Towards Sustainable Futures serves as a guide to better understand what roles evaluation can play in sustainability.
Rather than proposing a single definition of sustainability or methodological approach, this book gives us the tools to improve the quality and relevance of evaluation of sustainability. Divided into two parts, the first part introduces the reader to key debates and challenges related to evaluation of sustainability. Part Two provides examples of methods and applications.
By combining a stellar line up of specialists, theorists, and practitioners in the field of development evaluation with expert, accessible and engaged analysis of key issues, Towards Sustainable Futures is a must-read source for re-tooling and re-focussing evaluation towards the green transition imperative. It should be essential reading for scholars and practitioners of evaluation.
Foreword
Oscar A. Garcia
1. Concept, Background and Purpose
Ida Lindkvist, Kim Forss, Per Øyvind Bastøe
Part 1: From Projects to Systems and Politics
2. Can Equity be Sustained – and Can Evaluation find the Answer?
Kim Forss
3. Evaluation of Sustainability in the Presence of Goal Conflict
Ida Lindkvist
4. Understanding and Addressing Sustainability in Evaluation
Rob D. van den Berg
5. Setting Goals and Missing Them: Can Evaluations Help Us Meet SDGs?
Saeed Parto
6. Disaster Risk Management for Sustainable Development
Mathilde de Goër de Herve
Part 2: Methods and Applications
7. Evaluating Sustainability through the lens of Circular Business Models
Jens Andersson
8. Credibility and Utility of Corporate Sustainability Reporting
Per Øyvind Bastøe and Paul Wade
9. A Classification Algorithm to Link Official Documents to Sustainable Development Goals
Francesco Mazzeo Rinaldi, Giovanni Giuffrida, Salvo Nicotra and Flora Dispinseri
10. Evaluation: A Road to Sustainable Welfare
Kjeld Høgsbro and Olaf Rieper
11. Sustainability, Systemic Change, and Theory-Based Evaluation: Lessons from the ‘Safe System’ Approach in Road Safety
Peter van der Knaap
12. Why we Should Employ a Social Practice Perspective when we Evaluate Sustainability
Tove Heggli Sagmo and Anita Haslie
13. Evaluating Social Sustainability: Concepts, Approaches and How to Apply these to Evaluations
Alison Pollard
14. Re-imagining the Role of Evaluation in Planning for Sustainability of Gender Equity Interventions
Sanjeev Sridharan, Debra Torok, Abhijit Das, Satish Singh, Amanda Pereira, Rachael Gibson, and April Nakaima
15. Evaluating Sustainability – A Multidimensional Approach
Tom Ling and Ananda S. Millard Tom Ling
Part 3: Conclusion
16. Conclusions – Outlining the roles for evaluation
Ida Lindkvist, Kim Forss and Per Øyvind Bastøe
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