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The UN's urban sustainability goal (#11) is fundamental to the global sustainable development agenda. David Simon explains the anatomy and dynamics of SDG 11, and critically assess how it is being used and understood in different local, regional and national contexts.
Supported by case studies throughout, Simon considers how SDG 11 interacts with other Sustainability Development Goals and how competing indicators, other external constraints, as well as lack of political will can present tough challenges to implementation. He provides a balanced and dispassionate analysis, highlighting problems and limitations alongside positive applications. A key aspect of the unfolding story of the SDGs is how they play out in practice. Although some of the connections and complementarities were designed, others are shown to have emerged by default. Drawing on lessons learnt so far, Simon considers how realistic sustainability goals are for cities and human settlements worldwide, and asks how different will cities be by the end of the SDG's 15-year lifespan in 2030?
Written for students, policy-makers and practitioners, the book provides an authoritative assessment of one of the most important and integrative SDGs.
In this articulate and comprehensive account, David Simon provides a full history of the negotiations around the eleventh Sustainable Development Goal, on cities and human settlements. He traces the formal and informal processes that led to consensus and then explores the practical challenges of implementation, including the synergies and trade-offs between goal areas as they play out in urban environments the world over. Drawing upon careful procedural analysis he provides unique political insights on how negotiations are won or lost, whilst also providing practical insights, based on his own experience and comprehensive literature review, on how urban sustainability might be more robustly pursued now and in future.
1. Origin and context
1.1 Introduction
1.2 From the MDGs to the SDGs
1.3 The distinctive rationale for SDG 11
1.4 The process to establish SDG 11
1.5 Conclusions
2. Anatomy of SDG 11
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The logic and structure of Goal 11
2.3 Target 11.1
2.4 Target 11.2
2.5 Target 11.3
2.6 Target 11.4
2.7 Target 11.5
2.8 Target 11.6
2.9 Target 11.7
2.10 Supplementary targets 11.a–11.c
2.11 Conclusions
3. Interactions among the SDGs
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Anticipated synergies and trade-offs and guidance issued
3.3 Examples of conceptual synergies and trade-offs with SDG 11
3.4 Synergies and trade-offs as encountered and addressed during SDG implementation
3.5 Conclusions
4. Embedding and implementing SDG 11
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Global reviews of progress with implementation
4.3 Assessing government progress in co-ordinating and implementing the SDGs
4.4 Localisation of the SDGs
4.5 Voluntary Local Reviews and their assessment
4.6 Conclusions
5. Additional challenges to achieving SDG 11
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Suggested modifications and alternatives to SDG 11
5.3 Appropriate funding and costs of implementation
5.4 Conclusions
6. Synthesis and conclusions
6.1 Progress with implementation to date
6.2 Smart cities, the SDGs and sustainability
6.3 Impact of the SDGs as a whole and Goal 11 in particular
6.4 Towards 2030: prospects for achieving SDG 11