Influence of the 2030 Agenda in the Design of Policies to Fight Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rural and Urban Contexts

• Other Authors: Sianes, Antonio (Editor), Fernández-Portillo, Luis A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Philosophy; social sustainability; accessibility; disorder; perception of safety; social cohesion; multiple mediators; urban; local capacity; sustainable development; collaboration; implementation; 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 7; official development assistance; multidimensional poverty; micro-macro paradox; aid effectiveness; Guinea; Liberia; Sierra Leone; urban sustainability; land tenure; urban growth; governance; development; urban planning; inclusive and sustainable urban development; public policy; social policy; policy transfer; design policy; multidimensionality approach; social exclusion; social transformation; disadvantaged urban areas; 2030 Agenda; Milan Urban Food Policy Pact; local and international agendas of local governments; innovative urban food strategies; Madrid; Quito; Valencia; public policies; local development; decentralization; human development; multilevel governance; organizational culture; culture of solidarity; ASEAN; content analysis; land; policy; sustainable development goals; financial exclusion; land economics; rural areas; spatial access to cash; access to cash index; sustainable access to cash; sustainability; socioenvironmental justice; interculturality; Colombian Caribbean; common goods; Afro-descendants; n/a
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This Special Issue focuses on the articulation of the 2030 Agenda at the domestic level, with policies addressing social exclusion in rural and urban contexts, both in countries from the Global North and the Global South. In such contexts, a complex multiactor governance mechanism is required to guarantee the participation of all relevant stakeholders in the policy cycle. This democratic governance is especially relevant to effectively address the problems faced by the most vulnerable people and groups in rural and urban areas, to guarantee that no one is left behind. Many elements defining the situation of vulnerability and deprivation that people face occur in relation to and caused by the characteristics of the place where they live, be it a city or a rural area. Rural and urban vulnerabilities should not be studied as two separate realities, not only because they share common features, but also because those most deprived in cities are likely to have migrated from the rural milieu in search of a better life. Thus, they can be regarded as two stages in time and space of a continuum of underdevelopment. This Special Issue gathered the works of scholars that explore how the 2030 Agenda is influencing the design of domestic policies with a multilevel (transnational and domestic) approach, methodological models for studying the articulation of global policies such as the 2030 Agenda in the design of national and local policies, or potentially replicable diffusion and transference models for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.