“Advancing and Negotiating Sustainable Development Goals” presents a negotiation framework based on the principles of network/collaborative governance in implementing UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are the “blueprint to humanity’s aspirations.”
In this book, USC Professor, four-term mayor and City Council member from Rolling Hills Estates, Frank Zerunyan, explains that cities are the best place to implement SDGs by directly engaging citizens, private and nonprofit sectors.
Zerunyan explains the terms governance and collaborative governance to frame the subject matter in addressing the advancement and negotiation of SDGs. Governance requires a different mindset and collaborative effort to search for the common good, whereas successful governance is about the quest for a win-win.
Trialed in both the classroom and workplace, the practical toolkit Zerunyan developed gives the reader the tools necessary for facilitating future collaboration and knowledge transfer to all those working to strengthen the formulation, implementation and achievement of SDG-oriented policies. These policies at the local level, among others, include the eradication of poverty, gender equality and diverse and inclusive institutions.
The book, Advancing and Negotiating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), A Practical Toolkit, is essential reading for those interested in a better and more sustainable future for all.