{"id":7097,"date":"2017-11-15T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7097"},"modified":"2017-11-15T06:21:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T06:21:11","slug":"sustainable-development-goal-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/11\/15\/sustainable-development-goal-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable development goal analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote the other day about the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/11\/10\/10-nov-business-and-the-sustainable-development-goals\/\">Cambridge report<\/a> about business and the sustainable development goals, and I referred in particular to Figure 2.1: <em>Six outcomes and 10 interconnected tasks<\/em> which has finance, business and governtment at the core of the model.<\/p>\n<p>In this analysis, Economy is seen as having three components:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Basic needs<\/li>\n<li>Wellbeing<\/li>\n<li>Decent work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>... with these underpinned by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Climate stability<\/li>\n<li>Healthy ecosystems<\/li>\n<li>Resource security<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are inevitable parallels (and non-parallels) to be drawn with the Daly-Meadows way of thinking about all this, but that's for another day.<\/p>\n<p>The 17 goals are then mapped onto these components like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Basic needs \u2013<strong>\u00a01 \u00a02 \u00a03 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 6 \u00a07 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a010<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Wellbeing \u2013 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<strong> \u00a0\u00a03 \u00a04 \u00a05 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 10 \u00a011 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 16<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Decent work \u2013<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a08 \u00a09 \u00a010<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Climate stability \u2013 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>9 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a013<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Healthy ecosystems \u2013 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>14 \u00a015<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Resource security \u2013 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>12<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a pretty minimalist mapping with a tendency to attach one goal to one component. \u00a0The stand-out exception to this (which might be a surprise to many) is Goal <strong>10<\/strong>: <em>reduced inequalities<\/em>, which extends across all components of the economy, whereas Goal <strong>8<\/strong>: <em>decent work and economic growth<\/em>\u00a0only features the once.<\/p>\n<p>Educators will surely wonder at how little Goal <strong>4<\/strong>: <em>quality education<\/em> features. \u00a0Perhaps this just illustrates how little the authors of this analysis know or think about curriculum. \u00a0Or, perhaps again, how much educators tend to inflate the significance of what they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote the other day about the Cambridge report about business and the sustainable development goals, and I referred in particular to Figure 2.1: Six outcomes and 10 interconnected tasks which has finance, business and governtment at the core 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