Co-Creation for Sustainability

The UN SDGs and the Power of Local Partnerships

Christopher Ansell, Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781800438019
• eBook ISBN: 9781800438002
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Organisational Behaviour
• Index: Economics

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.

The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious agenda for global problem-solving and create a framework to achieve it through the power of partnerships. Goal 17 points to the central importance of partnerships, networks, and multi-stakeholder collaborations for bringing together a broad range of actors to accomplish the first 16 goals. Only through such partnerships can the distributed knowledge, resources and capacity of government agencies, private enterprises, political activists, local communities, and international NGOs be effectively combined to produce the major breakthroughs in sustainability that the SDGs envision.

Co-Creation for Sustainability sets out a strategy of partnership, with an emphasis on how global goals can be translated into local action. Co-creation brings multiple parties together—including citizens—to collaboratively engage in innovative problem-solving. The book explains this strategy and describes how to foster the conditions necessary for its success. It details how leaders can spur co-creation and manage and overcome its practical challenges.

Written to inspire public and private changemakers to find fundamental solutions to the pressing challenges that confront our social and natural environment, Co-creation for Sustainability: The UN SDGs and the Power of Partnerships provides intellectual resources and practical advice relevant for those who aspire to harness the talents, energy and perspectives of different sectors to build the momentum we need to realize a sustainable future.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Cocreating the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
• Chapter 2 The Key Role of Local Governance in Achieving the SDGs
• Chapter 3 Cocreation Is the Answer
• Chapter 4 Translating Global Goals to Local Contexts
• Chapter 5 Building Cocreation Platforms
• Chapter 6 Convening, Empowering, and Integrating Relevant and Affected Actors
• Chapter 7 Initiating, Designing, and Diffusing Cocreated Innovation
• Chapter 8 Cocreating SDGs Through Experimentation and Prototyping
• Chapter 9 Funding and Financing Local Cocreation Projects
• Chapter 10 Implementing Solutions Based on Collaborative Adaptation
• Chapter 11 Evaluating Processes, Outputs, and Outcomes to Learn and Improve
• Chapter 12 Ensuring Accountable Cocreation of the SDGs
• Chapter 13 Leading Local Cocreation of SDG Solutions
• Chapter 14 Challenges to the Cocreation of the SDGs and the Way Forward
• References
• Index