8 SDGs: Further Reading / Resources
📙 Haladay, Jane, and Scott Hicks. 2018. Narratives of Educating for Sustainability in Unsustainable Environments. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. “For the writers here, fostering sustainability in higher education means focusing on place, creating positive relationships with humans and other beings, and creating administrative structures that will maintain new approaches for the long-term, showing how teaching environmentally is at once intensely site-specific yet powerfully global, deeply personal yet visibly public.”
📜 Hillerbrand, Rafaela. 2018. ‘Why Affordable Clean Energy Is Not Enough. A Capability Perspective on the Sustainable Development Goals’. Sustainability 10 (7): 2485. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10072485. “Energy is a paradigmatic example of a sociotechnical system. We contend that, by not considering this sociotechnical nature, the SDGs run the risk of implicitly defending a certain variant of technological optimism and determinism.”
📜 Gough, Annette. 2021. ‘Education in the Anthropocene’. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, by Annette Gough. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1391. “Education in an Anthropocene context necessitates a different pedagogy that provides opportunities for learning to live in and engage with the world and acknowledges that we live in a more-than-human world. It also requires learners to critique the Anthropocene as a concept and its associated themes to counter the humanist perspective, which fails to consider how the nonhuman and material worlds co-shape our mutual worlds. In particular, education in the Anthropocene will need to be interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, or cross-disciplinary; intersectional; ecofeminist or posthumanist; indigenous; and participatory.”
📜 Wanner, Thomas. 2015. ‘The New “Passive Revolution” of the Green Economy and Growth Discourse: Maintaining the “Sustainable Development” of Neoliberal Capitalism’. New Political Economy 20 (1): 21–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2013.866081.
Sussex Spotlight: Trade-offs and Synergies among the SDGs
This policy brief from the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme explores interconnections between the SDGs. Where are there potential synergies? Where might pursuing one goal make it harder to achieve another? “The challenge now is to sort through the large number of possible interactions among SDGs in order to uncover and exploit the most important synergies while minimising the effects of trade-offs.” The report includes examples and recommendations.
Joseph Alcamo, Caroline Grundy, and Jorn Scharlemann. 2018. ‘Interactions among the SDGs and why they are important’. Sussex Sustainability Research Programme.
