The UN Sustainable Development Goals as innovation drivers for local sustainability governance? Examples from Germany
Local governments are highly relevant for the just-starting socio-ecological transformation. Living up to this role requires new or adapted forms of governance. The German case provides a vivid example of how the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a useful framework for this transformat...
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| description | Local governments are highly relevant for the just-starting socio-ecological transformation. Living up to this role requires new or adapted forms of governance. The German case provides a vivid example of how the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a useful framework for this transformation. In our policy-oriented contribution, we focus on the question whether the SDGs themselves are innovation drivers in local sustainability governance. We motivate this idea with the theoretical framework of public sector innovation and provide comprehensive examples of the most prevalent current approaches to SDG-related innovations at the German local government level, covering local government sustainability reporting, strategies, budgets, and financing. Our central finding is that a small group of early-innovating German local governments has already begun to govern sustainability with the help of SDG-driven innovations and that this became possible because of publicly funded support projects and accessible pre-defined localised SDGs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5c99dff1d4974882869ccb8eecb494f12022-12-22T04:17:36ZengInstitute of Public FinancePublic Sector Economics2459-88602022-12-0146445948710.3326/pse.46.4.29533The UN Sustainable Development Goals as innovation drivers for local sustainability governance? Examples from GermanyChristian Raffer0Henrik Scheller1Oliver Peters2 Freie Universität Berlin, School of Business and Economics, Berlin, Germany, and German Institute of Urban Affairs, Berlin, Germany German Institute of Urban Affairs, Berlin, Germany, and Freie Universität Berlin, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Berlin, Germany German Institute of Urban Affairs, Berlin, Germany Local governments are highly relevant for the just-starting socio-ecological transformation. Living up to this role requires new or adapted forms of governance. The German case provides a vivid example of how the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a useful framework for this transformation. In our policy-oriented contribution, we focus on the question whether the SDGs themselves are innovation drivers in local sustainability governance. We motivate this idea with the theoretical framework of public sector innovation and provide comprehensive examples of the most prevalent current approaches to SDG-related innovations at the German local government level, covering local government sustainability reporting, strategies, budgets, and financing. Our central finding is that a small group of early-innovating German local governments has already begun to govern sustainability with the help of SDG-driven innovations and that this became possible because of publicly funded support projects and accessible pre-defined localised SDGs. http://www.pse-journal.hr/upload/files/pse/2022/0/raffer_scheller_peters.pdf sustainable development goals; local governments; public sector innovation; germany |
| spellingShingle | Christian Raffer Henrik Scheller Oliver Peters The UN Sustainable Development Goals as innovation drivers for local sustainability governance? Examples from Germany Public Sector Economics sustainable development goals; local governments; public sector innovation; germany |
| title | The UN Sustainable Development Goals as innovation drivers for local sustainability governance? Examples from Germany |
| title_full | The UN Sustainable Development Goals as innovation drivers for local sustainability governance? Examples from Germany |
| title_fullStr | The UN Sustainable Development Goals as innovation drivers for local sustainability governance? Examples from Germany |
| title_full_unstemmed | The UN Sustainable Development Goals as innovation drivers for local sustainability governance? Examples from Germany |
| title_short | The UN Sustainable Development Goals as innovation drivers for local sustainability governance? Examples from Germany |
| title_sort | un sustainable development goals as innovation drivers for local sustainability governance examples from germany |
| topic | sustainable development goals; local governments; public sector innovation; germany |
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