom kunskapsspridning.
The sustainable development goals, published in 2015, were created as a global effort to increase sustainable social, economic and environmental development. In documents published in 2018 from the UN, relevant actors are encouraged to incorporate more voluntary work on different levels of society, in order to establish a local anchoring for the 17 goals with its’ 169 sub-targets. One kind of non-profit work that has gained popularity in the last 20 years are the so-called volunteer travels, where tourists, often young Westerners, travel in order to help out in developing countries, in combination with leisure activities. In this study, descriptions of projects that are offered by Swedish volunteer- travel agencies have been examined as to how they relate to the Sustainable Development Goals, along with how different publications from the UN on how volunteerism and sustainable tourism can be understood in regard to commercial volunteer tourism. Here, four Swedish volunteer tourist agencies have been examined and compared to the sub-targets for the Sustainable Development Goals, also known as Agenda 2030. The method used is a qualitative content analysis of the project descriptions found on the web pages of the volunteer tourist agencies. The Human Rights Based Approach has been used to analyse the data in order to investigate in what way the project descriptions can be seen as rights based. The result shows that volunteer tourism primarily is related to development goals concerning education and biological diversity, through English classes and care of animals and nature. The established projects that are available often cannot guarantee the quality of the efforts being made and do not seem to incorporate an awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals. The activity can therefore be seen as addressing the effects of structural problems, rather than a solution of the underlying causes of the problems. A possible improvement that is suggested for volunteer tourism to contribute more to a road to development, is to more emphasize the connection between projects in volunteer tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals, mainly through knowledge sharing.

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Talavera, Jhonny. "The implementation of Agenda 2030 at municipal level : A qualitative study about officials’ experiences of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-49958.

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Background: Agenda 2030 is newly launched, thus little research has been conducted about the implementation at the municipal level. To increase the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) feasibility requires understanding which elements can facilitate the policy implementation process with the goal of healthy and sustainable societies. Aim: The aim of the study is to investigate the officials’ experiences of implementing the Agenda 2030 at the municipal level. Methods: A qualitative method with an inductive approach was used to address the study aim. A purposive sampling of participants was conducted, and a semi-structured interview was used as the data collection method. In total, ten informants from ten different municipalities participated. A manifest content analysis was conducted to analyze the collected data. Result: The implementation strategies that were used for mobilizing the community to achieve the Agenda 2030 could be divided into internal and external strategies. The internal strategies focused on knowledge enhancing activities and the integration of the SDGs into municipal existing steering documents. The external strategies focused on establishing partnerships and involving the local citizen in the community development. Conclusion: The experiences of the officials indicated that health promotion approaches, and the guiding principles can be valuable tools for municipalities to facilitate the policy implementation process related to Agenda 2030.

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Öman, Béatrice. "Implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Sweden : Interpretation and application of disability inclusive goals at the local level." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-181859.

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This thesis studies the transfer of disability targets in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to the local level in Sweden and how this implementation contributes to the Agenda’s result on a global scale. In the summary of its final official report to the Swedish Government (SOU 2019:13), the Swedish Delegation for the 2030 Agenda states that the expression ‘sustainable development’ is applied in Sweden in two ways: while it is used witha focus on its environmental dimension, there is another, broader definition that also encompasses its social and economic dimensions. In its own terms, the Delegation consistently adheres to the broader definition, in accordance with the meaning of the 2030 Agenda (SOU 2019:13, p. 27). Rather than concentrating on the more amply researched and documented environmental dimension, this thesis highlights a social and economic dimension of the Agenda’s local implementation, bearing in mind the Agenda’s pledge that no one willbe left behind. It examines how those among the 169 targets dealing with the interests of people with disabilities are transposed down to the local level and implemented. The conclusion points at the fact that, although all goals seem understood as indivisible at each level, results may uncover a big difference in how they are implemented and/or measured inpractice, at each of the political-administrative levels involved, which makes it difficult to produce data on quantifiable progress on a specific target.

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Assmundsgård, Frida, and Ilona Erdemli. "Stadsodling som strategi för hållbar utveckling : En granskning av kommunernas arbete med fokus på stadsodling och hållbarhetsmål 13 och 15 av Agenda 2030 i Jönköpings län." Thesis, Jönköping University, HLK, Globala studier, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-53765.

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Mänskligheten står inför stora utmaningar som klimatförändringar och ökade ansträngningar på miljön i och med en ökad global urbanisering. Tidigare forskning visar hur stadsodling kan vara ett svar på många negativa effekter som är följden av dess, och undersöker även de positiva effekterna av stadsodling utifrån hållbarhetsperspektiven och framhåller stadsodling som en välgrundad strategi för att bekämpa klimatförändringar. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur kommunerna i Jönköpings län arbetar med hållbarhetsmål 13 och 15 från Agenda 2030 med fokus på stadsodling. Studien omfattar 10 av de 13 kommunerna som Jönköpings län består av och undersöker genom kvalitativa intervjuer huruvida dessa har stadsodlingar inom sina tätorter. Resultatet visar att stadsodling endast finns i två av kommunerna men att det finns odlingar inom tätorterna och städerna som påminner om stadsodling. I majoriteten av kommunerna finns det kolonilotter vilket visar på ett intresse från invånarna att odla i städer, och respondenterna som har representerat analysenheterna har visat intresse för ämnet. Studien inkluderar även kommunernas arbete gentemot hållbarhetsmål 13 samt 15 av Agenda 2030, då detta visar på kommunernas engagemang att bekämpa klimatförändringarna och arbeta med hållbar utveckling. Med hjälp av det material som samlats in under de kvalitativa intervjuerna skapas en kartläggning av Jönköpings län som visar på var det finns stadsodlingar. Studien visar att länet har långt att gå då det kommer till att utveckla stadsodlingar i tätorterna.
The human race stands before tough challenges such as climate change and increasing strains upon the environment, which are linked to the rapid increase of a global urbanisation. This essay will study previous research in order to find correlation between urban farming and sustainable development, this to find answers to the previously mentioned challenges. The earlier research does not only study urban farming as a strategy towards the three levels of sustainability, economic, social and ecologic, but also as a motivated strategy against climate change. In the essay, 10 of the 13 municipalities of Jönköping County are studied through qualitative interviews. The focus of these interviews is to find out whether they have any urban farming within their cities and how they organise and work towards the sustainability goals within Agenda 2030, especially goal 13 and 15. The results of these interviews show that a majority of them have colony gardens which shows an interest from the populations towards urban farming, and the respondents have all been positive towards urban farming as a concept. A map of the area will be constructed with the gathered materials to further show where in Jönköping County urban farming exists. This shows us that despite both small and larger initiatives within the different areas there is still a long way to go to develop farming in the cities.

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Skoog, Gustav. "A Closer Look at What Sweden is Doing to Achieve SDG 13." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279294.

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Climate change and its impacts are currently affecting countries all around the world. Sweden is facing an increased risk of landslides, floods and a rising sea level that will cause major damage to infrastructure in the future. Sustainable Development Goal number 13 aims to mitigate these risks and others by strengthening different climate adaptation systems and reducing human impact on the environment. The overall purpose of this study was to investigate Sweden’s commitment to goal 13 and review the progress so far. In addition, it aimed to identify what national climate initiatives are in place and how integrated the goal is at the local level. Through official documents from the Swedish government and the United Nations, scientific research articles, and interviews with involved actors at the local level, a detailed overview of Sweden’s work on sustainable development goal 13 was produced. The research showed that Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goal 13 are well integrated in the different levels of governance, and recent initiatives are leading Sweden in the right direction to reaching the different targets set by the goal. However, certain areas within Sweden’s climate work seem to still lack proper guidance and will require changes in the near future if more progress is to be made. Consumption-based emissions produced outside of Sweden’s borders remain high, a specific national climate scenario has not been elaborated and municipalities sometimes appear to lack the necessary resources and support to effectively plan for climate change. In addition, it became apparent that the sub targets for goal number 13 in some cases did not have clear indicators. This ultimately limited to what extent Sweden’s progress could be identified and measured with respect to these targets.
Klimatförändringen påverkar för närvarande länder runt om hela världen. Sverige står inför en ökad risk för jordskred, översvämningar och en stigande havsnivå som kommer att orsaka stora skador på infrastrukturen i framtiden. Mål 13 för hållbar utveckling siktar på att mildra konsekvenserna genom att stärka olika klimatanpassningssystem och minska människors påverkan på miljön. Det övergripande syftet med denna studie var att undersöka Sveriges engagemang för mål 13 och framstegen hittills. Dessutom skulle studien identifiera vilka nationella klimatinitiativ som fanns och hur integrerat mål 13 var på lokal nivå. Genom officiella dokument från den svenska regeringen och FN, vetenskapliga forskningsartiklar, och intervjuer med involverade aktörer på lokal nivå, producerades en detaljerad översikt av Sveriges arbete med hållbarhetsmål 13. Forskningen visade att Agenda 2030 och mål 13 är väl integrerade i de olika nivåerna. Med de initiativ som nyligen genomförts verkar Sverige vara på väg i rätt riktning för att uppnå de olika delmålen under hållbarhetsmål 13. Vissa områden inom Sveriges klimatarbete förefaller dock fortfarande sakna lämplig vägledning och kan komma att kräva förändringar inom en snar framtid om mer framsteg ska kunna uppnås. Konsumtionsbaserade utsläpp producerade utanför Sveriges gränser är fortfarande höga, ett specifikt nationellt klimatscenario har inte utarbetats och kommuner anser sig ibland sakna nödvändiga resurser och stöd för att effektivt planera för klimatförändringar. Dessutom försvårades arbetet på lokal nivå av att delmålen för mål nummer 13 i vissa fall inte hade tydliga indikatorer. Detta begränsade i slutändan i vilken utsträckning Sveriges framsteg kunde identifieras och mätas med avseende på dessa mål.

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Iaffa, Nylén Simon. "Implementing the 2030 Agenda in the municipal spatial planning process: Challenges and opportunities in a Swedish context." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-238488.

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All the member states of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda unanimously in September of 2015, with the aim of transforming our planet into a sustainable place by 2030. The Agenda includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), spanning over ecological, economic, and social sustainability, which are necessary for the transformation of the planet, and all member states should strive to achieve them. In the Agenda, it is stated several times that local authorities are important for achieving the goals and implementing them in society. The Government of Sweden has begun working on the implementation of the Agenda nationally, and believes, like the UN, that it is at the local level, implementation of the Agenda should take place. In this regard, municipalities play a central role, as their areas of activity span over many of the SDGs and are responsible for a sustainable development of land and water areas within its boundaries. The 2030 Agenda could, in this regard, strengthen the municipal spatial planning. This paper aims at investigating how municipalities implement the Agenda in their organization, how urban planners and plan architects address sustainability in their projects, and how the Agenda could support that. The results of this thesis show that the implementation of the Agenda in the examined municipalities is weak. Urban planners and plan architects have not received information or training on how to apply the Agenda to their work, and the SDGs are not usually used in projects. Several barriers are in the way of a smooth implementation, from lack of knowledge, conflict of interest, unspecific sustainability goals, to ambiguities in how to define sustainable development within the municipality. One way to overcome these barriers is to address the Agenda in the comprehensive plan of the municipality. On the other hand, the results show that there is a clear way of working with sustainability in large spatial planning project. By defining, early in the process, what sustainability means in the context of the project, setting ambitious goals and the general structure before involving developers in the process, the municipality could create a common understanding of what sustainable development means for the project, ensure that developers meet the sustainability requirements, and improve the conditions for a continued sustainable development of the project. Implementing the Agenda and SDGs early in this process, will assist the municipality to set relevant goals, and be a first step in concretizing the SDGs to tangible, local goals.
I september 2015 antogs Agenda 2030 unisont av FN:s medlemsländer med syfte att omvandla vår planet till en hållbar plats till år 2030. Den innehåller bland annat de 17 globala målen, inom ekologisk, ekonomisk och social hållbarhet, som är nödvändiga för att denna omvandling ska ske och som alla medlemsländer bör eftersträva. I Agendan står det flera gånger att lokala myndigheter är viktiga för att nå målen och för att implementera dem i samhället. Sveriges regering har börjat arbeta med implementeringen av Agenda 2030 nationellt och menar, likt FN, att det är på lokal nivå som genomförandet av Agendan bör ske. Kommunerna har i detta hänseende en central roll i implementeringsarbetet, då deras verksamhetsområden spänner över många av de globala målen, och är ansvariga för att utveckla mark-och vattenområden inom sitt område på ett hållbart sätt. Agendan skulle i detta hänseende kunna stärka den fysiska planeringen. Denna uppsats har därför som syfte att undersöka hur kommunerna implementerar Agendan i sin organisation, hur stadsplanerare och planarkitekter adresserar hållbarhet i sina projekt och hur Agendan kan stödja det arbetet. Resultaten visar att implementeringen av Agendan i de undersökta kommunerna är svag. Stadsplanerare och planarkitekter har inte fått någon utbildning eller träning för hur de ska applicera Agendan i sitt arbete och de globala målen används då inte vanligen inom projekt. Resultaten visar att flera barriärer är i vägen för en smidig implementering, från kunskapsbrist, intressekonflikter, ospecifika hållbarhetsmål, till otydligheter i hur man generellt definierar hållbar utveckling inom kommunen. Att ha ett tydligt kapitel om Agendan i kommunens översiktsplan är en lösning på dessa problem. Däremot visar resultaten att det finns ett tydligt sätt att jobba med hållbarhet inom stora stadsplaneringsprojekt. Genom att tidigt i processen definiera vad hållbarhet betyder, sätta ambitiösa mål och den generella strukturen på området innan markanvisning för byggaktörer, kan kommunen skapa en gemensam förståelse för vad hållbar utveckling betyder för projektet, se till att byggaktörerna lever upp till satta hållbarhetskrav och förbättra förutsättningarna för en fortsatt hållbar utveckling av projektet. Agendan och de globala målen kan i denna process med fördel implementeras i ett tidigt stadie, för att bistå kommunen med relevant målsättning och vara ett första steg i att konkretisera de globala målen till konkreta, lokala mål.

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Lindén, Glad Ema, and Joakim Nersing. "Democratic global environmental governance: An oxymoron or a matter of ideals? : A study of the United Nation’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för tema, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-157030.

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Today, one of the most compelling issues facing students of environmental politics is global environmental governance’s democratic legitimacy. Critics of multilateral and transnational sustainable development negotiations and implementations perceive these as democratically deficient, due to non-state actors deciding over nation-state politics. Multilateralism is then seen as a governance structure which sacrifices state sovereignty, which is the pillar of modern democratic theory together with the concept of national demos. Yet, other theorists consider global environmental governance and multilateralism to foster democratization beyond the concept of the nation-state – something which by them is understood as necessary in a world with ever-increasing supranational environmental and developmental issues. Since 1992, the United Nations has implemented stakeholder models, meaning multi-stakeholder partnership and civil society involvement in sustainable development negotiations, as a way of raising democratic legitimacy and accountability. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals is the culmination of these efforts and the globally guiding document on the subject. The Agenda is a result of the broadest deliberation strategy ever employed by the UN. Via typological content analysis and viewing the Agenda through our theoretical framework, we understand that the UN applying stakeholder models does not necessarily mean evoking stakeholder democracy. Furthermore, democracy is largely construed as a tool for sustainable development and less as an end per se, even if the two are sometimes communicated as equal objectives. All in all, whether one interprets sustainable development negotiations as democratically legitimate or deficient depends on one’s view of democracy beyond the nation- state, as either a possible and necessary notion or a directly undemocratic one.
Idag är global miljöstyrnings demokratiska legitimitet ett av de mest åtråvärda forskningsproblemen inom miljöpolitiska studier. Kritiker av multilaterala och transnationella förhandlingar rörande hållbar utveckling och implementering uppfattar dessa som demokratiskt bristfälliga, då icke-statliga aktörer bestämmer över nationalstaters politik. Multilateralism ses då som en styrelseskicksstruktur som offrar nationalstaters suveränitet, vilket tillsammans med konceptet nationellt demos är kärnan i modern demokratisk teori. Dock anser andra teoretiker att global miljöstyrning och multilateralism kan befrämja demokratisering bortom nationalstater - något som av dessa anses som nödvändigt i en värld med ständig ökning av överstatliga miljö- och utvecklingsproblem. Sedan 1992 har Förenta Nationerna verkställt intressentmodeller, alltså multi- intressentpartnerskap och civilsamhällsinvolvering i hållbar utvecklings-förhandlingar, som ett sätt att höja demokratisk legitimitet och ansvarsskyldighet. Agenda 2030 och dess 17 globala mål för hållbar utveckling är kulmineringen av dessa satsningar, och det globalt ledande dokumentet gällande ämnet. Agendan och dess grundarbete är resultatet av den till dagsdatum största och mest omfattande överläggningsstrategi som FN någonsin använt sig av. Via typologisk innehållsanalys, och granskning av Agendan genom vårt teoretiska ramverk, så tolkar vi att FN:s genomförande av intressentmodeller inte nödvändigtvis innebär en frammaning av ett uteslutande intressentdemokratiskt ideal. I tillägg så kommuniceras demokrati mestadels som ett verktyg för hållbar utveckling, även om dessa två koncept delvis beskrivs som likvärdi ga mål. Huruvida förhandlingar kring hållbar utveckling uppfattas som demokratiskt legitima eller bristfälliga beror på tolkarens syn på demokrati utanför nationalstaten, som antingen en möjlig och nödvändig uppfattning, eller som en direkt odemokratisk sådan.

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Bjurenius, Anna, and Sofie Dammbro. "Arbetsterapeuters upplevelser av Agenda 2030 i det praktiska yrkeslivet : En kvalitativ intervjustudie om hållbar utveckling i praktiken." Thesis, Jönköping University, HHJ, Avd. för rehabilitering, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52918.

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Arbetsterapeuters uppfattning om Agenda 2030 i det praktiska yrkeslivet är outforskat inom arbetsterapi. Världen står inför en hållbarhetskris och de pågående klimatförändringarna är relaterade till människans aktiviteter i vardagen, såsom resande och konsumtion (Dieterle, 2020). För att nå en förändring har Förenta nationerna skapat Agenda 2030 med 17 globala mål. Det behöver ske en förändring av människans aktiviteter, för att målen ska uppfyllas. Arbetsterapeuter är experter inom aktivitetsförändringar och skulle kunna använda sina kunskaper för att vägleda samhället till en förändring. Det råder dock en osäkerhet i hur arbetsterapeuter utövar sitt arbete utifrån Agenda 2030 och hållbarhet. Studiens syfte ska beskriva yrkesverksamma arbetsterapeuters uppfattning om hållbar utveckling i sitt arbete relaterat till Agenda 2030. För att undersöka upplevelsen användes en kvalitativ studiedesign med semistrukturerade intervjuer. Ett strategiskt urval och snöbollsurval användes. Bearbetning av data genomfördes med en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultatet visade att kunskapen om Agenda 2030 i många fall är begränsad och den tillämpas i vissa fall, men inte alltid medvetet. Informanterna upplevde att Agenda 2030 var viktigt, de var villiga att arbeta för en hållbar förändring, men det behövs mer stöttning från arbetsgivare. Politiker behöver få bättre förståelse för arbetsterapeutens insatser för att kunna fatta beslut som ger förutsättningarna till att kunna genomföra ett hållbart arbete. Slutsatsen visade att Agenda 2030 behöver synliggöras för ökad kunskap och förståelse, om en förändring ska kunna ske.
Occupational therapists' perception of Agenda 2030 in practical professional life is unexplored in occupational therapy. The world is facing a sustainability crisis and the ongoing climate change is related to human activities in everyday life, such as traveling and consumtion. To achieve change, the United Nations has created Agenda 2030 with 17 global goals. There needs to be a change in human activities in order for the goals to be met. Occupational therapists are experts in activity change and could use their knowledge to guide society to change. However, there is uncertainty in how occupational therapists carry out their work based on Agenda 2030 and sustainability. The purpose of the study described occupational therapists' perceptions of sustainable development in their work related to Agenda 2030. To investigate the experience, a qualitative study design with semi-structured interviews was used. A strategic selection and snowball selection was used. Processing of data was performed with a qualitative content analysis. Results showed that the knowledge of Agenda 2030 is limited. Occupational therapist worked towards the Agenda 2030 in some cases, but not always consciously. The informants felt that Agenda 2030 was important, they were willing to work for sustainable change, but more support is needed from employers. Politicians need to gain a better understanding of the occupational therapist's efforts in order to be able to make decisions that provide the conditions for being able to carry out sustainable work. The conclusion showed that Agenda 2030 needs to be made visible for increased knowledge and understanding, if a change is to take place.

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Lahdo, Petra, and Caroline Shafig. "Agenda 2030: mot en hållbar framtid : En studie om svenska företags implementering av de globala målen." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-159654.

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Background: In a world that is constantly changing, where demands for working in a sustainable way regarding the environment and society are increasing, companies have no choice but to take these aspects into account. Companies can take responsibility through the three dimensions of sustainability: the economic, social and environmental dimensions, which is also referred to as Corporate Social Responsibility. Sustainability is therefore an inevitable topic of discussion. To cope with the challenges that is facing the world, UN member states agreed on Agenda 2030 on 25-27 of September 2015. This agenda includes 17 global goals for sustainable development. The implementation of this agenda in companies is, according to us, a relevant issue for companies as we claim that the business sector has a central role in the implementation of the agenda. In this study, we therefore want to describe and understand how companies in Sweden implement the Sustainable Development Goals. Aim: The purpose of this study is to describe and understand how Swedish companies implement the Sustainable Development Goals in Agenda 2030. Methodology: This is a qualitative case study using a hermeneutics perspective of interpretation. The empirical data consist of six semi-structured interviews with sustainability managers of each company. The study revolves around the empirical data and is therefore to be considered to have an iterative approach. Conclusion: The study has shown that the sustainability work of all the companies in this study is characterized by the three sustainability dimensions. Furthermore, the companies have selected the goals that are in line with their current sustainability work and hence no significant implementation process has been experienced by the respondents representing the companies. However, the result shows that the sustainable development goals have served as a direction indicator and that a common language has been created regarding to the sustainability work.
Bakgrund: I en värld som ständigt förändras där krav på att arbeta på ett hållbart sätt gällande miljö, människa och samhälle konstant ökar har företag inget annat val än att ta hänsyn till dessa aspekter. Företag kan ta ansvar genom de tre hållbarhetsdimensionerna: det ekonomiska, sociala och miljömässiga ansvaret, vilket även benämns som Corporate Social Responsibility. Hållbarhet är idag en aktuell och relevant fråga och för att ta itu med de utmaningar som världen står inför, enades FN:s medlemsstater den 25–27 september 2015 om Agenda 2030. Denna agenda innefattar 17 globala mål för hållbar utveckling. Implementeringen av denna Agendan i företag är, enligt oss, en samhällsaktuell fråga för företag då vi anser att näringslivet har en central roll i genomförandet av Agenda 2030. I denna studie vill vi därför beskriva och förstå hur företag i Sverige implementerar de globala målen. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att beskriva och förstå hur svenska företag implementerar de globala målen i Agenda 2030. Metod: Studien har haft en kvalitativ karaktär och ett hermeneutiskt perspektiv. Vidare har studien genomförts i form av semistrukturerade intervjuer med hållbarhetsansvariga på sex företag. Studien har en iterativ ansats. Slutsats: Studien har påvisat att samtliga fallföretags hållbarhetsarbete karaktäriseras av de tre hållbarhetsdimensionerna social, ekonomisk och miljömässig hållbarhet. Vidare har företagen valt ut de mål som stämmer överens med deras nuvarande hållbarhetsarbete och därav har ingen betydande implementeringsprocess upplevts av samtliga respondenter på företagen. Däremot visar resultatet att de globala målen har fungerat som en riktningsvisare samt att det har skapats ett gemensamt språk vad gäller hållbarhetsarbete.

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Strindevall, Linda. "Coherence between National and International Environmental Policies – the case of Sweden." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353176.

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Policy coherence is receiving increasing attention due to the interconnectedness, urgency and global character of the challenges that humanity faces today. Policy coherence provides an effective approach to tackle the complex macrochallenges of today since it entails achieving policies from different levels and sectors striving towards the same objectives in a supportive and reinforcing manner, producing an effective and long-lasting response to the challenges. Considering the broad, ambitious and universal Agenda 2030, policy coherence is of greater importance than ever before. This study investigates the policy coherence between Agenda 2030 and the national level looking into the case of Sweden with focus on the environmental dimension of sustainable development by evaluating the coherence between the environmental SDGs and Sweden’s national environmental quality objectives. Coherence between the two policy levels is evaluated using a qualitative data analysis by comparing official policy documents from respective policy agenda and applying the OECD’s (2016) Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development framework to Sweden. The conclusion indicates that the policy agendas fit together in a reasonable way but has the potential to be more coherent. Urgency is seldom addressed, but rather challenges are pointed out as critical and taking action is noted as significant. Both of the policy agendas address the interconnectedness of the challenges, the SDGs in a vague manner pointing out ‘links’ and the national environmental quality objectives in a more detailed manner pointing out more specific examples. The global character of the challenges is addressed in both of the policy agendas, more so in the SDGs than the national environmental quality targets. Incoherence is at times difficult to point out due to the vague terms used in Agenda 2030 compared to Sweden’s national policy. However, the vagueness of Agenda 2030 seems to serve a function whereas the country specific goals go into further detail according to the context. Despite the difficulty, results show that a broader perspective would benefit both policy agendas in addressing the global challenges coherently, since it consequently implies that the concept of policy coherence is applied at a larger scale.

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Lindén, Douglas, and Linnéa Nyman. "Using the Sustainable Development Goals to Facilitate Comprehensive Planning : A mapping of interlinkages between the targetsof Agenda 2030 and seawater desalination in Agadir, Morocco." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-229879.

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Freshwater scarcity is an issue with multiple origins, currently affecting a major part of theearths' population. Rapid urbanization, intensive agriculture, people growth and overconsumption leads to stress on freshwater resources; a concern that is expected to increase inthe future due to the impacts of climate change. One of the most acknowledged technologiesto cope with increasing freshwater scarcity in coastal areas is seawater desalination, andcurrently a large-scale desalination project is carried out in Morocco. The project aims toprovide millions of people with drinking water simultaneously as supporting the importantagriculture with irrigation water. In the Souss-Massa region, where the desalination plant isbeing built, water access is closely linked to the economy through agriculture and tourism, aswell as wellbeing for individuals and nature. UN describes the need for effective planning tomeet climate-related and humanitarian threats as urgent and has agreed on the currentSustainable Development Goals in Agenda 2030. This thesis provides a mapping ofinterlinkages between the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Moroccan desalinationproject. It is aimed to support and facilitate decision making on planning level in order toreach the Sustainable Development Goals. Here evidence in literature is used to identifysynergies and trade-offs between desalination and fulfilment of the SDG targets in the region.In total 46 synergies and 17 trade-offs were identified, and the synergies and trade-offs arepresented in illustrations and text and table form Appendix 1. The identified interlinkages arediscussed based on the result shown in Appendix 1 and the supplementary informationprovided in section 5.1-5.3.
Brist på färskvatten har blivit ett vardagligt problem för en stor del av världens befolkning,och det är en angelägenhet som förväntas öka i framtiden med anledning av fortsatturbanisering, befolkningstillväxt, intensivt jordbruk och överkonsumtion. I framtidenförväntas klimatförändringar förvärra färskvattenbristen ytterligare, och en av åtgärderna föratt stå emot vattenbrist i torra områden är avsaltning av havsvatten. Just nu pågår ett avvärldens största projekt för avsaltning i Marocko. Projektet ämnar förse miljontals människormed dricksvatten och samtidigt tillgodose jordbruket i regionen med vatten för bevattning.Avsaltningsprojektet äger rum i regionen Souss-Massa. Där är vattentillgångarna närakopplat till den regionala ekonomin genom jordbruk och turism, likväl som det ennödvändighet för människor och natur. FN, ihop med många andra aktörer, beskriver behovetför effektiv planering för att möta klimatrelaterade och humanitära hot som "brådskande". Dehar även tagit fram de globala hållbarhetsmålen i Agenda 2030. Denna rapport innehåller enkartläggning av kopplingar mellan avsaltningsprojektet i Marocko och FN:s hållbarhetsmål.Syftet är att identifiera och kartlägga synergier och kompromisser mellan projektets införandeoch hållbarhetsmålen. Detta för att förenkla interdisciplinär planering för att effektivt nåmålen i Agenda 2030. Totalt är 46 synergier och 17 kompromisser identifierade, utspritt överolika målområden. Synergierna och kompromisserna är presenterade i illustrationer, text ochtabellform och diskuteras baserat på resultatet i Appendix 1 samt kompletterande informationfrån rapporten.

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Matson, Jöran. "Towards Agenda 2030: Use of GIS in visualizing emissions from personal automobiles for evidence-based policy and planning." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-398218.

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Many countries have committed to goals of emission reductions outlined by the Paris Agreement. The actions and results seen thus far from national governments have been lackluster notwithstanding their good faith pledges. City governments have taken it upon themselves to pick up where their national governments have failed. A large portion of emissions are due to transportation. Individuals’ daily travel patterns are typically limited to within a relatively local area. As mobility patterns differ between cities, municipalities have a unique role in transitioning to a sustainable society that blanket policies by national governments cannot achieve. This results in a bottom-up approach in achieving national commitments to the Paris Agreement. In order to make effective policies and plans, municipalities should make decisions based on known information. Before reducing emissions, it must be known where and by whom the emissions are being produced. This report uses Uppsala as a case study to explore how GIS can be used to communicate and create an understanding between data scientists and politicians so that mitigation efforts can be evidencebased. The report results in several methods for visualizing personal automobile emissions based on registration data. The report continues in discussing some potential actions that can be taken to addressing the emissions from neighborhoods indicated as large contributors by the visualizations.

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Bergen, Nicole. "Health Equity as a Priority in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: A Nested Qualitative Case Study of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Ethiopia." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/40465.

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The 2015 global adoption of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development places the achievement of health equity as a global priority for health and development. Due to the normative nature of the concept of health equity and the multi-level, multi-sectoral approaches required to advance it, interdisciplinary investigations are warranted to demonstrate how health equity as a policy objective is understood and operationalized. This dissertation is a case study of health equity in maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) in Ethiopia, using qualitative methods to explore how health equity is conceptualized and pursued by stakeholders across levels of the health system. Ethiopia, a low-income country in East Africa, reported improvements in MNCH during the Millennium Development Goal period (1990-2015), largely attributed to the expansion of health services into rural areas; however, achievements were not realized across all geographies and population groups. Health equity is a stated policy objective for the country. Through a series of four articles, this dissertation addresses: community members’ perceptions and experiences related to health inequity and MNCH; barriers and enablers encountered by community-level health workers in implementing an equity-oriented MNCH intervention; subnational health managers’ understandings of health equity, and their roles in promoting it; and the characterization of health equity as a policy problem in national-level health discourses. This work deconstructs health equity into three components (health, distribution of health and characterization of the distribution of health) and compares how stakeholders across levels of the health system attribute meaning to each component and imply responsibility and accountability for health equity. The findings detail how diverse experiences related to health equity in MNCH across community, subnational and national contexts are driven by high-level technocratic framings of health equity, which tend to emphasize the delivery of a narrow package of health services to under-served geographical areas. Providing support and recognition for the role of subnational stakeholders in mediating the adaption of national health equity policies to local contexts, and making prominent the social justice underpinnings of health equity in the implementation of national policies are opportunities to strengthen the advancement of health equity in Ethiopia.

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Runesson, Axel, and Ahmed Alwahhab. "Grön Stadsby : ett förslag på en hållbar stadsutveckling." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för byggteknik (BY), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-102124.

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Studien handlar om hållbar utveckling med utgångspunkt i stadsutveckling där byggandet idag står för en stor del av klimatförändringarna vilket är något som behöver åtgärdas enligt Agenda 2030. Att bygga hållbart är en förutsättning för att minimera klimatförändringarna.Grön Stadsby är ett förslag i en motion från Centerpartiet i Växjö kommun för en hållbar stadsutveckling med de globala målen Agenda 2030 och Växjös hållbarhetsprogram som utgångspunkt. Syftet med studien var att göra en fördjupning av den Gröna Stadsbyns kriterier samt att ta fram ett förslag på en gestaltning i from av en illustrationsplan. Målet var att få en bebyggelse med en så låg klimatpåverkan som möjligt som även uppfyller kriterierna för en Grön Stadsby i motionen.Insamling av data skedde genom studier av artiklar, avhandlingar, rapporter, dokument, GIS-analyser av kartor samt intervjuer med sakkunniga personer inom området. Resultatet av insamlingen visar att en viktig förutsättning för en Grön Stadsby är att den har en låg klimatpåverkan och i övrigt kan uppfylla de globala målen för en hållbar stadsutveckling. Det framtagna förslaget på en Grön stadsby visar att en sådan mycket väl kan byggas och utvecklas i Jonsboda, en plats i Växjö kommun där kommunen själv föreslår att en Grön Stadsby skulle kunna förläggas.
The study is about sustainable development based on urban development where construction today accounts for a large part of climate change, which is something that needs to be addressed according to Agenda 2030. Building sustainable is a prerequisite for mitigating climate change.Green Urban Village is a proposal in a motion from the Center Party in Växjö Municipality for a sustainable urban development with the global goals Agenda 2030 and the sustainability program of Växjö as a starting point. The purpose of this study was to make an in-depth study of the Green Urban Village criteria and a proposal for a design in devotion of an illustration plan. The goal was to get a settlement with as low a climate impact as possible, which also meets the criteria for a Green Urban Village.The collection of data consisted of a study of articles, dissertations, reports, documents, GIS analyzes of maps and interviews with experts in the area. The results of the study show that a Green Urban Village a low climate impact is vital in order to meet the global goals for sustainable urban development. The conclusion that can be drawn from the study is that the proposed concept of Green Urban Village could contribute to a sustainable development of urban areas.

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Engman, Beatrice. ""Genom samverkan ska föreningen verka" : En kvalitativ intervjustudie om biosfärområdet Östra Vätterbranterna och dess samverkan med samhällsaktörer för att nå hållbarhetsmålen i Agenda 2030." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Globala studier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-45575.

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The geographical area Eastern Vätterbranterna has since its initiation as a biosphere reserve according to UNESCO's appointment in 2012 worked towards being a model area in which sustainable development can evolve. This has been done from five sustainability perspectives: the ecological, social, economic, the perspective with broad cooperation and the learning perspective. In 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted Agenda 2030 with its seventeen global sustainability goals and associated 169 sub-goals, which the biosphere association Eastern Vätterbranterna then woven into its work. This qualitative interview study has, with the focus on the biosphere association's seven active focus areas, investigated the biosphere association of Östra Vätterbranternas work with Agenda 2030 in collaboration with the Municipality of Jönköpings and its County Government, within the association, and other community actors. Cooperation has stood as a constant point through both interviews and through one of the questions of issue, conclusions can be established that the Östra Vätterbranterna had served to perform better cooperation within themselves. The Municipality of Jönköping and its County Government looks up to the biosphere association's work with Agenda 2030 and raises collaboration between them as a major success factor, but cooperation between the focus areas in the biosphere association has not achieved its full potential. Furthermore, not all of Agenda 2030's global sustainability goals have been included, but it is something that the biosphere association is constantly working on, which continues to develop all the time, and which can be achieved with the help of other community actors. Cooperation is the concept Agenda 2030 advocates for to achieve the goals and the concept that permeates the biosphere association Eastern Vätterbranterna.
Det geografiska området Östra Vätterbranterna har sedan uppstarten som ett biosfärområde enligt UNESCOs utseende 2012 arbetat mot att vara ett modellområde där hållbar utveckling kan rota sig. Detta har de gjort utifrån fem hållbarhetsperspektiv: det ekologiska, sociala, ekonomiska, perspektivet med bred samverkan och det lärande perspektivet. 2015 antog FNs generalförsamling Agenda 2030 med dess sjutton globala hållbarhetsmål och tillhörande 169 delmål, som biosfärföreningen Östra Vätterbranterna därefter har vävt in i sitt arbete. Denna kvalitativa intervjustudie har, med inriktning på biosfärföreningens sju verksamma fokusområden undersökt biosfärföreningen Östra Vätterbranternas arbete med Agenda 2030 i samverkan med Jönköpings kommun och länsstyrelse, inom föreningen, samt andra samhällsaktörer. Samverkan har stått som en stadig punkt genom både intervjustudien och genom frågeställningar har slutsatser kunnat etableras som att Östra Vätterbranterna hade tjänat på att utföra bättre samverkan inom sig själva. Jönköpings kommun och länsstyrelse ser upp till biosfärföreningens arbete med Agenda 2030 och lyfter samverkan som sker mellan dem som en stor framgångsfaktor, men samverkan mellan fokusområdena i biosfärföreningen har inte uppnått dess fulla potential. Sedan har inte alla av Agenda 2030 globala hållbarhetsmål inkluderats, men det är någonting biosfärföreningen ständigt arbetar med, som fortsätter att utvecklas hela tiden och som med hjälp av andra samhällsaktörer kommer kunna uppnås. Samverkan är det koncept Agenda 2030 förespråkar för att kunna nå målen och det koncept som genomsyrar biosfärföreningen Östra Vätterbranterna.

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Lindwall, Ek Louise. "Agenda 2030 i Chile: Från ord till handling : En fallstudie om den chilenska regeringens ambition att implementera FN:s globala hållbarhetsmål nummer 5 - Uppnå jämställdhet och alla kvinnors och flickors egenmakt." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-79843.

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In 2015 the United Nations adopted an action plan named Agenda 2030. The plan contains 17 global sustainable development goals and 169 sub-goals; all of which are aimed towards creating a sustainable future within the spheres of the three cornerstones of sustainability; social, environmental, and economical by the year of 2030. The aim of this paper is to examine the prerequisites for the Chilean government in implementing the UN's goal number five: reach gender equality. What are their ambitions? What are the biggest challenges? Which strategy does the government have to manage the challenges of the implementation process? The analysis has been conducted through a qualitative field study based on various documents, and is complemented by experts' interviews. The method used is theory consuming and relies on Lennart Lundquist's implementation theory 'Understand, can and will' (1992). Lundquist believes that the will is the most important factor for implementing a policy. The Chilean government shows both an understanding of what is needed and the resources that are needed. The question is, do they possess the will it takes to overcome the obstacles they face?

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Engström, Jonatan, and Usva Salvi. "Global goals in a local context: Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals - A case study." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21184.

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The purpose of this thesis is to explore a local organization’s adoption of global sustainability policy, in terms of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Agenda is a response to global sustainability challenges which require action by international cooperation and actors on all levels. For such a policy to fulfill its purpose, means of implementation must be ensured. This study aims to answer both why and how a small organization located in Malmö, Sweden, has adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, and what it implies for its operations. More specifically, the focus is on the perceptions of people involved in the selected case organization. These perceptions have been captured by interviews. In addition to the interviews, the case data also consists of a document that directs parts of the organization’s operations. Furthermore, to connect the global and local levels, the case data is supplemented with the 2030 Agenda. By conducting a thematic analysis, our main findings indicate that the SDGs are adoptable to a local organization, but that their main function seems to be to frame and legitimize already existing activities in a context of sustainable development.

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Jackson, Etta Delores. "The Role of Geospatial Information and Effective Partnerships in the Implementation of the International Agenda for Sustainable Development." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1594291234482502.

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Nilsson, Daniel, and Johan Kärrström. "Privata beställarorganisationer om sin roll och sitt arbete med hållbar utveckling inom den svenska byggbranschen - Incitament, barriärer och förbättringsmöjligheter." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-277929.

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Tveklöst står byggbranschen inför stora utmaningar vad gäller att möta mål i det globala hållbarhetsarbetet. Beställaren har en central roll i att främja arbetet mot hållbar utveckling i branschen och har därför stor möjlighet till påverkan.Samtidigt visar forskningen att få studier har gjorts ur ett beställarperspektiv.Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur privata beställare i Sverige arbetar med hållbar utveckling och belysa incitament, hinder samt möjliga förbättringar. Genom att använda en kvalitativ metod har denna studie kommit fram till att privata beställarorganisationer själva ser sig som den viktigaste aktören för att driva hållbar utveckling, samt att deras syn på hållbar utveckling främst grundar sig i ekologisk hållbarhet såsom klimatpåverkan. Vidare tar denna studie fram ett antal incitament samt barriärer som hindrar/driver hållbar utveckling utifrån beställarens perspektiv samt en rad rekommenderade åtgärder för att driva hållbarhetsarbetet framåt inom organisationen och i branschen. Bland dessa åtgärder föreslås tre samarbetsområden för privata beställarorganisationer då det anses finnas stor potential att förbättra branschen till att arbeta mer hållbart om organisationerna skulle arbeta mer unisont. Även vikten av att förankra arbetet mot hållbar utveckling inom organisationen anser denna studie vara en nyckelfaktor för en lyckad implementering av exempelvis strategier, arbetssätt eller verktyg för att främja hållbar utveckling.
There is no doubt that the construction industry faces major challenges concerning the contribution to sustainability at a global level. The client has a keyrole in promoting the work towards sustainable development in the industry and therefore has a major opportunity for influence. However, there is a lack of research from the client perspective. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how private clients in Stockholm is addressing sustainable development and to highlight incentives, barriers and possible improvements. By using a qualitative method this paper concludes that private clients view themselves as the key actor to promote sustainable development in the construction industry and that their view of sustainable development mainly contains environmental sustainability aspects e.g. climate change. Furthermore, this study presents a number of incentives and barriers that hinder/drives sustainable development from the perspective of the client and a number of recommended actions to drive the sustainability work within the organizationand in the industry. Among these actions there are three proposed areas of collaboration among private client organizations since this study argues that there exists great potential to improve the industry to work more sustainable if the organizations work more unison. Also, the importance of establishing work towards sustainability within the organization is something this study consider tobe a key-factor for a successful implementation of e.g. strategies, practices ortools for promoting sustainable development.

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Frimodig, Elin, and Sofie Rissveds. "Svårigheter vid styrning av hållbarhet : En fallstudie om hållbarhetsstyrning av och i ett kommunalt bolag." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-158906.

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Problematisering: Hållbar utveckling är en omfattande utmaning för världen och innefattar ekonomisk, miljömässig och social hållbarhet där ett samspel krävs för att uppnå hållbar utveckling. Agenda 2030 utgör globala mål för hållbar utveckling vilket många kommuner i Sverige har antagit. Även kommunala bolag måste styras för att uppnå hållbar utveckling. Utifrån tidigare forskning har vi identifierat en kunskapslucka kring svårigheter vid styrning av hållbarhet från en kommun ner i ett offentligt bolag samt hållbarhetsstyrning i ett kommunalt bolag. Då samhället måste ta ansvar för hållbar utveckling och kommuner är en stor del av samhället, har kommuner möjlighet att påverka hur hållbarhetsarbetet kan utformas. Därför behövs det en djupare förståelse för hur styrning av hållbarhet ser ut inom denna kontext. Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att bidra med en ökad förståelse för hur kommunal hållbarhetsstyrning av ett kommunalt bolag ser ut och vilka svårigheter som finns vid styrning av hållbarhet. Uppsatsen syftar även till att identifiera svårigheter vid ett kommunalt bolags hållbarhetsstyrning av verksamheten. Metod: För att besvara syftet är uppsatsen utformad som en fallstudie med en kvalitativ forskningsmetod och en abduktiv forskningsansats. Vi har genomfört semistrukturerade intervjuer med respondenter i en svensk kommun samt i ett av kommunens bolag. Empiriska data har även samlats in via dokument. Slutsats: Styrning av hållbarhet av och i ett kommunalt bolag är komplext. Resultatet av denna studie visar på sex framstående svårigheter. Dessa svårigheter är definition och uttryckta mål, politisk styrelse, vinst och samhällsnytta, kontroll och flexibilitet, kultur samt uppföljning. Inom varje område kan svårigheter för en kommuns hållbarhetsstyrning av ett bolag såväl som svårigheter vid hållbarhetsstyrning i ett kommunalt bolag identifieras.
Background: Sustainable development is a comprehensive challenge for the world. It consists of economic, environmental and social sustainability, where an interplay is required to reach sustainable development. Agenda 2030 consists of global goals for sustainable development which many Swedish municipalities have adopted. Municipal companies also need to be managed to reach the aim of sustainable development. A knowledge gap on difficulties with a municipality’s sustainability management control of a municipal company as well as difficulties with sustainability management control in a municipal company has been identified. As society needs to take responsibility for sustainable development, municipalities have the possibility to influence how to work with sustainability. Therefore, a deeper understanding of how sustainability management control takes place within this context is needed. Purpose: The purpose with this paper is to contribute with a deeper understanding for how municipal governance of a municipal corporation looks regarding sustainability and what difficulties that exists when managing sustainability. The paper also aims to identify difficulties in a municipal company's sustainability management. Methodology: This paper is designed as a case study with a qualitative research method and an abductive research approach. The empirical data consist of documents and a total of six semi-structured interviews. Conclusion: Sustainability management control of and within a municipal company is complicated. The result of this study shows six overall areas of difficulties. These are definition and expressed goals, political board, profit and social benefits, control and flexibility, culture and follow-up. Within these areas' difficulties can be identified with a municipality’s sustainability management control of a municipal company as well as difficulties within the company’s internal sustainability management control.

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Nascimento, Joana Franco de Sá Bacelar do. "A integração dos objetivos do desenvolvimento sustentável na estratégia de educação do Corpo Nacional de Escutas." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/16543.

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Mestrado em Desenvolvimento e Cooperação Internacional
A Agenda 2030 constitui um plano de ação centrado nas pessoas, no planeta, na prosperidade, na paz e nas parcerias, e tem como objetivo final o desenvolvimento sustentável e a erradicação da pobreza, assumindo as partes interessadas responsabilidades próprias no que diz respeito à sua implementação. Este TFM surge com o intuito de apresentar soluções e recomendações sobre um problema prático organizacional, que diz respeito à necessidade de criação de uma estratégia de integração dos Objetivos do Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS) para a maior Associação de Juventude Portuguesa - O Corpo Nacional de Escutas. O TFM, sob a forma de Trabalho de Projeto, baseia-se na Agenda 2030 e na Estratégia Nacional de Educação para o Desenvolvimento 2018-2022, criando, através da resposta às duas questões de investigação, um plano de ação concreto para a integração dos ODS na estratégia de Educação do Corpo Nacional de Escutas.
The 2030 Agenda is a plan of action focused on people, the planet, prosperity, peace and partnerships, with the goal of sustainable development and the eradication of poverty, with stakeholders having their own responsibilities in regard to their implementation. This MFW arises with the intention of presenting solutions and recommendations on a practical organizational problem, which concerns the need to create a strategy to integrate the Sustainable Development Objectives (SDGs) for the largest Portuguese Youth Association - The Portuguese Catholic Scout Association. The MFW, in the form of a Project Work, is based on the 2030 Agenda and the Portuguese National Strategy for Education for Development 2018-2022, creating, through the response to the two research questions, a concrete action plan for the integration of SDGs in the Education Strategy of the Portuguese Catholic Scout Association.
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Palling, Huusko Susanna. "Global Partnerships for Sustainable Development - a case study of the Global Deal for Decent Work and Inclusive Growth." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-361128.

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This thesis discusses global partnerships for sustainable development. Global partnerships have come to be considered as key tools for the implementation of certain international sustainable development goals and there is a growing literature on the subject. Nevertheless, no study has yet been done of the Global Deal Partnership for Decent Work and Inclusive Growth, initiated by the Government of Sweden in 2016. The partnership is presented as a concrete input to several of the Sustainable Development Goals, especially numbers 8, 10, and 17. This provides an important opportunity to make sense of the Global Deal partnership, in particular since it is the first attempt of its kind to unite all stakeholders on the global labour market to work together to provide decent work and inclusive growth for all. What are the goals of the Global Deal, how was it formed, and how is it being implemented? The analysis presented in this thesis is based on a literature survey, documentary analysis, and interviews with the Global Deal Partnership’s support unit at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. This thesis argues that the Global Deal partnership is a textbook example of a global multi-stakeholder partnership, developed through an inclusive goal-setting process, and implemented with monitoring and reporting functions.

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McNamara, Maureen. "Measuring and Analyzing Accessibility to Green-Blue Areas and Public Transportation : A study of Stockholm’s progress in achieving the United Nations Agenda 2030’s SDG 11." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-254364.

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The rapid urbanization of populations from rural areas to cities calls for more sustainable focused urban planning to combat the negative effects of urban sprawl. The United Nations’ Agenda 2030 includes the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets that aim to unite both developed and developing countries in transforming humanity and the planet for a more sustainable future. One of these goals is SDG 11, making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. A large part in achieving the targets of SDG 11 is measuring the current access urban residents have to things such as public green-blue spaces as well as public transportation. This thesis will aim to study Stockholm’s achievement of SDG 11 sub-targets 11.2 and 11.7 of Agenda 2030. In order to meet this aim, the following objectives will be pursued. The first objective is to study the degree to which Stockholm County currently has universal access to green-blue areas and public transportation by conducting a GIS-based analysis. The second objective is to improve our understanding of the socio-economic status of residents who have and do not have accessibility to green-blue areas and public transportation by statistically analyzing correlations between environmental and socio-economic indicators. The methodology included qualitative methodologies such as a literature review, interviews and collaborative focus group meetings with Södertörnsanalysen as well as quantitative methodologies such as spatial analysis and statistical analysis. The results show that while Stockholm has impressively high accessibility for its residents, it has yet to meet Agenda 2030 SDG 11targets 11.2 and 11.7 because the accessibility was not universal. The results also found that people with lower income, people who own their flats/homes and people with children have higher accessibility to green areas. It was also shown that people with higher income, people who rent their flats/homes and have no children have higher access to public transportation.This result can be expected as the bulk of people with higher incomes are living in the innercity where they have high access to urban services and rail stops, but not necessarily green areas. It is important to state that at 300 m from residencies, both access to green areas and access to public transportation is almost 100%. At 500 m from residencies, access to blueareas is close to 35 %, which is not almost complete, but still a high percentage since access to blue areas is a bit of a luxury. This thesis ultimately demonstrates the importance of understanding environmental and socio-economic indicators in urban planning especially if the goals of Agenda 2030 are to be met. This thesis also took steps towards building a methodology for quantifying accessibility and it is recognized that further studies can be conducted to further contribute to sustainable urban planning and development.
Den snabba urbaniseringen där människor flyttar från landsbygden till städer kräver en mer hållbar stadsplanering för att bekämpa de negativa effekterna av stadsutbredningen. FN:sAgenda 2030 innehåller 17 mål för hållbar utveckling (Sustainable Development Goals, SDG) och 169 delmål som syftar till att förena både utvecklade och utvecklingsländer i att omvandla mänskligheten och planeten för en mer hållbar framtid. Ett av dessa mål är SDG 11, vilket ska göra städer och mänskliga bosättningar inkluderande, säkra, resilient och hållbara. En stor del i att uppnå målen med SDG 11 handlar om den nuvarande tillgången stadsborna har till bland annat offentliga gröna och blå ytor samt kollektivtrafik. Arbetet syftar till att studera Stockholms måluppfyllelse när det gäller SDG 11 delmål 11.2 och 11.7 i Agenda 2030. Föratt mäta uppfyllelsen av dessa delmål har studien följande mål. Det första målet är att studera i vilken grad Stockholms län idag har allmän tillgång till gröna och blå områden och kollektivtrafik genom att genomföra en GIS-baserad analys. Det andra målet är att förbättra vår förståelse för den socioekonomiska statusen hos boende som har respektive inte har tillgång till gröna och blå områden och kollektivtrafik genom att statistiskt analysera sambandet mellan miljöinriktade och socioekonomiska indikatorer. Metoden innefattade kvalitativa metoder som litteraturöversikt, intervjuer och samverkande fokusgruppsmöten med Södertörnsanalysen samt kvantitativa metoder som rumslig analys och statistisk analys. Resultaten visar att medan Stockholm har imponerande hög tillgänglighet för sina invånare, har det ännu inte uppfyllt Agenda 2030 SDG 11 mål 11.2 och 11.7 eftersom det visades att tillgängligheten inte var universell. Resultaten visar också att personer med lägre inkomst, personer som äger sina lägenheter/hem och personer med barn har högre tillgänglighet till grönområden. Det visades också att personer med högre inkomst, personer som hyr sina lägenheter/hem och inte har barn har högre tillgång till kollektivtrafik. Detta resultat kan förväntas eftersom en stor andel personer med högre inkomster bor i innerstaden där de har hög tillgång till kollektivtrafik och urban service, men inte nödvändigtvis grönområden. På ett avstånd av 300 m från bostäder, är både tillgång till grönområden och tillgång tillkollektivtrafik nästan 100 %. Vid ett avstånd av 500 m från bostäder är tillgången till blåområden nära 35 % vilket är långt ifrån alla, men fortfarande en hög andel eftersom tillgång till vattenområden och stränder kan ses som lite av en lyx. Denna studie visar dessutom vikten av att förstå miljö- och socioekonomiska indikatorer i stadsplaneringen, särskilt om målen i Agenda 2030 ska uppfyllas. Denna studie tog också initiativ till att bygga en metod för att kvantifiera tillgängligheten, medan vidare studier behöver genomföras för att ytterligare bidra till stadsplanerings- och utvecklingssektorn.

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