Hot Air or Comprehensive Progress? A Critical Assessment of the SDGs

By J. Spangenberg. 2017

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/c873400e6776357457b23dbc0d69bfbaace2d85d

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1. Rupert J. Baumgartner

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1. Rupert J. Baumgartner

Citations in the corpus

• Sustainable Development Goals and the Forest Sector—a Complex Relationship (2019, background): “Targets for pressures are missing; targets referring to driving forces are mentioned (like sustained growth or free trade and globalization) in the sense of “more of the same”, instead of reversing these driving forces, which led to the current state of unsustainability [11].”
• About the Triggering of UN Sustainable Development Goals and Regenerative Sustainability in Higher Education (2019, background): “As Spangenberg [90] warns, the SDGs can be seen re found to be weak on ‘agency’, since public administrations have limited duties on reporting and achievements, while business or consumers almost none (which is why success of SDGs is seen to be through the private, not public sector).”