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Journal Title
Sustainable Development
Year (definitive publication)
2023
Language
English
Country
United States of America
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Abstract
This paper explores the actual and potential contributions of community‐led initiatives (CLIs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As examples of self‐determined practical action for sustainability and social justice, CLIs prefigure many of the intended outcomes of the SDGs. Existing evidence shows that CLIs are already contributing, at local scale, to almost all of the SDGs, and achieving particular success in bringing different goals into synergy. However, these achievements are based on ethics, guiding philosophies, issue framings, practical goals and ways of organising that differ significantly from those behind the formulation and delivery of the SDGs. Embracing those differences, and with them greater plurality and ongoing critical self‐reflection, would allow the SDGs to transcend certain self‐limiting contradictions, particularly concerning the role of economic growth. Such a shift in orientation is essential if the SDGs are to move from reinforcing to challenging the root causes of unsustainability and injustice.
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Keywords
Civil Society,Post-growth,Social justice,Sustainability transformation,Transformative social innovation
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Sociology - Social Sciences
- Political Science - Social Sciences
- Social and Economic Geography - Social Sciences
- Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences
Funding Records
| Funding Reference | Funding Entity |
|---|---|
| PTDC/SOC-SOC/2061/2020 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| IF/00940/2015 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| SFRH/BPD/94495/2013 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
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Contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations
With the objective to increase the research activity directed towards the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the possibility of associating scientific publications with the Sustainable Development Goals is now available in Ciência-IUL. These are the Sustainable Development Goals identified by the author(s) for this publication. For more detailed information on the Sustainable Development Goals, click here.
