Implementation of Sustainable Development in the Global South: Strategies, Innovations, and Challenges
By (Author) Sumaiya Khair
Edited by Shawkat Alam
Edited by Muhammad Ekramul Haque
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Hart Publishing
28th November 2024
United Kingdom
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Public international law: human rights
Public international law: economic and trade
344.046
Hardback
440
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
This book hinges on 3 broad but interlinked elements: sustainable development as a concept, sustainable development in the Global South, and implementation challenges. The advent of the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda have contributed to the deepening of the concept of sustainable development within global and national policy schemes. The fact that sustainable development is crucial for our very survival is no longer a contested issue; rather, the key concern now is how this can be achieved equitably by reconciling competing priorities and concerns of the Global South and the Global North. While the Global South are eager to adopt and integrate the 2030 Agenda in their respective policy frameworks, local contexts are often at odds with the global model of sustainable development. The book examines national capacities and institutional arrangements in countries in the Global South. It considers the challenges of integrating sustainable development in national policy frameworks. This includes the role, interactions, and inter-dependence of different branches of international law in, inter alia, protecting human rights, promoting access to justice, ensuring environmental justice, guaranteeing social protection, and safeguarding the rule of law for sustainable societies. This book explores the emerging patterns and processes of development projects that have either succeeded or failed, critical reflections on what has been achieved and whose interests they served, and the costs and benefits of particular interventions.
Sumaiya Khair is Professor of Law at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Shawkat Alam is Professor of Law and Director of International Engagement at Macquarie University, Australia. Muhammad Ekramul Haque is Professor of Constitutional Law and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.