Partnerships for the Goals

1. Front Matter

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2. A

   1. Academic-Business Partnerships for the SDGs: The Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa

      • Joel Onyango, Nora Ndege

      Pages 1-11

   2. Academic-to-Business Partnerships

      Pages 11-11

   3. Accountability

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   4. Accountability Frameworks for Partnership Toward Sustainability

      • Carol Pomare

      Pages 11-22

   5. Adolescents

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   6. Africa-EU Research Collaboration on Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture

      • S. A. Igbatayo

      Pages 22-37

   7. Alliances

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   8. Archaeology

      Pages 37-37

   9. Attaining SDGs in Africa Through Bilateral and Multilateral Partnerships

      • Edidiong Samuel Akpabio

      Pages 37-47

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   1. Backbone Organization

      Pages 49-49

   2. Belief System

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   3. Binomial Technology and Sustainability: Four Elements of Nature and Key Geostrategic Sectors

      • Diogo Almeida Alves

      Pages 49-61

   4. Bio-based Economy

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   5. Bioeconomics

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   6. Biotechonomy

      Pages 62-62

   7. BRICS Consortium: Toward Implementing Sustainable Development Goal 6

      • Tal Septon, Nidhi Nagabhatla, Angela Min Yi Hou, Fan Yang

      Pages 62-78

   8. Bridging the Gender Gap to Realize Capacity Building: The role of SDG 5 for SDG 17

      • Praveen Kumar, Mary Ulseth, Sarah Austin

      Pages 78-87

   9. Business as a Partner for the Global Goals

      • Valérie Amato

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   10. Business Education as a Partnership for Sustainable Development

       • Christa McCartney

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The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify. Therefore, there is an increasing need to search for integrated solutions to make development more sustainable. The United Nations has acknowledged the problem and approved the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. On 1st January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Agenda officially came into force. These goals cover the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection.  

The Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals comprehensively addresses the SDGs in an integrated way. The Encyclopedia encompasses 17 volumes, each one devoted to one of the 17 SDGs. This volume addresses SDG 17, namely "Strengthen the means of implementation andrevitalize the global partnership for sustainable development" and contains the description of a range of terms, which allows a better understanding and fosters knowledge. The approval of the SDGs by the 194 countries of the UN General Assembly implies that issues such as combating climate change; distributing resources fairly; providing security and protection; generating employment; and ensuring quality health care and education need the concerted efforts of everyone. SDG 17 seeks to dismantle structures and procedures built on inequality of access and develop strategies that ensure collaboration and sharing of resources and opportunities.

The topics covered concern finance, technology, capacity-building, trade and systemic issues:

• Domestic resource mobilization
• Domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
• Long-term debt sustainability for developing countries
• Debt financing, debt relief, dept restructuring
• Globaltechnology facilitation mechanism
• Technology, bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism 
• Enhanced information and communications technology
• Universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under WTO
• Increased exports of developing countries
• Global macroeconomic stability
• Policy coordination and policy coherence
• Promotion of effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships

Editorial Board


Carolina Collaro, Sonja Rewhorn, Elena Shabliy, Monica Thiel, Marco Tortora, Tony Wall

• Global Partnership
• Multi-stakeholder Partnerships
• Voluntary Commitments
• National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS)
• Mobilization of Resources
• Equitable Progress
• Capacity Building
• Finance
• Trade
• Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)

• European School of Sustainability Science and Research, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

  Walter Leal Filho

• Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

  Anabela Marisa Azul

• Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University, Passo Fundo, Brazil

  Luciana Brandli

• University of Passo Fundo, Passo Fundo, Brazil

  Amanda Lange Salvia

• International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

  Tony Wall

Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DEd, DL, DLitt) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the initiator of the Word Sustainable Development Symposia (WSSD-U) series, and chairs the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 400 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals.

Anabela Marisa Azul is a Researcher at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC) and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Coimbra (UC, Portugal). She holds a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, specializing in Ecology (2002, UC), and pursued her investigation on biology and ecology of fungi to pinpoint the role of mycorrhizal symbiosis for sustainability of Mediterranean forests under different land use scenarios at the Centre for Functional Ecology (CFE-UC), where she became an Associate Researcher (from 2009 to 2014). At CFE-UC, Marisa Azul developed a holistic approach that combined innovation in food production with sustainable development and public scientific awareness to multiple actors. At CNC, from 2014 on, Marisa Azul focuses her investigation on basic research and participatory research dynamics to pinpoint links between metabolism, health/disease, and sustainability. She has broad academic experience as a researcher working in participatory research and interdisciplinary that link biomedical and life/environmental sciences, social sciences, science education, science communication, and artistic forms. Her research interests also lie in bringing together the academy and social/economical players. She has been successful in attracting national and international funding, coordinating projects, and mentoring young researchers on the topics mentioned. She has co-authored over 40 scientific publications and book chapters, co-edited 4 books on Climate Change Management Series and 1 onWorld Sustainability Series published by Springer, co-authored 4 books for children and 2 comics, and co-produced 1 animation.

Luciana Brandli, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the University of Passo Fundo, Brazil, working in the Ph.D. Program in Civil and Environment Engineering. Her current research interests include sustainability in higher education and green campus, management of urban infrastructure and sustainable cities, and the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development. She supervises a number of Master’s and Doctoral students on engineering and environment and sustainability issues and has in excess of 300 publications, including books, book chapters, and papers in refereed journals.



Amanda Lange Salviahas a degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Passo Fundo, Brazil, and graduate studies focused on sustainable cities and universities. Her work focuses on the Sustainable Development Goals, the role of universities towards sustainability and the impacts of climate change. Amanda has experience with international studies assessing aspects related to the 2030 Agenda and sustainability in higher education. She is reviewer of various journals and is also a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. 



Tony Wall (BSc Hons, PGDip, PGCHE, MA, MSc, EdD, MCIPD, NTFHEA) is a Professor, Founder and Director of the International Thriving at Work Research Group in the United Kingdom where he is the institutional lead for the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. His research impact work has won multiple Santander International Research Excellence Awardsand a National Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. Apart from being a visiting scholar in the US and Australia, his change work includes co-founding of the Washington Ethical Leadership Summit and the TS Eliot Foundation’s International Creative Practice for Wellbeing Framework.

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