State of the Art of Assessment for Sustainable Development Goals—3rd Edition
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 2695
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sustainable development practice; assessment for sustainable development goals; environmental planning; environmental management; environmental impact assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world is facing a multitude of major challenges; a global sustainable development model is needed to guide countries towards an inclusive, green, resilient, and shared future. In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Resolution called Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The core of the SDGs lies in how to implement them well, which needs to be fully explored from the aspects of progress assessment, policy design, action, and local practice.
The Special Issue is called State of the Art of Assessment for Sustainable Development Goals—3rd Edition. The goal of this Special Issue is to publicize and recommend the actions and effects of SDG promotion in various countries and regions around the world, and to explore the theoretical and practical experience of SDG localization.
This Special Issue is open to any subject area related to the assessment of sustainable development goals. The listed keywords suggest just a few of the many possibilities.
- Methods for assessing the progress of SDGs in areas such as population, resources, environment, and economy;
- Identification and analysis of key issues and factors affecting the SDGs;
- The Future of the SDGs of the Post-2030 Sustainable Development Agenda;
- Measures and methods for accelerating the implementation of the SDGs goals;
- Sharing of Best Practices in SDGs;
- SDG localization theory;
- Urban sustainable development;
- Sustainable cities and communities;
- SDG progress assessment;
- Creating enabling policies to mobilize financial resources;
- Building policy implementation capacity;
- Monitoring and evaluating policy performance
Prof. Dr. Chaofeng Shao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- methods for assessing the progress of SDGs in areas such as population, resources, environment, and economy
- identification and analysis of key issues and factors affecting the SDGs
- the future of the SDGs of the post-2030 sustainable development agenda
- measures and methods for accelerating the implementation of the SDGs goals
- sharing of best practices in SDGs
- SDG localization theory
- urban sustainable development
- sustainable cities and communities
- SDG progress assessment
- policies to mobilize financial resources
- policy implementation capacity
- policy performance evaluation
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