Overview
- Applies critical approaches to the 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals
- Reveals how the López Obrador administration understands development of Mexico’s “Fourth Transformation”
- Considers structural and conjunctural challenges facing Mexico vis-à-vis People-, Planet and Peace-centered development
Part of the book series: Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America (GDSILA)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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About this book
This book explores how and why Mexico’s approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation with the López Obrador administration is unsustainable and non-transformative, overshadowed by his vision of Mexico’s “Fourth Transformation”. Approached as a super mantra revolving around “Republican Austerity” and “First, the poor”, it provides original analysis of structural and conjunctural challenges facing Mexico as regards People-, Planet-, and Peace-centered development. The book reveals the promise “First, the poor” is inconsistent with data on Mexico’s poverty reduction (SDG1). Despite record-high spending on social programs and unmatched coverage, the recent tendency of improvement in tackling poverty is rather ambiguous from the perspective of multidimensional poverty. The book covers access to clean energy (SDG7), resilient infrastructure and sustainable industrialization (SDG9), and safeguarding biodiversity (SDG15) by examining three megaproject case studies: the oil refinery Dos Bocas, the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and the Maya Train, generating concern with the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of sustainable development. The prospects for an ‘enabling environment’ for SDG implementation are hampered by persistently high levels of homicides and impunity (SDG16). Turning Mexico’s Armed Forces into ‘first development partner of choice’ is problematized as regards their reach in infrastructure megaprojects and social welfare programs, in the overall context of the ‘de-risking state’ favoring private capital. The result, as determined by Villanueva Ulfgard, has led Mexico further astray from sustainable and transformative development.
Reviews
“A groundbreaking study on the implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda using Mexico as a case study to explain how national priorities and preferences can make such implementation unsustainable and non-transformative. A must read for International Relations, International Cooperation and Public Policy scholars and students.”
--Dr. Jorge A. Schiavon, Professor, International Relations, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE), Mexico City
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rebecka Villanueva Ulfgard is Associate Professor in International Studies at the Instituto Mora, Mexico City.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mexico and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
Book Subtitle: Unsustainable and Non-Transformative
Authors: Rebecka Villanueva Ulfgard
Series Title: Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44728-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44727-3Published: 18 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44728-0Published: 17 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2569-1341
Series E-ISSN: 2569-1333
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 233
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, International Relations, International Relations