The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 global goals, with 169 specific targets meant to provide the blueprint for achieving sustainable development. As progressional heirs to the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals, the SDGs came into force in 2016 and are being pursued with differential success rates. The present “primer” course aims to provide a background to understand the SDGs and their targets. The main objective is to understand the SDG framework through which the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of human development can be integrated with the natural resources. The elective course would hence provide a means for diverse streams of researchers to understand the SDGs from the perspective of the existing global issues, and the need for scientific monitoring efforts to support the achievement of the targets apart from exploring the relevance of the SDGs to their research.
Course Evaluation: One mid-semester quiz (50%) and one end-term paper (50%)
Course Readings:
1. Sustainable Development Goals for Society Vol. 1, Editors: Godwell Nhamo, Muchaiteyi Togo, Kaitano Dube, Hardcover ISBN : 978-3-030-70947-1; Softcover ISBN : 978-3-030- 70950-1; eBook ISBN : 978-3-030-70948-8, Series ISSN 2523-3084; Edition Number 1, Number of Pages XXII, 301. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70948-8
2. Sustainable Development Goals for Society Vol. 2, Editors: Godwell Nhamo, Muchaiteyi Togo, Kaitano Dube, Hardcover ISBN : 978-3-030-70951-8; Softcover ISBN : 978-3-030-70954-9; eBook ISBN : 978-3-030-70952-5, Series ISSN 2523-3084; Edition Number 1, Number of Pages XXIII, 312. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70952-5
3. https://www.un.org/development/desa/dspd/2030agenda-sdgs.html
4.http://mospi.nic.in/sites/default/files/publication_reports/SDG-NIF- Progress2021_March%2031.pdf