The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals

Frank Biermann is a research professor of Global Sustainability Governance with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University. He pioneered the 'earth system governance' paradigm in global change research in 2005, and was founder and first chair of the Earth System Governance Project, a widely renowned global transdisciplinary research network of sustainability scholars. He has authored or edited 18 books and published more than 200 articles and book chapters, along with over 100 policy contributions. Thomas Hickmann is an associate senior lecturer (assistant professor) in the Department of Political Science at Lund University. His research focuses on the question of how societies can best deal with transboundary issues and provide global common goods in the sustainability domain from local to global levels. He is co-convener of the taskforce on the Sustainable Development Goals of the Earth System Governance Project and served from 2015 to 2021 on the steering committee of the Environmental Politics/Global Change working group of the German Political Science Association. Carole-Anne Sénit is a political scientist with a career spanning both research on and practice in the civil society sector. Her research explores the integration of the Global South in global change science, global civil society, and global institutions. She is a research fellow of the Earth System Governance Project, co-convener of the project's taskforce on the Sustainable Development Goals, and managing editor of the Earth System Governance journal.

• 1. Assessing The Impact Of Global Goals: Setting The Stage Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Carole-Anne Sénit; 2. Global Governance Marianne Beisheim, Steven Bernstein, Frank Biermann, Pamela Chasek, Melanie Van Driel, Felicitas Fritzsche, Carole-Anne Sénit, Silke Weinlich; 3. Implementation At Multiple Levels Andrea Ordóñez Llanos, Rob Raven, Magdalena Bexell, Brianna Botchwey, Basil Bornemann, Jecel Censoro, Marius Christen, Liliana Díaz, Thomas Hickmann, Kristina Jönsson, Imme Scholz, Michelle Scobie, Yixian Sun, John Thompson, John Thwaites, Abbie Yunita; 4. Interlinkages, Integration And Coherence Måns Nilsson, Marjanneke J. Vijge, Ivonne Lobos Alva, Basil Bornemann, Karin Fernando, Thomas Hickmann, Michelle Scobie, Sabine Weiland; 5. Inclusiveness Carole-Anne Sénit, Chukwumerije Okereke, Lorena Alcázar, Dan Banik, Mairon Bastos Lima, Frank Biermann, Rongedzayi Fambasayi, Ibrahima Hathie, Annica Kronsell, Hanna Leonardsson, Navam Niles, Karen Siegel; 6. Planetary Integrity Louis J. Kotzé, Rakhyun E. Kim, Peter Burdon, Louise Du Toit, Lisa-Maria Glass, Prakash Kashwan, Diana Liverman, Francesco S. Montesano, Salla Rantala, Carole-Anne Sénit, Sébastien Treyer, Paola Villavicencio-Calzadilla; 7. Methods For Analysing Steering Effects Of Global Goals Prajal Pradhan, Detlef Van Vuuren, Birka Wicke; Maya Bogers, Lorenzo Di Lucia, Thomas Hickmann, Agni Kalfagianni, Julia Leininger, Heleen Van Soest, Anne Warchold, Caroline Zimm; 8. The Sustainable Development Goals as a Transformative Force? Key Insights Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Carole-Anne Sénit, Leonie Grob; Annex 1: The Sustainable Development Goals; References; Index.