Pathways to Urban Equality through the Sustainable Development Goals: Modes of Extreme Poverty, Resilience, and Prosperity

Autor: Allan Lavell, Colin McFarlane, Henrietta L. Moore, Saffron Woodcraft, Christopher Yap
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 215-229 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1946-3138
1946-3146
19463138
DOI: 10.1080/19463138.2023.2226099
Popis: There has been a tendency for debates around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to focus on particular Goals or Targets. What tends to get lost, however, is the bigger picture. In this paper we ask: to what extent and under what conditions do the SDGs offer a pathway to equality? Specifically, we focus on the potentials of the SDGs as a pathway to urban equality in the decade of delivery. We focus on the ways that three key interrelated development agendas, eradicating extreme poverty, promoting prosperity, and building resilience, are mobilised through the SDGs. Together these agendas reveal tensions and opportunities in the relationship between the SDGs and urban equality. In discussion, we reflect on the potentials of an urban equality lens to read the SDGs, and the conditions under which they might contribute to the realisation of fairer and more equal cities.
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