Abstract On 25 September, 2015, world leaders met at the United Nations in New York,
where they adopted the Sustainable Development Goals. These 17 goals and 169 targets …

The United Nations (UN) Rio+ 20 summit committed nations to develop a set of universal
sustainable development goals (SDGs) to build on the millennium development goals …

A new model for effective global environmental governance in an era of human-caused
planetary transformation and disruption. Humans are no longer spectators who need to …

Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional
and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new …

The growing complexity of collective problems and social needs, aligned with pressures for
cheaper and better public services, have induced efforts at policy reform in many developed …

One of the next major challenges for research and policy on sustainability is setting the post-
2015 Development Agenda. This challenge arises as a direct result of the formal ending of …

The private sector plays an active role in implementation of mechanisms concerning the
mitigation of climate change. In spite of that, the corporate actors play a limited direct role in …

Originally focused on seeking policy solutions through international cooperation,
transnational administration, and global governance, the study of global environmental …

This article looks at the International Biological Program (IBP) as the predecessor of
UNESCO's well-known and highly successful Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB). It …

Combating threats of infectious diseases has been increasingly framed as a global shared
responsibility for a multi-actor framework of states, international organisations and …