Translating Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Interdependencies into Policy Advice

Political Criteria for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Selection and the Role of the Urban Dimension

A flood of ideas and proposals on the shape and selection of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has begun to rise since 2012. This article looks at some of them, trying to understand which kind of ―boundary work‖ between science and policy is done here. Starting with a reflection on the epistemological and practical implications of ―discussing SDGs‖, it primarily addresses scientists, but als...

Translating research into public policy.

Influencing and informing public policy are explicit goals of active living research. Active living researchers, motivated by a desire to improve health, often wonder why their findings do not translate more readily into changes in the ''real world'' of local, state, and federal policies. The California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA) is a nonpartisan nonprofit research and advocacy o...

Quantifying targets for the SDG health goal

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent the best example of an international commitment to a set of normative principles underpinned by ideals of equity, solidarity, and peace. The goals achieved universal support because they were ambitious, included indicators that permitted measurement and accountability, and set 2015 for fi nal reporting. The goals institutionalised poverty as mul...

Nutrition: a quintessential sustainable development goal.

In the fi nal paper of our 2008 Lancet Series on maternal and child undernutrition, Saul Morris and colleagues wrote that, “The international nutrition system—made up of international and donor organisations, academia, civil society, and the private sector—is fragmented and dysfunctional”. They concluded that, incredibly, no evidence base existed to prioritise actions to improve nutrition. And ...

Grand convergence: a future sustainable development goal?