Syllabus

All readings will be available as pdf documents on the course page on Canvas. 

Day 1: Introduction

  • Easterly, W. (2015) “The SDGs Should stand for Senseless, Dreamy, Garbled”, Foreign Policy.
  • Fukuda-Parr, S. & McNeill, D. (2019) “Knowledge and Politics in Setting and Measuring the SDGs: Introduction to Special Issue”, Global Policy 10 (1): 5 – 15.
  • Langford, M. (2016) “Lost in Transformation? The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals”, Ethics & International Affairs 30(2): 167–176.
  • Le Blanc, D. (2015) “The Sustainable Development Goals as a network of targets”, Sustainable Development 23: 176-187.
  • Nilsson, M., D. Griggs & M. Visbeck (2017) “Policy: map the interactions between Sustainable Development Goals”, Nature 534: 320–322.
  • Sachs, J. (2012) “From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals”, Lancet (379): 2206–2211.
  • Stafford-Smith, M. et al. (2017) “Integration: The key to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals”, Sustainability Science and Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals 12: 911-919.
  • United Nations General Assembly (2015) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (A/RES/70/1): 1-14.

Day 2: Concepts and approaches

  • Biermann, F., N. Kanie & R. Kim (2017) “Global Governance by goal-setting: the novel approach of the UN Sustainable Development Goals”, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 26(27): 26-31.

  • Boas, I., F. Biermann & N. Kanie (2016) “Cross-sectoral strategies in global sustainability governance: towards a nexus approach”, International Environmental Agreements 16: 449-464.

  • Fukuda-Parr, S. (2018) “Sustainable Development Goals” (1-17), in T. Weiss & S. Daws (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the United Nations (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018).

  • Holden, E., K. Linnerud & D. Banister (2017) “The Imperatives of Sustainable Development”, Sustainable Development 25: 213–226.

  • World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) “Ch. 2: Towards Sustainable Development” (40-59), in Our common future: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Day 3: Development Finance

  • Banik, D. and Lin, K. (2019) “Business and Morals: Corporate strategies for sustainable development in China”, Business and Politics.
  • Barkemeyer et al. (2014) “What Happened to the ‘Development’ in Sustainable Development? Business Guidelines Two Decades after Brundtland”, Sustainable Development 22: 15-32.
  • Business and Sustainable Development Commission (2017) Better Business, Better World: Executive Summary, 1-15.
  • Jones, E. (2019) “Rethinking Greenwashing: Corporate Discourse, Unethical Practice, and the Unmet Potential of Ethical Consumerism”, Sociological Perspectives 62(5): 1-27.
  • Kamphof, R. & Melissen, J. (2018) “SDGs, Foreign Ministries and the Art of Partnering with the Private Sector”, Global Policy 9(3): 327-335.
  • Kunkel, M. (2011) “Writing the History of Development: A Review of the Recent Literature”, Contemporary European History 20(2): 215–232.
  • Mawdsley, E. (2018) “From Billions to Trillions: Financing the SDGs in a World ‘Beyond Aid’”, Dialogues in Human Geography 8(2): 191-195.
  • Scheyvens, R., G. Banks & E. Hughes (2016) “The Private Sector and the SDGs: The Need to Move Beyond ‘Business as Usual”, Sustainable Development 24: 371-382.

Day 4: Localizing the 2030 Agenda and SDG implementation

  • Adams, E. A., & Smiley, S. L. (2018) “Urban-Rural Water Access Inequalities in Malawi: Implications For Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals”, Natural Resources Forum: 1-8.

  • Horvath, B. (2016) Identifying the Development Dividends along the Belt and Road Initiative: Complementarities and Synergies between the Belt and Road Initiative and the Sustainable Development Goals, 1-22.  

  • Government of China (2016) “Ch. 2: Opportunities and Challenges in China’s Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” (9-18), in China’s National Plan on Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

  • Government of China (2016) Executive Summary of China’s Actions on the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1-5.

  • Government of India (2017) Summary and introduction (v-viii & 1-6), Voluntary National Review Report: On the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

  • Government of Malawi (2017) “Executive Summary” and “Ch. 1: Overview” (xvi-5), in The Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS) III.

  • Government of Rwanda (2019) Rwanda Voluntary National Review (VNR) Report, 12-28.

  • Qin, Y., J. Harrison, & L. Chen (2019) “A Framework for the Practice of Corporate Environmental Responsibility in China”, Journal of Cleaner Production 235: 426–452.

Day 5: What works, and the way forward

  • Banik, D. (2018) “Taking Stock of the SDGs”, in D. Dwivedi and P. Pandey (eds.), Leaving No One Behind: SDGs and South-South Cooperation, New Delhi: NITI AYOG/ Crossbill.
  • Banik, D. and Chasukwa, M. (2019) “Food Policy and Food Politics in an SDG Era”, Food Ethics 1-5.
  • Bowen, K. J. et al. (2017) “Implementing the ‘Sustainable Development Goals: Towards Addressing Three Key Governance Challenges – Collective Action, Trade-offs and Accountability”, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 26-27: 90-96.
  • Chasukwa M. and Banik, D. (2019) “Bypassing Government: Aid Effectiveness and Malawi’s Local Development Fund”, Politics and Governance, 7(2): 103–116.
  • Cohen, M. (2019) “Let Them Eat Promises: Global Policy Incoherence, Unmet Pledges, and Misplaced Priorities Undercut Progress on SDG 2”, Food Ethics 1-13.
  • Pogge, T. and Sengupta, A. K. (2015) “The Sustainable Development Goals: A Plan for Building a Better World?”, Journal of Global Ethics 11(1): 56-64.
  • Sachs, J.D. et al. (2019) “Six Transformations to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”, Nature Sustainability 2: 805-814.
  • Tosun, J. & Leininger, J. (2017) “Governing the Interlinkages between the SDGs: Approaches to Attain Policy Integration”, Global Challenges 1: 1-12.
  • United Nations (2019) The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2019, 1-59.

 

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