Local responses to global sustainability agendas: learning from experimenting with the urban sustainable development goal in Cape Town.

ABSTRACT: The success of the Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11) depends on the availability and accessibility of robust data, as well as the reconfiguration of governance systems that can catalyse urban transformation. Given the uneven success of the Millennium Development Goals, and the unprecedented inclusion of the urban in the SDG process, the feasibility of SDG 11 was assessed in advance of its ratification through a series of urban experiments. This paper focusses on Cape Town's participation in piloting SDG 11, in order to explore the role of urban experimentation in highlighting the partnership arrangements necessary to allow cities to meet the data and governance challenges presented by the SDG 11. Specifically, we focus on the relationship between data and governance that lie at the

SUBMITTER: Patel Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6086247 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature